Character editor

@quajs/editor-character is the authoring counterpart of @quajs/character and @quajs/plugin-sprite. It contributes a 角色浏览器 bottom panel to QuaEngine Editor. It does not import or initialize the game runtime.

Opening or switching to an indexed character definition or sprite manifest opens the browser and selects its character. Source navigation uses the line/column when a file contains multiple characters. Unapplied form edits remain in place until you explicitly discard them to follow another character; unrelated files do not change the current panel. Recognition uses the saved project index.

The panel searches registered character definitions, navigates to source, previews sprite assets in a compact difference grid, edits literal names/IDs/asset paths, and adds/removes literal array profiles and manifest expressions. Changes become undoable Monaco drafts. Save normally to update the project index and preview. ID changes and removal do not rewrite story references. Existing unsaved or externally changed source is never overwritten by an indexed edit.

The Node-only @quajs/editor-character/indexer entry statically reads direct registerCharacter, registerCharacters and createCharacter imports from @quajs/character. Named import aliases, namespace imports, project-relative constant imports, object/array literals, shorthand, spreads, as/satisfies, template strings and finite expression-bodied array .map() with destructured parameters are supported. This includes Demo's authored character list. Arbitrary function calls, runtime mutations, computed property keys, factories, package barrels, tsconfig aliases and runtime-generated definitions are not evaluated. Dynamic registrations and partial definitions have source-linked warnings. This is a source catalog, not the set of active runtime characters.

Version-1 JSON sprite manifests resolve from the existing indexed assets/characters directory (or an explicit project-relative path). Resource previews reuse bounded host image URLs. Multilayer expressions show individual layer images, not a renderer-accurate composite; atlas crops/masks/transforms and QPK-only assets should be inspected in game preview/source. The panel never pushes loose assets to a running game.

Indexing is bounded to 512 TS/JS source files / 16 MiB, 2000 profiles, 128 manifests / 16 MiB and 1000 expressions per manifest. Static evaluation also has depth and operation limits. The panel shows 100 filtered characters, 60 filtered expressions per page and eight layers per expression at once, with four thumbnail requests in flight. A sticky search header shows the result count and previous/next controls when multiple pages are available. Search resets to the first page; panel hiding and index refresh retain the current character's query and page. Browsing does not reset the expression inspector's draft. Hidden panels cancel pending display work and release images.

See editor-plugins.md for plugin registration and host contracts. Validation:

Shell
pnpm --filter @quajs/editor-character testpnpm --filter @quajs/editor-character typecheckpnpm --filter @quajs/editor-character buildnode packages/editor/electron/scripts/character-plugin-smoke.mjs

Select a difference card to edit its paths in the property inspector; double-click opens the definition. The package declares a devtools-only quajs.extension with separate browser/indexer/style entries. It currently ships built into the editor, with its ID reserved; publishing and replacing the bundled copy is a separate release workflow. @quajs/character declares the independent runtime capability.