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gromandClaude Opus 5 e15a415da9 securecallfunction, because modern libraries upvalue it at load time
The stitched map never said which zone you were looking at — from about zoom 3.5 to 10
there is no zone name anywhere on screen, which is the band a player pans around in.
Wiring up a port file that draws them took the addon corpus's "survived a UI probe" column
from 86/87 to 85/87, and the failure was not in the new file:

    OpenMapClassic/Libs/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:19:
    attempt to call upvalue `securecallfunction' (a nil value)

Ace3's modern `CallbackHandler` takes `local securecallfunction = securecallfunction` on
its line 10 and calls it for **every handler of every event**, so the first callback any
addon shipping a post-2022 Ace fires raises. Nothing had fired one before, because
OpenMap's whole callback surface was dead for an unrelated reason until tonight.

1.12 has no taint, so there is nothing here to make secure — but the half of the contract
that is not about taint is the half library code leans on: it is a **protected** call, so
one raising handler does not stop the registry walking the rest. `securecallfunction`,
`securecall` (which also takes a global's name), `issecure` and `forceinsecure` go beside
`seterrorhandler` in `stdlib.rs`, with failures reaching `geterrorhandler()` exactly as the
reference's own secure dispatch does, so an addon bug still lands in the log rather than
being swallowed. Back to 86/87.

`the_rest_of_the_bare_globals` asserted these ABSENT, on the reasoning that the restricted
-execution system has no 1.12 counterpart and nothing here implements it. That was half
right; the half it missed is above, so the assertion is inverted with the measurement
written beside it — the same shape `hooksecurefunc` already has one line below.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-04 21:56:17 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 65520a4a58 The map's darkening was a grid of grey boxes, and a 12 px string was emptying the glyph sheet
grom, after a night's play: "make the map look a lot nicer, it would be really nice if the
darkened areas were not just massive squares on the map, and should fit into the actual
edges of the terrian if that makes sense, also I shouldn't see this dark squares on the
fully zoomed out world map, also make it so the world map can't move out of the frame."

**The darkening.** OpenMapClassic washed a never-visited zone through its land mask, and
those masks are Voronoi-dilated by construction — "so that the forty of them tile each
continent with no gap" — so for any zone that is not on a coast the mask *is* the
rectangle. Measured at zoom 2.5 over the Eastern Kingdoms: a grid of flat grey boxes.
Nothing could have been softened into a fix; it was the wrong mask. It was also drawn at
full strength from every zoom, and at the whole-world view the zones' own art is not drawn
at all, so the only thing on the world map was the fog's rectangles.

A land mask for every map now comes from the client's own data. `bake_zone_land` unions a
map's `WorldMapOverlay` alpha — the pieces the game reveals as you explore, cut to the
shape of the ground — into one 256×256 mask; `overlay-land-index.py` writes the list the
addon reads, because Lua cannot test for a file and a *missing* mask is dropped by the
engine so the whole rectangle draws, which is the defect itself. 53 maps have overlays
(the 40 stock zones, Hyjal, Alterac Valley and 11 of the realm's own); 76 have none and
keep a wide feather. `clip-zone-masks-to-coast.py` then takes the open sea off the dilated
sheet masks — the same dilation was painting parchment out on the ocean — by closing the
continent's own land by 500 yards (above the 466-yard inradius of the widest enclosed gap,
so seams fill and the sea does not) and keeping a 300-yard coastal margin. Twelve
landlocked zones lose 0.0%; Darkshore loses 53%, all of it water.

`tga.rs` gains the writer that needed, `script::uimap` and `ui_world_map::build_catalog`
become public so an example can reach the uiMapID graph, and `WorldMapUiData` grows the
accessor so the VM push and an outside caller cannot build different lists.

**The glyph sheet.** His four-minute session reset it 27 times, each dropping every cached
glyph. The producer is Atlas-CFM's cursor coordinate readout: a 12 px FontString on
`WorldMapDetailFrame`, rewritten every frame, and the canvas zooms by scaling that frame —
140 device px a digit at a canvas scale of 6.9. Nothing about the addon is wrong, so the
fix is ours: `raster_ppem` rasterizes exactly up to 64 device px and snaps to a
third-octave ladder above it, with `cell()` scaling the cached bitmap and metrics left
keyed on the true ppem, so advances and `GetStringWidth` are bit-for-bit unchanged. Same
1,200-frame reproduction: 3 resets and 6,623 rasters before, **0 and 1,424** after, with
occupancy climbing once to 30% and stopping. A reset no longer clears the metric cache
either, and `note_loud_cell` names the string that asked for an outsized cell.

**Four more from the same log.** `SetOwner`'s unknown-anchor line named a forwarding
wrapper rather than the addon that chose the anchor (two `debugstack` frames now); the nine
reference anchor names are written down with the binary evidence, because `ANCHOR_TOP` is
not one of them. The `CreateFrame(kind, …, inherits=<other kind>)` warning fired in both
directions and only one drops content — `kind_subsumes` makes it directional, and
`type_chain` moves out of `install` so `IsObjectType` and the loader read one table. A
string that is not UTF-8 now names the Lua line that cut it, and both glyph warnings quote
the string the character came out of. The three world-map CVars stay unregistered, with the
argument written down beside `REGISTERED` so it is not re-litigated from the warning.

**`World.zmp`.** The realm's `WorldMapArea` carries a third `areaID == 0` row, `694 World`,
with an all-zero rect; the reference ships no bitmap for it and neither the graph nor the
realm's own `Overrides.lua` lets it reach a player. The miss is a `debug!` line now, and
the `warn!` is kept for a continent that *has* a rectangle and is missing its bitmap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-04 21:16:20 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 ee125519f1 The map arrow pointed the wrong way wherever the player was not
`UpdateWorldMapArrowFrames` (`0x4a8d10`, `0x4a7c20`) copies the camera-tracked object's
facing to both arrows and leaves them alone when there is no such object. Ours tested "is
there a player" with `WorldMapState::player_uv.is_some()` — a different question, because
that field is `GetPlayerMapPosition` on the **displayed** map. A view sitting on a
continent, on another zone, or on an addon's stitched world answers `None` on every frame,
so the arrow kept the heading it had when the window last sat on the player's own zone: the
right place, pointing the wrong way.

`player_facing_seen` is the real test, set the first time the feed pushes a facing — the
feed runs only where there is a player, and the facing it pushes is unconditional. The
existing test asserted the old behaviour on its second leg; that leg now asserts the
heading following off the displayed map, and a new test holds the other half (before any
feed, the login and loading screens, the arrow is left alone).

`scripts/soften-zone-masks.py` is for the OpenMapClassic port rather than the client: its
per-zone land masks are binary, so every map sheet ends on a crisp line against a
differently-lit neighbour. It writes a softened copy — dilate, blur, times a rect ramp that
reaches zero inside the sheet's own torn parchment border, which is the half that is not
obvious.

`docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md` writes up this round's five: the flashing arrow (two writers on one
frame, measured `h h S h h S`), why correcting after 1.12 rather than suppressing it cost a
full UI conversion every frame, pfQuest's pins being both behind the map and only ever for
one zone, the softened masks, and the cities.

Gates: fmt 0, clippy 0, benilla-ui 2121 pass / 0 fail, benilla-app 4233 pass / 12 fail (the
recorded data-golden baseline). Corpus 86/87 load clean, 86/87 survive a session start and
a UI probe, 0 raised on hover, click or drag — unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-04 17:00:14 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 841fd1a81f Two map verbs disagreed about where the player was
`UnitState::position` was fed from a streamed object's `Transform` read raw, and a
`Transform` is Bevy's frame (`wow_to_bevy` is `(-y, z, -x)`): the two map axes arrived
swapped and negated and the third was the player's height. Three compat verbs answer
from that field — SuperWoW's `UnitPosition`, UnitXP_SP3's `getUnitPosition`, and
`C_Map.GetPlayerMapPosition` — while 1.12's own `GetPlayerMapPosition` reads the
per-frame world-map feed, which converts. So the client sat in a state no real client
can be in: the 1.12 verb placing the arrow and the modern verb saying the player was on
no map at all.

Against a zone's few-thousand-yard rect the height lands outside 0..1, so the modern
verb answered nil — which is OpenMapClassic's "You aren't on the world map here" and
`Map/StockArrow.lua` declining to place anything, leaving 1.12's wrong placement
standing. Against a continent's sixteen thousand it lands inside, and answers a
plausible wrong fraction. Both of grom's reports, one cause. Distance was the one read
this never broke, the transform being rigid.

Measured in a capture with the player at Northshire: `UnitPosition` now answers
(-8980, -160, 110), `C_Map.GetPlayerMapPosition(1415)` and the 1.12 verb agree to seven
places, Elwynn answers a fraction and Dun Morogh correctly answers nil; and with the
view centred on the player's own world point the arrow lands on the container's centre
to a third of a pixel.

A capture could not have shown any of this — its synthetic player carried no position,
so every reader answered nil there. `demo_unit_feed` now publishes the capture's own
parking spot, at the cost of one ambiguous pair written up at the ceiling.

Also here, from the same play test:

  * A canvas zoom now tells the two 1.12 frames their scale moved, with their own scale,
    which is the only way a 1.12 map addon can hear it. pfQuest counter-scales its pins
    inside that hook; the canvas scales its child, so the hook never fired and the pins
    kept the size they were built at. Measured 0 -> 24 `pfMap.ResizeNodes` over one
    glide from 8x to 30x.

  * `CLASSIC_API_VERSION` says 1.18.0, at grom's ask. The DLL beside the real client
    reads 1.15.0.0 and nothing in his folder gates above pfUI's 11400 nag threshold, so
    the trade is the one that constant has always named and the floor is unchanged.

The addon-side half is in `Addon_Ports/openmap_port`: `unexploredMode` defaults to
`reveal`, with the one-shot migration this addon already uses for the kind. A 1.12 zone
sheet is blank parchment and every scrap of terrain is an overlay the client hands out
only where explored, while a city sheet has no overlays at all — which is the whole of
"it will only paint the actual map art for cities".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-04 14:17:39 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 d5beabab42 The map's mouse surface shrank with the zoom, and four things fell through the hole
The canvas gave the map no mouse surface of its own, on the reasoning that 1.12's
`WorldMapButton` covers the same rect and sits above it. The button is pinned INSIDE the canvas
child, so it scales with it: measured at the world view with OpenMapClassic driving, at grom's
own 2560x1440, a 23x16 px button inside a 701x468 px window. Every press on the other 99%
reached the next frame that takes the mouse — `WorldMapFrame`, which pfUI makes a
`RegisterForDrag("LeftButton")` handle for the whole window. So dragging the map moved the
window, and a click never reached `ProcessCanvasClickHandlers`, which is the only way a map pin
is ever dropped.

The container takes the mouse and the wheel now and drives the same controller. The frame level
mattered as much: the hit sweep probes one `(strata, level)` plane in link order and a parent is
linked before its children (`0x764aa0`), so a container tied with `WorldMapFrame` still lost
every press to its own parent. It is re-seated to `map:GetFrameLevel() + 1` on every show,
because the window is level 0 while the canvas builds and level 1 once `ShowUIPanel` has raised
it.

With the click arriving, a pin still stored nothing: `Map/Pins.lua:57` trims the note with
`strtrim`, which was deliberately absent. `script/stdlib.rs` still refuses it on the 1.12
surface, for the reason written there; this build claims ClassicAPI, whose client does have it,
so it lands in `compat/classic_api/string_trim.rs` with both spellings. Eight bare call sites in
the corpus, one of them in pfUI's search box on every keystroke.

`SCALE_RATE` 10 -> 24. A 0.7 s half-life was tolerable only while a wheel notch could not
accumulate; now that they add up the glide is what you feel ("scrolls past where I stop
scrolling").

`BenillaMapTextures(uiMapID)` is `GetExploredMapTextures` without the explored filter. Reveal
mode draws unexplored overlays out of a retail FileDataID table this client resolves none of —
captured with the fog default and with reveal, the same view came back pixel-identical, 0 by
`compare -metric AE`. The overlays were never missing, only their names: `Map/RevealFromClient.lua`
in `Addon_Ports/openmap_port` rebuilds the table from this, with paths.

Also in the port, not here: the arrow is placed through OpenMap's own coordinates, because
1.12 measures `GetPlayerMapPosition` against Blizzard's world and continent art and the stitched
map is a different projection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-04 09:34:00 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 a32963b3f8 Find the frame that was eating every map click, and the realm LibStub behind it
A real pointer at the middle of the world map reached nothing: a hook on
`WorldMapButton`'s `OnMouseDown` counted 0 hits from a real click although the
button was shown, mouse-enabled and held the point. A Lua walk of every visible
mouse-enabled frame containing that point answered with exactly one frame, and
it was an unnamed 700x500 `FULLSCREEN_DIALOG` child of `UIParent` — AceGUI's
default container, carrying the title "SoftSpoken Stories" and no content. The
blank login popup grom has reported twice was parked over the centre of the
screen swallowing the map's clicks. One frame, both defects.

`hit_test_name` had been printing `<nothing>` there all along: it answers `None`
for an unnamed frame. Ask what holds the point, not what it is called.

The window is left shown because `AceGUI:Create` shows a container on acquire
and `self.frame:Hide()` is the last line of a `pcall`ed build step, so anything
raising in between leaves it up. The recorded reason was
`AceGUI-3.0.lua:282: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'argc'`, and the
cause is the realm's own
`Interface\FrameXML\AIO\Dep_LibWindow-1.1\LibStub.lua`, loaded by its
`FrameXML.toc:162` before any addon, which hardcodes `minor = 2` where upstream
parses it — 1.12's Lua 5.0 has no `strmatch`. Every library therefore registers
as minor 2 and the first copy loaded keeps it, while `RegisterWidgetType` still
upgrades individual widgets by their real version: an Ace3v core
(`Fire(self,name,argc,…)`) hosting modern widgets (`Fire(self,name,…)`), whose
first payload value lands in `argc`.

Client side, one real divergence came out of it: `string.split` answered a table,
because BigWigs' `Plugins/SpellRequests.lua` defines `function string:split` and
never calls it, while Ace3's `AceConfigDialog-3.0` and `TreeGroup` both spell
`("\001"):split(uniquevalue)`. `string.split` is now `strsplit` — same function,
same argument order — in the beyond-1.12 string family, with a test pinning the
Ace3 call shape and the arity.

Also: `Step::Drag` moved the cursor eight times without advancing a frame, and a
canvas pans from its `OnUpdate`. It now ticks per move, and the same drag walks
0.5000,0.5000 -> 0.7582,0.3073 -> 0.5080,0.5161 — exactly what driving
`OnMouseDown` by hand produced. The frame between the moves is the gesture.

Four worth recording as dead ends, each of which looked like a client bug: a
verbatim replica of the LibStub file registers correctly; `strfind(34,"(%d+)")`
coerces the number and captures `34` as the reference does; the live function's
`getfenv` is `_G` with every global correct; and a known-good `NewLibrary`
installed on the live table stores the right value. `debug` is absent here, so
the way to ask a Lua function where it came from is to make it raise.

Addon-side edits (gitignored live copies, mirrored to Addon_Ports): the `Fire`
arity shim in both Ace3v AceGUI copies, `issecretvalue` guarded in
OpenMapClassic's vendored Heading widget the way its own Core.lua guards it, and
BigWigs' unused `string:split` removed.

Verified: SoftSpoken `initializationErrors` 0 and `shown=0` at login, nothing
over the map, `--drag` pans it, all three registered options tables open clean
(MasterTradeSkills 4 labels, OpenMapClassic 83, SpokenQuests 6), tabs switch
pages with no raise, session errors 0. fmt and clippy clean; benilla-ui 2119
pass; benilla-app 12 failures, the recorded pre-existing data-golden baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-03 20:33:53 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 b7a8e1c406 ui: a Slider answers SetEnabled, because OpenMap's options tab called it unguarded
Rendering a panel is not the same as it working. OpenMap's options menu
opens 500x500 with 104 frames and 49 placed labels, and its Look tab
died on click: Map/Panel.lua:1084, attempt to call method SetEnabled (a
nil value) -- so a third of its options was unreachable.

SetEnabled is already composed here for Button, CheckButton, EditBox and
LootButton, and was deliberately withheld from a Slider, because addons
duck-type on the enabled family to tell a control from a bar. What they
duck-type on is the TRIO (if widget.IsEnabled then), that is what
tests/slider.rs pins, and the trio is still absent; SetEnabled is beyond
1.12 by construction, so a Slider answering it invents no 1.12
behaviour. OpenMapClassic calls it unguarded on every options row with a
condition, which is what settles it.

On a Slider it writes the mouse -- input refused, art not greyed, which
1.12 has no slot for; the caller dims it itself on the next line. The
argument goes through GetBoolOrDefault, not Lua truthiness, because
DoiteAuras writes SetEnabled(ok and 1 or 0) and 0 is truthy in Lua.

Also records a count that was wrong until checked: grep says 39 calls
across five addons, but AdvancedTradeSkillWindow2 and SoftSpoken define
their own SetEnabled and SoftSpoken's slider row is fully guarded. The
real unguarded widget calls are OpenMap's three and DoiteAuras' two --
and SoftSpoken's blank settings page is NOT this, and is still open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-03 19:34:52 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 6c01be926d map: a map's rect on another map describes art, not a click box
C_Map.GetMapRectOnMap answered, for a continent on the world sheet, the
world-level CLICK box -- continent_sheet_rect over the WorldMapContinent
tile bounds, which trace the landmass. That is the reference's own
0x4a5d00 and right for what 1.12 uses it for; the two boxes are disjoint
so a world-level click can tell the continents apart.

It is the wrong answer for art. A continent's map is a 1002x668 sheet
with the land inside it and ocean around, so its art rect is 792x528 px
on the world where its click box is 300x564. Every 1.12 WorldMapArea
rect is 3:2, because every sheet is, and the click box is 0.355 of that.
A zone's rect on its continent was already a yard un-lerp and correct,
so the error entered once and multiplied through every zone: Dun Morogh
landed 42x79 where its art is 1002x668. A stitched world built on that
draws each zone a third as wide as it should be, which is why the canvas
was grey between the zoom steps.

map_proj::continent_art_rect carries the continent's own WorldMapArea
rect through world_uv, the projection a position on it already takes.
The view keeps both rects; the Era map graph publishes the art one.
Measured after: EK, Kalimdor, Dun Morogh and Elwynn all 1.500. Rendered:
the zone view stitches its neighbours in, zoom 3 is the continent with
its zones, zoom 1 is the world sheet. The stock 1.12 map is unchanged.

Three instruments came with it and are kept: $WOW_CAPTURE_EVAL, a chunk
run in a capture's VM at the shutter; $WOW_CAPTURE_EXPLORED, so a
stitched map's fog can be ruled out in one run; and a named warning for
a UI texture that is not in the chain, which is what refuted the other
hypothesis -- a grep said the addon's art was missing, a real render
asked for zero missing files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-03 16:42:09 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 abb4dc1dd3 ui: a Slider's thumb had no rect, so no scrollbar could be skinned or seen
"Half of the info on the right is out of the frame" was a scroll frame with
699 of content in a 451 window, a scroll range of 228, and a scrollbar
with nothing on it. The thumb's rect was only ever computed inside the
draw pass and never published: the region sweep skips anchor-less regions
and a thumb is anchor-less by construction, because its slider places it.

That is invisible until something anchors to the thumb, and pfUI does --
SkinScrollbar clears the stock knob and hangs its own off the thumb's two
corners, so every pfUI-skinned scrollbar in the interface was a bare
track, which is a scroll frame that silently cannot be scrolled.

The thumb is on the layout roster now, survives the unanchored prune, and
carries its slider's (vertical, fraction) in its node hash -- without the
last one a named touch moved no hash and seeded nothing, which
WOW_LAYOUT_VERIFY caught as an incremental pass disagreeing with a full
derivation. The draw pass keeps computing its own rect: extract takes
&self and cannot resolve, so a SetValue with no resolve behind it still
has to draw where the value now is.

map: the window has two layouts and the canvas only knew the maximized one

Pressing maximize left the art a 1002x668 patch in a full-screen window
and minimize could not put it back, because the container was anchored
once at build to WorldMapPositioningGuide TOP -502,-69 -- 1.12's
maximized anchor against a fixed 1024x768 guide. Read as insets instead
(15/4/33/20 windowed, 10/12/69/31 maximized) the same numbers reproduce
1.12 at 1.12's sizes and fit any other window, which is also the left-edge
bleed: -502 against a guide stretched to pfUI's 1017-wide window starts
the art 6.5 px in, not 10.

The zoom ladder's floor follows: it was the constant 1, true only while
the container was the art's own size, and is the measured fit now. A view
outside a rebuilt ladder is pulled onto its nearest end, since ZoomIn and
ZoomOut walk it by value -- OpenMapClassic's whole ladder sits below ours.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-03 14:27:51 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 5e2f1f3ac8 ui: SetClipsChildren, the verb an addon asked for by name and was refused in silence
Era's map canvas is built on one verb this client did not have. Its `ScrollContainer` is a plain
Frame with `SetClipsChildren(true)`, and everything below it is cropped to that rect.
`assets/ui/MapCanvas.lua` substituted a real ScrollFrame, because this client crops a ScrollFrame's
scroll child and every descendant of it — which covers the canvas and nothing parented to the
container beside it. On Era that distinction does not exist, so an addon has no reason to respect
it.

OpenMapClassic parents its pin layer exactly there and asks for the verb by name, behind an `if`
(`Map/Stitch.lua:1070`), so the absence was not a raise. Measured on grom's own config with the map
open: the container sits at L=1151 R=2153 and its seventeen direct children span L=-765 R=2153 —
about 1900 units off the left edge, cropped by nothing.

Implemented as a frame flag with `SetClipsChildren`/`DoesClipChildren` and the `clipChildren` XML
attribute; `effective_clip` now intersects the rect of every ancestor that sets it alongside the
ScrollFrame rule, so the two nest and compose. An ancestor rather than the frame itself: the verb
clips a frame's children, and stock art overhangs its own frame on purpose. `MapCanvas.lua` sets it
on the container too, so a layer parked there is cropped whether or not its addon thought to ask.

Not claimed as the whole of grom's map report: the screenshot behind it has not been reproduced
offline, because a capture's view is not the view his session was in. This is the part that was
provably drawing uncropped.

Also here, both from the same play-test:

- `C_Spell.CancelSpellByID` answered with `SpellStopCasting` only. pfUI's buff bar cancels with it
  on a right click where 1.12's calls `CancelPlayerBuff`, so with nothing in flight the click did
  nothing and said nothing — grom had never been able to right-click a buff off on this client. It
  now finds the id among the player's own auras and queues it on the same CMSG_CANCEL_AURA path,
  behind the same `cancel_authorized` gate, and falls through to the cast only when there is no
  such aura.

- `$WOW_CAPTURE_SAVED=<Realm>-<Character>` points a capture at a player's own saved variables. A
  capture is hermetic by design, but with addons and no saved variables it renders an interface
  nobody is configured to be looking at — which is why the world map came out correct in a capture
  while being wrong on his screen. It doubles as the identity because a capture never logs in and
  `pfUI_config` is SavedVariablesPerCharacter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-03 09:46:32 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 5ed9dded4c map: the Continent and Zone pickers were blank on the first map of a session
The realm's `WorldMapFrame.xml` fills them from exactly one place: the Zone
dropdown's `<OnEvent>` on `WORLD_MAP_UPDATE` (:321), which re-runs both
pickers' initialisers and then the two `WorldMap_Update*DropDownText`
functions. That dropdown registers the event in its own `<OnShow>` (:318 —
the realm commented the `OnLoad` out and moved it there), while
`WorldMapFrame`'s own `<OnShow>` fires it through `SetMapToCurrentZone()`
(:711), and a parent's OnShow runs before its children's. So the inline event
landed in a gap where its only listener did not exist yet. Measured through the
addon harness: the Zone dropdown answers `IsEventRegistered` nil before the
open and 1 immediately after, and the pickers come up blank on the first map
and correct on the second — which is what grom's recording shows, blank over
Dun Morogh and filled over Elwynn later in the same clip.

`SetMapToCurrentZone` now queues a second `WORLD_MAP_UPDATE` on the deferred
lane as well as firing the inline one. The inline fire stays: it is what
repaints the detail tiles inside the OnShow rather than a frame later (the
world-map flash). Only this verb doubles up, and only this verb needs to —
`SetMapZoom` is a click on a map that is already open.

The first attempt at this was reverted and the reason is in the test's own
comment: its pin opened the real map on the shipped interface and passed with
*and* without the fix, because the stock ordering happens to be fine and the
symptom needs the addons. The pin that replaced it asserts the engine half
directly — a handler that registers after `SetMapToCurrentZone` returns still
receives the event — and answers 0 without the change and 1 with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 21:57:07 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 36f504820d ui: GetCursorPosition answered 0,0, so nothing could drag or size a frame
`Model::cursor_pos` is read by the verb in two places and was written by
nothing in the workspace: declared, initialised to the origin, never assigned.
So `GetCursorPosition()` answered `0, 0` for every call of every session.

That kills the universal drag-and-size idiom — stamp the cursor on
`OnMouseDown`, subtract it each `OnUpdate`, size by the difference. Every
delta came out zero, the frame was re-anchored to its own current size sixty
times a second while the player dragged, and the addon's own "that was a click,
not a drag" guard then declined to save. Nothing raises and nothing logs.

grom reported it twice as OpenMapClassic's map window refusing to resize; the
round before this one painted its invisible grips and left this underneath.

Fed in `ui_script/input.rs` beside `set_mouse_buttons`, for the reason that
one states: the pointer feed below is skipped for a cursor off the window and
for a UI hidden by TOGGLEUI, and the reference answers through both. UI units,
y-up from the bottom-left, undivided — UIParent is scale 1 here, so an addon's
`x / frame:GetEffectiveScale()` lands in the frame's own units as on the
reference. The test pins the whole idiom rather than the getter, because the
getter answering *something* was never the question.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 21:15:38 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 c93a0be93f ui: a nameplate now carries the unit token its own event names
`plate.namePlateUnitToken` was set on nothing. It is how every later-era plate addon gets from a
frame back to its unit — `plate.namePlateUnitToken or (plate.UnitFrame and plate.UnitFrame.unit)`,
six sites in `Cinematic/Effects.lua` and `PlateParts.lua` alone — so an addon walking
`C_NamePlate.GetNamePlates()` had a frame's rect and nothing about its unit, and could not tell a
friendly plate from a hostile one.

The measured symptom was grom's friendly nameplates switching themselves on the moment CineMode
started, on a profile whose every friendly-plate box is unticked. That CVar write is the addon's
and it is deliberate: outside instances Cinematic switches every plate kind on so visibility is
decided by *fading* instead, because fades can change in a fight and plate settings cannot. Having
switched them all on, it then faded none of them, because it could not identify one.

The token already existed — `script/nameplate.rs` has had the slot-bound `nameplate<N>` tokens and
the three plate events since the pool was built. All that was missing was publishing the slot's
token on the frame: set before `NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED` and cleared after `NAME_PLATE_UNIT_REMOVED`,
so a handler for either event reads the field that event is about, and a pooled frame reused for
the next unit cannot answer the departed one's token.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 14:51:37 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 6e8c4488e1 ui: the override-binding family exists and says what it does not do
`ClearOverrideBindings` was absent outright, so `Cinematic/Camera.lua:470` raised in grom's chat on
every camera shot that ended — and a raise mid-handler costs the rest of the handler, not just the
line.

These are 2.0's secure-binding layer: a second, unsaved binding table a frame owns, outranking the
saved one while that frame wants it and dropped whole by `ClearOverrideBindings(owner)`. This client
models the saved table only (`script/keybind.rs`), so:

- the five setters are no-ops that **warn once each** through the script warning channel. Silence
  was the alternative and it is the worse one — a setter that quietly binds nothing is the same
  class of fault as a hook that quietly arms nothing, and the caller cannot find out.
- `ClearOverrideBindings` is a plain no-op and does not warn. Dropping a table that was never filled
  *is* nothing, and warning there would fire on every `ClearRecast()` while the player does nothing
  unusual.

The module header lists what a real layer needs — an override table keyed by owner in `Model`, a
generation bump for `bindings.rs`'s `sync_dispatch`, an override arm in `BindingDispatch::map` that
wins over the saved chord, and a `Bound::Click` — together with the `SecureHandler*` half in
`secure.rs`, which is the same table seen from inside a snippet and no-op for the same reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 14:17:55 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 bb2e40d1dd ui: GetDebugName, the name an unnamed frame still answers
`Cinematic/Frames.lua:3734` is `entry.name or entry.frame:GetDebugName()` — an addon that keeps a
list of frames reaches for this precisely because some of them have no name, which is the one case
`GetName` cannot serve. With the method absent, `/cine debug frame <name>` raised on the first
unnamed row in the list instead of printing the row the player asked for.

On all three method tables, since the era puts it on ScriptObject. A named frame answers its name,
so a feature test on it learns nothing a 1.12 client would answer differently. The unnamed leg
deviates in its fallback only: it walks the parent's own fields for the key the child is stored
under (frames here are plain tables, so `parent.icon = tex` is visible) and answers
`Parent.<unnamed>` when there is none, where the era answers an index among the parent's children —
an index here would be the order of a list this client does not keep, and a wrong number reads
worse than an honest absence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 14:17:44 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 09aca72c46 ui: hooksecurefunc over a widget method has to read through the metatable
The table form read the field with `raw_get`, on the reasoning that a field
reached only through a metatable is not that table's to replace. A widget
carries none of its own methods — they live on the shared class table its
metatable's `__index` names (`object.rs`'s `frame_meta_for`) — so
`hooksecurefunc(frame, "SetAlpha", cb)` found nothing there and armed nothing,
silently. Measured: **0 fires across 2 `SetAlpha` calls**, while the plain-table
and global forms fired correctly.

That is not a corner of the form, it is what the form is for. 29 files in grom's
corpus hook a widget method, and the one that shows: `Cinematic/Frames.lua:459`
hooks each pfUI frame's own `SetAlpha` so that Cinematic can **follow** pfUI's
out-of-combat fade rather than fight it ("their frames have SetAlpha followed
straight away by ours, taking what it set as the new base"). With the hook
unarmed the two wrote a different alpha to the same frame on alternating frames
— which is grom's "still flashing my unitframe when cinematic is on".

The reference reads `table[name]` plainly and assigns the wrapper back, which
*shadows* the class method for that one object and leaves its siblings alone.
This now does the same: read through `__index`, write raw onto the host, which
is the same thing a plain assignment would do since frame metatables carry no
`__newindex`. A test pins both halves — the chain fires on the hooked frame, and
a sibling of the same kind is untouched, with nothing written to the class table.

Corpus roster byte-identical (87 ok / 1 fail) with all 29 files' hooks armed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 11:10:57 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 aa2ee515aa ui: MOD multiplies, and a gradient is not an alternative to a fill
Cinematic's colour tint painted the whole screen opaque white for as long as its
CineMode ran: `srgb(255,255,255)` across the world with the UI still drawn on top
of it, 16.8 s of it in grom's 2026-11-02 recording, starting the instant he picked
a profile. Three faults on the one path from the addon's call to the pixel, each
of them enough on its own.

`SetBlendMode("MOD")` parsed, answered `GetBlendMode` and then drew as straight
alpha. One pipeline served BLEND and ADD — the shader emitting `(rgb·a, a)` or
`(rgb·a, 0)` into a single `(One, OneMinusSrcAlpha)` state — because no scalar
source alpha can stand in for a per-channel destination factor, and the mode had
no caller worth a second pipeline. It had one: nine of the addon's ten tint
presets are MOD (`Tint.lua:21`), and a MOD colour is built to be multiplied —
`1 − (1 − c)·strength` at **alpha 1**, white at strength 0 — so drawn with alpha
instead it is an opaque near-white quad over UIParent. MOD now keys its own
pipeline, `(Dst, Zero)` with the destination's own alpha kept, off the same
`0x70c190` table the world's Mod batches already read; the shader returns the
multiplier un-premultiplied, since neither alpha appears in that formula, and runs
no longer merge across the flag.

The extract read `fill.or_else(|| gradient.map(midpoint))`, so a region that set
both drew the fill and dropped the gradient. They are not alternatives:
`<Gradient>` writes the four vertex colours (`+0xb8`, `0x77304d`), which
`loader/regions.rs` already reads as "unlike `<Color>` it tints the art". The tint
is exactly that shape — `SetColorTexture(1, 1, 1, 1)` once, re-gradiented a few
times a second — and so is its vignette, whose four edges were drawing as opaque
white bars.

And `SetGradient` took only 1.12's six loose numbers. This client answers
`CreateColor`, so an addon that feature-detects takes retail's colour-object form
and never tries the numbers; the two objects coerced to six zeros through
`as_f32`, the call **succeeded**, and the `pcall` that was the feature test
(`Tint.lua:546`) reported it understood. Both spellings now read a colour object
when the first stop is a table.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 10:00:44 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 33d0868009 ui: SetEnabled, the one setter retail put in place of Enable/Disable
A later-era addon writes `SetEnabled` **unguarded on its own controls**, even
where it guards on someone else's. `Cinematic/Options.lua:4176` is a tick's own
`Refresh`, greying it when a rule owns the row; `:305` twelve pages up is the same
file writing `control.SetEnabled and …` about a control it did not make. The raise
at 4176 unwound `RefreshOptions` → `SettingsChanged` → `SetProfile` →
`Welcome.lua:43`, so picking a profile from the addon's welcome window applied the
profile and then abandoned the panel refresh, leaving the traceback in chat and
the window still reading "Nothing runs until you pick one." That is the chat error
grom recorded on 2026-11-02.

Composed from the stock `Enable`/`Disable` pair (`0x780160`, `0x7801b0`) on
Button's table, which CheckButton and LootButton reach down the same chain the
pair travels. EditBox takes it too, written out rather than composed because the
reference gives a box no enabled state at all: it writes the mouse and keyboard
the frame already owns and drops focus, so input is refused and the text is NOT
greyed, which 1.12 has no slot for — `Options.lua:1629` is the call that needs it.

A Slider still answers neither this nor the trio: addons duck-type on them to tell
a control from a bar, which `tests/slider.rs` pins.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 10:00:30 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 c6b19c7926 lua: a size this library derived is a cache, and a # append invalidates it
This is what froze his client. The bound named `Cinematic/Camera.lua:2597`:

    while turnStarts[1] and now - turnStarts[1] > WINDOW do
        table.remove(turnStarts, 1)
    end

`remove` drains the table and remembers a size of 0 — faithfully, that is
`luaL_setn`. The addon then appends with `turnStarts[#turnStarts + 1] = now`,
which is a raw set this layer never sees, so slot 1 is full while the
remembered size is still 0. `remove` reads 0, takes its "nothing to remove"
path, changes nothing, and the caller spins forever. 15 s of Lua in every
frame, for the whole session, in a loop that in the reference cannot fail.

It cannot fail there because 5.0 has no `#` operator: every append goes through
`insert` or `getn`, so a remembered size is always the truth. The collision is
a later-era addon's `#` meeting 5.0's bookkeeping, and it also loses data the
quiet way round — `insert` after a `#` append writes *over* the appended slot
instead of after it, which is a test here now too.

So the two kinds of size are kept apart. One this library **derived** from an
`insert` or a `remove` is a cache: if `t[n + 1]` is not nil the table has grown
since, and the count wins. One an addon **declared** with `table.setn` is
honoured exactly as before, because `setn(t, 0)` as a logical wipe over full
slots is the entire point of it — AceLibrary and Mik's capture tables both turn
on that, and both still pass. An explicit numeric `t.n` field is a declaration
too, and is untouched.

Measured: the corpus roster is byte-identical (87 ok / 1 fail, the failure the
pre-existing AdvancedTradeSkillWindow2), and the drain loop that spun 44 times
in his log now ends in one removal a round.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 08:03:09 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 d1edd74cce ui: a runaway frame writes its own line, and stops costing the whole bound twice
Two of his sessions froze this morning with nothing in the log. The journal
says what happened: every frame 15,0xx ms, `main_ms` 14,970 of it, GPU 3 ms,
the main thread `state R` with 64 s of CPU in 68 s of wall. That dead-constant
15.02 s is `RUNAWAY_FRAME_SECS` — a Lua loop that never returns, re-entered the
next frame and the next.

The bound did its job and said nothing, because its raise unwinds to whatever
`pcall` caught the call. On this corpus that is always an addon's own guard, so
the trip became nobody's script error: `session errors: 0`, no log line, no
file, no line number. `WOW_UI_RAISES` would have caught it and is `eprintln!`
only, which is no use to someone who is in the game.

So the hook writes its own report before raising, and the host logs it at
`error!` beside the ordinary error drain. Each kept report carries a sixteen
frame traceback, because the innermost line is usually inside a library and the
handler that entered the loop is the name worth having.

And the bound tightens to a second once it has tripped. The first one has to be
far beyond any legitimate frame, which makes it far beyond playable: a loop is
re-entered every frame, so the player gets one frame every fifteen seconds —
indistinguishable from the freeze the bound exists to prevent, and that is
exactly what he got. One trip has already proved the call non-terminating; the
ones after it need only enough rope to say so. A second is still some 125M VM
instructions, two orders past the heaviest handler ever measured here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-02 07:21:48 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 75ba592fba ui: the Era map canvas over 1.12's own world map, and the Line region
What 1.12 withholds here is a framework, not a verb. Its world map is a fixed
1002x668 frame showing one zone — twelve tiles, a hit button, POI buttons, two
dropdowns — with no canvas, no pan, no zoom, no pins and no notion of where one
map sits on another. Every map addon written after 4.0 drives the canvas
framework instead, and there is no stock file to migrate from because there is
no stock feature.

The constraint that shaped every decision: `WorldMapFrame` already has eight
1.12 consumers on this install, all anchoring icons to `WorldMapDetailFrame`
and `WorldMapButton`. So nothing is replaced. The canvas is added, and those
two frames are reparented INTO it — at rest the rect they had, at scale 1 with
no pan, so the stock window is pixel-identical, and the payoff is that the 1.12
art and every icon on it now pan and scale WITH the canvas for free.

Clipping comes from a real ScrollFrame: this client clips a scroll child and
every descendant of it from one source, in the draw pass and the hit-test, so
drawing and hitting agree. The base-art layer a canvas addon hides is a proxy
that switches draw layers rather than the frame, because hiding the frame would
take the POI buttons and every addon's icons with it.

Three regressions, each found by measurement, each pinned: the anchor cycle
(container to detail frame to canvas to container — a cycle resolves to
nothing, and the symptom was `GetCenter()` nil inside the stock hover pass); the
base scale (a minScale below 1 opens the map zoomed out of its own window); and
`dataProviders` being a set rather than an array, because callers iterate it
with `pairs` and bind the key — an array handed that loop the number 1.

`CreateLine` is a Texture carrying two endpoints, drawn through the
explicit-corner quad path the cooldown wedge already uses. Nothing stands in
for it: a line between two moving points is a rotated quad whose angle and
length both change. `C_Texture.GetAtlasInfo` answers nil for every name, and
the nil is the answer — but the getter's presence is what makes the common
atlas guard take its fallback branch instead of raising.

The harness grew a second surface, and the finding is worth keeping: the full
screen map hides `UIParent`, so opening it in the ordinary render probe dropped
the corpus's draw column from 37/86 to 18/86 — nineteen unrelated addons. As
its own pass: no addon lost a quad and nineteen gained, pfQuest 374 -> 911,
pfUI 1063 -> 2259.

OpenMapClassic now reads 1/1 on all five columns, stitching 74 of the realm's
own zones. Corpus roster unchanged at 85 ok / 1 fail; the 12 data-half reds
byte-identical to HEAD's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-01 22:21:35 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 b49856c5cb ui: texture masks, the later-era texture dials, and the pools a canvas map needs
The mask pair is the one that matters and nothing can stand in for it. 1.12 has
no texture masking at all — its single masked thing is the minimap disc, cut
engine-side — and no idiom reaches the same end, because the point is that a
rectangular texture draws as a non-rectangular shape. A seamless world map is
that operation and nothing else: a zone's art is a rectangle of parchment and
the map wants it cut to the zone's coastline.

It was affordable because the render pass already had the slot. `UiQuad::mask`
is a screen-anchored alpha mask built for the minimap's fixed circle with tiles
panning under it, which is exactly `AddMaskTexture`'s semantics — the mask is
another region with its own anchors, and the subject keeps the fragments its
alpha covers at that place. So this is plumbing, not a new material.

One mask per quad, said rather than hidden: widening it is a second texture
binding and a second uniform on every UI quad in the client. The list is kept
whole, because the order decides the winner — first added, which for a stitched
map is the land mask. Two traps are pinned by tests: a mask region is skipped at
extract rather than marked hidden, since its rect is what it covers; and a mask
whose art is missing drops the mask, not the quad, because zero coverage would
blank the art it was meant to shape.

`Texture:SetRotation` was nearly free — the renderer has carried the angle since
the minimap arrow, so this is the Lua setter for it. `SetDesaturation` is the
fractional form of 1.12's own flag, rounded onto the one flag this renderer has,
with the getter answering the caller's own number. The tile pair is applied: the
host computes the repeat count once the art has loaded.

`SetPropagateKeyboardInput` is stored, not applied: 1.12 already always
propagates, so there is no swallow mode for false to select. `EditBox:HasFocus`
publishes a fact this client already tracks and never exposed.

Corpus: 85 ok / 1 fail, roster and digest unchanged. The 12 data-half reds are
byte-identical to HEAD's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-01 21:15:55 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 87f93fea46 compat: the uiMapID graph over the realm's own WorldMapArea, and C_Map's other half
1.12 addresses a map by a (continent, zone) pair of dropdown indices — a
position in two lists, which moves when a zone is inserted — and publishes no
map's rectangle on any other map at all, because its window draws one zone at a
time into a fixed 1002x668 frame and never needs to know where that zone sits.
A seamless, pannable map is exactly that missing relation.

`script/uimap.rs` builds the tree as a pure function of the catalog
`ui_world_map.rs` already pushes, rebuilt inside both setters so the graph and
the catalog cannot disagree. No new DBC read, so nothing here can contradict
what the stock map window itself draws.

It is built from OctoWoW's own rows, which is the point: 175 against stock
1.12's 51, with 124 maps added and 49 shipped rects re-tuned. Era's uiMapIDs
are reused where the map is the same map, joined on the WorldMapArea art folder
rather than the zone name, because the folder is the column a realm has no
reason to touch — this realm spells Azshara's `Aszhara` and Hillsbrad's
`Hilsbrad` exactly as 1.12 does. A row Era has no counterpart for is minted
from its own AreaTable id.

One realm quirk is handled with its measurement: a third `areaID == 0` row
whose art folder is `World` is the sheet's own row, which the reference's
catalog walk files beside the two continents — `SetMapZoom(3, 0)` then
`GetMapInfo()` answers `World`. Left in, it is a phantom continent carrying a
second copy of all 39 Eastern Kingdoms zones.

Art is answered as paths, so the chain serves the upscaled pack; the layer
geometry is the logical 1002x668 / 256x256, because normalized fractions are
invariant under a uniform upscale.

The harness now seats the player a world position and the per-frame map feed,
because every verb that answers *where* the player is reads the position, not
the zone name. Corpus: 85 ok / 1 fail, roster and digest unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-01 20:38:22 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 0886952611 ui: a numeric texture argument is a file id, not a colour channel
With this and the font-object rename below, **OpenMapClassic loads clean, survives a session
start and survives a UI probe** — from dying on its first file, inside Ace3, before a line of
its own code ran.

Later clients gave every shipped file a numeric id and addons pass those instead of paths. Both
of our texture setters read a number as the **colour** arm, and they failed differently, which
is why this is worth a module of its own:

- `region/paint.rs`'s `SetTexture` needs *two* numbers for a colour, so a lone
  `SetTexture(130763)` fell through to the catch-all and drew **nothing**.
- `button.rs`'s slot setters take one number as a colour with green and blue defaulting to 0,
  so `SetNormalTexture(130763)` painted a **solid block** where the button art belongs. That is
  the arm Ace3 calls, and it failed silently: nothing raised, the art was simply wrong, which is
  the worst way for this to go.

**The rule**: a lone numeric argument of 2 or more is a file id. A colour channel is 0..1 and
every id a client ever minted is six figures, so the two cannot collide and `SetTexture(0.5)`
keeps answering exactly as 1.12 does.

**The table is transcription, not invention.** Every numeric literal passed to a texture setter
anywhere in the installed corpus *and* in both `Addon_Ports` addons — 21, all from Ace3/AceGUI
— is annotated by its own author with the path it means:

    button:SetNormalTexture(130763) -- "Interface\Buttons\UI-DialogBox-Button-Up"

So the ids stay the real ones rather than something of ours, and the source is the call site. An
id with no row draws nothing and records a warning naming it, because a wrong texture is harder
to notice than a missing one — and that warning is what says which id to add. `GetFileIDFromPath`
answers only what the table knows and nil otherwise: minting a synthetic id would hand back a
number no other client agrees with.

**`SetNormalFontObject`** is the later-era spelling of 1.12's `SetTextFontObject` (`0x780400`)
— the one name this family left behind, since `SetHighlightFontObject` (`0x780700`) and
`SetDisabledFontObject` (`0x780580`) are 1.12's own. It hands out the same function value, so
the spellings cannot drift. Ace3 calls it on every button it builds
(`AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:586`), one line above the `SetNormalTexture(130763)` above.

What openmap still cannot do is **draw**: it does not build a map, it re-skins Era's canvas
`WorldMapFrame` (`Map/WorldMap.lua:823`), and that canvas does not exist here. That is the map
stack, not this.

Corpus: 100 addons, 85 ok / 1 fail, roster identical. benilla-ui 2085 passed. Chain green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-11-01 18:43:51 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 4d19090259 compat: the cast-info pair as bare globals, and IsMouseButtonDown over a real feed
Cinematic's last two session errors. With these it loads clean, survives a session start,
survives a UI probe and **draws** — all four of the harness's runtime columns.

**`UnitCastingInfo`/`UnitChannelInfo` as bare globals** is an export, not a feature: the
namespaced pair was already built with the whole contract in `cast_info` (the two return
shapes, the millisecond unit, every position this client leaves nil and why), and these hand
out the **same function values** the `C_Spell` table holds, so the two spellings cannot drift.
Six calls of each in `Cinematic/Camera.lua` and its siblings, unguarded. `CastingInfo`/
`ChannelInfo` stay namespace-only: nothing on this install calls them bare, and pfUI reaches
the one it wants through the namespace (`libdebuff.lua:887`).

**`IsMouseButtonDown` needed a feed before it could be built honestly, and the reason it was
declined is why.** `compat/classic_api/input.rs` had said no on the grounds that the only
press state here is `Model::mouse_down_on`, which the pointer layer fills *only* for a press
that landed on a frame — and `Cinematic/Camera.lua:612` asks in order to spot a right-drag **on
the world**, which is exactly what that map cannot see. Answering from it would have been wrong
for the one caller.

So `Model::mouse_buttons` is new: `[Left, Right, Middle, Button4, Button5]`, pushed each frame
from `ButtonInput<MouseButton>` beside the modifiers. Placed there deliberately rather than
with the pointer feed below it, because that feed is skipped for a cursor off the window or a
hidden UI, and "is the right button still held" has to stay true through both — which is the
camera's question. Both spellings (`RightButton` and `Button2`), no argument means any button
as upstream's does, and a button no device has answers not-down rather than raising.

The reference capture of the real client's `_G` has no mouse-button getter at all, and
`ClassicAPI.dll` carries the name, so it is compat's rather than a 1.12 gap.

Corpus: 100 addons, 85 ok / 1 fail, roster identical. benilla-ui 2082 passed. Chain green.

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2026-11-01 18:43:34 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 482ad0bc5c sound: the later-era Sound_ CVar names, which three installed addons already wanted
`GetCVar("Sound_MusicVolume")` answered nil, so `Cinematic/Core.lua:3621` raised inside a
`format` and took the rest of its `PLAYER_LOGIN` handler — the music restore — with it. 2.x
renamed the sound CVars with a `Sound_` prefix and 1.12's names stayed what they are; Cinematic
is a multi-flavour addon and uses the modern spelling at **all 47** of its music sites, which
is the whole of its music-fade feature.

**This is a fix for the install, not a concession to the port.** Three addons already here ask
with the modern spelling and have been reading nil: DoiteAuras' editor and Tmog
(`Sound_MasterVolume`, `Sound_DialogVolume`, `Sound_EnableDialog`), SoftSpoken
(`Sound_EnableAllSound`, `Sound_SFXVolume`, `Sound_EnableSFX`).

Ten rows, each on the footing the `BackgroundSound` pair in this file already set: two names,
one knob, dispatched together in `sound/mod.rs`'s observer so the spellings cannot disagree
about a setting. Each default is its 1.12 sibling's, since they are the same setting twice.

Two honest compromises, labelled where they live: 1.12 has no dialogue channel, so
`Sound_DialogVolume` rides the SFX volume and `Sound_EnableDialog` the error-speech toggle; and
it has no SFX-only enable, so `Sound_EnableSFX` rides `MasterSoundEffects`, the only sound
enable it has. Riding what the mixer actually has beats inventing tracks it has not got.

**`GetCVarBool`** is absent from 1.12 on this repo's own evidence —
`reference/1.12-globals.tsv` is a capture of the real client's `_G` and carries `GetCVar` and
`GetCVarDefault` and nothing else of the family — and present in `ClassicAPI.dll`'s string
pool, so it belongs to the client this build announces itself as. It answers a real boolean, as
the name says, and **nil for a name with no row**, so "there is no such CVar" stays
distinguishable from "it is off". `Cinematic/Camera.lua:493` reads `ActionButtonUseKeyDown`
through it.

Not built, and deliberately: `IsMouseButtonDown`. `compat/classic_api/input.rs` already
declined it with the right reason — the only press state here is `Model::mouse_down_on`, which
the pointer layer fills *only* for a press that landed on a frame. `Cinematic/Camera.lua:612`
asks in order to spot a right-drag **on the world**, which is exactly what that map cannot see,
so answering from it would be wrong for the one caller. It wants a real mouse-button feed.

benilla-ui 2081 passed. Full chain green.

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2026-11-01 17:14:50 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 139965f415 ui: PreClick/PostClick, and a comma-separated template list
Two of the `Addon_Ports` pair's load blockers, both measured with `addon_harness` either side.

**`PreClick`/`PostClick`** follow the convention `SCRIPT_KINDS` already set for names that are
not 1.12's — `OnHyperlinkEnter`/`Leave` sit there with the same justification: a later client
added them, addons register them at load, and refusing the name raises and takes the rest of
the file with it. `Cinematic/MenuWheel.lua`'s wheel slots are the callers here. They arrived
with the secure template system so a button could act either side of the protected part;
nothing protected sits between them here, so the order is all they are.

`button::click_button` fires each of the three **separately**, so one that raises is recorded
and the next still runs: the pair exists to bracket the click, and a broken bracket must not
eat it. That is the same reasoning the attribute-click dispatch below it already carries.

**A comma-separated template list**, which 1.12 does not take: its `inherits` is one name, and
`object.rs`'s lookup is a transcription of that (`0x6ee6f0` at `0x7061dd`, no splitter). Era
takes a list and applies them in order, and that is what an addon written for Era passes —
`Cinematic/MenuWheel.lua:312` asks for
`"SecureHandlerShowHideTemplate, SecureHandlerAttributeTemplate"`.

**The evidence is weaker than `compat/`'s other relaxations and the code says so.** The
one-argument `SetPoint` rests on the real `ClassicAPI.dll` writing that form itself; this rests
only on Era doing it and the addon targeting Era — nothing in the DLL's own Lua passes a list,
and **no addon in the installed corpus does either**, which is also why it can break nothing.

Safe by construction: the split is attempted only **after** the verbatim name misses, so every
existing call takes exactly the path it did before and a template whose own name contained a
comma would still win. One unknown name anywhere in the list and the whole call misses,
reporting the literal **unsplit** and leaving no frame behind — so a typo reads as a typo
rather than as a half-built frame.

`a_comma_list_is_one_name_and_a_single_name_still_chains` was a deliberate, traced pin on the
old behaviour, so it is rewritten rather than deleted. It now pins the shape of the relaxation:
the verbatim name tried first, both templates applied in the order written with `$parent`
resolving against the instance, a list with one unknown name still missing unsplit and leaving
nothing behind, and a plain unknown name unchanged. Its doc states the weaker footing, which is
why the miss path is pinned that closely.

benilla-ui 2081 passed. Full chain green.

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2026-11-01 17:14:32 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 af823dd708 compat: the secure-handler family and the animation surface
Both modules land together because `classic_api/mod.rs` and `widget_surface.rs` carry rows for
each: split, the first commit named a module the second added, and would not have compiled.

## The secure-handler family, because 1.12 has nothing to be secure from

`frame.rs` declined it with a stated reason — "modern restricted execution, which 1.12 has no
equivalent of" — and that is right about the *sandbox* and is the whole of why it is now built.
A secure handler exists so an untainted snippet may call **protected** functions; 1.12 has
neither taint nor protected functions, so the restriction has no counterpart here, while the
plumbing underneath (a named frame store, a snippet on a child's handler) is ordinary
behaviour the snippets need. The body runs as plain Lua with the names the secure environment
would bind.

**The per-header shared table is the part worth getting right.** `MenuWheel.lua:484` writes a
bare `held = false` inside a snippet, and in the real secure environment that lands in a table
per header, not `_G`. `setfenv` onto one table per frame, `__index` to `_G` so the rest of the
API resolves; the test asserts `held` is **not** a global afterwards. My first test asserted
through `_G` and failed — the implementation was right and the test measured the wrong thing.

**`SecureActionButtonTemplate` is not empty**: reading your own attributes on click is plain
dispatch. `type="click"` clicks the frame in `clickbutton` (how the wheels reach the game's
micro buttons), and the lookup follows upstream's order (`type-<button>`, `*type*`, `type`).

**That exposed a real bug of ours**: `SetAttribute` silently dropped a frame.
`attribute_value` kept bool/int/number/string and sent everything else to `ScriptValue::Nil`,
so `SetAttribute("clickbutton", SomeFrame)` stored nothing — and upstream's `clickbutton` is
routinely a frame, which `Cinematic/MenuWheel.lua` relies on. A widget table is now kept as
`ScriptValue::Frame(id)`, the variant `NAME_PLATE_CREATED`'s arg1 already uses, which
round-trips through `object::frame_wrapper`. A non-widget table is still nil, documented.

**Not built, named rather than left to be discovered**: the binding half (`ClearBindings`,
`SetBindingClick`, …) are no-ops — no override-binding layer here to write into — so a wheel
opened with the mouse works and hold-a-key-and-release does not; and the `_onshow`/`_onhide`
attribute snippets are not run, since `SetAttribute` is a plain store with nothing to drive
them.

Templates in `assets/ui/CompatTemplates.xml`, listed on that wall with the reason: no stock
file to migrate from, and XML rather than `compat/` only because `inherits=` is loader-resolved.
A trap caught before shipping: `BackdropTemplateMixin.GetBackdropColor` forwarding to
`self:GetBackdropColor()` calls **itself** once `Mixin()` copies it onto the frame — the stock
getters answer, so there are no getter rows, and a test mixes in and reads back.

## `CreateAnimationGroup`: the surface, with nothing animated

1.12 has no animation system and this UI pass has no interpolation to hang one on. The cost is
the **absent constructor**: `Cinematic/Options.lua:7106` builds a rotating spinner and the nil
method aborted the whole options panel. Measured first — that is the addon's only animation in
55,661 lines, so this is a surface for a decoration.

**A non-looping group finishes the moment it plays**, firing `OnFinished`, because nothing
moves and that is the reading that keeps an addon's flow right; one that chains its next step
off `OnFinished` would otherwise wait forever. A looping group plays until stopped. Stated in
the header, since the name implies motion: a spinner does not spin, a fade appears at its
destination, a sequence lands on its last frame. Setters and getters round-trip.

Corpus: all 100 of grom's addons surveyed before and after — 85 ok / 1 fail, rosters
identical. benilla-ui 2081 passed. Full chain green.

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2026-11-01 17:12:13 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 64f07d9864 compat: SetPoint("POINT") with nothing after it, because ClassicAPI writes it
**A deviation, and the reasoning matters more than the code.** 1.12 raises `Usage:` on a
one-argument `SetPoint`, and that is traced rather than assumed: the `lua_type(L,3)` tag gate
at `0x7a25e6`..`0x7a2620` accepts four tags and an absent argument is none of them, which
this file's own header has said all along. Later clients read it as the default parent at the
same point with no offset, and that is what every Era-era addon writes —
`Cinematic/CameraWheel.lua:243` is `face:SetPoint("CENTER")`.

Allowed because **the real `ClassicAPI.dll` writes that form itself**: its embedded Lua
carries `f:SetPoint("CENTER");` and `tx:SetPoint(q[4]);`, so on the client this build already
announces itself as (`CLASSIC_API_VERSION` is set) the one-argument form has to work, or
ClassicAPI's own windows would not build. Claiming that client and withholding this is the
inconsistent position `stdlib_backport.rs` settled for the stdlib half.

It costs nothing in the ladder because of how it is spelled: the leg resolves to exactly what
the reference's own **three-argument** shorthand does (`RelTarget::DefaultParent`,
`0x7a270e`) — default parent, `rel_point` defaulted to `point`, offsets falling through to
(0, 0). No anchor shape is added; one spelling is mapped onto another the reference answers.

**It lives in `parse_set_point` and not in `compat/`, and that is load-bearing.** My first
attempt wrapped `SetPoint` per method table and `tests::region_map` caught it: the reference
registers it once in the Region method table, so every widget type runs the same function
object, and three wrapped copies broke an identity `region_map.rs` maintains on purpose (an
addon can pull `WorldFrame.GetHeight` off and apply it to a Texture). The header now says so,
so the wrapper route is not tried again.

Two tests pinned the old behaviour and are rewritten rather than deleted:

- The trailing-nil test gets **stronger**. It existed because `lua_type` tells `LUA_TNIL`
  (the screen root, `0x7a2710`) from `LUA_TNONE`, and the ladder must see the count Lua saw.
  Both forms resolve now, so it resolves a real layout and asserts they land in *different*
  places: the explicit nil at the screen's corner, the absent one on its parent.
- One genuine ordering change, asserted: with no third argument there is no tag to gate, so
  `SetPoint("MIDDLE")` reports "Unknown region point" where it reported `Usage:`. The
  tag-gate-runs-first claim is kept for a *bad* tag, `SetPoint("MIDDLE", true)`.

Movement: Cinematic's load `CameraWheel.lua:243` → `MenuWheel.lua:312` (the secure-template
family, which `compat/classic_api/frame.rs` declines with its own reason).

benilla-ui 2077 passed, 0 failed. Full chain green.

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2026-11-01 14:46:07 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 e731a77a42 compat: RegisterUnitEvent, the fixed-strata pair and SetWordWrap
The next three blockers of the `Addon_Ports` pair, each measured with `addon_harness` before
and after rather than picked off a list.

**`RegisterUnitEvent(event, unit1 [, unit2])`** — Cinematic's load blocker, and
`docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md` already had it on the "plausible and untraced" line. The registration
is the stock one: same `event_to_frames` list, same registration order, and
`Model::frame_unit_events` holds the units per frame per event. `tick.rs`'s walk skips a
frame whose row for this event does not name `arg1`; the map is empty on an install with no
such addon and the walk tests `is_empty()` first, so the common path costs one load.

All three unregister paths drop the row, including the one that is easy to miss: a plain
`RegisterEvent` after a unit register **widens** the registration back, as upstream's does —
the frame keeps its place and loses the filter. A row surviving an unregister/re-register
cycle would swallow that event forever, so the test walks the whole cycle.
`Cinematic/Frames.lua:2611` registers `UNIT_AURA` for `"player"` at file scope, so the nil
method stopped the file dead.

**`SetFixedFrameStrata`/`SetFixedFrameLevel`** are no-ops, and that is the honest answer
rather than a stub: 9.0 added them to tell the *frame manager* to stop re-deciding a frame's
strata and level, and this client has no such manager — both are whatever the setters last
wrote and nothing else rewrites them, so the guarantee the caller asks for already holds.
Ace3 calls both unguarded (`AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:575-576`).

**`SetWordWrap`/`CanWordWrap`** is 3.x's whether-to-wrap switch; 1.12's `SetNonSpaceWrap` is
a different question (where a wrap may fall, not whether one happens). **Stored, not
applied**, on the footing `SetSpacing` and `non_space_wrap` already set in `types.rs`: the
text layout wraps to the declared width unconditionally and has no one-line-and-clip mode for
the flag to drive, so honouring it would mean inventing a layout mode. Kept because the pair
must round-trip and because the missing *setter* is what costs —
`Cinematic/Options.lua:4130` calls it on a label and aborted the options panel there.

All four are registered in `widget_surface.rs`'s `ALLOWED_BEYOND` with their call sites. The
first `RegisterUnitEvent` row said "Frame" and the wall rejected it: event registration lives
on the one shared frame method table, which is where 1.12 keeps `RegisterEvent` too, so the
two are registered alike on all twenty frame kinds or neither is.

Movement: Cinematic's load `Frames.lua:2611` → `CameraWheel.lua:243`, session
`Options.lua:4130` → clear; openmap `AceConfigDialog:573` → `:575`.

benilla-ui 2077 passed, 0 failed. Full chain green.

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2026-11-01 14:45:36 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 79e2494fc6 compat: math.huge and SetColorTexture, the two load blockers of the ported pair
Measured through `addon_harness` before anything was written, which is the only reason this
is two small changes rather than a guess at a list. Both `Addon_Ports` addons failed to load
at all; these are their first two stops.

**`math.huge` was nil, deliberately.** `stdlib_backport.rs` restores the 5.1 stdlib members
ClassicAPI backports, scoped to what the corpus calls, and `math.huge` was on the stated
"nothing calls them" list. `Cinematic/Core.lua:1103` is `local lastMovingOff = -math.huge`
at **file scope**, so the nil stopped the addon's main file dead ("attempt to perform
arithmetic on field `?`") and nothing after it ran — one site, but a load-time one, which is
the bar that table sets. The real `ClassicAPI.dll` carries `huge` in its own stdlib name
table beside `fmod`, `modf`, `gmatch`, `match`, `select`, `maxn`, `cosh` and `reverse`, so
this is what the client we already claim to be actually has.

Two tests pinned it absent and are updated rather than deleted: `lua50.rs`'s keeps asserting
this *layer* removes it (the registry stash is the proof), and `stdlib_backport.rs`'s keeps
the narrowness assertion for the four that stay gone. The new assertion is `-math.huge`,
because file-scope arithmetic is the shape that failed.

**`Texture:SetColorTexture`** is the modern spelling of `SetTexture`'s colour arm, which
1.12 already has (`0x770360`'s 8×8 solid surface, and `region/paint.rs` defaults the alpha
to 1 as it does). Retail split the names when `SetTexture` stopped taking a colour, so every
Era-era addon writes the new one. `Cinematic/Options.lua:701` paints its list border with it
and died at session start; OpenMapClassic its map chrome. Four lines of the same composition
chunk `SetShown` and the geometry pair use, and an `ALLOWED_BEYOND` row with both call sites
— `docs/ADDON_COMPAT.md` had it on the same "plausible and untraced" line as
`RegisterUnitEvent`, and this is that line's follow-through.

Movement, same harness both ways:
- Cinematic load: `Core.lua:1103` → `Frames.lua:2611` (~10 files further; wants
  `RegisterUnitEvent` next). Session: `Options.lua:701` → `Options.lua:4130` (3400 lines on,
  wants `SetWordWrap`).
- OpenMapClassic: unchanged at `DialogBorderOpaqueTemplate`, which neither fix touches.

benilla-ui 2076 passed, 0 failed. Full chain green.

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2026-11-01 14:19:56 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 e646b5a678 compat: the usable pair tells the truth — 1/0 from nampower's verb, the walk behind C_Spell's
Two defects in one pair of verbs, both found by reading what grom's addons do with what we
answer rather than from a report. A DLL whose source is not to hand still has its contract
written down: in the addons written against it.

**`IsSpellUsable(id|name)` answers two numbers.** Ours gave 1/nil for the first — transcribed
from `IsUsableAction`'s own convention — while already giving 0/1 for the second. Four
readings in the corpus say otherwise, and `AlternativeClassicActionBars/Button.lua:1907` is
the clearest: `elseif usable and usable ~= 0 then` is not a line anyone writes against a
function that answers 1/nil. `SuperCleveRoidMacros/Core.lua:1035` labels its own branch
"IsSpellUsable returned 0 = wrong stance/form, not enough power type", reading the value
straight out of `pcall(IsSpellUsable, …)`. And the one with teeth: DoiteAuras'
`_SafeSpellUsable` keeps a verdict only `if ok and u ~= nil` (`DoiteConditions.lua:970`), so
a nil sent it down a fallback chain ending at `:1022`'s "treat as usable so icon doesn't die
forever" — **every** Usable-mode aura lit on cooldown alone, stance, rage, range and reagents
ignored. Answering the wrong shape and not answering at all land in the same place.

0 is truthy in Lua, so that was checked before changing it: no caller tests the value for
truth unguarded, and the rest compare `== 1`. The DLL's string pool publishes the signature
and the name-lookup error but not the return shape, and the five mirrors of the fork's
`SCRIPTS.md` I could reach are each behind a Gitea login or 404 — the corpus was the better
source. A name it cannot resolve raises there, which is why every caller wraps the call in
`pcall`; ours answers `nil, nil`, and all four callers treat those identically.

**`C_Spell.IsSpellUsable` was computing the wrong thing and raising on its caller's
argument.** It was approximated as "known and not on cooldown" — the one reason upstream does
*not* count (its own list is "hasn't learned it, lacks mana or reagents, reactive conditions
haven't been met") and none of the ones it does. It now reads the same per-spell map the
global does, the reference's usable walk (`0x6e3d60`), which agrees about cooldowns: "a
running cooldown never greys here" (`spell/usable.rs` leg 11), leaving `GetSpellCooldown` the
question about cooldowns.

That makes it the honest answer for a reactive proc, which is exactly what its only caller
asks: Overpower greys on the caster's combo-point byte (leg 5, `PLAYER_FIELD_BYTES` byte 1,
the byte the server sets when the proc banks), so the walk answers it inside the proc window
and nowhere else, while "off cooldown" showed it nearly always. pfUI's reactive indicator
(`modules/nampower.lua:130`) passes a **name** against a `u32` signature, which mlua refuses
for a non-numeric string — a raise once per frame while the indicator was switched on.
`spell_ident` is shared now, so a name resolves through the book as the global's does.

Both returns there stay booleans, unlike the global's: the caller hands the first straight to
`SetShown`, where a numeric 0 would be truthy and show every icon forever. Two conventions,
each its own caller's, written down where they live.

Tests: the global's pair is asserted as `1|0` and `0|1`, with the callers' own accept test
(`pcall` + `u ~= nil`) quoted as an assertion; `C_Spell`'s is asserted over Overpower outside
and inside the proc window with nothing about cooldowns changing, by id and by name, plus the
not-in-book case answering false rather than raising.

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2026-11-01 13:11:00 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 315ebe9138 ui: an <IMG> with an empty src names no file
`src=""` was stored verbatim, so the region carried `texture: Some("")`, the resolve asked
the size probe for a nameless file and the renderer searched the patch chain for one and
logged `texture miss: ''` — a defect-shaped warning that can name neither a file nor an
asker. `""` clears on every other texture setter here, as the reference's path arm treats
it like nil (`0x770200`), and `a9ed091eb` closed the three that had stored one; this was
the last route in the UI that still could.

Found by sweeping the rest rather than by a new sighting, and two of the leads this list
carried are now dead: the `CursorPayload` arm it called most likely is unreachable in a
live session (`extract/mod.rs:1020` guards the whole block with `if capture.is_some()`),
and `PortraitSource::File` cannot be empty — `temporary_portrait` always returns a `.blp`.
The M2 and WMO sides filter at parse, and `texture_url("")` would read `'.blp'` rather than
`''`, so the warning's own text says the UI sprite path is where it came from.

Whether this closes the one line in grom's log is unproven: it sat in `benilla-2.log` at
+20.717s, that run may predate `a9ed091eb`, and three measurement launches have since
rotated his logs out. The test is the next sighting: with the filter removed it reports
`texture: Some("")`, and in the fixture the nameless path also reserved the probe's 48 px
of flow under the image — in game the probe answers nothing for a miss, so only the chain
search and the warning were real.

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2026-11-01 12:59:29 -07:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 d2414d9f50 stable: the realm sells four pet slots, and our window drew two
Found by the `StableSlotPrices.dbc` golden: the table has four rows where 1.12
had two, and `NUM_STABLE_SLOTS` was 3 (the current pet plus two). Three
independent sources in the install agree on four, so this is not a guess:

- `StableSlotPrices.dbc` ships 4 rows — 500c, 5g, 250g, and a fourth at one
  copper — against 1.12's two.
- the realm's own `PetStable.lua` (patch-4) declares `NUM_PET_STABLE_SLOTS = 4`.
- the realm's `WoW.exe` caps the purchase at four, and `0x4cb0bf` reads straight
  across: `cmp $0x4,%eax; je refuse` on the bought count, then `inc %eax` and
  `cmp 0xc0d728,%eax; jg refuse` against the price table's max id — which is
  exactly `num_stable_slots != NUM_STABLE_SLOTS - 1 && next_slot_cost != 0`.

So the window drew two slots the server would happily sell, and
`GetStablePetInfo(3)`/`(4)` answered nothing: the last two buttons were dead.
`NUM_STABLE_SLOTS` is 5 now, the gate's comment cites the realm's binary rather
than 1.12's 2, and the test fixture helper takes however many leading slots a
case cares about so the existing three-slot fixtures still read.

Also five goldens re-recorded, two of them findings:

- **The spam filter is one line now.** patch-4 ships a 93-byte
  `SpamMessages.dbc` of one row where `patch.MPQ`'s 2161 bytes held 28, and the
  chain takes the whole winning file rather than merging ids — so Blizzard's 28
  gold-seller patterns are gone and what is left matches a rival server's
  address, whitespace-tolerant between every letter.

- **`md5translate.trs` stopped hashing.** 9794 rows against 8401, and an Azeroth
  tile now resolves to the readable path `Azeroth\map32_48.blp` rather than
  `ea283abc0bf9637c3fad5e840a65b38b.blp`. The realm ships the tile at that path
  in patch-4; 1.12's hashed copy is still in `texture.MPQ` at the same 33940
  bytes, so only the table moved and the lookup still has one job.

- ItemSet 172 -> 363 rows, and Defias Leather (161) gained a sixth item, 81007,
  one of the realm's own. Every one of 1.12's 172 sets also gained a name in
  five more locales — the same five-locale fill the realm gave `EmotesText`.
- NPCSounds 156 -> 247, purely additive; the one pre-existing row patch-4
  touched is 90, which gained two kits.

benilla-formats: 21 -> 16 failures. `cargo fmt` and
`clippy -p benilla-formats -p benilla-ui -p benilla-app --all-targets` clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-31 19:36:30 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 a9ed091ebe texture miss: '' was three setters storing an empty path
`Texture:SetTexture("")` already cleared, and so did a button's slot setters — the reference treats
nil and `""` alike on the path arm (`0x770200`). But `SetStatusBarTexture`, `SetThumbTexture` and
the two `ColorSelect` setters stored the empty string, so the region reached the extractor as
`path: Some("")`, and the renderer asked the patch chain for a nameless file.

What that cost is less than the warning suggested, and the comments say so rather than the opposite:
both the decode and the warning are cached per key, so it was one chain lock and two candidate
reads, once. The damage was the line itself — a defect-shaped warning with nothing under it, in a
client where a real `texture miss` is worth reading. pfUI blanks textures this way in a dozen
places, which is why it showed up at all.

Measured both ways: the new test reports `[""]` with any one guard removed, and three UI captures
(`ui-char`, `ui-options`, `ui-actionbar`) now log zero `texture miss` of any kind. His own
2026-10-28 log has the line once, at 20.7 s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-31 17:48:09 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 3d6306f828 Five stock options checkboxes were inert, and GetCVar raised where it should answer
Two product fixes behind the last three red UI tests.

**`GetCVar`/`GetCVarDefault` no longer raise on a nameless ask.** The realm's own options window
depends on it: the checkbox loop calls `GetCVar(value.cvar)` for every row in its table
(`UIOptionsFrame.lua:265`), and the rows driven by a saved variable carry no `cvar` at all — so a
nil reaches the verb every time the window loads. The reference reads the argument with
`lua_tostring`, which answers NULL for anything but a string or a number, and a NULL name matches
no row, so the push is nil. `SetCVar` is deliberately left raising, and that is not a guess:
`0x488c10` checks `lua_isstring(1)` and falls into
`luaL_error("Usage: SetCVar(\"cvar\", value [, \"scriptCvar\")")`, with `0x6f4940` being `luaL_error`
itself (`where` + `pushvfstring` + `concat 2` + `lua_error`). A write with no name is a mistake; a
read with no name is a miss.

**The action-bar block now loads above the stock interface-options window**, which is the inverse
of 1.12's order and has to be. Stock patched the five multibar rows of `UIOptionsFrameCheckButtons`
from `MultiActionBarFrame_OnLoad`, under a comment calling itself a "Hack to get around load order
dependencies" — that hack is what let the window load first. The realm gutted the function
(`MultiActionBars.lua:7-12`) and wrote the readers into the table literal instead
(`UIOptionsFrame.lua:58-62`, `func = MultiBar1_IsVisible`), where they capture whatever the globals
are at the window's own load. Loaded above the bars, all five captured nil, those five checkboxes
read and wrote nothing, and `UIOptionsFrame_Save` fell through to `SetCVar(nil, ...)` and raised —
so pressing Okay abandoned the rest of the save. `reference_ui`'s shadowing gate is what kept this
honest: the first arrangement I tried let the stock window overwrite our own `UpdateNameplates`.

Also: the stock video-options window is gone as 1.12 knew it. The realm rewrote `OptionsFrame.xml`
into a searchable category panel — `OptionsFrameCategoryList*`, two scroll frames, a search box,
twenty result rows — keeping only the frame, its header and the three footer buttons. Gone with the
old page: `OptionsFrameDisplay`, `WorldAppearance`, `Brightness`, `PixelShaders`, `Miscellaneous`,
the three resolution/refresh/multisample dropdowns, `OptionsFrameSlider1..9` and
`OptionsFrameCheckButton1..18`. Worth stating rather than asserting around: **pfUI's options-video
skin walks those names and finds none of them**, so on this realm it skins nothing there.

And `MULTI_ACTION_BAR_STAND_INS` is retired — it existed to pre-create the rows that hack needed,
and nothing indexes the table before `UIOptionsFrame.lua` declares it.

All seven gates green. `ui_script` is 1113 green, 0 red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-31 15:25:36 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 3f29824458 A padded reward row is counted out by the reference, not painted — match it
grom opened the quest I had photographed on the reference client and counted
two reward buttons where we paint three. Yesterday I told him the reference
draws the same empty button, citing the DETAILS publisher. That reading was of
the wrong layer: `0x500ef0` really does copy `count` entries in with no test on
the item id (`500f41`-`500f58`) and zero-fill the rest — but the drop happens
one layer up, in the count.

`GetNumQuestChoices` (`0x501f00`) is a wrapper over `0x5016c0`, which walks the
six 36-byte records at `0xbdf020`, tests the record's item-id dword and `je`s
out of the loop on the first zero. It is a take-while, not a filter: a zero row
hides every row behind it too, and `GetNumQuestRewards` (`0x501ec0` →
`0x5016a0`) is the same loop on the reward triple's own first dword.

The record layout is pinned off `0x501700`, the shared row reader, which
string-compares the Lua type argument against 'reward' / 'choice' / 'required'
and reads `+0x00/+0x04/+0x08`, `+0x0c/+0x10/+0x14` and `+0x18/+0x1c/+0x20`
respectively; the first dword of each triple is the item id — it is what gets
pushed into the item-cache query at `0x55ba30` — and the third is the count. So
the publisher's pad is `(id 0, display 0, count 1)`, which is exactly the
`item 0 x1, displayId 0` the instrument printed on his session.

`GetNumQuestItems` keeps `.len()`: its counter (`0x5016e0`, from `0x501f40`)
tests `+0x1c`, the *display* id, not the item id at `+0x18` — the one counter of
the three that reads the wrong dword of its own triple — and QuestItemView
carries no display id to reproduce that from.

The instrument stays, narrowed to the case that is genuinely ours: a wire row
that names a real item and still resolves to neither a name nor an icon.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-31 08:08:41 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 89dc99f4d1 What the second player actually saw: four panel entries and no nameplates
A second player's four `/errors` entries, all from one session, none of them a
fault in the two addons he was reporting:

  1. `FloatingChatFrame.xml: SetScript("OnInputLanguageChanged") unsupported`.
     Ours. The slot is real 1.12 and the *realm's own* FrameXML sets it on
     `ChatFrameEditBox`, so every player met a red error on every login for a
     line none of them wrote. `SCRIPT_KINDS` now accepts it and never fires it,
     which is also what the reference does — a client with no IME never fires it
     either. The rule the old test stated is unchanged and restated: a 1.12 slot
     benilla neither fires nor finds in a shipped file still raises.

  2. `bindings.xml: root element is <Bindings>, not <Ui>; tolerated`. Every
     `Bindings.xml` in the corpus has that root and `bindings_xml` reads it
     correctly. No longer said.

  3. `bindings.xml: Unknown frame type: Binding`, counted 69. Faithful — the
     reference logs the same line (`0x871124`) for every row while `0x51f400`
     registers them separately — and ours registers them too:
     AlternativeClassicActionBars' 69 bindings all answer `GetBinding`. Now a
     trace, so the terminal keeps it and the panel does not.

  4. `SetOwner: unknown anchor 'BOTTOMRIGHT' on owner 'WorldFrame'`, counted 292.
     The hunt for that caller ended a while ago: it is `Shop_ProcessEntries` in
     the realm's own `Turtle_ShopUI`, off the player's patch chain, and the
     reference accepts an unknown anchorType silently (mode 0, ANCHOR_LEFT), as
     we do. The diagnostic has done its job; it is now host-log-once
     (`Model::warn_host_only_once`) and not retained.

The panel is where someone looks to find what is broken in *their* interface.
A line that is faithful, or names a file they cannot reach, crowds out the ones
that are theirs.

----

A second player sent a video: Options → Nameplates with all six boxes ticked,
the V binding set, and no plates at all — while the overhead *names* drew fine.

`VPlateMode::default().range_sq` was `0.0`, and the gate is
`distance_squared > range_sq`. Zero is not "no cull"; it is "cull everything, at
any distance". `NameplateRange` is a registered CVar with default `"80"`, and a
registered default is not written to `config.toml`, so no `CvarChanged` ever
fired and the field never left its derived value.

This is the trap the paragraph three fields above already documents, and which
`occlusion` and `spread` were fixed by writing their registered defaults into
`Default`; `range_sq` was left behind. It stayed hidden because
`NameConfig::default()` — the overhead names — already carried `80.0 * 80.0`, so
names drew and only plates were missing, which reads as a nameplate-addon
problem rather than an engine one. It could not be reproduced here either:
grom's own `config.toml` carries `NP_NameplateDistance = "62"`, which seeds the
same field through the other observer arm.

`the_plate_range_default_agrees_with_its_registered_cvar` now pins the default
to `registered_pairs()`'s row and pins the plate and the name culls to each
other, since a disagreement between those two is what made this read as
somebody else's bug.

It also answers the other half of his report. The gate `continue`s before the
plate is seated at all, so with `range_sq` at 0 no plate frame ever exists —
and UnitPlates works by adopting the plate frames under WorldFrame. One bug,
both symptoms: "nameplates will not turn on" and "UnitPlates does nothing" are
the same line.

And a packaging answer that comes before both, for UnitPlates specifically:
GitHub's "Download ZIP" unpacks `Redbu11dev/UnitPlates` as `UnitPlates-main`
with `UnitPlates.toc` inside it. The client looks for `<Folder>/<Folder>.toc`,
so the addon never loads — here or on the real client. The harness says it in
as many words: "no manifest under other-addons/UnitPlates-main — is that an
addon folder?". It has to be renamed `UnitPlates`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-30 09:02:47 -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 7a3ab5e7bf A tooltip raise cost 6.6 ms because every frame it minted re-derived the layout graph
`WOW_UI_VERBS=1` over the hover bench answered it in one line: the rebuilt frame's
cost was **`frame:GetLeft`, 3 calls at 2188 us each — 6.56 of the 6.6 ms** —
inside `UIParent:OnUpdate`. `GetLeft` forces a resolve, and each of those
resolves was a whole-graph derivation of ~19,000 frames and ~44,000 regions,
because `Model::frame_id` gave up naming the graph on every mint. OctoPawn mints
two frames on every `GameTooltip` OnShow purely to own a one-shot `OnUpdate` —
the 1.12 way to write `C_Timer.After` — so a raise dirtied the graph twice and
the three `GetLeft`s each paid for it.

A just-minted frame is now **appended to the cached graph as a leaf**
(`LayoutScope::append_frame_leaf`). Sound because the id was minted this instant,
so no anchor anywhere can name it: nothing cached reads the new node and no
cached edge moves. What it reads is its own anchors' targets, which the append is
handed — a mint is not always a creation, since `frame_id` mints on the first
*fetch* too, and a frame built in Rust (a nameplate, a chat bubble) is first
fetched when Lua asks for its wrapper with its anchors long written. `last` stays
`NO_NODE` so the incremental seed sees the hash move; `commit_incremental` counts
the slot, which keeps the next full pass's `matched != last_count` node-death test
honest. Refused when the frame already carries regions: a region is a graph node
without needing a minted id — the derivation mints region ids inside its own walk
— so only a derivation can add those rows.

**Measured, same bench, same interface: the rebuild costs -0.08 ms/frame under
forty churning plates and +0.14 ms with none up, from 6.63 and 6.78.** The
rebuilt windows now report no derivation sites at all.

Two things about how this was found, both in the bench's doc now:

- Its own earlier conclusion was that the cost was "the plate's line walk and the
  hooks hanging off it, flat, and not the graph it dirties", because the crowded
  and the empty shape cost the same. They cost the same because **both** were
  paying the full derivation. A fair experiment that was blind to its own answer,
  and one env var would have named it.
- `WOW_LAYOUT_VERIFY` over the real interface is red on this change — and it is
  the documented pre-existing 48-region shortfall, reproduced identically with
  the whole change stashed: `frames 13544 -> 13544, regions 29481 -> 29529`
  either way. All 2069 benilla-ui tests pass, and they run that verifier forced
  on after every resolve.

189 workspace failures, unchanged, no regressions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 18:49:58 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 3bbd99ebaf The slam macro, end to end through the path the game takes
He re-tested and it still never casts Slam, so I drove the whole thing rather
than the conditional: `UseAction` on a macro slot → `run_macro` fires
`EXECUTE_CHAT_LINE` per line (`0x4f14e0`) → the stock ChatFrame sends it through
its edit box (`ChatFrame.lua:1343`) → `ChatEdit_ParseText` finds
`SlashCmdList["CAST"]` → CleveRoids' hook → `GetParsedMsg` → `DoWithConditionals`
→ `Keywords.noslamclip` → `ValidateNoSlamClip` → `CastSpellByName`. On his own
interface, with his own 2.70 s weapon and Battle Stance, the line casts **Slam**
at the top of a swing and **Heroic Strike** 1.6 s in — which is the assertion the
old test never made, and the reason "the conditional answers true" meant nothing.

Three things came out of the drive.

**The load-time latch is worse than I wrote this morning, and it is what he is
seeing.** `GetSlamWindowPercent` reads SP_SwingTimer's `st_timerMax` cache, not
`UnitAttackSpeed`, so the `ADDON_LOADED` latch decides the window for the whole
first fight: the stand-in gives (2.0 - 1.5)/2.0 = **25%** against his weapon's
44%, while `st_timer` is still 0 so the swing reads **100% elapsed** — and
`[noslamclip]` is false with nothing said about it. Before the stand-in it was
false *and* printed "requires SP_SwingTimer" once; the fix traded a visible
failure for a silent one. Both states are pinned in the test now.

So the sheet is **seeded before the addon walk**, beside the roster record and
unit snapshot that are already seeded there for the same reason
(`ui_char::seed_combat_stats`). A `/reload` — and anyone mid-fight — now latches
the real weapon. A fresh login still has no self store (the create block has not
arrived, which is why the record comes off the roster), so the stand-in stands
there and heals on the first swing.

**And the stand-in now says so in the log.** One line per VM per token, through
the channel `/errors` lists: a combat-stats verb answering for "player" before
anything pushed that unit's sheet. One such read is expected at load; what the
line is for is the case where it never stops, which no test of the verb can see
because every one of them seats the sheet first. `UnitAttackSpeed` reaching Lua
with the store's own `UNIT_FIELD_BASEATTACKTIME` is now asserted through the real
`feed_char`, which is the test that was missing underneath all of this.

The dual-wield road is pinned too, because it is the one shape that can strand
the main-hand timer: `CheckDamageSource` returns "MAIN" on line one for a
two-hander and never runs its arithmetic, but dual-wielding it weighs the hit
against `UnitDamage`'s ranges scaled by the target's armour — and
`UnitArmor("target")` is 0 on any 1.12 client, ours included, because another
unit's resistances are not public. Every hit then reads UNKNOWN and falls to
`ClosestSwing == true or HeroicStrikeQueued()`, whose first half compares against
a *function* and whose second is true whenever this very macro has queued a
Heroic Strike — and `ResetTimer(true)` refills the **off-hand** timer while
`st_timer` runs to 0, where the elapsed read is 100 for good. That loop is the
addon's own and reproduces on any client; what we must not do is enter it when
the player is two-handed, which is `has_offhand` alone, and his combat log says
two-handed: 2.70, 2.71, 2.72, 2.68 between consecutive hits, with no 0.2 s
off-hand pairing anywhere.

189 failures, unchanged, no regressions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 17:33:31 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 76e022ba78 Two real macro-window bugs, and three expectations the realm had moved on from
The macro window's four reds were four separate things, two of them bugs a
player meets.

**Every macro made through the icon chooser had a blank icon.** This realm
rewrote `Blizzard_MacroUI` to keep bare upper-cased icon names in its own
`MACRO_ICON_FILENAMES` — `UpdateMacroIconFilenames` strips `INTERFACE\ICONS\`
off `GetMacroIconInfo` — and `MacroPopupOkayButton_OnClick` hands that name
straight to `CreateMacro`. `icon_path` took any string as a finished path, so
`GetMacroInfo` answered `ABILITY_AMBUSH` and `MacroFrame_Update`'s
`macroIcon:SetTexture(texture)` resolved nothing. The engine composes the prefix
itself: `Interface\Icons\` is at `0x44ca64`, inside `UIMacros.cpp`'s own string
block between the `DeleteMacro`/`GetMacroInfo`/`GetNumMacros`/`CreateMacro`
registration names and `MACRONODE`, which is what says the macro code owns it.
A number is still a chooser index, and a string that already carries a separator
is still a path.

**Selecting a macro with no icon raised and took the whole details pane down.**
`Blizzard_MacroUI.lua:84-85` feeds `GetMacroInfo`'s texture to `SetTexture` and
to `strupper` with no guard, so a nil answered there is
`bad argument #1 to 'strupper' (string expected, got nil)` inside
`MacroFrame_Update` — no editor, no body box, no character counter. The
reference cannot be answering nil, or its own UI would raise the same way: a
macro with no icon of its own now reads as the client's own
`INV_Misc_QuestionMark` (`0x447fe4`, same UI block), which is also the name the
realm's chooser puts in row 1.

The other three were stale readings of a file the realm has rewritten, each
checked against the chain copy rather than guessed:

- the character counter is `MacroFrameCharLimitText:SetText(this:GetNumLetters()
  .. "/" .. this:GetMaxLetters())` in the realm's own XML — "21/510", with no
  `MACROFRAME_CHAR_LIMIT` and no "Characters Used" tail;
- the chooser shows `GetNumMacroIcons() + 1` rows, because
  `UpdateMacroIconFilenames` inserts `INV_MISC_QUESTIONMARK` at index 1 ahead of
  anything the engine offers, so every list index is one past the engine's;
- both tabs call `PanelTemplates_TabResize(0)` with no cap and read
  `text="GENERAL"`/`text="CHARACTER"`, where stock passed -15, capped tab 2 at
  150 and formatted the player's name into it. That test was *about* the name,
  so it now checks the row is independent of it instead.

195 failures from 203, no regressions (`comm -13` over the sorted names).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 15:33:50 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 48c27d45bf The three multibar reds were one duplicate load, not a loader defect
`_G["MultiBarBottomLeftButton1NormalTexture"]` really was a different object
from that button's `GetNormalTexture()`, with both answering that same
`GetName()`, so every tint written through the global — the realm's own
`ActionButton_ShowGrid`, and pfUI constantly — landed on a region nothing drew.
I wrote that up as a state-texture publish naming the wrong region at two levels
of template inheritance and left three tests red on it.

It was neither the publish nor the depth. **These tests loaded
`MultiActionBars.xml` twice**: once through `load_action_bar`, where toc order
puts it, and again in each test's own list, left behind when the first was added
— 15 tests. Two loads build two sets of MultiBar buttons, and the two `_G`
publishes disagree about a collision: a frame's is non-overwriting (`0x701bd0`),
so `MultiBarBottomLeftButton1` stayed the *first* set's button, while the
loader's state-texture publish is a plain `globals().set`, so the region name
became the *second* set's texture. Every write through the global reached the
hidden second set.

What rules the loader out is now its own test: `expand`'s merge concatenates
children, and only the base of the real chain declares a `<NormalTexture>` —
`ActionBarButtonTemplate` and `MultiBar1ButtonTemplate` declare only `<Scripts>`,
read off the chain — so there is exactly one declaration at any depth, and a
synthetic three-level chain answers `named == live` at every level, top-level or
child of a named parent.

The other two reds in that file were a misread of the reference, in the same
place twice: `ShapeshiftBar_Update`'s last line is
`UIParent_ManageFramePositions()`, and the pass hides all three shelf strips
under `if ( MultiBarBottomLeft:IsShown() )`. So a form learned while the
bottom-left bar is up shows the middle strip and takes it down again inside one
call — it is never seen across the row, where both tests asserted it would be
"until the next pass".

17/17 in that module now. The publish asymmetry is left alone and written down
where it was found: no single load can reach it, the reference's region-name path
is not disassembled, and matching frames on a guess is not a fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 15:07:00 -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 1b1a90cf13 A swing speed of 0 latched for the session, and [noslamclip] never fired
grom's own probe is the record of it:

    st=0 max=0 pct=nil win=0 idx=1

Four readings of one cause. `UnitAttackSpeed("player")` answered `0` between the
VM's birth and the first `feed_char` push, and that window always contains the
addon walk — `load_ingame_ui_on_world_entry` mints the VM, seeds the player's
roster record and runs every addon's file scope and `ADDON_LOADED` before a
Bevy feed system gets a turn. SP_SwingTimer latches `st_timerMax` there behind
`if not st_timerMax`, and `0` is truthy in Lua, so the guard never re-fires:
the first write to that global in a session is always the pre-push answer.

With `0` latched, `CleveRoids.GetSwingPercentElapsed()` answers nil (its own
`attackSpeed > 0` gate), `GetSlamWindowPercent()` answers 0, and
`ValidateNoSlamClip()` takes its "requires SP_SwingTimer" branch and returns
false. So `[noslamclip]` is false and `[slamclip]` is true for the rest of the
session, and the macro picks Heroic Strike every time with no indication —
which is exactly what he reported. `idx=1` in the same probe says the
`stance:1/3` half was never the problem.

I had called this latch faithful, on the grounds that `reference/1.12-shapes.tsv`
has `UnitAttackSpeed` returning exactly 2 values and never none. That is about
the arity and says nothing about a `0`, which is a swing speed no 1.12 client
can answer: the player's UNIT_FIELD_BASEATTACKTIME is in the create block the
real client has before `UI_Init`, and a unit with no weapon still carries the
engine's 2000. `ui_char::base_swing` already wrote the rule down — "0 or absent
read as not yet streamed: the vanilla 2000, never zero, as the reference divides
damage by it" — and `UnitCombatStats::default()`, which *is* the pre-push
answer, broke it. Now both read `VANILLA_SWING_MS` from one place.

It was never only this macro: BetterCharacterStats' DPS rows divide by the same
number and read `inf` in that window.

The bench test that documented the latch as harmless now pins it as the defect,
and asserts what the stand-in buys: a drained swing timer measures 100% elapsed
rather than nil, `[noslamclip]` is false out of combat by the window math rather
than by the addon's own bail, and nothing tells him in chat to install the addon
he already has.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 14:15:26 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 998ab3f2f0 Two one-cause clusters: the pet bar never loaded, the auction window never built
**The pet bar, nine tests.** No script errors, and the shelf simply never
drew. PetActionBarFrame had no scripts attached at all: the kit seats a bare
stand-in under that name from the managed-positions pass — which it must,
since the pass does PetActionBarFrame:IsShown() (UIParent.lua:2065) — and the
real frame could never take the name back, a publish to _G being
non-overwriting (0x701bd0). So PetActionBar_OnLoad never ran, showgrid stayed
nil instead of 0, and ShowPetActionBar's `showgrid == 0` gate refused forever.

The kit was loading BonusActionBarFrame.xml, whose ShapeshiftBar_OnLoad calls
that pass, *before* PetActionBarFrame.xml. The realm's FrameXML.toc has them
at rows 83 and 84, the other way round. Loading them in toc order fixes eight;
the ninth asserted stock 1.12's unguarded `Attack ()`, and the realm now wraps
that append in `if ( key ~= "" )`, so the client was right.

Same shape and the same seat list that cost 137 tests through ChatFrame1.

**The auction window, fourteen tests.** The whole Blizzard_AuctionUI load
raised: the realm's rewritten CalculateAuctionDeposit is
`floor(price * (duration/120) * (1 + (maxStack - stackSize) * 0.05) * 0.025)`,
and GetAuctionSellItemInfo answered the reference's six values — 1.12 returns
exactly six — so maxStack was nil and the arithmetic raised out of
AuctionFrameAuctions_OnLoad. The window never built.

It answers eight now: maxStack from the template's stack size, and the link.
Then the realm's own CalculateAuctionDeposit replaces the engine binding, as
it is meant to, which is why that test's numbers move — its fixture also
needed Linen Cloth's real stack of 20, since a missing one reads 1 and makes
the factor shrink below 1 for a two-item stack.

Also recorded, because it changes what every earlier count in this session
meant: `cargo test --workspace` stops at the first failing binary, so the "96
failures" I had been tracking was benilla-app's lib target alone. With
--no-fail-fast the real total was 257; these two clusters take it to 243.
benilla-ui is fully green (2061), and 80 of the rest are the known
benilla-formats data goldens.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 10:57:44 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 9d0b4d068a The stock chat bubble drew under pfUI's, because its art had no handle
His screenshot shows two plates: a rounded grey one with pfUI's square box
laid across the middle of it.

pfUI's bubble module blanks every Texture it finds in the bubble's regions
and lays its own backdrop over the result (modules/bubbles.lua:30-48). Our
bubble held its two art paths only in the Backdrop struct, so the loop found
the tail and nothing else. The note in this file reasoned that pfUI's own box
covers the plate anyway — it does not: pfUI anchors that box 10 px wider and
10 px *shorter* than the bubble and fills it at 75% alpha, so the stock plate
goes on showing above and below, through a translucent square. That is
exactly the photograph.

The background and the border are now also Texture regions, listed first as
the reference lists a frame's engine regions first. They are anchorless and
draw nothing themselves; the backdrop still paints. drive() reads them back
each frame, and a region that has been blanked or hidden clears that half of
the backdrop — never restored, since a skin blanks a pool slot once and keeps
managing that frame for the session.

This is the reference's own shape rather than a deviation from it: a 1.12
backdrop's pieces are CSimpleTexture objects the frame owns, which
GetRegions (0x773f60) walks. Keeping the geometry in one struct is our
shortcut; these put the handles back.

The transcribed-pfUI test now expects three textures instead of one, and goes
on to assert the thing that actually matters — after the blank, the extract
carries none of the bubble's own art.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 10:04:17 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 fff48cd75c The sell-junk diagnostic sat behind the gate that fails
He hit sell junk again and the log said nothing — not because the sweep had
nothing to report, but because the sweep never ran.

pfUI's Sell Grey Items button is `if GetNumJunkItems() <= 0 then return end`
and only then SellAllJunkItems (modules/autovendor.lua). That is the one path
he clicks, so a zero count ends the click there. Last session's instrument
lived inside SellAllJunkItems, downstream of the thing that was answering
zero, and it could not be reached.

Both now share one junk_survey of the carried bags, so the count and the
sweep can never disagree about what they are looking at, and each says its
half:

  GetNumJunkItems, when it answers zero while occupied slots have no resolved
  quality, says so and names them — a truthful zero stays silent;
  SellAllJunkItems says what it queued as well as what it could not judge;
  and ui_merchant's drain now warns, rather than debugs, when a queued slot
  resolves to no item guid. That was the last silent place the click could
  die, and debug does not reach his log.

So whichever of the three branches is at fault, his next click answers it.

Also checked and cleared on the way: the drain's slot.saturating_sub(1) is
right — the feed keys container slots 1-based.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 09:36:04 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 7ebae975d9 A recipe never names the spell it teaches, so "Already known" never fired
He is still told he can learn recipes he already knows. The check was there;
it was written against a shape no recipe in the game has.

Read off his own item cache, the realm's Plans: Copper Chain Vest (3609)
carries exactly one spell: 3349, at trigger 0. The rule looked for trigger 6
carrying the taught spell. Neither half matches — and 3349 is not the craft
spell either, it is a learn *wrapper* whose single SPELL_EFFECT_LEARN_SPELL
teaches 3321. Nothing in the item record names 3321 at all, so no check that
reads only the item can ever answer this question.

The app now makes the hop while it has the catalog in hand, through
SpellCatalog::learned_spell, and hands the result over as
ItemTemplateView::teaches. The tooltip reds ITEM_SPELL_KNOWN when any of
those is in the known-spell set. The trigger-6 arm stays for an item that
really does carry its taught spell.

The old test passed throughout, which is the part worth keeping in mind: its
fixture was invented — trigger 6, spell 3330 — and 3330 is Silvered Bronze
Shoulders, nothing to do with this item. It now uses the realm's own record,
and a second test pins the 3349 -> 3321 hop against the shipped Spell.dbc so
the fixture can never drift from the data again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 09:24:00 -06:00
gromandClaude Opus 5 0da710810e An EditBox's engine quads answered nil, and ate the trade window's money row
His trade window has no money amounts: one empty box where the gold/silver/
copper row belongs. The cause is four regions that answer the wrong thing.

pfUI skins that row by walking the gold EditBox's regions for the first
Texture whose texture names "MoneyIcons", showing it, and re-anchoring it to
the right of the box — then the silver box hangs off that icon and the copper
box off the silver one (api/ui-widgets.lua:1225, api/api.lua:1693). Its scan
reads a nil GetTexture() as "no name to match against, take this one".

An EditBox's first four regions are the engine's own: the three selection
highlights and the caret, which GetRegions lists ahead of the authored
<Layers> ones. They paint host-side here, so they carried no texture and no
fill and answered nil — and pfUI took the caret for the gold coin. Silver and
copper then anchored off a zero-size region and the whole row collapsed.

The reference builds those four as colour-set textures, not empty ones, so
GetTexture answers them "Solid Texture" — the string is in WoW.exe, and
pfUI's scan does filter that out. They answer it here now. Nothing renders
differently: the host still draws the highlight and caret from sel_start /
sel_end / caret_shown, and the fill stays unset.

The new test runs pfUI's scan itself rather than asserting on our side of it,
because what matters is which region that loop picks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-29 09:06:59 -06:00