Say what a child gets of a container's box in that box's own lengths

Three things the measurements asked for, all about how much a box that came
from an answer costs.

**A part in the box's own coordinates.** Saying "less eleven pixels at the
end" in frame lengths from the box's start means reading how long the box is,
and a container whose box is its own answer then depends on its own answer:
`Pad` drew sixty-four times in one resize frame at seed 13, chasing its own
width. `Part::Of` says the same thing as a part of the box, which composes
without a length -- pixels are pixels wherever the box lands -- and what a
child under it holds for maps back through that part onto the container's
own box rather than onto the frame.

**One axis of the box at a time.** `extent_len` pinned both axes, so a span
dividing one of them held for one length of the other as well, and a resize
broke every span whose cross-axis answer moved.

**No lazy placement.** Leaving a child's answer to be placed at the end of
the parent's draw, rather than as the child answers, was meant to save a
recomposition. It costs one instead: the drawing is put in the part first
and in the answer's box after, and where it does not hold for both that is
two drawings rather than one. Seed 1 at depth 8 went from 391 widget draws
on a resize to 29 with it gone. The test that pinned three draws for a
numeric leaf in a span goes with it.

Seed 1 at depth 8, widget draws / distinct widgets / update, against #18's
head and against the commit this branch started from:

| phase   | e44dea3      | 34cafb6      | here          |
| ---     | ---          | ---          | ---           |
| cold    | 369/261/10.6 | 463/274/13.3 | 516/288/12.0  |
| repaint | 1            | 1            | 1             |
| many    | 157/95/0.33  | 263/108/0.59 | 187/119/0.52  |
| size    | 16/12/0.018  | 3/3          | 3/3/0.010     |
| scroll  | 2/0.002      | 1            | 1/0.004       |
| resize  | 13/13/0.019  | 22/15/0.032  | 24/76/0.090   |

Seed 13 at depth 8 is where the protocol still costs: `many` 1091 draws
against #18's 524, and `resize` 2215 against a frame #18 does not draw at
all. Both are the same shape -- an answer measured in one box and drawn in
another -- and the handoff says where that comes from.

Checked: fmt, clippy with -D warnings, 108 suite tests, 20 core tests, the
11 generated cases, and the shrinker at 400 trees of depth 5, which fails
seeds 2 (repaint) and 108 (reorder).

core/src/ui/painter.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
 use crate::layout_diagnostics::{self as diag, Counter};
 use crate::{
-    Axis, Holds, LayoutHolds, LayoutLen, Len, Place, Px, PxVec2, RegionAlign, RenderedText,
+    Axis, Holds, LayoutHolds, LayoutLen, Len, Part, Place, Px, PxVec2, RegionAlign, RenderedText,
     RetainedPrimitive, Size, StrongWidget, TextAttrs, TextBuffer, TextData, TextureHandle,
     UiRegion, UiRenderState, UiRsc, UiSpan, UiVec2, Weight, WidgetId, Widgets,
     render::{
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
     /// one child wants, and what every transparent container passes for the
     /// frame.
     pub fn widget<'s, W: ?Sized>(&'s mut self, id: &'s StrongWidget<W>) -> DrawResult<'s, 'a, W> {
-        self.widget_at(id, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Within(None); 2])
+        self.widget_at(id, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Within(Part::All); 2])
     }
 
     /// Draws a child, saying what its fractions are of and where its drawing
@@ -225,12 +225,12 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
                 place,
                 offer_place,
                 // The question its parent measured it by, asked again: the
-                // same box of the same widget, however this draw came about.
+                // same widget in the same place, however this draw came
+                // about.
                 offer: place == offer_place,
                 px,
             },
             None,
-            false,
             self.rsc,
         );
         let compose = |holds| in_parent(holds, local, extent, place, declared);
@@ -353,13 +353,15 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         }
     }
 
-    /// The symbolic length of this widget's own box, in the lengths of its
+    /// The symbolic length of this widget's own box along one axis, in the
-    /// frame that it places its children in. Reading it pins the drawing to
+    /// lengths of its frame that it places its children in. Reading it pins
-    /// that length -- and to nothing about where the box starts, which is
+    /// the drawing to that length -- and to nothing about where the box
-    /// what lets a container move without being drawn again.
+    /// starts, which is what lets a container move without being drawn
-    pub fn extent_len(&mut self) -> UiVec2 {
+    /// again. One axis at a time, because a container that divides one axis
-        let len = self.extent.size();
+    /// holds for any length of the other.
-        self.extent_len = [Some(len.x), Some(len.y)];
+    pub fn extent_len(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> Len {
+        let len = self.extent.axis(axis).len();
+        self.extent_len[axis as usize] = Some(len);
         len
     }
 
@@ -553,17 +555,22 @@ pub(crate) fn in_parent(
         let n = axis as usize;
         let frame_len = frame.axis(axis).len();
         result.frame[n] = holds.frame[n].through(frame_len);
-        match (place[n].span(), declared[n]) {
+        match (place[n].part(), declared[n]) {
-            // Its box is this widget's own, so what it holds for is a range
+            // Its box is this widget's own, or a part of it in that box's
-            // on this widget's own box -- which is what lets that box move
+            // own lengths: so what it holds for is a range on this widget's
-            // without a redraw. A length it pinned is this widget's length,
+            // own box, which is what lets that box move without a redraw. A
-            // and pins the same way: where the part is a span instead, that
+            // length it pinned is this widget's length wherever the part is
-            // span is this widget's own to decide and nothing has to be
+            // the whole of it, and pins the same way.
-            // said.
+            (Part::All, None) => {
-            (None, None) => {
                 result.extent[n] = holds.extent[n];
                 result.extent_len[n] = holds.extent_len[n];
             }
+            // Its box is a part of this widget's own box, in that box's own
+            // lengths, so what it holds for maps back through that part into
+            // a range on this widget's box.
+            (Part::Of(span), None) => {
+                result.extent[n] = holds.extent[n].through(span.len());
+            }
             // Its box is a part of this widget's frame: a length of the
             // frame is all that reaches it, so what it holds for is a range
             // on the frame and none of it on this widget's own box.
@@ -663,10 +670,7 @@ pub(crate) fn placed_extent(
 pub(crate) fn part_of(extent: UiRegion, place: [Place; 2]) -> UiRegion {
     let mut part = extent;
     for axis in AXES {
-        if let Some(span) = place[axis as usize].span() {
+        *part.axis_mut(axis) = place[axis as usize].part().of(*extent.axis(axis));
-            let start = extent.axis(axis).start;
-            *part.axis_mut(axis) = UiSpan::new(start + span.start, start + span.end);
-        }
     }
     part
 }

core/src/ui/place.rs

@@ -1,23 +1,47 @@
 use crate::{PrimitiveHandle, UiRegion, UiSpan};
 
-/// Where a child goes along one axis, as a part of this widget's extent.
+/// What of a widget's own box a child is given, along one axis.
-/// Spans are frame lengths from the extent's start, so a span's slot is
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
-/// `from..start` and a moved extent re-places every child by re-adding its
+pub enum Part {
-/// start, exactly. `None` is the whole extent.
+    /// The whole of it.
+    All,
+    /// Frame lengths from where the box starts, which is what a container
+    /// dividing room among its children speaks: a child's report is a length
+    /// of the frame, so the cursor that sums those reports is one too. A
+    /// moved box re-places every child by re-adding its start, exactly.
+    From(UiSpan),
+    /// A part of the box in its own coordinates, which is what a container
+    /// that insets one speaks: taking eleven pixels off the end needs no
+    /// length, where saying the same thing in frame lengths would make the
+    /// container read its own box -- and a box chosen from its own answer
+    /// then feeds back into the answer.
+    Of(UiSpan),
+}
+
+impl Part {
+    /// Where it lands in the coordinates `extent` is in.
+    pub(crate) fn of(self, extent: UiSpan) -> UiSpan {
+        match self {
+            Self::All => extent,
+            Self::From(span) => UiSpan::new(extent.start + span.start, extent.start + span.end),
+            Self::Of(span) => span.within(&extent),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Where a child goes along one axis, as a part of this widget's box.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
 pub enum Place {
     /// The child's answer, aligned inside the part by the child's alignment.
-    Within(Option<UiSpan>),
+    Within(Part),
     /// Exactly the part; the answer is not placed inside it again.
-    Fill(Option<UiSpan>),
+    Fill(Part),
 }
 
 impl Place {
-    /// The part, where the caller named one rather than giving the whole
+    pub(crate) fn part(self) -> Part {
-    /// extent.
-    pub(crate) fn span(self) -> Option<UiSpan> {
         match self {
-            Self::Within(span) | Self::Fill(span) => span,
+            Self::Within(part) | Self::Fill(part) => part,
         }
     }
 
@@ -28,8 +52,8 @@ impl Place {
     }
 }
 
-/// A primitive as it was written: its box in the widget's extent
+/// A primitive as it was written: its box in the widget's own box's
-/// coordinates, which is what a move of that extent re-composes from.
+/// coordinates, which is what a move of that box re-composes from.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct RetainedPrimitive {
     pub handle: PrimitiveHandle,

core/src/ui/render_state.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use crate::layout_diagnostics::{self as diag, Counter, ReuseOutcome, TimerKind};
 use crate::ui::painter::{declared_lens, frame_and_extent, part_of, placed_extent};
 use crate::{
     ActiveData, Axis, DrawLayers, Holds, IdLike, LayoutHolds, LayoutLen, Len, MaskIdx, MoveIdx,
-    Moves, Painter, PixelRegion, Place, PxVec2, Size, StrongWidget, UiRegion, UiRsc, Weight,
+    Moves, Painter, Part, PixelRegion, Place, PxVec2, Size, StrongWidget, UiRegion, UiRsc, Weight,
     WidgetId, Widgets,
     util::{HashMap, Vec2},
 };
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             frame: region,
             frame_abs: region,
             part: UiRegion::FULL,
-            place: [Place::Within(None); 2],
+            place: [Place::Within(Part::All); 2],
-            offer_place: [Place::Within(None); 2],
+            offer_place: [Place::Within(Part::All); 2],
             offer: true,
             px,
         }
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         if let Some(id) = root {
             let region = Self::root_region(id.id(), rsc.widgets());
             let info = self.root_info(region);
-            self.draw_inner(id.id(), info, None, true, rsc);
+            self.draw_inner(id.id(), info, None, rsc);
         }
     }
 
@@ -226,7 +226,6 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         id: WidgetId,
         info: DrawInfo,
         mut old: Option<ActiveData>,
-        place_answer: bool,
         rsc: &mut dyn UiRsc,
     ) -> (Size, LayoutHolds, LayoutHolds) {
         let (frame, part) = (info.frame_abs, info.part);
@@ -258,31 +257,21 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         // axis the parent left open. The frame itself does not change, so
         // nothing under it resolves a fraction a second time.
         //
-        // Placing the answer waits for the end of the parent's draw, or for
+        // From the answer it gave when its parent first asked, and not from
-        // the next ask of this child in it: a child measured in the room its
+        // what a placing evaluation reported: a drawing made in the box that
-        // parent had left over and then given a slot would otherwise be put
+        // answer chose is answering a different question, and placing it by
-        // in a box neither of them chose, between the two. Whoever asks with
+        // that would move the box out from under itself.
-        // nobody to finish it -- the root, a local redraw -- places here.
-        let extent = match place_answer {
-            // From the answer it gave when its parent first asked, and not
-            // from what a placing evaluation reported: a drawing made in the
-            // box that answer chose is answering a different question, and
-            // placing it by that would move the box out from under itself.
-            true => {
         let measured = match info.offer {
             true => answer.0,
             false => self.active[&id].answer.map_or(answer.0, |(size, _)| size),
         };
-                placed_extent(
+        let extent = placed_extent(
             part,
             measured,
             declared_lens(rsc.widgets(), id),
             info.fill(),
             align,
-                )
+        );
-            }
-            false => part,
-        };
         self.place(id, extent, info, rsc);
 
         // On axes the parent filled, measurement and drawing share an extent.
@@ -468,28 +457,13 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         if let Some(idx) = retired_move {
             self.moves.remove(idx);
         }
-        // The draw is over, so a child whose box was left to its own answer
-        // gets that box now. Nothing it did is undone by this: a child it
-        // asked twice was placed by the second ask, and one that fills what
-        // it was given is already there. What those drawings need is part of
-        // what this one does, so it comes before the contract is settled.
-        let at = Placing {
-            id,
-            extent,
-            local,
-            px,
-            depth: info.depth,
-            move_idx,
-            mask,
-        };
-        let placed = self.place_answers(&at, &children, rsc);
         let own_holds = LayoutHolds {
             frame: own,
             extent: extent_own,
             extent_len,
         };
         let answer_holds = own_holds.and(answer_under);
-        let holds = answer_holds.and(under).and(placed);
+        let holds = answer_holds.and(under);
         debug_assert!(
             holds.contains(px, extent),
             "'{}' ({id:?}) drew in {px:?}, outside the ranges it reported: {holds:?}",
@@ -512,8 +486,8 @@ impl UiRenderState {
                         frame: UiRegion::FULL,
                         frame_abs: UiRegion::FULL,
                         part: UiRegion::FULL,
-                        place: [Place::Within(None); 2],
+                        place: [Place::Within(Part::All); 2],
-                        offer_place: [Place::Within(None); 2],
+                        offer_place: [Place::Within(Part::All); 2],
                         offer: false,
                         px,
                     },
@@ -741,61 +715,6 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         Some(answer)
     }
 
-    /// Puts each child of a widget that has just drawn where its answer
-    /// says, for the axes the ask left open. Doing it here rather than as
-    /// each child answers is what keeps a child that is asked twice -- a
-    /// span measuring it and then giving it a slot -- to one drawing and one
-    /// move, instead of a move to its answer in between that nobody asked
-    /// for.
-    /// Answers with what those drawings then depend on, as dependencies of
-    /// this widget: a child placed here may have been drawn again in the box
-    /// its answer chose, and what that drawing needs was not known when the
-    /// child was asked.
-    fn place_answers(
-        &mut self,
-        at: &Placing,
-        children: &[WidgetId],
-        rsc: &mut dyn UiRsc,
-    ) -> LayoutHolds {
-        let mut under = LayoutHolds::ANY;
-        for &child in children {
-            let Some(active) = self.active.get(&child) else {
-                continue;
-            };
-            if active.place.iter().all(|place| place.fills()) {
-                continue;
-            }
-            self.place_child(child, at, rsc);
-            under = under.and(self.placed_holds(child));
-        }
-        under
-    }
-
-    /// What a child's finished drawing needs, as a range on the frame of the
-    /// widget that drew it.
-    ///
-    /// Only the frame: where the box the child ended up in is the answer it
-    /// gave, that box is a length of this frame and maps back through it
-    /// exactly, and where the parent chose the box instead, the ask already
-    /// said what that costs on the parent's own box.
-    fn placed_holds(&self, child: WidgetId) -> LayoutHolds {
-        let active = &self.active[&child];
-        let mut result = LayoutHolds::ANY;
-        for axis in AXES {
-            let n = axis as usize;
-            let frame_len = active.frame.axis(axis).len();
-            result.frame[n] = active.holds.frame[n].through(frame_len);
-            if !active.place[n].fills() {
-                result.frame[n] = result.frame[n].and(
-                    active.holds.extent[n]
-                        .through(active.extent.axis(axis).len())
-                        .through(frame_len),
-                );
-            }
-        }
-        result
-    }
-
     /// Places one child of `at.id` in the box that widget's own box gives
     /// it: its part of the extent, with its answer placed inside that part
     /// where the ask left the axis open.
@@ -1025,8 +944,8 @@ impl UiRenderState {
                 frame_abs: UiRegion::FULL,
                 extent: UiRegion::FULL,
                 frame: UiRegion::FULL,
-                place: [Place::Within(None); 2],
+                place: [Place::Within(Part::All); 2],
-                offer_place: [Place::Within(None); 2],
+                offer_place: [Place::Within(Part::All); 2],
                 offer_part: UiRegion::FULL,
                 answer: None,
                 size,
@@ -1256,7 +1175,7 @@ impl UiRenderState {
             #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
             diag::bump(Counter::LocalRedraws);
             let old = self.remove(id, false, rsc);
-            self.draw_inner(id, info, old, true, rsc);
+            self.draw_inner(id, info, old, rsc);
             return true;
         };
         let px = self.asked_px(id);
@@ -1315,12 +1234,10 @@ impl UiRenderState {
         let old = self.remove(id, false, rsc);
         // The original measurement is refreshed before the assigned slot is
         // restored: its lengths may differ even though the frame is
-        // unchanged. Nobody above is drawing, so this places its own answer,
+        // unchanged.
-        // at the slot it has.
+        let answer = self.draw_inner(id, offered, old, rsc);
-        let places = info.place == info.offer_place && info.part == offered.part;
+        if info.place != info.offer_place || info.part != offered.part {
-        let answer = self.draw_inner(id, offered, old, places, rsc);
+            self.draw_inner(id, info, None, rsc);
-        if !places {
-            self.draw_inner(id, info, None, true, rsc);
         }
         let active = self.active.get_mut(&id).unwrap();
         // A wider contract does not invalidate the guarantee the parent kept.

src/random.rs

@@ -117,16 +117,15 @@ pub struct Branch {
 
 impl Widget for Branch {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-        let len = painter.extent_len();
         let cut = Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, Px::from_int(40));
-        let top = Place::Within(Some(UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut)));
+        let top = Place::Within(Part::From(UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut)));
         let measured = painter
-            .widget_at(&self.probe, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Within(None), top])
+            .widget_at(&self.probe, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Within(Part::All), top])
             .len(Axis::X);
         let px = measured.apply_leftover().to_px(painter.px_len(Axis::X));
 
-        let below = Place::Within(Some(UiSpan::new(cut, len.y)));
+        let below = Place::Within(Part::From(UiSpan::new(cut, painter.extent_len(Axis::Y))));
-        let place = [Place::Within(None), below];
+        let place = [Place::Within(Part::All), below];
         match px > Px::from_f32(self.threshold) {
             true => painter.widget_at(&self.wide, UiRegion::FULL, place),
             false => painter.widget_at(&self.narrow, UiRegion::FULL, place),

src/widget/position/offset.rs

@@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ impl Widget for Offset {
         // The whole of this widget's box, moved: the frame passes through, so
         // what the child declares or reports means the same as it would
         // without the offset.
-        let len = painter.extent_len();
+        let moved = |len: Len, amt: Len| Place::Within(Part::From(UiSpan::new(amt, len + amt)));
-        let moved = |len: Len, amt: Len| Place::Within(Some(UiSpan::new(amt, len + amt)));
+        let place = [
-        let place = [moved(len.x, self.amt.x), moved(len.y, self.amt.y)];
+            moved(painter.extent_len(Axis::X), self.amt.x),
+            moved(painter.extent_len(Axis::Y), self.amt.y),
+        ];
         painter.widget_at(&self.inner, UiRegion::FULL, place).size()
     }
 }

src/widget/position/pad.rs

@@ -17,16 +17,20 @@ impl Widget for Pad {
         // The padding goes around what it pads: the frame passes through, so
         // the inner's fractions mean what they would without it, and only
         // the box it draws in is moved in by the pixels.
-        let len = painter.extent_len();
+        // A part of this widget's own box, in that box's own lengths: the
-        let inset = |len: Len, lead: Px, trail: Px| {
+        // padding is pixels, which are the same pixels wherever the box
-            Place::Within(Some(UiSpan::new(
+        // lands, so nothing here reads how long the box is -- and a box
+        // chosen from this widget's own answer therefore does not feed back
+        // into that answer.
+        let inset = |lead: Px, trail: Px| {
+            Place::Within(Part::Of(UiSpan::new(
                 Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, lead),
-                len - Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, trail),
+                Len::from_parts(Rel::ONE, -trail),
             )))
         };
         let place = [
-            inset(len.x, self.padding.left, self.padding.right),
+            inset(self.padding.left, self.padding.right),
-            inset(len.y, self.padding.top, self.padding.bottom),
+            inset(self.padding.top, self.padding.bottom),
         ];
         let inner = painter.widget_at(&self.inner, UiRegion::FULL, place).size();
         Size {

src/widget/position/scroll.rs

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
         // Measured in the whole viewport, then drawn at the scrolled offset.
         let whole = UiRegion::FULL;
         let answer_len = painter
-            .widget_at(&self.inner, whole, [Place::Fill(None); 2])
+            .widget_at(&self.inner, whole, [Place::Fill(Part::All); 2])
             .len(self.axis);
         let content = answer_len.apply_leftover();
         self.container_len = container_len;
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
             &self.inner,
             whole,
             self.axis
-                .pair(Place::Fill(Some(content)), Place::Fill(None)),
+                .pair(Place::Fill(Part::From(content)), Place::Fill(Part::All)),
         );
         // What it occupies is its box, on both axes: it clips its content to
         // that box, so it can neither take less of one nor honestly ask for

src/widget/position/span.rs

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         // The row: this span's own box, as a length of the frame its children
         // are laid out against. Its start is nothing's business -- a slot is
         // a length from it -- so what this reads is the length alone.
-        let far = painter.extent_len().axis(axis);
+        let far = painter.extent_len(axis);
         let along = |from: Len, to: Len| match self.dir.sign {
             Sign::Pos => UiSpan::new(from, to),
             Sign::Neg => UiSpan::new(far - to, far - from),
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         // Across itself the child sits where its own alignment says, in the
         // whole of the row: a span is what contains its children there, and
         // nothing divides that axis.
-        let across = Place::Within(None);
+        let across = Place::Within(Part::All);
         // A length for every child before their final slots are chosen. The
         // frame passes through unchanged, so `rel(0.5)` is half the area this
         // span was given whatever else is in it and wherever this child sits
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         let mut cursor = Len::rel_min();
         let mut lens = Vec::with_capacity(self.children.len());
         for child in &self.children {
-            let room = Place::Within(Some(along(cursor, far)));
+            let room = Place::Within(Part::From(along(cursor, far)));
             let len = painter
                 .widget_at(child, UiRegion::FULL, axis.pair(room, across))
                 .len(axis);
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
             // Along the row the span says where the child goes, and that slot
             // is the drawing's box outright rather than something to place an
             // answer inside again.
-            let slot = Place::Fill(Some(along(from, start)));
+            let slot = Place::Fill(Part::From(along(from, start)));
             let placed = painter.widget_at(child, UiRegion::FULL, axis.pair(slot, across));
             if shrinks {
                 let used = placed.len(!axis);

src/widget/position/stack.rs

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ impl Widget for Stack {
             Some((i, child)) => {
                 painter.child_layer_at(i);
                 painter
-                    .widget_at(child, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Fill(None); 2])
+                    .widget_at(child, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Fill(Part::All); 2])
                     .size()
             }
             None => Size::LEFTOVER,

tests/cases/determinism.rs

@@ -21,16 +21,15 @@ struct BranchesOnMeasurement {
 
 impl Widget for BranchesOnMeasurement {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-        let len = painter.extent_len();
         let cut = Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, Px::from_int(40));
-        let top = Place::Within(Some(UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut)));
+        let top = Place::Within(Part::From(UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut)));
         let measured = painter
-            .widget_at(&self.probe, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Within(None), top])
+            .widget_at(&self.probe, UiRegion::FULL, [Place::Within(Part::All), top])
             .len(Axis::X);
         let px = measured.apply_leftover().to_px(painter.px_len(Axis::X));
 
-        let below = Place::Within(Some(UiSpan::new(cut, len.y)));
+        let below = Place::Within(Part::From(UiSpan::new(cut, painter.extent_len(Axis::Y))));
-        let place = [Place::Within(None), below];
+        let place = [Place::Within(Part::All), below];
         match px > Px::from_f32(self.threshold) {
             true => painter.widget_at(&self.wide, UiRegion::FULL, place),
             false => painter.widget_at(&self.narrow, UiRegion::FULL, place),

tests/cases/retained.rs

@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ impl Widget for FromHint {
         painter.widget_at(
             &self.inner,
             UiRegion::FULL,
-            [Place::Within(None), Place::Within(Some(top))],
+            [Place::Within(Part::All), Place::Within(Part::From(top))],
         );
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
@@ -880,8 +880,8 @@ fn resizing_a_fixed_frame_recomposes_its_contents_without_drawing_them() {
                 &self.child,
                 UiRegion::FULL,
                 [
-                    Place::Within(Some(self.region.x)),
+                    Place::Within(Part::From(self.region.x)),
-                    Place::Within(Some(self.region.y)),
+                    Place::Within(Part::From(self.region.y)),
                 ],
             );
             Size::LEFTOVER
@@ -940,43 +940,6 @@ fn resizing_a_fixed_frame_recomposes_its_contents_without_drawing_them() {
     }
 }
 
-#[test]
-fn a_span_does_not_place_its_measurement_before_assigning_the_childs_slot() {
-    struct MeasuredBox(Rc<Cell<usize>>);
-
-    impl Widget for MeasuredBox {
-        fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-            self.0.set(self.0.get() + 1);
-            painter.px_size();
-            painter.primitive(RectPrimitive::color(Color::BLUE));
-            Size::from((100, 50))
-        }
-    }
-
-    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
-    let draws = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
-    let leaf = MeasuredBox(draws.clone()).add(&mut h.rsc);
-    h.set_root((leaf,).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)).height(rel(1.0)));
-
-    assert_eq!(draws.get(), 3);
-    assert_corners!(h, leaf, (0, 75), (100, 125));
-    assert_eq!(
-        primitive_bounds(&h, leaf.id()),
-        vec![h.region(&leaf.id()).unwrap()]
-    );
-    h.frame();
-    assert_eq!(draws.get(), 3);
-
-    h.resize((600, 300));
-    h.frame();
-    assert_eq!(draws.get(), 6);
-    assert_corners!(h, leaf, (0, 125), (100, 175));
-    assert_eq!(
-        primitive_bounds(&h, leaf.id()),
-        vec![h.region(&leaf.id()).unwrap()]
-    );
-}
-
 #[test]
 fn glyph_origins_compose_identically_when_drawn_and_when_retained() {
     struct Glyphs {
@@ -1006,8 +969,8 @@ fn glyph_origins_compose_identically_when_drawn_and_when_retained() {
                 &self.child,
                 self.region,
                 [
-                    Place::Fill(Some(self.extent.x)),
+                    Place::Fill(Part::From(self.extent.x)),
-                    Place::Fill(Some(self.extent.y)),
+                    Place::Fill(Part::From(self.extent.y)),
                 ],
             );
             Size::LEFTOVER
@@ -1176,8 +1139,8 @@ fn padding_and_stack_boxes_follow_the_extent_without_drawing_again() {
                 &self.child,
                 UiRegion::FULL,
                 [
-                    Place::Fill(Some(self.extent.x)),
+                    Place::Fill(Part::From(self.extent.x)),
-                    Place::Fill(Some(self.extent.y)),
+                    Place::Fill(Part::From(self.extent.y)),
                 ],
             );
             Size::LEFTOVER
@@ -1264,11 +1227,11 @@ fn moving_an_extent_child_preserves_the_slot_chosen_from_its_measurement() {
                 &self.child,
                 UiRegion::FULL,
                 [
-                    Place::Fill(Some(UiSpan::new(
+                    Place::Fill(Part::From(UiSpan::new(
                         Len::px(self.start),
                         Len::px(self.start + 200.0),
                     ))),
-                    Place::Fill(Some(UiSpan::FULL)),
+                    Place::Fill(Part::From(UiSpan::FULL)),
                 ],
             );
             Size::LEFTOVER
@@ -1306,8 +1269,8 @@ fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
                     &self.child,
                     UiRegion::FULL,
                     [
-                        Place::Within(Some(self.region.x)),
+                        Place::Within(Part::From(self.region.x)),
-                        Place::Within(Some(self.region.y)),
+                        Place::Within(Part::From(self.region.y)),
                     ],
                 )
                 .size()
@@ -1326,8 +1289,8 @@ fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
                         &self.child,
                         UiRegion::FULL,
                         [
-                            Place::Fill(Some(self.extent.x)),
+                            Place::Fill(Part::From(self.extent.x)),
-                            Place::Fill(Some(self.extent.y)),
+                            Place::Fill(Part::From(self.extent.y)),
                         ],
                     )
                     .size(),