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🎉 Avoid interacting with clipped content (#11613)
* 🐛 Fix nested board drop target ignoring ancestor clip bounds

Frame hit-testing (get-frame-by-position, get-frames-by-position and
top-nested-frame) only checked a candidate board's own rectangle,
without accounting for an ancestor board with clip content enabled.
A nested board wider/taller than its clipping ancestor could still be
picked as the drop target in its invisible, clipped-away area, so a
dragged shape would get reparented there and disappear from view.

Add clipped-by-ancestor? to reject a point when it falls outside the
bounds of any ancestor board that has clip content enabled, so the
lookup now stops at the correct visible ancestor instead of
descending into the hidden region.

* 🐛 Fix Ctrl+click deep-select reaching into clipped board area

The clip-aware quadtree query (query-index) filters candidate shapes
by whether they overlap every clip-parent ancestor, but the whole
filter was skipped whenever clip-children? was false. That flag is
turned off while a modifier key (Ctrl/Cmd) is held for deep/penetrate
selection, which was meant to let it reach past boolean/mask clip
boundaries, but it also disabled enforcement for board "Clip content"
ancestors, letting a modifier-held click select a shape sitting in a
board's invisible, clipped-away region.

overlaps-parent? now only relaxes the check for non-frame clip-parents
(bool shapes / mask children) when clip-children? is false; board clip
ancestors are always enforced regardless of the modifier key.
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