Four of the five owner-reported chat deltas (2026-08-24), each traced to
its retail mechanism:
1. Missing gold separator left of the input: the chat input authors two
1px Type-3 rail CHILDREN (0x10000017 at X=0, 0x10000018
right-anchored) whose only media is Normal_focussed (0x06004D67,
live-DAT probed). UiField consumes its DAT children, so the rails
were swallowed and never drawn. The factory now folds them into the
field, which draws both while focused.
2. Button says "General", retail says "Gen": the talk button's short
caption comes from per-target ID_Chat_ChatTargetMenu* strings
(HandleSelection @0x004cd540, StringTable 0x23000001 via
compute_str_hash — recovered from the raw binary after BN elided the
ids into name-hash globals). Authored set: Chat/Tell/Fell/Pat/Mon/
Vas/Alg/Gen/Trade/LFG/RP/Soc/Olt. Menu rows + squelch/tell specials
resolve from the same table (ID_Chat_TellTo*); production resolves
through DatStringResolver, fallbacks ARE the authored EoR English.
ChatStringsLiveDatTests pins the whole set against the installed DAT.
3. Channel button stayed green while the popup was open: retail's
pressed face is the momentary physical press ("flicks"); the OPEN
state drives only the arrow-cap child's StateDesc swap
(UIElement_Menu::UpdateState @0x0046cad0 writes attribute 0xe).
UiMenu now keys the face on the press, not on IsOpen.
4. Window-title/button text "vibrates" while dragging windows:
DrawStringDatPass snapped glyphs with MathF.Round — banker's
rounding. A centered label with a constant .5 fraction alternates
round-up/round-down across successive integers, double-stepping then
sticking while the background glides. Half-up Floor(v+0.5) snaps
every tie one way: uniform 1px steps in lock-step with sprites.
The fifth report (input row sticking out on window resize) did not
reproduce: a controller-bound fixture resize at 220/300/600px keeps the
whole input row inside the window (test added) — awaiting the owner's
exact gesture.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User gate report (Campaign OP happy-testing round, 2026-08-13): every
Config-tab dropdown drew its text gold + left-aligned and its popup a
fixed 6 rows regardless of item count. All three were unmeasured styling
divergences — the authored data (new probe menuprobe3, live DAT) says:
- button label child 0x10000355: fontColor white, hJustify=Center
- row template 0x1000035A: fontColor white, hJustify=Center
- popup ListBox 0x10000358: edge-docked L=T=R=B=1, the authored condition
arming retail UIElement_Menu::RecalculatePopupSize @0x0046caf0 —
popup resizes to the ListBox's summed content height, uncapped
(0x0046e5f4..0046e66c via ResizeScrollableArea's 0x32 broadcast)
UiMenu gains three opt-in properties (ButtonTextCentered,
ItemTextCentered, PopupSizeToContent) plus retail Open @0x0046cc42's
empty-list gate; chat + vendor keep the class defaults, so their shipped
behavior is untouched. ConfigOptionsPageController.ApplyMenuChrome wires
all four corrections for the 8 Config menus with the probe citation.
The same probe found vendor's authored popup ListBox is ALSO docked while
our vendor dropdown ships G5's fixed 6-row window — filed as #386 +
register row AD-88 (UNCLEAR: the G5 retail screenshot and the decomp
mechanism conflict) instead of silently reworking a user-gated surface.
The "resolution change resizes the window" observation from the same
report is #374's designed windowed-mode behavior (display-mode switching
is #376/#377) — no change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three gate findings, each settled by authored data rather than
invention: the button face is retail's two-piece assembly and the
17x19 arrow-cap 0x1000034E now renders with its authored
Normal(closed)/Highlight(open) states; the popup direction is an
AUTHORED attribute (UIElement_Menu::Open pc:120210-120252 — bool
attr 5, chat authors upward=true, the vendor menu authors nothing and
defaults downward), so both menus are now byte-faithful with no
special case; and the 19/20px text indents were chat-specific
checkbox/LED clearances the vendor rows don't author — measured
against the live retail font, "Spell Components" overflowed by 11px
and now fits with 8px to spare. Chat's menu defaults are bit-identical
and its tests untouched.
AP-161's arrow-cap note closes. #351 files the pre-existing FarLoad
Debug flake (three sightings today, never in clean-room Release).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user's connected gate found five issues; each fixed at the root:
G4 (the discovery): retail's vendor X button calls only SetVisible(0)
(pc:204147-204182) — the SESSION stays open and re-using the vendor
lands on the same-session refresh; the range watcher remains the sole
real close. Our port invented a full teardown on X, which is exactly
why reopening died. The Runtime fixture proves the wire dispatch was
never the problem; ACE has no already-open short-circuit.
G3 (regression from the drag-suppression fix): denying IsDragSource
also dropped press capture, so clicks fell through to window-drag.
UiItemSlot.HandlesClick now claims presses for any occupied cell
independent of drag eligibility — clickable and draggable are separate
concerns.
G5: the authored popup 0x21000043 is ONE scrollable column with a real
scrollbar subtree (live-dat scan: ListBox 0x10000350 + scrollbar
0x10000351), not a 3x6 grid. UiMenu gains an authored-driven
Scrollable mode (wheel, thumb drag, track paging, up/down buttons);
chat's menu is untouched and its ten tests prove it.
G1: retail's cost format is "%s %hsp (you have %hsp)" — the p after
each %hs is a LITERAL pyreal suffix the port swallowed as part of the
specifier. Restored.
G2: the Buying/Selling pages' authored lists (same cell template as
Items) get the empty-slot fill, presentation-only until staging.
Clean-room complete solution: 11,390 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review caught a behavior divergence: the generic UiMenu auto-set its own
Selected on any enabled pick, while the controller's EnabledProvider keeps the
null-payload specials (Squelch / Tell-to-Selected) enabled/white like retail.
So a special-item click set Selected=null and shifted the highlight onto the
deferred placeholders — and the menu tests masked it by using a different
(specials-disabled) gate than the controller ships.
Fix: clean MVC contract mirroring retail UIElement_Menu::NewSelection — the
widget REPORTS the pick via OnSelect; the controller OWNS Selected (it sets it
only for talk-channel payloads). A special-item click now fires OnSelect(null),
the controller ignores it, and the active channel + highlight stay put —
observably identical to the pre-generalization widget, and extensible for when
Squelch lands. Tests realigned to the controller's gate (specials white) and to
the controller-owns-Selected contract.
Full suite: 403 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
UiChannelMenu → UiMenu: removed ChatChannelKind, the 14-item array, the
button-text map, and the availability default. Generic surface: MenuItem
(label + object? Payload), Selected (object?), OnSelect, EnabledProvider,
ButtonLabelProvider, RowsPerColumn/RowHeight/ColumnWidth (all settable).
All draw/event mechanics unchanged — same popup geometry, same click
coordinates, same 8-piece bevel, same 3-slice button face.
ChatWindowController gains ChannelItems[], ChannelButtonLabel(), and
ChannelAvailable() (verbatim from old widget), and populates the
factory-built Type-6 UiMenu via find-by-id rather than constructing a
replacement widget. The Menu property type is now UiMenu. OnChannelChanged
wrap replaced with the generic OnSelect wrap for the ReflowInputRow hook.
DatWidgetFactory registers Type 6 → new UiMenu().
Tests: UiChannelMenuTests → UiMenuTests (10 tests, all green); factory
Type6 test added; ChatWindowControllerTests updated to use OnSelect.
Divergence register: AP-42 added (flat item model vs retail nested-submenu
MakePopup @0x46d310 — latent, unreachable through the chat menu).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
