Three ways `DoEmote` and the chat talk gesture differed from 1.12.1:
- `/wave Bob` ignored the name and targeted the selection. 1.12.1 resolves a name that does not start with `%` as a player, at any range (`0x49fdb1`-`0x49fdf0`, `0x493aa0`), and sends the emote untargeted on a miss. `DoEmote(token, name)` from Lua does the same.
- A polymorphed, stunned or sleeping speaker still played the talk gesture. `UNIT_FIELD_FLAGS 0x20000000` suppresses it when the sender's name is cached (`0x49d7f7`).
- `DoEmote` sent while our unit was possessed (`0x5ef57e`). A chat-only emote now reads `Emotes.dbc` row 0's flags, so it is refused while asleep or dead (`0x5ef5b1`, `0x47db8e`).
Tests cover the name, miss, `%t` and self cases, the gesture gate, and both `DoEmote` gates against the install's row 0.
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`SetCVar` and `RegisterCVar` now read their arguments as the reference's bindings do (`0x488c10`, `0x488b00`):
- a number is stored as Lua's `%.14g` text (`luaV_tostring` `0x6f7c80`), so the stock Sound slider's 0.4 stores `"0.40000000596046"`;
- a value with no string form (nil, absent, boolean, table) stores `"0"` (`0x488c98`, `0x488b6f`), so unticking a stock Sound options box no longer raises and music can be switched off there;
- the reference's usage texts (`0x84235c`, `0x8422e8`);
- `realmList`, `realmName` and `scriptMemory` are read-only to Lua `SetCVar` in the world (`0x48f566`-`0x48f584`), and host writes still land;
- `CVAR_UPDATE` fires inside the call for every string token, changed or not (`0x488cad`-`0x488cd5`, `SignalEvent2` `0x703f50`).
Verified: 7 new VM tests, a stock Sound window test off the chain and a world-entry read-only test, each failing with the change undone; `scripts/gates.sh` green. Built on macOS; no platform seam touched.
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A script's calls that touch the selection, the player's cast or the targeting cursor now take effect in the order the script made them, as in 1.12.1, where each such call is done when it returns (the macro runner `0x4f14e0` fires every line in one pass; `TargetUnit` `0x4899d0` and `TargetByName` `0x489d60` commit through `SetSelection` `0x493540`; `CastSpellByName` `0x4b4ab0` casts at the selection as it stands then).
- The VM keeps one ordered queue of these calls (`ScriptCall`) in place of fifteen per-kind queues, and one system applies it front to back in the target chain, each call through its owner's applier.
- A macro's lines run inside the `UseAction` that pressed it (`0x4e6098 call 0x4f1460`), so the calls they make are applied before the next queued call.
- `ClearTarget` deselects whatever is selected when it applies, so `TargetUnit("player") ClearTarget()` ends with no target.
- `SpellStopCasting`, `SpellStopTargeting`, `TargetNearestFriend`, pet bar presses and orders and pet-book casts join the queue, since they touch the same state: `/script SpellStopCasting()` then `/cast`, and `/assist` then `/petattack`, now apply in order too.
Tests run the real dispatcher on the headless client: target then cast casts at the new target, cast then target at the old one, a clear after a target ends with nothing selected, and a macro's calls land inside the `UseAction` that ran it. Built on macOS; no platform seam.
Fixes#451
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Part of #41: the comments of `benilla-ui` (the Lua UI engine, its FrameXML loader and its widgets) are rewritten to the rule in `docs/METHOD.md`, which is what the code does and the reference fact behind it, in a line. 43,140 comment lines become 15,161.
- **The mechanical strip.** The citations that were only a private record number go first, and each edit is shown to be a pure removal.
- **Wrong facts corrected.** The rewrite corrects the comments that stated wrong facts. Among them:
- `0x64a480` is the case-sensitive compare (a byte `repz cmpsb`), and `0x64a4c0` the case-insensitive one.
- A frame's id sits at `+0xb0`, not `+0xb4`. `EnableKeyboard`/`IsKeyboardEnabled` are `0x776ec0`/`0x776f90`.
- A region's unpinned edge has no fallback to its owner's rect: the owner supplies only the scale.
- `$parent` expands to the nearest named ancestor, or "Top" when none is named (`0x76c5b0`), not simply to the parent.
- A StatusBar fills from its internal normalised fraction, not from `GetValue()`.
- The addresses of `StartDuel` and `StartDuelUnit` were swapped.
- Many "untraced" notes now give the traced reference fact: the drag threshold, the per-grip sizing edges, the empty-`autoFocus` skip, and `SetTexCoordModifiesRect`'s default.
- Stock FrameXML line citations are checked against the stock 1.12 files and corrected. `ref-` file names become the stock file names.
- **Deviation labels.** "Deviation:" now marks only a choice with a reason. A surface that exists only for the retired Era addon target says so plainly: it is not 1.12.
- **Verification.** Every file strips to identical code, and `cargo fmt --check` is clean. Nine second readers compared every file old against new, restored the facts the rewrite had dropped, and checked each new citation against the code, the stock files, vmangos and the reference.
Behaviour differences the rewrite surfaced are filed as their own issues (#131–#142), and more are being validated. The comments here state what the code does. String literals are untouched; they are #92.
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Comments that pointed into the maintainer's private reverse-engineering notes (a note by name, a
path, a section or finding id, the analysis's own name for a client function, a process word) now
carry the fact itself, cited by the reference client's address, by vmangos file and line, or as
"the reference". Nobody outside could follow those pointers.
Comment text only, plus the test-assert and log strings that carried the same pointers. No claim
changes: a comment the notes have since corrected keeps its wording here, and correcting it is
separate work.
The two reference generators, `scripts/gen-reference-globals.py` and
`scripts/gen-reference-verb-events.py`, named the private notes' layout to find their inputs. They
now take the input files as arguments (`--capture`, `--framexml`, `--names`, `--extents`,
`--disasm`). Run on the same inputs, both write the committed tables row for row; only the two
header lines that named the old environment variable change.
Checked per file:
- the code is identical: each file with its comments stripped compares equal before and after; a
changed string literal is compared under a mask that proves only literal text moved and every
literal kept its line count;
- no client address the old text cited was dropped;
- a second reviewer checked every added address against its derivation;
- a detector for the notes' names, paths, ids, function names and process words finds none left;
- `scripts/gates.sh` is green.
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- the CVars are one engine-side table that outlives every interface reload: a change fires its observer, the eight latched rows wait for RestartGx, and /console gains set, cvar_reset, cvar_default, cvarlist and help (2303)
- every push into the interface runs in one feed phase after the net drain and before the tick, held by a structural test on the built schedule (2304)
- subsystems own their packet handlers, dispatched in packet order; the auction house is the first family out of the 273-arm drain (2305)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a nameplate's name and level stop popping a pixel every other step as the plate slides, and the whole plate no longer jumps 19 px to the top of the screen on a rounding tie; the chat bubble takes the same fix (2172)
- creatures and other players stop sinking through the ground while the world is still streaming in, where a Stormwind patroller had been 31 yd under its street: a body our world cannot yet answer for holds the server's pose (2174)
- select and the string metatable are gone, as in 1.12's Lua 5.0: pfUI's heal prediction parses its messages with the right format, BuffCheck2's own select wins its fallback, and a method call on a string raises the reference's own error (2171)
- the camera's water collision comes back out for now: with the pivot a hair under the plane, a surface swimmer's camera snapped in and out against the waterline, so the boom ignores water again (2173)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the chat window is the reference's own `ChatFrame.xml` and `FloatingChatFrame.xml`, run off the player's chain; our 2216-line transcription is deleted, the feed fires `CHAT_MSG_*` and the reference's `ChatFrame_OnEvent` prints — no app-side composition into the windows, no routing table, no whisper chime or flash of ours, and the transcribed edit-box machine (sticky type, tell ring, Tab cycle) retires with it; the verbs the two files call are built to the bytes — the whole `0x98` chat-window record and its eight verbs, the 94-entry chat-type colour registry, the language walk, the channel verbs as a command queue, the slash handlers' emote/roll/assist/uninvite/console/logging verbs; `chat-cache.txt` is written and read in the reference's whole grammar, the 68-entry message-group table in flag order and the no-file boot included, and the chat bindings and macro lines run through the reference's own arms (1948)
- the spellbook is the reference's own `SpellBookFrame.xml`; our 965-line transcription is deleted, and two quirks it reproduced by hand (the pet page ignores its page number, its arrows write the spell book's counter) now come from the reference's lines; one adapter remains because the reference's autocast shine is a `<Model>` that draws no pixels in this engine — the script puts the token-texture shine beside each button's model and carries it with the model's shown state; the nine spell-slot bindings (`GetSpellName`, `CastSpell`, `PickupSpell` and their kin) now parse their arguments the way the reference's shared marshaller `0x4b3ec0` does — a numeric arg 1, a mandatory arg 2, the index gated to [0, 0x400) with "Invalid spell slot in <Verb>" on a miss, "pet" matched without case — where ours raised mlua's own message on a negative id, answered nil for 0 and above 1024, and read the wrong book for "PET" (1952)
- a long-hidden world model part parks its `Mesh3d`: the entity path keeps the batches the retained pass declines resident — 5.3k hidden submeshes at any instant at the Stormwind auction house — and Bevy's sweeps walk every `Mesh3d` whether it draws or not, so a part parks after 30 consecutive hidden frames and unparks the frame its verdict turns visible; every world model part takes part, units' bodies included, while a booth's mirror parts stay out; interleaved pairs read an alone Stormwind 0.1–0.4 ms lighter, and `WOW_NO_MESH_PARK=1` is the A/B; the audio thread's realtime class was the standing suspect for the raid's `cpu_p99` spikes with sound on, and `WOW_AUDIO_NO_RT=1` across two interleaved Blackrock pairs read no difference, so the lever stays as an instrument (1949); and a no-merge prop batch now says which rule declined it — animated (1551 at the auction house) or transparent, not order-free (340) (1951)
- the probe reads CPU per thread across its window (user and system split, because a user-mode sampler never sees kernel time) and the main thread's CPU inside the app's frame beside its whole-frame CPU; together they place the vsync tax every player pays by default — cpu_ms 10.7 uncapped against 12.5 under vsync, alone in Stormwind, with no system growing and no thread spinning: it lands on the main thread, in user time, inside the schedules, the same systems each running slower, and a low-priority spinner holding one core busy erases it to the last decimal (vsync + spinner 10.18 against uncapped 10.17), which is frequency scaling — under vsync the cores idle deeper between frames and the next burst starts at a lower clock; nothing in the client is the cause and nothing in the client changes for it (1950)
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