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  • 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation or readme)
  • 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality)
  • ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
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  • ⚠️ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

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Adds a new WheelPicker component — an iOS-style wheel for picking a single value from a list — plus a WheelPickerGroup wrapper for composing multiple aligned columns (date, time, country pickers).

WheelPicker

  • Mouse wheel, touch/pointer drag, inertia/momentum, and snapping — the selected item always lands centered.
  • Full keyboard support: ArrowUp/ArrowDown (ArrowLeft/ArrowRight when horizontal), PageUp/PageDown, Home/End, and type-ahead (type to jump; repeated key cycles matches).
  • Accessible: role="listbox"/option, aria-selected, aria-activedescendant, aria-orientation, aria-readonly, focus management.
  • v-model (controlled/uncontrolled via default-value), string/number or object items with value-key/label-key, per-item disabled (skipped during all navigation), and UForm integration.
  • Vertical & horizontal orientation, RTL, dark mode. Horizontal columns size to content so labels never truncate or overlap.
  • Props: items, value-key, label-key, color, variant, size, orientation, loop, visible-items, item-height, placeholder, disabled, readonly, haptics, sensitivity, momentum, snap, animation-duration, aria-label.
  • Emits: update:modelValue, change, scroll-start, scroll-end. Slots: default, item, selected, prefix, suffix, empty.
  • Native-feel details: optional haptics, and momentum/animation automatically respect prefers-reduced-motion.

WheelPickerGroup

  • Frames several WheelPicker columns with a single shared surface and center indicator, sharing size/color/variant/item-height/visible-items so columns stay aligned. Basis for date/time/country pickers.

The interaction engine lives in a headless useWheelPicker composable (one instance per column) using transform-only animation (translate/scale + requestAnimationFrame), with windowed rendering for large datasets.

Includes theme files, TypeScript types + exports, ThemeDefaults registration, auto-imports, tests (component + group, incl. keyboard, events, readonly, type-ahead, a11y), documentation with examples (Date, Time, Countries, Custom slot, Form), and a playground page.

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  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.

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This change adds typed WheelPicker and WheelPickerGroup components with shared interaction logic, accessibility support, form integration, looping, virtualization, haptics, and theming. It exports the components and theme configurations. It adds tests, documentation, Vue examples, a Nuxt playground page, and navigation entries.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 20d7c

The new picker can currently display a different selection than its bound or submitted value when disabled values or same-length item lists change, while a few interaction, accessibility, and example-validity edge cases remain. This is a moderate merge-readiness risk that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the new WheelPicker and WheelPickerGroup components and their documented capabilities.
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src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue (1)

441-471: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wire the form blur event on the focusable viewport.

Destructure emitFormBlur from useFormField and bind it to @blur. Without this handler, blur-based form validation does not run for WheelPicker.

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In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue` around lines 441 - 471, Update the
WheelPicker setup to destructure emitFormBlur from useFormField and bind
emitFormBlur to the focusable viewport’s `@blur` event, preserving the existing
viewport interactions and accessibility bindings.
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Inline comments:
In
`@docs/app/components/content/examples/wheel-picker/WheelPickerDateExample.vue`:
- Around line 7-14: Update the date-picker logic in
docs/app/components/content/examples/wheel-picker/WheelPickerDateExample.vue
lines 7-14 and playgrounds/nuxt/app/pages/components/wheel-picker.vue lines
22-27: derive the day items from the selected month and year, and clamp or reset
day whenever it exceeds the calculated maximum. Apply the same behavior at both
sites while preserving the existing month, day, and year selections.

In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue`:
- Around line 266-274: Update nearestEnabled to wrap candidate indices around
normalizedItems when loop is enabled, allowing neighbour searches to reach
enabled items at the opposite end of the list. Preserve the current bounded
search behavior when loop is disabled and continue returning -1 only when no
enabled item is reachable.
- Around line 480-517: Update the WheelPicker cell rendering and viewport
aria-activedescendant logic to use unique virtual-cell IDs in loop mode. Derive
each rendered cell’s id from the component id and cell.virtualIndex rather than
normalizedItems[cell.index]?.id, and update activeCellId to reference the
centered cell matching activeIndex so aria-activedescendant resolves to that
cell.

In `@src/runtime/composables/useWheelPicker.ts`:
- Around line 153-222: Update animateTo and its RAF scheduling to use an
animation-generation token: increment the token whenever an animation is
cancelled or a new animation starts, capture the current generation in each step
callback, and return immediately when that generation is no longer current
before scheduling or settling. Preserve synchronous zero-duration behavior while
ensuring an onChange-triggered scrollToIndex cannot let the superseded loop
overwrite rafId.
- Around line 242-266: Update scrollToIndex so the animated === false path
normalizes position without emitting in both loop and non-loop modes: replace
the loop branch’s settle(to) call with a direct position update, while
preserving the existing animated behavior and non-loop clamping.
- Around line 275-297: Update onWheel to normalize WheelEvent deltaX/deltaY
according to event.deltaMode before converting movement to item units: preserve
pixel values, convert line deltas using an appropriate line-height, and page
deltas using the relevant viewport-axis size. Keep the existing horizontal-axis
selection, RTL direction, sensitivity, and itemSize-based conversion after
normalization; do not use itemSize() as the line-height.

In `@test/components/WheelPicker.spec.ts`:
- Around line 168-176: Update the “skips disabled items” test for WheelPicker so
the ArrowDown boundary case asserts that no update:modelValue event is emitted
at all, rather than only rejecting ['ber']; preserve the existing setup and
disabled-item scenario.
- Around line 212-234: The form-integration test for UWheelPicker should
exercise the validation failure path: after validating the change to Item 2,
trigger another picker change back to Item 1, await pending validation, and
assert that Error message is rendered. Keep the existing valid-state assertion
and use the current listbox interaction flow.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue`:
- Around line 441-471: Update the WheelPicker setup to destructure emitFormBlur
from useFormField and bind emitFormBlur to the focusable viewport’s `@blur` event,
preserving the existing viewport interactions and accessibility bindings.
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  • docs/app/components/content/examples/wheel-picker/WheelPickerCountriesExample.vue
  • docs/app/components/content/examples/wheel-picker/WheelPickerDateExample.vue
  • docs/app/components/content/examples/wheel-picker/WheelPickerFormExample.vue
  • docs/app/components/content/examples/wheel-picker/WheelPickerSlotExample.vue
  • docs/app/components/content/examples/wheel-picker/WheelPickerTimeExample.vue
  • docs/content/docs/2.components/wheel-picker.md
  • playgrounds/nuxt/app/composables/useNavigation.ts
  • playgrounds/nuxt/app/pages/components/wheel-picker.vue
  • src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue
  • src/runtime/components/WheelPickerGroup.vue
  • src/runtime/composables/useWheelPicker.ts
  • src/runtime/types/index.ts
  • src/runtime/types/theme.ts
  • src/theme/index.ts
  • src/theme/wheel-picker-group.ts
  • src/theme/wheel-picker.ts
  • test/components/WheelPicker.spec.ts
  • test/components/WheelPickerGroup.spec.ts
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Satisfies the nuxt-ui/no-unresolved-form-field-refs lint rule so <UTheme :props> and app.config disabled defaults are not dropped.

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326-332: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Watch item identity, not only item count.

When items is reordered or replaced with another array of the same length, count does not change. This watcher does not run, so activeIndex can point to a different item while modelValue still contains the previous value. Watch normalizedItems and recenter to indexOfValue(modelValue) when item identity changes.

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-watch(count, () => {
+watch(normalizedItems, () => {
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In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue` around lines 326 - 332, Update the
watcher currently observing count to observe normalizedItems instead, so it
reacts when item identity or ordering changes even if the length is unchanged.
In that watcher, recompute indexOfValue(modelValue.value as WheelPickerValue)
and recenter with engine.scrollToIndex when the value exists and differs from
activeIndex.value.
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In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue`:
- Around line 326-332: Update the watcher currently observing count to observe
normalizedItems instead, so it reacts when item identity or ordering changes
even if the length is unchanged. In that watcher, recompute
indexOfValue(modelValue.value as WheelPickerValue) and recenter with
engine.scrollToIndex when the value exists and differs from activeIndex.value.

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@benjamincanac Could you please take a look at this new feature and let me know what you think?

- watch normalizedItems (not count) so reorders/replacements re-center
- wrap nearestEnabled in loop mode to reach enabled items across the boundary
- use unique cell ids by virtual index and fix aria-activedescendant in loop
- guard animateTo with a generation token against superseded RAF steps
- skip change emission on non-animated loop jumps
- normalize wheel deltaMode (line/page) to pixels
- wire emitFormBlur to the viewport for blur validation

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src/runtime/composables/useWheelPicker.ts (1)

327-346: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cancel a pending wheel snap before a pointer drag starts.

If a wheel event occurs less than 120 ms before pointerdown, wheelTimer can call snapToNearest() during the drag. That animation changes position while onPointerMove is updating it.

Clear wheelTimer and reset it to null in onPointerDown.

Proposed fix
 function onPointerDown(event: PointerEvent) {
   if (isBlocked() || count() <= 0 || event.button !== 0) return

   cancelAnimation()
+  if (wheelTimer) {
+    clearTimeout(wheelTimer)
+    wheelTimer = null
+  }
   dragging = true
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In `@src/runtime/composables/useWheelPicker.ts` around lines 327 - 346, Update
onPointerDown to clear any pending wheelTimer and reset it to null before
initializing the drag state, preventing snapToNearest from running during
pointer movement.
src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue (2)

503-524: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Expose only the centered virtual cell as selected in loop mode.

When the window contains repeated looped items, multiple cells can satisfy cell.index === activeIndex. The listbox then exposes multiple selected options even though it is single-select. The slot active values have the same problem.

In loop mode, compare cell.virtualIndex with Math.round(engine.position) for aria-selected and both slot active values.

Proposed fix
-            :aria-selected="cell.index === activeIndex"
+            :aria-selected="props.loop
+              ? cell.virtualIndex === Math.round(engine.position)
+              : cell.index === activeIndex"
...
-              :active="cell.index === activeIndex"
+              :active="props.loop
+                ? cell.virtualIndex === Math.round(engine.position)
+                : cell.index === activeIndex"
...
-                :active="cell.index === activeIndex"
+                :active="props.loop
+                  ? cell.virtualIndex === Math.round(engine.position)
+                  : cell.index === activeIndex"
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In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue` around lines 503 - 524, Update the
WheelPicker cell selection logic so that, in loop mode, aria-selected and both
slot active values are true only for the centered virtual cell, comparing
cell.virtualIndex with Math.round(engine.position) instead of cell.index with
activeIndex. Preserve the existing non-loop selection behavior.

334-348: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep modelValue aligned with the disabled-item fallback.

If the initial value resolves to a disabled item, Line 348 silently scrolls to an enabled item. modelValue still contains the disabled value. The rendered selection and submitted form value then disagree.

Apply the same enabled-item resolution in this watcher and in onMounted. When the fallback differs, update modelValue without emitting a form-change event, or retain the disabled item as the rendered selection. Add coverage for an initial disabled modelValue and for an item that becomes disabled after an item update.

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In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue` around lines 334 - 348, Update the
modelValue alignment in the normalizedItems watcher and onMounted initialization
to resolve disabled values through nearestEnabled, keeping modelValue
synchronized with the enabled rendered index without emitting a form-change
event when the fallback differs. Preserve the existing behavior for valid
enabled values and add coverage for an initially disabled modelValue and an item
becoming disabled after normalizedItems updates.
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In `@src/runtime/components/WheelPicker.vue`:
- Around line 503-524: Update the WheelPicker cell selection logic so that, in
loop mode, aria-selected and both slot active values are true only for the
centered virtual cell, comparing cell.virtualIndex with
Math.round(engine.position) instead of cell.index with activeIndex. Preserve the
existing non-loop selection behavior.
- Around line 334-348: Update the modelValue alignment in the normalizedItems
watcher and onMounted initialization to resolve disabled values through
nearestEnabled, keeping modelValue synchronized with the enabled rendered index
without emitting a form-change event when the fallback differs. Preserve the
existing behavior for valid enabled values and add coverage for an initially
disabled modelValue and an item becoming disabled after normalizedItems updates.

In `@src/runtime/composables/useWheelPicker.ts`:
- Around line 327-346: Update onPointerDown to clear any pending wheelTimer and
reset it to null before initializing the drag state, preventing snapToNearest
from running during pointer movement.

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