The interface is hand-written GtkBuilder XML and nothing in the build can see a mistake in it: a
property a class does not have, or a child a container does not accept, is a Gtk-ERROR when the
window is built -- and Gtk-ERROR aborts the process, so a typo in a .ui takes the application down
rather than failing to open a dialog. xml-stripblanks catches malformed XML and nothing else, and
the probes catch the rest only for the windows they open. Three of those aborts happened during
this refactor.
tools/check_ui.py round-trips each file through blueprint-compiler: decompile to blueprint, then
compile that, which type-checks every property and child type against the GIR. The XML stays the
source of truth and stays hand-written -- this is a check, not a compiler, and nothing here is
needed to build the application. Which is why the target is opt-in (no ALL) and the tool is looked
for at configure time rather than required: without it the target is absent, not silently passing.
$ make -C build test-ui
check_ui: 5 files in src/ui
ok help.ui ... source-form.ui
check_ui: 5 ok, 0 failed
Injected the exact mistake that cost a run earlier (an AdwEntryRow subtitle) and the check caught
it, with the caret and the "did you mean title?" hint, exiting non-zero. --lint prints the linter's
advice separately: it is advice, and the linter has opinions this project does not share.
GTK4 and libadwaita. It receives one UDP stream through the vendored
udpsclient, buffers it in a large ring, and draws it with the vendored
plotter: a trigger with a pre/post event window, a pause that freezes the
window, cursors, measurements, math channels in a node editor, an event cache,
named configurations, preferences, and an export of the visible window to
.npy/.csv. Waveform files can be opened and analysed in place.
The interface is two threads -- a producer that owns the socket and the GTK
main thread that owns every widget and the GL context -- sharing one model
under one mutex, with samples crossing through lock-free rings.
deps/plotter is a submodule pinned to the commit this tree builds against;
deps/udpsclient is vendored in place. docs/claude/ documents the rules that
cost a defect to learn, and SPECS.md is the requirement document.
The entry's Exec is the built binary's absolute path, so it always launches what
was last built -- and moving the build directory breaks it, which is the price
of having no install step. An install() rule would make a second copy that can
diverge; a documented cp would need the binary on PATH, which it is not.
The target writes the entry and both icons under XDG_DATA_HOME, refreshes the
desktop and icon caches when the tools are there, and runs
desktop-file-validate as a hard failure -- the shell ignores a malformed entry
in silence, so the failure belongs at the moment the entry is asked for. It
prints the three paths it wrote, which is the uninstall instructions.
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Both are drawn to the GNOME HIG: a 128px instrument face that leaves its
margins, carries one 4px front profile for depth and no gradients or shadows,
and a 16px symbolic reduction of the same metaphor in fills only. The colour
icon strokes its sine because it is never recoloured; the symbolic one cannot.
Every file in the manifest now preprocesses through xmllint, because a
malformed SVG is the one icon failure no runtime check can see: librsvg refuses
the file while the name still resolves, so the icon draws nothing and
has_icon() says it is fine.
The hand-rolled grid existed to avoid GTK's deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow;
libadwaita 1.8's AdwShortcutsDialog is the supported replacement, so use the
platform widget and get its search, sectioning and shortcut labels for free.
The table strings become GTK accelerator syntax, since the shortcut label parses
them. The six mouse rows cannot: no accelerator syntax names a wheel or a drag,
so they carry an empty accelerator and prose in the new subtitle field.
adw_init() is called in run_ui() and in choose_source() (replacing its
gtk_init()), which means the whole app is drawn with libadwaita's stylesheet.
Verified settled: viewport.w 870..870, axes.w changes 2, x-desync 0.
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The pages are Pango markup in a GResource, bundled for the same reason the icons
are: udpscope runs straight out of the build tree with no install step, so a
runtime search path's failure mode would be a silently empty help window.
--c-name=udpscope_help keeps the two generated bundles from colliding.
Every page is validated with pango_parse_markup() at load and falls back to a
one-line stand-in rather than rendering raw markup or nothing. show_help() reuses
help_window.cpp's existing close-request handler, and closes via
gtk_window_close() so that handler runs and the pointer is nulled.
UDPSCOPE_PROBE_HELP_MS loads and validates every page, opens the help and About
windows, closes both and reports; parsed must equal pages.
The chooser runs before ScopeModel exists, so declining costs no buffer and no
socket. UDPSCOPE_PROBE_SOURCES=1 prints what the discovery found and exits,
before gtk_init(), so the list is checkable with no display.
The flicker ("no data" at no constant frequency, worse with the measurements
and cursors panes up) was a torn read of the window's first stamp: acquire()
pins the window to the ring's oldest slot, and reading it at paint time races
the producer lapping it, returning a stamp one ring span too new. x0() is the
origin every trace point is reconstructed from, so one torn read produced a
refused neighbours(), a filter that dropped three quarters of the points, and
a polyline shifted off its axis. It is cached by acquire() under the lock now.
EventSeries::neighbours() answered from the (x - x0)/dx grid, whose drift from
the real arrival stamps arrives as a constant offset in seconds -- a doubling
share of the screen per zoom step, which is the "zooming into a held event
clips it more from the left" report. Both series binary-search the stamps now.
The measurements pane went through the LOD pyramid rather than reading its
window raw (19.7 ms per recompute to 1.2 ms, 0.1% of a 2 M-sample window) and
recomputes on a cadence; the math engine lost a per-slot heap allocation, a
per-sample source lookup by name and a fetch_add that cost more than the
arithmetic it counted.
The cursors pane's mix mode drew a line per *named* slot, so a slot holding a
signal that can never produce a channel -- the stream's timestamp -- got a row
that could only read "--", and such names were re-saved every session. It
counts bound traces now and apply_layout() refuses them.
Four toolbar icons are drawn for this app and compiled in as a GResource: the
stock ones were a record dot for the trigger and three magnifiers for cursors,
measurements and math.
New probes and dump lines for all of it (trace ink, measure cost, math cost,
event zoom, toolbar icons); README and CLAUDE.md record what they cure.
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Martino Ferrari