The controller has always tracked its selection; nothing drew it, so a Ctrl or
Shift drag framed a range with no feedback until the release.
The preview is the area the release will change, not what the pointer swept:
Ctrl frames the x range only, so a band across the plot is what it will zoom,
where the sliver a straight horizontal drag sweeps is only the gesture. The
plot carries the rect a host hands it -- it learns nothing about pointers --
and the renderer draws a low-alpha fill under a light border over everything
else inside the axes.
Breaking: Series::gather emits x relative to x0() and takes a GatherMode;
consumers reconstruct absolute x in f64 before mapping (series.hpp documents
the contract).
Bugs, each pinned by a fail-before regression test:
- render: f32 staging quantised epoch-time x into 128 px columns; every
data-space draw now stages to_space(x) - to_space(origin) with the origin
folded into the offset uniform in f64 (epoch/zero-origin twins rasterise
identically)
- ticks: major test was ULP-fragile and blanked epoch axes; majors are an
integer-index test and are never truncated by the minor cap
- gather: LOD envelope emitted buckets straddling [begin,end); ceil/floor
bucket edges + raw lead/trail spans
- live follow: log x axes held a linear span and zoomed every frame; span and
offset now live in axis space (plot + both figure link-group paths)
- input: a zero-notch wheel disarmed auto_scale on every axis; dy==0 pans x,
factor == 1 / inf refused in wheel and drag zoom
- render: the single text flush painted legend names over the crosshair
readout panel; two batches, under flushed before the panel
- data: NaN dropped from min/max unless it seeded the fold; non-finite
samples are now excluded from every aggregate and from cached bounds
Robustness: viewport normalisation (no clamp UB), non-finite range refusal,
pyramid level cap at 57 (no shift/div UB through public gather), rounded ring
capacity documented + pre-sized, GL blend func and UNPACK_ALIGNMENT
save/restore, Renderer::release_gl() teardown, u64 buffer epochs, annotation
captions clamped, button-aware GLFW row capture, cached figure row rects (no
per-event layout), ruler-pair measurement refused, span-nonfinite guards in
axis_ends.
Features: XY series (sorted x, binary-search neighbours/snap, LOD over sample
index); StreamSeries::freeze(); ArraySeries::push(); per-trace dash and
markers (scatter at width 0) with auto or literal stride; GatherMode
Envelope/Nearest/Mean via bucket_sum/sumsq; Style::line_aa_px; per-glyph text
colour (readout values in trace colour); wheel-dx x pan; arrow-key pan;
Escape cancels a drag and restores captured ranges; modifier-masked box zoom
(Shift both, Ctrl x, Alt y); double-click reset via PointerEvent::time_s;
ImGui key repeat unified; pinch gestures on Qt and GTK; pixelDelta wheel path
and DevicePixelRatioChange handling; GNUInstallDirs, SOVERSION,
SameMinorVersion, generated plot/version.hpp, relocatable plot.pc, licence
install, FILES_MATCHING, GitHub Actions CI (debug/coverage/asan).
Suite 283 -> 350 cases, 0 failed; coverage 93.9% (3730/3971) over 24 files,
floor 80/90 held; ASAN preset suite green; all four demos run headless (the
GTK scripted-resize check needs a window manager and fails identically on the
parent commit); readme_main.cpp committed and compiles with the README
command; pkg-config and find_package consumption verified from a relocated
install prefix.
The repository had no licence at all, so every source was all-rights-reserved
by default. Add the verbatim MIT text at LICENSE (Copyright (c) 2026 Martino
Ferrari) and a two-line SPDX header to each of the 113 first-party sources --
48 include/plot, 26 src, 10 adapters, 5 examples, 21 tests, 3 tools -- so the
grant travels with each file rather than relying on the root document alone.
Scripts keep their shebang on line 1; the SPDX lines follow it. Genuinely
vendored code is untouched: third_party/stb_truetype.h carries no header of
ours. src/render/embedded_mono_font.cpp is generated, so tools/fonts/gen_atlas.py
emit() now writes the two lines into its header comment and the file was
regenerated -- gen_atlas.py --check passes and the regeneration adds only those
comment lines to the previously committed file.
README's provenance section now states MIT and links LICENSE.
No code, test or public API change.
Zeroing an unusable wheel amount turned it into a zero-notch zoom: the factor was
exactly one, the range did not change, but the zoom body still ran through
set_x_range/set_y_range, which clear auto_scale unconditionally. One garbage wheel
therefore disarmed auto-fit on every axis. on_wheel now rejects an unusable amount
before the event can mutate anything, keeping the position fallback.
The tests that should have caught it are strengthened: the wheel case now asserts
auto scale is still armed (it was passing either way), and the invalid-position
case checks a pan measured from the last real position with the drag alive, rather
than a range nothing could have moved.
The widget drew a region derived from the child's content rect alone, so a child
the hosting window cut off cleared and painted over the host's pixels; it also
scaled ImGui's (-FLT_MAX, -FLT_MAX) no-pointer sentinel and differenced it against
the last real position, turning a drag out of the window into a ~1e35 pan, and it
forgot the host's button levels across a re-bind, handing the next plot a press
that never happened.
The region is now the content rect intersected with the child's clip rect (a
no-op when nothing clips it), an invalid position is no position update, and the
button levels survive a re-bind. The controller sanitises non-finite coordinates
and deltas for any host, and the widget's input translation now has a committed
test on the headless EGL context.
Every pixel-to-data conversion in the controller now maps through the
same rectangle Plot::x_transform/y_transform are built from:
- pan() derives the scale from layout().axes.w/.h, so a drag moves the
grabbed data point by exactly the drag distance (the viewport model
stranded it behind the pointer by the label-strip fraction).
- apply_box_zoom() clamps the selection to layout().axes and sets each
range from the transforms (x_transform().to_data_x(l/r), y_transform()
.to_data_y(bottom/top)); the selection's bottom edge is the y minimum.
- end_drag() takes the release event and refreshes the selection from its
coordinates before applying, so a host that reports only press and
release still frames the box instead of degrading it to a click.
- axis_zoom() uses a per-pixel sensitivity (200 px == one decade) rather
than reusing the wheel's per-notch constant, so a pixel drag is no
longer treated as a wheel notch.
Tests now assert the grab-and-drag invariant through the transform (the
old pixel-fraction assertions certified the viewport defect), add a
press+release-only box zoom, and pin the axis-zoom magnitude.
Martino Ferrari