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iris-ai ea1f836bf9 Say the environment once, and stop a hint read going uncounted
The eleventh sweep, over the built-in bounds work in 2ac0843.

`Painter::size_hint` refused to answer for a bounded widget by returning
above the diagnostics, so that read was neither a hint hit nor a miss and
`hint_read` recorded nothing. It is a miss now, with the reason on it.

The two `for axis in Axis::BOTH` loops that `draw_widget` grew, both
writing `own_holds`, are one loop, and the comment about combining the
ask's holds no longer sits between a comment and the code it describes.

`Declared::from_axes` lost its only caller with `Widgets::declared_lens`;
`Bounds::from_axes` and `SizeRule::declared` never had one.

The scenario shrinker printed a rule with derived `Debug`, which is 130
characters an axis in a line that carries every ancestor, in the one
function whose job is output a tree can be rebuilt from. It prints its
parts again.

`bounds_cost` invented three environment-reading spellings where four
copies of one `env` helper already existed; there is now one, in
`tests/rig`, and the four copies are gone. It also verified 128 regions
inside its measured loop, which the other rigs deliberately do before
theirs; that measured 0.65% of the total, and none of it is layout.

The 250-window row with a 300 cap was built by two tests, and the one
that still explained itself tested less; they are one. The half of
`a_cap_attribute_narrows_the_widgets_box` that the wrapper's removal left
without its deciding assertion is the allocator's path instead, which
nothing at the root covered.

Format, workspace clippy under -D warnings with and without
layout-diagnostics, 206 ordinary and 210 diagnostic tests, 400 depth-5
trees warm against cold in 64.19s, and the cold dump byte-identical to
2ac0843 across all 34,986 boxes.
2026-09-20 20:13:57 -04:00
iris-ai 2ac0843cb2 Constrain offered boxes with independent widget size bounds 2026-09-20 19:47:32 -04:00
iris-ai 4cb6f6882a Hold a bound's length where it is decided, and say each thing once
A quality sweep over the deferred request system, which no earlier round
has reviewed.

`Bound::outside` said which end a length fell outside and left the caller
to look that end up through `Bound::at`, which `expect`s an end the value
it is given does not promise: only the pairing of the two calls kept
`at(Shorter)` off a bound with no floor. It already had the length in
hand, so it returns that, and `Outside` and `at` go with the state that
could panic.

`measured_request` pinned the rel base for any bound at all, so a measured
share under a cap in pixels was invalidated by a change to a base its
answer cannot depend on. That question is `Bound::has_fraction` now, which
is also the one `Placing::ask` and `SizeRule::has_fraction` were each
writing out over a bare array.

The rest is one name where there were several spellings: `Span::gaps`,
`Padding::along`, `Plan::drop_bounds` behind one `IRIS_UNBOUNDED` in both
rigs that had grown their own, and `Stack::size_request` resolving its
sizing child the way its draw already does. `Span`'s placement loop asked
three times whether the row was allocated, twice to decide one child's
length; one match answers all three, so the allocated and plain rules are
read side by side.

The buffers `draw_at` now reuses for their capacity are empty only because
every path to it drains them in `remove`; a `debug_assert` says so, since
a drawing over primitives left in one would record them twice.

Comments: `with_requests` named discovery as the hazard where it is a
child drawn mid-row, `Painter::allocate` documented the window it holds
for rather than what it does, `minimum_request` had none, and the note
saying a span carries its children's weight whole -- which is still what
the unallocated path does, and still the surprising part -- had been
replaced by one about the other path.
2026-09-20 18:24:37 -04:00
iris-ai 0e838e9dd1 Retain request dependencies only when discovery supplies the answer 2026-09-20 17:31:53 -04:00
iris-ai 8780b40bb7 Resolve deferred size comparisons before allocating span slots 2026-09-20 16:50:18 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 de1eb7e406 Hold what a widget answers with a rule, and its box with a widget
Bryan's call, given the measurements in `76aaf06`: `SizeRule::{Min, Max,
Clamp}` holds the length a widget answers and never touches the box it draws
in, and `MaxSize` is the box version.

The split is the difference between a rule and a widget here. A box is
whoever asked's to decide, and the retained machinery hands a widget one by
paths that never ask it anything -- a parent re-placing a child, a subtree
repositioned after its parent's box moved. A rule that read the box was
therefore decided again by whichever path arrived last, which is what the
oracle was refusing. A widget has no such trouble: it is drawn again whenever
its own box changes, so `MaxSize` asks `longer_than` where the answer can be
kept, and `region_len` pins the box lengths its drawing holds for.

What that costs is nothing the app wanted: `a_capped_scroll_takes_its_
viewport_from_the_cap` puts 400 px of content under `.max_height(100)` and
gets a 100 px viewport with 300 to scroll, which is what `MaxSize` gave on the
app's pin, and `.max_width`/`.max_height` are that widget rather than a rule.
A cap narrows the offer and not a declared length, so a child that declares
500 px still draws 500 and the cap holds what `MaxSize` itself answers; a
child that asked for a share takes the box the cap allows and the share passes
up, since whoever divides one is `MaxSize`'s parent.

`.min_width`/`.min_height` stay a rule: answering at least so much is a claim
about the length, and a row honours it without anyone narrowing anything.

Bounds in the generated trees are pixels for now, with the reason written
where the next tree is grown: a fraction in a bound is resolved against the
rel base the widget was asked with, and `place_at` hands a parent a retained
answer without checking that it still holds for the rel base this place
gives. Seeds 4 and 196 at depth 5 are where that showed. The hole is older
than bounds -- an `Exact` rule that is a fraction can reach it too -- and
closing it is a check at the re-place site rather than anything about bounds.
A fraction through `MaxSize` is fine and tested, since the widget compares
against its own box.

Format, clippy with and without layout-diagnostics, and the suite (142 + 19 +
13 + 4) are clean. All three seed scans pass: 400 at depth 5 (62s), 1,000 at
depth 6 (162s), 2,000 at depth 4 (299s). The cold dump is 34,986 boxes and
moves wholesale against `2dba90b`, which is the generator growing rules it
did not grow before rather than a layout change; it is the new baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 15:13:46 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 76aaf06c0b Add SizeRule::{Min, Max, Clamp}, which the oracle refuses
`MaxSize` on the app's pin narrows the box it asks its child in and cuts the
answer to the cap; nothing on this branch does either, so the capability is
missing rather than merely unported. This is that capability as a rule beside
the widget, the way `Exact` already is: `Min(Len)`, `Max(Len)` and
`Clamp { min, max }`, resolved against the rel base a declared length is a
fraction of, and never carrying `leftover` -- a cap containing a share admits
several self-sizing fixed points (`docs/LAYOUT.md`, failed hypotheses).

Where it stands: every hand-written test passes, including the capability the
app actually used -- `a_capped_scroll_takes_its_viewport_from_the_cap` puts
400 px of content under a 100 px cap and gets a 100 px viewport with 300 to
scroll, which is what `MaxSize` gave. The 400-seed depth-5 scan does not
pass, and the reason is a design question rather than a slip, so this sits on
its own branch instead of in #19.

What the scan finds: a bound is the first rule whose effect depends on the
box its parent gives it, and the retained machinery hands a widget a box by
paths that never ask it again -- `place_in` from a re-placing parent, and
`reposition` after a parent's box moved. A decision made when the box was one
length therefore survives into a box of another, so warm and cold disagree
about a tree they agree on structurally. Four readings were measured over 400
seeds at depth 5:

- deciding at every ask and keeping it: seeds 291, 1, 120, 178, 64 differ.
- the same, re-decided at `place_in` too: seeds 1, 362, 188, 254, 156 differ,
  because that path's box is the one the answer chose rather than the one the
  widget was asked in.
- skipping a place its parent decided outright, which is the rule the share
  follows: worse -- the same widget then gets two decisions by two paths.
- the bound as an answer rule only, leaving the box alone: seeds 4 and 196,
  and those are the closest to passing by a wide margin.

The share is the one existing rule of this kind and it is stable because
`place_at` re-asks a child whose rel base it narrows, and because its
decision is baked into the retained place as a `Sized` length. Neither
protection generalises: a bound that binds is a length of the rel base, and
`Sized` cannot say "this slot, narrowed" for a `Within` place.

Also here, because a bound needed them: `Len::longer_than` and
`Bound::outside` share one comparison with the span; a rule that is a
fraction now pins its rel base whether the fraction is a length or a bound,
which was a real gap for `Exact` too; `widget_trait!` passes attributes
through, so the methods it defines can carry doc comments (none could);
`From<N> for Len`, so a bound reads `max_width(300)`; and `random.rs` grows
all three variants, with `describe` printing them so a failure can be written
out by hand.

Format, clippy with and without layout-diagnostics, and the suite (142 + 19 +
13 + 4) are clean. The fast ten-seed oracle passes; the long scans do not.
Neutering the bounds in the generator while leaving its draws in place puts
the same shapes back to green, so the divergence is the bounds and not the
new trees.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 14:34:34 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 0d0326769c Ask the root the way every other widget is asked
The root had a layout path of its own: `root_layout` read its declared
lengths against the window, while every other widget's box came of
`Painter::widget_at`, where a rule of the widget's own -- a share with pixels
or a fraction beside it -- is compared against the offer and can take the box
past it. So a share on the root was the window whatever it asked for, which
`docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md` recorded as a gap rather than fixing, and any later rule
that reads the offer would have had to be written twice.

There is one box nobody drew, and that is the whole of what the root is
asked in. `Placing::WINDOW` says it -- the full output, fractions of the full
output, no move entry and no mask -- and `Placing::ask` is then the one place
a box is decided, called by the painter, by a local redraw, and by the root's
first draw. The root's own path is what is left of it: a widget with no
parent keeps different bookkeeping, not a different layout.

Measured in a 400 px window, a probe under each of three parents, which now
agree on every row where two of them agreed before:

    rule                      as root   wrapped   in a span
    leftover(1)                   400       400         400
    px(50) + leftover(1)          400       400         400
    px(500) + leftover(1)         500       500         500   (was 400 as root)
    rel(0.5) + leftover(1)        400       400         400
    rel(2.0) + leftover(1)        800       800         800   (was 400 as root)
    px(500)                       500       500         500
    rel(0.5)                      200       200         200

The comparison is kept on the widget asked about rather than on the asker,
which is what makes the root need nothing of its own: a window range means
the same thing at either end of an ask, `in_parent` passes one up unchanged,
and the asker ends up holding it through the child's drawing exactly as it
did when `longer_than` narrowed the asker directly. The root has no asker, so
its own record is the only place that range can live -- and `resize` already
checks that record, so a share crossing its length is caught with no new
code. `a_share_past_the_box_is_decided_again_on_either_side_of_the_crossing`
now runs at the root too: 500 at a 400 window, 900 at 900, 500 again at 400.

Two things this changes beyond the share. `DrawInfo::asked` is now the place
the parent offered rather than the place the ask came to, so a local redraw
re-decides the rule instead of re-reading the decision -- the two were the
same until a rule could move the box. And the root's `is_region_node` is
read, where the old path passed `false`: a region-node root now gets its
entry, whose translation is the identity, pinned by
`a_region_node_root_is_a_region_node`.

Format, clippy with and without layout-diagnostics, and the suite (136 + 19 +
13 + 4) are clean. The cold dump over 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical to
`2dba90b` across all 34,571 boxes, and the three seed scans pass: 400 at
depth 5 (61s), 1,000 at depth 6 (155s), 2,000 at depth 4 (291s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 13:51:19 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 b295c8b97a Read a leftover as a minimum where nothing divides it
A share under a parent that divides nothing is still a share: the pixels and
fraction beside it are taken first, the share fills whatever the box has left,
and where those are already longer than the box they overflow it exactly as
they would without the share. So the length is `max(box, px + rel*box)`, a
minimum the share imposes rather than an addition to what was asked for
(Bryan, 2026-09-20, generalising the same `max` he gave for `Scroll`'s content
length two days earlier).

A span does that. Measured at `77ed7a2`, a probe recording the box it is asked
in, in a 400 px window, under `.wrapper()` against a one-child span:

    rule                      nothing divides   a span divides
    leftover(1)                           400              400
    px(50) + leftover(1)                  400              400
    px(500) + leftover(1)                 400              500
    rel(0.5) + leftover(1)                400              400
    px(500), no leftover                  500              500

One row disagreed, and the same length without the share overflows fine
(drawn -50..450, its alignment centring it), so what swallowed the overflow was
the share. `LayoutLen::declared` refuses to answer for anything carrying
leftover weight, so the non-dividing path never learned the fixed part and fell
back to the offer.

Said as the place the parent gives rather than as a declaration, because that
is what the retained record already keeps: where the fixed part is the longer,
`widget_at` hands the child `fixed.as_desc().fills()` -- a box of that length,
placed by the child's alignment, its own rel base -- which is what a declared
length already comes to, and `active.placed` stores it, so a recomposed subtree
reads the same box without resolving anything again. A place that is already
the child's placement is skipped: a parent that divides has given the share
whatever it was owed, and re-placing a span's slot moved its child.

Which of two lengths is longer is a question in pixels, so it is one operation
with the crossing kept as a window range, and both callers now share it.
`Painter::longer_than` is that operation -- the span's room for the shares it
divides, and a share past the box it was given -- and it narrows this widget's
range where the span replaced it, since a comparison the framework makes on an
arbitrary parent's behalf is one more reason its drawing holds, not the only
one. A `SizeRule::Min` of `rel(1.0)` is the same operation again, which is what
this is (Bryan, 2026-09-20); when that lands it belongs on this path.

`a_share_is_a_minimum_wherever_nothing_divides_it` walks the table above and
holds the two parents to the same length; the crossing case is checked from
both sides, by a window that crosses it and by the rule itself crossing while
the window holds still. Both fail at `77ed7a2` with 400 where 500 is wanted. A
change of rule needs nothing to escalate it: the reported size is the rule
resolved, so the answer changes and the parent refuses its own drawing --
verified by writing the escalation, finding the tests pass without it, and
dropping it.

Format, clippy with and without layout-diagnostics, and the suite (134 + 19 +
13 + 4) are clean. The cold dump over 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical to
`77ed7a2` across all 34,488 boxes, since no generated tree carries a share with
pixels beside it -- which the next commit changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 04:49:50 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 c2b8bf83de Let a rule beat a hint, and name marking a widget for redraw
A ninth sweep, over the part no earlier round named -- the widget vocabulary and
the builder methods, `Widgets`, the examples, the `util` additions and the
manifests -- and once more over `77ed7a2`, the eighth sweep's own commit and so
itself unreviewed.

A hint overrode a rule. `declared_lens` asked `rules[axis].declared()` first and
fell through to the widget's own `size_hint` whenever that answered `None` --
which it does for a share, since a share is not a declaration. So a widget
carrying `width(leftover(1))` and hinting a pixel length of its own was handed a
box of the hint, against the rule and against the comment inside the function:
"a hint still narrows the box where no rule does". `Painter::size_hint` spells
the same rule-else-hint step three hundred lines up and gets it right, with the
reason written on it; both read `Widgets::exact_len` now, and `declared_lens` is
the part of its answer that needs nobody to divide it. `Image` is the only
widget here whose hint is a declared length, and neither the tests nor the
generator builds one, so nothing in this repository could reach the difference
-- which is why the dump is unchanged and why the test builds a widget of its
own. It records the box it was asked in: 400 with the rule and 50 without, and
50 either way before this.

Marking a widget for redraw had no name. Twenty-one sites under `tests/` said it
as `widgets_mut().get_dyn_mut(id);` with the widget thrown away, five with a
`let _ =` in front, one with a comment explaining what the line was for, and one
wrapped in a local function called `mark`. `Widgets::mark_for_redraw` says it.
`revision_cost.rs` keeps the long spelling and now says why in place: it is
deliberately in the API subset an old worktree also has.

`assert_same_regions` could not see the defect the eighth sweep had just fixed.
It zips the warm and cold id lists, so a list naming one widget twice -- which
is what `width`, `sized` and `align` giving back their own argument produces --
compares fewer boxes than it lists and says nothing about it. It now rejects a
repeated id and two lists of different lengths, which also checks the nine
fixtures that round left alone: all eighteen cases pass.

Bare pairs where the framework has named ones. `random.rs`'s `Lens` and `Aligns`
were `[Option<LayoutLen>; 2]` and `[Option<AxisAlign>; 2]`, read as `[0]`/`[1]`
and zipped against a hand-written `[Axis::X, Axis::Y]`. They are `SizeRules` and
`Align`; `Align` took the `Index<Axis>` every other per-axis pair on this branch
has, and `RegionAlign::from` does the "an axis left out is centred" step two
rigs were spelling per axis. The three sites that wrote the axis pair out say
`Axis::BOTH`, which is what the rest of the layout code says.

`BothAxis<T>`, `AxisT`, `XAxis` and `YAxis` -- 45 lines with a const trait, two
marker types and three accessors -- have no user anywhere in the workspace. They
are the mechanism `impl_axis_index!` replaced, in the file this branch took
`Vec2::axis`/`axis_mut` out of. Deleted, which is a drive-by in a block the
branch was already rewriting; drop it if the scope matters more.

Smaller things, each in its own place: `Wrapper` arrived beside core's
`WidgetWrapper`, one word for a widget that wraps a child and for a dynamic
borrow guard, so the alias is gone and its two uses name `DynBorrower` -- which
is what they are. `Wrapper::new`, `Wrapper::empty` and its `Default` were three
names for one value, two of them unused. `Arena::get_mut` was the only
`pub(crate)` among `pub` siblings on a public type. `Selector` rounded the
pointer onto the pixel grid to do arithmetic on two values already there, losing
the precision the platform gave it for nothing; the step between the regions is
taken on the grid instead. And the two `debug` profile settings carry their
reason where the next reader looks rather than only in the commit that made
them, one of which was about renaming `rest`.

Format, clippy with and without layout-diagnostics, and the suite (132 + 19 + 13
+ 4) are clean. The cold dump over 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical to
`77ed7a2` across all 34,488 boxes, and all three seed scans pass: 400 at depth 5
in 63.27s, 1,000 at depth 6 in 160.45s, 2,000 at depth 4 in 302.52s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 03:56:01 -04:00
iris-ai 1096c3167a Drop the last thing nothing reads
`Painter::text_data` had no caller. It was left in the previous round because
it is the only way a widget inside `draw` can reach `TextData`, and the app's
pending integration might have wanted it; nothing in iris is kept for the
app's sake, since the app is to be largely rewritten against this API rather
than ported call by call (Bryan, 2026-09-20).
2026-09-20 01:30:35 -04:00
iris-ai 445287c95c Ask a value a question through a reference
A method taking `self` can only be called on a value, so anywhere the caller
holds a reference it has to dereference to ask -- which costs the caller
whether or not the type is `Copy` (Bryan, 2026-09-20, correcting the opposite
change made in 7502176).

So every method that answers a question about a value takes `&self`:
`Holds`'s four, `AxisHolds` and `LayoutHolds`'s three each, `LayoutLen`'s
`is_px`, `is_only_leftover`, `declared` and `fills`, and `Size::within_box`.
The two callers passing `LayoutLen::declared` as a function value say the
closure instead.

Builders that return a changed copy, and methods on a handle that is meant to
be given up, still take `self`.
2026-09-20 01:30:29 -04:00
iris-ai 1ebd4d3a05 Match a place's own cases instead of asking it five questions
`PlaceSpan` and `RelBase` were private to `place.rs`, so `painter.rs`
reached them through six `pub(crate)` accessors -- `stated_rel_base`,
`narrows_rel_base`, `within_span`, `is_sized`, `does_fill`,
`with_rel_base` -- and `in_parent` re-derived a three-case enum from
five yes/no answers. The two enums are `pub` now and `ui/mod.rs`
re-exports `place` by name rather than by glob, the way it already did
for `painter`, so nothing new leaves the crate and there is no
visibility qualifier to get right. All six accessors are deleted:
`in_parent` matches `(at.span, declared)`, `resolve_rel_base` matches
`(rel_base, span)` and assigns, and the other three read the field.

`!at.is_sized()` was dead. `PlaceSpan::Sized` is built in exactly one
place, `Len::as_desc`, which sets `RelBase::Len(self)` in the same
literal, so `stated_rel_base().is_none()` already excluded it. Deleting
`with_rel_base` removes the only writer that could have separated the
two, so a named length now carries its own base by construction rather
than by habit -- which is what the comment on `RelBase` says.

The four `pub(crate)` methods left in `painter.rs` are inherent methods
on types the crate does export, so hiding the path is not available to
them; they are `pub(super)`, which is the module tree that calls them.

fmt, workspace clippy under `-D warnings` with and without
`layout-diagnostics`, and the workspace tests under both are clean. The
cold dump over 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical: 34,492 boxes.
2026-09-19 23:51:58 -04:00
iris-ai 7e2b4cd9db Print the box a widget drew in, not the rel base labelled as it
`DrawInfo::px` was the child's rel base in pixels, resolved at all four
construction sites on every draw and read only by three diagnostics --
each of which called it the box: `diag::draw_request`'s `pixel_size`,
printed by `trace_unsettled` as "draw in"; and two `debug_assert`
messages saying "clips to" and "drew in". A rel base and a box differ
wherever a parent hands down part of its own, which is every child of a
span, so all three said something that was not true.

The field is gone and each site reads `region.to_px(window)`, which is
the box it claimed to be printing and costs nothing outside a failing
assert. The trace field is `region_px`. `Placing::window` existed only
to resolve that value and follows it out.

The 23-line counter block inside `try_reuse`'s "outside its range"
branch is `diag::outside`, beside the other diagnostics, so the decision
reads as its six checks.

fmt, workspace clippy under `-D warnings` with and without
`layout-diagnostics`, and the workspace tests under both are clean. The
cold dump over 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical: 34,492 boxes. The
trace now prints "draw in 189.00x176.00" beside a region 189 by 176.
2026-09-19 23:28:36 -04:00
iris-ai 3da1c71870 Name the values layout carries, and say what a span's slot is
`along` said nothing about what it did. It is `Span::slot` now: the
stretch of the row between two distances from where the span starts
laying out, as a span of its own box, with the mirror for a negative
direction in one place. `far` is `row`, which is what the comment above
it already called it, and `shares` is `has_room` beside the
`any_leftover` it was folded into. `reached` now guards on the leftover
weight it divides by rather than on the numerator that happened to be
zero with it.

The pairs layout returns are named rather than positional: `Answer`
{size, holds} and `Drawn` {answer, drawing_holds} replace
`(Size, LayoutHolds)` and a three-tuple with two `LayoutHolds` in it,
which was the one shape the cold dump exists to catch. `try_reuse`
answers `bool` rather than `Option<()>`, and the four hand-written
copies of `move_idx != parent_move` are `ActiveData::is_region_node`.

`AXES` was declared in three modules; it is `Axis::BOTH`. `rel_min`,
`rel_max` and the unused `select_len` are gone -- `ZERO` and `FULL`
already said those. Three doc comments sat on `impl` blocks instead of
the single method inside them. `reposition` and `redepth` walked their
children by index, looking the parent up again per child; both take the
list and put it back. `Scroll`'s `fixed` and `fixed_len` are
`answer_px` and `answer_is_px`, which says which one is the length.

fmt, workspace clippy under `-D warnings` with and without
`layout-diagnostics`, and the workspace tests are clean. The cold dump
over 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical to `6c84b6f`: 34,492 boxes,
no seed moved.
2026-09-19 23:24:55 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 40b89c1f79 Say from_axes, which is what a constructor is called
`per_axis` on `PlaceDesc` and `Declared` builds a pair by asking for each
axis. `from_axis` beside it already names the three-argument form, so the
plural is the one that takes a function, and both follow Rust's convention
for a constructor rather than an invented word.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 21:53:58 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 2807a925af Make a declared length one that cannot carry a share
`declared_lens` filtered `leftover` out of both its sources and every
consumer then re-dropped it, so the rule lived in two filters and a comment.
A declaration is a `Len`: `LayoutLen::declared` states the rule once and both
sources go through it, and `Declared` replaces the bare two-element array on
`ActiveData` and in four signatures.

The two sources stay one value deliberately. A rule decides the child's box;
a hint only promises what it will report -- but `size_hint` is by contract an
exact answer with no painter context, and `hints_agree` fails a widget that
draws something else, so narrowing the box to a hint cannot change what is
drawn. Every consumer asks about the length, never which said it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 21:06:31 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 55df32a33c Say layout's operations by name, and index a pair by its axis
Four rounds over the same idea: an expression that needed a comment to say
what it computed wanted to be a named operation.

The placement description is built by chaining off the value that says it.
`UiSpan::within_desc`/`shifted_desc` and `Len::as_desc` replace the
`PlaceDescAxis::` constructors, `PlaceDescAxis::axis` lifts one axis into a
pair with the whole box across it, and `PlaceDesc::per_axis` covers the case
where the two axes differ. `beside` is dropped: `from_axis` already said it.

Seven module-level functions become methods on the value each took first --
`Widgets::declared_lens`, `LayoutLen::fills`, `PlaceDesc::placement` and
`::rel_base_and_region`, `Size::within_box`, `UiRegion::at_origin` and
`::as_translation`.

`UiSpan::place` is the aligned-placement rule, which was written out three
times; `LayoutLen::without_leftover` is the sibling `apply_leftover` never
had, at six sites; `is_px` and `is_only_leftover` name field comparisons the
surrounding comments had to translate; `Holds::covers` was interval
containment spelled out by hand. A span's `shared` loses the two arguments
that did not vary across its loop.

`LayoutHolds` was four two-element arrays where every other pair here is a
struct of two per-axis values, so nothing it did could be written once.
It becomes `AxisHolds` on `x` and `y`, and `and`, `covers` and `contains`
lose their loops.

Every pair gets `Index<Axis>`/`IndexMut<Axis>` through one macro, and the
eighteen `axis`/`axis_mut` methods go. `const_index` keeps the accessors
usable in const context.

Cold layout is unchanged: `layout_dump` over 400 depth-5 trees is identical
to 58ce74d byte for byte, across all 34,492 boxes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 20:56:59 -04:00
iris-ai 58ce74dd7d One argument says where a child goes and what its fractions are of
`Place` was a product written as a sum -- a `Part` and a fill flag -- and
`Part` named three operations the geometry already had, under words that did
not match them. `Of` was `UiSpan::within`, `From` was `UiSpan::shift`, and
`Sized` was `placement`'s own body with the length given rather than
reported. Both enums are gone.

`PlaceDescAxis` says one axis, named after the operation it performs:
`within`, `shifted`, `sized`, and `WHOLE`. What is optional is a builder --
`fills` and `rel_base` -- so a caller writes only what it decided, and the
rel base it does not write follows the constructor: a span composed into the
caller's box narrows it, a span along a cursor does not, a decided length is
it. That was the one rule a caller could get wrong with nothing failing.

`PlaceDesc` says both axes with named fields, so `axis`, `axis_mut` and
`from_axis` work the way they do on every other pair here, and the joint
work -- resolving a region, reading the fill flags -- is written once rather
than per axis. `widget_at` and `place_at` take `impl Into<PlaceDesc>`, so a
wrapper passes a `UiRegion` and says nothing else. `widget_within` and
`ActiveData::narrow_rel_base` are deleted; `asked` and `placed` carry the
rel base their ask stated.

Cold layout is byte-identical to `84dad21`.
2026-09-19 17:59:26 -04:00
iris-ai c55be21761 Put place before the rel base, and say what a Place decides
An argument that is usually `None` goes last. So `widget_at` and `place_at`
take the place first, and `narrow_rel_base` after it.

`Place` and `Part` also now say which of the two boxes they decide, since
that is the question a caller has to answer to pick between them: `Part` is
the child's region, said as a part of the caller's own, and `Within`/`Fill`
is what becomes of the placement in it.
2026-09-19 17:16:41 -04:00
iris-ai beb138632a Say narrow_rel_base, and let a container pass None for it
`narrow` said what the argument did to a value it never named, so a reader
had to go and find out which value. It is `narrow_rel_base`, and the
resolved one stays the bare `rel_base` -- which is also the only one in
`Painter`, `Placing` and `LayoutHolds`, where there is nothing to tell it
apart from.

It takes `impl Into<Option<[Option<Len>; 2]>>`, so a container that does not
narrow anything writes `None` rather than `[None; 2]`, and `Span` builds the
one case that does with a `then` instead of a mutable array.

Cold layout is byte-identical to `84dad21`.
2026-09-19 16:55:48 -04:00
iris-ai aeb60e50f5 Say rel base, and give containers back a box to hand over
`frame` named a length, not a rectangle, which was the one word in the
layout vocabulary that lied about its own shape. It is `rel_base`: what a
fraction a widget declares or reports is a fraction of.

Three API changes with it, all for containers that do one simple thing:

- `widget_within(id, region)` returns, taking a box in the widget's own
  coordinates and deriving the child's rel base from it. `Offset` and `Pad`
  are one call each again. `Offset` also stops reading `region_len`, which
  pinned its drawing to a box length it does not care about.
- `place_at` takes the rel base, returns the answer, and asks the child
  where there is no answer to re-express. Which of the two happens is the
  painter's to work out, so `Span`'s second pass is one call and its
  `drawn_across` bookkeeping is gone.
- `Part::All` is a `Part::WHOLE` constant rather than a variant, since it
  was exactly `Of(UiSpan::FULL)` and bought a separate arm in two matches.
  Measured at 0.07% of instructions retired against 0.04% run-to-run noise.

Cold layout is byte-identical to `84dad21` over 400 depth-5 trees.
2026-09-19 16:33:49 -04:00
iris-ai 5642f2010a Say region and placement, not extent
The split box was named `region` and `placement` on 2026-09-17; `frame`
came back as a length and survived, `extent` did not. It stayed as the
name for both halves, distinguished only by prose: `draw_at` bound the
caller's `part` to a parameter called `extent`, and `ActiveData` held two
`UiRegion`s that `draw_at` wrote `part: extent` from.

The box a parent asks a widget in is now the region, and where its
drawing ends up is its placement. `Painter`'s four holds accumulators
become the one `LayoutHolds` they were assembled into, which also drops
the name mapping between them.

The cold dump of 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical across the change.
2026-09-19 14:49:56 -04:00
iris-ai add6774980 Keep retained masks and reparented drawings alive, and advance collapsed slots 2026-09-19 13:43:11 -04:00
iris-ai 38b3a81053 Pin a frame by the fraction the child declared
`size_hint` resolves a child's hint against the asking widget's frame and
pins that frame, so a later draw cannot reuse a resolution made against a
different one. It asked the *resolved* hint whether it still had a fraction,
which is false whenever the frame is itself pixels -- a slot of a row, or the
box a stack's sizing child decided -- and the pin was dropped there. Ask the
declared hint, which is what made this draw depend on the frame, and what
`ruled` in `render_state` already asks for a rule.

No generated tree distinguishes the two: the fuzzer grows no `rel` rules, and
a frame that changes almost always changes a box the other pins catch. Kept
for the reason the `frame_len` pin beside it is kept -- "these two
invalidations always coincide" is an assumption nothing states.
2026-09-19 02:51:08 -04:00
iris-ai f6242aa33c 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.
2026-09-19 02:09:41 -04:00
iris-ai a888717ee9 Say window where these comments still say frame
Lengths became lengths of the window when the frame did, and `Part::From`'s
own documentation still described its spans as frame lengths -- which is
what the scroll above read them as.
2026-09-19 01:23:34 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 a30971e4c5 Call the record's boxes what they are
The offer names are from the protocol before this one, where a widget was
drawn twice and the record had to say which drawing was the question. It
is asked once now, so offer_part is the part it was asked in, offer_place
the place it was asked at, and place where its drawing was put: part,
asked and placed. LayoutHolds::frame is a range on the window since the
frame became a length of one, and the frame's own entry is the frame_len
pin beside it, so it is window; Painter::frame_own goes with it.
answers_at had one caller and said less than the line that replaces it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 00:40:23 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 23523eea29 Take a window read where a length is resolved against it
A widget that resolves a window length in pixels depends on that window
wherever the length is a fraction of it, and nothing was recording that:
Painter::to_px replaces window_px_len and pins the window it read, while
a length that is only pixels is that many pixels in any window and pins
nothing. Span still states the range it actually branched on, which
replaces the pin with something wider.

Scroll is where it showed: its content's answer is a window length now,
so a viewport whose own box does not change with the window -- 40 px of
a branch's box -- kept an end-snapped offset from the window before.
Seed 942 at depth 6 under resize, pinned as
unsettled::resizing_under_a_short_scroll_snaps_its_window_tall_content_again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 00:21:11 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 1512d8418b Make the frame a length of the window and the box a region
There is one coordinate unit, the window. Every box in the tree is a
region in window units and a widget's frame is a length in the same
units, which is only what fractions resolve against, so the box need not
be the frame and padding can take from both without either becoming the
other. A region node's entry is a translation -- a rel 1 region anchored
where its box starts -- rather than a box, so nothing composes a frame
back up a chain and a node that moves is one entry write.

Padding is then an inset of both: its pixels come off the frame, so
rel(1.0) under it fills the padded widget rather than overflowing it,
and off the box, so what is drawn sits inside. A length a container
decides for a child's frame is a length of the window like everything
else here -- a row's slot, padding's frame less its pixels, or the box a
stack's sizing child decided, which arrives as Part::Sized -- because a
slot of a row is not a fraction of anything the row can name, the same
reason a node entry is a translation. A declaration is a fraction of
whichever of those reached it, and is the only one that also places the
box.

Frame validity is a pin beside the box's, not a range: a range of window
pixels cannot say which frame an answer is a fraction of, since two
frames are different lengths at the same window size. A widget pins its
frame by reading it or by being answered with it under a fractional
rule, and the pin composes up wherever a length of this frame is what
reached the child.

Also here, because the diagnosis needed them: the shrinker reports the
shrunk tree's own divergence with each level's frame, ask, box and size
warm against cold, and there is a size-resize case -- a change and then a
resize, the order that shows an answer kept as a fraction of the wrong
length, which every other case compares at the window it was made at.

Three defects the reports found, each pinned: a rule changed over two
pads relocated the column under them instead of dividing it again (seed
59, depth 5, resize-size), a share inside padding had the padding taken
off twice, and a root resolved its own rule twice.

fmt and clippy clean with and without layout-diagnostics, 121 suite, 20
core, 11 generated, the 400-seed depth-5 shrinker over all sixteen cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 00:14:46 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Fable 5.1 0ef87ebfcf Defer a twice-asked widget's local redraw to its parent
A span asks a share child twice in one draw: in the room, whose answer
its slots rest on, and in the decided slot, whose cross-axis answer it
reads. The record keeps only the second question, so a local redraw that
found that answer unchanged never told the row that the first had --
seed 946 at depth 6, where emptying a fixed-height column turns it from
a share into a fixed width as wide as the row. A widget its parent asked
more than once in one draw now defers to that parent, like one whose
declared length changed. Pinned as
unsettled::emptying_a_column_the_row_asked_twice_asks_the_row_again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 18:29:58 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Fable 5.1 3091fb86df Ask each child once and place its answer by re-expression
A widget draws in the box it is asked in and its answer is placed inside
that box by re-expressing the drawing; nothing is drawn again in a box an
answer chose. The offer machinery, whose job was to tell a measuring draw
from a placing one, goes with the placing draw. A span measures each child
from its cursor and moves fixed children to their slots with place_at; a
share child is asked once more in its decided slot with its frame narrowed
to it. A stack asks non-sizing children in the box its sizing child
decided. A scroll asks its content once and moves it to the scrolled
offset. A local redraw asks the retained question again and puts the
answer back where the parent placed it.

A symbolic length a child pinned composes through Part::Of exactly where
the part is the whole box less pixels, and pins the parent's own length
otherwise; dropping it let a pad reuse a drawing across a narrowed frame
of the same pixel length (shrinker seeds 60, 248 and 384 at depth 5).

Suite 114/114 including the two decided-box pins, fast oracle 11/11,
shrinker 400 seeds at depth 5 over all fifteen cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 18:20:57 -04:00
iris-ai 49cec82c1b Say which box a pin reaches the parent through, and derive the offer
The review pass over the two commits before it:

- `LayoutHolds`'s comment said a pin does not compose into the parent. It
  does, where the box it pinned is the parent's own box, which is the one
  case where the parent's own length is what was pinned.
- `DrawInfo::offer` was stored beside the two fields it is computed from.
  It is a method now, with the open question written where it is asked
  rather than only in the handoff.
- `Painter::own` is `frame_own` beside `extent_own`, since a widget's own
  box is the extent and the frame is what it is a part of.
- One expression for the length a rule gives a frame (`narrowed_by`) and
  one for what a widget answered (`ActiveData::measured`), each of which
  had two.
- The counter said "the placement it was pinned to" for what is now a
  length; the deferral in `redraw` named the seeds that made it necessary
  before the last commit rather than the ones that do now; three comments
  claimed an inset that does not exist yet.

No behaviour change: 108 suite tests, 20 core, the 11 generated cases, the
same two shrinker seeds failing at 400/5, and `view` and `tabs` byte-identical
to the renders taken before it.
2026-09-18 01:21:03 -04:00
iris-ai 0954770ceb 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).
2026-09-18 01:06:05 -04:00
iris-ai 1956be3f3d Lay out in a frame that passes through and a box placed in it
A widget is asked in two boxes rather than one. Its frame is what a fraction
it declares or reports is a fraction of, and it passes through a span, a
stack and a scroll unchanged, so `rel(0.5)` is half the same area however
many containers sit between: a frame is narrowed only by what is decided
above the widget -- a declared length, the root. Its extent is where the
drawing goes, given as a `Place` per axis: a part of the parent's own box,
measured in frame lengths from where that box starts, which the child either
fills or has its answer placed inside.

What that buys is that nothing under a container depends on where the
container sits. A container reads `extent_len` for the length it divides and
nothing about the start, so moving it re-places its children by re-adding
that start and draws nobody again; and a fraction is resolved once, against
the frame, rather than once per box it is composed through -- a stack sized
by a child that reports `rel(0.5)` no longer takes half of half.

`Place` replaces `DrawRegion`, `ExtentPlacement`, `widget_within`,
`measure_len`, `region()`, `placement()` and `box_of`. Primitives and masks
are written in the widget's own box's coordinates alone, so the drawing has
one reference rather than two. The placement pin goes with them: reading the
extent's length pins that length symbolically, and pins compose only where a
child's box is its parent's own.

Placing an answer waits for the end of the parent's draw or for the next ask
of that child in it, so a span child is one drawing and one move rather than
two moves.

`Pad` is transparent: its padding goes around what it pads and its child
keeps the outer frame, which is where `Outset` was going anyway. A fraction
under a pad is now a fraction of the frame rather than of the inset box.

Checked: fmt, clippy with -D warnings, 109 suite tests and 20 core tests in
debug, the 11 generated cases, and the shrinker at 400 trees of depth 5 over
all fifteen cases -- which still finds seed 108 under `reorder`, where a
wrapping text measured in one box and drawn in another settles differently
warm than cold. `redraw` therefore keeps the baseline's deferral for a box
that is not as long as the one the widget was measured in; the plan's step
6 is not done, and the next commit message or the handoff says why.
2026-09-18 00:40:59 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 34cafb6edc Read the marks rather than the queue to decide the walk is done
Review of the two commits above. The queue was the walk's only record of
what was left, so a mark that reached `needs_redraw` without going through
`mark` -- an `on_undraw` handler is the reachable one -- would have waited
for the next frame. The set is read again once the queue drains, which is
what the scan it replaced did for free. `pop_last` takes the deepest entry
in one step rather than reading and then removing it.

The rest is comments: nine lines shorter, and the arm that takes an
ordinary ask said only what it does for a declared length.

Unchanged by all of it: 109 suite and 20 core tests, the four fuzzer runs
(100 seeds, 400 trees at depth 5, 1000 at depth 6, 2000 at depth 4), the
five reference renders and the resized `tabs`, and every counter on the
diagnostics rig.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 19:31:29 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 e6ba570d07 Give a child a part of the container's extent rather than its raw box
`Pad` and `Stack` read `Painter::placement` to put their children inside
their own drawing, and reading it is what says the drawing holds for that
placement alone. So a pad or a stack anywhere in a row was drawn again --
with its whole subtree -- the moment an earlier sibling changed length,
however little else had moved.

`widget_within` now takes a `DrawRegion`, and `DrawRegion::Extent(part)`
gives the child a part of the extent without reading it. What is retained
is the part rather than the box it resolved to, so moving the extent
re-places the child through the same rule instead of redrawing the parent:
`inherited_children` becomes `extent_children`, carrying `Inherit` for the
wrapper case `Painter::widget` already had and `Within(part)` for the new
one.

The dependency that goes up is a range on the container's extent rather
than on its frame, since only the part's *length* reaches the child and
where the part sits is re-placed. A declared length is unchanged: it is a
length of the frame wherever the box it sits in came from. What still pins
the placement is a report with a fraction in it -- the same fraction of a
different extent is a different length -- and that pin is on the answer,
which `extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid`
fails without.

Three tests from the first attempt at this come with it, and the
diagnostics rig now says which of the three contracts refused a reuse,
which is what found the above.

Measured, seed 1 at depth 8, median frame: `many` 0.667 -> 0.613 ms and
`resize` 48 -> 32 us; seed 13's `many` 6.35 -> 5.15 ms. Green: fmt, clippy,
109 suite and 20 core tests, the oracle at 100 seeds, the shrinker at 400
trees of depth 5, 1000 seeds at depth 6, and 2000 seeds at depth 4 over all
fifteen cases. The five reference renders are byte-identical to `0e107f0`
on Venus, as are `tabs` resized to 900x1200 and `random` to 1280x800
against cold renders there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 19:15:17 -04:00
iris-ai f860f716e6 Separate measured-answer dependencies from retained drawing validity 2026-09-17 17:10:55 -04:00
iris-ai c44bd198ee Retain child frames relative to the container extent 2026-09-17 16:40:54 -04:00
iris-ai a7307d95fd Resolve a text draw's glyph origin once 2026-09-17 16:17:47 -04:00
iris-ai 7601aa2a5d Measure container children without intermediate placement 2026-09-17 15:53:24 -04:00
iris-ai 39f7b08c6c Honor fixed child alignment inside parent-selected slots 2026-09-17 15:53:24 -04:00
iris-ai 2ed5503717 Recompose retained frames exactly and preserve text width validity
Keep each widget's original local frame and replay the same composition
order on reuse. Remove inverse region remapping, including its fixed-frame
fallback that forced otherwise valid subtrees to draw again.

Require exact pixel-region equality in the shared generated oracle. Check
primitive and mask geometry as well as draw reuse when fixed frames resize.
Publish text's retained line-break range, with no upper bound when there
are no soft breaks, and cover widening, explicit newlines, and empty text.

Compared with efb416b, the depth-8 diagnostic rig performs 7-9% fewer widget
evaluations in the affected phases. Uninstrumented release runs use 3.5%
fewer instructions for size changes and 5.0% fewer for resize. Repaint and
scroll use 0.7% and 0.6% more instructions. Container updates remain substantially more expensive than the e44dea3 baseline;
this is still an experimental continuation, not a production replacement.
2026-09-17 15:11:03 -04:00
iris-ai efb416bbc3 Retain frame and extent dependencies independently
Keep the original measurement placement separate from the assigned slot.
Validate frame and extent lengths before reusing an answer or drawing, and
represent hint-only records as having no measured answer.

Retain primitive and mask coordinates with their frame/extent reference.
Forwarded children follow a reused wrapper's placement without rerunning
valid draw bodies. Keep the single Widget::draw API.

Restore the eight failing suite cases from the region/placement prototype,
with regressions for mixed coordinate references, a changed inherited
extent, the sizing-stack fraction, and an undrawn share becoming visible.

This remains experimental: nested container updates do substantially more
work than e44dea3 despite restoring the leaf and wrapper reuse guarantees.
Do not merge it as a performance improvement.
2026-09-17 14:50:09 -04:00
iris-ai 5fcace1bfa WIP: a widget's region stays put and its placement moves in it
The protocol split: `region` is the box a parent gives a widget -- what a
fraction it declares or reports is a fraction of, and the coordinates
every region it writes composes within -- and it is the same box on the
ask that measures and the ask that places. `placement` is what of that
region the drawing takes, chosen by the parent per axis or by the
widget's own answer and alignment.

That is what stops a fraction being resolved twice: the placing ask no
longer hands the widget its own answer as its box, so nothing under it
re-resolves against a box that came from its own report. `reports_of`
and `decided` are gone, folded into the two regions; `box_of` is gone;
`declared_box` becomes `ask_box`, which gives a rule the region's length
and takes the position from the placement.

84 of 92 suite tests pass. Five text and region-node cases still diverge
warm against cold, and three count a second widget draw where a span's
measuring ask and its placing ask give different placements.
2026-09-17 13:53:14 -04:00
iris-ai ffd79f32d3 Read a child's report as a fraction of the containing widget
`rel(0.5)` is half the span whatever else is in it and wherever the child
sits among them (Bryan, 2026-09-17). It was half of what the span had left
at the point it asked, because a report came back composed through the box
it was offered and a span offers each child the room from its cursor -- so
a nested span taking half of what it was given took a quarter of a row
whose first half was already spoken for, where the same half written as a
rule on the child took half the row.

The offer stays the remainder: a text has to wrap at the width actually
there, and `a_text_in_a_span_wraps_at_the_room_left_rather_than_the_whole_row`
pins that. What separates from it is the base a report's fractions are of,
which the ask now carries. It is the box the child was given wherever that
box is the child's whole area -- a pad's inset, a stack child, a scroll's
content -- and a span passes its own extent along the row.

`widget_decided` becomes `widget_at`, which says both things about an ask
rather than one of them; `widget_within` is still the sugar for neither.

Two spans asking for half each now take the whole row between them and a
third overflows, which the rewritten
`a_span_reads_a_child_report_as_a_fraction_of_the_row` states outright.
The five reference renders are byte-identical at 1920x1200 and `random`
live-resized still matches a cold render, so nothing that exists reports a
fraction to a span today.
2026-09-17 02:56:51 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 32542d0c0b 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>
2026-09-17 00:12:56 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Fable 5.1 5b7800264d Read a child's answer in the asker's frame, and drop the root move entry
A widget reports a fraction of the box it was given. Span added that
fraction straight into a cursor that counts fractions of the row, and Pad
summed its padding onto it, both right only while the offer had the
parent's whole extent -- which a span's does not after a relative child.
DrawResult::size and known_len now compose the answer through the offer's
length, so a container reads lengths of its own box.

That exposed placed_box scaling a fractional answer against a box the
parent had already chosen from it, halving a nested span twice. The
near-edge alignment override becomes per-axis `decided` flags: a box the
parent chose from the answer is the answer, and is not placed again.
Span decides the row axis; Scroll and Stack's sizing child decide both.
Alignment is always the widget's own property now.

The window is no longer a move entry. Chains bottom out in MoveIdx::NONE
and the window is applied where a fraction becomes pixels, in to_px on the
CPU and by the uniform in the shader, which now snaps the summed coordinate
since a floor does not distribute over a sum. A resize rewrites no entry.

Verified: view, minimal, random, tabs and text render byte-identical at
1920x1200 against 5f16617, a live resize to 1280x800 is identical to a
cold render, and the 100-seed oracle, all fifteen shrinker cases at 400
seeds of depth 5, and 1000 seeds of depth 6 pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 23:00:15 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 5f16617511 Carry the composed box down the draw, rather than walking back up for it
Every widget that reads its box in pixels was making `Moves` compose its
slot's chain again, a mean of 2.8 levels, about eight hundred times a frame.
A draw already descends past every one of those entries on its way in, so
`DrawInfo` carries what the slot composes to and `draw_at` steps it one box
further -- which is a select where it was a walk. `Moves::size_of` and
`compose` are left for `redraw`, which starts mid-tree with nothing above it
in flight.

Measured on the fixed-shape fixture, seed 1 depth 8, 500 frames of `many`,
medians of 25 runs, twenty-five work counters identical throughout:

| | instructions | cycles |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| `d21a215`, before exact composition | 1,908M | 760M |
| `45a7176`, composing on the fine grid | 1,880M | 755M |
| this | **1,840M** | **735M** |

So exact composition ends up 3.6% fewer instructions and 3.3% fewer cycles
than the rounding-per-level walk it replaced, and the widening it needed was
paid for twice over by not doing the walk.

`Holds::through`'s allowance does not move: two half steps is where shrinker
seed 220 pins it, not where the arithmetic does. `Painter` still composes a
child's region into its own on the grid before asking for it in pixels, which
is the last narrow step in that path; taking it out needs the child's region
as its parent stated it, which `draw_inner` is not handed.

Checked: fmt, clippy, 83 suite tests, 17 core unit tests, the release oracle
at 100 seeds and at 1000 seeds of depth 6, all fifteen shrinker cases at 400
seeds of depth 5, and `tabs`, `view`, `minimal`, `text`, `random` and the tab
replay byte-identical at 1920x1200 against `45a7176`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 21:49:25 -04:00
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5 490918b789 Ask whether a rule gives the length, not whether there is one
`Painter::ruled` answered "is there a rule beside me on this axis", which is
the same question as "is my report moot" only while `Exact` is the only rule
there is. `Min`, `Max` and `Clamp` are queued, and under one of those the
answer is still the widget's to give and a span across itself still has to
read its children -- so the name would have been true and the meaning wrong,
which is the worst way for a predicate to age.

It is `has_exact_size` now, over `SizeRule::exact` rather than `known`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 13:40:51 -04:00