- the transcription had dropped parent= on 72 declarations the reference carries (37 to UIParent, 28 to the action bar's art frame, 7 more), so the HUD was a field of top-level frames and UIParent:Hide() reached almost nothing — which is why a cinematic had to hide the UI at the draw level and then special-case the pointer; both workarounds are deleted and the HUD hides through the reference's own route; restoring only the UIParent half would have been the dangerous part (draw order is one flat sort, so a partial restore lifts frames over the neighbours they carry), and manifest order turns out to be load-bearing — a parent name that doesn't exist yet is silently ignored, so UIParent.xml moves to the reference's own slot with a test that fails if anything declares a child first; the chat still drew over a fly-by after all that, because the reference parents the chat windows on their TEMPLATE, invisible to a name-for-name diff when both sides rename — two declarations fix it, and the sweep that replaces the method loads the whole shipped manifest, fires CINEMATIC_START and asserts the survivors are exactly three: 91 frames visible before, 3 after, and the count comes back on stop
- every cinematic boundary cuts through the reference's 0.25 s fade to black, and the next step hangs on the fade's COMPLETION, not a delay — the shot boundary is exactly where the reference does a blocking terrain load, so a delay-driven cut shows through a hitch and a completion-driven one cannot; and a fly-by now ends into black instead of a ~0.3 s loading cover: the reference raises no cover on that path, it holds black while the ground under the player loads back, so ours holds black while the stream catches up — budgeted, never an unbounded wait
- the death arc keeps its promises across a relog: the body's own state machine now dies with the session — re-entering the world as a ghost used to match no arm of the world-edge machine, so the corpse query never went out and "Resurrect Now" stayed down until the next death; and a corpse wears its owner's guild crest — the corpse descriptor carries the guild field and resolves through the same crest cache a living tabard does, where ours dressed the body crestless
- the char-select ghost gets its body kit: the screen resolves the state kit of the very "Ghost" aura a released ghost rides in the world — tint (140,185,253), alpha 0.5, and the Ghost_state wisp model at the body's attach point, pinned by a golden that decodes the row out of the shipped DBC; the airborne model is corrected before its fix lands — the address six comments called the gravity integrator is really the fall-velocity query, and a knockback is unsteerable because its launch PLANTS the forward bit, not because the arc is airborne (our guard was a velocity proxy, so a near-zero-speed knockback steered from frame 2); and the hover inspect card now decodes a picked part's mesh tag — alpha, rig slot, and both readings of the lighting payload side by side — turning a rebuild-and-two-probes hunt into a hover
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- GM tickets, end to end: five request/answer pairs, the seven Help-window bindings, three events and `GMTicketCategory.dbc` — the ten categories `HelpFrame.lua` keys 1..10 live in a DBC nothing here had ever opened (the four `TICKET_TYPE` strings feed a dropdown 1.12 never gave a frame); the category is one byte on the wire (a u32 would shift the map id and position and file every ticket at a garbage spot), and `UPDATETEXT` carries it too, which vmangos stores and cmangos swallows as the first character of the text — faithful to the client, the divergence recorded
- the engine re-asks for the ticket after a create or update succeeds and on a status push (the ask opcode has three callers in the reference, two of them engine legs with no idempotence guard) — which is why the shipped FrameXML registers no handler for the three response opcodes and still repaints; without that leg the form stays a form for ten minutes; `UPDATE_GM_STATUS` is a signed passthrough (`0xFFFFFFFF` → −1), the five ticket verbs drain through one ordered queue because call order is wire order, and the Help micro button — drawn, hovering and a no-op since the micro menu landed — is live
- a typed wrong password reads the reference's long "check the spelling of the account name and password" (0x04 and 0x05 share one jump-table arm — the client cannot say "wrong password", and the lockout cmangos's header describes does not exist in the binary), unknown codes read "Disconnected from server" rather than "Authentication failed", and every realmd row of the old map was in the wrong one: the two login-status enums have two key tables and two dialog paths, and a server source can only ever verify the codes, never which string the client draws for them
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the one shared region table splits into the client's own maps: a Texture no longer answers SetText, a FontString no longer answers SetTexture, and feature-detecting addons see the true surface
- CreateTitleRegion lands whole — object and drag — so an options window that is its own drag handle actually moves
- font-object names resolve whatever their case, and the CursorUpdate/CursorOnUpdate pair arrives for the container-item templates
- GetStringHeight is pruned (1.12 has no such method) and SetPortraitToTexture moves to the global it really is
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- the workspace pointed at third_party/lua-src (the Lua 5.1 fork the addon VM builds on) and the export left that folder behind — every build of today's snapshots broke at dependency resolution
- third_party/ now ships, and the sync gained a gate that refuses to publish an export that does not resolve as a cargo workspace
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- 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>
- every rebindable key runs through one chord-to-command engine, set in the era Key Bindings window, and buttons show their real keys
- a spell aimed at the ground sends its projectile to that spot, arcing to the point instead of a target
- a pet ordered onto something it can't attack refuses cleanly, and its frame shows the happiness face read from the client's own data
- a window's tabs clamp to the drawn edge and highlight exactly where they sit
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the pet gets its own unit frame beside yours, and an Attack order no longer latches as the standing command
- five rooms that always read bone dry hold their water now, the Deeprun Tram's flooded stretches among them
- macros fire through the client's own chat door, and the macro window fits its tabs and scrolls its icon chooser
- the options window grows a Nameplates page and its first dropdown, and the name-display switches apply live in the world
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