Take a span child's length from its hint, and ask it once in its slot

A share child was drawn in the measuring room and again in its slot, and
one record holding two questions made every local change under it defer
to the span. Where a rule or a hint gives the length along the span, the
first ask answers nothing the rule does not, so the child is asked once,
in its slot; the widgets that always report the whole of their box now
say so. A hint with a fraction resolves against the frame and pins it.

The dump rig prints every cold layout so a change to it shows in a diff.

core/src/ui/painter.rs

@@ -259,17 +259,24 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         declared_lens(self.rsc.widgets(), id.id())
     }
 
-    /// What a child says its length is without being drawn, if it can say.
-    /// Asking counts as reading its size.
+    /// What a child says its length is without being drawn, if it can say,
+    /// as the length its draw would report: a fraction in it is resolved
+    /// against this widget's frame, which is the frame a child asked with
+    /// nothing narrowed gets. Asking counts as reading its size.
     pub fn size_hint<W: ?Sized>(&mut self, id: &StrongWidget<W>, axis: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
         let widgets = self.rsc.widgets();
         // A rule is the answer where there is one: it wins over whatever the
         // widget would draw, so it has to win over what the widget says too.
-        let hint = widgets.size_rules(id.id()).axis(axis).exact().or_else(|| {
-            widgets
-                .get_dyn(id.id())
-                .and_then(|widget| widget.size_hint(axis))
-        });
+        let hint = widgets
+            .size_rules(id.id())
+            .axis(axis)
+            .exact()
+            .or_else(|| {
+                widgets
+                    .get_dyn(id.id())
+                    .and_then(|widget| widget.size_hint(axis))
+            })
+            .map(|hint| hint.within_len(self.frame.axis(axis)));
         #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
         diag::hint_read(id.id(), self.id, axis, hint);
         match hint {
@@ -277,6 +284,11 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
                 #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
                 diag::bump(Counter::HintHits);
                 self.depend_on(id);
+                // A fraction was just resolved against this frame, so what
+                // this draw does with it is a function of the frame's length.
+                if hint.rel != Rel::ZERO {
+                    self.frame_own_len[axis as usize] = Some(self.frame.axis(axis));
+                }
                 Some(hint)
             }
             None => {

src/random.rs

@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ impl Widget for Branch {
         };
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
+
+    fn size_hint(&self, _: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
+        Some(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER)
+    }
 }
 
 pub struct Spanned {

src/widget/mask.rs

@@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ impl Widget for Masked {
         // draw, and the framework would place the drawing it clipped away.
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
+
+    fn size_hint(&self, _: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
+        Some(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER)
+    }
 }

src/widget/position/scroll.rs

@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
         // is.
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
+
+    fn size_hint(&self, _: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
+        Some(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER)
+    }
 }
 
 impl Scroll {

src/widget/position/span.rs

@@ -22,26 +22,38 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         // whole of the row: a span is what contains its children there, and
         // nothing divides that axis.
         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
-        // among them; what it is asked in is the room left from the cursor,
-        // because a text has to wrap at the width actually there. This is
-        // the one ask a fixed child gets: its slot is its answer, and the
-        // drawing is moved there once the shares are known.
+        // A length for every child before their final slots are chosen: from
+        // a hint where one says, and from drawing otherwise. 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 among
+        // them; what a drawn child is asked in is the room left from the
+        // cursor, because a text has to wrap at the width actually there.
+        // This is the one ask a drawn fixed child gets: its slot is its
+        // answer, and the drawing is moved there once the shares are known.
+        // A hinted child is asked once, in its slot.
         let mut cursor = Len::rel_min();
-        let mut sizes = Vec::with_capacity(self.children.len());
+        let mut lens = Vec::with_capacity(self.children.len());
+        let mut measured = Vec::with_capacity(self.children.len());
         for child in &self.children {
-            let room = Place::Within(Part::From(along(cursor, far)));
-            let size = painter
-                .widget_at(child, [None; 2], axis.pair(room, across))
-                .size();
-            let len = size.axis(axis);
+            let size = match painter.size_hint(child, axis) {
+                Some(len) => {
+                    measured.push(None);
+                    len
+                }
+                None => {
+                    let room = Place::Within(Part::From(along(cursor, far)));
+                    let size = painter
+                        .widget_at(child, [None; 2], axis.pair(room, across))
+                        .size();
+                    measured.push(Some(size));
+                    size.axis(axis)
+                }
+            };
+            let len = size;
             cursor.px += len.px + self.gap;
             cursor.rel += len.rel;
-            sizes.push(size);
+            lens.push(len);
         }
-        let lens: Vec<LayoutLen> = sizes.iter().map(|size| size.axis(axis)).collect();
 
         let gaps = self
             .gap
@@ -92,8 +104,8 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         let mut taken = Weight::ZERO;
         let mut start = Len::rel_min();
         let mut ortho = LayoutLen::ZERO;
-        for (child, size) in self.children.iter().zip(&sizes) {
-            let len = size.axis(axis);
+        for ((child, len), measured) in self.children.iter().zip(&lens).zip(&measured) {
+            let len = *len;
             // A child asking for nothing but a part of what is left over,
             // when nothing is, is not drawn at all. One that also asked for
             // pixels or a fraction keeps those and overflows.
@@ -115,20 +127,20 @@ impl Widget for Span {
             // answer inside again. A share is decided here and nowhere
             // else: its slot narrows its frame, and the child is asked in
             // it, since a text wraps at the width it is actually given. A
-            // fixed child's slot is its own answer, so its drawing is put
-            // there as it is.
+            // fixed child's slot is its own answer, so a drawing made in the
+            // room is put there as it is, and one not made yet is made here.
             let slot = along(from, start);
             let place = axis.pair(Place::Fill(Part::From(slot)), across);
-            let used = match len.leftover > Weight::ZERO && shares {
-                true => {
-                    let mut narrow = [None; 2];
-                    narrow[axis as usize] = Some(slot.len());
-                    painter.widget_at(child, narrow, place).len(!axis)
-                }
-                false => {
+            let mut narrow = [None; 2];
+            if len.leftover > Weight::ZERO && shares {
+                narrow[axis as usize] = Some(slot.len());
+            }
+            let used = match (measured, narrow[axis as usize]) {
+                (Some(size), None) => {
                     painter.place_at(child, place);
                     size.axis(!axis)
                 }
+                _ => painter.widget_at(child, narrow, place).len(!axis),
             };
             if shrinks {
                 // Choosing between a fixed and a relative length from the

src/widget/position/stack.rs

@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ impl Widget for Stack {
         }
         size
     }
+
+    /// Without a sizing child a stack is whatever box it is given, which it
+    /// can say without drawing anything.
+    fn size_hint(&self, _: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
+        match self.size {
+            StackSize::Default => Some(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER),
+            StackSize::Child(_) => None,
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Default, Debug)]

tests/layout_dump.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+//! Prints where a cold layout puts every widget of many grown trees, so two
+//! commits can be compared on cold layout alone. The warm/cold oracle cannot
+//! see a change that moves cold layout, since both of its sides move; this
+//! can, by diffing its output across the change:
+//!
+//!     IRIS_DUMP_SEEDS=400 IRIS_DUMP_DEPTH=5 cargo test --release \
+//!       --test layout_dump -- --ignored --nocapture > /tmp/before.txt
+//!
+//! then the same after, and `diff` the two. A line is one widget: the seed,
+//! its index in creation order, and its box in window pixels, or `-` where
+//! it is not drawn.
+
+use iris::harness::Harness;
+use iris::random::{Edits, grow};
+
+fn env<T: std::str::FromStr>(name: &str, fallback: T) -> T {
+    std::env::var(name)
+        .ok()
+        .and_then(|value| value.parse().ok())
+        .unwrap_or(fallback)
+}
+
+#[test]
+#[ignore = "a dump to diff across commits, not a check"]
+fn every_cold_layout_is_printed() {
+    let seeds = env("IRIS_DUMP_SEEDS", 400_u64);
+    let depth = env("IRIS_DUMP_DEPTH", 5_usize);
+    let mut out = String::new();
+    for seed in 1..=seeds {
+        let mut harness = Harness::new((1920.0, 1200.0));
+        let (root, tree) = grow(&mut harness.rsc, seed, depth, &Edits::default());
+        harness.state.root = Some(root);
+        harness.frame();
+        for (index, id) in tree.ids.iter().enumerate() {
+            match harness.region(id) {
+                Some(region) => out.push_str(&format!("{seed} {index} {region:?}\n")),
+                None => out.push_str(&format!("{seed} {index} -\n")),
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    print!("{out}");
+}