Each sidebar page gets its own glyph and no visible text. The Measure tab reuses the ruler
(`udpscope-measure-symbolic`, the icon its deleted toolbar toggle used and the Plot preferences page
still carries); the Signals tab gets a new `udpscope-signals-symbolic` — three rows of a colour chip
and a name, which is what that tab mostly is — rather than a second copy of the trigger glyph, since
one shape meaning two things in one window is worse than a new one. Its bars are all one length: a
set of unequal ones reads as a bar chart, and a chart is not a list.
`AdwViewSwitcherPolicy.narrow` alone does **not** give an icon-only bar. Measured on libadwaita 1.10
by walking the switcher's tree: with `narrow` and a title, each pill holds a `GtkImage` *and* a
`GtkLabel` — 48px of "Measure" inside a 54px pill. So the pages' `title` is **empty** (their `name` is
what identifies them to `select_side_tab()` and to the session file, and both are unchanged) and the
words are re-attached in code: `name_side_tabs()` runs on the first tick — the pills are
`AdwViewSwitcher`'s own and exist only once it is mapped — and gives each pill a **tooltip and an
accessible name** from the page's name, then hides the empty label that would otherwise leave the
icon off-centre. An icon-only pill is still a named control for a screen reader, and the page icon
that does not resolve leaves a *blank* pill, which is why it is read like the toolbar's icons are.
Two readings, because the claim is two claims:
switcher: policy=narrow pills=2 labels=0 names=2
page icons: measure=udpscope-measure-symbolic(ok) signals=udpscope-signals-symbolic(ok)
`labels` counts *mapped labels with text* — a plain mapped count reads 2 either way, because the
narrow pill keeps an empty label in its layout — and `pills=2` is the guard that makes it mean
something: with nothing mapped the rest of the line is void rather than a pass.
Docs: the icon census (six action icons, eight bundled, and what each of the two new users is), the
switcher bullet in `invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md` with the measurement above, the two new dump lines
in `probe-readings.md`, the re-measured GResource figures in `verification.md` (icons 8613 -> 9842
bytes, help 514660 after this session's help rewrite; the count stays four), and the README recording
that the design spec had the switcher showing titles and neither page an icon.
Verified: `make test-ui` 14 files; `[side-tab-probe] … advanced=4` (tab switching by name still
works with empty titles); `signals panel: … divider=1`; `[math-probe] 3 math channels`; zero
`Gtk-CRITICAL` and no missing icon.
`UDPSCOPE_PROBE_SIDE_TAB_MS` is the one reading for the design's §5 rule -- the statistics
accumulator keeps running on the hidden page -- which nothing tested before. It switches to
Measure, forces one pass so there is a baseline, switches away to Signals and reads again two
seconds later: `advanced=4` is the assertion, and `advanced=0` is the defect where the
accumulation is gated on the visible tab, which would leave a gap in min/max/avg for exactly as
long as the trigger was on screen.
Two things the probe has to do for itself, and getting either wrong makes `advanced=0` a lie
about the tab:
- it **enables its own signal**, because a signal starts disabled (enabling is what starts
acquisition) and a probe that waited for one to be on would be reading another probe's side
effects -- and `UDPSCOPE_ENABLE_ALL_MS` is not part of this run;
- it **assigns that channel to a plot**, because a channel with no trace leaves the live window
*still*, and a still window is precisely the state `update_measures()` is supposed to skip.
Measured the hard way: without the assignment the probe read `advanced=0 min_n=0` with the view
pinned and only four passes in twelve seconds, none of them the tab's doing.
Docs: `probe-readings.md` gains the probe's entry and the signals panel's new shape
(`rows == signals + 1 + math`, `divider=0` a list that lost its `+`), loses the whole `math
panel:` entry, and follows `pane_sensitive=`, the gone `revealed=` field, the six toolbar
controls and the tab-reading `m`/`g` key pairs. `verification.md` gains the probe's bullet and
the re-measured warning figures. The invariants record the sidebar as a switcher above a stack
with a scroller per page, the hidden-page trap that replaces the unrevealed-revealer one for it,
that a feature's on/off is sensitivity rather than visibility, that a math channel is a row of
the signal list, and that a cursors-off readout blanks to `--` with the panel left on screen.
`shortcuts.ui` and the help page's window and sidebar bullets stop describing five revealers.
The README records the deviation from `SPECS.md` that names the panes as separate collapsible
sections.
Verified: `[side-tab-probe] page=signals rows=4 accums=4 advanced=4 min_n=16`;
`signals panel: labels=2 list=1 rows=9 signals=4 math=4 divider=1`; `panels: … (page_current=1)
(sensitive=0) switcher=1`; `toolbar icons:` six controls with every name `(ok)`, with the
Preferences dialog opened in the same run; zero `Gtk-CRITICAL` and no missing icon.
`rebuild_signal_list()` is handed `model.signals()`, and `append_math_signals_locked()` already
appends one synthetic entry per math channel -- "they go through the ordinary signal path on
purpose: a derived channel is a channel" -- so **every math channel was already a row of the
signal list**, with its tick, chip, name, unit and menu. The math pane listed the same channels a
second time, so this is mostly a deletion: `build_math_panel()`, `rebuild_math_pane()`,
`src/ui/math-panel.ui` and its resource entry, `App::math_list`, and the `math panel:` dump line.
What the one list gains:
- a non-selectable `MATH` divider before the first math row, carrying the `+` that creates a
channel -- appended even when there are no math channels at all, because a `+` conditional on
one existing could never create the first one;
- a math row's own menu: *Edit graph…*, *Default colour*, *Delete*. No Information and no
Calibrate (calibration is applied at ingest, and a derived channel has no stream to describe),
and no rename, because the node editor owns a channel's name and unit -- a second place to
change them would be a second answer to the same question. An item dismisses the row's popover
before opening or destroying anything from it;
- `App::math` mirrored from a math row's tick: `enable_locked()` mirrors it into the model, but
`App::math` is the copy the session file is written from. The mirror sits *before* the
`apply_math_channels()` in the `!on` path, which would otherwise push a stale `enabled = true`
straight back into the model;
- a tick visible in a file view too: a derived channel is computed, and a file view has no
acquisition to start, which is the other tick's question.
`rebuild_signal_list()` also publishes the list's own shape -- `rows`, `signals`, `math` -- and
the dump prints `divider=1` when `rows == signals + 1 + math`: the reading for a list that lost
its `+`.
Verified: `make test-ui` 14 files (was 15); `signals panel: labels=2 list=1 rows=9 signals=4
math=4 divider=1`; `[math-probe] 3 math channels`, every other line unchanged; no `math panel:`
line, and zero `Gtk-CRITICAL`.
Finding 2 — four builder ids had no null check. `side_stack`,
`side_switcher`, `measure_page` and `signals_page` were resolved at
lines 4709-4712, well past the skeleton null-guard. A typo in the `.ui`
would have been a silent segfault. The four resolutions are moved to
the guard block and added to its condition, in the same form the guard
already uses.
Finding 3 — the 'editable focused: m refused' leg of keys_probe was
deleted instead of ported. It is restored, adapted for the new
behaviour: 'm' now selects the Measure tab instead of toggling a pane,
so the refusal is observed as the side_tab name being unchanged across
the synthesised key, not as a toggle that did not flip. The dump line
keeps its existing name and `refused=` field so probe-readings.md:601
still describes it.
Finding 4 — `exit_probe_step3` assigned `sidebar_shown` to both
`dbg_side_visible` and `dbg_side_column_after_hide`, and the panels:
dump line read the wrong one (dbg_side_visible) for its `(visible=)`
field. Two readings that cannot disagree diagnose nothing. Resolved
by making `panels:` read `dbg_side_column_after_hide` and removing the
redundant `dbg_side_visible` field.
Finding 5 — the three-line rationale comment above `reload_file_view`
in `apply_math_channels` was removed by the commit under review.
Nothing it said became untrue. Restored verbatim from e10a92f.
Finding 6 — three comments the change made false:
- `on_activate`: 'the sidebar's scroller' replaced with 'the sidebar's
tab switcher and two-page stack', matching the actual ui file.
- `update_side_visibility`: 'Hiding the scroller instead left an empty
column where the panels should be' removed; the design it described
no longer exists.
- `header-bar.ui`: 'two of them are toggles' updated to 'one of them
is a toggle'; after signal_toggle's deletion the overflow menu holds
one toggle (layout).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the sidebar's five-panel scrolling column with an AdwViewStack
carrying two pages — Measure (cursors + measurements) and Signals
(trigger + math + channel list) — with an AdwViewSwitcher above it. The
trigger and cursors toggles change from "reveal/hide my pane" to
"enable/disable my feature, leaving the pane insensitive", following the
disable-not-hide principle. The keys probe loses a duplicate registration
that was toggling the sidebar back on before the exit probe captured its
state; the exit-probe captures now read adw_overlay_split_view_get_show_
sidebar() instead of gtk_widget_get_visible(), which AdwOverlaySplitView
never changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two label-only rows in trigger-panel.ui (band_row, hf_row, after holdoff_row and before
mode_row) and the two spins the code appends into them: the band on the level spins' scale
in signal units, the HF reject at 0-1e7 Hz with 0 off. Both are published with the other
fields -- read before the model lock is taken, assigned inside it -- and both join the
value-changed loop, so editing either republishes the condition.
The rows are shown per type: the band for every type but Dropout, which is an absence a
band cannot describe, and the HF reject for all of them, since it sits before every
comparison. `sync_trigger_rows()` resolves a row as its spin's parent rather than keeping a
second handle to it: the row comes from the file and holds one child.
The exit dump counts the panel's controls, so it reads controls_inside=15/15 now -- and the
probe confirms it, along with both search readings and no Gtk-CRITICAL:
[udpscope] trigger panel: boxes=15 controls_inside=15/15 search_widgets=4/4 search_inside=4/4
Moving the editor's frame into math-editor.ui left `math_body` and `math_actions` as
<child> elements of the *window* rather than of `math_outer`, because those edits were
anchored on the file's tail and closed the outer box two elements early. A GtkWindow
takes exactly one default <child>, so nothing failed loudly: the body -- with the canvas
and the parameter form inside it -- was left parentless, visible but never mapped, 0x0,
drawing nothing. Two symptoms, one cause: the canvas is blank, and the window is sized
around the head row and the buttons alone.
Measured against the pre-move revision in a worktree, same probe, same environment:
before this fix `canvas=0x0 mapped=0 window=756x940`; after it `canvas=420x836 mapped=1
window=938x940`, which is the old revision's own reading exactly.
It survived because that slice's probe read the editor's *values* (nodes, gain, output,
name, unit) and nothing about its structure. Every other panel moved that day has a
structural reading -- `controls_inside=13/13`, `nested=1`, `labels=2 list=1` -- and none
of them was affected. `[math-probe] editor frame:` is that reading now: the canvas's
allocation, its mapped state, and whether the canvas and the name entry are inside the
dialog at all, delayed 500 ms because an allocation only exists after a layout. In the
broken build it read `0x0 mapped=0 in_dialog=0`.
check_ui passes both files: the XML was valid and every property type-checked.
src/ui/header-bar.ui holds the bar: the time-window control's slot, the trigger, pause and
events group with the separator that marks where the view's controls end, and the five at
the far end. What stays in code is everything that acts on the model -- the overflow
menu's rows, the window control itself, and every handler.
The order is the file's, which is the part the code used to explain in three comments: a
<child type="end"> is added leftwards-from-the-right in document order, so the screen reads
the reverse of it -- cursors, measurements, math, sidebar, menu.
The first start child is a *slot* and not the control, and that is the one thing this move
could not do naively: gtk_header_bar_pack_start() appends after whatever a file has already
packed, so the control -- which is code, its menu's rows coming from the buffer's limits --
would have landed to the right of the whole group instead of at its head.
The probe is the check, and every header reading is byte-identical to before the move: 12
lines of `header:` (window_button_w=130 bar_w=756), `window control:`, `panels:`, both
width-probe frames and all seven layout-probe lines. Only `badge frames:` differs, and it
is a frame counter. check_ui: 14 ok, 0 failed.
src/ui/events-pane.ui holds the pane: the GtkRevealer that slides it in, the header with
the way back to the live stream, the Compare and Accumulate actions, and the list inside
its scroller. The rows stay in code -- one per latched event, rebuilt whenever the cache
changes -- and their sensitivity stays with update_group_buttons(), which is why the file
only starts the two actions insensitive.
Two statements moved into the file along with the widgets, because they are about what the
pane is for rather than about a default: multiple selection, and activation on *double*
click. With single-click activation the plain click that builds a selection would replay
the event instead.
Read back as `events pane: compare=1 accumulate=1 list=1 revealer=1 nested=1`, where
`nested` is the list being inside the revealer -- the one thing a lost id cannot show. The
[events] probe is the other half and drives the pane end to end: recording, trigger, the
history button, a row click and the replay, then Compare and Accumulate, so the file's
buttons are read by being clicked. check_ui: 13 ok, 0 failed.
The row is the file's -- the box and its two buttons, the second carrying the
suggested-action class -- and what is code is what they do and what the second one says:
"Save" edits an existing channel and "Add" makes a new one, which the file cannot know.
With it the editor's frame is whole: the window, the identity row, the body with the
canvas in it, and the buttons that end it. The parameter form and the palette stay in
code, and for the reason the canvas's *drawing* does -- the form follows which node is
selected and the palette is the operation table itself.
The probe clicks the apply button rather than calling its handler, so
`dialog build: ... name='math3' unit=''; saved nodes=2 output=1` is that button having
worked from the file, and `after close: dialog=cleared` / `reopened: dialog=ok, nodes=2`
are the lifetime around it. check_ui: 12 ok, 0 failed.
The second half of this plan row, and the half of that dialog which is template.
src/ui/math-editor.ui holds the window (its size and modality), the box around it,
the identity row -- the name and the unit -- and the body with the canvas in it.
What stays in code is the drawing: the canvas is a GtkDrawingArea the file *declares*
and the code draws, with the gestures that make it a graph editor, and the parameter
form follows which node is selected. The palette and the buttons go next.
The builder is held on `App` and cleared on the *next* opening rather than with the
window: the window belongs to the builder's object list, so freeing the builder under a
live window frees the window with it. That is the source form's pattern, and the probe's
close-then-reopen path is what exercises it -- `reopened: dialog=ok, nodes=2`.
The identity row is read back too, since a `.ui` can hold the widget but not the value:
`dialog build: ... name='math3' unit='' ...`, the entries having been filled from the
channel being edited. check_ui is at 12 ok, 0 failed.
The first half of this plan row. src/ui/math-panel.ui holds the panel: the box and its
margins, the heading row with the title and the add button, and the list the channel rows
go in. The rows stay in code -- each is a channel with its name, unit, expression, colour
and its own edit and remove buttons -- so the file holds the frame, as in the measurements
and signals panels beside it.
Read back by a dump line that also reads the file's own text:
`math panel: head=2 buttons=1 list=1 title='Math channels'`, where buttons=0 is a lost
`+` and title='-' a lost label. `[math-probe]` still drives the add and opens the editor,
so the rows landing in the file's list is read as well as the frame.
The other half is the node editor's chrome, which is where least of that file is template:
the canvas is a GtkDrawingArea that is drawn rather than declared, and the gestures, the
parameter fields and the palette are code. That is its own change.
src/ui/signals-panel.ui holds the panel's shape: the box and its margins, the heading,
the hint that says what a signal is for, and the list. The rows stay in code -- one per
signal, carrying that signal's switch, colour, calibration and drop targets, rebuilt
whenever the stream's signals change -- so the file holds the frame, which is the shape
the plan gives this slice.
The list's width-only size request moved with it, comment and all: a height floor there
made the list occupy 120 px whatever it held, which hid the compact rows' height behind
it.
Read back by a new dump line, `signals panel: labels=2 list=1`, where a lost id reads as
`labels=1` or `list=0` instead of a panel quietly missing its hint; `panels: … row_h=26`
still reads the list's geometry and the height a row takes. check_ui is at 10 ok.
The panel's shape -- the heading, one labelled row per setting, the two buttons that
run it, and the search block -- now lives in src/ui/trigger-panel.ui. Every control
that carries a value stays in code and is appended into the file's row: a dropdown's
model and a spin's range are the application's, a label is text a translator owns, so
that is where the line runs. `row_for()` is `labeled_box()`'s arrangement with the
labels moved into the file; the thirteen old calls to `labeled_box()` here are gone and
its eleven uses elsewhere are untouched.
`sync_trigger_rows()` now guards the rows it shows and hides, because a row that comes
from the file can be missing rather than merely misnamed.
The frame is read back by a new dump line:
trigger panel: boxes=13 controls_inside=13/13 search_widgets=4/4 search_inside=4/4
where `controls_inside` is what a drifted id breaks -- a control built and never placed
leaves the panel with a field missing and nothing else complaining -- and
`[defaults] trigger: 0.001 0.002 0 0.001 0 50 0.01` still reads the seven spins in the
same tree order, which is the check that the restructure kept the panel's contents.
Two days of grief came out of one GTK fact, now in the invariants: an expander's child
is not in the widget-parent chain (`gtk_widget_get_parent()` is NULL for it even after
the window is presented, while `gtk_expander_get_child()` returns it), so the probe
walk had to start there instead of at the panel. The throwaway program that settled it
is what stopped the workaround -- a second root in the file plus a code attach -- from
being the answer.
The panel's shape -- the title row with its add button, the one statistics switch
the whole panel shares, and the box the readings go into -- now lives in
src/ui/measures-panel.ui. The readings stay in code: each row is a measurement a
user placed, rebuilt whenever the set or the mode changes.
A faithful move, not a redesign: the same margins, spacing, labels, tooltips, flat
classes and insensitive Reset button, the same two lambdas on the same two signals.
The frame is read back through the dump line, which grew the two fields that can
disagree with the code that drives them -- `measures pane: n=4 revealed=0
marks_shown=6 pane_rows=4 pane_w=0 pane_h=0 switch_on=1 reset_sensitive=1`. In that
reading pane_rows=4 is the four readout rows having landed in the frame's
`measures_list`, and switch_on/reset_sensitive are the switch widget and the Reset
button following measure_stats_on, which the probe set through the same signal a user
would. `check_ui` type-checks the file (8 ok, 0 failed) and the build stays at four
warnings.
The last hand-built UI outside ui.cpp. The window, its header bar, its two pages and the
four buttons that are about the chooser rather than about a source now live in
src/ui/source-chooser.ui; the rows stay in code because a source row and a waveform row
are data, rebuilt whenever the known hosts or the recent files change.
The pages were a GtkNotebook and are an AdwViewStack under an AdwViewSwitcherBar, which
is what current libadwaita asks for and the same information without a tab strip. The
three actions moved from a button row at the foot into the header bar, the shape
source-form.ui already uses -- and deliberately without receives-default, since Enter
must keep activating the selected row.
Nothing carries a value: the tooltips and labels moved as they were, the handlers are
the same functions, and the switch is by page *name* rather than by index.
The probe reads the frame back -- `[sources] chooser ui: page='sources' title='Sources'
icon=yes page='waveforms' … switcher_wired=1 buttons=[prefs=1 new_host=1 open=1
cancel=1]` -- so a .ui that lost an id is named instead of opening a window with a hole
in it, and `check_ui` type-checks the file against the GIR (7 ok, 0 failed).
Two things the checks caught while doing it: the new frame dropped the call that fills
the waveforms page (the unused-function warning), and `AdwViewStackPage` is a GObject
that *wraps* a child rather than being one, so reading the pages needs
adw_view_stack_get_page().
Fifteen display strings in the two preference forms were written as GTK mnemonics -- `_Directory`,
`_Server`, `Multicast _group`, `_Theme` and the rest -- but the property that makes GTK read them was
never set, so GTK drew the underscore literally: `_Directory` in the row, not a D with a line under it.
Two switches are involved, FALSE by default in each case. `GtkLabel`/`GtkButton` take `use-underline`;
the rows take `AdwPreferencesRow:use-underline`, "whether an embedded underline in the title indicates a
mnemonic". The two buttons in the source form already set it (so their mnemonics worked and showed no
underscore); the thirteen rows did not. All thirteen now do.
The row classes that carry the property are not all related -- AdwEntryRow has its own, while AdwSpinRow,
AdwComboRow and AdwSwitchRow get it through AdwActionRow -- so the probe reads it by name on a GObject
(g_object_class_find_property, then g_object_get) rather than casting to one row type; a cast to a
`GtkWidget*` where the type is only forward-declared does not compile at all.
`_Cancel` and `_Connect` both claimed C in the same form, so Alt+C could only reach one of them: that
marker was unreachable, which is worse than absent because it is in the source to be trusted. `_Connect`
becomes `Conn_ect`, freeing C for Cancel.
[prefs-probe] reads the count (4/4) on the real widgets; check_ui validates the property against the GIR
for every object in every .ui file, inherited properties included.
The sidebar's width was a GtkPaned divider position: `window - 940` in pixels. On any window
narrower than 940 px the divider landed past the right edge and the sidebar came up 0 px wide,
reachable only by dragging the divider back.
Every attempt that kept the paned failed for that reason -- deriving the position from the paned's
own width, re-parenting the column, property-form children, code-set size requests. The mechanism was
the fault, so it is gone: the row is an AdwOverlaySplitView, which is what a utility sidebar is in
GNOME, with min-sidebar-width = max-sidebar-width = 320 in pixels. Its width is therefore its own at
any window size, and when there is no room beside the plot it *overlays* the plot (collapsed, set from
the window's width in tick()) instead of being squeezed to nothing.
Two things found on the way, both recorded in the invariants:
- sidebar-width-fraction is a 0..1 fraction of the window whatever sidebar-width-unit says. Setting a
pixel count there is a GObject critical and it falls back to 0.25, which is why the sidebar first
read 560. The width is pinned with min/max instead.
- the window opened at its content minimum (756 px, the plot column plus the sidebar) because the
explicit gtk_window_set_default_size() was dropped when the window moved into the .ui. Restored.
[sidebar-probe] reads both states and is the guard: window=756 sidebar=320 under a 2x scale, which is
the case that used to read 0.
src/ui/cursors-panel.ui holds the panel's shape -- the header with the mode dropdown and the reset
button, and the grid the two cursor times are read in. What is not in it is the grid's contents,
which follow the cursor mode and the rows and are rebuilt whenever either changes.
Panels need a builder that outlives them, unlike the dialogs, which are rebuilt on every opening: a
widget belongs to the builder that built it, so App::ui_builders holds each panel's for the life of
the window. ui_load() is that, in ui_widgets.cpp.
make test-ui also checks that udpscope-ui.gresource.xml lists every .ui file now. That was the third
trap of this refactor -- a file on disk but not in the resource is a Gtk-ERROR at load, which aborts
-- and it is a compile-time mistake that nothing else in the build could see. Verified by unlisting
the new file and watching the check fail, then restoring it.
[cursors-probe] reads as it did: all four modes, pane=1, the timings and the drag cases.
src/ui/main-window.ui holds the window, its two panes, the plot column with the status line under it,
and the sidebar's scroller. What stays in code is what depends on the stream: the events pane, the two
plot areas, the sidebar's panels and the status popover, each put into a slot by id.
The header bar is deliberately not in the file. It is the window's own titlebar, every button on it is
wired to an action, and an AdwApplicationWindow refuses a titlebar outright -- a fatal Adwaita-ERROR
rather than a warning that leaves the window merely ugly -- so the window is a GtkApplicationWindow and
the header bar stays where it was.
gtk_paned_set_position() is the other thing that had to stay in code, and the reason is order rather
than shape: it clamps against its children *now*, so stating it before the sidebar's panels exist moved
the plot column by ~180 px.
The layout, events and box-zoom probes read what they read before this change, and the header reads
window_button_w=130 bar_w=756 as it always has -- checked by building the previous commit and running
the same probe against it, because the layout numbers in the notes turned out to be stale from an
earlier session. Five UI files now.
src/ui/source-form.ui is the form a source is added or edited with: an AdwDialog of
AdwPreferencesGroup rows (AdwEntryRow, AdwSpinRow, AdwSwitchRow) with its action in the header bar,
where the label says which mode the form is in -- Connect for a new host, Save for an existing
configuration. The grid of labels and bare entries it replaces had its hints in placeholders, which
vanish as soon as there is a value; they are the groups' descriptions now.
src/ui/help.ui is the help window's chrome: an AdwWindow with a header bar and an
AdwNavigationSplitView whose sidebar is the page list. The rows stay in C++ because the fourteen
pages are data, not template.
Four UI files now, 653 lines of template that used to be widget construction. Two libadwaita traps
cost a run each and are in docs/claude/invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md: an AdwDialog has no content
property (its child is a plain <child>, unlike an AdwToolbarView), and AdwEntryRow has no subtitle
(it is an AdwPreferencesRow, not an AdwActionRow). The unused form_field() helper went with them.
Every probe reading is unchanged -- [sources] form:, [sources] edit form:, [help] -- which is what
refactoring a shape rather than a behaviour should look like.
src/ui/preferences.ui is an AdwPreferencesDialog whose rows are libadwaita's own -- AdwEntryRow,
AdwSpinRow, AdwSwitchRow, AdwComboRow, AdwButtonRow -- instead of a label and a bare GtkEntry in a
GtkBox. There is no Apply button: a row applies as it changes, which is what those widgets are
designed around, and [prefs-probe] reads the settings file back after every change.
The folder chooser is cancellable now, so a picker still open when the dialog closes cannot write
into a row that is gone; the cancellable is also how the probe takes the cancel path without a
mouse.
Two traps cost a run each and are recorded in docs/claude/invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md: an
AdwDialog is not a GtkWindow (it cannot parent a GtkFileDialog, and in floating mode it adds a
native surface to gtk_window_get_toplevels() that is neither a widget nor a window), and a .ui
that is not listed in the GResource is a Gtk-ERROR at runtime rather than a build failure -- which
is exactly what the probe opening every window is for.
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.
Martino Ferrari