map: the windowed art buried the continent and zone dropdowns

grom: "the map is not properly sized in the window and I can't see/click the
dropdowns at the top". What was on screen was two small circles and a search box
above the parchment -- the bottom edge of pfUI's title bar, everything under it
covered by the map sheet.

Measured on his own saved variables: WORLDMAP_WINDOWED is 1, so the realm runs
WorldMapFrame_Minimize at VARIABLES_LOADED, which pins WorldMapPositioningGuide
to the window's own corners (WorldMapFrame.lua:201-203). Both dropdowns anchor
to that guide at TOP -80,-35, so windowed they sit 34 to 66 below the window's
top -- which is why the same function hides them three lines later. pfUI puts
them back (SkinDropDown) into a window it sizes to WorldMapButton plus 15x55 of
chrome, eleven short of the 66 their anchor wants. 31 of their 32 points ended
up under WorldMapDetailFrame, level 3 against their 1.

The reference buries them too; what is ours is that our canvas fills the window
an addon sized rather than leaving the art a 701x468 patch in the corner of it,
which makes the burial total. So WindowedInset gives them the band when they are
visible: the art starts four points below the lower dropdown. Hidden -- stock,
and every chain without a map addon -- the inset stays 1.12's own 33 and the
windowed map is pixel-identical.

The cost is 35 points of art height in that window, so the fit zoom lands at 0.95
and the sheet is pillarboxed about 17 points a side.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn

docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md

@@ -5265,3 +5265,47 @@ ends it with "Click to read its story". Sweeping 247 points across Dun Morogh it
 of the box without giving up the panel — and the checkbox that writes it reads *Show Map Lore
 Panel*, which is why nobody finds it. `Addon_Ports/softspoken_port/` splits it onto its own
 `mapHover` setting, default off, with its own checkbox.
+
+### 2026-11-09: and the dropdowns above it were under the art
+
+Same map, same chain, the other half of grom's report: *"the map is not properly sized in the
+window and I can't see/click the dropdowns at the top"*. What he could see was two small circles
+and a search box poking out above the parchment — the bottom edge of pfUI's title bar, with
+everything below it buried.
+
+The chain of facts, all measured on his saved variables rather than inferred:
+
+| | |
+| --- | --- |
+| `benilla-config/saved-variables.lua:51` | `WORLDMAP_WINDOWED = 1` |
+| `WorldMapFrame.lua:40` | at `VARIABLES_LOADED`, that calls `WorldMapFrame_Minimize()` |
+| `WorldMapFrame.lua:201-203` | which pins `WorldMapPositioningGuide` to the **window's own two corners** (`+0,+1` / `+1,+0`), not its declared 1024x768 |
+| `WorldMapFrame.xml:261` | and both dropdowns are anchored `TOP, -80, -35` to that guide, so they land 34 to 66 below the window's top |
+| `WorldMapFrame.lua:225-228` | which is why the same function then sets their alpha to 0 and takes the mouse off them |
+| `pfUI/modules/map.lua:111` | pfUI resizes the window to `WorldMapButton` + 15x55 of chrome — 1017x723 |
+| `pfUI/modules/map.lua:154` | and `SkinDropDown` runs over both, which puts them back at alpha 1 |
+
+So they return at full alpha into a band whose geometry the realm never meant to be seen, and
+`WorldMapDetailFrame` draws over them: level 3 against their level 1. Measured: **31 of their 32
+points under the art**, a click on the sliver reaching the map. pfUI's own 55 points of chrome is
+11 short of the 66 its dropdowns' anchor asks for, so even without us the band does not fit.
+
+What is ours is that our canvas fills the window an addon sized instead of leaving the art a
+701x468 patch in the corner of it, which is what makes the burial total rather than partial. The
+fix is in `MapCanvas.lua`'s `WindowedInset`: when the dropdowns are shown with a non-zero alpha,
+the windowed top inset becomes their bottom plus four, so the art starts underneath them. When
+they are hidden — stock, and every chain with no map addon — it stays 1.12's own 33 and the
+windowed map is pixel-identical to what it was. Pinned by
+`a_visible_map_dropdown_gets_the_windowed_art_out_from_under_it`.
+
+The cost is height: the art is 633 points tall in that window instead of 668, so the fit-to-window
+zoom lands at 0.95 and the sheet is pillarboxed by about 17 points a side. That is the trade for a
+usable continent and zone picker, and it is what pfUI's layout was asking for all along.
+
+Worth writing down separately: **a map capture is a different map without
+`benilla-config/saved-variables.lua` in the capture home.** `WORLDMAP_WINDOWED` lives there, and
+without it every capture opens the maximized map. Three earlier runs could not reproduce this
+report for that reason, and reproducing it by calling `WorldMapFrame_Minimize()` by hand produced
+a *different* state again — minimize after pfUI's pass, rather than before it, which is what
+leaves the dropdowns at alpha 0 instead of 1. `local_state.rs`'s own comment says so; the farm
+simply did not have the file.