OP2 (df9c7a35) was double-REJECTed: an unconditional Type-8/Type-5 factory
mapping silently re-classed 15 elements across 7 shipped panels (vendor
backdrop lost its fill, character/spellbook roots stopped passing clicks
through, combat gained a phantom import-time tab takeover, ten ListBoxes
gained a spurious hit-testable viewport) because the stale 27 pre-existing
fixtures never exercised the new fields — and the mechanism itself cited a
nonexistent "UIElement_TabControl" class, inverted UiCheckboxBitfield64's
checked-state predicate, and synthesized fake per-row geometry instead of
using the widget's own authored template.
Shape change: UiTabPanel (renamed from UiTabControl) and UiTemplateListBox
now derive from UiDatElement (unsealed) and stay DORMANT by default — an
imported Type-8/Type-5 element gets authored-media drawing, ClickThrough
generic-decoration default, and IUiDatStateful propagation identical to the
pre-OP2 UiDatElement fallback, with zero import-time side effects. The
factory's Type-8/Type-5 arms are unconditional again (no more guard whose
premise the blast-radius sweep proved false), because dormancy makes an
unactivated instance behaviorally indistinguishable from the old fallback.
UiTabPanel.ActivateTabBehavior() and UiTemplateListBox's lazy viewport
creation are the explicit, controller-driven opt-ins Campaign OP slice OP3+
will call; today nothing does, so the four pre-existing shipped Type-8
hosts (character/spellbook/vendor/combat) and ten pre-existing Type-5
ListBoxes keep their pre-OP2 behavior exactly. Filed AD-73 for this
dormant-vs-retail's-unconditional-activation adaptation.
Mechanism fixes (docs/research/2026-08-11-op2-review-mechanism.md):
- UiTabPanel cites UIElement_Panel (Type 8 is UIElement_Panel; no
UIElement_TabControl exists in the PDB), resolves buttons/pages via a
GetChildRecursive-equivalent descendant search (not direct-children-only),
performs no switch when no entry authors 0x32 (deleted the _tabs[0]
fallback), and surfaces unresolved tab-table entries via UnresolvedEntries
+ a diagnostic line instead of a silent no-op.
- ElementReader.ReadTabTable skips entries missing 0x30/0x31, matching
retail's SetupTabPageHash @0x0046C2E0 entry filter.
- UiCheckboxBitfield64 now builds every row from its OWN authored template
(property 0x64 -> {0x2100002B, 0x10000521}) via AddItemFromTemplateList,
deleting the synthesized ElementInfo + invented RowHeight=14 — matching
retail's CreateChildren @0x00485DF0, which is itself a UIElement_ListBox
call. IsSet is now retail's ANY-bit-set predicate (Refresh @0x004859C0),
not all-bits-set. TS-72 retired: the click-toggle bit math is now fully
decomp-confirmed (SetBitsOnOrOff via ListenToElementMessage @0x00485AE0).
Regenerated all 32 UI fixtures against real DAT (ACDREAM_REGENERATE_UI_FIXTURES=1)
and committed them — 27 pre-existing fixtures now carry Outline/OutlineColor/
TabTable/TemplateList/ScrollbarElementId; the 5 Options fixtures were already
current. Updated EffectsUiControllerTests' now-correct UiTemplateListBox
class-identity assertion. Added: 6 built-widget behavior pins for all five
pre-existing Type-8 elements + a representative Type-5 element the dormancy
model protects (OP2ReworkBlastRadiusConformanceTests.cs); 5 reader-level
tests driving ReadTabTable/ReadTemplateList/the 0x72 reader from raw
property bags (ElementReaderTests.cs); a multi-bit-mask UiCheckboxBitfield64
test proving the any-bit predicate (the prior single-bit test couldn't
distinguish it from all-bits); an activation-idempotency test and a
before-activation click-is-inert test for UiTabPanel.
Full Release suite: 12,868 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline 12,853/4/0
post-OP1-fixes; +15 net new tests, zero regressions).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Applies docs/research/2026-08-10-ch6ab-review-findings.md in full:
- BLOCKER 1: UiResizeGrip now carries its ElementInfo/resolve pair and
draws its own authored DirectState media (a synthetic parameterless
grip still draws nothing, preserving existing resize-drag tests).
DatWidgetFactory.BuildResizeGrip threads resolve through. All seven
live grips on the main chat window now resolve a non-zero sprite,
restoring the visible borders/corners CH6a silently dropped.
- SHOULD-FIX 2: ChatWindowState gains BroadcastTargetWindow, a sentinel
distinct from every real window id (0-4), fixing the bug where the
main window's explicit-addressing branch coincided with the broadcast
check (both were literal 0). SetFilter's main-window no-op is dropped
— the main window's filter is now genuinely settable. ChatWindowController
.Bind takes a ChatWindowState (the same canonical instance the floating
windows already share) and GetTranscriptLines builds a real accept
predicate instead of accept:null. Verified safe: ClientLocal (0x1A)
never reaches ChatLog (AddText routes it to the SpewBox and returns),
so nothing observable regresses.
- SHOULD-FIX 3: UiButton.SuppressSelfToggle stops the four chat-window
indicator buttons (DAT property 0x0B=true, no retail click handler)
from flipping their own Selected mirror on a stray click.
- SHOULD-FIX 4: generated and committed chat_floaty_2100005b.json from
the real installed dats; added the permanent RetailLayoutFixtureGenerator
entry. All three flagged FloatingChatWindowController assumptions
(input field, title bar, close button) are confirmed correct against
real data — no controller code changes needed. New finding: unlike the
main window, ALL EIGHT floaty border/corner elements are live Type-9
grips (the floaty's own title bar is its move handle), so a floaty
window resizes from every edge and corner.
- SHOULD-FIX 5: register row AP-189 documents the shared-500-entry/
200-line-tail vs retail's per-window 10,000-line scrollback depth gap.
- NITs 1-5: documented the filter-persistence-only-on-/saveautoui
asymmetry and the reconnect-preserves-filters intent; corrected the
research doc's modifier-mask mislabel and the "ONLY function" false
superlative; moved WrapText off ChatWindowController onto
ChatTranscriptRenderer, closing the circular dependency.
Full Release suite: 12,420 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,392/4/0 at 22020ef2; net +28 tests, zero regressions).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Erik