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Martino Ferrari 47d49e75ff perf: a file view re-reads the file only when a structural change really dropped it
Three tightenings, all measured with the reloads now reported on stderr.

`set_math_channels()` treats an identical list as no change at all. It rebuilt
unconditionally, and a rebuild replaces the buffer and drops its history -- which a file
view then has to re-read from disk. The comparison is the graphs', and it leaves the nodes'
`x`/`y` out deliberately: those are the canvas's own, no op reads them, and a graph that
merely *moved* should not cost the buffer.

`reload_file_view()` fires only when the store is actually empty. A change that really
happened leaves it so in a file view (the rebuild replaces it, and there is no producer to
refill it); one that found nothing to do leaves it full, and reading a 200 MB file again for
that is the waste. `ScopeModel::stored_slots()` is the one-line accessor it needed.

Every reload now says so, because a second read of a file is worth accounting for:

    [udpscope] reloaded <path> after a structural change: 402 samples back

Measured, `--open` a file:

    session with no graphs            0 reloads
    the math probe (3 real changes)   3 reloads, and all the readings stay equal
                                      (`math x2 402 samples vs 402 time slots`)

I had offered this as "one extra read at `--open` startup", and that was wrong: with no
session there is no `apply_math_channels()` call at all, so there was never an extra read
to remove. What the tightenings buy is that a no-op application is now free, and that a
reload cannot happen unless the buffer was really lost. Each *genuine* change still costs
one re-read -- a rebuild drops the history by design, and preserving it across a rebuild is
a model change rather than this one.
2026-10-12 19:55:31 +02:00
Martino Ferrari b090cc2a21 fix: math in a file view -- the buffer was emptied, and the derived ring filled twice
Two defects, both reached by adding a math channel to an open waveform or a replayed
event, and both measured before and after.

**A file view has no producer, so a structural change left it empty.** `set_math_channels()`
rebuilds the channels *and* the buffer, and a rebuild drops the history: right for a stream,
whose producer refills it from the next packet, and wrong for a file, which has nothing to
refill it with. The `--open` dump read `0 samples vs 0 time slots` for *every* channel,
the file's own `sine`/`square`/`ramp`/`noise` included, though the load had reported 402 --
that is what "adding a math node breaks the plotter" was. `reload_file_view()` re-reads the
file after such a change, which is also what computes the derived channels over it: the
load's own pushes run the math once the set is in place, so `--open` with a session that
defines graphs works for the first time.

**The file path pushed into the derived rings, and so did the engine.** `push_loaded_slot()`
did not honour the rule `ChannelInfo::math` states for the packet path ("the ingest must skip
it"), so each loaded slot put a value in a derived ring and `push_math_sample()` then put the
computed one: two samples per slot, a trace at double rate -- the derived channels read
`804 samples vs 402 time slots`. Skipping them there is the whole fix.

Readings now, all equal, which is the assertion this file's own invariant makes:

    --open the file:  math x2  402 samples vs 402 time slots, y=[-1.9021, 0.0063]  (2x the sine)
                      math lp  402 vs 402, mean=-0.4900 (a real filter output, not zero)
    live:             math x2  25100 vs 25100
    replayed event:   math x2  4000 vs 4000

I first tried filtering the file's *derived columns* out by name, since an export writes
every plotted channel. It removed the double count and zeroed `math lp`, because the column
it dropped was the source a session graph reads -- so it is reverted: those columns are
legitimate data, and the fix belongs in the push, not the loader.
2026-10-12 19:49:39 +02:00
Martino Ferrari c3d588f03d fix: the math editor's body was a child of the window, not of the box above it
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.
2026-10-12 19:35:39 +02:00
Martino Ferrari afb9680fd7 docs: item 10 is done, and the three GTK facts it cost are written down
todo.md's item 10 is closed with what moved, what stayed in code and why, the reading each
slice added, and the three GTK facts in invariants-gtk-and-chrome.md. The plan's table is
marked complete, with the note that the header bar went last and in one change -- pack_start
appends after whatever a file packed, so staging it by group would have reordered the bar in
an intermediate commit.

Two facts added to the invariants: a code-added header-bar child lands after the file's, so
going first means the file declares a slot (which is what header-bar.ui does for the
time-window control); and <child type="end"> is added leftwards-from-the-right, so a header
bar's end group reads the reverse of the file.
2026-10-12 16:33:51 +02:00
Martino Ferrari c94bc4316c ui: the layout editor's buttons keep their look in one place, closing that plan row
The row asked for these buttons in a .ui file and that is not possible: there is one per
row and one more than that per boundary, and a GtkBuilder instantiates a file's objects
once, so the file can hold neither the count nor a prototype for the code to copy. The
plan's note ("only the buttons are template") is wrong for the same reason, and the plan
document now says so.

What was real in the row was the duplication: the look was written out three times -- the
icon, the two CSS classes that make a small round on-screen-display control, the size,
the overlay append and the bookkeeping -- and is now one function,
`layout_overlay_button()`. Each loop keeps only what makes it different: its alignment,
its sensitivity, the data it carries and, for the resize handle, its drag gesture.

The layout probe is the check and its readings are byte-identical before and after, all
seven lines: `buttons=5 done=1 done_box=[680,4,72x42] close=[4] add=[0,832] resize=[(1:-)]`
and the row geometry through add-above, remove, add-at-end and Editor off.
2026-10-12 16:30:00 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 148d1168d6 ui: the events pane's frame is a .ui file
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.
2026-10-12 16:27:56 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 1a02946656 ui: the math editor's window, identity row and canvas are a .ui file
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.
2026-10-12 15:57:43 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 90a17eb186 ui: the math panel's frame is a .ui file
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.
2026-10-12 15:53:35 +02:00
Martino Ferrari c37fbdde21 ui: the signals panel's frame is a .ui file
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.
2026-10-12 15:50:52 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 1ccc70c5ac ui: the trigger panel's frame is a .ui file
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.
2026-10-12 15:47:50 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 07fcf61a70 docs: the measures panel's frame is read by switch_on/reset_sensitive
The dump line's two new fields, and what either of them disagreeing with
[stats-probe] on= means: a .ui that lost the widget, or the wiring to it. pane_rows is
what proves the readout rows landed in the frame's measures_list.
2026-10-12 15:35:47 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 0a64e9e854 ui: the source chooser's window is a .ui file, and its pages an AdwViewStack
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().
2026-10-12 15:32:53 +02:00
Martino Ferrari f00d161900 fix: row titles mean their mnemonics instead of drawing the underscore
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.
2026-10-12 15:10:22 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 2d9f327da7 fix: the sidebar button follows the panel, and the wish survives having no source
The toolbar button was the panel's only input: `update_side_visibility()` derived the
panel from the button and never the other way, so the button went on saying "shown" in
two cases where the panel was off -- while there were no signals to show, and after
anything else moved the split view's state.

Binding the two together is not the fix. AdwOverlaySplitView writes `show-sidebar`
itself, at startup and when it collapses, with no user involved; a binding pushes that
into the button, the button's handler reads it as the user's wish, and the sidebar then
never comes back when a source connects -- a worse bug than the one reported, and one
that a "was this our own write" flag does not catch either, because the toggle's signal
may fire after the write returns.

So the direction is stated instead of inferred: `show-sidebar` is an output, the button
is the only input, and `App::sidebar_wanted` holds the wish between them. The wish is
written by the toggle's handler alone (guarded while we set the button ourselves), the
no-signals case forces the panel off without touching the wish, and tick() re-asserts
both from the wish when the widget disagrees -- so a hide gesture does not stick either.

[sidebar-probe] now reads the pair (shown vs button) in both states and against a hide
that did not come from the button; shown=1 button=1 with a source, shown=0 button=0
without, and the source reconnecting brings both back is the reading this exists for.
2026-10-12 13:23:40 +02:00
Martino Ferrari bb01278d88 fix: the sidebar keeps its own width, so a small window can no longer hide it
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.
2026-10-12 12:17:56 +02:00
Martino Ferrari a8c25f0cb3 test: the layout probe reads the sidebar's width
`side_w` is the sidebar column's width, and it must be its own request (320) rather than 0. It turned
a report of "I cannot see the right side panel" into `side_w=0` in one run, which is what a reading is
for.

It also shows the shape of the fault: the width is 320 during the first frames and 0 once the window
settles, while the divider sits at 940 and the plot column ends around 752 -- so the paned is not
giving the sidebar any width, whatever the column asks for.

Four attempts to fix that here were each reverted, because each one left `side_w=0`: placing the
divider from the paned's own width instead of an absolute 940, the property form of the paned's
children, re-parenting the column in code, and a code-set size request on the scroller and the column.
The cause is not one of those, and the next step is to read the paned's own width and the column's
parent chain rather than to guess again.
2026-10-12 11:06:31 +02:00
Martino Ferrari ed82abd405 feat: the cursors panel is a UI file
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.
2026-10-12 10:47:34 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 7a982da6c4 feat: make test-ui checks the UI files with blueprint-compiler
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.
2026-10-12 10:41:25 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 8073e7b3fd feat: the main window's skeleton is a UI file
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.
2026-10-11 17:39:04 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 68743a7d7f feat: the host form, and the help window, are UI files
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.
2026-10-11 17:27:05 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 4c56172005 feat: the preferences are a UI file, applying as they change
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.
2026-10-11 15:30:10 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 0e256764d5 udpscope: an oscilloscope view for a UDPStreamer source
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.
2026-10-11 15:21:40 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 8f54841c2c working on todo.md features 2026-10-10 22:52:12 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 210d124814 docs: the five reseq probe cases as this build measures them, plus the overflow counter's reading
Re-measured all four recorded cases and added a fifth for the re-plan path,
which needs 100 kS/s: at 10 kS/s the ring already covers 838 s, so no window
the control can reach moves time_stride and the window probe re-plans nothing.
Also notes that `stale` is 0 by construction while resequencing is on, and that
the reservation cap is counted in packets, so its sample cost scales with the
batch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 06:52:31 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 176ef1df9f fix: a full reorder ring keeps the arriving packet and counts the overflow, instead of dropping it silently
A packet that needed a slot and found none was neither held nor delivered: no
counter recorded it and the consumer reserved a hole nothing could ever backfill.
It now commits the gap to free a slot and takes the ordering decision once more
against the sequence that commit left behind, bounded to one retry; past that it
is delivered in order with the counters it skipped as its `lost`, never flagged
late, because a packet ahead of the sequence has no hole to be looked up by. A
duplicate can now replace its slot at a full ring, as hold_packet's own comment
already promised, and the 20 ms default window is a named constant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 06:50:43 +02:00
Martino Ferrari d90903d229 docs: the old reorder signature is history, not the delayed case's reading 2026-10-08 23:17:49 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 eacb3f5efc docs: the reseq probe's readings, and the invariants resequencing changes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 23:14:38 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 82180f45f7 feat: the mock can drop and invert packets, and carries a noisy channel
--drop-every/--drop-burst withhold datagrams the counter and stream clock
have already advanced over, and --reorder-every inverts a pair on the
wire; both are deterministic for the reason --glitch-at is, since a probe
asserts the spacing of what it finds and a random count is not a figure.
A `noise` signal gives the dense-trace and intensity-floor paths a input
that is not piecewise smooth.

verification.md records the measured readings, including the one that is
a finding rather than a baseline: a burst past kGlitchPackets (256) is
read as a producer clock glitch, each bridge advances the anchor by one
packet span against a timeline 300 ahead, and four consecutive failures
then throw the stream onto the arrival clock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 16:56:36 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 219ae91fd8 docs: a spec for the square wave's riser being drawn only sometimes
Two complaints, not one: the glitch is a row dropped before any style
knob is consulted, and the thinness is a choice udpscope made and never
revisited -- it asks deps/plotter for a trace thinner than the library's
own default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 16:56:25 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 723d1db3d2 docs: implementation plan for resequencing and relative timing
Twelve tasks in five phases, so relative timing ships before any of
the client-side reordering work lands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 16:50:50 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 d5d1295b26 docs: a design for resequencing late packets into a reserved hole, and for relative timing
The two were asked for together and are one design: the packet counter is what
makes a hole addressable, so relative timing is the coordinate system in which
resequencing is arithmetic rather than inference.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 16:38:18 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 c8f10f59dc fix: a condition leg is reported once it is held, so a working leg cannot read nan
A finite trigger_time() only says the edge was accepted; the mode is Capturing
until the post window fills. Every field the report prints is read from
display_snapshot(), whose stamps span x = 0 only once the event is Held, so
reporting on the latch alone raced the capture: leg 2 printed
`measured=nan at0=nan ... mode=1` on one run and the documented
`at0=-0.500907 earlier=-0.498185 mode=2` on the next. The report now waits for
Held under the same poll budget, and says `latched but never held` when it runs
out -- a different defect from `no latch`, so the line names which.

The readings are corrected against three consecutive leg-2 runs and one leg-3
run: `t0` is a rebased stream stamp and varies every run, so it was never an
assertion; `hits=` likewise tracks the arm phase (12 at one arm, 11 at another).
The mode ordinals were wrong -- `mode=2` is `Held`, not `Capturing`. Shapes 2
and 3 are now measured rather than read from the arm code; shape 1 still is not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 11:34:30 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 728e7fbda5 docs: help pages, probe reference and session docs updated for the three new features
- 08-trigger.txt: names all four condition shapes and the buffer search; fixes the first
  paragraph and 'How to reach it' to match what the panel actually contains (fix 3).
- 10-measurements.txt: adds a Statistics bullet — one observation per recompute, what
  resets the history, what does not (fix 3).
- probe-readings.md: re-quotes condition-probe lines with level2= and mode= fields;
  corrects leg-2 window geometry (0.2 s / 10 % pre, not 1.0 s / 50 %); moves the
  wide-window reason to legs 1 and 3; fixes the search-probe scheduling note
  (search_probe calls condition_probe directly; do not also set CONDITION_MS) (fix 6).
- verification.md: corrects shape-2 window geometry to match the code (fix 7).
- invariants-session-and-export.md, README.md: document the measure_stats session key —
  position, type, default false (fix 8).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 11:19:19 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Sonnet 4.6 ffc3ec1b4d docs: the three new features are described where each of their readers looks
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 10:43:39 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 9aa1d80158 docs: an implementation plan for the three new scope features
Nine tasks with literal code: the mock's injected faults, the shared
EventDetector the trigger and the search both run, the four condition
shapes and their panel rows, the Welford statistics and what resets
them, the chunked buffer search, its marks, and the documentation.

Every probe's expected reading is written as a shape with the measured
figure left to be recorded from a run, never assumed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 12:27:30 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 a5ca841603 docs: the spec names the formatter the code actually has
format_measure_value() does not exist; the shared SI-prefix formatter is
format_measure(double, const std::string&) at src/ui.cpp:1004.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 11:21:36 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 19aad492eb docs: the trigger is not persisted, so the condition is not either
The spec described the new condition fields as appended session keys. LayoutState
carries no trigger field at all -- the trigger is built from --holdoff and the
panel's defaults on every launch -- so there was nothing to append to. Persisting it
is a separate feature nobody asked for, and a session that silently restored an armed
pulse-width condition would surprise rather than help. The statistics toggle stays as
the one session key this design adds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 11:11:30 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 6770c6a648 docs: a zero-width trigger band is refused, not degraded to an edge
The spec claimed a window condition with equal levels degrades to an edge trigger on
that level. It does not: the band test is a change of side, so equal levels make the
signal "inside" only on exact float equality and the condition silently never fires.
Special-casing the detector into an edge trigger would conflate two state machines
that answer different questions -- the divergence the shared evaluator exists to
prevent. The panel refuses the degenerate band instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 11:09:52 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 98be03e00d docs: three scope features are specified around one shared event condition
Qualified trigger conditions (pulse width with glitch as a comparison, window,
dropout), per-measurement statistics with a reset, and a search over the retained
ring. The first and third are the same question asked of live and of recorded data,
so they share one allocation-free EventDetector extracted out of TriggerEngine --
and the probe that proves the two paths agree on t0 is part of the scope.

Reference waveforms, PNG export, FFT and a byte-bounded event history are out, each
for a stated reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 11:07:00 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 f179fbbb44 fix: a clock glitch is bridged and a channel is known by name, so a capture keeps its t0
Two defects behind one report ("a trigger during a capture overrides the first,
and the hold-off does not apply"); the second is also what made a spike in one
channel look like the acquisition resetting.

The trigger engine keyed its invalidation on the trigger channel's *index*, which
every rebuild of the channel list renumbers -- enabling a signal that sorts before
it is enough. Any rebuild therefore abandoned an open capture and set no hold-off,
so the next edge inside the post window became t0. It keys on the channel's name
now, which changes only when the source genuinely does.

A packet whose stamps jump more than 256 packet spans ahead is now rejected as a
fault and *bridged* at the declared cadence, instead of poisoning the monotonic
mark (which pinned every later packet flat at the glitched value) and condemning
the next good packet. Only four consecutive failures abandon the declared time
signal, and that fallback no longer wipes the rings: the arrival clock is anchored
to continue from the monotonic mark, so the history is still on one timeline --
the wipe is what made one glitching packet look like the stream restarting from 0.
The declared unit is resolved before those checks, since they weigh the stamps
against a cadence in seconds.

Guards: UDPSCOPE_PROBE_TRIGRENUM_MS prints t0_held=1 through the real widgets,
and the mock's --time-glitch-at/--time-glitch-by injects the clock fault.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 10:29:05 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 4003084648 feat: a signal's chip is clickable, so a trace's colour is the user's to choose
Clicking the coloured chip in the signal list opens a GtkColorDialog and the
colour it returns overrides that signal's palette entry. Held by name, like
every other identity here, and persisted as a session `[[color]]` table.

RowSet::signal_color() becomes the one resolver: install() builds the trace
through it and all three chip sites read it, because a chip exists to say which
trace a row is about and an override is exactly the state in which two routes to
a colour would disagree. A grey chip names no trace and so is not clickable, and
the way back is `Default colour` in the signal's menu -- a setting with no undo
is a trap.

The gesture sits on the existing label rather than in a GtkButton: padding on
this row is what made the signal list twice as tall once. It claims its sequence
so a click on the chip cannot become the start of a row drag.

UDPSCOPE_PROBE_COLOR_MS reads the result out of plot::Plot::trace() and out of
the chip's own markup, with an override in no palette slot, so neither leg can
pass by asking the resolver what it already said.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 08:22:32 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 8bc1fe8b5c fix: a repaired source is reconciled above the validation line, not below it
`math_dialog_sync_form()` wrote the label and then moved a node whose source
names an unacquired channel -- a mutation that changes what
`math_dialog_problem()` reports. With the sync re-entry now guarded, the nested
call that used to repair the label is suppressed, so the line kept describing a
source that had just been fixed and left `Apply` insensitive until the next
mutation. The reconcile moves above the write and the dropdown reuses its list.
2026-10-07 07:17:46 +02:00
Martino Ferrari f238e717b2 fix: a wire is picked by distance and a refusal is spoken, so the editor answers
A review of the whole node editor. The hit test measured the distance to the
24 curve samples rather than to the segments between them, so a wire spanning
several rows was unpickable between two samples -- the probe now places its
boxes 280 units apart and prints the nearest sample's own 8.4 against a 3.0
tolerance, which the point test would have missed. A refused connection said
nothing: the message is now carried in `MathDialog::refusal` and shown once by
the single writer of the label, and a self-wire is refused through the real
drag-end path instead of only through `math_connect()`.

Two defects were found only by the new assertions. `math_dialog_sync()`
re-entered itself -- `gtk_drop_down_set_selected()` emits `notify::selected`
for a programmatic set too, and the handler answers by syncing again, which
consumed the refusal before it could be drawn -- so the body is now guarded
one level deep. And a deleted node left `selected_wire` naming an index that
afterwards belongs to a different wire, so `Delete` cleared an input on the
wrong node.

A node is placed in the first free grid cell rather than at the end of the
list's own cell, so a node added after a delete no longer lands on top of a
survivor; the label ellipsizes with a tooltip rather than wrapping, because a
wrapped line makes the dialog's height depend on the text in it.
2026-10-07 07:09:49 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 300b33159e docs: the node editor's gestures, its new probe assertions and its invariants
Each invariant records what went wrong rather than only the rule: a port hit
that lost its node, a hit test at the identity view that asserts nothing, a
`Delete` that must not fall through to the selected node, and a column pitch
too narrow for a wire's own tread. The warning baseline drops to four.
2026-10-07 02:56:36 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 a7702acb63 docs: CLAUDE.md is a goal and a table of contents, so a context pays for what it reads
The file was 1967 lines and is auto-loaded into every context, so every
session paid for the whole of it to reach one invariant. It now carries the
project's goal, the three facts that are always relevant, and a table of
contents; the body is fourteen files under docs/claude/ reached by link
rather than by import, so nothing is loaded until it is asked for.

The content is moved verbatim -- the only edits are each file's own header
and the cross-references that became cross-file ("see the invariant below"
is now a link to the file that owns it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 01:49:28 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 0866b744ad docs: a plan for the node editor, so each defect ships with the probe that saw it
Nine tasks, each ending in a commit: the silent disarm in the port hit test,
the view transform, the drag-based wiring, wire deletion, the topological
re-sort that makes a backwards wire legal, the live validation line, the op
picker, tidy, and the docs with the full verification run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 23:24:15 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 96ee35da25 docs: a design for a node editor whose wires can be drawn, deleted and navigated
The reported "cannot add edges" has a specific cause: the output port's hit
radius reaches past the box it belongs to, and the press handler re-derives the
owning node with a box test, so clicking the visible dot's outer half sets
pending_out to -1 and silently disarms. Edge deletion has no code path at all.

The design replaces the two-click protocol with a drag gesture, makes the list
order the editor's own invariant via a topological re-sort rather than a rule the
user must obey, adds a view transform with every hit test routed through its
inverse, and trades the modal alert on Apply for a live validation line. It also
records that the Cancel button still calls gtk_window_destroy -- the dangling
dialog pointer CLAUDE.md documents as fixed was only fixed on the Apply path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 22:26:31 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 1fc2a3afe2 improving doc 2026-10-05 00:28:10 +02:00
Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 f2978fe742 fix: guard unset HOME in desktop-entry cmake script and correct plan verification
Two code-review findings:

1. Add a guard in cmake/install_desktop_entry.cmake that fails visibly when both
   XDG_DATA_HOME and HOME are unset or empty, preventing silent installation to
   the filesystem root in minimal CI sandboxes.

2. Replace the plan's tail-based verification with grep, because cmake's
   FATAL_ERROR message and ninja's "build stopped" lines push the actual
   rejection message out of the last four lines. The grep command reliably finds
   the expected "desktop-file-validate rejected" string.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 20:50:42 +02:00
Martino Ferrari 69eab02729 docs: the implementation plan for the app icon, AdwAboutDialog and desktop entry
Five tasks, each ending in a commit: the two SVGs with build-time xmllint
validation, the window icon plus the registration move and the app icons:
assertion, the AdwAboutDialog migration, the opt-in desktop-entry target, and
the documentation with the full regression run.

Written assertion-first, since the project has no unit suite: each task's first
step adds the probe or dump line and watches it read MISSING. Both negative
tests are real -- one breaks an SVG comment and requires the build to fail, the
other breaks Type= and requires the target to FATAL_ERROR.
2026-10-04 20:24:10 +02:00