refused-drop yellow notice
Item 4 (confirmation dialogs missing text + names): the missing retail
mechanism was StringTable template substitution - an entry is N+1 literal
fragments interleaved with N named variables, composed by
StringTable::GetString @0x004300D0 (no-metalanguage branch @0x004303B7).
ACE sends the bare player name for types 1/4; retail's OWN CLIENT wraps
it. Ported as DatStringResolver.ResolveTemplate (PLAYER hash 0x05506DA2,
the exact compute_str_hash space; Chorizite stores the variable hashes
directly):
- Server-driven type 4 -> ID_Fellowship_FellowshipRequest, type 1 ->
ID_Allegiance_AcceptSwearConfirmation, injected into
GameplayConfirmationController; null resolve falls back to the bare
wire message, never invented English. The 2/3/5/6 " Continue?" family
never consults the composer.
- Local Swear/Break/Kick: the bind-time fragment-0 latch (which showed
the dangling "Do you wish to swear to ") is replaced by click-time
ResolveTemplate with the target's name.
All five templates verified token-free in the installed DAT - this is
NOT a StringTableMetaLanguage port (AD-81's engine caveat stands).
Item 5 (refused drop shows nothing; retail shows yellow top-center
text): the prevRequest latch was ALREADY ported (InventoryTransactionState);
what was missing was the consumer. InventoryTransactionState now raises
RequestFailed(request, weenieError) when a 0x00A0 clears the latch;
ItemInteractionController composes ServerSaysAttemptFailed @0x0058EAE0's
"The <item> can't be <verb>" (verb table + suffix map ported verbatim in
Core's InventoryFailureMessages, NAME_PLURAL for merge/split) and routes
it as LogTextType 0x1A ClientLocal -> the SpewBox, retail's yellow
top-center line. The dispatcher's second leg (@0x0055B342) also runs:
outside the 7-code exclusion set, WeenieErrorMessages resolves per-code
text/destination; 0x426 AttunedItem has no row in either place beyond
the verb line - faithful single-line output.
Register: AD-85 narrowed to its numeric-field item, AD-81 amended (the
token-free interleave is now ported; meta-token engine + FormatName
remain), AD-93 filed (wire-guid-match vs retail's latched-guid
preference; no Move/Wield latch kinds).
Tests: +2 InventoryTransactionState failure-latch, +5 ResolveTemplate
(constructed StringTable fixtures), +1 composer injection, +1 end-to-end
refused-drop line. Core 4,697/1 skip, App 4,983/3 skips.
Research: docs/research/2026-08-13-confirm-and-weenie-error-display.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One user-ordered batch across the FA social panel + world selection.
Every root cause was probe-proven before the fix (new
ProbeSocialClickRouting in SocialPanelLiveMountProbeTests - production
window mount + real UiRoot hit-tests + a synthetic click):
1. STUCK CHECKBOXES (fellowship x4, allegiance x1, "always checked /
can't change any options"): the authored checkboxes carry DAT
ToggleBehavior, so UiButton SELF-FLIPS Selected at MouseUp - the old
handlers read the flipped value and wrote the ORIGINAL back, snapping
every click to where it started (the probe recorded (id, oldValue)).
Fix: SuppressSelfToggle (the CH6a/b mirror discipline) + derive the
next value from the STORE; the per-tick seeding mirrors it back.
2. UNCLICKABLE ROSTER ROWS ("only get the move window cursor"): the row
name text is display-text ClickThrough=true, which the hit-test walk
skips regardless of HandlesClick - the wired OnClick was unreachable.
Fix: UiText.OnClick assignment now clears ClickThrough (central,
documented); the stats text gains the same select handler so most of
the row's width selects the fellow.
3. TRUNCATED EMPTY-STATE ("You do not belong... To create MISSING"):
the authored string resolves COMPLETE (three sentences) but embedded
'\n's rendered as one clipped line. DatWidgetFactory now splits
authored strings into one Line per newline, with the provider still
re-reading DefaultColor live (the state-color contract - caught by
BuildText_AuthoredLineTracksStateFontColor).
4. FELLOW NAMES WHITE (user-directed): the AD-82 invented leader-gold +
selection-blue tints are deleted; names always white (register row
narrowed).
5. ALLEGIANCE HEADER LABELS: bare "0"/"0" -> "Followers: N" / "Rank: [N]"
(user-specified format; the full retail StringInfo composition stays
AD-85's gap), monarch block matching.
6. FRIENDS/SQUELCH LIVE (AD-79 mostly retired): Add friend (name box ->
0x0018, retail clears the box - Request_AddFriend @0x0048D240),
Remove (row-click selection -> 0x0017), Appear Offline (CharacterOption
0x27 via the immediate 0x0005 auto-save, ACE pushes FriendStatusChanged
to your friend-of list), Squelch Character/Account add-by-name
(0x0058 guid0/type AllChannels + 0x0059) and Remove for the selected
row. The wire beneath (builders, WorldSession sends, Runtime commands,
parsers) existed end-to-end since J4.1/FA1 - this is panel wiring only
(docs/research/2026-08-13-social-wire-completion.md, committed here).
Send Tell stays inert (not in the order; AD-79's remainder).
7. WORLD SELF-SELECTION ("clicking my own char should select myself"):
retail has NO self-exclusion (CPhysicsPart::Draw @0x0050D823 arms
every physobj; RecvNotice_SmartBoxObjectFound @0x004E5BAE selects
unconditionally) - the includeSelf gate was an unregistered
divergence, now removed on both the left-click and right-click paths.
Element roles were probe-measured, never guessed (Add 0x10000514 /
Remove 0x10000515 / Send Tell 0x10000516 / Appear Offline 0x1000052C /
name field 0x1000051B; Squelch: field 0x10000540, Remove 0x10000547,
Squelch Character 0x1000054B, Squelch Account 0x1000054C).
Register: AD-79 mostly retired, AD-82 narrowed. Known remainder, filed
not hidden: the fellowship page's authored 600px content vs the 362px
viewport leaves Dismiss/Assign-Leader below the fold until the window is
resized taller (probe-measured; candidate follow-up).
Tests: Checkbox_Click fact rewritten to the mirror contract (both
directions), monarch-followers label updated, includeSelf expectation
updated, probe extended (click routing, synthetic click, action-widget
role dump). App suite 4,976/3 skips.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The FA5 mechanism review found the offline-vassal name-grey
(OfflineNameColor) is an invented visual: retail's UpdateVassalsData
@004924c3 writes the vassal name with no colour change, and the offline
cue is EXCLUSIVELY the authored 0x100004AA marker (already wired,
SetVisible per online state). Removed OfflineNameColor; the vassal name
always renders in the normal white. The Allegiance page now carries NO
invented tint (unlike Fellowship's registered leader/selection tints).
Pinned by Allegiance_OfflineCue_IsTheMarkerOnly_NameStaysWhite (marker
visible iff offline, name always white). AD-82's FA5 addendum corrected
(it had described the now-removed grey as 'covered by the marker'); AD-86
count corrected seven -> nine.
Full Release suite: 13,297 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A tool-layer artifact from the original FA5 commit (7ed79eaf) silently
replaced the leading and trailing ASCII space (0x20) in
`BlankSentinel = " blank "` with NUL (0x00) bytes -- verified byte-for-
byte via PowerShell (two NUL bytes total in the whole file, both
adjacent to the literal's "blank" text). C# tolerates an embedded NUL in
a string literal (it compiles and runs fine, since the constant is only
ever used as an internal dedup sentinel, never rendered), so this never
surfaced as a build or test failure -- caught only by an incidental
`file`/`grep -a` binary-content check while re-reviewing the finished
slice. Replaced the two NUL bytes with the intended spaces at the exact
byte offsets; swept every other file this slice touched (Runtime/App/
tests/docs) for the same corruption and found none.
No behavior change: full solution suite still 13,296 passed / 4 skipped
/ 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Campaign FA slice FA5. The Allegiance page (0x10000291) goes from FA3's
empty-state shell to fully live, wired against FA1's parser and FA2's
RuntimeAllegianceState/IRuntimeAllegianceCommands (both already shipped
the full command surface, including SetUpdateSubscription).
CF-1 (the corrected data subscription): 0x001F AllegianceUpdateRequest,
not 0x027B, is the panel's data source (0x027B/0x027C are text-only chat
per FA2 MF-2). Wired at retail's three arming points -- Bind's PostInit
attempt (almost always a pre-world no-op), the post-world EnteredWorld
seam (RedeclareAfterWorldEntry, UNCONDITIONAL -- does not check the
current latch, matching retail's own PlayerDescReceived arm and avoiding
the exact MF-3-REOPEN bug class FA4 hit for 0x00A6), and the visible
branch (SetPageVisible, edge-triggered, folded into
SocialPanelController's existing window-shown+active-tab conjunction
alongside Fellowship's 0x00A6).
Monarch/patron/self blocks: per-relationship empty-state gate (fix-round
SF-7) replacing FA3's coarse HasProfile-only gate -- the monarch block
hides when there is no monarch OR the monarch is the viewer; the patron
block hides when there is no patron OR the patron is the monarch (in
which case the monarch block's 0x10000490 sub-block reveals and its
label swaps to PatronSlashMonarchLabel). Field sources decompiled fresh
from gmAllegianceUI::UpdatePlayerData/UpdateMonarchData/UpdatePatronData:
0x10000251 is the ALLEGIANCE's own name (not the viewer's), follower
counts are TotalVassals/TotalMembers-1 directly off the wire, and the
"experience passed up" text (0x10000492, doubled -- scoped FindDescendant
under each of its two parents) is the viewer's own CpTithed under the
monarch/patron blocks and each vassal's own CpTithed in their row.
Vassal roster: flat list built via UiTemplateListBox.FlushPreservingScroll
in the FA4 roster-diff pattern (guid-set diff, in-place update on an
unchanged set), rendering in the bindings' own already-reversed order.
Swear/break/kick: each opens a local confirmation dialog
(RetailDialogFactory via ShowConfirmation) before sending, mirroring
retail's MakeSwearConfirmationDialog family -- Swear targets the WORLD
selection (via the same ClientObjectTable name resolver
ToolbarRuntimeBindings.ResolveName already uses), Break targets the
current patron, Kick targets the panel-local selected vassal row (no
world-selection sync for Allegiance, unlike Fellowship). The
server-driven "accept incoming swear" (ConfirmationType 1) needed no new
code -- GameplayConfirmationController already handles every type
generically; a new test verifies it explicitly.
Runtime/composition plumbing: DeferredGameRuntimeStateCommands gains
Allegiance{Swear,Break,Kick,SetUpdateSubscription}; SocialRuntimeBindings
gains the Allegiance view/command projections; SocialPanelController.
Callbacks.AllegianceSnapshot widens to a full
SocialAllegiancePageController.Bindings record, mirroring FA4's
Fellowship widening.
Tests: SocialPanelControllerTests.cs gains 10 tests covering the SF-7
gate (4), roster population, swear/break/kick wiring (3), and the CF-1
subscription arming points (2); GameplayConfirmationControllerTests.cs
gains the type-1 verification test.
Also extends SocialPanelLiveMountProbeTests.cs (production-mount
assertions: scoped 0x10000492 resolution, the vassal row template, the
checkbox, confirmation-dialog string resolution, and a full production
Bind() pass) -- not yet run against live DATs in this worktree (no
Documents/Asheron's Call present here).
Release build green; full solution suite 13,296 passed / 4 skipped / 0
failed (13,300 total), up from FA4's 13,285/4/0 baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mechanism SHOULD-FIX 2 / blast SHOULD-FIX 4 (same finding, both reviews):
SocialAllegiancePageController.Tick() closed over a local `lines` on
every call — `() => lines` allocated a display class plus a delegate on
EVERY frame, unconditionally, at ~2,000 allocations/second at the
profile's measured FPS, in a hot loop the Modern Runtime slices spent
whole commits driving to 0 B/frame. Hoisted two static readonly
Func<IReadOnlyList<UiText.Line>> providers (BlankLineProvider/
NoLinesProvider); Tick() now assigns the cached delegate reference —
zero allocation while idle or active.
Mechanism SHOULD-FIX 7: FA3's empty-state gate is coarser than the
retail mechanism it is contracted against — gmAllegianceUI::UpdateMonarchData
@0x00491B40 hides the monarch/patron blocks per-relationship (monarch
block also hides when the monarch IS the viewer; patron block on the
analogous test), while this shell gates both blocks on the single
HasProfile flag. Not a MUST-FIX for FA3 (MF-2 in the same review means
HasProfile is effectively always false for the whole FA3 gate, so
nothing wrong is visible during this slice's own gate) — recorded
instead as an explicit FA5 acceptance line in the plan's FA5 row so the
gap cannot be silently lost, plus a class-doc note that FA5's real
monarch/patron population must also change Tick()'s unconditional
LinesProvider reassignment in the same commit or its content will be
overwritten the next frame.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Campaign FA slice FA3: retail's four-tab social panel (LayoutDesc
0x2100006E slot 0x1000018F, RetailPanelCatalog id 12), built on the OP3
OptionsPanelController recipe -- Type-8 tab host, ActivateTabBehavior,
per-page scoped controllers.
- SocialPanelController mounts the tab host and wires the close button;
F3 (ToggleAllegiancePanel) and F4 (ToggleFellowshipPanel) open the
panel and switch to their own tab, sharing the same gmPanelUI
one-active-panel exclusivity every sibling main panel already has.
- The live-DAT tab table CORRECTS the coordinator addendum's x-order
guess: button 0x1000028C ("Allegiance") pairs with page 0x10000291 and
is the authored DEFAULT entry, not Friends -- each button's own page
id and its own P0x57 (matching the F3/F4 ActionMap ids on the
Allegiance/Fellowship pages specifically) both corroborate the real
pairing. See SocialPanelController's class doc for the full table.
- SocialFellowshipPageController swaps the two authored empty/full
frames (0x1000026B/0x10000275) on RuntimeFellowshipState's
IsInFellowship -- both frames' full containment (name box, create
button, checkboxes vs. roster list, six buttons) was confirmed by the
live-mount probe, so a single Visible toggle per frame is the whole
swap (closes lane-A unknown U6).
- SocialAllegiancePageController hides the monarch/patron blocks and
blanks their name text to a literal space when
RuntimeAllegianceState.Snapshot.HasProfile is false, using SCOPED
FindDescendant lookups (the panel authors 0x10000492 twice, once per
block).
- SocialFriendsPageController/SocialSquelchPageController bind their
ListBoxes read-only to RuntimeCommunicationState's existing J4.1
Friends/Squelch owners (names only), rebuilding on revision change.
Their action buttons are honest INERT (D1) -- register row AD-79.
- UiTemplateListBox gains Flush() (lane A/D's "Gap found" prerequisite)
so a poll-and-rebuild list can shrink between refreshes.
- RetailPanelCatalog.SocialPanel = 12, byte-verified from the live slot's
own P0x10000029; listed in Mounted only (no toolbar button -- lane A
§6.1: the open path is keyboard-only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Erik