Measure a dirty widget where its parent asked, not in a box its answer decided

A local redraw drew a dirty widget in the box it was placed in. When a reader
decided that box from the widget's own answer -- an aligned span sized to its
children, a text at the tail of a row, a scroll's content -- the old answer is a
fixed point of measuring there whatever the content now says, so the layout had
two stable answers and which one it reached depended on the tree's history.
`tests/unsettled.rs` has the two shrunk cases: the four-widget aligned span,
and a scroll placing a pass-through `SetSize` in a box the content decided,
where the span under it was placed once and nothing at its own edge said so.

`ActiveData::offered_px` keeps the pixel size of the box the parent first asked
about the child in, whether through `known_len` or a first `place`, beside `px`,
the box it drew against. A dirty widget whose size reads an axis on which some
reader up its chain gave what it read a box other than the one it asked in is
not drawn locally: the chain is marked and the parent of the highest such
placement draws, since above it every box is a constraint rather than an
answer. The walk goes up the whole reader chain because a pass-through hands a
derived box down unchanged.

`Scroll` read its box's length for the clamp through `px_len`, which records
the reported size as depending on it, and it does not: its size is its
content's. That made every scroll tick a size question asked in a derived box,
at 34x the instructions. `Painter::px_len_for_draw` is the read that records
nothing. Instructions per frame on the depth-8 rig against the previous head:
`many` at 32 dirty 0.66M to 0.74M, at 130 dirty 27.7M to 26.5M, `resize` 15.8M
to 15.0M, `scroll`, `repaint` and `size` unchanged. The shrinking fuzzer passes
200 trees at depth 7 in all four cases, the hundred-seed sweep passes, and the
five reference renders and the resize render are byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ pub struct ActiveData {
/// it is a fraction of a slot's box, and the same fraction of a box that
/// has since changed is a different number of pixels.
pub px: Vec2,
/// The pixel size of the box its parent first asked about it in, before
/// knowing what it came to. `px` may be a box derived from that answer,
/// and a size measured there is only the same answer asked again.
pub offered_px: Vec2,
pub parent: Option<WidgetId>,
/// How far down the tree it was drawn, the root being 1. Carried down a
/// draw rather than worked out by walking up, so it is right for every