apache / apache/texera

Improving frontend highlighting of regions

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Scala
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Description

### Feature Summary

As shown in the following screenshot, the highlighting of regions can be improved by highlighting the area along an edge.

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### Proposed Solution or Design

Modify the algorithm to compute the area of each region to highlight.

### Impact / Priority

(P3)Low – nice to have

### Affected Area

Workflow UI

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the Workflow UI implementation for region highlighting and review how the current algorithm selects highlighted areas; done means edge-adjacent regions are highlighted as shown in the attached screenshot.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
scala
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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