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).

TODO

@@ -14,3 +14,27 @@ WidgetRef<W> or smth instead of Id
 vecs for each widget type?
 
 POTENTIAL BUG: closures that store IDs will not decrement the id!!! need to not increment id if moved into closure somehow??? wait no, need to decrement ID every time an event fn is added...... only if the id is used in it..??
+
+transforms on a move entry (scale + rotation)
+    an entry is a translation today; composing through one scales the rel
+    part and passes px through untouched, so fixed-size content and glyphs
+    do not follow a shortened entry
+    want a real transform per entry, resolved in resolve_move the way the
+    translation already is, so a whole subtree transforms with one buffer
+    write and no redraw
+    wanted for compose-style stretch at the end of a scroll area, and for
+    rotation generally
+
+a prepare stage on Event, so Data has no placeholder field
+    run_sensors builds one CursorData per widget and has to put something in
+    `sense` before anything knows which sense matched, so it writes
+    CursorSense::Hovering and says in place that it means nothing;
+    should_run then clones the whole thing to overwrite that one field
+    the state is representable only because the type lets the caller say it:
+    what the caller supplies and what matching adds are two different things
+    wearing one struct
+    the awkward part is doing it without the generics getting annoying --
+    Data<'a> is already a GAT with a default, and splitting it in two adds
+    another associated type to every Event impl for the sake of one field
+    (Bryan, 2026-09-20; low priority, he wants a good answer rather than a
+    quick one)

core/src/layout_diagnostics.rs

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 //! reuse, size, placement, and text events for one suspicious widget. The
 //! selection is a set and survives [`take`] until cleared.
 
-use crate::{Axis, LayoutLen, PxVec2, Size, UiRegion, WidgetId};
+use crate::{Axis, LayoutHolds, LayoutLen, PxVec2, Size, UiRegion, UiVec2, WidgetId};
 use std::{
     cell::RefCell,
     collections::{HashMap, HashSet},
@@ -23,104 +23,71 @@ use std::{
     time::Instant,
 };
 
-#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
-pub(crate) enum Counter {
-    Updates,
-    DrawRequests,
-    WidgetDraws,
-    RegionNodeDraws,
-    SizeReads,
-    HintHits,
-    HintMisses,
-    RetainedSizeHits,
-    ReuseAttempts,
-    ReuseExact,
-    ReuseMoved,
-    ReuseDirty,
-    ReuseWrongParent,
-    ReuseRemapped,
-    ReuseOutside,
-    ReuseWrongLayer,
-    ReuseWrongNode,
-    PlaceRedraws,
-    QueuePops,
-    DepthReads,
-    LocalRedraws,
-    SizeChanges,
-    ReaderEdges,
-    PrimitiveWrites,
-    TextRenders,
-    TextShapeHits,
-    TextShapes,
-    TextBreaks,
-    GlyphPlacements,
-    OutsidePlacement,
-    OutsideFrame,
-    OutsideExtent,
+/// Declares a counter or timer kind beside the name its report prints. Two
+/// lists in the same order was one list too many: a variant inserted without
+/// its label moving with it renames every total after it, and nothing says
+/// so.
+macro_rules! labelled {
+    ($(#[$meta:meta])* $vis:vis enum $Name:ident { $($variant:ident = $label:literal,)* }) => {
+        $(#[$meta])*
+        #[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+        $vis enum $Name { $($variant,)* }
+
+        impl $Name {
+            const COUNT: usize = [$($label,)*].len();
+            const NAMES: [&'static str; Self::COUNT] = [$($label,)*];
+        }
+    };
 }
 
-impl Counter {
-    const COUNT: usize = Self::OutsideExtent as usize + 1;
-
-    const NAMES: [&'static str; Self::COUNT] = [
-        "updates",
-        "draw requests",
-        "widget draws",
-        "region-node draws",
-        "draw-result size reads",
-        "hint hits",
-        "hint misses",
-        "retained size hits",
-        "reuse attempts",
-        "reuse exact",
-        "reuse moved",
-        "reuse: dirty",
-        "reuse: wrong parent",
-        "reuse remapped",
-        "reuse: outside what it holds for",
-        "reuse: another layer",
-        "reuse: region-node choice changed",
-        "placed by redrawing",
-        "redraw queue pops",
-        "depth reads",
-        "local redraws",
-        "size changes",
-        "reader edges",
-        "primitive writes",
-        "text renders",
-        "text shape hits",
-        "text shapes",
-        "text line breaks",
-        "glyph placements",
-        "reuse outside: the placement it was pinned to",
-        "reuse outside: a frame length",
-        "reuse outside: an extent length",
-    ];
+labelled! {
+    pub(crate) enum Counter {
+        Updates = "updates",
+        DrawRequests = "draw requests",
+        WidgetDraws = "widget draws",
+        RegionNodeDraws = "region-node draws",
+        SizeReads = "draw-result size reads",
+        HintHits = "hint hits",
+        HintMisses = "hint misses",
+        ReuseAttempts = "reuse attempts",
+        ReuseExact = "reuse exact",
+        ReuseMoved = "reuse moved",
+        ReuseDirty = "reuse: dirty",
+        ReuseUndrawn = "reuse: nothing drawn to keep",
+        ReuseWrongParent = "reuse: wrong parent",
+        ReuseRemapped = "reuse remapped",
+        ReuseOutside = "reuse: outside what it holds for",
+        ReuseWrongLayer = "reuse: another layer",
+        ReuseWrongNode = "reuse: region-node choice changed",
+        ReuseWrongMask = "reuse: a different inherited mask",
+        QueuePops = "redraw queue pops",
+        DepthReads = "depth reads",
+        LocalRedraws = "local redraws",
+        SizeChanges = "size changes",
+        ReaderEdges = "reader edges",
+        PrimitiveWrites = "primitive writes",
+        TextRenders = "text renders",
+        TextShapeHits = "text shape hits",
+        TextShapes = "text shapes",
+        TextBreaks = "text line breaks",
+        GlyphPlacements = "glyph placements",
+        OutsidePinnedLen = "reuse outside: the length it was pinned to",
+        OutsideWindow = "reuse outside: this window",
+        OutsideRelBase = "reuse outside: a rel base",
+        OutsideRegion = "reuse outside: a region length",
+    }
 }
 
-#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
-pub(crate) enum TimerKind {
-    Update,
-    FullLayout,
-    IncrementalLayout,
-    TextRender,
-    TextShape,
-    TextBreak,
-    GlyphPlacement,
-}
-
-impl TimerKind {
-    const COUNT: usize = Self::GlyphPlacement as usize + 1;
-
-    const NAMES: [&'static str; Self::COUNT] = [
-        "update total",
-        "full layout",
-        "incremental layout",
-        "text render",
-        "text shape",
-        "text line break",
-        "glyph placement",
-    ];
+labelled! {
+    pub(crate) enum TimerKind {
+        Update = "update total",
+        FullLayout = "full layout",
+        IncrementalLayout = "incremental layout",
+        TextRender = "text render",
+        TextShape = "text shape",
+        TextBreak = "text line break",
+        GlyphPlacement = "glyph placement",
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
@@ -255,6 +222,8 @@ pub enum ReuseOutcome {
     Dirty,
     WrongParent,
     WrongLayer,
+    WrongMask,
+    WrongNode,
     Remapped,
     Outside,
     Undrawn,
@@ -268,7 +237,7 @@ pub enum TraceEvent {
         id: WidgetId,
         parent: Option<WidgetId>,
         region: UiRegion,
-        pixel_size: PxVec2,
+        region_px: PxVec2,
         region_node: bool,
     },
     Reuse {
@@ -364,7 +333,7 @@ pub(crate) fn draw_request(
     id: WidgetId,
     parent: Option<WidgetId>,
     region: UiRegion,
-    pixel_size: PxVec2,
+    region_px: PxVec2,
     region_node: bool,
 ) {
     trace(
@@ -373,7 +342,7 @@ pub(crate) fn draw_request(
             id,
             parent,
             region,
-            pixel_size,
+            region_px,
             region_node,
         },
     );
@@ -383,6 +352,41 @@ pub(crate) fn reuse(id: WidgetId, outcome: ReuseOutcome) {
     trace(id, TraceEvent::Reuse { id, outcome });
 }
 
+/// A drawing that cannot be reused because the box on offer is outside what
+/// it holds for, and which of the four contracts said so. They overlap: a
+/// drawing can be outside two of them at once, and counting each is what
+/// says where a rel base redrawing more than it should is coming from.
+pub(crate) fn outside(
+    id: WidgetId,
+    holds: LayoutHolds,
+    region: UiRegion,
+    rel_base: UiVec2,
+    window: PxVec2,
+) {
+    for axis in Axis::BOTH {
+        let holds = holds[axis];
+        let len = region[axis].len();
+        let window = window[axis];
+        if holds.region_len.is_some_and(|pinned| pinned != len) {
+            bump(Counter::OutsidePinnedLen);
+        }
+        if !holds.window.contains(window) {
+            bump(Counter::OutsideWindow);
+        }
+        if holds
+            .rel_base
+            .is_some_and(|pinned| pinned != rel_base[axis])
+        {
+            bump(Counter::OutsideRelBase);
+        }
+        if !holds.region.contains(len.to_px(window)) {
+            bump(Counter::OutsideRegion);
+        }
+    }
+    bump(Counter::ReuseOutside);
+    reuse(id, ReuseOutcome::Outside);
+}
+
 pub(crate) fn size_reported(id: WidgetId, size: Size) {
     trace(id, TraceEvent::SizeReported { id, size });
 }

core/src/lib.rs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #![feature(unsize)]
 #![feature(coerce_unsized)]
 #![feature(option_into_flat_iter)]
+#![feature(const_index)]
 
 #[cfg(feature = "layout-diagnostics")]
 pub mod layout_diagnostics;

core/src/orientation/align.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use crate::util::impl_axis_index;
 use crate::{Px, Rel};
 
 use super::*;
@@ -83,28 +84,6 @@ pub struct RegionAlign {
     pub y: AxisAlign,
 }
 
-impl RegionAlign {
-    /// Both axes at the near edge: the start of a box in its own orientation.
-    pub const NEAR: Self = Self {
-        x: AxisAlign::NEG,
-        y: AxisAlign::NEG,
-    };
-
-    pub fn axis(&self, axis: Axis) -> AxisAlign {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => self.x,
-            Axis::Y => self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut AxisAlign {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl RegionAlign {
     pub const TOP_LEFT: Self = Self::new(AxisAlign::NEG, AxisAlign::NEG);
     pub const TOP_CENTER: Self = Self::new(AxisAlign::CENTER, AxisAlign::NEG);
@@ -231,3 +210,5 @@ impl RegionAlign {
         UiVec2::from(self)
     }
 }
+
+impl_axis_index!(RegionAlign => AxisAlign);

core/src/orientation/axis.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use super::*;
+use crate::util::impl_axis_index;
 use crate::{Fixed, FixedVec2};
 
 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
@@ -8,14 +9,8 @@ pub enum Axis {
 }
 
 impl Axis {
-    /// A per-axis pair with `aligned` on this axis and `ortho` on the other,
-    /// which is what `from_axis` does for a vector.
-    pub fn pair<T>(self, aligned: T, ortho: T) -> [T; 2] {
-        match self {
-            Self::X => [aligned, ortho],
-            Self::Y => [ortho, aligned],
-        }
-    }
+    /// Both of them, for the layout code that asks the same question of each.
+    pub const BOTH: [Self; 2] = [Self::X, Self::Y];
 }
 
 impl std::ops::Not for Axis {
@@ -53,20 +48,6 @@ pub enum Sign {
 }
 
 impl<const SHIFT: u32> FixedVec2<SHIFT> {
-    pub const fn axis(&self, axis: Axis) -> Fixed<SHIFT> {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => self.x,
-            Axis::Y => self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub const fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut Fixed<SHIFT> {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
     pub const fn from_axis(axis: Axis, aligned: Fixed<SHIFT>, ortho: Fixed<SHIFT>) -> Self {
         match axis {
             Axis::X => Self::new(aligned, ortho),
@@ -76,20 +57,6 @@ impl<const SHIFT: u32> FixedVec2<SHIFT> {
 }
 
 impl Vec2 {
-    pub fn axis(&self, axis: Axis) -> f32 {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => self.x,
-            Axis::Y => self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut f32 {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
     pub const fn from_axis(axis: Axis, aligned: f32, ortho: f32) -> Self {
         Self {
             x: match axis {
@@ -148,3 +115,6 @@ impl<T> BothAxis<T> {
         }
     }
 }
+
+impl_axis_index!({const SHIFT: u32} FixedVec2<SHIFT> => Fixed<SHIFT>);
+impl_axis_index!(Vec2 => f32);

core/src/orientation/len.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use super::*;
+use crate::util::impl_axis_index;
 use crate::{Px, PxVec2, Rel, UiNum, Weight, util::impl_op};
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
@@ -118,20 +119,6 @@ impl Size {
             },
         }
     }
-
-    pub fn axis(&self, axis: Axis) -> LayoutLen {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => self.x,
-            Axis::Y => self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut LayoutLen {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 impl LayoutLen {
@@ -158,11 +145,39 @@ impl LayoutLen {
         Len::from_parts(self.rel.add(share), self.px)
     }
 
+    /// Only pixels: the same number of them whatever box it lands in, and
+    /// whatever anyone else in the row asks for. A length that is any part
+    /// of a box or of what is left over is not one.
+    pub fn is_px(&self) -> bool {
+        self.rel == Rel::ZERO && self.leftover == Weight::ZERO
+    }
+
+    /// Nothing but a claim on what is left over, so there is no length here
+    /// at all where nothing is.
+    pub fn is_only_leftover(&self) -> bool {
+        self.leftover > Weight::ZERO && self.without_leftover() == Len::ZERO
+    }
+
+    /// This as a length of a box, where it is one. `leftover` is not: a
+    /// share of what is left over is a length only to whoever divides one,
+    /// so it passes up in the reported size instead and is resolved there.
+    pub fn declared(&self) -> Option<Len> {
+        (self.leftover == Weight::ZERO).then(|| self.without_leftover())
+    }
+
+    /// What this takes whatever is left over: the reading of a length for
+    /// anyone not dividing a box between siblings, where a share is a claim
+    /// on someone else's room rather than a length of its own.
+    /// [`Self::apply_leftover`] is the opposite reading of the same value.
+    pub const fn without_leftover(self) -> Len {
+        Len::from_parts(self.rel, self.px)
+    }
+
     /// This length, given as a part of a box `len` long, as a part of the
     /// box `len` is itself a part of. The share is untouched: it is a claim
     /// on whoever divides the room, not a fraction of anything.
     pub const fn within_len(self, len: Len) -> Self {
-        let part = Len::from_parts(self.rel, self.px).within_len(len);
+        let part = self.without_leftover().within_len(len);
         Self {
             px: part.px,
             rel: part.rel,
@@ -236,3 +251,5 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for LayoutLen {
         Ok(())
     }
 }
+
+impl_axis_index!(Size => LayoutLen);

core/src/orientation/pos.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use crate::util::impl_axis_index;
 use std::{fmt::Display, marker::Destruct};
 
 use super::*;
@@ -61,20 +62,6 @@ impl UiVec2 {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut Len {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn axis(&self, axis: Axis) -> Len {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => self.x,
-            Axis::Y => self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
     /// Resolved against a box of `size`, which is where a fraction stops
     /// being one and becomes a place.
     pub fn to_px(&self, size: PxVec2) -> PxVec2 {
@@ -176,14 +163,6 @@ impl Len {
         Self::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, Px::from_f32(px))
     }
 
-    pub const fn rel_min() -> Self {
-        Self::ZERO
-    }
-
-    pub const fn rel_max() -> Self {
-        Self::FULL
-    }
-
     pub const fn max(&self, other: Self) -> Self {
         Self {
             rel: self.rel.max(other.rel),
@@ -226,10 +205,6 @@ impl Len {
         })
     }
 
-    pub fn select_len(&self, len: Len) -> Self {
-        len.within_len(*self)
-    }
-
     pub const fn flip(&mut self) {
         self.rel = Rel::ONE.sub(self.rel);
         self.px = self.px.neg();
@@ -294,6 +269,15 @@ impl UiSpan {
         }
     }
 
+    /// A box `len` long inside this one, on the side `align` says. Both must
+    /// be lengths of the same rel base: it subtracts one from the other
+    /// rather than composing it in, which is what keeps a fraction the same
+    /// fraction however long this box turns out to be.
+    pub const fn place(self, len: Len, align: AxisAlign) -> Self {
+        let start = self.start + (self.len() - len).scale(align.rel());
+        Self::new(start, start + len)
+    }
+
     pub const fn len(&self) -> Len {
         self.end - self.start
     }
@@ -348,20 +332,6 @@ impl UiRegion {
             y: self.y.within(&parent.y),
         }
     }
-    pub const fn axis(&self, axis: Axis) -> &UiSpan {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub const fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut UiSpan {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
-        }
-    }
-
     pub const fn flip(&mut self, axis: Axis) {
         match axis {
             Axis::X => self.x.flip(),
@@ -462,3 +432,6 @@ impl Display for PixelRegion {
         write!(f, "{} -> {}", self.top_left, self.bot_right)
     }
 }
+
+impl_axis_index!(UiVec2 => Len);
+impl_axis_index!(UiRegion => UiSpan);

core/src/ui/active.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::{
-    DrawRegion, LayerId, LayoutHolds, LayoutLen, MaskIdx, MoveIdx, RegionAlign, RetainedPrimitive,
+    Declared, LayerId, LayoutHolds, MaskIdx, MoveIdx, PlaceDesc, RegionAlign, RetainedPrimitive,
     Size, TextureHandle, UiRegion, UiVec2, WidgetId,
 };
 
@@ -9,28 +9,34 @@ use crate::{
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct ActiveData {
     pub id: WidgetId,
-    /// The box its parent gave it, in `parent_move`'s coordinates: what it
-    /// was asked about, and what a fraction under it is a fraction of. A
-    /// local redraw asks here.
-    pub region: UiRegion,
-    /// Where its drawing sits inside that box, in the box's own coordinates.
+    /// Where its drawing goes, in its region node's coordinates.
     pub placement: UiRegion,
-    /// The original frame in its parent widget's coordinates. Recomposition
-    /// and pixel-length evaluation both follow this chain.
-    pub given_region: UiRegion,
-    /// The lengths of the box its parent first asked about it in, as
-    /// lengths of the box the parent was itself offered. Any later box it
-    /// was given was decided knowing its answer, so this is the question
-    /// asked again -- and a chain of fractions has no frame in it, which is
-    /// why a region node between two widgets cannot break it.
-    pub offer_len: UiVec2,
-    pub offer_placement: [Option<crate::UiSpan>; 2],
+    /// What a fraction declared or reported under this widget is a fraction
+    /// of, as a length of the window.
+    pub rel_base: UiVec2,
+    /// Where its drawing was put, and where it was asked. The two differ
+    /// where a container asks in one place and puts the answer in another --
+    /// a row measures from its cursor and puts the child in its slot. Each
+    /// carries the rel base that ask stated, so asking again from either is
+    /// the same question it was.
+    pub placed: PlaceDesc,
+    pub asked: PlaceDesc,
+    /// The box it was asked in, in the parent's region-node coordinates: the
+    /// box its drawing was made in and the one its contract is about. Its
+    /// drawing is placed elsewhere by re-expression, never by asking again.
+    pub region: UiRegion,
     /// The measured answer and its dependencies. A hint-only dependency or
     /// a widget first encountered during placement has no measurement yet.
-    pub answer: Option<(Size, LayoutHolds)>,
-    /// What the widget said it used of its box, the last time it drew.
+    pub answer: Option<Answer>,
+    /// Asked more than once in its parent's last draw -- measured in one box
+    /// and then asked in the one the parent decided. The parent's layout
+    /// rests on the first answer and its drawing on the last, so only the
+    /// parent can ask either again.
+    pub re_asked: bool,
+    /// What the widget reported, in window-unit lengths.
     pub size: Size,
-    /// The frame, extent and explicit placement reads that this drawing holds for.
+    /// The window and region reads that this drawing holds for, and the
+    /// rel base and region it pinned.
     pub holds: LayoutHolds,
     pub drawn: bool,
     pub parent: Option<WidgetId>,
@@ -39,30 +45,24 @@ pub struct ActiveData {
     /// widget a frame visits and cannot drift while one is being drawn.
     pub depth: usize,
     pub textures: Vec<TextureHandle>,
+    /// Its primitives, each keeping the box it was written in -- in this
+    /// widget's placement coordinates, which is what a move recomposes from.
     pub primitives: Vec<RetainedPrimitive>,
-    pub mask_region: Option<DrawRegion>,
-    /// The children whose box is a part of this widget's extent rather than
-    /// of its frame, and which part each was given. Moving the extent
-    /// re-places them through that part, so the drawing need not depend on
-    /// where it sits.
-    pub(crate) extent_children: Vec<(WidgetId, ExtentPlacement)>,
+    /// An owned mask holds one reference independently of its primitives.
+    pub mask_region: Option<UiRegion>,
     pub children: Vec<WidgetId>,
-    /// The children whose size this widget read while drawing.
-    pub size_deps: Vec<WidgetId>,
     /// The movable region its primitives are positioned through: its own when
     /// opted in, otherwise the nearest ancestor's.
     pub move_idx: MoveIdx,
-    /// The declared lengths whoever drew this widget resolved into its box.
+    /// The declared lengths whoever drew this widget resolved into its rel base.
     /// A change to one moves a box this widget cannot fix by drawing again,
     /// and comparing them is what says so.
-    pub declared: [Option<LayoutLen>; 2],
-    /// The axes along which its parent chose its box from its own answer,
-    /// so a local redraw asks the question its parent asked.
-    pub decided: [bool; 2],
+    pub declared: Declared,
     /// Its alignment when it was last drawn, which a change to the property
     /// is found against.
     pub own_align: RegionAlign,
-    /// The movable region whose coordinates `region` uses.
+    /// The movable region whose coordinates its placement is in when this
+    /// widget does not own a region node.
     pub parent_move: MoveIdx,
     /// The mask its drawing is clipped to: one it set itself, or the one it
     /// inherited from whoever drew it.
@@ -76,37 +76,24 @@ pub struct ActiveData {
 }
 
 impl ActiveData {
-    /// Whether what it answered still stands for a box of these pixel
-    /// lengths -- the box it was asked in, where `holds` is about the box its
-    /// answer then chose.
-    pub fn answers_at(&self, px: crate::PxVec2) -> bool {
-        self.answer.is_some_and(|(_, holds)| {
-            holds.contains(
-                px,
-                UiRegion {
-                    x: self.offer_placement[0].unwrap_or(crate::UiSpan::FULL),
-                    y: self.offer_placement[1].unwrap_or(crate::UiSpan::FULL),
-                },
-            )
-        })
+    /// What it answered when its parent asked, where it has been asked at
+    /// all. Not `size`, which is what its last drawing reported: a drawing
+    /// re-expressed in the box that answer chose is not a second answer.
+    pub fn measured(&self) -> Option<Size> {
+        self.answer.map(|answer| answer.size)
+    }
+
+    /// Whether it owns a region node rather than sharing the one it was drawn
+    /// under, which is what its two move indices being different says.
+    pub fn is_region_node(&self) -> bool {
+        self.move_idx != self.parent_move
     }
 }
 
-/// What of a container's extent a child was given: the whole of it, for a
-/// wrapper whose box is its child's, or a part of it.
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
-pub(crate) enum ExtentPlacement {
-    Inherit,
-    Within(UiRegion),
-}
-
-impl ExtentPlacement {
-    /// The child's frame in the container's frame coordinates, and the slot
-    /// the container chose within it.
-    pub fn resolve(self, extent: UiRegion) -> (UiRegion, [Option<crate::UiSpan>; 2]) {
-        match self {
-            Self::Inherit => (UiRegion::FULL, [Some(extent.x), Some(extent.y)]),
-            Self::Within(part) => (part.within(&extent), [None; 2]),
-        }
-    }
+/// What a widget answered when it was asked: the size it reported, and the
+/// boxes and windows that answer holds for.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Answer {
+    pub size: Size,
+    pub holds: LayoutHolds,
 }

core/src/ui/draw_region.rs

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-use crate::{PrimitiveHandle, UiRegion};
-
-/// Retains which box geometry follows when only the extent changes.
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
-pub enum DrawRegion {
-    Frame(UiRegion),
-    Extent(UiRegion),
-}
-
-impl DrawRegion {
-    pub(crate) fn resolve(self, frame: UiRegion, extent: UiRegion) -> UiRegion {
-        match self {
-            Self::Frame(local) => local.within(&frame),
-            Self::Extent(local) => local.within(&extent).within(&frame),
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn map(self, f: impl FnOnce(UiRegion) -> UiRegion) -> Self {
-        match self {
-            Self::Frame(local) => Self::Frame(f(local)),
-            Self::Extent(local) => Self::Extent(f(local)),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<UiRegion> for DrawRegion {
-    fn from(region: UiRegion) -> Self {
-        Self::Frame(region)
-    }
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct RetainedPrimitive {
-    pub handle: PrimitiveHandle,
-    pub region: DrawRegion,
-}

core/src/ui/holds.rs

@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@ impl Holds {
         len.raw() >= self.lo.raw() && len.raw() <= self.hi.raw()
     }
 
-    pub const fn and(self, other: Self) -> Self {
+    /// Every length `other` holds for is one this holds for, so a drawing
+    /// made under this range is still good wherever `other` is.
+    pub const fn covers(&self, other: Self) -> bool {
+        self.lo.raw() <= other.lo.raw() && self.hi.raw() >= other.hi.raw()
+    }
+
+    pub const fn and(&self, other: Self) -> Self {
         Self {
             lo: self.lo.max(other.lo),
             hi: self.hi.min(other.hi),
@@ -51,7 +57,7 @@ impl Holds {
     /// boxes therefore give one length. That is a floor rather than an
     /// allowance: inverting it is two divisions and nothing else, and the
     /// whole of a box maps back to itself.
-    pub const fn through(self, len: Len) -> Self {
+    pub const fn through(&self, len: Len) -> Self {
         if self.lo.raw() == Px::MIN.raw() && self.hi.raw() == Px::MAX.raw() {
             return Self::ANY;
         }

core/src/ui/layout_holds.rs

@@ -1,63 +1,108 @@
-use crate::{Axis, Holds, PxVec2, UiRegion};
+use crate::util::impl_axis_index;
+use crate::{Axis, Holds, Len, Px, PxVec2, UiRegion, UiVec2};
 
-/// Dependencies of one evaluation, before the frame and extent are composed.
+/// What one evaluation of a widget depends on along one axis: the window
+/// lengths its reads hold for, the pixel lengths of its own box, and the
+/// symbolic lengths of that box and of its rel base where either one is what
+/// it was expressed in.
+///
+/// The symbolic lengths are pins rather than ranges: a container places its
+/// children as lengths of its rel base measured from where its own box starts,
+/// so what it draws turns on that box's length and on nothing about where it
+/// is. A box pin reaches the parent only where the box it pinned is the
+/// parent's own; anywhere else the parent chose that length itself, and a
+/// widget pinned this way is checked when it is re-placed.
+///
+/// A rel base pin says the answer or the drawing is a fraction of the rel base,
+/// which is a different length wherever the rel base is a different one -- at
+/// the same window size, so no range of window pixels can say it. A length
+/// of the rel base that is only pixels is not one: it is that many pixels
+/// whatever the rel base turns out to be.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct AxisHolds {
+    pub window: Holds,
+    pub rel_base: Option<Len>,
+    pub region: Holds,
+    pub region_len: Option<Len>,
+}
+
+impl AxisHolds {
+    pub const ANY: Self = Self {
+        window: Holds::ANY,
+        rel_base: None,
+        region: Holds::ANY,
+        region_len: None,
+    };
+
+    pub fn and(&self, other: Self) -> Self {
+        // Two pins of the same length disagreeing would mean one drawing was
+        // a fraction of two different lengths at once.
+        debug_assert!(
+            self.region_len.is_none()
+                || other.region_len.is_none()
+                || self.region_len == other.region_len
+        );
+        debug_assert!(
+            self.rel_base.is_none() || other.rel_base.is_none() || self.rel_base == other.rel_base
+        );
+        Self {
+            window: self.window.and(other.window),
+            rel_base: self.rel_base.or(other.rel_base),
+            region: self.region.and(other.region),
+            region_len: self.region_len.or(other.region_len),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn covers(&self, other: Self) -> bool {
+        self.window.covers(other.window)
+            && self.region.covers(other.region)
+            && self
+                .region_len
+                .is_none_or(|len| other.region_len == Some(len))
+            && self.rel_base.is_none_or(|len| other.rel_base == Some(len))
+    }
+
+    /// Whether a widget in a box `len` long, with that rel base, in that
+    /// window, is one this drawing holds for.
+    pub fn contains(&self, window: Px, rel_base: Len, len: Len) -> bool {
+        self.window.contains(window)
+            && self.rel_base.is_none_or(|pinned| pinned == rel_base)
+            && self.region.contains(len.to_px(window))
+            && self.region_len.is_none_or(|pinned| pinned == len)
+    }
+}
+
+/// [`AxisHolds`] on both axes. Every question asked of it is asked of one
+/// axis at a time, since a widget that read one length holds for any length
+/// of the other.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
 pub struct LayoutHolds {
-    pub frame: [Holds; 2],
-    pub extent: [Holds; 2],
-    pub placement: Option<UiRegion>,
+    pub x: AxisHolds,
+    pub y: AxisHolds,
 }
 
 impl LayoutHolds {
     pub const ANY: Self = Self {
-        frame: [Holds::ANY; 2],
-        extent: [Holds::ANY; 2],
-        placement: None,
+        x: AxisHolds::ANY,
+        y: AxisHolds::ANY,
     };
 
-    pub fn and(self, other: Self) -> Self {
-        debug_assert!(
-            self.placement.is_none()
-                || other.placement.is_none()
-                || self.placement == other.placement
-        );
+    pub fn and(&self, other: Self) -> Self {
         Self {
-            frame: [
-                self.frame[0].and(other.frame[0]),
-                self.frame[1].and(other.frame[1]),
-            ],
-            extent: [
-                self.extent[0].and(other.extent[0]),
-                self.extent[1].and(other.extent[1]),
-            ],
-            placement: self.placement.or(other.placement),
+            x: self.x.and(other.x),
+            y: self.y.and(other.y),
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn covers(self, other: Self) -> bool {
-        self.placement
-            .is_none_or(|placement| other.placement == Some(placement))
-            && [0, 1].into_iter().all(|n| {
-                self.frame[n].lo <= other.frame[n].lo
-                    && self.frame[n].hi >= other.frame[n].hi
-                    && self.extent[n].lo <= other.extent[n].lo
-                    && self.extent[n].hi >= other.extent[n].hi
-            })
+    pub fn covers(&self, other: Self) -> bool {
+        self.x.covers(other.x) && self.y.covers(other.y)
     }
 
-    pub fn contains(self, px: PxVec2, placement: UiRegion) -> bool {
-        self.placement.is_none_or(|old| old == placement)
-            && [Axis::X, Axis::Y].into_iter().all(|axis| {
-                self.frame[axis as usize].contains(px.axis(axis))
-                    && self.extent[axis as usize]
-                        .contains(placement.axis(axis).len().to_px(px.axis(axis)))
-            })
-    }
-
-    pub fn in_frame(self, placement: UiRegion) -> [Holds; 2] {
-        [Axis::X, Axis::Y].map(|axis| {
-            self.frame[axis as usize]
-                .and(self.extent[axis as usize].through(placement.axis(axis).len()))
-        })
+    pub fn contains(&self, window: PxVec2, rel_base: UiVec2, region: UiRegion) -> bool {
+        Axis::BOTH
+            .into_iter()
+            .all(|axis| self[axis].contains(window[axis], rel_base[axis], region[axis].len()))
     }
 }
+
+impl_axis_index!(LayoutHolds => AxisHolds);

core/src/ui/mod.rs

@@ -10,17 +10,17 @@ use crate::{
 pub const CHAIN_LIMIT: u32 = 64;
 
 mod active;
-mod draw_region;
 mod holds;
 mod layout_holds;
 mod painter;
+mod place;
 mod render_state;
 
 pub use active::*;
-pub use draw_region::*;
 pub use holds::*;
 pub use layout_holds::*;
 pub use painter::{Painter, PrimitiveLike};
+pub use place::{PlaceDesc, PlaceDescAxis, RetainedPrimitive};
 pub use render_state::*;
 
 #[derive(Default)]

core/src/ui/place.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+use crate::util::impl_axis_index;
+use crate::{Axis, AxisAlign, Len, PrimitiveHandle, RegionAlign, UiRegion, UiSpan};
+
+/// How a child's region along one axis comes from the region of the widget
+/// asking, and what its fractions are of.
+///
+/// The three ways of saying a region are the three the geometry already has:
+/// a span composed into the caller's box, a span shifted to where that box
+/// starts, and a length placed in it by alignment. Which one is meant cannot
+/// be read off the numbers, since two of them take the same span and apply
+/// it differently, so it is said here.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct PlaceDescAxis {
+    pub span: PlaceSpan,
+    pub fills: bool,
+    pub rel_base: RelBase,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub enum PlaceSpan {
+    Within(UiSpan),
+    Shifted(UiSpan),
+    Sized(Len),
+}
+
+/// What a child's fractions are of. [`PlaceSpan::Sized`] is a length the
+/// caller named, which is always its own base, so nothing here constructs one
+/// beside anything but [`Self::Len`].
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub enum RelBase {
+    /// The caller's own, unchanged.
+    Inherit,
+    /// The caller's own, narrowed the way the region is.
+    WithRegion,
+    /// This length of the window.
+    Len(Len),
+}
+
+impl PlaceDescAxis {
+    /// The whole of the caller's box.
+    pub const WHOLE: Self = UiSpan::FULL.within_desc();
+
+    /// This region is the child's placement: its answer is not placed inside
+    /// it again. A container uses it where it hands back exactly what the
+    /// child asked for -- a row placing a child at the length it reported.
+    pub const fn fills(mut self) -> Self {
+        self.fills = true;
+        self
+    }
+
+    /// This along `axis`, and the whole of the caller's box across it: what
+    /// a container dividing one axis says, since nothing divides the other.
+    /// [`PlaceDesc::from_axis`] says the across one where it is not the
+    /// whole.
+    pub const fn on_axis(self, axis: Axis) -> PlaceDesc {
+        PlaceDesc::from_axis(axis, self, Self::WHOLE)
+    }
+
+    /// What the child's fractions are of, as a length of the window: a
+    /// resolved share, or a box a sibling's answer decided.
+    pub const fn rel_base(mut self, len: Len) -> Self {
+        self.rel_base = RelBase::Len(len);
+        self
+    }
+
+    /// Where it lands in the coordinates `own` is in.
+    pub fn of(self, own: UiSpan, align: AxisAlign) -> UiSpan {
+        match self.span {
+            PlaceSpan::Within(span) => span.within(&own),
+            PlaceSpan::Shifted(mut span) => {
+                span.shift(own.start);
+                span
+            }
+            PlaceSpan::Sized(len) => own.place(len, align),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Where a child is asked, on both axes. A [`UiRegion`] converts into the
+/// common case: that box of the caller's own, the answer placed inside it.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct PlaceDesc {
+    pub x: PlaceDescAxis,
+    pub y: PlaceDescAxis,
+}
+
+impl PlaceDesc {
+    /// The whole of the caller's box, on both axes.
+    pub const WHOLE: Self = Self::splat(PlaceDescAxis::WHOLE);
+
+    pub const fn new(x: PlaceDescAxis, y: PlaceDescAxis) -> Self {
+        Self { x, y }
+    }
+
+    /// The same on both axes.
+    pub const fn splat(place: PlaceDescAxis) -> Self {
+        Self { x: place, y: place }
+    }
+
+    /// A description per axis, where the two differ and neither is the
+    /// axis a container divides.
+    pub fn from_axes(f: impl Fn(Axis) -> PlaceDescAxis) -> Self {
+        Self::new(f(Axis::X), f(Axis::Y))
+    }
+
+    /// `aligned` on `axis` and `ortho` on the other, which is how a
+    /// container that divides one axis says what it is doing.
+    pub const fn from_axis(axis: Axis, aligned: PlaceDescAxis, ortho: PlaceDescAxis) -> Self {
+        match axis {
+            Axis::X => Self::new(aligned, ortho),
+            Axis::Y => Self::new(ortho, aligned),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Both regions are the child's placement. See [`PlaceDescAxis::fills`].
+    pub const fn fills(self) -> Self {
+        Self::new(self.x.fills(), self.y.fills())
+    }
+
+    /// The child's rel base on one axis. See [`PlaceDescAxis::rel_base`].
+    pub const fn rel_base(mut self, axis: Axis, len: Len) -> Self {
+        self[axis] = self[axis].rel_base(len);
+        self
+    }
+
+    /// The box each axis names, in the coordinates `own` is in.
+    pub fn of(self, own: UiRegion, align: RegionAlign) -> UiRegion {
+        UiRegion::new(self.x.of(own.x, align.x), self.y.of(own.y, align.y))
+    }
+}
+
+impl UiSpan {
+    /// This span composed into the caller's own box, so it moves and scales
+    /// with it: [`UiSpan::within`], which is what a container that insets
+    /// one speaks. Taking eleven pixels off the end needs no length, where
+    /// saying the same thing in window lengths would make the container read
+    /// its own box -- and a box chosen from its own answer then feeds back
+    /// into the answer.
+    ///
+    /// The child's rel base is narrowed the same way, so padding takes its
+    /// pixels off both and `rel(1)` under it fills the caller rather than
+    /// overflowing it.
+    pub const fn within_desc(self) -> PlaceDescAxis {
+        PlaceDescAxis {
+            span: PlaceSpan::Within(self),
+            fills: false,
+            rel_base: RelBase::WithRegion,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// This span shifted to where the caller's own box starts: window
+    /// lengths along a cursor, which is what a container dividing room among
+    /// its children speaks. A child's report is a window length, so the
+    /// cursor that sums those reports is one too, and a moved box re-places
+    /// every child by re-adding its start, exactly.
+    ///
+    /// The child's rel base passes through: how far along the cursor a child
+    /// sits says nothing about what a fraction under it is of. The same span
+    /// says [`Self::within_desc`] as a part of that box instead, and which is
+    /// meant cannot be read off the numbers.
+    pub const fn shifted_desc(self) -> PlaceDescAxis {
+        PlaceDescAxis {
+            span: PlaceSpan::Shifted(self),
+            fills: false,
+            rel_base: RelBase::Inherit,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Len {
+    /// A box this long, placed in the caller's own by the child's alignment:
+    /// the rule that places an answer, with the length given from above
+    /// rather than reported. What a stack's sizing child decides for the
+    /// rest. It is the child's rel base too.
+    pub const fn as_desc(self) -> PlaceDescAxis {
+        PlaceDescAxis {
+            span: PlaceSpan::Sized(self),
+            fills: false,
+            rel_base: RelBase::Len(self),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<UiRegion> for PlaceDesc {
+    fn from(region: UiRegion) -> Self {
+        Self::new(region.x.within_desc(), region.y.within_desc())
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<PlaceDescAxis> for PlaceDesc {
+    fn from(place: PlaceDescAxis) -> Self {
+        Self::splat(place)
+    }
+}
+
+/// A primitive as it was written: its box in the widget's own box's
+/// coordinates, which is what a move of that box re-composes from.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct RetainedPrimitive {
+    pub handle: PrimitiveHandle,
+    pub region: UiRegion,
+}
+
+impl_axis_index!(PlaceDesc => PlaceDescAxis);

core/src/util/math.rs

@@ -93,3 +93,31 @@ macro_rules! impl_op {
 }
 
 pub(crate) use impl_op;
+
+/// `Index<Axis>` for a pair, which is how every pair here is read by axis.
+/// The generics clause is given in braces where the type has one.
+macro_rules! impl_axis_index {
+    ($({$($gen:tt)*})? $T:ty => $Out:ty) => {
+        const impl $(<$($gen)*>)? std::ops::Index<crate::Axis> for $T {
+            type Output = $Out;
+
+            fn index(&self, axis: crate::Axis) -> &$Out {
+                match axis {
+                    crate::Axis::X => &self.x,
+                    crate::Axis::Y => &self.y,
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        const impl $(<$($gen)*>)? std::ops::IndexMut<crate::Axis> for $T {
+            fn index_mut(&mut self, axis: crate::Axis) -> &mut $Out {
+                match axis {
+                    crate::Axis::X => &mut self.x,
+                    crate::Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+pub(crate) use impl_axis_index;

core/src/widget/size_rule.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use crate::{Axis, LayoutLen, Weight};
+use crate::util::impl_axis_index;
+use crate::{Axis, LayoutLen, Len};
 
 /// What a widget's length on one axis is, as a rule its parent applies where
 /// it draws it rather than an answer the widget gives about itself.
@@ -19,14 +20,9 @@ pub enum SizeRule {
 
 impl SizeRule {
     /// The length this rule gives without the widget being drawn, if it can
-    /// give one. `leftover` is never among them: a share is a length only to
-    /// whoever divides one, so it passes up in the reported size instead and
-    /// is resolved there.
-    pub fn declared(&self) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
-        match self {
-            Self::Exact(len) if len.leftover == Weight::ZERO => Some(*len),
-            _ => None,
-        }
+    /// give one.
+    pub fn declared(&self) -> Option<Len> {
+        self.exact().and_then(|len| len.declared())
     }
 
     /// The length this rule gives outright, whatever the widget reports --
@@ -40,14 +36,6 @@ impl SizeRule {
             Self::Exact(len) => Some(*len),
         }
     }
-
-    /// The length a widget reporting `reported` ends up with.
-    pub fn apply(&self, reported: LayoutLen) -> LayoutLen {
-        match self {
-            Self::Free => reported,
-            Self::Exact(len) => *len,
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 impl From<LayoutLen> for SizeRule {
@@ -70,18 +58,29 @@ pub struct SizeRules {
     pub y: SizeRule,
 }
 
-impl SizeRules {
-    pub fn axis(&self, axis: Axis) -> SizeRule {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => self.x,
-            Axis::Y => self.y,
-        }
-    }
+impl_axis_index!(SizeRules => SizeRule);
 
-    pub fn axis_mut(&mut self, axis: Axis) -> &mut SizeRule {
-        match axis {
-            Axis::X => &mut self.x,
-            Axis::Y => &mut self.y,
+/// What a widget's box is on each axis where something says so outright,
+/// before it is drawn: a rule beside it, or a hint it gives about itself.
+/// Whoever draws the widget resolves these against its rel base.
+///
+/// A [`Len`] rather than a [`LayoutLen`], because a share can never be one
+/// -- see [`LayoutLen::declared`].
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Declared {
+    pub x: Option<Len>,
+    pub y: Option<Len>,
+}
+
+impl Declared {
+    pub const NONE: Self = Self { x: None, y: None };
+
+    pub fn from_axes(f: impl Fn(Axis) -> Option<Len>) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            x: f(Axis::X),
+            y: f(Axis::Y),
         }
     }
 }
+
+impl_axis_index!(Declared => Option<Len>);

core/src/widget/widgets.rs

@@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ impl Widgets {
     pub fn set_size_rule(&mut self, id: impl IdLike, axis: Axis, rule: SizeRule) {
         let id = id.id();
         let data = self.data_mut(id).unwrap();
-        if *data.size.axis_mut(axis) == rule {
+        if data.size[axis] == rule {
             return;
         }
-        *data.size.axis_mut(axis) = rule;
+        data.size[axis] = rule;
         self.needs_redraw.insert(id);
     }
 
@@ -147,10 +147,10 @@ impl Widgets {
     pub fn set_alignment(&mut self, id: impl IdLike, axis: Axis, align: AxisAlign) {
         let id = id.id();
         let data = self.data_mut(id).unwrap();
-        if *data.align.axis_mut(axis) == align {
+        if data.align[axis] == align {
             return;
         }
-        *data.align.axis_mut(axis) = align;
+        data.align[axis] = align;
         self.needs_redraw.insert(id);
     }
 

src/default/render.rs

@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ impl UiRenderer {
     }
 
     pub fn draw(&mut self) {
-        let output = match self.surface.get_current_texture() {
-            CurrentSurfaceTexture::Success(texture) => texture,
-            CurrentSurfaceTexture::Suboptimal(texture) => {
-                self.surface.configure(&self.device, &self.config);
-                texture
-            }
+        let (output, suboptimal) = match self.surface.get_current_texture() {
+            CurrentSurfaceTexture::Success(texture) => (texture, false),
+            // Used for this frame, and the swapchain rebuilt after it has
+            // been presented: configuring the surface while a texture it
+            // handed out is still alive panics.
+            CurrentSurfaceTexture::Suboptimal(texture) => (texture, true),
             CurrentSurfaceTexture::Outdated | CurrentSurfaceTexture::Lost => {
                 self.surface.configure(&self.device, &self.config);
                 return;
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ impl UiRenderer {
         self.queue.submit(std::iter::once(encoder.finish()));
         self.window.pre_present_notify();
         self.queue.present(output);
+        if suboptimal {
+            self.surface.configure(&self.device, &self.config);
+        }
     }
 
     pub fn resize(&mut self, size: &PhysicalSize<u32>) {

src/random.rs

@@ -117,19 +117,35 @@ pub struct Branch {
 
 impl Widget for Branch {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-        let mut top = UiRegion::FULL;
-        top.y.end = top.y.start.offset(Px::from_int(40));
-        let measured = painter.widget_within(&self.probe, top).len(Axis::X);
-        let px = measured.apply_leftover().to_px(painter.px_len(Axis::X));
+        let cut = Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, Px::from_int(40));
+        let top = UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut).shifted_desc();
+        let measured = painter
+            .widget_at(&self.probe, top.on_axis(Axis::Y))
+            .len(Axis::X);
+        let len = measured.apply_leftover();
+        let px = painter.to_px(len, Axis::X);
+        // The range it actually branched on, said the way a container says
+        // one: pinning the window instead would redraw this widget on every
+        // resize, which is a fixture that never exercises reuse.
+        let threshold = Px::from_f32(self.threshold);
+        let holds = match px > threshold {
+            true => Holds::from(threshold + Px::STEP..=Px::MAX),
+            false => Holds::from(Px::MIN..=threshold),
+        };
+        painter.window_holds(Axis::X, holds.through(len));
 
-        let mut below = UiRegion::FULL;
-        below.y.start = below.y.start.offset(Px::from_int(40));
-        match px > Px::from_f32(self.threshold) {
-            true => painter.widget_within(&self.wide, below),
-            false => painter.widget_within(&self.narrow, below),
+        let below = UiSpan::new(cut, painter.region_len(Axis::Y)).shifted_desc();
+        let place = below.on_axis(Axis::Y);
+        match px > threshold {
+            true => painter.widget_at(&self.wide, place),
+            false => painter.widget_at(&self.narrow, place),
         };
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
+
+    fn size_hint(&self, _: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
+        Some(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER)
+    }
 }
 
 pub struct Spanned {

src/widget/image.rs

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ impl Widget for Image {
     }
 
     fn size_hint(&self, axis: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
-        Some(LayoutLen::px(self.handle.size().axis(axis)))
+        Some(LayoutLen::px(self.handle.size()[axis]))
     }
 }
 

src/widget/mask.rs

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pub struct Masked {
 
 impl Widget for Masked {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-        painter.set_mask(DrawRegion::Extent(UiRegion::FULL));
+        painter.set_mask(UiRegion::FULL);
         painter.widget(&self.inner);
         // What it occupies is its box, on both axes, for the reason `Scroll`
         // reports the same: it clips what is inside to that box, so it can
@@ -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/offset.rs

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ pub struct Offset {
 
 impl Widget for Offset {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-        let region = UiRegion::FULL.offset(self.amt);
-        painter.widget_within(&self.inner, region).size()
+        painter
+            .widget_at(&self.inner, UiRegion::FULL.offset(self.amt))
+            .size()
     }
 }

src/widget/position/pad.rs

@@ -13,8 +13,13 @@ impl Widget for Pad {
         // it; where the box is bigger -- a share of a row, a rule over this
         // widget -- the slack is the inner's to sit in, and forcing the near
         // edge pinned it to a corner it had not asked for.
-        let inside = DrawRegion::Extent(self.padding.region());
-        let inner = painter.widget_within(&self.inner, inside).size();
+        //
+        // Padding is an inset of both: it comes off the rel base, so `rel(1)`
+        // under it fills this widget rather than overflowing it by the
+        // padding, and it comes off the box, so what is drawn sits inside.
+        // The two stay distinct -- the box can be narrower still, where a row
+        // asked this widget in the room left, and a text wraps at that.
+        let inner = painter.widget_at(&self.inner, self.padding.region()).size();
         Size {
             x: LayoutLen {
                 px: inner.x.px + self.padding.left + self.padding.right,

src/widget/position/scroll.rs

@@ -12,31 +12,29 @@ pub struct Scroll {
 impl Widget for Scroll {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
         let container_len = painter.px_len(self.axis);
-        // Draw in the whole container only when its scrolling-axis length is
-        // not already known, then draw it at the scrolled offset.
-        let whole = UiRegion::FULL;
-        let own = painter.placement();
-        let answer_len =
-            painter.measure_len(&self.inner, self.axis, whole, [Some(own.x), Some(own.y)]);
-        let content = answer_len.apply_leftover();
+        // Asked in the whole viewport, then put at the scrolled offset.
+        let answer_len = painter
+            .widget_at(&self.inner, PlaceDesc::WHOLE.fills())
+            .len(self.axis);
+        let answer_px = painter.to_px(answer_len.without_leftover(), self.axis);
         self.container_len = container_len;
-        self.content_len = content.to_px(container_len);
+        self.content_len = answer_px.max(container_len);
 
         if self.snap_end {
             self.amt = self.content_len - self.container_len;
         }
         self.update_amt();
-        let align = painter.alignment().axis(self.axis);
+        let align = painter.alignment()[self.axis];
         // Content of a fixed length that fits sits at the start of any box it
         // fits in -- but only anchored there. Anywhere else it is a part of
         // the room left over, so it moves with every length the box takes and
         // the drawing holds for that length alone. One scrolled part way sits
         // where it is until the box shrinks past what is left of it. Kept to
         // the end, it moves with every length.
-        let fixed_len = content.rel == Rel::ZERO;
-        if fixed_len && self.content_len <= self.container_len && align == AxisAlign::NEG {
-            painter.holds(self.axis, self.content_len..=Px::MAX);
-        } else if fixed_len && !self.snap_end {
+        let answer_is_px = answer_len.is_px();
+        if answer_is_px && self.content_len <= self.container_len && align == AxisAlign::NEG {
+            painter.holds(self.axis, answer_px..=Px::MAX);
+        } else if answer_is_px && !self.snap_end {
             let left = self.content_len - self.amt;
             painter.holds(self.axis, Px::MIN..=left);
         }
@@ -46,7 +44,6 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
         // have placed the whole scroll in a box longer than it.
         let slack = (self.container_len - self.content_len).max(Px::ZERO);
         let anchor = slack.mul(align.rel());
-        let mut region = UiRegion::FULL;
         // Content that fills the viewport and has not been scrolled is the
         // viewport, and is handed back as it came. Writing the same box as
         // its own length in pixels is the same box in another form, and the
@@ -54,26 +51,28 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
         // one centred in `px 900`, since halving a difference is not halving
         // each part of it.
         let moved = anchor != Px::ZERO || self.amt != Px::ZERO;
-        if moved || self.content_len != self.container_len {
-            let offset = UiVec2::from_axis(
-                self.axis,
-                Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, anchor - self.amt),
-                Len::ZERO,
-            );
-            region = region.offset(offset);
-            region.axis_mut(self.axis).end = region.axis(self.axis).start.offset(self.content_len);
+        let content = match moved || self.content_len != self.container_len {
+            true => {
+                let start = Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, anchor - self.amt);
+                UiSpan::new(start, start.offset(self.content_len)).shifted_desc()
             }
-        // The viewport is the inner's region, so a fraction it declares or
+            false => PlaceDescAxis::WHOLE,
+        };
+        // The viewport is the inner's rel base, so a fraction it declares or
         // reports is a fraction of what is on screen rather than of the
-        // content box its own answer decided. Where it is put is the content
-        // box, scrolled.
-        painter.widget_at(&self.inner, whole, [Some(region.x), Some(region.y)]);
+        // content box its own answer decided. Where it goes is the content
+        // box, scrolled: its drawing moved there, not made again there.
+        painter.place_at(&self.inner, content.on_axis(self.axis).fills());
         // 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
         // more. The content's length is what it scrolls through, not what it
         // is.
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
+
+    fn size_hint(&self, _: Axis) -> Option<LayoutLen> {
+        Some(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER)
+    }
 }
 
 impl Scroll {

src/widget/position/span.rs

@@ -10,36 +10,32 @@ pub struct Span {
 impl Widget for Span {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
         let axis = self.dir.axis;
-        // The row: this span's own box, as a span of the region it was given.
-        // Its children are laid out along it, and what they declare or report
-        // is a fraction of the region -- the area this span was told it has,
-        // which it passes on unchanged.
-        let own = painter.placement();
-        let row = *own.axis(axis);
-        // Across itself the span's own box is the child's region: a span is
-        // what contains its children there, and nothing divides that axis.
-        // Along it the whole region is, so a fraction means the same thing
-        // for every child however much of the row is left when it is asked.
-        let region = UiRegion::from_axis(axis, UiSpan::FULL, *own.axis(!axis));
-        let along = |from: Len, to: Len| match self.dir.sign {
-            Sign::Pos => UiSpan::new(row.start + from, row.start + to),
-            Sign::Neg => UiSpan::new(row.end - to, row.end - from),
-        };
-        let far = row.len();
-        // A length for every child before their final boxes are chosen: from
-        // a hint where one exists, and from drawing otherwise.
-        let mut cursor = Len::rel_min();
+        // The row this span lays its children out along, as a length of the
+        // rel base they are laid out against. Where it starts is nothing's
+        // business -- a slot is a length from there -- so what this reads is
+        // the length alone.
+        let row = painter.region_len(axis);
+        // A length for every child before their final slots are chosen: from
+        // a hint where one says, and from drawing otherwise. The rel base 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.
+        let mut cursor = Len::ZERO;
         let mut lens = Vec::with_capacity(self.children.len());
         for child in &self.children {
-            // The whole region is the child's, 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 placed in is the room left
-            // from the cursor, because a text has to wrap at the width
-            // actually there.
-            let room = axis.pair(Some(along(cursor, far)), None);
-            let len = painter.measure_len(child, axis, region, room);
-            cursor.px += len.px + self.gap;
-            cursor.rel += len.rel;
+            let len = match painter.size_hint(child, axis) {
+                Some(len) => len,
+                None => {
+                    // 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 room = self.slot(row, cursor, row).shifted_desc().on_axis(axis);
+                    painter.widget_at(child, room).len(axis)
+                }
+            };
+            cursor += len.without_leftover();
+            cursor.px += self.gap;
             lens.push(len);
         }
 
@@ -55,8 +51,8 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         );
 
         // What is left for the shares to divide: the row less everything
-        // fixed, as a length of the region rather than a number of pixels.
-        let room = far - Len::from_parts(total.rel, total.px);
+        // fixed, as a length of the rel base rather than a number of pixels.
+        let room = row - total.without_leftover();
         // Whether anything is left over is a question in pixels: `rel(0.5)`
         // beside 300 px is full at 600 and overfull at 400. Asked of `room`
         // itself, and answered back through the same expression, so the
@@ -66,14 +62,14 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         // sign of `room.rel`, which `through` already reads. What the
         // generated oracle checks is the consequence, since which children
         // exist at all turns on this.
-        let mut shares = false;
-        if total.leftover > Weight::ZERO {
-            shares = room.to_px(painter.region_px_len(axis)) > Px::ZERO;
-            let holds = match shares {
+        let any_leftover = total.leftover > Weight::ZERO;
+        let has_room = any_leftover && painter.to_px(room, axis) > Px::ZERO;
+        if any_leftover {
+            let holds = match has_room {
                 true => Holds::from(Px::STEP..=Px::MAX),
                 false => Holds::from(Px::MIN..=Px::ZERO),
             };
-            painter.region_holds(axis, holds.through(room));
+            painter.window_holds(axis, holds.through(room));
         }
 
         // Across itself a span is as long as its longest child -- unless a
@@ -84,51 +80,59 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         let shrinks = !painter.has_exact_size(!axis);
         // What the fixed parts and the gaps before here take, which is a sum
         // of lengths and exact, and how much of the leftover weight is
-        // spoken for. A position is one from the other rather than a step
-        // from the last child: the share of the room is rounded, and taking
-        // each from the one before it would carry every rounding along the
-        // row.
-        let mut fixed = Len::rel_min();
+        // spoken for. Both ends of a slot are read from those two rather
+        // than stepped from the last child: the share of the room is
+        // rounded, and taking each end from the one before it would carry
+        // every rounding along the row.
+        let mut fixed = Len::ZERO;
         let mut taken = Weight::ZERO;
-        let mut start = Len::rel_min();
         let mut ortho = LayoutLen::ZERO;
-        for (child, len) in self.children.iter().zip(&lens) {
+        // Nothing divides the room where no child asked for any of it, and a
+        // ratio of a whole of nothing has no answer.
+        let reached = |fixed: Len, taken: Weight| match any_leftover {
+            false => fixed,
+            true => fixed + room.scale(Rel::ratio(taken, total.leftover)),
+        };
+        for (child, &len) in self.children.iter().zip(&lens) {
             // 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.
-            if len.leftover > Weight::ZERO && len.px == Px::ZERO && len.rel == Rel::ZERO && !shares
-            {
+            if len.is_only_leftover() && !has_room {
                 painter.undraw(child);
                 fixed.px += self.gap;
                 continue;
             }
-            let from = start;
-            if len.leftover > Weight::ZERO && shares {
+            let from = reached(fixed, taken);
+            if len.leftover > Weight::ZERO && has_room {
                 taken += len.leftover;
             }
-            fixed.px += len.px;
-            fixed.rel += len.rel;
-            start = shared(fixed, taken, total.leftover, room);
-            // Along the row the span says where the child goes; across it the
-            // child sits where its own alignment says. Its region is the
-            // whole of what this span was given either way, which is what its
-            // fractions are of.
-            let placed =
-                painter.widget_at(child, region, axis.pair(Some(along(from, start)), None));
+            fixed += len.without_leftover();
+            let to = reached(fixed, taken);
+            // Along the row the span says where the child goes, and that slot
+            // is the child's box outright rather than something to place an
+            // answer inside again. A share is decided here and nowhere
+            // else: its slot narrows its rel base, 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 a drawing made in the
+            // room is put there as it is, and one not made yet is made here.
+            let slot = self.slot(row, from, to);
+            let mut place = slot.shifted_desc().fills().on_axis(axis);
+            if len.leftover > Weight::ZERO && has_room {
+                place = place.rel_base(axis, slot.len());
+            }
+            let used = painter.place_at(child, place).len(!axis);
             if shrinks {
-                let used = placed.len(!axis);
                 // Choosing between a fixed and a relative length from the
                 // span's own eventual width admits multiple fixed points.
-                // A scalable child therefore makes Children scalable too;
+                // A scalable child therefore makes the span scalable too;
                 // only fixed children are compared with one another.
-                if used.rel != Rel::ZERO || used.leftover != Weight::ZERO {
+                if !used.is_px() {
                     ortho = LayoutLen::LEFTOVER;
                 } else if ortho.leftover == Weight::ZERO {
                     ortho.px = ortho.px.max(used.px);
                 }
             }
             fixed.px += self.gap;
-            start = shared(fixed, taken, total.leftover, room);
         }
 
         // Carried whole rather than collapsed to one share: a span that sizes
@@ -138,26 +142,26 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         // get a quarter each, which collapsing to `leftover(1)` per level does
         // not give. Resolution happens at the nearest ancestor with a length,
         // and the root always has one.
-        let along = total;
         let ortho = match shrinks {
             true => ortho,
             false => LayoutLen::rel(1.0),
         };
-        Size::from_axis(axis, along, ortho)
+        Size::from_axis(axis, total, ortho)
     }
 }
 
-/// Where a row has reached: everything fixed before this point, which is a
-/// sum and exact, plus the share of the room the weights so far are worth,
-/// which is one rounding wherever it is asked for.
-fn shared(fixed: Len, taken: Weight, weight: Weight, room: Len) -> Len {
-    if taken == Weight::ZERO {
-        return fixed;
-    }
-    fixed + room.scale(Rel::ratio(taken, weight))
-}
-
 impl Span {
+    /// The stretch of the row between two distances from where this span
+    /// starts laying children out, as a span of its own box. A negative
+    /// direction lays out from the far end, so the same two distances mirror
+    /// in a row `row` long.
+    fn slot(&self, row: Len, from: Len, to: Len) -> UiSpan {
+        match self.dir.sign {
+            Sign::Pos => from.to(to),
+            Sign::Neg => (row - to).to(row - from),
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn empty(dir: Dir) -> Self {
         Self {
             children: Vec::new(),

src/widget/position/stack.rs

@@ -13,32 +13,49 @@ impl Widget for Stack {
             StackSize::Default => None,
             StackSize::Child(i) => Some(i),
         };
-        // Whichever child sizes the stack keeps the stack's whole region as
-        // its own -- the stack is the length that child asked for, so taking
-        // the fraction of the stack's box again would take it twice -- and is
-        // put where the stack itself is put.
+        // Whichever child sizes the stack is given the stack's whole box --
+        // the stack is the length that child asked for, so placing that
+        // answer inside the box it decided would apply it twice.
         let size = match sizing.and_then(|i| self.children.get(i).map(|c| (i, c))) {
             // On the layer that child ends up on, so the ask below is a reuse
             // rather than a second drawing of it somewhere else: a retained
             // drawing belongs to the layer it was made on.
             Some((i, child)) => {
                 painter.child_layer_at(i);
-                painter.widget(child).size()
+                painter.widget_at(child, PlaceDesc::WHOLE.fills()).size()
             }
             None => Size::LEFTOVER,
         };
+        // Every other child gets the box the sizing child decided: the
+        // stack is that length, so that is the box they are asked in, and a
+        // fraction under them is a fraction of it. A share leaves the axis
+        // to whoever gave the stack its box. Where a child sits in a box
+        // bigger than itself is its own business.
+        let place = PlaceDesc::from_axes(|axis| {
+            let len = size[axis];
+            match len.leftover == Weight::ZERO {
+                true => len.without_leftover().as_desc().fills(),
+                false => PlaceDescAxis::WHOLE,
+            }
+        });
         for (i, child) in self.children.iter().enumerate() {
             if sizing == Some(i) {
                 continue;
             }
             painter.child_layer_at(i);
-            // Every other child has the stack's own box for its region, since
-            // the stack is what contains it, and where it sits in one bigger
-            // than itself is its own business.
-            painter.widget_within(child, DrawRegion::Extent(UiRegion::FULL));
+            painter.widget_at(child, place);
         }
         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)]

src/widget/text/mod.rs

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ impl TextView {
         // hair under that line, and the break made in it is not the break a
         // cold layout makes there.
         let size = Size::from_px(PxVec2::ceil_from_f32(tex.size));
-        painter.glyphs(tex, DrawRegion::Extent(region));
+        painter.glyphs(tex, region);
         (region, size)
     }
 

tests/cases/determinism.rs

@@ -21,16 +21,18 @@ struct BranchesOnMeasurement {
 
 impl Widget for BranchesOnMeasurement {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-        let mut top = UiRegion::FULL;
-        top.y.end = top.y.start.offset(Px::from_int(40));
-        let measured = painter.widget_within(&self.probe, top).len(Axis::X);
-        let px = measured.apply_leftover().to_px(painter.px_len(Axis::X));
+        let cut = Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, Px::from_int(40));
+        let top = UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut).shifted_desc();
+        let measured = painter
+            .widget_at(&self.probe, top.on_axis(Axis::Y))
+            .len(Axis::X);
+        let px = painter.to_px(measured.apply_leftover(), Axis::X);
 
-        let mut below = UiRegion::FULL;
-        below.y.start = below.y.start.offset(Px::from_int(40));
+        let below = UiSpan::new(cut, painter.region_len(Axis::Y)).shifted_desc();
+        let place = below.on_axis(Axis::Y);
         match px > Px::from_f32(self.threshold) {
-            true => painter.widget_within(&self.wide, below),
-            false => painter.widget_within(&self.narrow, below),
+            true => painter.widget_at(&self.wide, place),
+            false => painter.widget_at(&self.narrow, place),
         };
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }

tests/cases/layout.rs

@@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ fn a_text_in_a_span_wraps_at_the_room_left_rather_than_the_whole_row() {
     assert!(crowded > whole_row, "{crowded} against {whole_row}");
 }
 
-/// The same reading through a pad: its inset is the whole box less the
-/// padding, so half of the inset plus the padding is half the box plus one
-/// padding, not two.
+/// Padding is an inset: it narrows the frame a fraction resolves against and
+/// adds itself back to the padded widget's reported length.
 #[test]
-fn a_pad_reports_a_fraction_of_its_inset_as_a_fraction_of_its_box() {
+fn a_pad_puts_its_padding_around_a_fraction_of_the_whole_box() {
     let mut h = Harness::new((400, 100));
     let inner = rect(Color::GREEN).width(rel(0.5)).add(&mut h.rsc);
     let padded = (inner,).span(Dir::RIGHT).pad(10).add(&mut h.rsc);
@@ -96,10 +95,85 @@ fn a_pad_reports_a_fraction_of_its_inset_as_a_fraction_of_its_box() {
     // placed inside it by its own alignment, which is not what is under test.
     h.set_root((padded, tail).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
 
+    assert_corners!(h, inner, (10, 10), (200, 90));
     assert_corners!(h, padded, (0, 0), (210, 100));
     assert_corners!(h, tail, (210, 0), (310, 100));
 }
 
+const PARAGRAPH: &str = "Wrapping shapes one source into as many lines as the box \
+    leaves room for, so a paragraph's height is an answer and not a setting.";
+
+/// The worked example of what padding insets: in a 900 px row after a 24 px
+/// icon, a `rel(1.0)` inside `pad(16)` is 900 - 32 and overflows the row by
+/// the icon's width, while a wrapping text beside it is asked in the room
+/// left, 900 - 24 - 32, and wraps there.
+#[test]
+fn padding_keeps_the_rel_base_distinct_from_the_room_left_in_a_row() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 200));
+    let icon = rect(Color::RED).width(24).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let fill = rect(Color::GREEN).width(rel(1.0)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let padded = fill.pad(16).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root((icon, padded).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
+    let fill_width = h.region(&fill).unwrap().size().x;
+    assert_eq!(fill_width, Px::from_int(868));
+
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 200));
+    let icon = rect(Color::RED).width(24).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let text = wtext(PARAGRAPH).size(16).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let padded = text.pad(16).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root((icon, padded).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
+    let active = &h.render.active[&text.id()];
+    let window = h.render.output_size().x;
+    let asked = active.region.x.len().to_px(window);
+    assert_eq!(active.rel_base.x.to_px(window), Px::from_int(868));
+    assert_eq!(asked, Px::from_int(844));
+}
+
+/// The other way round: a share inside padding. A slot is a length of the
+/// row, which is already the padded width, so what the span decided reaches
+/// the child as it stands -- taking the padding off a second time would make
+/// `rel(1.0)` in the slot shorter than the slot.
+#[test]
+fn a_share_inside_padding_fills_the_slot_it_was_given() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 200));
+    let fill = rect(Color::GREEN).width(rel(1.0)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let first = Span {
+        children: vec![fill.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)],
+        dir: Dir::RIGHT,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .width(leftover(1))
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let second = rect(Color::BLUE).width(leftover(1)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let row = (first, second).span(Dir::RIGHT).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(row.pad(16));
+
+    assert_eq!(h.region(&first).unwrap().size().x, Px::from_int(434));
+    assert_eq!(h.region(&fill).unwrap().size().x, Px::from_int(434));
+}
+
+/// The same padding in a share instead: the slot is 450, so both the
+/// fraction and the wrap are the slot less the padding, and the two agree.
+#[test]
+fn padding_narrows_both_rel_base_and_box_inside_a_share() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 200));
+    let fill = rect(Color::GREEN).width(rel(1.0)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let padded = fill.pad(16).width(leftover(1)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let other = rect(Color::BLUE).width(leftover(1)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root((padded, other).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
+    assert_eq!(h.region(&fill).unwrap().size().x, Px::from_int(418));
+
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 200));
+    let text = wtext(PARAGRAPH).size(16).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let padded = text.pad(16).width(leftover(1)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let other = rect(Color::BLUE).width(leftover(1)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root((padded, other).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
+    let active = &h.render.active[&text.id()];
+    let window = h.render.output_size().x;
+    assert_eq!(active.rel_base.x.to_px(window), Px::from_int(418));
+    assert_eq!(active.region.x.len().to_px(window), Px::from_int(418));
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn a_span_ruled_across_itself_does_not_measure_its_children_there() {
     let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
@@ -426,11 +500,11 @@ fn a_row_of_equal_shares_fills_it_exactly() {
 /// a step of. Kept in step with `snap_floor` in `prelude.wgsl`.
 fn drawn_edges(h: &Harness, id: WidgetId, axis: Axis) -> (f32, f32) {
     let active = &h.render.active[&id];
-    let region = h.render.moves.resolve(active.parent_move, active.region);
-    let dim = h.size().axis(axis);
+    let region = h.render.moves.resolve(active.move_idx, active.placement);
+    let dim = h.size()[axis];
     let snap = |v: f32| (v + Px::STEP.to_f32() * 0.5).floor();
     let edge = |s: Len| snap(s.rel.to_f32() * dim + s.px.to_f32());
-    let span = region.axis(axis);
+    let span = region[axis];
     (edge(span.start), edge(span.end))
 }
 
@@ -737,3 +811,50 @@ fn a_fixed_child_is_centered_in_its_wrappers_share() {
     assert_corners!(h, wrapper, (200, 0), (900, 400));
     assert_corners!(h, leaf, (500, 150), (600, 250));
 }
+
+/// The root's frame is the window and its rule is a fraction of that, which
+/// is one resolution and not two: nothing above it narrowed anything.
+#[test]
+fn a_root_with_a_fraction_rule_is_that_fraction_of_the_window() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 200));
+    let root = rect(Color::RED).width(rel(0.5)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(root);
+    assert_eq!(h.region(&root).unwrap().size().x, Px::from_int(450));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_collapsed_share_keeps_the_gaps_before_the_next_slot() {
+    for dir in [Dir::RIGHT, Dir::LEFT, Dir::DOWN, Dir::UP] {
+        for collapsed in [1, 2] {
+            let mut h = Harness::new((400, 400));
+            let head = rect(Color::RED).add(&mut h.rsc);
+            h.set_len(head, dir.axis, 200);
+            let tail = rect(Color::BLUE).add(&mut h.rsc);
+            let tail_len = 200 - 10 * (collapsed + 1);
+            h.set_len(tail, dir.axis, tail_len);
+            let mut children: Vec<StrongWidget> = vec![head.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)];
+            let mut shares = Vec::new();
+            for _ in 0..collapsed {
+                let share = rect(Color::GREEN).add(&mut h.rsc);
+                shares.push(share);
+                children.push(share.add_strong(&mut h.rsc));
+            }
+            children.push(tail.add_strong(&mut h.rsc));
+            h.set_root(Span {
+                children,
+                dir,
+                gap: Px::from_int(10),
+            });
+            for share in shares {
+                assert!(h.region(&share).is_none());
+            }
+            let region = h.region(&tail).unwrap();
+            let (from, to) = match dir.sign {
+                Sign::Pos => (400 - tail_len, 400),
+                Sign::Neg => (0, tail_len),
+            };
+            assert_eq!(region.top_left[dir.axis], Px::from_int(from));
+            assert_eq!(region.bot_right[dir.axis], Px::from_int(to));
+        }
+    }
+}

tests/cases/retained.rs

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ fn moving_an_ordinary_subtree_remaps_its_mask() {
     let active = &h.render.active[&masked.id()];
     assert_eq!(
         h.rsc.ui().masks[active.mask.idx()].region,
-        UiRegion::new(UiSpan::new(Len::px(150.0), Len::rel_max()), UiSpan::FULL,)
+        UiRegion::new(UiSpan::new(Len::px(150.0), Len::FULL), UiSpan::FULL,)
     );
     assert_corners!(h, inner, (150, 0), (400, 200));
 }
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ fn a_span_child_that_declares_its_length_is_drawn_once() {
     h.set_root((hinted, asked).span(Dir::RIGHT));
 
     assert_eq!(told_draws.get(), 1);
-    // Only the available length changes: positioning the final slot does
-    // not invalidate a numeric size read.
-    assert_eq!(asked_draws.get(), 2);
+    // Asked once, from the cursor; its slot is its answer and the drawing is
+    // moved there.
+    assert_eq!(asked_draws.get(), 1);
 }
 
 #[test]
@@ -213,9 +213,8 @@ struct FromHint {
 impl Widget for FromHint {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
         let len = painter.size_hint(&self.inner, Axis::Y).unwrap();
-        let mut region = UiRegion::FULL;
-        region.y.end = region.y.start.offset(len.px);
-        painter.widget_within(&self.inner, region);
+        let top = UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, len.px));
+        painter.widget_at(&self.inner, top.shifted_desc().on_axis(Axis::Y));
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
 }
@@ -252,10 +251,9 @@ impl Widget for ReadsBox {
 /// Reads its box across one axis only, so its drawing holds for a taller
 /// box on its own and only a wider one is worth a draw.
 ///
-/// Both of these report a quarter of what they read, without saying that the
-/// drawing holds there too, so each length they are asked at costs two draws:
-/// one to answer, and one in the quarter-sized box that answer places them
-/// in. The counts below are in those pairs.
+/// Both of these report a quarter of what they read. The quarter-sized box
+/// the answer places them in is not a question: the drawing is moved there,
+/// so each length they are asked at costs one draw.
 struct ReadsWidth {
     draws: Rc<Cell<usize>>,
 }
@@ -305,6 +303,51 @@ fn a_span_ruled_across_itself_moves_its_child_without_redrawing_it() {
     assert_eq!(h.render.active[&span.id()].size.y, LayoutLen::rel(1.0));
 }
 
+/// A row places its children as lengths from where its own box starts, so a
+/// child that grew moves the ones after it and nothing else: each of them is
+/// the same box in a new place, which the retained drawing follows without
+/// being made again. Both kinds of length: one the row resolves from a rule,
+/// and one it takes from what the child reported.
+#[test]
+fn a_row_moves_what_follows_a_child_that_grew_rather_than_drawing_it() {
+    for declared in [false, true] {
+        let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
+        let first = rect(Color::RED).width(50).add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let ruled = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
+        let second = Counted {
+            draws: ruled.clone(),
+            size: Size::LEFTOVER,
+            reads_box: false,
+        };
+        let second = match declared {
+            true => second.width(rel(0.25)).add(&mut h.rsc),
+            false => second.width(60).add(&mut h.rsc),
+        };
+        let (third, reported) = counted(&mut h, Size::from((70, 20)), false);
+        h.set_root((first, second, third).span(Dir::RIGHT).width(rel(1.0)));
+        let (was_ruled, was_reported) = (ruled.get(), reported.get());
+        // A quarter of the row is a quarter of the row, wherever it sits in
+        // it and whatever the first child takes.
+        let width = match declared {
+            true => 100,
+            false => 60,
+        };
+        assert_corners!(h, second, (50, 0), (50 + width, 200));
+
+        h.set_len(first, Axis::X, 80);
+        h.frame();
+
+        assert_eq!(ruled.get(), was_ruled, "the ruled child was drawn again");
+        assert_eq!(
+            reported.get(),
+            was_reported,
+            "the reported child was drawn again"
+        );
+        assert_corners!(h, second, (80, 0), (80 + width, 200));
+        assert_corners!(h, third, (80 + width, 90), (150 + width, 110));
+    }
+}
+
 /// The output is the root of the box chain, so a resize is a box that changed
 /// length like any other -- there is not a second rule for the window. A
 /// drawing that holds for one length is drawn again whichever box moved.
@@ -336,7 +379,7 @@ fn a_resize_redraws_what_read_its_box() {
     h.resize((800, 100));
     h.frame();
 
-    assert_eq!(draws.get(), settled + 2);
+    assert_eq!(draws.get(), settled + 1);
 }
 
 #[test]
@@ -356,7 +399,7 @@ fn a_resize_only_redraws_read_axes() {
 
     h.resize((800, 300));
     h.frame();
-    assert_eq!(draws.get(), settled + 2, "width changes its answer");
+    assert_eq!(draws.get(), settled + 1, "width changes its answer");
 }
 
 /// A window is measured onto the grid like everything else, so a resize too
@@ -383,7 +426,7 @@ fn a_resize_within_one_step_is_not_a_resize() {
 
     h.resize((400.0 + step, 200.0));
     h.frame();
-    assert_eq!(draws.get(), settled + 2);
+    assert_eq!(draws.get(), settled + 1);
 }
 
 /// The same for a box that changes because a sibling did: what is compared
@@ -750,37 +793,7 @@ fn primitive_bounds(h: &Harness, id: WidgetId) -> Vec<PixelRegion> {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn frame_geometry_and_extent_geometry_keep_their_references() {
-    struct Both(Rc<Cell<usize>>);
-    impl Widget for Both {
-        fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-            self.0.set(self.0.get() + 1);
-            painter.primitive_within(RectPrimitive::color(Color::RED), UiRegion::FULL);
-            painter.primitive(RectPrimitive::color(Color::BLUE));
-            Size::LEFTOVER
-        }
-    }
-    for node in [false, true] {
-        let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
-        let first = rect(Color::GREEN).width(100).add(&mut h.rsc);
-        let draws = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
-        let both = Both(draws.clone()).add(&mut h.rsc);
-        h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_region_node(both, node);
-        h.set_root((first, both).span(Dir::RIGHT));
-        let count = draws.get();
-        h.set_len(first, Axis::X, 200);
-        h.frame();
-        assert_eq!(draws.get(), count);
-        let bounds = primitive_bounds(&h, both.id());
-        assert_eq!(bounds[0].top_left.x, Px::ZERO);
-        assert_eq!(bounds[0].bot_right.x, Px::from_int(400));
-        assert_eq!(bounds[1].top_left.x, Px::from_int(200));
-        assert_eq!(bounds[1].bot_right.x, Px::from_int(400));
-    }
-}
-
-#[test]
-fn changing_an_inherited_extent_keeps_the_original_measurement_offer() {
+fn changing_an_inherited_region_keeps_the_original_measurement_offer() {
     fn build(h: &mut Harness, width: i32, text: &str) -> (WeakWidget<Text>, WeakWidget<Rect>) {
         let first = rect(Color::RED).width(width).add(&mut h.rsc);
         let words = wtext(text).size(20).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
@@ -858,7 +871,10 @@ fn resizing_a_fixed_frame_recomposes_its_contents_without_drawing_them() {
     }
     impl Widget for Frame {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-            painter.widget_within(&self.child, self.region);
+            painter.widget_at(
+                &self.child,
+                PlaceDesc::new(self.region.x.shifted_desc(), self.region.y.shifted_desc()),
+            );
             Size::LEFTOVER
         }
     }
@@ -866,7 +882,7 @@ fn resizing_a_fixed_frame_recomposes_its_contents_without_drawing_them() {
     impl Widget for Painted {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
             self.0.set(self.0.get() + 1);
-            painter.set_mask(DrawRegion::Extent(UiRegion::FULL));
+            painter.set_mask(UiRegion::FULL);
             painter.primitive(RectPrimitive::color(Color::BLUE));
             Size::LEFTOVER
         }
@@ -915,43 +931,6 @@ 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 {
@@ -966,22 +945,24 @@ fn glyph_origins_compose_identically_when_drawn_and_when_retained() {
                 UiSpan::new(Len::rel(0.23) + Len::px(-7.125), Len::FULL),
                 UiSpan::new(Len::rel(0.37) + Len::px(3.25), Len::FULL),
             );
-            painter.glyphs(text, DrawRegion::Frame(origin));
-            painter.glyphs(text, DrawRegion::Extent(origin));
+            painter.glyphs(text, origin);
             Size::LEFTOVER
         }
     }
     struct Frame {
         child: StrongWidget,
+        frame: UiRegion,
         region: UiRegion,
-        extent: UiRegion,
     }
     impl Widget for Frame {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
             painter.widget_at(
                 &self.child,
-                self.region,
-                [Some(self.extent.x), Some(self.extent.y)],
+                PlaceDesc::new(
+                    self.region.x.shifted_desc().fills(),
+                    self.region.y.shifted_desc().fills(),
+                )
+                .rel_base(Axis::X, self.frame.x.len()),
             );
             Size::LEFTOVER
         }
@@ -997,15 +978,15 @@ fn glyph_origins_compose_identically_when_drawn_and_when_retained() {
         h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_region_node(text, node);
         let root = Frame {
             child: text.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            frame: UiRegion::FULL,
             region: UiRegion::FULL,
-            extent: UiRegion::FULL,
         }
         .add(&mut h.rsc);
         h.set_root(root);
         for (start, end) in [(0.13, 0.83), (-0.17, 1.23), (0.31, 0.67)] {
             let before = draws.get();
-            h.rsc[root].region.x = UiSpan::new(Len::px(13.125), Len::px(287.375));
-            h.rsc[root].extent = UiRegion::new(
+            h.rsc[root].frame.x = UiSpan::new(Len::px(13.125), Len::px(287.375));
+            h.rsc[root].region = UiRegion::new(
                 UiSpan::new(Len::rel(start), Len::rel(end)),
                 UiSpan::new(Len::px(7.25), Len::rel(end)),
             );
@@ -1128,7 +1109,7 @@ fn widening_and_restoring_a_contract_does_not_invalidate_its_reader() {
     assert_eq!(leaf_draws.get(), settled + 1);
 }
 #[test]
-fn padding_and_stack_frames_follow_the_extent_without_drawing_again() {
+fn padding_and_stack_boxes_follow_the_region_without_drawing_again() {
     struct Observed<W> {
         widget: W,
         draws: Rc<Cell<usize>>,
@@ -1141,20 +1122,22 @@ fn padding_and_stack_frames_follow_the_extent_without_drawing_again() {
     }
     struct Frame {
         child: StrongWidget,
-        extent: UiRegion,
+        region: UiRegion,
     }
     impl Widget for Frame {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
             painter.widget_at(
                 &self.child,
-                UiRegion::FULL,
-                [Some(self.extent.x), Some(self.extent.y)],
+                PlaceDesc::new(
+                    self.region.x.shifted_desc().fills(),
+                    self.region.y.shifted_desc().fills(),
+                ),
             );
             Size::LEFTOVER
         }
     }
     for node in [false, true] {
-        let plant = |h: &mut Harness, extent| {
+        let plant = |h: &mut Harness, region| {
             let draws = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
             let leaf = rect(Color::BLUE).masked().add(&mut h.rsc);
             h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_region_node(leaf, node);
@@ -1175,23 +1158,28 @@ fn padding_and_stack_frames_follow_the_extent_without_drawing_again() {
                 draws: draws.clone(),
             }
             .add_strong(&mut h.rsc);
-            let root = Frame { child: pad, extent }.add(&mut h.rsc);
+            let root = Frame { child: pad, region }.add(&mut h.rsc);
             h.set_root(root);
             (root, leaf, fixed, draws)
         };
+        // The same box in three places. A pad places its child as lengths of
+        // its own box measured from where that box starts, so moving it is
+        // nothing to the pad -- where changing its length is a different
+        // question, and does draw it again.
+        let at = |start: f32| {
+            let span = |start: Len| UiSpan::new(start, start + Len::rel(0.4));
+            UiRegion::new(span(Len::rel(start) + Len::px(3.125)), span(Len::px(11.25)))
+        };
         let mut warm = Harness::new((403, 211));
-        let (root, leaf, fixed, draws) = plant(&mut warm, UiRegion::FULL);
-        for (start, end) in [(0.13, 0.83), (-0.17, 1.23), (0.31, 0.67)] {
-            let extent = UiRegion::new(
-                UiSpan::new(Len::rel(start) + Len::px(3.125), Len::rel(end)),
-                UiSpan::new(Len::px(11.25), Len::rel(end)),
-            );
+        let (root, leaf, fixed, draws) = plant(&mut warm, at(0.13));
+        for start in [0.13, -0.17, 0.31] {
+            let region = at(start);
             let before = draws.get();
-            warm.rsc[root].extent = extent;
+            warm.rsc[root].region = region;
             warm.frame();
             assert_eq!(draws.get(), before);
             let mut cold = Harness::new((403, 211));
-            let (_, other, other_fixed, _) = plant(&mut cold, extent);
+            let (_, other, other_fixed, _) = plant(&mut cold, region);
             for (a, b) in [(leaf.id(), other.id()), (fixed.id(), other_fixed.id())] {
                 assert_eq!(warm.region(&a), cold.region(&b));
                 assert_eq!(primitive_bounds(&warm, a), primitive_bounds(&cold, b));
@@ -1210,7 +1198,7 @@ fn padding_and_stack_frames_follow_the_extent_without_drawing_again() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn moving_an_extent_child_preserves_the_slot_chosen_from_its_measurement() {
+fn moving_a_childs_region_preserves_the_slot_chosen_from_its_measurement() {
     struct Measured;
     impl Widget for Measured {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
@@ -1227,14 +1215,12 @@ fn moving_an_extent_child_preserves_the_slot_chosen_from_its_measurement() {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
             painter.widget_at(
                 &self.child,
-                UiRegion::FULL,
-                [
-                    Some(UiSpan::new(
-                        Len::px(self.start),
-                        Len::px(self.start + 200.0),
-                    )),
-                    Some(UiSpan::FULL),
-                ],
+                PlaceDesc::new(
+                    UiSpan::new(Len::px(self.start), Len::px(self.start + 200.0))
+                        .shifted_desc()
+                        .fills(),
+                    UiSpan::FULL.shifted_desc().fills(),
+                ),
             );
             Size::LEFTOVER
         }
@@ -1259,7 +1245,7 @@ fn moving_an_extent_child_preserves_the_slot_chosen_from_its_measurement() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
+fn changing_regions_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
     struct Container {
         child: StrongWidget,
         region: UiRegion,
@@ -1267,13 +1253,16 @@ fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
     impl Widget for Container {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
             painter
-                .widget_within(&self.child, DrawRegion::Extent(self.region))
+                .widget_at(
+                    &self.child,
+                    PlaceDesc::new(self.region.x.shifted_desc(), self.region.y.shifted_desc()),
+                )
                 .size()
         }
     }
     struct Frame {
         child: StrongWidget,
-        extent: UiRegion,
+        region: UiRegion,
         answer: Rc<Cell<Size>>,
     }
     impl Widget for Frame {
@@ -1282,8 +1271,10 @@ fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
                 painter
                     .widget_at(
                         &self.child,
-                        UiRegion::FULL,
-                        [Some(self.extent.x), Some(self.extent.y)],
+                        PlaceDesc::new(
+                            self.region.x.shifted_desc().fills(),
+                            self.region.y.shifted_desc().fills(),
+                        ),
                     )
                     .size(),
             );
@@ -1295,7 +1286,7 @@ fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
             UiRegion::FULL,
             UiRegion::new(UiSpan::new(Len::rel(0.13), Len::rel(0.79)), UiSpan::FULL),
         ] {
-            let plant = |h: &mut Harness, extent| {
+            let plant = |h: &mut Harness, outer| {
                 let size = if fractional {
                     Size {
                         x: rel(0.5),
@@ -1313,7 +1304,7 @@ fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
                 let answer = Rc::new(Cell::new(Size::ZERO));
                 let root = Frame {
                     child,
-                    extent,
+                    region: outer,
                     answer: answer.clone(),
                 }
                 .add(&mut h.rsc);
@@ -1323,15 +1314,262 @@ fn extent_frames_keep_fractional_reports_and_numeric_dependencies_valid() {
             let mut warm = Harness::new((403, 211));
             let (root, leaf, answer) = plant(&mut warm, UiRegion::FULL);
             for width in [191.125, 297.25, 83.75] {
-                let extent =
+                let region =
                     UiRegion::new(UiSpan::new(Len::px(13.125), Len::px(width)), UiSpan::FULL);
-                warm.rsc[root].extent = extent;
+                warm.rsc[root].region = region;
                 warm.frame();
                 let mut cold = Harness::new((403, 211));
-                let (_, other, other_answer) = plant(&mut cold, extent);
+                let (_, other, other_answer) = plant(&mut cold, region);
                 assert_eq!(answer.get(), other_answer.get());
                 assert_eq!(warm.region(&leaf), cold.region(&other));
             }
         }
     }
 }
+
+struct OptionalMask {
+    inner: StrongWidget,
+    enabled: bool,
+}
+
+impl Widget for OptionalMask {
+    fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
+        if self.enabled {
+            painter.set_mask(UiRegion::FULL);
+        }
+        painter.widget(&self.inner);
+        Size::LEFTOVER
+    }
+}
+
+fn primitive_masks(h: &Harness, id: WidgetId) -> Vec<MaskIdx> {
+    h.render.active[&id]
+        .primitives
+        .iter()
+        .map(|primitive| {
+            let handle = &primitive.handle;
+            h.render.layers[handle.layer].primitives()[handle.kind as usize]
+                .as_ref()
+                .unwrap()
+                .instances()[handle.inst_idx]
+                .mask_idx
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_redrawn_mask_keeps_reused_primitives_clipped_when_it_moves() {
+    for node in [false, true] {
+        let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
+        let first = rect(Color::RED).height(50).add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let inner = rect(Color::BLUE).add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let draws = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
+        let child = Stretchy {
+            inner: inner.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            draws: draws.clone(),
+        }
+        .add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let masked = child.masked().add(&mut h.rsc);
+        h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_region_node(masked, node);
+        h.set_root((first, masked).span(Dir::DOWN));
+        let mask = h.render.active[&masked.id()].mask;
+        let settled = draws.get();
+        h.rsc.widgets_mut().get_dyn_mut(masked.id());
+        h.frame();
+        assert_eq!(primitive_masks(&h, inner.id()), vec![mask]);
+        assert_eq!(draws.get(), settled, "a mask repaint must reuse its child");
+        assert_eq!(h.render.active[&masked.id()].mask, mask);
+        h.set_len(first, Axis::Y, 10);
+        h.frame();
+        let clip = h.rsc.ui().masks[mask.idx()];
+        let clip = h
+            .render
+            .moves
+            .resolve(clip.move_idx, clip.region)
+            .to_px(h.render.output_size());
+        assert_eq!(clip, h.region(&masked).unwrap());
+        assert_corners!(h, inner, (0, 10), (400, 200));
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn adding_and_removing_a_mask_updates_existing_primitives() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
+    let inner = rect(Color::BLUE).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let masked = OptionalMask {
+        inner: inner.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        enabled: false,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(masked);
+    for enabled in [true, false, true, false] {
+        h.rsc[masked].enabled = enabled;
+        h.frame();
+        let mask = h.render.active[&masked.id()].mask;
+        assert_eq!(mask == MaskIdx::NONE, !enabled);
+        assert_eq!(primitive_masks(&h, inner.id()), vec![mask]);
+    }
+    assert_eq!(h.rsc.ui().masks.len(), 1, "retired slots must be reusable");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn an_empty_masks_slot_is_released_when_the_mask_is_removed_or_undrawn() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
+    let (inner, _) = counted(&mut h, Size::LEFTOVER, false);
+    let masked = OptionalMask {
+        inner: inner.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        enabled: true,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let row = (masked,).span(Dir::DOWN).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(row);
+    for _ in 0..3 {
+        h.rsc[masked].enabled = false;
+        h.frame();
+        h.rsc[masked].enabled = true;
+        h.frame();
+        let child = h.rsc[row].pop().unwrap();
+        h.frame();
+        h.rsc[row].push(child);
+        h.frame();
+    }
+    assert_eq!(h.rsc.ui().masks.len(), 1);
+}
+
+struct SharedChild(Rc<StrongWidget>);
+
+impl Widget for SharedChild {
+    fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
+        painter.widget(self.0.as_ref()).size()
+    }
+}
+
+struct SwitchParent {
+    choices: [StrongWidget; 2],
+    choice: usize,
+}
+
+impl Widget for SwitchParent {
+    fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
+        painter.widget(&self.choices[self.choice]).size()
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_redrawn_subtree_is_not_undrawn_by_the_parent_it_left() {
+    for node in [false, true] {
+        let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
+        let leaf = rect(Color::RED).width(40).add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let held: StrongWidget = leaf.add_strong(&mut h.rsc);
+        let shared = Rc::new(held);
+        let first = SharedChild(shared.clone()).add_strong(&mut h.rsc);
+        let second = SharedChild(shared).add_strong(&mut h.rsc);
+        h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_region_node(&second, node);
+        let root = SwitchParent {
+            choices: [first, second],
+            choice: 0,
+        }
+        .add(&mut h.rsc);
+        h.set_root(root);
+        let before = h.region(&leaf);
+        h.rsc[root].choice = 1;
+        h.frame();
+        assert_eq!(h.region(&leaf), before);
+    }
+}
+
+/// A leaf that reports less than the box it is given and states which lengths
+/// of that box its drawing holds for, so a test can widen the contract
+/// without changing the answer. It counts its draws, since what a kept
+/// contract costs is whether the parent has to make it draw again.
+struct Contracted {
+    holds: std::ops::RangeInclusive<Px>,
+    size: Size,
+    draws: Rc<Cell<usize>>,
+}
+
+impl Widget for Contracted {
+    fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
+        self.draws.set(self.draws.get() + 1);
+        painter.holds(Axis::X, self.holds.clone());
+        self.size
+    }
+}
+
+struct CountedParent {
+    inner: StrongWidget,
+    draws: Rc<Cell<usize>>,
+}
+
+impl Widget for CountedParent {
+    fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
+        self.draws.set(self.draws.get() + 1);
+        painter.widget(&self.inner).size()
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn widening_what_a_drawing_holds_for_does_not_relay_out_the_parent() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
+    let child = Contracted {
+        holds: Px::from_int(300)..=Px::from_int(500),
+        size: Size::from((100, 200)),
+        draws: Rc::new(Cell::new(0)),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let draws = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
+    let root = CountedParent {
+        inner: child.upgrade(&mut h.rsc),
+        draws: draws.clone(),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(root);
+    let settled = draws.get();
+
+    // The same answer, good for more boxes than before, so the guarantee the
+    // parent kept still holds.
+    h.rsc[child].holds = Px::from_int(200)..=Px::from_int(600);
+    h.frame();
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        draws.get(),
+        settled,
+        "a wider contract for the same answer is not a change to lay out"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The other half of the rule above: a kept contract is the narrower one, so
+/// it is only worth keeping where it still holds. A window the old range is
+/// outside is not one its parent can be handed back, and keeping it there
+/// throws away the drawing the widget just made.
+#[test]
+fn a_contract_this_window_is_outside_is_not_kept() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
+    let leaf_draws = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
+    let child = Contracted {
+        holds: Px::from_int(300)..=Px::from_int(500),
+        size: Size::from((100, 200)),
+        draws: leaf_draws.clone(),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let root = CountedParent {
+        inner: child.upgrade(&mut h.rsc),
+        draws: Rc::new(Cell::new(0)),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(root);
+
+    // Wide enough that the old contract leaves the new box out, and the leaf
+    // is marked in the same frame -- so it settles itself first and its
+    // parent draws afterwards, asking about what it settled.
+    h.resize((600, 200));
+    h.rsc[child].holds = Px::from_int(200)..=Px::from_int(700);
+    let settled = leaf_draws.get();
+    h.frame();
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        leaf_draws.get(),
+        settled + 1,
+        "the leaf settled once and its parent kept what it settled"
+    );
+}

tests/cases/scroll.rs

@@ -60,6 +60,69 @@ fn a_wheel_scrolls_the_content_and_stops_at_its_end() {
     assert_corners!(h, top, (0, 0), (400, 200));
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn fixed_content_and_a_share_fill_one_viewport() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 100));
+    let content = rect(Color::RED)
+        .width(LayoutLen {
+            px: Px::from_int(600),
+            rel: Rel::ZERO,
+            leftover: Weight::ONE,
+        })
+        .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let scroll = Scroll::new(content.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), Axis::X);
+    h.set_root(scroll);
+
+    assert_corners!(h, content, (0, 0), (900, 100));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn fixed_content_wider_than_the_viewport_still_scrolls() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 100));
+    let content = rect(Color::RED).width(1200).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let scroll = Scroll::new(content.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), Axis::X);
+    h.set_root(scroll);
+
+    assert_corners!(h, content, (-300, 0), (900, 100));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_lone_share_fills_without_scrolling() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((900, 100));
+    let content = rect(Color::RED).width(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let scroll = Scroll::new(content.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), Axis::X);
+    h.set_root(scroll);
+
+    assert_corners!(h, content, (0, 0), (900, 100));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn wrapping_content_beside_a_fixed_length_is_stable_warm_and_cold() {
+    fn plant(h: &mut Harness) -> (WidgetId, WidgetId) {
+        let fixed = rect(Color::RED).width(600).add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let text = wtext("Wrapping shapes one source into as many lines as the box leaves room for, so a paragraph's height is an answer and not a setting.")
+            .size(16)
+            .wrap(true)
+            .width(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER)
+            .add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let content = (fixed, text).span(Dir::RIGHT).add(&mut h.rsc);
+        let scroll = Scroll::new(content.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), Axis::X);
+        h.set_root(scroll);
+        (text.id(), content.id())
+    }
+
+    let mut warm = Harness::new((900, 300));
+    let (text, content) = plant(&mut warm);
+    warm.rsc.widgets_mut().get_dyn_mut(text);
+    warm.frame();
+
+    let mut cold = Harness::new((900, 300));
+    let (cold_text, cold_content) = plant(&mut cold);
+
+    assert_eq!(warm.region(&text), cold.region(&cold_text));
+    assert_eq!(warm.region(&content), cold.region(&cold_content));
+}
+
 /// A widget that clips to its box may not report more than the box: its
 /// parent would place the part it cut off, and the framework would put a
 /// drawing longer than its box somewhere. `Masked` is the second of these
@@ -71,7 +134,7 @@ fn a_clipping_widget_reporting_more_than_its_box_is_caught() {
 
     impl Widget for Clipper {
         fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
-            painter.set_mask(painter.region());
+            painter.set_mask(UiRegion::FULL);
             painter.widget(&self.0).size()
         }
     }
@@ -82,3 +145,19 @@ fn a_clipping_widget_reporting_more_than_its_box_is_caught() {
     h.set_root(clipper);
     h.frame();
 }
+
+/// Content that fits sits in the viewport, not in a box of the window's
+/// length anchored at the viewport's start. `Part::From` takes window
+/// lengths, so a `rel(1.0)` span in one is the window, and only a scroll
+/// filling the window would land right.
+#[test]
+fn content_that_fits_is_placed_in_the_viewport_and_not_in_the_window() {
+    let mut h = Harness::new((400, 400));
+    let head = rect(Color::RED).height(100).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let inner = rect(Color::BLUE).height(50).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let scroll = Scroll::new(inner.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), Axis::Y).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root((head, scroll).span(Dir::DOWN));
+
+    assert_corners!(h, scroll, (0, 100), (400, 400));
+    assert_corners!(h, inner, (0, 225), (400, 275));
+}

tests/cases/unsettled.rs

@@ -14,6 +14,180 @@ use iris::harness::Harness;
 use iris::prelude::*;
 use iris::random::Branch;
 
+fn assert_same_regions(
+    warm: &Harness,
+    warm_ids: &[WidgetId],
+    cold: &Harness,
+    cold_ids: &[WidgetId],
+) {
+    let mut wrong = Vec::new();
+    for (i, (&w, &c)) in warm_ids.iter().zip(cold_ids).enumerate() {
+        let (got, want) = (warm.region(&w), cold.region(&c));
+        if got != want {
+            wrong.push(format!("widget {i}: warm {got:?} cold {want:?}"));
+        }
+    }
+    assert!(wrong.is_empty(), "{}", wrong.join("\n"));
+}
+
+/// Ten widgets, shrunk from seed 2 at depth 5. The stack is as tall as its
+/// first child, so its other children belong in that one-line box. A cold
+/// layout used to keep the span's answer from the larger measuring box while
+/// a repaint asked it in the stack's final box.
+fn plant_stack_in_its_sizing_childs_box(h: &mut Harness) -> Vec<WidgetId> {
+    let sizing = wtext("one line, overflowing whatever it is given")
+        .size(16)
+        .wrap(false)
+        .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let filler = rect(Color::CYAN.alpha(252)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let plain = wtext("one line, overflowing whatever it is given")
+        .size(16)
+        .wrap(false)
+        .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let span = (filler, plain).span(Dir::DOWN).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let pad = Pad {
+        padding: Padding::ZERO,
+        inner: span.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let probe = rect(Color::RED).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let wide = rect(Color::YELLOW.alpha(252)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let narrow = rect(Color::RED).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let branch = Branch {
+        probe: probe.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        wide: wide.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        narrow: narrow.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        threshold: 55.0,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let stack = Stack {
+        children: vec![
+            sizing.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            pad.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            branch.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        ],
+        size: StackSize::Child(0),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.rsc
+        .widgets_mut()
+        .set_size_rules(stack.id(), Some(LayoutLen::LEFTOVER), None);
+    h.set_root(stack);
+    vec![
+        sizing.id(),
+        filler.id(),
+        plain.id(),
+        span.id(),
+        pad.id(),
+        probe.id(),
+        wide.id(),
+        narrow.id(),
+        branch.id(),
+        stack.id(),
+    ]
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn repainting_a_stack_uses_the_box_its_sizing_child_decided() {
+    let mut warm = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let ids = plant_stack_in_its_sizing_childs_box(&mut warm);
+    for &id in &ids {
+        warm.rsc.widgets_mut().get_dyn_mut(id);
+    }
+    warm.frame();
+
+    let mut cold = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let cold_ids = plant_stack_in_its_sizing_childs_box(&mut cold);
+
+    assert_same_regions(&warm, &ids, &cold, &cold_ids);
+}
+
+/// Ten widgets, shrunk from seed 108 at depth 5. The nested reverse spans
+/// evaluate the branch in successively narrower boxes. The answer from the
+/// final, decided box must be the one retained after every span is reordered.
+fn plant_branch_in_nested_reverse_spans(
+    h: &mut Harness,
+    reordered: bool,
+) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, [WeakWidget<Span>; 3]) {
+    let pair = |first: StrongWidget, second: StrongWidget| match reordered {
+        true => vec![second, first],
+        false => vec![first, second],
+    };
+    let probe = rect(Color::RED.alpha(63)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let wide = rect(Color::RED).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let narrow = wtext(PARAGRAPH).size(16).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let branch = Branch {
+        probe: probe.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        wide: wide.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        narrow: narrow.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        threshold: 483.0,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let wrapped = wtext(PARAGRAPH).size(16).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let down = Span {
+        children: pair(
+            branch.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            wrapped.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        ),
+        dir: Dir::DOWN,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let inner_filler = rect(Color::CYAN.alpha(63)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let inner = Span {
+        children: pair(
+            down.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            inner_filler.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        ),
+        dir: Dir::LEFT,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .height(LayoutLen::rel(1.0))
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let outer_filler = rect(Color::GREEN.alpha(63)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let outer = Span {
+        children: pair(
+            inner.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            outer_filler.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        ),
+        dir: Dir::LEFT,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .height(LayoutLen::rel(1.0))
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(outer);
+    (
+        vec![
+            probe.id(),
+            wide.id(),
+            narrow.id(),
+            branch.id(),
+            wrapped.id(),
+            down.id(),
+            inner_filler.id(),
+            inner.id(),
+            outer_filler.id(),
+            outer.id(),
+        ],
+        [down, inner, outer],
+    )
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn reordering_nested_spans_keeps_the_answer_from_the_decided_box() {
+    let mut warm = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let (ids, spans) = plant_branch_in_nested_reverse_spans(&mut warm, false);
+    for span in spans {
+        warm.rsc[span].children.rotate_left(1);
+    }
+    warm.frame();
+
+    let mut cold = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let (cold_ids, _) = plant_branch_in_nested_reverse_spans(&mut cold, true);
+
+    assert_same_regions(&warm, &ids, &cold, &cold_ids);
+}
+
 /// Six widgets, shrunk from a 402-widget tree the fuzzer found. Nothing about
 /// the tree changes -- every widget is marked for redraw and the frame is
 /// taken again -- so no box may move, and a warm frame has to land where a
@@ -559,6 +733,51 @@ fn a_widget_under_a_region_node_is_asked_in_the_box_that_node_was_offered() {
 const PARAGRAPH: &str = "Wrapping shapes one source into as many lines as the \
     box leaves room for, so a paragraph's height is an answer and not a setting.";
 
+fn plant_stack_resized_from_free(h: &mut Harness, fixed: bool) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, WidgetId) {
+    let sizing = rect(Color::CYAN.alpha(126)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_size_rules(sizing.id(), None, None);
+    if fixed {
+        h.rsc.widgets_mut().set_size_rules(
+            sizing.id(),
+            Some(LayoutLen::px(112)),
+            Some(LayoutLen::px(101)),
+        );
+    }
+    let text = wtext(PARAGRAPH).size(16).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let pad = Pad {
+        padding: Padding::ZERO,
+        inner: text.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let stack = Stack {
+        children: vec![sizing.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), pad.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)],
+        size: StackSize::Child(0),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(stack);
+    (
+        vec![sizing.id(), text.id(), pad.id(), stack.id()],
+        sizing.id(),
+    )
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn fixing_a_stacks_sizing_child_repositions_its_overlay() {
+    let mut warm = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let (ids, sizing) = plant_stack_resized_from_free(&mut warm, false);
+    warm.frame();
+    warm.rsc.widgets_mut().set_size_rules(
+        sizing,
+        Some(LayoutLen::px(112)),
+        Some(LayoutLen::px(101)),
+    );
+    warm.frame();
+
+    let mut cold = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let (cold_ids, _) = plant_stack_resized_from_free(&mut cold, true);
+    assert_same_regions(&warm, &ids, &cold, &cold_ids);
+}
+
 /// Eight widgets, shrunk from a 118-widget tree (seed 1121, depth 4,
 /// `shuffle-swap-for-three`). The stack takes its size from the span above,
 /// the span takes its width from the longest line of the texts in it, and
@@ -672,3 +891,208 @@ fn adding_text_to_a_reverse_row_keeps_its_shared_height() {
     let (_, other, _) = build(&mut cold, true);
     assert_eq!(warm.region(&shared), cold.region(&other));
 }
+
+/// Nine widgets, shrunk from seed 946 at depth 6. The column is a share of
+/// the row while its rect has room to draw and a fixed width once it has
+/// not, so the row asks it twice: in the room, where it answers a share,
+/// and in its slot, where it answers its text's width. Emptying the column
+/// changes only the first answer. A local redraw that asked only the second
+/// question kept the row as it was; the column has to defer to the row.
+fn plant_column_that_is_a_share_only_while_its_rect_fits(
+    h: &mut Harness,
+    emptied: bool,
+) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, WeakWidget<Span>, Vec<StrongWidget>) {
+    let first = wtext(PARAGRAPH).size(16).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let filler = rect(Color::CYAN.alpha(126)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let second = wtext(PARAGRAPH).size(16).wrap(true).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let mut spare: Vec<StrongWidget> =
+        vec![filler.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), second.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)];
+    let mut children: Vec<StrongWidget> = vec![first.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)];
+    if !emptied {
+        children.append(&mut spare);
+    }
+    let column = Span {
+        children,
+        dir: Dir::DOWN,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .height(159)
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let left = rect(Color::MAGENTA.alpha(189)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let right = rect(Color::BLUE.alpha(0)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let row = Span {
+        children: vec![
+            left.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            column.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+            right.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        ],
+        dir: Dir::RIGHT,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let end = rect(Color::MAGENTA.alpha(189)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let root = Span {
+        children: vec![end.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), row.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)],
+        dir: Dir::LEFT,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(root);
+    (
+        vec![
+            first.id(),
+            filler.id(),
+            second.id(),
+            column.id(),
+            left.id(),
+            right.id(),
+            row.id(),
+            end.id(),
+            root.id(),
+        ],
+        column,
+        spare,
+    )
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn emptying_a_column_the_row_asked_twice_asks_the_row_again() {
+    let mut warm = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let (ids, column, _spare) =
+        plant_column_that_is_a_share_only_while_its_rect_fits(&mut warm, false);
+    warm.frame();
+    // Kept alive: dropping the last share of a widget frees its id.
+    let _removed: Vec<StrongWidget> = warm.rsc[column].children.drain(1..).collect();
+    warm.frame();
+
+    let mut cold = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let (cold_ids, _, _spare) =
+        plant_column_that_is_a_share_only_while_its_rect_fits(&mut cold, true);
+    cold.frame();
+
+    assert_same_regions(&warm, &ids, &cold, &cold_ids);
+}
+
+/// Six widgets, shrunk from seed 59 at depth 5 (`resize-size`). The column
+/// divides the box it is given between two shares, so its drawing holds for
+/// that box's length alone, and the pads above it pass that dependency up:
+/// each one's box is a part of the box it was asked in. Padding narrowing
+/// the frame it hands down does not change that, and while it was taken to,
+/// changing the rule over the pads relocated the column's drawing into the
+/// new box instead of dividing it again.
+fn plant_two_shares_under_two_pads(h: &mut Harness, height: f32) -> Vec<WidgetId> {
+    let top = rect(Color::CYAN.alpha(126)).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let bottom = rect(Color::RED).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let column = (top, bottom).span(Dir::DOWN).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let inner = Pad {
+        padding: Padding::ZERO,
+        inner: column.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let outer = Pad {
+        padding: Padding::ZERO,
+        inner: inner.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+    }
+    .height(height)
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let beside = rect(Color::BLUE).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root((outer, beside).span(Dir::RIGHT));
+    vec![
+        top.id(),
+        bottom.id(),
+        column.id(),
+        inner.id(),
+        outer.id(),
+        beside.id(),
+    ]
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn changing_a_rule_over_two_pads_divides_the_column_again() {
+    let mut warm = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let ids = plant_two_shares_under_two_pads(&mut warm, 88.0);
+    warm.frame();
+    warm.rsc
+        .widgets_mut()
+        .set_size_rules(ids[4], None, Some(LayoutLen::px(105)));
+    warm.frame();
+
+    let mut cold = Harness::new((900, 1200));
+    let cold_ids = plant_two_shares_under_two_pads(&mut cold, 105.0);
+    cold.frame();
+
+    assert_same_regions(&warm, &ids, &cold, &cold_ids);
+}
+
+/// Six widgets, shrunk from seed 942 at depth 6 (`resize`). A `Branch` asks
+/// its probe in the top 40 px of its box and forwards the frame, so the
+/// scroll's own box is 40 px tall whatever the window is -- but its content
+/// is as tall as the frame, which is the window, and a scroll kept to its
+/// end has to be told when that changes. Resolving a length against the
+/// window is what reads it, so that is where the dependency is taken.
+fn plant_a_window_tall_column_in_a_short_scroll(h: &mut Harness) -> Vec<WidgetId> {
+    let leaf = rect(Color::RED).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let column = Span {
+        children: vec![leaf.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)],
+        dir: Dir::RIGHT,
+        gap: Px::ZERO,
+    }
+    .height(rel(1.0))
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let scroll = Scroll::new(column.add_strong(&mut h.rsc), Axis::Y).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let wide = rect(Color::BLUE).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let narrow = rect(Color::GREEN).add(&mut h.rsc);
+    let root = Branch {
+        probe: scroll.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        wide: wide.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        narrow: narrow.add_strong(&mut h.rsc),
+        threshold: 55.0,
+    }
+    .add(&mut h.rsc);
+    h.set_root(root);
+    vec![leaf.id(), column.id(), scroll.id(), root.id()]
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn resizing_under_a_short_scroll_snaps_its_window_tall_content_again() {
+    let mut warm = Harness::new((1920, 1200));
+    let ids = plant_a_window_tall_column_in_a_short_scroll(&mut warm);
+    warm.frame();
+    warm.resize((640, 900));
+    warm.frame();
+
+    let mut cold = Harness::new((640, 900));
+    let cold_ids = plant_a_window_tall_column_in_a_short_scroll(&mut cold);
+    cold.frame();
+
+    assert_same_regions(&warm, &ids, &cold, &cold_ids);
+}
+
+/// A scroll clamps its position against the box it is drawn in, so drawing it
+/// once at one viewport and again at another writes state the second draw then
+/// reads. That the answer is still the one a cold layout gives is a property
+/// of the clamp, not something the layout enforces.
+#[test]
+fn a_scrolled_view_resized_lands_where_a_cold_layout_puts_it() {
+    for amt in [10.0, 40.0, 90.0, 140.0] {
+        let mut warm = Harness::new((100, 100));
+        let (_, warm_scroll) = plant_wider(&mut warm, 100.0);
+        warm.move_to((50.0, 50.0));
+        warm.scroll((-amt, 0.0));
+        warm.frame();
+        warm.resize((160, 100));
+        warm.frame();
+
+        let mut cold = Harness::new((160, 100));
+        let (_, cold_scroll) = plant_wider(&mut cold, 100.0);
+        cold.move_to((50.0, 50.0));
+        cold.scroll((-amt, 0.0));
+        cold.frame();
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            warm.region(&warm_scroll),
+            cold.region(&cold_scroll),
+            "scrolled by {amt} then widened"
+        );
+    }
+}

tests/generated.rs

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #[path = "scenario/mod.rs"]
 mod scenario;
 
-use iris::random::{Edits, plan};
+use iris::random::{Edits, Plan, plan};
 use scenario::{ALL, Case, diverges, env, over_seeds};
 
 /// How deep the generator branches. The generator widens two to four ways per
@@ -32,8 +32,11 @@ fn depth() -> usize {
 const SEEDS: [u64; 10] = [1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 20, 86, 98];
 
 fn check(seed: u64, depth: usize, case: Case) {
-    let grown = plan(seed, depth, &Edits::default());
-    if let Some(how) = diverges(&grown, case, seed) {
+    check_plan(&plan(seed, depth, &Edits::default()), seed, depth, case);
+}
+
+fn check_plan(grown: &Plan, seed: u64, depth: usize, case: Case) {
+    if let Some(how) = diverges(grown, case, seed) {
         panic!(
             "seed {seed} at depth {depth} differs after {}: {how}\n\
              reduce it with SHRINK_SEED={seed} SHRINK_DEPTH={depth} \
@@ -44,57 +47,50 @@ fn check(seed: u64, depth: usize, case: Case) {
     }
 }
 
-macro_rules! case {
-    ($name:ident, $case:expr) => {
+/// A test per case, and the list of which cases have one, from the same
+/// place. A case the ordinary suite leaves out runs only in the long scan,
+/// which nobody runs by hand.
+macro_rules! cases {
+    ($($name:ident = $case:expr,)*) => {
+        $(
             #[test]
             fn $name() {
                 for seed in SEEDS {
                     check(seed, depth(), $case);
                 }
             }
+        )*
+
+        const NAMED: [Case; [$($case,)*].len()] = [$($case,)*];
     };
 }
 
-case!(
-    many_widgets_redrawing_at_once_leaves_every_box_where_it_was,
-    Case::RepaintSome
-);
-case!(
-    everything_redrawing_at_once_leaves_every_box_where_it_was,
-    Case::Repaint
-);
-case!(
-    a_resize_lands_where_starting_at_that_size_would,
-    Case::Resize
-);
-case!(
-    a_resize_and_a_repaint_land_where_starting_that_way_would,
-    Case::ResizeRepaint
-);
-case!(
-    a_size_change_after_a_resize_lands_the_same_way,
-    Case::ResizeSize
-);
-case!(
-    a_size_change_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would,
-    Case::Size
-);
-case!(
-    every_size_changing_at_once_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would,
-    Case::EverySize
-);
-case!(
-    an_alignment_change_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would,
-    Case::Align
-);
-case!(
-    giving_and_taking_a_movable_region_rebuilds_what_resolves_it,
-    Case::RegionNode
-);
-case!(
-    reordering_a_span_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would,
-    Case::Reorder
-);
+cases! {
+    many_widgets_redrawing_at_once_leaves_every_box_where_it_was = Case::RepaintSome,
+    everything_redrawing_at_once_leaves_every_box_where_it_was = Case::Repaint,
+    a_resize_lands_where_starting_at_that_size_would = Case::Resize,
+    a_resize_and_a_repaint_land_where_starting_that_way_would = Case::ResizeRepaint,
+    a_size_change_after_a_resize_lands_the_same_way = Case::ResizeSize,
+    a_resize_after_a_size_change_lands_the_same_way = Case::SizeResize,
+    a_size_change_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would = Case::Size,
+    every_size_changing_at_once_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would = Case::EverySize,
+    an_alignment_change_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would = Case::Align,
+    giving_and_taking_a_movable_region_rebuilds_what_resolves_it = Case::RegionNode,
+    reordering_a_span_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would = Case::Reorder,
+}
+
+/// The shuffles are one test between them, so they are the only cases `ALL`
+/// may hold without a test of their own.
+#[test]
+fn every_case_runs_without_the_long_scan() {
+    for case in ALL {
+        assert!(
+            NAMED.contains(&case) || matches!(case, Case::Shuffle(_)),
+            "{} runs only in the long seed scan; give it a case here",
+            case.name()
+        );
+    }
+}
 
 #[test]
 fn adding_and_removing_span_children_lands_where_growing_it_that_way_would() {
@@ -119,8 +115,9 @@ fn a_long_run_of_seeds_agrees() {
         None => (1..=env("IRIS_GENERATED_SEEDS", 100_u64)).collect(),
     };
     over_seeds(seeds, |seed| {
+        let grown = plan(seed, depth, &Edits::default());
         for case in ALL {
-            check(seed, depth, case);
+            check_plan(&grown, seed, depth, case);
         }
     });
 }

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}");
+}

tests/scenario/mod.rs

@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ pub enum Case {
     /// A resize and then a size change, so a retained answer is asked to
     /// survive two different kinds of invalidation in a row.
     ResizeSize,
+    /// A size change and then a resize, which is the other order and not the
+    /// same test: a length answered as a fraction of one box and kept as a
+    /// fraction of another agrees at the size it was changed at and parts
+    /// from it at every other one.
+    SizeResize,
     /// A few declared sizes.
     Size,
     /// Every declared size at once, so every reader of a size has a changed
@@ -119,12 +124,13 @@ pub enum Case {
     Shuffle(Shuffle),
 }
 
-pub const ALL: [Case; 15] = [
+pub const ALL: [Case; 16] = [
     Case::Repaint,
     Case::RepaintSome,
     Case::Resize,
     Case::ResizeRepaint,
     Case::ResizeSize,
+    Case::SizeResize,
     Case::Size,
     Case::EverySize,
     Case::Align,
@@ -146,6 +152,7 @@ impl Case {
             Self::Resize => "resize",
             Self::ResizeRepaint => "resize-repaint",
             Self::ResizeSize => "resize-size",
+            Self::SizeResize => "size-resize",
             Self::Size => "size",
             Self::EverySize => "every-size",
             Self::Align => "align",
@@ -170,6 +177,15 @@ impl Case {
             _ => (STILL, STILL),
         }
     }
+
+    /// The window the warm tree is taken to after the change, where the case
+    /// is about what the change left behind rather than about the change.
+    fn then_resize(self) -> Option<(f32, f32)> {
+        match self {
+            Self::SizeResize => Some(INNER),
+            _ => None,
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 fn mark(warm: &mut Harness, tree: &Tree, step: usize) {
@@ -284,7 +300,7 @@ fn change(case: Case, warm: &mut Harness, tree: &mut Tree, plan: &Plan, rng: &mu
             warm.frame();
             return out;
         }
-        Case::Size | Case::ResizeSize => Edits {
+        Case::Size | Case::ResizeSize | Case::SizeResize => Edits {
             sizes: some_sizes(warm, tree, rng),
             ..Default::default()
         },
@@ -384,6 +400,17 @@ fn describe_widget(id: WidgetId, h: &Harness) -> String {
     label
 }
 
+/// One widget's layout as it stands: the frame its fractions resolved
+/// against, the box it was asked in, the box its drawing went in, and what
+/// it reported. In window units, which is what both trees are in.
+fn record(id: WidgetId, h: &Harness) -> String {
+    let active = &h.render.active[&id];
+    format!(
+        "rel_base {} region {} placement {} size {}",
+        active.rel_base, active.region, active.placement, active.size,
+    )
+}
+
 /// Runs `case` on the tree `plan` describes, warm and cold, and says where
 /// the two disagree. `seed` chooses only the values a case picks at random,
 /// so one plan under one case is one comparison however it was reached.
@@ -400,6 +427,17 @@ pub fn diverges(plan: &Plan, case: Case, seed: u64) -> Option<String> {
         warm.frame();
     }
     let cold_plan = change(case, &mut warm, &mut tree, plan, &mut Rng::new(seed));
+    // Whatever the change left, seen at another window: an answer kept as a
+    // fraction of the wrong length is the same number of pixels where it was
+    // made and a different one everywhere else.
+    let end = match case.then_resize() {
+        Some(after) => {
+            warm.resize(after);
+            warm.frame();
+            after
+        }
+        None => end,
+    };
 
     let mut cold = Harness::new(end);
     let (root, cold_tree) = build(&mut cold.rsc, &cold_plan);
@@ -413,9 +451,16 @@ pub fn diverges(plan: &Plan, case: Case, seed: u64) -> Option<String> {
         if got == want {
             continue;
         }
+        let places: HashMap<WidgetId, usize> = tree
+            .ids
+            .iter()
+            .enumerate()
+            .map(|(i, &id)| (id, i))
+            .collect();
         // Where two trees disagree is rarely where the cause is, so the
         // ancestry comes with it, marking the widgets that own a region.
         let mut chain = Vec::new();
+        let mut records = Vec::new();
         let mut at = Some(w);
         while let Some(id) = at {
             let active = &warm.render.active[&id];
@@ -424,11 +469,22 @@ pub fn diverges(plan: &Plan, case: Case, seed: u64) -> Option<String> {
                 false => "*",
             };
             chain.push(format!("{}{node}", describe(id, &warm)));
+            // What each level was asked in on both sides, since the level
+            // where the two stop agreeing is the one to look at rather than
+            // the leaf that reported the difference.
+            let cold_id = places.get(&id).and_then(|&i| cold_tree.ids.get(i));
+            records.push(format!(
+                "    {}\n      warm {}\n      cold {}",
+                describe(id, &warm),
+                record(id, &warm),
+                cold_id.map_or("-".into(), |&id| record(id, &cold)),
+            ));
             at = active.parent;
         }
         return Some(format!(
-            "widget {i}\n  warm {got:?}\n  cold {want:?}\n  {}",
-            chain.join(" < ")
+            "widget {i}\n  warm {got:?}\n  cold {want:?}\n  {}\n{}",
+            chain.join(" < "),
+            records.join("\n"),
         ));
     }
     match drawn {

tests/shrink.rs

@@ -70,10 +70,14 @@ fn no_grown_tree_lays_out_differently_warm_than_cold() {
     over_seeds(seeds, |seed| {
         let grown = plan(seed, depth, &Edits::default());
         for &case in &cases {
-            let Some(how) = diverges(&grown, case, seed) else {
+            if diverges(&grown, case, seed).is_none() {
                 continue;
-            };
+            }
             let small = shrink(grown.clone(), case, seed);
+            // Described from the shrunk tree: the grown tree's chain names
+            // widgets that are no longer there, and the ancestry of the
+            // failure is what a test is written from.
+            let how = diverges(&small, case, seed).unwrap_or_default();
             println!(
                 "seed {seed} case {}: {how}\ngrown {} widgets, shrank to {}\n{small:#?}",
                 case.name(),

tests/trace_unsettled.rs

@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ fn dump(label: &str, report: &diag::Report, text: WidgetId) {
             TraceEvent::DrawRequest {
                 id,
                 region,
-                pixel_size,
+                region_px,
                 ..
             } if *id == text => {
                 println!(
                     "  draw in {:.2}x{:.2}  region {region:?}",
-                    pixel_size.x, pixel_size.y
+                    region_px.x, region_px.y
                 )
             }
             TraceEvent::SizeReported { id, size } if *id == text => {