ui: a refused drop says so, and looks like a message rather than the status

The refusal was never silent -- `on_drop_channel()` has always set a notice -- but the
status bar renders `notice + "   |   " + glance` in one label, so "plot 1 already holds
four signals" arrived looking like part of the routine text a reader skims, which is the
"no clear user feedback" report. The probe's own reading showed it plainly: the label held
`plotting 'sine' on plot 1   |   live · 4.44 kS/s · 2 s window`.

Three changes:

- While a notice is fresh the status label carries the stock `.warning` class, so a message
  looks like a message and the class goes when the notice does. Every notice benefits, not
  just this one.
- The refusal says what to *do*: "plot 1 holds four signals already: drop it on another
  plot, or add a row with the layout editor (L)".
- The drop's inline notice now goes through `set_notice()`, the one setter, instead of
  writing `app.notice` and its deadline by hand.

[drop-probe] reads the whole path, with the row filled first so the drop under test is the
refusal:

    full row refused the drop: 0 (want 0)
    refused feedback: notice='plot 1 holds four signals already: ...' warning=1
    the status line, composed: warning=1 status='plot 1 holds four signals already: ... | live · 9.97 kS/s · 2 s window'

The label is read in the third line and not the second on purpose: the status line composes
the notice into itself on its own cadence, so a beat after the refusal it may still hold the
previous text -- which the first attempt at this reading mistook for the fix not working.

The row limit is not silent in the same way: the layout editor's `+` is insensitive at
`kMaxRows`, which is a control that says "no" by being unusable rather than a message.
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@@ -356,3 +356,12 @@ Part of [CLAUDE.md](../../CLAUDE.md). These are rules that cost a defect to lear
surface closes the window popover. That needs no hit test beyond the button, because a popover *is* its own surface closes the window popover. That needs no hit test beyond the button, because a popover *is* its own
surface and a click inside it never arrives; the button is left to its own click, whose toggle is what surface and a click inside it never arrives; the button is left to its own click, whose toggle is what
closes it. `[windowpop]` reads both halves, with autohide off so it is testing the rule and not the grab. closes it. `[windowpop]` reads both halves, with autohide off so it is testing the rule and not the grab.
- **A notice shares the status line with the glance, so it has to *look* like a message.** The status bar
renders `app.notice + " | " + glance` in one label, which is exactly where a reader skimming the
routine text ("live · 9.97 kS/s · 2 s window") will not see it: a refused drop that said "plot 1 holds four
signals already" was read as no feedback at all. While a notice is fresh the label carries the stock
`.warning` class, so a message looks like a message and the class goes when the notice does. Two corollaries
worth knowing: the line composes on its own cadence, so a notice can appear a beat after it was set (do not
read the label in the same tick a handler ran), and a refusal should say what to *do* about it -- "drop it on
another plot, or add a row with the layout editor (L)" rather than the bare statement of the limit.
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@@ -1229,3 +1229,17 @@ probe, exactly as the menu probe does it -- a popover dismisses itself when GTK
grab goes missing, where the press has to close the bubble anyway. `click_gestures` reads that the controller grab goes missing, where the press has to close the bubble anyway. `click_gestures` reads that the controller
is *connected* as well as that its handler works; the last press is on the button itself, which must be left is *connected* as well as that its handler works; the last press is on the button itself, which must be left
to its own toggle (`want 1` rather than `0`). to its own toggle (`want 1` rather than `0`).
## `[drop-probe]` and what a refused drop says
```
[drop-probe] full row refused the drop: 0 (want 0)
[drop-probe] refused feedback: notice='plot 1 holds four signals already: drop it on another plot, or add a row with the layout editor (L)' warning=1
[drop-probe] the status line, composed: warning=1 status='plot 1 holds four signals already: ... | live · 9.97 kS/s · 2 s window'
```
`UDPSCOPE_PROBE_DROP_MS`. The first line is the refusal itself (a full row takes no more signals); the
second is that it *said so* -- the message and the stock `.warning` class the status line carries while a
notice is fresh; the third is the composed line the user reads, which is why the label is only checked here
and not in the second: the status line folds the notice into itself on its own cadence, so a beat after the
refusal it may still hold the previous text.
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@@ -4009,10 +4009,16 @@ gboolean tick(gpointer user) {
} }
if (glance.size() > app->glance_max_chars) app->glance_max_chars = glance.size(); if (glance.size() > app->glance_max_chars) app->glance_max_chars = glance.size();
// A notice is not the glance. It is prefixed onto the same line, which is exactly where a reader
// skimming the routine text will not see it -- "there is no clear feedback" was that, with a refusal
// ("plot 2 holds four signals already") looking like part of the status. The stock `.warning` class is
// what makes a message look like a message, and it goes when the notice does.
if (!app->notice.empty() && g_get_monotonic_time() < app->notice_until_us) { if (!app->notice.empty() && g_get_monotonic_time() < app->notice_until_us) {
gtk_widget_add_css_class(app->status_label, "warning");
const std::string with_notice = app->notice + " | " + glance; const std::string with_notice = app->notice + " | " + glance;
gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(app->status_label), with_notice.c_str()); gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(app->status_label), with_notice.c_str());
} else { } else {
gtk_widget_remove_css_class(app->status_label, "warning");
app->notice.clear(); app->notice.clear();
gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(app->status_label), glance.c_str()); gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(app->status_label), glance.c_str());
} }
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@@ -3367,6 +3367,49 @@ gboolean drop_probe(gpointer user) {
ok ? 1 : 0, a->rows->row(0).name[0].c_str(), a->rows->row(0).name[1].c_str(), ok ? 1 : 0, a->rows->row(0).name[0].c_str(), a->rows->row(0).name[1].c_str(),
a->rows->row(0).name[2].c_str(), a->rows->row(0).name[3].c_str()); a->rows->row(0).name[2].c_str(), a->rows->row(0).name[3].c_str());
} }
// Fill the row first, so that the drop below is the *refusal*: a drop can otherwise land in a slot
// whose signal is named but not acquired, which is a success rather than the case under test.
{
const std::vector<ChannelInfo>& channels = a->model->channels();
for (int slot = 0; slot < RowSet::kSlotsPerRow && !channels.empty(); ++slot) {
if (a->rows->slot_bound(0, slot)) continue;
const ChannelInfo& ch = channels[static_cast<std::size_t>(slot) % channels.size()];
a->rows->assign(0, slot, ch.name, ch.name, 0);
}
}
// The refusal's *feedback*, a tick later: the status line composes the notice into itself on the
// next tick, so this is where both the text and the class that makes it visible can be read.
g_timeout_add(500, +[](gpointer u) -> gboolean {
App* app = static_cast<App*>(u);
// And the drop that the full row has to refuse, fired here so its feedback is what the reading below
// sees rather than the last success's.
GValue refused_value = G_VALUE_INIT;
g_value_init(&refused_value, G_TYPE_STRING);
g_value_set_string(&refused_value, "1");
const gboolean refused = on_drop_channel(nullptr, &refused_value, 40.0, 20.0, app);
g_value_unset(&refused_value);
std::fprintf(stderr, "[drop-probe] full row refused the drop: %d (want 0)\n", refused ? 1 : 0);
// The message and its class, which are set the moment the drop is refused. The *label* is read in
// the later line instead: the status line composes the notice into itself on its own cadence, so
// here it may still hold the previous one.
std::fprintf(stderr, "[drop-probe] refused feedback: notice='%s' warning=%d\n",
app->notice.c_str(),
gtk_widget_has_css_class(app->status_label, "warning") ? 1 : 0);
std::fflush(stderr);
// Again a second and a half later: if the label is still the previous notice then the status line
// never recomposes it, which would be the whole of the "no clear feedback" report.
g_timeout_add(1500, +[](gpointer u) -> gboolean {
App* app = static_cast<App*>(u);
std::fprintf(stderr,
"[drop-probe] the status line, composed: warning=%d status='%s'\n",
gtk_widget_has_css_class(app->status_label, "warning") ? 1 : 0,
gtk_label_get_text(GTK_LABEL(app->status_label)));
std::fflush(stderr);
return G_SOURCE_REMOVE;
}, app);
return G_SOURCE_REMOVE;
}, a);
std::fflush(stderr); std::fflush(stderr);
return G_SOURCE_REMOVE; return G_SOURCE_REMOVE;
} }
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@@ -290,8 +290,7 @@ gboolean on_drop_channel(GtkDropTarget*, const GValue* value, double x, double y
if (signal >= app->model->signals().size()) return FALSE; if (signal >= app->model->signals().size()) return FALSE;
const auto notice = [&](const std::string& what) { const auto notice = [&](const std::string& what) {
app->notice = what; set_notice(*app, what, 4);
app->notice_until_us = g_get_monotonic_time() + 4 * G_TIME_SPAN_SECOND;
std::fprintf(stderr, "[udpscope] drop: %s\n", what.c_str()); std::fprintf(stderr, "[udpscope] drop: %s\n", what.c_str());
std::fflush(stderr); std::fflush(stderr);
}; };
@@ -334,7 +333,11 @@ gboolean on_drop_channel(GtkDropTarget*, const GValue* value, double x, double y
} }
} }
if (slot < 0) { if (slot < 0) {
notice("plot " + std::to_string(row + 1) + " already holds four signals"); // Say what to do about it. A refusal a reader cannot act on is only half an answer: the two ways
// out are another plot or another row.
notice("plot " + std::to_string(row + 1) +
" holds four signals already: drop it on another plot, or add a row with the layout "
"editor (L)");
return FALSE; return FALSE;
} }
// The slot remembers the *signal* (and element), never the channel index: the // The slot remembers the *signal* (and element), never the channel index: the