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gromandClaude Opus 5 34097b6164 The panel registry, the map's own row, and a test that raced
`UIParent.lua`'s registry moved under three tests at once:

- `ItemTextFrame` is `pushable = 5`, so the reader shares the screen instead of replacing what is
  there; `QuestLogFrame` is `area = "doublewide"` with `width = 690`, not a left-slot window, so a
  `whileDead` open seats at the doublewide slot and leaves the left one empty; and
  `UIChildWindows` has five rows, the realm having added `ReputationDetailFrame`.
- `SetUIPanel` runs `CloseChildWindows()` for **any** slot it seats (`UIParent.lua:792-796`), not
  just the centre one, so a window merely pushed across also puts the open letter away. The test
  that pinned the stock trigger now watches both halves go.
- `user_placed_layouts()` is not empty after a manifest load, and should not be: the realm's own
  movable windows stamp themselves in their OnLoad — `PlayerFrame.xml:488-489` is
  `SetMovable(1) SetUserPlaced(true)`, the same feature as the `MOVE`/`MOVE_RESET` rows in their
  right-click menus — and `TargetFrame`, the Turtle shop, transmog and guild bank do likewise. The
  map test now asserts about its own row rather than about the file being empty.
- The blip tooltip calls `UnitName("player")` (`WorldMapFrame.lua:660`), which reads the player
  record; `load_default_ui` seats a placeholder one so the realm's files have a race and class at
  load, so a test that wants a named player names the record, after the manifest.

And one real race, not a realm change: `a_binding_table_resolves_whatever_case_the_package_spelled_it_in`
moves `BENILLA_HOME` and `WOW_CAPTURE` without taking `ENV_LOCK`. It was the only env-moving test
in that module missing it, and the collision shows up as a *neighbour* reading the wrong roster —
which is how it surfaced here, two addons tests failing in the full run and passing alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-31 13:58:14 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 5751857890 The realm's client is not stock 1.12, and its Lua grammar is not 1.12's either
SoftSpoken (z1xel/SoftSpoken, a 1.12 narration port) failed to load: nine files
across six addons would not compile, and the three that did then raised at
runtime indexing namespaces the failed chunks never built. Every one of the nine
is valid Lua 5.1 and invalid Lua 5.0 — `#`, `%`, `0x3040`, `local NAME = ...`.

`third_party/lua-src` is a fork that deliberately 5.0-ifies the grammar: three
arms deleted from `lparser.c` (`simpleexp`'s `TK_DOTS`, `getunopr`'s `'#'`,
`getbinopr`'s `'%'`) and `read_numeral` replaced with 5.0's, which has no hex.
Every deletion is byte-read out of `WoW.exe`'s own parser and every one is right
about stock 1.12.

No OctoWoW client runs stock 1.12. ClassicAPI.dll is in the realm's bundle and
rewrites every chunk at the `luaL_loadbuffer` chokepoint — file scripts,
`loadstring` and XML `OnLoad` alike — adding exactly five constructs: `#`, `%`,
`...` as an expression, `0x` hex and `[=[ ]=]`. Confirmed three ways: the repo's
own highlights line, PR #28, and the DLL's string pool, which twice says "Our
5.1 syntax backport makes the probe pass". `docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md`'s row for this
said "free — benilla's VM is mlua/Lua 5.1 already". That was the error.

So the target grammar is the union, and the fork now carries it:

  * the three parser arms restored, as stock 5.1 writes them;
  * `read_numeral` grown an explicit `0x` arm. It could not take 5.1's version
    back wholesale: 5.1 reached hex through a trailing `isalnum` slurp, and that
    slurp has to stay gone or `1then` breaks again
    (`AdvancedTradeSkillWindow2.lua:3878`, which the client compiles). The
    prefix arm gives both;
  * addon file chunks now called with `(addonName, addonPrivateTable)`
    (`UiScript::run_addon_chunk`, four call sites). Taking `...` without passing
    the arguments only moves the failure one line later, which is what
    ClassicAPI's own notes record;
  * `string.reverse` added to the stdlib backport — SoftSpoken calls it.

1.12's own dialect is untouched. `LUA_COMPAT_VARARG` withholds the `arg` table
only from a function that *uses* `...` as a value, so the shipped FrameXML's
`function f(...) … arg.n … end` still gets `arg`: the two dialects coexist one
function at a time, which is what the client-plus-ClassicAPI does.

The cost is the era probe. 170 corpus `loadstring` sites ask
`loadstring("return function(...) return ... end")` and 92 library files in 24
folders branch on the answer; they now take the 5.1 branch, as they do on the
real client. Two branch wrongly there and ClassicAPI ships a compensation for
each — Compost-2.0 rev 17406+'s no-argument `Erase` stub (bundled by BigWigs and
QuickHeal; it silently stops clearing in place) and Cartographer_Notes'
`WorldMapDeathRelease`. Both are now carried in `lua51_probe_fallout.rs`, probed
by behaviour rather than by revision and re-checked on every `ADDON_LOADED`,
because AceLibrary can upgrade a library mid-session.

Measured on grom's own AddOns folder: SoftSpoken, SoftSpoken_Stories,
SoftSpoken_Places, SoftSpoken_Writings, SpokenZonesAudio, SpokenBooksAudio,
SpokenQuestsAudio{Horde,Alliance,Gossip,Shared}, SSS_VOFallback and
AI_VoiceOverData_Turtle all load with zero load errors and zero session errors,
98 `Spoken*` globals, `/softspoken` registered, and PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD,
QUEST_DETAIL, GOSSIP_SHOW and ITEM_TEXT_BEGIN reaching 108/108, 1/1, 6/6 and 2/2
handlers clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-30 09:02:27 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 f3fec804eb Two addons another player asked for, and the Linux-only gap that killed one
AlternativeClassicActionBars and UnitPlates, both now in `other-addons/`
(untracked — third-party source, not ours to vendor). Measured with the survey
and the read-back probe on a root holding only those two, so neither borrows the
other's globals. Both already loaded clean; three things were missing, and the
first was costing an entire addon's keybinding surface.

**A binding table spelled `bindings.xml`.** `ui_script::addons` asks for
`Bindings.xml` by the reference's own fixed name — `0x51f400` reads the name,
not a `.toc` entry — and the open was case-sensitive, so on Linux ACAB's 69
`<Binding>` rows never registered. Silently: an absent binding table is the
normal case, so nothing raised and nothing warned. Hover-bind, edit-mode escape
and every bar page key were dead. The texture and font side of the same file
namespace has always resolved case-insensitively (`loose_addon_file`, which
walks the path a component at a time and enumerates a directory when the spelling
does not match); the Lua and XML side now shares one resolver with it, and both
crates' private `read_under` copies delegate to it. Measured after: 69 bindings
listed by `GetBinding`, `SetBinding("CTRL-9", "ACABBIND1")` round-trips, and the
addon's drawn-frame count went 42 -> 175, because its login sequence had been
stopping short of its own bars.

**`PixelUtil`.** Called unguarded on ACAB's bar-geometry path at four sites,
three of them the same question — one screen pixel in UI units, which is what
every pixel-perfect border in that addon is drawn from. Not in ClassicAPI's
published list, but ACAB disables itself without ClassicAPI, so on this server's
kit it is present by implication. A Lua chunk beside `math_ext`, whose `Round` it
uses. One deviation, written down where it lives: upstream reads
`region:GetEffectiveScale()`, which a 1.12 texture does not answer, so the scale
read falls back to the parent and then `UIParent` — the same number in every case
that matters.

**`UnitXP("nop", "nop")` answering the boolean.** The presence probe.
SuperCleveRoidMacros keeps only `pcall`'s `ok`, but ACAB's `HasUnitXPSP3` wants
`ok and result == true`, and the fall-through handed it the stock XP getter's
`0` — truthy, so it passed the loose reading and failed the strict one. ACAB
reported UnitXP_SP3 absent on a client that answers the whole family.

Left alone with the reason in `docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md`: `IsStackableAction`
(post-1.12, guarded, and stock 1.12's own ActionButton.lua shows a count off
`IsConsumableAction` alone), `CursorHasMacro` (post-1.12 and redundant — ACAB
tests `GetCursorInfo() == "macro"` first), and five third-party tables that are
missing because those addons are not installed.

The harness grew a `--plates [n]` step, because a nameplate addon is the one kind
it could not see working: the subject is a `WorldFrame` child `vplates.rs` mints
per frame, so with none seated the addon's scan finds nothing, does nothing, and
reports a clean load over an empty screen. It seats n live plates and counts how
many an addon hung a frame on, which doubles as the contract check on the plate's
own shape — a plate that stopped being a `Button`, or stopped putting its border
texture first, would read as an addon adopting nothing. UnitPlates adopts every
plate and reads its name, health and level off ours.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 14:15:51 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 497570a68c addons: an on-demand load says what it loaded
The startup walk names every addon it loads; `LoadAddOn` named none. So when
the client froze on 10-19 while learning recipes, the session log could not
say whether the trainer window was even open — and `Blizzard_TrainerUI` is
LoadOnDemand, so that was the whole question.

`benilla-ui` has no logger, so the line travels the way its errors and
warnings already do: a `notices` channel on the model, drained to `info!`
beside them in the same pass. Silent for a redundant load, because the stock
`*_LoadUI` glue calls `LoadAddOn` on every open and a line per call would
bury the one that did the work. A refusal carries the reference's own reason
token, and a name that is not installed says so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-19 10:54:56 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 e95de4a5ad log: the session's warnings are 330 down to 129, and the 201 that went were ours
A full inventory of the player's 2026-10-18 session: **330 WARN lines, 67 distinct
shapes, and not one ERROR**. Read one at a time against the code and the
reference, most of what remained was the client complaining about itself. Three
causes, measured by replaying the new rules over that same log: **330 → 129**.

**A label is not a key (33 lines).** `text=` resolves as a GlobalStrings key and a
miss shows the raw value, which is faithful; the warning on a key-shaped miss is
ours. But a miss is already a string no locale defines, so a single all-caps word
is a label the author typed — `OK`, `UP`, `DOWN`, `MT`, `TPS`, `TOP`, `BOTTOM`,
`WIM`, `TWA`, 42 lines of them in one session, every one rendering exactly as the
reference renders it. The predicate now wants an underscore, which keeps the shape
that cannot be anything else: `ATSW_ALLREAGENTLISTFRAME_CHN`, an addon's own locale
row missing from the locale it shipped, which really does paint its key name on
screen. The shipped-XML sweep keeps its own broader rule, where `text="DELETE"`
must resolve and a collision is a bug either way; its comment now says so.

**Prose is not a missing file (12 lines, and phantom load failures).** A `.toc` is
read line by line, `#` opening a metadata line and everything else a filename, so
a wrapped `## Notes:` paragraph and the `--` section headers many addons write
become entries that no file answers. The reference opens them, fails, and says
nothing. We called each one a load failure, which put it in `/errors` and counted
it in the "N addon load failures" line at every login — ColorPickerPlus shipping
"two files it does not contain" that are really one two-line sentence. A line that
cannot name a file is now a debug line; one that looks like a file and is absent
stays a warning, because then the package really is short a piece (BigWigs'
`Raids\Other\Nerubian.lua`). The addon harness shares the predicate, so its
package audit stops making the same claim.

**One cause speaks once (168 lines → 9).** The stock inspect panel's sixteen slots
each name a frame `Blizzard_InspectUI` has never been asked to build, and
QuickHeal's one undefined template is inherited ten times — per UI load, so 78
lines a session for two causes. A document's log warnings now collapse by shape:
the first two keep their detail, the rest become one "N more like …" line, and
`/errors` still gets every one, because the panel is where detail belongs.

Three shapes were checked and deliberately left, because the client is right:
`SetScript("OnInputLanguageChanged")` must keep raising (an unfired script kind
raises by this project's own rule, and nothing can fire an IME edge here); the
`SetOwner: unknown anchor 'BOTTOMRIGHT'` line is TurtleWoW's own
`Turtle_ShopUI.lua:530`, where our mode-0 fallback already matches the reference
and the line is already once per session; and a `.toc`-listed `Bindings.xml` walks
as FrameXML with `<Binding>` an unknown frame type, which the reference logs too
(the bindings themselves load by their own path and work).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-18 15:55:24 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 3e616e5cb3 reload: one VM and no flush storm, 615 ms off every rebuild
Two costs read straight out of the player's own `WOW_UI_HANDLERS=1` session log
(2026-10-18 20:33), where a `/reload` blocks the main thread for 7.84 s.

**The saved-variables flush, 305 ms.** The reload's first act is to write every
loaded addon's saved variables, one file each, and `write_atomic_bytes` ends each
with `sync_all()` — a disk round trip per file, 60 of them, inside the one blocked
frame. Measured on this project's own btrfs home: **327 ms flushed, 6 ms not**,
which is the +27→332 ms the log spends between `ReloadUI — ending the UI session`
and the last `wrote …/saved/*.lua`. `write_atomic_bytes_bulk` keeps the temp file
and the rename (so a file is whole or absent) and gives up only a power loss in
the seconds after; the reference writes these with plain buffered CRT writes and a
`.bak` rotation whose result it discards, so this is still the stronger of the two.

**A whole VM built and thrown away, 310 ms.** `end_ui_session` installs a fresh
boot VM, which is right for the roots that stop there — the character screen runs
on it — but `run_pending_reload` then calls `load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry`, which
mints its own in `mint_entry_vm`. So every reload ran `UiScript::new`,
`GlobalStrings.lua`, the emote table and the font registry twice and let the first
one go without running a line: the log prints `GlobalStrings loaded` at +350 ms and
again at +662 ms. `end_session` now takes what to leave behind, and the reload
leaves the dying VM until the mint replaces it — safe because the two calls are one
exclusive system with nothing in between, the old VM is still dropped before any
file loads, and `fold_dying_vm_cvars` drains what it folds, so the mint's second
fold of the same VM finds nothing. Only when the rebuild is certain to mint: with
no UI wanted (a capture) the load returns early and the world would be left with no
VM at all.

`chunkbench` is the instrument the next item needs, and the one that priced this
one's neighbours: it runs a file list three ways — a VM per file, one VM with the
stock collector, one with it stopped — so parse, execute and the GC's share are
separate numbers. Over his enabled addon set (1,471 files, 70 MiB) the parse is
703 ms against 74 ms to compile the same chunks from bytecode, which is what a
bytecode cache would be worth; the collector is not the problem (829 ms against
731 ms stopped), and pfQuest's 23 database files are 417 ms and 110 MiB of heap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-18 14:59:22 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 06011e5e5b ui_script: the LoadOnDemand log line stops claiming "not loaded"
A LoadOnDemand addon can already be in memory when the walk reaches its row, because an addon
ahead of it loaded it from its own `ADDON_LOADED` — which is how every AI_VoiceOver data module
actually arrives: 224 ms of Lua inside AI_VoiceOver's handler, before the walk gets to the
`AI_VoiceOverData_*` rows at all. The line was printed unconditionally, so it went on saying "no
LoadAddOn() yet" about addons that had loaded. That reads as a bug and is not one; it cost a
session chasing a missing `GetAddOnEnableState` that was never the problem. Gated on a new
`UiScript::addon_is_loaded`.

`docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md` now records why that global stays unbuilt, since the evidence was gathered
anyway: upstream ClassicAPI's own `docs/API.md` does not define it either, and AI_VoiceOver gates a
modern-shaped `GetAddOnInfo` on the same `if not GetAddOnEnableState`, so defining it would leave
`VoiceOver.lua:84` reading `loadable` where it means `reason` and pop the "delete your old folder"
dialog on every login.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-16 18:45:25 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 81d96af35d Everwood: the HD/OctoWoW line of benilla, imported onto upstream
This checkout had no git history at all, so this one commit carries the whole
of the Everwood work as a single import on top of chairmanpow/benilla-octo's
`main` (706cd71). The two trees have genuinely diverged — each has files the
other does not — so this is a fork point, not a catch-up.

Today's work, which is the reason a baseline exists at all:

- Booth previews no longer cast world shadows (`NO_BOOTH_SHADOW`). Portrait
  characters were entering the sun's shadow cascades, so every skinned-rig
  shadow specialization compiled live mid-frame; the hitch detector logged
  "main thread blocked 1316 ms" beside a `compiled LIVE` warning. This was
  the Fashion/Tmog stutter.
- Per-pane dress-up: each `DressUpModel` pane assembles and stages its own
  tried-on look instead of every pane mirroring the live player.
- Item template cache is append-only JSONL written on the IO pool, replacing
  an 11.6 MB whole-map JSON rewrite on the main thread every 10 s.
- `WOW_SYSTEM_TIMING` rebuilt per-thread: it took 2 mutexes per system enter
  and 4 per exit, costing 15 ms a frame (590 fps -> 60) and corrupting the
  measurements it was taken to produce.
- The visibility-churn sweep moved to its own `WOW_FLASH_CHURN` switch, so a
  frame-cost reading no longer pays 2.7 ms a frame for it.

Local state (`benilla-config/`, `logs/`, `target/`) is excluded by the
existing .gitignore; the account credential it holds is not in this commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-15 15:01:14 -06:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 1b335717c3 Addon loading and .toc parsing follow AddOn_Load and Toc_Parse (#992)
Addon loading follows the client's `AddOn_Load` (`0x51f240`) and `.toc` reader (`0x51c9b0`):

- One driver serves the startup walk, `LoadAddOn` and the survey harness. It marks the addon loaded before its dependencies (`0x51f313`), so a requirement cycle loads both and `IsAddOnLoaded` answers during an addon's own load. It loads `## LoadWith` dependents after `ADDON_LOADED` (`0x51f5b2`).
- Every directive is matched by its own literal. `LoadOnDemand`, `Secure` and XML bool attributes parse with the client's string-to-bool (`0x6f1b30`), so `hidden="1"` works. Values are not trimmed, and only an unindented `##` line is a directive.
- `GetAddOnMetadata` reads the metadata map (`0x51d580`): Title defaults to the folder, the last value wins, and locale suffixes apply. The url comes from the server, never the `.toc`.
- `EnableAddOn` keeps a toggle for an addon that isn't installed.

Tests are mutation-checked against the reference order.

Fixes #192
Fixes #193
Fixes #405
Fixes #986
Fixes #987
Fixes #990

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2026-10-12 14:28:48 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 3bfec89085 A template name registers once, case-folded, as in 1.12.1 (#937)
A FrameXML template registered under a name already taken replaced the first, nothing was logged, and names differing only in case were stored twice.

In 1.12.1 the registrar `0x6ee500` folds case (`0x64b3f0`, `0x64a4c0`) and keeps the first entry, logging "Virtual object named %s already exists" (`0x871188`), unless the old entry carries a non-zero script context and the new one zero (`0x6ee594`). The stock files load at context 0; `AddOn_Load` (`0x51f240`) loads an addon under its name unless its signature checked SECURE (`0x51dbfb`).

Templates are now keyed case-folded with their context, an addon's load sets the context, an addon counts as secure only from the player's own data with `## Secure: 1`, and the refusal and the unnamed-node line (`0x871020`) reach FrameXML.log.

Tests: duplicates and case variants refused, the context rule, the log lines.

Fixes #556

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2026-10-12 03:36:57 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 c9ddd80342 Script errors reach the error handler bare, as 1.12.1 hands them (#865)
Script errors reached the Lua error handler as mlua's display text: a `runtime error: ` word and a `stack traceback:` block, which overflow the stock `ScriptErrors` dialog. And a raise in a `CreateFrame` template's OnLoad was logged as a warning and never reached the handler at all.

In the reference, handlers run under `lua_pcall` with the error function `0x703b40`, which calls the `seterrorhandler` function with the bare message. `CreateFrame` builds its template through the XML instantiator `0x6ee280`, whose OnLoad runs under that same function (`0x704d50`).

Now every caught error records two texts: the decorated one for benilla's log and the bare message for the handler. A load report pairs the two per row, and `CreateFrame` records its template's errors as script errors.

Tests: the handler hears bare messages from handlers, and a template OnLoad raise reaches it.

Fixes #697
Fixes #859

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 19:12:21 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 f356e90fe6 Addon files resolve case-insensitively, as on 1.12.1's Windows client (#860)
An addon's Lua and XML files were read with the exact case its `.toc` or `<Script file>` spelt. On a case-sensitive filesystem, Linux's, a file named in another case never loaded: Questie 3.7.1 lists `Astrolabe\Astrolabe.lua` from a folder shipped as `astrolabe`, so `Astrolabe` stayed nil and its OnUpdate raised every frame.

The reference is a Windows client, and every path it opens matches without regard to case. Addon textures and sounds already resolved that way through `loose_addon_file`; addon scripts, XML and `Bindings.xml` now go through the same resolver, and the second, case-sensitive one is gone. The shared resolver also refuses a component the host reads as more than a plain name (a Windows `C:`), so it still cannot leave the AddOns root.

Test: a file asked for in three spellings resolves to the one on disk; it fails without the change on a case-sensitive volume.

Fixes #851

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 18:35:06 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 f0dfa86148 PLAYER_LOGIN fires at world entry, once the player exists (#840)
`PLAYER_LOGIN` fired at the end of the UI load, before the player existed: its handlers saw `UnitExists("player")` nil and level, health and XP 0, at every login and `/reload`. Ace2's `OnEnable` runs there.

In 1.12.1 the load only arms a one-shot (`0x49011d`). The world-enter cascade fires `PLAYER_LOGIN` if armed (`0x49094b`), then `PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD` (`0x49096a`), inside a sound-suppression bracket (`0x4908d5`–`0x490a56`). It runs from the player's own create (`0x5deb60`), or on `/reload` from the load (`0x490168`) with the player still in the world. A worldport re-arms nothing.

Now the load arms it, and the unit feed fires both, silenced, once the player is seated. A `/reload` loads under the live player and no longer plays the target-select sound. Tests cover login, worldport and reload; they fail without the fix.

Fixes #189
Fixes #191

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 11:38:06 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 459e0e90c1 The stock video window's boxes are registered and ffx, ffxGlow, ffxDeath and gxMaximize work; benilla's options gain Spell Detail; load failures go to FrameXML.log (#585)
**#549: the stock video window's CVars.** Its check boxes, `ffx` and `gxRefresh` are registered at the reference's defaults. `pixelShaders` and `specular` ship as `overridden` "1" (`hwDetect`, `0x639a60`), and `gxFixLag` ships "1".
- `ffx`, `ffxGlow` and `ffxDeath` gate the full-screen effect passes every frame, as the reference's gate does (`0x6cd890`; `CFFXGlow` reads `ffxGlow` at `0x6cc5a8`, `CFFXDeath` reads `ffxDeath` at `0x6cdf10`).
- `gxMaximize` is latched. At the `RestartGx` commit it makes a windowed client borderless over the monitor, as the reference's window rebuild does (`0x58cf10`).
- The rest are registered with no effect, and each row says why: `useWeatherShaders` (snow's fallback leg is a separate CPU draw), `lod`, `M2UseShaders`, `M2UsePixelShaders`, `movieSubtitle`, `gxTripleBuffer`, `gxCursor`, `gxRefresh`, `DesktopGamma`.
- `cvars.rs` is split into the runtime and the table.

**#329: Spell Detail.** benilla's options window gains 1.12's Spell Detail Level slider on the Graphics page, over `spellEffectLevel` on the stock 0-2 grid.

**#583: `FrameXML.log`.** Load failures now go to `benilla-config/Logs/FrameXML.log`, as the reference's go to `Logs\FrameXML.log`, and no longer to chat.
- The log uses the reference's lines ("Couldn't open", "Error loading", "Couldn't parse XML in") and its banners.
- A UI load that reports something rewrites the file, and a runtime `LoadAddOn` appends to it (`0x490187`, `0x46aac0`).

Verified:
- New tests for each switch, the maximize latch, every box's stored value with no unknown-CVar warning, the Spell Detail row and the log file's rewrite and append, each failing on main.
- A region dump of the options window shows the new row, and the rows below it moved 35 px, and nothing else.
- `scripts/gates.sh` and `scripts/smoke.sh` are green.
- A live run unticked Full Screen Glow in the stock window, which turned the glow pass off and saved `ffxGlow = "0"`, and a missing addon file produced its four log lines.

Built on macOS; no platform seam touched.

Fixes #549
Fixes #329
Fixes #583

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2026-09-29 10:09:02 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 0f36374445 The core loads the player's own FrameXML.toc in its order, and the boot VM loads no Fonts.xml (#568)
The core now loads the player's own `Interface\FrameXML\FrameXML.toc` off their chain, row by row in its order (`0x6edb90`, from `UI_Init` at `0x48ffed`), instead of benilla's copy of the list, and `benilla.toc` is gone. Order is observable in 1.12.1: event listeners run in registration order, children are kept in creation order, and hit-test ties go to the earlier frame.

- The world VM starts bare: `GlobalStrings.lua` and `Fonts.xml` load as the toc's first rows. The boot VM keeps `GlobalStrings.lua` and the emote tokens, and no longer loads `Fonts.xml`, which nothing reads there (#307).
- A chain without `FrameXML.toc` builds no stock UI and still loads the layer and addons, as the reference does (`"Couldn't open %s"`, severity 2, return unread); benilla reports it as an error.
- Every test kit now loads in the production order, `FrameXML.toc`'s rows then `layer.toc`'s, and a guard fails any kit that loads out of it. Two tests whose premises the stock order disproves are gone.
- `scripts/smoke.sh` counts VMs by the VM marker, since `Fonts.xml` now loads once per world VM.

Verified: new tests for the load list against the chain toc and a reordered fixture toc, the missing-toc case, and two stock frames on one event running in the toc's order (ExhaustionTick before PlayerFrame on `PLAYER_UPDATE_RESTING`), each failing on main's order. A before/after dump of globals, frames, draw order, event listeners and saved variables differs only in stock-order effects: the reordered listeners and children, draw-order ties between non-overlapping frames, and `UnitPopup`'s quality colours now sharing the live tables. `scripts/gates.sh` and `scripts/smoke.sh` are green, and live before/after runs show 0 errors and identical warnings. Built on macOS; no platform seam touched.

Fixes #555
Fixes #307

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 23:52:14 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 22634279bd benilla's own interface loads as one layer after the stock FrameXML and before the addons; the core loads StatsFrame.xml and runs LocaleProperties.lua once, as FrameXML.toc does (#562)
benilla's own interface now loads as one layer on top of the stock UI, as `docs/METHOD.md` now states: the core loads the stock FrameXML rows, the layer (`assets/ui/layer.toc`) loads after the last of them and before the third-party addons, and like FrameXML it has no AddOn API row and fires no `ADDON_LOADED` (the reference loads `FrameXML.toc` outside `AddOn_Load`, `UI_Init` `0x48fbf0`).

- Moved into the layer unchanged: `ScrollTemplates.xml`, `KeyBindingsPage.xml`, `OptionsFrame.xml`, `ContainerFrameAdapters.xml`, `SpellBookAdapters.xml`, `ScriptLogFrame.xml`. `GameMenuFrame.xml` stays the core's last row until #553.
- The host's Lua fixes to stock code (`FCF_ChatTabFadeFinished`, the `DurabilityFrame` re-seat) move into the layer's `FrameXMLFixes.xml`; the resize re-seat stays host-side as an engine adaptation.
- The core now loads `StatsFrame.xml` and runs `LocaleProperties.lua` once, from `UIParent.xml`, so its chain rows are exactly the stock `FrameXML.toc` rows but the menu; the order is #555.
- A dev build boots without the layer under `WOW_STOCK_UI=1`; the host's calls into the layer are guarded.

Verified: new tests for the layer's file list, the core list against the stock toc, the load position (a `_G` definition log), absence from the AddOn API and the stock-only boot, each failing with the change undone; a before/after dump of every global, frame, draw order and saved variable differs only by `StatsFrame` and the moved fixes' source; `scripts/gates.sh` and `scripts/smoke.sh` green, and a live logout/re-login under `WOW_STOCK_UI=1` clean. Built on macOS; no platform seam touched.

Part of #552
Fixes #542
Fixes #543

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2026-09-28 21:01:28 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 36b359f007 Logout and the AddOns screen's Okay write only a changed character's own enable rows, so a character with no row keeps following the realm's others (#418) (#490)
A character's AddOns file now holds only the rows the character chose, as in 1.12.1, so a character that never chose an addon keeps following what the realm's other characters agree on (`0x51e470`) instead of freezing its inherited values at the first logout.

- Each character has an enable hash and a dirty flag: the loader `0x51ebe0` fills the hash from the file, clean; the setter `0x51ea20` inserts on a miss and dirties the hash only on a change (`0x51ebab`-`0x51ebbc`); the writer `0x51ef20` writes a dirty character's hash, a line per entry, and nothing else (`0x51ef59`).
- Logout and exit (`0x490c88`) and the character-select AddOns screen's Okay (`SaveAddOns` `0x46d990`) both write through it, so a session that toggles nothing writes nothing, and no `Blizzard_*` rows appear.
- `ResetDisabledAddOns` restores the hash as loaded, clean (`0x48e830`).
- On the AddOns screen a character with no row now follows another character's toggle at once, as `AddonList_Update` re-reads each column after every `EnableAddOn`.

Fixes #418

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2026-09-28 10:11:40 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 4f8350c9ed String literals and test names in benilla-app carry no record numbers (#368)
The strings pass for `benilla-app`, the last crate: string literals and test names lose the private record numbers and the workspace's words that a comment pass cannot touch.

Fixes #92. Fixes #36.

- **Messages.** About 230 assertion, panic, `expect` and log messages, printed tool labels, and comments inside embedded Lua fixtures drop their record numbers; the eight that named "the director" keep their fact in plain words. Stale claims in a few messages are corrected on the way (a cast-bar step, a font line, the every-shot recompute).
- **Names.** Seven test and helper names that carried a record number or "director" now say what they check. `git grep` found no other use of any of them.
- **Player files.** The key-bindings file's header and `config.toml`'s header each lose a record citation. Neither header is compared when the file is read back: the bindings reader skips every `#` line, and `config.toml`'s header is a TOML comment.
- **Fixtures.** Test fixtures use neutral character, account and frame names.
- **#36.** The quest-material test labels GameObject type 10 GOOBER (in 1.12, 3 is CHEST, 9 TEXT, 10 GOOBER); the code under test was already right, and the comments were fixed with the comment pass.
- **Verification.** With comments stripped and every literal's contents masked, each file is identical to main and keeps its literals' line counts, apart from the renamed functions and one rustfmt reflow. `cargo fmt --check` is clean.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-26 01:06:28 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 bd346db228 Record numbers out of the headers benilla writes into players' files (#285)
Part of #92. The headers benilla writes at the top of a player's saved-variables files and chat cache carried a private record number, so every player's own files held one. They now say only what the file is.

- The chat cache's repair marker is now `# benilla-writer 2`. The check is `contains`, so a file stamped with the longer marker still counts as repaired and is not re-seeded.
- The other record numbers in these four files' literals go too: one log line and five assert messages. So does one test name, now `one_line_rows_without_addedversion_still_parse`.
- Every change is to string-literal text, proven with comments stripped and every literal masked, except the renamed test.

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2026-09-25 15:07:45 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 eba558a5d2 Comments in benilla-app, the UI script layer: one line of fact each, no history, no record numbers (#184)
Part of #41: the first of five `benilla-app` pieces. This one is the UI script layer: `ui_script` with its test harnesses, the text engine and layout (`ui_text`), the UI pass and the UI model panes. Its comments are rewritten to the rule in `docs/METHOD.md`, which is what the code does and the reference fact behind it, in a line. 22,041 comment lines become 7,133.

- **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:
  - On a fresh login the reference fires `PLAYER_LOGIN` and `PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD` from the player's create (`0x5deb60` → `0x4908c0`); only a `/reload` goes through `0x490168`. The comments now state both paths.
  - `ComputeStep` (`0x5ca2d0`) applies negative pair kerns and rounds up. It does have a kerning term.
  - A fallback icon global and the retired `UiPanels.xml` panels no longer exist. The comments that named them now describe the stock FrameXML mechanism that replaced them.
  - Stock FrameXML line citations are checked against the stock 1.12 files and corrected, and several misattributed files are fixed (`MainMenuBarArtFrame` lives in `MainMenuBar.xml`).
  - Dozens more turned up on the way: docs sitting on the wrong item, removed functions, stale counts and links.
- **Deviation labels.** "Deviation:" now marks only a choice with a reason. An unbuilt behaviour says so plainly.
- **Verification.** Every file strips to identical code, and `cargo fmt --check` is clean. Five 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 (#183 among them). The comments here state what the code does. String literals are untouched; they are #92.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 08:20:21 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 8952d590e6 comments cite the reference by address, not by private note (#30)
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 12:14:08 +07:00
SamandClaude Opus 5.5 aa281aafb9 creatures keep their first corner, and characters never share files
- a creature walking a path no longer cuts its first corner: the path's first waypoint was dropped at decode (2342)
- two characters whose names differ only in accented or non-Latin letters no longer share macros, bindings and SavedVariables; a file that failed to load is not overwritten at logout (2342)
- custom chat channels survive a logout, a collapsed quest header keeps its quests watched, and a trackpad swipe scrolls as far as it adds up to (2342)
- a hearth off a zeppelin no longer lands back on its deck, and an opened lockbox with loot left in it unlocks (2342)
- every snapshot runs on Vulkan, in a container, before it ships (2344)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 12:19:22 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 84cd2336ab widget calls cost one index, and a reparent keeps the layout ledger
- a frame's __index is its kind's method table and the Region map's 19 shared verbs dispatch in Rust: a widget method call costs one table index instead of a Lua re-entry — the idle UI tick ~20 % lighter, client-wide (2310)
- SetParent names the subtree it moved instead of giving the layout ledger up: a pooled map note's recycle no longer re-derives the whole interface, and a Questie quest-log change's worst frame halves, 166 → 83 ms (2314)
- thirteen single-store windows — honor, talent wipe, the dialog verbs, scoreboard, battlemaster, battle map, book, mirror timers, minimap ping — register their handlers; 18 kinds leave the match (2313)
- the addon-enable RE lands: DefaultState is a seeded byte, the node set is the character list, and a character the store has never seen inherits nothing — 2311's one wrong branch corrected (2316)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 17:10:44 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 baf4e37070 the create screen marks your pick, and a new character inherits addons
- the character-create screen marks the chosen race, gender and class again — a lit square and its name on the icon, as the reference's LockHighlight draws it; a query term had filtered all eighteen icons out since 2072
- a new character inherits the addon enables the realm's other characters agree on, as the reference computes them: a Disable All saved just before no longer comes back all-checked (2311)
- an auction list-update event names one list: a first search on Browse no longer throws the stock Auctions tab's page error, and a sale or outbid notification never fetches a list the window never asked for (2308)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 17:09:59 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 b0082b6668 the world draws inside the UI pass, and Questie's zone table fills
- the world is the first draw of the UI camera's main pass, not a pass before it: one render-pass boundary fewer, −0.9 ms of GPU on the Air at full render scale (2234)
- the world-map catalog seeds at the VM's birth, before any addon file runs, so Questie's Astrolabe builds its zone table instead of raising on every path (2240)
- the login's own tutorials wait for the interface, and a cross-map worldport fires PLAYER_LEAVING_WORLD, guarded by the reference's once-per-world latch (2232, 2235, 2239)
- WOW_PROBE_BGQUEUE makes "log in while queued for a battleground" reproducible (2237)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 16:59:49 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 3e92b4f015 empty tooltips hide, the map opens on your zone, Questie's arrow lands
- Questie's arrow points at the turn-in, not 100 yards off: the map selection sits on your zone from the moment you enter the world, as the reference's does, so Astrolabe reads the right sheet (2192)
- an area the map has no row for sends the selection to your continent, not the world view; the reference fails its zone lookup and its continent lookup separately
- a tooltip shown with no lines hides itself instead of drawing an empty plate at the last hover's size, as Questie's tracker did on some quests; each fresh hover restores full alpha, so a plate an addon dimmed does not stay dim
- Questie's minimap button turns the quest icons back on: a nil handed to a colour setter stores zero and carries on, as the reference does, where benilla raised and jammed Questie's event queue from login (1973)
- MonkeyDev loads without three red dialogs at login: an unknown frame type in an addon's XML is logged and skipped, as the reference does; only a script creating a frame of a bad type still raises (2191)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 21:07:22 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 eebbcc050f NTFS load order, a title-sorted AddOns list, and tooltips at the cursor
- addons load in the order NTFS lists a folder, case-insensitive with an underscore before the letters, the order the vanilla corpus was written against and the one that decides which addon provides a shared library (2178)
- GetNumAddOns and the index form of every AddOn verb walk a title-sorted list that hides the Blizzard addons the server says to hide, and the character-select AddOns list is in title order (2175)
- SetPoint and SetAllPoints raise the reference's own errors for a frame name that does not exist or an omitted relative frame instead of quietly anchoring to the parent, and an explicit nil means the screen root (2176)
- a tooltip owned with ANCHOR_CURSOR follows the mouse, which pfUI's tooltip, xpbar and chat modules, pfQuest's browser and TipBuddy ask for; an omitted or unknown anchor is ANCHOR_LEFT (2176)
- a $parent name handed to CreateFrame, CreateTexture or CreateFontString expands as it does in XML, so FonzAppraiser's thirty dropdowns and pfQuest's search icon get the names they asked for (2176)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 21:03:49 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 ef9af66dc2 plates take the mouse, Auctioneer loads, and the damage font is yours
- hovering a nameplate lights its unit and clicking one selects it, pfUI's click-through works, a drag that starts on a plate still turns the camera, and turning plates off with V clears them (2159)
- Auctioneer's XML documents open (the reference has no XML namespaces), a .toc line reaching Blizzard_AuctionUI's templates resolves for Auctioneer, BeanCounter and SpecialTalentUI, and a missing include logs rather than raising the red error dialog (2155)
- a .lua reached through <Script file=> carries the same Interface\AddOns\ chunk name as a .toc-listed one, so Ace2's debugstack split works and AtlasLoot keys its database; 26 more corpus addons load, 176 of 219 (2155)
- the floating combat numbers draw in whatever DAMAGE_TEXT_FONT holds at world entry, so MikScrollingBattleText and pfUI pick the font (2156); a dodged swing prints no line and floats no word, and happiness leech lines print (2157)
- an unknown frameStrata in XML logs and keeps the default instead of raising, so EQL3's log window loads; FrameXML_Debug is a real switch, so ImprovedErrorFrame loads (2160)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 20:56:00 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 5432a8bfbd a slider snaps to its step, a pushed button releases, and warnings show
- a slider with a value step snaps to it: a stepped drag fires once per row instead of once per pixel, a scrollbar cannot rest between two rows, and one wheel notch on the trainer list reaches the bottom (2133)
- setting a step on a live slider moves its value onto the new lattice and runs its handler, which an addon on the real client can count on (2143)
- a button pushed from script releases on the next mouse-up, so Tablet-2.0's rows stop staying pressed forever; a release off the button's rect un-presses it, and a locked state holds (2134)
- the mail body and the GM ticket box scroll as you type past their bottom, and the Use UI Scale checkbox reads a registered setting (2141)
- an engine warning, a call that was accepted and did nothing, reaches the /errors window in grey instead of one terminal line; a text row trimmed mid-character no longer kills the window's repaint (2135, 2138)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 20:52:20 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 94945e8339 two addons that need each other load, and pfUI's memory row fills in
- loading two LoadOnDemand addons that depend on each other loads both instead of killing the client with a stack overflow; each is counted loaded before its own files run, as on the real client (2139)
- the memory report gets its second number, so AceAddon-2.0's memory line (36 copies in the corpus) stops raising and pfUI's panel prints a figure where it printed UNAVAILABLE; garbage collection takes a number and answers nothing, like 1.12's (2136)
- a disabled addon you have uninstalled keeps its row in AddOns.txt through a logout, and a hand-edited name keeps its spelling instead of taking the folder's case (2139)
- a loaded chunk's error lines name it the way the real client does, and a /console argument containing ]] no longer trips a syntax error the 1.12 lexer would raise (2136)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 20:52:00 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 321bcbb393 the cooldown pie survives a /reload, and Bagnon's bags keep their order
- the cooldown pie, the GCD sweep, minimap pings and the map arrow draw again after a logout, login or /reload; they went blank until a restart, which read as OmniCC killing the cooldowns (2113)
- an addon's own font on a button label keeps its face, size and outline instead of being undone every frame, MikScrollingBattleText's reported look (2112)
- an empty label reads as nothing rather than an empty string, so Cartographer's map label keeps its colour; a slider thumb with no authored size takes its art's own size, so Dewdrop's Look'n'Feel slider moves (2109, 2110)
- Bagnon's saved bag list comes back in the order it was written, so the keyring stops jumping to the front after a restart; hovering a Bagnon bag costs a third of what it did (2111, 2114)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 20:49:50 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 99b5600e25 idle sits you down and camps you, and the addons anchor, parse and draw
- five idle minutes sit you down and flag you AFK, thirty log you out through the ordinary countdown; holding a key is idle, moving the mouse is not, and a swimmer stays afloat (2092)
- a knockdown no longer wedges: the landing froze the clip that held the base-animation lock, leaving a knocked-down player on their back for the session (2098); the perf cost pill starts hidden (2099)
- Lua is exactly 1.12's 5.0 — no vararg expression, no #, no %, the remembered table size — so Cartographer loads without errors and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text shows its text, in its own shipped font now that addon TTFs load (2101, 2102, 2103)
- a widget name is a Lua global for SetPoint and its kin, so Bartender2's bars spread out; a button's NormalText disowns its justify, the raise renumbers hidden frames too, and a missing toc file warns instead of erroring (2105, 2100, 2104, 2107, 2106)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 16:35:03 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 c965b5425d the tooltip and five windows go stock, and the battleground keeps score
- the tooltip is the reference's own file: `GameTooltip.xml` loads off the chain, ours is deleted, and every verb it calls was already bound, so this is a plain swap; retired with it: the `$parentThicken` plate fill that thickened the plate from the art's ~73% to ~84% opacity — the reference's plate is the raw `UI-Tooltip-Background` tint, and that is what ships; the one engine fact the transcription had been hiding: the reference's instance declares no size, and a frame with one anchor and no size resolves to NO rect under the reference's own layout law — our declared size had been a harness crutch (1968); and the dressing room goes stock with `<DressUpModel>` as a widget kind (factory `0x495c00`): a `PlayerModel` plus its own `Undress`/`Dress`/`TryOn`, where `Undress` strips the body and not the hands, and Close is read off the window since the stock OnHide queues nothing (1969)
- the mail window and the auction house are the reference's own: `MailFrame.xml` loads off the chain and brings the stationery picker, invoice pane and autocomplete ours had left out; the stationery family is built off wow-re's carve over a list computed off `Stationery.dbc` rows × the player's bags (`0x622270`, not the bank); the selection rides `CMSG_SEND_MAIL` field 6 and a send with none silently aborts; its two events fire where the client fires them (1970); `Blizzard_AuctionUI` loads on demand from the `AUCTION_HOUSE_SHOW` arm, and three root fixes its Lua surfaced: `GetAuctionItemClasses()` is static — read at the addon's load, before any session, so the class tree is a login-scoped push; `SetAuctionCompareItem` (`0x535d70`) on the vendor compare's one body; `NEW_AUCTION_UPDATE` resets the create form; its dressing-room pane shares the app's one room (1971)
- the battleground keeps score: `WorldStateFrame.xml` loads off the chain and ours is deleted; the stock file is three things where ours was one: the readout, the capture bars, and the battleground scoreboard this client never had, built off wow-re's round — `MSG_PVP_LOG_DATA` both ways (throttled to 5000 ms client-side, `0x4aa170`) and `CMSG_LEAVE_BATTLEFIELD`; eleven score verbs over a board the app pushes, where the filter is a SORT, not a compaction — team first, killing blows descending, deaths ascending, honor descending, name — so the filtered count shrinks while `GetBattlefieldScore` still reaches every wire row; `HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE` joins the options uvar block, a capture point is a bar, and the scoreboard and battlefield-minimap toggles become bound specs at the install's own `SHIFT-SPACE`/`SHIFT-M` (1972)
- the trade skill and craft windows go stock as `Blizzard_TradeSkillUI`/`Blizzard_CraftUI` on demand, from the reference's own UIParent arms; our two transcriptions are deleted; the four item-link verbs are built off wow-re's carve on the client's link builder (`0x52adb0`) — zero values on any miss, `GetTradeSkillReagentItemLink` raising Blizzard's own typo'd Usage, kept, and `GetCraftItemLink` the `|Henchant:` link in fixed white; `SetTextColor`'s channels coerce nil to 0 on FontString, Font and Button where ours had raised (1973); and the Inspect, Talent, Macro and Raid addons load on demand — `benilla.toc` lists no `Interface\AddOns` row, and below level 10 the talent addon is never even loaded; the gates walk every reached addon and found `Blizzard_GMSurveyUI`'s four engine verbs nothing answers, reachable only through `GMSURVEY_DISPLAY`, which nothing fires (1889; 1967)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:59:04 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 058ca4b6c8 every dialog is the reference's own, and the trainer loads on demand
- every dialog is the reference's own: `StaticPopup.xml` + `StaticPopup.lua` load off the player's chain, and 0308's engine with its 37 dialogs leaves `UiPanels.xml`; all 76 of the reference's dialogs are the stock table's, 28 of which no file of ours had ever registered (the resurrect family among them); the nine hidden listener frames that existed only because benilla once had no `UIParent_OnEvent` come home to it verbatim from UIParent.lua, and the seven files that were nothing but a dialog and its driver are deleted; what the swap surfaced: the reference capitalises the countdown's unit word ("5 Minutes until release") where ours had lowercased it, and ESC in the typed delete confirm's box is swallowed — the entry names no escape handler; arms for events this engine never fires (PLAYER_SKINNED, TRADE_REQUEST) wait on their feeds rather than being armed blind (1960)
- the social window and the unit menus are the reference's own files: `FriendsFrame.xml` loads off the chain and our transcription is deleted — its twelve dialogs re-homed, `FRIENDLIST_SHOW` fired as the answer to an explicit `ShowFriends()`, and `Get`/`SetLookingForGroup` a client-side flag until their bodies are carved; `UnitPopup.xml` loads off the chain, our row catalogue and its driver frame go, and nine verbs are built for it — `HasFullControl` off the player-control flag the reference reads at `0x51a158`, `UnitPlayerOrPetInParty`/`InRaid` over a new unit owner, and the six pet one-shots, each pressing the bar's own reaction or command slot word through the same latch and `CMSG_PET_ACTION`, confirmed by wow-re's carve; the Guild Leave/Promote confirms 1958 believed nothing registered were our social file's all along, and the duplicate went with it (1958, 1959)
- the trainer loads on demand: our `TrainerFrame.xml` is deleted and no row replaces it — `Blizzard_TrainerUI` loads off the player's own chain through the reference's `ClassTrainerFrame_LoadUI`, and the LoadOnDemand `Blizzard_*` addons are registry rows read off the chain; the timing IS the mechanism: the list builder writes the state-filter mask to 3 on every `SMSG_TRAINER_LIST` (`0x4d75d9`) and the stock addon pushes its saved filters exactly once, on its own ADDON_LOADED — which fires on the session's first trainer, after that packet, so the saved filters win that open and an eager load would never have applied them; the loader holds an anchor to a sibling not built yet and applies it once the subtree exists; and `UNIT_FLAGS` fires only on a change between two snapshots — wow-re's trio found the per-field watch bridge runs no notify pass on the create leg, correcting 1953 (1957)
- the additive window, built and withdrawn the same hour: under `BLEND_ADD` every additive particle draw commutes with every other, so same-key additive draws can be regrouped exactly — built in the effect lane's merge walk and measured on the crowd rig (Stormwind, forty partybots): the adjacency merge already folds about half the effect items and the regroup found two more folds in a frame of ninety-three, so the pre-regroup walk is what runs; what stays: an `fx=` items/merged census on the FPS probe line, a `DRESS_PART` line per drawn part of the self body on the dress census, and the regression the A/B uncovered: 1948's stock chat migration dropped the drain's plain-line sender, so every `WOW_PROBE_CHAT` rig — the crowd rig's forty `.partybot add`s among them — had gone silent on the server; a probe's slash-less line reaches the wire as SAY again (1955)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:57:24 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 03c70a7035 the bag windows are the real 1.12 files, and /walk actually walks
- the bag windows are the reference's own `ContainerFrame.xml` running off the player's patch chain — decision 1751 makes the stock 1.12 UI off the install the end state and `assets/ui` scaffolding that retires file-by-file (86 files against the 99-file stock corpus, 72% of the 1128-function global surface already built) — via one ordered manifest, `benilla.toc`, where a bare name is a file we ship and an `Interface\FrameXML\` path is the player's own file; the windows on screen are `ContainerFrame1..12`, the bank's six copy-pasted popouts fold into them at ids 5..10, net −750 lines, and the swap forced real engine verbs into being rather than stubs (`SetBagPortaitTexture` with its id-0 no-texture arm, `GameTooltip:AppendText`, `SetButtonPulse`, and a `<Model>` whose file is the cooldown indicator materializing as the native sweep, which three corpus addons inherit)
- the 1.12 walk toggle lands: `TOGGLERUN` latches one bit with `ToggleRun`'s own silent refusal chain (dead, rooted, on a live server spline), and the walk animation was never missing at all — the flag reaches it through exactly one channel, the speed (`0x5fd100` picks Walk over Run on `speed > 2 × walkSpeed`); pinning it caught our remote extrapolator with the two min rungs backwards — `min(walk, run)` runs BEFORE the backward min, so a walking backpedaller moves at 2.5 yd/s where we would have played them the Run clip at 4.5 — and one shared `current_speed` now keeps the local controller and the extrapolator from ever disagreeing about it
- the instance and raid lockout messages exist — six packets that were dropped as unknown opcodes now land, four of them as the CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM lines the client composes itself, which is why no Lua handler ever surfaced them — plus `IsInInstance`, `ResetInstances`, and the unit popup's "Reset all instances" row behind the reference's own predicate; where the binary contradicts vmangos: the ownership flag means "any instance bind" but vmangos only ever names raid binds, so the row was dead for every character without a raid lockout — term 1 is now also satisfied by our own eyes, walking out of a party dungeon the server itself bound us to
- opening the world map showed 3D world at the sheet's margins: `BlackoutWorld` was parented to the very `UIParent` a fullscreen panel hides, and three more frames had crossed the same boundary — the shared dropdown lists (so the map's continent and zone pickers answered a click with nothing at all), the master-looter menu, and the screenshot confirmation, which could never appear during a cinematic; `frame_flag_gate` now checks the parent seat against the reference both ways a frame acquires one (the attribute, template-inherited included, and `<Frames>` nesting), and its first harvest took 30 divergences down to three accepted ones

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 20:17:25 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 c9fe3d7a48 the camera follows again, /errors opens the log, cmangos lets you in
- the camera auto-follow returns, as a setting: Camera Following Style on the Controls options page — Smart (the default), Always, Never — so after an orbit drag the camera swings back behind you while you run; far sight still forces the chase off
- broken addons announce themselves: world entry prints "3 addon load failures — type /errors to see them", and the `/errors` window lists every script error this session with its traceback — 256 deduplicated rows, repeats collapsing onto a count — while the five load-failure classes that only ever hit the terminal (missing .toc, unparseable FrameXML, dependency cycles…) finally get a channel
- B opens the backpack alone, SHIFT-B opens all bags, F8–F11 toggle the individual slots — the reference's six bag commands instead of one command wearing every chord; and the Skills page gets its CLOSE button, with the ALL fold in the row font
- cmangos-classic logons work: `CMSG_AUTH_SESSION` now carries the real client's twelve secure-addon records (342 bytes, compressing to 130) — an empty addon block is a shape no client can send, and cmangos kicks for it where vmangos shrugs; Warden-enabled anticheat remains a separate wall

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 18:10:06 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 0af70dc8c7 the paper doll animates again, and the char-select plaza stops pulsing
- the paper doll and the character-select stage animate again: a staged rig is fenced off the world's frustum parker, which had been freezing every booth half a second after its bake
- the char-select plaza stops pulsing dark and bright after a geared relog: the off-world lane now carries its authored batch order, so a ground decal and the street under it stop swapping on a sort tie re-broken every frame
- the perf HUD goes on a diet: two small numbers and a bare arrow, drawn from a 4 Hz snapshot instead of the live meters
- a missing file in a player's addon manifest logs WARN, not ERROR — a broken third-party package is the addon's defect, not the client's

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 19:04:09 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 8112f8dd16 addon art resolves: loose textures, TGA and the honest return
- an addon's own texture files resolve from its folder, TGA included, and SetTexture answers 1 or nil the way the client does — custom icons and skins draw
- runtime SetParent re-levels a frame by the client's strata law, and the raise survives hide-and-show round-trips — AtlasLoot layers right
- an addon that unregisters an event mid-fire no longer robs the next addon of the same event — Bagnon's per-character database fills again
- the Model widget's clock truncates milliseconds like the client's, and the no-text cast-bar law is confirmed at the bytes and narrowed to the cast bar alone

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 20:21:55 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 e665b0bfc4 script errors reach the player, and the bars stop lying
- an addon error shows the red script-error dialog the reference shows, and a runaway load loop can no longer freeze world entry
- food and drink show stack counts from the first login, and a paladin's aura bar lights the aura that is actually on
- logging out no longer erases the character from saved-bag addons: the player's absence is no data
- MPQ patches are discovered the way the client discovers them, and a slow arrival holds in place instead of falling through the world

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 19:32:44 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 047dd3444e the wheel binds, one AddOns screen, text at the true scale
- SetBinding accepts the mouse wheel — the refusal was ours, not the client's — so wheel-bound action buttons press and release like the real thing
- one addon load law: a single arbiter for "can this addon load, and why not", with the out-of-date version gate live
- one AddOns screen — the character-select list, wearing the authored reference layout: roster dropdown, per-character tri-state checkboxes, force-load; the ESC-menu panel is retired, since 1.12's own menu has no AddOns row
- the glyph atlas follows the window scale, so maximised text stops washing out and a title stops measuring wider than it draws; an unpositioned frame positions nothing, instead of landing at the screen origin

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 19:31:56 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 251daa14c5 addons come alive: Bagnon draws, hovers and clicks
- Lua 5.0's generic-for and nested long strings are restored in a forked VM — 60 corpus addons stopped dying on one deleted opcode
- a day of demand-driven carving takes the 218-addon corpus from 24 addons surviving a session start to 114, with 144 loading without a single error
- Bagnon draws a real bag and answers real gestures — hover tooltip, pickup, use, drag — because our frames wear the reference's names, and the reference's own ContainerFrame.lua runs off the player's install instead of being transcribed
- the physics broad phase leaves: nothing in the client reads a contact, and it was measured at up to 41% of main-thread samples in real sessions

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 18:19:08 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 b5bc569156 the addon arc: the AddOns folder opens
- benilla loads real 1.12 addons from Interface/AddOns — TOC, XML and Lua through one loader, with per-addon saved variables, Bindings.xml and the lifecycle events addons expect
- both AddOns screens are in: the character-select list with per-addon enable state, and the ESC menu's in-game list
- the API surface is measured, not guessed — a corpus harness runs hundreds of real 1.12 addons and ranks exactly which globals, templates and verbs they demand
- the Lua dialect is the client's own, read off the binary — 5.0 semantics with the 1.12 additions, and UI source files are bytes, not UTF-8

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 18:18:31 +07:00