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Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 1d144663b9 ui: the readouts strip is also shown in a collapsed window
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 10:50:55 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 3526ce0541 docs: the readouts strip
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 10:47:11 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 c8d9d04f59 ui: the readouts show in a strip under the plot when the dock is hidden
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 10:47:11 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 54f2722fea ui: the tour names the dock button; the user guide's key table follows shortcuts.cpp
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 07:32:20 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 328588a8b9 docs: the manual and the user guide describe the badge bar, the dock and the slide-over pages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 07:28:16 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 86ea0bac38 ui: stale tooltip wording
The dock button's tooltip, the guided-tour menu row's tooltip and the m / g shortcut labels still described a side panel and tabs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 07:28:16 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 c4b79da057 docs: events in the dock and on its page
The dock's Events block, the events slide-over page, the availability-rule deviation, the probe lines and the removal of the left pane are described; the false remembered-width claim is gone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 07:19:33 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 9db5e4a49c ui: tour and help describe the events block
The dock tour stop names the Events block (one click replays, Manage opens the list) and the event-history and record hints point at the page and the dock instead of a left pane.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 07:15:38 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 794df9b4d0 ui: one way to open the events page, and stale wording after the pane's removal
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 07:11:34 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 8c866300d8 ui: the events list is a slide-over page; the left pane, its divider and the header toggle are gone
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 07:07:57 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 cb098eff75 ui: cap and cheapen the dock's events rebuild
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 06:56:24 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 baf1c73b21 ui: compact events block in the dock
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 06:48:35 +01:00
Martino Ferrari b08494dd36 docs: plan for the events dock block and the left pane's removal (step 4 of the redesign) 2026-11-03 06:43:19 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 ce3cc97b91 docs: the readouts dock, the cursors and measurement pages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 06:37:57 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 a2ce02db92 ui: tour and help follow the readouts dock
The dock tour stop describes the read-only readouts and their Edit buttons, and the cursors and measures hints point to the dock copy and the pages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 06:37:57 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 38b31360cc ui: the cursors and measure pages are insensitive until the stream has signals
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 06:29:32 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 3d307a0185 ui: the cursors and measurements panels are slide-over pages; the dock is the readouts
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 06:24:52 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 a0fc0762d5 ui: compact cursor and measurement readouts at the top of the dock
Both views are written from the same variable at the same call site, so the dock cannot disagree with the full panels.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 05:22:41 +01:00
Martino Ferrari a7a1609d48 docs: plan for the compact readouts dock (step 3 of the redesign) 2026-11-03 05:19:19 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 1627abcd4a docs: the sample budget in samples per signal, the memory limit and the planner probe lines
Converts every --buffer-mb / buffer_mb mention to --buffer-samples / buffer_samples,
records the unit change as a deviation (README, SPECS, CLAUDE.md), documents the
buffer: and planner: dump lines and the new Preferences row, and updates the help
pages and the help-shot script.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 02:49:21 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 034c82f7d7 Budget the sample buffer in samples per signal, under a hard memory limit
--buffer-samples (k/M/G) replaces --buffer-mb: the request is rounded down to a
power of two for every signal and the shared time ring. A separate memory limit
(--memory-limit-mb, a Preferences row, default 8 GiB) halves the plan until the
real ring bytes fit and says so on stderr and in the status line. The per-source
key buffer_mb becomes buffer_samples; an old buffer_mb is ignored.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 02:47:04 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 616cde5b13 badges: hide the Source badge when the source has no panel of its own
A Source pill that opens nothing (UDPS, Flat UDP, files) was noise. It is now shown only while the slide-over has a source page; the [badges] source line gains visible=.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 02:38:12 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 d8f82bd610 docs: source badge name only, no signals lock, the Add-a-signal page
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 02:14:37 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 b98a3478ff badges: source badge shows the name only; drop the signals lock; the signals page proposes what can be added
The link state is the status bar's, so the Source badge loses its state text. The signals have no lock
(the badges and signal pages are direct manipulation), and the signals page lists only unacquired
signals and uncomputed math channels (plus the acquired ones while the badge bar has overflowed).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 02:14:37 +01:00
Martino Ferrari dad424f1de ui: read the signal count under the lock in the badge bar; validate the drop payload 2026-11-03 01:53:09 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 5242babf99 docs: the signal badges, the signal pages and the six-badge overflow (step 2 of the redesign)
Also wrap the signals page's hint line, which at 375 px minimum widened the whole slide-over panel to 376.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 01:48:43 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 f315c677f3 ui: reword the docs that still spoke of the list drag; keep disabled signals' badge order; stamp the signal generation before the snapshot
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 01:37:31 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 ca10dfb323 ui: the signal badge is the drag handle (to a plot row, or to reorder); the list rows stop dragging
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 01:30:55 +01:00
Martino Ferrari f27925da59 ui: one badge per enabled signal, an N signals overflow, and the order kept in memory 2026-11-03 01:19:13 +01:00
Martino Ferrari ad5e30f338 ui: park the slide-over stack only when the dying signal page is the visible one 2026-11-03 01:11:06 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 3b1cda50e5 ui: signal pages honour the signal lock and disable the plot a signal is already on
The per-signal page bypassed the signals lock for the acquire tick and the math
Edit/Delete buttons, and offered "Plot on r" for a plot the signal was already on.
A removed page also let another signal's page show during the close animation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 01:09:29 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 baf4a1f20f ui: per-signal slide-over pages; the drop's assignment and the colour reset as shared functions
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 01:03:51 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 0dd235e41c ui: the signal list is the signals slide-over page, opened by a + badge or g 2026-11-03 00:54:25 +01:00
Martino Ferrari e36f2a202b docs: plan for the signal badges (step 2 of the redesign) 2026-11-03 00:46:43 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 54d7f63f35 ui: the s shortcut says dock, not side panel
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 21:07:56 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 0c94caf866 docs: the badge bar, the slide-over and the dock (step 1 of the redesign)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 21:03:03 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 a1672acc70 ui: tighten the badge/dock/tour probes after review and fix the tour's stale hole
The session old-file probe and save_scheduled now discriminate, Esc is read through the real key path, the dock-section probe proves the Measure section starts out of view, and the tour's spotlight is measured independently of the helper it is drawn from. A target scrolled out of its scroller no longer leaves the previous hole standing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 20:56:09 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 2826042156 ui: the tour and the contextual help follow the badge bar, the slide-over and the dock
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 20:46:59 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 4b65197f56 ui: the sidebar's tabs become one dock; Measure and Signals by keyboard section; session keeps the dock's state
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 20:37:55 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 31ff778e07 ui: the Source badge, and the source panels as slide-over pages 2026-11-02 20:19:47 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 5fb479bd69 ui: a badge bar with a Trigger badge, and the trigger form in the slide-over
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 20:12:16 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 a40863fa45 ui: a slide-over panel over the plot's right edge, with its probe
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 19:57:17 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 73f74ca495 docs: plan for step 1 of the badge bar / slide-over / dock redesign
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 19:50:12 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 c572ec280f docs: design spec for the badge bar, readouts dock and slide-over panel
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 19:28:40 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 3ac7a8f230 Merge feature/gen-rate-and-tabs into feature/source-plugins 2026-11-02 14:21:08 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 0d8c583bbb e1608: a configurable generator update rate, and the achieved rate in the Analog out panel
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 12:19:23 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 0c6e69957d ui: draw the sidebar tabs without the placeholder icon
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 12:11:16 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 5bb23e6a0a probe: name the MathNode fields; the build baseline is now one warning
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 12:06:45 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 7b9c62c911 Merge feature/e1608-scan into feature/source-plugins 2026-11-02 11:51:25 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 f74df49d33 e1608: scan review fixes (EINTR in Scan::poll, cfg-based broadcast test, no per-tick copy)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 10:27:00 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 8245324b51 docs: reconcile the E-1608 README with the real-board run and the scan lookup
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 10:22:47 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 dbf145094a e1608: probe and docs for the network scan
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 10:20:16 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 24bdd6b930 e1608: a Scan network row in the connection form, with click-to-fill results
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 10:17:01 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 43c21a0cc2 e1608: discover boards on every interface, not only the default route's
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 10:14:47 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 9426a61919 docs: implementation plan for the E-1608 network scan 2026-11-02 10:07:50 +01:00
Martino Ferrari eb4e59ac50 Merge feature/text-tabs into feature/source-plugins 2026-11-02 10:03:28 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 16e6d7fa75 ui: sidebar tab selector uses text labels instead of icons
The two drawn tab glyphs were judged not understandable enough; the
switcher goes to the wide policy with titles only, and the glyphs,
their gresource entries and the icon-naming code are removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 09:49:55 +01:00
Martino Ferrari b6822cd32d docs: tidy the scan spec 2026-11-02 09:42:54 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 19b7f25b82 docs: design spec for the E-1608 network scan 2026-11-02 09:42:50 +01:00
Martino Ferrari a8e12b26a2 flatudp: restore the datagram_size declaration deleted by the previous comment fix 2026-11-02 07:06:02 +01:00
Martino Ferrari bec9942d3d flatudp: correct the all_scalar doc comment 2026-11-02 01:27:15 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 d955baf612 flatudp: the signal-row editor form with a per-row Vector as drop-down, its probe line, README and architecture notes
Multicast was verified on a loopback group (239.255.42.99 on 127.0.0.1); a real network was not exercised.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 01:23:51 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 e3bc1f72f3 flatudp: vector rows as channels or as a waveform, a re-openable source, probes for both
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 01:18:43 +01:00
Martino Ferrari a523bc2bd9 docs: flat UDP spec and plan amendment -- vector rows as channels or as a waveform 2026-11-02 01:12:58 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 78a29fbc39 flatudp: the source, kind, mock sender and stream probes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 01:05:38 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 6e8e71b32f flatudp: the signal-list codec, with a hand-computed decode check 2026-11-02 00:58:02 +01:00
Martino Ferrari dde2dad5b1 docs: the flat UDP source implementation plan 2026-11-02 00:53:37 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 6c01689bfe docs: flat UDP spec -- drop time_mode, record the batching and event rules found in acquisition.cpp
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 00:36:14 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 cf4d105ece docs: design spec for the flat UDP (MARTe2 UDPSender) source
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 00:32:54 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 e8db5602a2 e1608: cosmetic minors -- 2-digit frequency spin, smaller mock catch-up cap, docs wording
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 00:24:15 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 87822ed4f5 Clear the open minors: lost marking and overrun logging, form teardown guard, line breaks and ERANGE in config, probe strength
The E-1608 source marks every restart as lost and logs each overrun; its form stops touching
siblings after the chooser destroys them; the link skips command id 0, retries a full-buffer
discover send and ignores a zero-length scan read. Session files escape \n and \r; get_int and
get_double reject out-of-range values; the UDPS port spin reports changes; a skipped source panel
says why on stderr. The E-1608 probe now checks the signal names and the reconnect itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-02 00:19:27 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 6245811699 e1608: do not fight a hardware trigger, stop the scan on a failed connect, daemon drop timer in the mock
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 10:01:38 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 3093568d11 docs: the E-1608 source kind, its probe readings and its unverified commands
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 09:54:49 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 2e9f9664cf e1608: UDPSCOPE_PROBE_E1608 and the e1608 form sample in the source-kinds probe
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 09:50:59 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 407051959a e1608: the Analog out and Digital I/O panels
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 09:46:26 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 bacc960776 e1608: the settings, the DataSource state machine, and the connect form
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 09:43:45 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 5ac1b36a1f e1608: link and device layers (discovery, handshake, framed commands, calibration, decode)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 09:40:58 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 558d13d521 tools: a protocol mock of the MCC E-1608, with its unverified commands listed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 09:39:25 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 5380a0d26c plan: the E-1608 source plugin implementation plan 2026-11-01 09:00:41 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 69585a963b spec: MCC E-1608 source plugin (sub-project 3) 2026-11-01 07:48:20 +01:00
Martino Ferrari dd4aed8dec fix: escape the source title in markup; capture peer comes from the source config 2026-10-31 20:27:47 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 4d859d6a37 docs: the source-plugin framework, the --source options and the source-kinds probe
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-31 20:22:22 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 5cee00aaee source: capability panels as side-stack pages, with a probe for the path 2026-10-31 20:18:28 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 79c33b25c5 chooser: refuse to edit a session of an unregistered kind 2026-10-31 20:15:15 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 14f1421b2b chooser: pick the source type; each kind supplies its own connection form 2026-10-31 20:08:39 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 059b660586 source: a synthetic probe kind, and sessions that remember their source kind
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-31 20:04:42 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 4ae91bd58b source: normalise UDPS signal dimensions in to_info; comment tidy 2026-10-31 20:02:55 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 504bc193ea acquisition: drive a DataSource from the registry; --source and --source-opt 2026-10-31 19:59:51 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 46076312cc source: the UDPS client behind DataSource, with its config form 2026-10-31 19:57:11 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 3896f404a9 source: DataSource, Frame, SourceConfig and the registry (unused yet)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-31 19:56:00 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 71b904a93b docs: settle source-plugin implementation details in the spec 2026-10-31 19:54:23 +01:00
Martino Ferrari 5bc14b1163 docs: implementation plan for the source-plugin framework 2026-10-31 19:52:21 +01:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 1a3393229a docs: design for the data-source plugin framework (sub-project 1 of 4)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-31 19:25:21 +01:00
Martino Ferrari f3f8f67a62 tools: a remote display script, Xvfb plus x11vnc over an SSH tunnel
Over SSH with X11 forwarding the app does not appear: no usable Vulkan device means GTK cannot
create a swapchain, and `--renderer cairo` fixes that half only -- the plot is a GtkGLArea and asks
for its own GL context, so indirect GLX is the second wall. A virtual X server on the machine that
runs the app sidesteps both, because the GL context then lives next door to the samples.

`tools/udpscope-remote.sh` starts Xvfb on a free display, runs the app there with
`--renderer cairo`, and serves the screen through x11vnc bound to localhost only -- the SSH tunnel
is the authentication, so `-nopw` is deliberate and `-localhost` is what keeps a mistake from being
a remotely reachable screen. It prints the tunnel and viewer commands rather than assuming a
client, mentions the websockify/noVNC route for a browser, and takes the X and VNC servers with it
when the app exits. `--no-vnc` leaves just the virtual display, for another viewer; the preflight
names the install command instead of a bare "command not found".

Verified: the preflight refuses with exit 1 and the install line when x11vnc is absent; with
`--no-vnc` the app runs against the virtual display and reads `buffer allocated: 4 channels` with
no Vulkan warning and no critical, and no Xvfb is left behind when the timeout ends it. That run
also exercises what the earlier log showed by omission: nothing is enabled, so a working app
plots nothing.

The README's Limitations gains the bullet a person actually needs -- the exact warning string, that
both halves need the software preset, the script itself, and that a window which appears but stays
empty usually means no signal is enabled.
2026-10-28 16:16:32 +01:00
Martino Ferrari fcf268d249 Add --renderer for displays with no usable GPU; gate the header reading
GTK4 defaults to Vulkan, and an X11-forwarded display has no device to make a
swapchain from; the plot is a GtkGLArea, so it then asks for a GL context that
is not there either. --renderer cairo is the software preset for that display:
it exports GSK_RENDERER=cairo and LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 in main() before
gtk_init()/adw_init(), because both are read when the renderer and the context
are created. --renderer gl is the faster choice when indirect GL works, and
--renderer vulkan makes the default explicit. Nothing is exported, and GTK's
own choice stands, when the option is absent.

The once-a-second header line is now behind UDPSCOPE_PROBE_HEADER, following
the [notrace] rule: its widths are still sampled for the exit dump, but the
line is detail behind that reading rather than output every run prints.
UDPSCOPE_PROBE_RENDERER prints the exported pair before GTK starts and the
GskRenderer GTK actually built.

README, the manual's overview and docs/claude record the two symptoms and the
cure.
2026-10-28 16:03:05 +01:00
Martino Ferrari ac054a30c9 fix: bound the density grid, and make [notrace] a reading instead of a flood
The plotter caps a density grid at kDensityCellCap now (deps/plotter), so a 2 s
window with persistence on no longer scales the image with the window: the
probe's four one-signal rows read 1 044 714 cells / 4 178 856 bytes where they
read 2 226 150 / 8 904 600, and a moved frame uploads 1 044 714 bytes where it
uploaded 2 226 150. The probe's own legs are unchanged (on peak=1.0000,
step-acquisitions peak=1.5000, step-time ratio=0.367879).

The paint probe no longer counts a frame the density is drawing as *traceless*.
`Renderer::draw_traces()` returns while the ink is the image, so every frame of
a persistence display stages no trace: the dump read `traceless paints: 653
(637 after the first bind)` for a run whose real figure is 4 (0), and the
`[notrace]` line printed for each of those frames. It is now behind
UDPSCOPE_PROBE_NOTRACE -- a per-paint line is a log flood and not a reading --
while the counters it details stay in every build, and the line stays reachable
for the state it was written for (a bound row that draws nothing).

Docs corrected where they stated the old rule: the README, the trigger
invariants, the density probe's readings, the verification list (the new
variable) and the manual page behind the panel's tooltip.
2026-10-16 21:09:11 +02:00
Martino Ferrari da826f2cb5 fix: persistence is the trace's own phosphor, not a density behind a stroke
The plotter now deposits every acquisition -- the newest included -- into one grid per trace and
draws no solid trace over it, each grid in that trace's colour and with a one-sweep ceiling (its own
commit, **1b8b55d**). This side needed almost no change of its own, because the colour was already
the trace's and the trace's colour is `RowSet::signal_color()` -- the invariants' one route -- but the
figures it reads back are now per trace:

- **The ceiling is left at the library's default of one sweep**, no longer derived from the fade.
  Deriving it from the steady state is the gain offset the user reported between the latest
  acquisition and the persistent image; a signal crossing the same place every acquisition now settles
  at the trace's colour, at full strength, and the newest sweep reads as the trace it is a picture of.
- **`cells`/`grid_bytes` are the sum over the row's traces** -- one grid each, a trace with no series
  holding none -- and both the probe and the exit dump carry `traces=` beside `rows=`. That is what
  makes the per-signal memory figure read: **556 537 cells and 2.2 MB per signal**, at 8904600 bytes
  over the four one-signal rows of the probe's run.

The probes, re-read on this build (the `verification.md` command, `--rate 500000 --batch 1000`):

    [density-probe] off enabled=0 ... rows=0 traces=0 cells=0 ink=0.0 peak=0.0000
    [density-probe] on enabled=1 ... rows=4 traces=4 cells=2226150 ink=226786.0 peak=1.0000
    [density-probe] step-acquisitions ... peak=1.5000
    [density-probe] time-before ... peak=2.1359
    [density-probe] step-time ... ratio=0.367879
    [density-probe] frame cost: tick 0.62 -> 6.96 ms (184/23 frames), draw 2.02 -> 6.16 ms (177/18)
    [udpscope]   density: frames=748 rows=4 traces=4 cells=2226150 grid_bytes=8904600 ink=489400.2 peak=2.2 upload_bytes=2226150

`on` `peak=1.0000`, `step-acquisitions` `peak=1.5000` and `step-time` `ratio=0.367879` are the legs
that were expected, unchanged; the *draw* mean is now **below** the run before the split (2.02 -> 6.16
against 2.09 -> 20.91), because the solid traces are no longer drawn over the image.

Docs updated with it: the trigger manual page (`persistence` is the trace, one image per signal, the
newest included), the README's persistence section, `invariants-trigger-and-pinning.md` (five rules,
the ceiling and the no-stroke rule among them), `verification.md` and `probe-readings.md` (the lines
above), the trigger panel's comment and tooltips, and the plotter submodule.

`cmake --build build --clean-first -j4`: **0 errors, the documented three warnings** (two
`MathNode::source`, one `-Woverlength-strings` at 12352); `make -C build test-ui` **13 ok**;
`make -C build test-help` **green** (15 pages); the self-check **0 `Gtk-WARNING`/`Gtk-CRITICAL`** and
`gtk warnings: 0`, two `buffer allocated:` lines.
2026-10-16 20:21:57 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 5e32199597 fix: the density's ceiling comes from the fade, so the ramp is visible
The library's `full_scale` now defaults to the default fade's steady state and `gamma` to 1.0 (its
own commit); this side states the ceiling for the fade *it* configured, because that is what the
ceiling means: the ink the display settles at, so the newest acquisition is a fraction of full ink
and white is reached only where acquisitions agree.

- **acquisitions**: `1/(1 - factor)` -- the geometric sum, 2.0 at the panel's 0.5, and 1.0 at 0
  (only the newest sweep, at full ink).
- **time**: the library's default of two sweeps. A time fade has no fixed steady state -- it
  settles where the trigger's rate and the constant meet, which is the *point* of it -- so a fast
  trigger reads brighter than a slow one the way a phosphor's does.
- `gamma` is left at the library's 1.0: a cell is a count of sweeps, so half as many must read as
  half the ink. With the ceiling at one sweep and gamma at 0.45 (the library's first defaults) one
  sweep was already full white and every display looked the same -- which is exactly what the user
  reported seeing, and why the assertion for it is a framebuffer one in the library's case
  (`empty=21 full=83 quarter=54`) rather than anything `ink`/`peak` can say.

The probe's own figures are unchanged in kind (they are the grid's): `on` `peak=1.0000`,
`step-acquisitions` `peak=1.5000`, `step-time` `ratio=0.367879`, `off` all zeros -- re-read on this
build, with the frame cost `tick 0.53 -> 7.49 ms`, `draw 1.89 -> 16.78 ms` and `gtk warnings: 0` in
the same run. The trigger/pinning invariants carry the ceiling rule and why the eye found it.
2026-10-16 17:38:06 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 974d6aa2d9 trigger: a phosphor persistence, driven by the plotter's density image
The trigger pane gains the display the user asked for and the library now provides, and the
persistence it already had is renamed to what it is.

**Persistence is one image; the last-N-traces display is "multiple events".** Both live in a new
`Advanced` expander in the trigger panel, together with the settings that are set up once and left
alone. `persistence` (a switch) turns on the plotter's `Plot::set_density()` for every row:
every triggered acquisition is accumulated into a screen-sized intensity grid drawn behind the
traces, brightness being how many acquisitions covered a cell -- no depth to choose, no memory
that grows with the acquisitions (2.2 MB over four 573x412 rows in the probe's run). `fades by`
picks the fade the user asked for: **acquisitions** (each keeps a factor of what was before it,
0.5 by default -- the phosphor afterglow) or **time** (a time constant in stream seconds, so the
display fades while you watch whatever the trigger rate).

- **Trigger mode only, as asked.** `apply_density()` (the tick) states the display on for `Held`
  and `Capturing` and off for `Live`, `Waiting`, `Paused` and a file, and turning it off drops the
  grid at once rather than at an acquisition a quiet trigger never sends. It is unpickable and
  reserves no layout space, exactly as the invalid-span bands are: a density can never be in the
  way of a cursor or a drop, and it cannot move the framing.
- **One deposit per acquisition, one frame after the frame that frames it.** `Plot::accumulate_density()`
  deposits what the plot holds through the transforms of its *last* layout -- the frame's own is
  computed inside the paint that follows the tick -- so `density_pending` is set beside
  `record_pending` and consumed by the next tick. In the same tick it was right on a Held-to-Held
  transition and wrong on the first latch, whose axis was still the live ring's. Switching the
  display on under an acquisition already on screen deposits it too, so the switch does not appear
  to do nothing until the next latch (`single` mode may never send one).
- **The session carries it**: `trigger_density`, `trigger_density_decay` ("acquisitions"/"time",
  the words the panel shows), `trigger_density_tau` and `trigger_density_factor`, written whether
  or not it is on -- and `trigger_persistence` still means the multiple-event depth, so an older
  file is unchanged.
- **The library changed twice under this**: the deposit now counts a cell **once per trace per
  sweep** (counting the hits put one dense sweep at the ceiling of the brightness scale and hid the
  sweeps behind it -- the probe's `on` leg read `peak=18` for a single sweep and reads `peak=1`
  now), and a frame's upload is every row's rather than the last row's. Both are in the plotter's
  own commit.

`UDPSCOPE_PROBE_DENSITY_MS` reads it all back off the plots -- the plotter's own `ink()`/`peak()` --
with the panel's own widgets driving the switch and the fade, in four legs: **off** (`rows=0
ink=0.0 peak=0.0000`), **on** (`rows=4`, `peak=1.0000`), **step-acquisitions** (`peak=1.0000 ->
1.5000`, the factor then the new sweep) and **step-time** (`ratio=0.367879`, `1/e` for `dt = tau`).
It also reads the frame cost as an A/B **inside one run** (the accumulators at the switch against
the frames after it): `tick 0.74 -> 9.99 ms`, `draw 2.09 -> 20.91 ms` at four rows and 2.2 M cells
on llvmpipe.

Acceptance: clean build 0 errors and exactly the three documented warnings (12352-byte GResource
blob, two `MathNode::source`), `test-ui` 13/13, `test-help` green, a plain run with **0
Gtk-CRITICAL / Gtk-WARNING** and `gtk warnings: 0`, and the panel's own frame reading
`boxes=16 controls_inside=15/15 advanced_widgets=5/5 advanced_inside=5/5` (the block's controls
counted from the expander's child, which is not in the widget-parent chain -- and the search
block's walk now names *its* expander instead of "the first one", which the second expander would
have stolen).

Docs: the trigger/pinning invariants carry the rule and its five consequences, `probe-readings.md`
the four legs and the dump line, `verification.md` the probe's sequence and assertions, and the
manual's trigger page explains both displays to a user.
2026-10-16 17:28:54 +02:00
Martino Ferrari e14e1ee069 trigger: a phosphor display keeps the last N acquisitions; and a Force button
Two changes in the trigger pane, landed together.

**Persistence.** Trigger mode keeps the last N published acquisitions and draws them fading toward
the background, N being a panel control (1..8, default 1) with N=1 meaning today's behaviour
exactly, so the knob is the switch. The layers are the accumulate path's own -- one layer per
(signal, age) in the row's free trace slots, named with the accumulate vocabulary so
`layer_base_name()` strips the suffix and `signal_color()` resolves the base signal -- so a layer is
not a signal: the signal list, the colours and the measurements see one row per signal.
`ScopeModel` retains the outgoing snapshot in seven atomic `shared_ptr` slots (no lock, no copy; the
snapshot already exists) and a layer's channel is resolved **by name inside the snapshot**, because
the channel list is renumbered by any structural change since that acquisition was cut.
`RowSet::sync_layers()` re-plans from the rows and the depth alone, so a latch costs no rebuild, and
`event_data_window()` skips layer slots so an older acquisition can never re-pin the axis. The
schedule is 0.5^age -- the acquisition on screen at full brightness and each older one half the
previous, independent of N, so raising the depth adds dimmer acquisitions rather than rescaling the
ones already on screen. Memory is bounded by the ring's own `--buffer-mb` rather than by the depth,
which is the bound that cannot be driven into an OOM, and the panel says when either bound bites.
This also wired up `set_trace_alpha()`, which the accumulate path was setting and nothing was
reading -- so the documented 0.35 translucency of an accumulation was opaque in fact.

**Force.** In the trigger pane beside Arm/Disarm, shown only while trigger mode is on: one
acquisition now, with the configured window. It is a synthetic edge rather than a second publisher
-- the engine opens one capture at the present moment and everything else is the ordinary latch, so
a forced acquisition is cut, pinned, framed, recorded and cached exactly like a latched one, and
the button owns no window and no publish. The pre-trigger gate is deliberately skipped (capture now
is a request for the history that exists, and the snapshot reports its own shorter pre_s), a
capture already filling is refused rather than restarted, and the state afterwards is the mode's:
Normal stays armed, Single disarms. The request is one atomic flag written under the model mutex
with `armed` -- the producer reads `armed` at the top of a packet and the request at the bottom, so
a request written between the two would be dropped -- and consumed at the end of a packet, after
the channel loop and before the pending publish.

**A defect fixed in passing, in the function Force was modelled on:** `on_arm_clicked()` passed
`TriggerConfig::channel` (an index into `channels()`) to `set_signal_enabled()` (an index into
`signals()`). With one signal acquired, arming switched on the stream's clock signal and left the
watched signal untouched -- and since a signal the panel was not showing is a change, it rebuilt
the buffer under the click, dropping the very pre-trigger window the arming, and now the Force, was
about to capture. Measured before: `0.0100 s of history behind it`; after: `2.5299 s`.
`trigger_signal_index()` is now the one resolution, used by both buttons.
2026-10-16 16:46:17 +02:00