Root cause: a live-DAT probe found retail authors NO backing element
behind the Character/Chat/Config tabs' Apply/Reset/Defaults footer —
each page root has exactly five children (the row ListBox, its
scrollbar, and the three buttons) with zero direct-state media on the
root itself. Scrolled row content therefore bled through visibly
between/behind the three buttons; the bleed-through is a rendering gap
in our own composition, not a missing import.
Fix: new minimal widget UiSolidSpriteFill tiles
RetailChromeSprites.CenterFill (the SAME panel-background sprite the
Options window's own chrome already draws behind everything, not an
invented color) across the footer strip's rect, derived from the three
buttons' own resolved Top/Height and z-ordered strictly behind every
other child so it can never intercept input or occlude the buttons.
Register row AP-205 records the synthesis. Regressed by
OptionsPanelControllerTests.
Bind_SynthesizesOneOpaqueFooterBacking_PerPageWithApplyResetDefaults,
which pins exactly one backing field per page, sized from the live
button rects, z-ordered behind every sibling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings b4edee97 (slice), b1968ce9 (M1/M2/M3 rework), f1d50207 (round-2
residuals). Review chain: REJECT -> rework -> REOPEN-narrow -> coordinator
third round; findings docs 2026-08-11-op8-review.md / -op8-rereview.md.
The merge lands OP8's six ListBoxes on top of 057d8cd7's #372 viewport
fix, which auto-heals the blank-pages hazard the re-review flagged — the
OP8 connected gate was contracted to run post-merge for exactly this.
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The first connected gate reported most Gameplay buttons 'did nothing';
two of seven are contract-inert and the other four have dialog/chat
effects that can go unnoticed. One line per click at the BindButton
chokepoint makes the next gate's log a definitive fired/not-fired
record per button — evidence before investigation, per the debugging
discipline. App suite green.
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Ports retail's Configure Keyboard screen (gmKeyboardUI, LayoutDesc
0x21000009) — its own separate full-screen window, not a fifth Options-
panel tab. Retires OP3's INERT contract for the Gameplay tab's Configure
Keyboard button (0x10000204).
DAT reader (src/AcDream.Core/Input/RetailActionMap.cs): reads the
ActionMap singleton (DID 0x26000000, empirically the only one — not
0x27000000 as GetDBOType's Turbine-internal tag would suggest) and both
MasterInputMap defaults (0x14000000 "gmDefaultMap"/0x14000002
"DefaultMap"), union-merged per (InputMapId, ActionId) — proven order-
independent since the two maps' one shared context (0x5) has disjoint
action-id sets. Empirically resolved three lane-D unknowns against the
live DAT: the six ActionClass values (1=Movement, 2=Camera, 3=UI,
4=Combat, 5=Emote, 7=CharacterSettings — 6 is genuinely absent), that
the six unnamed InputMaps are 100% non-bindable (render nothing, not an
unlabeled group), and that the enum-to-DID pairing for the two master
maps is inconsequential to the merge result.
Identity table (src/AcDream.UI.Abstractions/Input/RetailActionIdentityTable.cs):
maps DAT (InputMapId, ActionId) pairs to acdream's InputAction where a
live consumer exists (~140 of 306 user-bindable rows — Movement/Camera/
Combat map almost completely; UI/Quickslot/Chat partially; only 5 of 87
Emotes and none of 48 CharacterSettings hotkeys, since acdream has no
general emote player or hotkey-to-option-toggle dispatcher yet). Every
entry cross-verified by label match AND a DAT-default-vs-
KeyBindings.RetailDefaults() byte comparison (RetailActionIdentityRoundTripTests),
which caught a real off-by-one in the Quickslot 13-18 block before it
shipped and found three genuine pre-existing RetailDefaults() gaps
(walk-mode's Shift-echoed chord, ten CameraAlternateControls arrow-key
alternates, and the Quickslot Ctrl+N use-vs-select ambiguity) — none
introduced by this slice, all documented rather than silently patched.
KeyboardConfigController: six ActionClass list boxes built from the
DAT, merged with live KeyBindings for mapped rows (rebind applies
immediately through the same InputDispatcher every other input path
uses) and a new sibling RetailUnmappedKeyBindings store for rows with
no InputAction yet. Left-click a key button opens real InputDispatcher
modal capture; right-click erases that slot. N-way conflict detection
scans every other row plus the live KeyBindings table for acdream-only
actions (Ctrl+M mute, debug F-keys) as the non-user-bindable refusal
analogue, using retail's own byte-verified "Could not overwrite "
string (table 0x23000004). OK/Cancel/Defaults/Revert reuse the
OptionPage/IOptionRow verb model via a new ActionKeyMapOptionRow.
Persistence is keybinds.json only (D4 — no .keymap file interchange).
Five register rows: AP-202 (.keymap interchange narrowing), AP-203
(store-only rows with no live consumer), AP-204 (silent auto-reassign
instead of retail's confirm dialog; OK/Cancel ported as left-click not
right-click-release).
Small supporting additions: UiButton.OnRightClick (additive, no
existing behavior changed), InputDispatcher.Bindings getter (the
screen's single live-truth read seam), RetailScanCodeMap (DIK scan
code <-> Silk.NET Key, keyboard + the one mouse-device row).
19 new tests (6 ActionMap reader conformance incl. live-DAT row-count/
label pins, 1 DAT-vs-RetailDefaults round-trip, 12 controller
behavior tests against the committed keyboard_config_21000009.json
fixture) — full solution suite 13,147 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed
(baseline 13,128/4/0, zero regressions).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
R1: the timestamp prefix moves from ChatLog.Append (which stamped the
stored BODY, rendering 'Alice says, "13:05:09 hi"') to ChatVM's display
composition — FormatTimestampPrefix(entry.Received) prepends the COMPOSED
line, matching retail's separate-leading-string model (fprintf("%ls%ls",
ts, text) @0x00563e5b; AddTextToScroll receives composed lines). The
prefix renders entry.Received in LOCAL time (retail strftime), invariant
literal colons. The ten defect-pinning test cases across
ChatLogTests/RuntimeCommunicationStateTests are rewritten to pin the
corrected contract (stored bodies stay clean; the composed line carries
the stamp outside the quotes — ChatVMTests).
R2: open option-bearing panels converge on every PlayerDescription seed:
OptionPage.ReloadFromLive (per-row live re-read + gating re-eval, NO
AfterApply flush — the seed just cleared the dirty module),
OptionsPanelController.OnServerOptionsSeeded (active page),
CombatUiController.OnServerOptionsSeeded (SyncControls), wired through
RuntimeSettingsController.ServerOptionsSeeded from the same factory hook
LockUI already uses. Retail cannot reach this state (its panels close
across login); the adaptation exists because retained panels survive the
session boundary — documented at the seam.
R3: tests drive the refresh widget push (model AND checkbox converge) and
ReloadFromLive's no-flush contract. R4: AP-196 addendum names the
headless AutoRepeatAttack false->true effective-default flip and the
characterOptions escape hatch.
Full Release suite: 13,083 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both OP4 reviews converged on one headline bug (Character-tab rows never
re-read live server truth after their pre-login constructor-word seed) plus
overlapping MUST-FIXes. All ten converged/consolidated findings land here:
MUST-FIX:
- BoolOptionRow.SaveCurrentValue now re-reads its live binding (retail's
GetValue()-into-SaveCurrentValue) on every OnShown — panel open, tab
switch in, initial activation — instead of trusting the pre-login
constructor word it was built with. Reset/tab-switch can now only
restore values that were actually live at the last show. LockUI's
host.Root.UiLocked one-shot mount seed now also converges on every
PlayerDescription via the existing OnCharacterOptionsChanged hook.
- Apply/Reset are wired to OptionPage.OnOptionChanged in production
(Ghosted when nothing changed, Normal when dirty, run once at bind so
both start disabled per retail's PostInit); Defaults stays ungated.
- The Combat panel's three LEDs (Repeat Attacks/Auto Target/Keep in View)
now read/write the same RuntimeCharacterOptionsState seam the Character
tab uses instead of a disconnected client-local GameplaySettings copy —
closes the "two writable copies" divergence. The three now-orphaned
GameplaySettings fields and RuntimeSettingsController's mirror
properties/SetCombatGameplay are deleted outright; the headless host's
hardcoded AutoRepeatAttack/AutoTarget now read the live option bit.
- RuntimeSettingsController.SetUiLocked's convergence guard now compares
against the last value actually applied to the runtime target instead
of the persisted GameplaySettings.LockUI snapshot, which could already
match a server-derived request without ever having been pushed.
SHOULD-FIX:
- DisplayTimeStamps now prefixes every chat producer (ChatLog.Append is
the one seam all of them funnel through), not just AddText's own
callers — heard speech, emotes, Turbine channels, and combat text were
previously missed. The prefix format escapes its colons and forces
InvariantCulture instead of the culture-dependent TimeSeparator
placeholder.
- sky.frag now honors uFogParams.w (fog mode) like the mesh/terrain
shaders, so Disable Distance Fog stops the sky dome's horizon band from
blending toward fog color too.
- Corrected the "byte-verified" overclaim on the timestamp format string
doc comment (BN-sourced, wire doc U6) and the AP-194 anchor-column
class-name typo; the RunAsDefaultMovement doc comments now cite retail's
actual acclient.h enumerator name.
- Added: DispatcherMovementInputSource's option x modifier truth table
(incl. || AutoRunActive with the option off), the per-page Apply/Reset
enable-gate tests, a real checkbox.OnClick/ToggleBehavior-driven click
test, and hash-pins for the six header string keys.
- Gate script step 8 corrected for the logout-flush false-failure
(closing the panel before relogging is load-bearing); a new step
documents the enable-gate sequence and the Combat-panel/Character-tab
cross-check.
Register: AP-196 (the Group-C default-source change + GameplaySettings
retirement) and AP-197 (the ignored per-character timestamp format
override) filed in this commit.
Full Release suite: 13,044 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (was 13,008/4/0;
net +36 tests from new coverage and legitimate assertion updates from the
GameplaySettings retirement).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Binds LayoutDesc 0x21000028 (gmCharacterSettingsUI) through OP2's
template-list mechanism and OP3's OptionPage model: 6 authored group
headers + 50 toggle rows (49 from the 2013 build + D3's "Listen to PK
death messages", AP-193) in research doc §2's authored order, each row
resolved by PlayerOption id through CharacterOptionTable, seeded from
live RuntimeCharacterOptionsState, defaulted from CharacterOptionTable.
ClientDefault (byte-verified against UIOption_Checkbox::SetPlayerOption
@0x00486e80's own GetDefaultOptionValue call — AP-194 updated to confirm
the directive was followed), labels/tooltips resolved by name from
string table 0x23000003 (never hard-coded English), and registered with
OptionsPanelController.CharacterPage. Apply/Reset/Defaults
(0x100001FC/FD/FE) are now wired per-page via a scoped subtree search
(UiElement.FindDescendant, promoted from UiTabPanel) since Character/
Chat/Config each author their own physical instance under the SAME
element ids.
Consumers: Group A (29 ids) wire+store only via the existing
SetSingleCharacterOptionRuntimeCmd/TrySetOption seam. Group B: Display
Timestamps prefixes new transcript lines (RuntimeCommunicationState.
DisplayTimestampsSource); Disable Distance Fog forces FogMode.Off
(WeatherSystem.DisableDistanceFogSource, retiring half of TS-73); Run as
Default Movement inverts the walk-mode modifier's default
(RuntimeLocalPlayerMovementState.RunAsDefaultMovementSource). Group C
re-points AutoTarget/AutoRepeatAttack/ViewCombatTarget
(CharacterOptionCombatSettingsSource), VividTargetingIndicator/
CoordinatesOnRadar/LockUI/AcceptLootPermits from the client-local
GameplaySettings record to the canonical server bit — closing two
previously-unfiled divergences where AutoRepeatAttack and
AcceptCorpseLootingPermissions never reached the wire despite being
retail auto-save ids. TS-73 narrowed to its two still-open cases;
TS-75..TS-80 file the genuine gaps (no day/night force, no weather-
particle/profanity-filter/salvage/housing/pickup-preference subsystem,
fellowship-create's unaudited client-sourced field) rather than
inventing stand-ins.
Conformance: CharacterOptionsPageControllerTests pins all 50 rows
against CharacterOptionTable in both directions (an invented or dropped
row fails the build), the authored group/order row-by-row, and the
build/seed/Apply/Reset/Defaults/wire-publish behavior end-to-end against
the committed fixture. 52 new tests; full solution suite 13,008 passed /
4 skipped / 0 failed (was 12,956/4/0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consolidated fix round for the two OP3 dual-lens reviews
(docs/research/2026-08-11-op3-review-{mechanism,blast}.md), both
APPROVE-WITH-FIXES.
MUST-FIX:
- The six "Use Mouse Turning Settings" chat lines were typed
RetailLogTextType.ClientLocal (0x1A); retail types them 0x07 (Magic).
BYTE-VERIFIED against the PDB-paired binary at all six
gmConfigUI::SetMouseTurningDefaults call sites (0x0049E972/E9E2/EA52/
EAA4/EAF6/EB48): every site pushes `6a 07` (type=7) immediately before
the text-pointer push and the AddTextToScroll call. Added a dedicated
OptionsRuntimeBindings.DisplayMouseTurningMacroLine seam routed at
Magic (scrolling chat transcript, light blue, timestamped) instead of
the 4-slot SpewBox ClientLocal uses; the mid-air refusal and UA/RA
keep ClientLocal (both independently confirmed correct).
- Filed AD-77: the client-wide floating-only gmPanelUI host divergence
(retail also exposes a docked 0x21000017 host) the plan §5 delegated
to this review, scoped to every main panel, not just Options.
SHOULD-FIX:
- gmGameplayOptionsUI is not an OptionPage in retail (acclient.h:55857,
UIElement_Field). OptionsPanelController now constructs the Gameplay
slot's OptionPage with AfterApply deliberately null, so entering/
leaving that tab never publishes SaveCharacterOptionsRuntimeCmd.
Corrected OptionPageModel's doc comment and rewrote the two tests
that pinned the wrong (Gameplay-flushes) shape.
- Added the OptionPage.OnOptionChanged seam (PlayerOptionPage::
OnOptionChanged @0x004F27D0) — fires as the last step of Apply/
Reset/Defaults, plus once per live LED edit via a new
IOptionRow.AttachPageNotify hook (BoolOptionRow wires it into
SetCurrentValue only, matching retail's Apply(1)-only
HandleDialogAndNotices path). OP4-6 will bind Apply/Reset enable
state to this.
- Exit to Character Selection's mid-air refusal is now tri-state
(Func<bool?> IsGrounded): retail's UseTime only reaches the airborne
test inside `else if (smartbox->player)`, so outside player mode (or
with no live controller) the button is a SILENT no-op, not a
refusal. Fixed the inverted comment at both call sites.
- Options panel geometry now matches its nine gmPanelUI siblings
sharing RetailPanelUiController's one main-panel rectangle
(ResizeX=false, bottom-edge-only resize, no invented Min/MaxWidth/
Height) instead of being the only all-four-edge/horizontal-resize
outlier whose width silently reverted whenever a sibling was shown.
- Added the three missing test pins: Options/Character mutual
exclusion through a REAL RetailPanelUiController registration,
RetailDialogFactory.MakeConfirmation's omitted-queueKey overload
sharing DefaultQueueKey, and UiTabPanel.ActivePageChanged never
firing on a dormant (non-activated) host.
- TS-74's What/Where now names the five store-only CameraTurning
preferences explicitly instead of only mentioning them in Risk.
- Test script gains the toolbar-button ghosted->enabled+highlight
check, UseMouseTurning-survives-relogin and the five prefs-survive-
relaunch steps, a UA/RA legibility eye-item, and the corrected
bottom-edge-only geometry description for step 5.
One-liners fixed in files already touched: symmetric close-button
resolve-failure logging in OptionsPanelController.Bind (blast NOTE 8).
Full Release suite: 12,947 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,935/4/0 post-OP7 — 12 net new tests; the two OptionPageModelTests
"wrong-shape" tests were renamed/rewritten in place, not removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mounts retail's Options panel (LayoutDesc 0x2100002B resolved through host
0x2100006E slot 0x1000018D, gmPanelUI key 10) via the same catalog-import
pattern CharacterController already validates, registered through
RetailPanelUiController so it shares retail's "one active gmPanelUI child"
mutual exclusion with every other sibling panel for free. F11 and the
toolbar's options button (0x1000019B, already authoring panel id 10) both
now open it; the close button fires the same ToggleOptionsPanel action.
OptionPageModel (OptionPage/BoolOptionRow) ports retail's exact
Apply/Reset/Defaults/visibility semantics from
UIOption_Checkbox/PlayerOptionPage — LED clicks apply live immediately,
Apply commits every row unconditionally + flushes the batched blob, Reset
reverts only Changed rows, Defaults restores without committing, and
tab-switch/window-hide revert uncommitted edits. Wired for all four tabs;
this slice registers real rows on none of them (Gameplay authentically has
none — a pure button list). UiTabPanel gains an ActivePageChanged event so
the page model can hook every tab transition, including the initial
default-tab activation.
The seven Gameplay-tab buttons: Exit Game reuses the existing graceful
window-close path; Exit to Character Selection gets retail's confirmation
dialog and byte-verified mid-air refusal but still behaves as Exit Game
(AD-74 — no pre-world character-select flow exists); Configure Keyboard
and In-Game Help Files are inert this slice (AD-76 for Help — the
plugin retail depends on doesn't exist); Urgent Assistance/Report Abuse
short-circuit to their own byte-verified failure text through the
interface-text seam instead of ShellExecute against a dead URL (AD-75);
Use Mouse Turning Settings runs the pure MouseTurningSettingsMacro port,
persisting five new CameraTurningSettings preferences and sending
PlayerOption.UseMouseTurning — TS-74 records that acdream has no
persistent mouse-turning camera mode for the bit to drive yet.
Full Release suite: 12,918 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,871/4/0 — only new tests added).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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