Root cause: the sub-layout 0x2100002C (design H=337px) mounted into tab slot
0x1000022B (H=575px) via ShouldMountBaseChildren. ElementReader.Merge takes the
derived (sub-layout) H=337 as canonical, so the background element's first
ApplyAnchor call captured _amB=238 and the list box captured _amB=65 — both
stayed at their 337px-parent sizes even though the slot is 575px.
Fix: CascadeHeight in LayoutImporter.Resolve mirrors retail's
UIElement::UpdateForParentSizeChange. When ShouldMountBaseChildren fires and the
slot is taller than the base design, every full-stretch background child has its
height cascaded: Top+Bottom anchors → stretch, Bottom-only → pin-to-bottom,
Top-only/None → unchanged. This propagates the correct bottom margins through the
entire subtree before the first render frame.
Layout result (confirmed via headless screenshot):
- List box grows from 160px → 398px (9 rows × 44px ≈ 396px)
- Footer elements move from abs Y≈307 → abs Y≈545 (matching retail dump)
- Separator moves to abs Y≈535
Row constants updated: RowHeight 44px, IconSize 24px, RowPadX 4px, IconGap 6px.
Footer State-A text corrected per spec: title="Select an Attribute to Improve",
line-1 label="Skill Credits Available:", line-1 value=SkillCredits (96),
line-2 label="Unassigned Experience:", line-2 value=UnassignedXp (formatted N0).
CharacterSheet.UnassignedXp (long, retail InqInt64(2)) added.
SampleData.SampleCharacter().UnassignedXp = 87_757_321_741L.
5 footer tests renamed + assertions updated; SampleCharacter_UnassignedXp_IsSet added.
639 tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Redo of the character pilot per faithful-port rules. The previous pilot GUESSED a text
report and put it on the wrong window. The decomp (verified by dumping acdream's
importer-resolved tree) shows LayoutDesc 0x2100002E is the tabbed Attributes/Skills/Titles
window: its tab-content slot 0x1000022B mounts sub-layout 0x2100002C (gmAttributeUI) which
chains into the gmStatManagementUI header. The importer ALREADY mounts every content element
(FindElement resolves name 0x10000231, heritage 0x10000232, PK 0x10000233, level 0x1000023B,
total-XP 0x10000235, XP meter 0x10000236 → UiMeter, list box 0x1000023D) — EventId was a red
herring (the dat id lives in _byId, not the widget's EventId field).
CharacterStatController (port of gmStatManagementUI::UpdateCharacterInfo 0x004f0770 +
UpdateExperience 0x004f0a70 + UpdatePKStatus 0x004f00a0) binds those real elements: name,
heritage, PK status, level, total XP, the XP-to-level meter fill, and the six innate
attributes in the list box. Studio (--layout 0x2100002E) now renders the actual panel
content, not an overlay. 16 controller tests green; full App suite stays green.
Refinements with known decomp sources (follow-ups): tab-button active/inactive state so the
3 tabs draw their sprites; exact label wording from the StringTable (table 0x10000001 →
dat 0x31000001); the full AttributeInfoRegion row template (column-aligned values + raise
buttons). CharacterController (text-report 0x2100001A) retained for that separate sub-panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
