Give a slot to the children a container places, and nothing else

A widget's region is now held in the coordinates of the slot it draws in
rather than the window's, and `Painter::place` is how a container asks for a
slot: it draws a child it decides the box of and may decide again. Everything
under that slot is a fraction of its box, so placing the child a second time
is one entry to write whether it moved or changed length. A child drawn any
other way has no slot and shares its nearest ancestor's.

That is what keeps the chain short. `chain_cost` measured depth as the cost
-- free to 8, +42.6% at 16 -- and a slot per widget put a transcript's glyphs
past that for nothing, since almost every slot was zero. `Span`, `Aligned`
and `Scroll` are the containers that re-place a child after drawing it, and
`tests/layout.rs` pins that four widgets between a span and a leaf leave the
leaf's chain one deep.

`UiRegion::stretch`, `UiRegion::stretchable` and `UiScalar::stretch` are
gone. Nothing is inverted any more: a box that changed length is written to
its slot, and the descendants recompose against it in the shader. That also
retires the case the guard existed for, where a fixed length has no fraction
to recover -- `tests/layout.rs` now stretches a 40-tall row on its other
axis, which `stretchable` refused outright.

What still walks the CPU is deciding who must draw again, which no chain can
answer: `mark_resized` descends from the widget whose box changed and marks
anything whose own box changed length and whose drawing reads it. A part of
a box with no relative extent on an axis is a fixed length, and composing
into it leaves none either, so the walk stops where a length did not change
-- an 80-wide child in a widened row is not redrawn though it says `Redraw`.

`Span`, `Pad`, `Stack`, `Offset`, `Aligned`, `SetSize` and `LayerOffset` say
`Scale`: each places in fractions and offsets of its own box and none reads
the box's pixel length. `Scroll` and `MaxSize` do read pixels and stay
`Redraw`.

45 tests pass, five of them new. Render verification comes after the CPU
side, per the owner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ pub struct Scroll {
impl Widget for Scroll {
fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
let output_len = painter.output_size().axis(self.axis);
let container_len = painter.region().axis(self.axis).len();
let container_len = UiScalar::abs(painter.px_size().axis(self.axis));
// Drawn in the whole container to learn its length, then placed at
// the scrolled offset.
let child = painter.widget(&self.inner).size();
let child = painter.place(&self.inner, UiRegion::FULL).size();
let content_len = child
.axis(self.axis)
.apply_rest()
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
let mut region = UiRegion::FULL.offset(Vec2::from_axis(self.axis, -self.amt, 0.0));
region.axis_mut(self.axis).end = region.axis(self.axis).start.offset(self.content_len);
painter.widget_within(&self.inner, region);
painter.place(&self.inner, region);
child
}
}