Thread a box in pixels down the draw, one multiply from its parent's

A box in pixels was composed back up the move chain, on a grid fine enough
that the walk rounded once, while a widget's offer was threaded down through
its ancestors' offers. Two routes to one length, which is what
`Holds::through` allowed for -- and the offer's route broke at a region node.
`offered_region` fell back to `UiRegion::FULL` there, and `redraw` resolved
that against the node's slot entry, which holds the box its parent *placed*
the node in. Under a `Scroll` that is as long as the content rather than the
viewport, so everything below was re-asked at a width its own answer had
produced and the old answer confirmed itself: shrinker seed 220 on `reorder`
left a widget 290px out.

`ActiveData` now keeps a widget's box as lengths of its parent's box --
`given_len`, and `offer_len` for the box it was first asked about -- and
`DrawInfo` carries the pixel lengths, threaded down one `Len::to_px` at a
time: the box its parent gave it, then the part of that box its own answer
placed the drawing in, which `placed_lens` states once for both `placed_box`
and the walk. `Painter::px_size` and `px_len` read that value, and
`UiRenderState::asked_px` takes the same steps back up the parent chain where
a local redraw starts part-way down the tree. Neither chain has a coordinate
frame in it, so neither can break at a region node, and warm and cold reach
every length by the same expression.

Three things follow. `Holds::through` is the exact preimage of
`px + floor(rel * box)` -- two divisions, no allowance, the whole of a box
mapping back to itself. A local redraw asks in the box its parent gave it and
only where that box is as long as the offer, which retires `redraw`'s third
ask and the region-node exception beside it; `draw_inner` places the answer
inside that box itself. And symbolic regions are left to the GPU, hit testing
and remaps, where `Moves::resolve` is the only walk: `wide.rs`,
`Moves::compose`, `Moves::size_of`, `px_of`, `px_region`, `offered_region`
and `slot_wide` are gone, 252 lines of `core/` net.

`px` is deliberately not stored beside those lengths. A resize every widget's
`Holds` admits redraws nothing, so a stored pixel length would be stale on
every widget in the tree with nothing on it to say so, and refreshing it costs
a walk down every reused subtree on the resize path.

Instructions:u, medians of 21 runs, seed 1 at depth 8:

| phase | before | after | |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| `cold`, 200 frames | 313.1M | 312.9M | -0.04% |
| `resize` | 408.1M | 405.6M | -0.61% |
| `many` | 1,924M | 1,756M | -8.75% |
| `scroll` | 357.3M | 323.4M | -9.49% |
| `repaint` | 363.3M | 315.4M | -13.18% |

`cold` and `resize` have all twenty-five work counters identical, so those
two rows say the draw path costs the same threaded as composed. The other
three do less work: `repaint` goes from 23 draw requests and 13 widget draws
a frame to 1 and 1, `scroll` from 20 and 11 to 8 and 2, `many` from 273 and
186 to 207 and 157. Primitive writes are unmoved in every phase.

Verified: `view`, `minimal`, `random`, `tabs` and `text` render
byte-identical at 1920x1200 against `5b78002`, as does the `tabs` touch
replay before and after the gesture, and a live resize of `random` to
1280x800 is identical both to the old head's and to a cold render at that
size. The oracle passes 100 seeds in release and 120 in debug -- the debug
run is the one that exercises the `Holds` assertion -- and the fifteen
shrinker cases pass at 400 seeds of depth 5 and 1000 of depth 6. Seed 220 is
`unsettled::a_widget_under_a_region_node_is_asked_in_the_box_that_node_was_offered`,
which needs both halves of this to fail: the old chain with the old allowance
passes it, and the old chain with the exact preimage does not.

`AGREE_STEPS` stays 2. One step passes the 100-seed oracle and fails the
400-seed shrinker on `resize-size` by 0.002 px, so what is left there is the
resize path re-expressing a part as a fraction of a box that changed length,
not a length reached two ways.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -42,11 +42,19 @@ const OUTER: (f32, f32) = (1920.0, 1200.0);
const INNER: (f32, f32) = (640.0, 900.0);
const STILL: (f32, f32) = (900.0, 1200.0);
/// The same box, to a step of the grid per level of nesting between the two
/// ways of reaching it. A move, a repaint and a row of shares land on the
/// same number; what is left is a box centred in a fraction of its parent
/// against the same box centred in its own pixels. A step is a thousandth of
/// a pixel, where this was a twentieth of one before any of it was on a grid.
/// The same box, to two steps of the grid between the two ways of reaching
/// it. A move, a repaint, a row of shares and every length in pixels land on
/// the same number. What needs the slack is a position: a box centred in a
/// fraction of its parent against the same box centred in its own pixels,
/// and a box re-expressed as a fraction of a parent that changed length.
/// A step is a thousandth of a pixel, where this was a twentieth of one
/// before any of it was on a grid.
///
/// **One step is not enough**, tried 2026-09-17 once a length in pixels
/// stopped being composed: it passes the 100-seed oracle and fails the
/// 400-seed shrinker on `resize-size`, seeds 384 and 162, by 0.002 px. So
/// what is left here is the resize path's own rounding rather than a length
/// reached two ways.
const AGREE_STEPS: i32 = 2;
/// A way of changing what a span holds. Each is a shape worth its own case: