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User-gate round 3 findings (a)-(c):
(a) SpewBox: TopOffset moves from the round-1 60px placeholder to 0 (flush
to the viewport top). SpewBoxController never wired DatFont/Font at all
before this round, so it silently rendered through the 15px debug
BitmapFont fallback; it now resolves retail dat Font 0x40000025
(MaxCharHeight=11px) through a new RetailUiRuntime.Assets accessor —
the smallest font id confirmed in use by any currently-imported retail
LayoutDesc fixture, cross-referenced against every
tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/fixtures/*.json dump and confirmed
against the installed DAT via AcDream.Cli dump-font-atlas. It is also the
chat window's own smallest font (the 0x2100006F floating-window 1/2/3/4
indicator badges), so both selection criteria the brief offered agree.
Both remain best-available approximations, not resolved retail values —
register row AP-178 updated accordingly.
(b)/(c) /help and /help death: round 2 extracted the individual retail
strings byte-exact but never traced ClientCommunicationSystem::DoHelp's
complete print sequence. Byte-swept DoHelp's own range plus the five
Summary-branch functions it calls into (HelpEmote/HelpSquelch/
HelpStatusGroup/HelpTextGroup/HelpAllGroup) against the PDB-paired
acclient.exe. Retail's real shape: bare /help prints exactly TWO scroll
entries (HelpPrefixNote, then the 13-item AvailableHelpListing built from
DoHelp's own literals and each group's Summary_HelpType branch, in exact
source order) — not the acdream-invented cheat sheet BuildHelpText()
built before. Any resolved /help <verb> gets the SAME two-entry shape:
HelpPrefixNote, then ForMoreInformationPrefix concatenated directly onto
the verb's own Detail text (retail's own unsubstituted "<command>"
literal, ported verbatim). ChatCommandRouter.EmitVerbHelp applies this
uniformly to every resolved verb, not just death. An unresolved verb now
shows retail's real "Unknown command" fallback text; that fallback types
0x1A (ClientLocal), which retail routes to the SpewBox exclusively — a
gap ChatVM's UI.Abstractions layer can't yet reach, filed as ISSUES #367
/ register AP-186 rather than left silently unregistered.
Jump-in-air (round 2's open item 1) was root-caused and fixed separately
at a5a7eb4f between rounds — recorded in the campaign ledger.
Debug suite (all projects): 12,329 passed / 4 skipped / 1 failed — the
one failure is issue #351, a pre-existing Debug-only streaming flake
confirmed reproducing identically on the pristine pre-round-3 commit via
git stash, not a regression. Release verification covers every project
reachable without rebuilding AcDream.App: a live client process (PID
15064) held its own Release binaries locked for the session and was not
killed per project policy — AcDream.UI.Abstractions.Tests (867/867, the
layer both /help fixes live in) plus every other non-App-dependent
project, all 0 failed. AcDream.App/AcDream.App.Tests/AcDream.Core.Tests
(the SpewBox fix's layer) are green in Debug only this session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Campaign CH — in-client user test script
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One connected session against local ACE, retail GUI (`ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI=1`).
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For the color checks, running the retail client side-by-side is ideal but
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optional — the hex values are byte-verified; what needs eyes is "does it
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FEEL right".
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## 1. On-screen interface text (CH2 — the SpewBox)
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- Jump, and press jump again while airborne → **"You can't jump while in
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the air"** appears as transient text flush to the very TOP of the
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viewport (round 3, 2026-08-10 — moved off the earlier 60px-down
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placeholder), NOT in the chat window. Chat gets no line at all.
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- Spam it 5+ times fast: the line refreshes in place (no stacking of
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identical text); distinct refusals stack newest-on-top, max 4 lines.
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- Try `@version` → its output goes to CHAT (green), not the SpewBox.
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- The SpewBox text should now read visibly SMALLER than round 2 (retail
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dat Font `0x40000025`, 11px, replacing the earlier 15px debug font).
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- **Report presentation impressions**: position and font are now
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best-available approximations, not resolved retail values (register
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AP-178); line lifetime is still a placeholder (AP-177) — say what looks
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wrong vs your retail memory.
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## 2. Chat colors (CH1)
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Side-by-side vs retail if possible:
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- Say something → white. Emote (`:waves` works now) → grey.
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- Tell someone → your "You tell ..." line is DARK yellow (210,210,100);
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an incoming tell is BRIGHT yellow.
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- Magic self-cast lines → light blue. Combat: damage you take → salmon,
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damage you deal → dark red.
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- `@version` / `@loc` output → green (retail types command output 0x00).
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- Fellowship chat (if you form one) → bright yellow.
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## 3. Side channels (CH3)
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- `/general hi` → round-trips (ACE echoes it back; blue-grey color).
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Same for `/trade`, `/lfg`.
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- Roleplay: with "Hear Roleplay Chat" OFF (the ACE default), sending to
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Roleplay → **"You are not listening to the Roleplay channel!"** and
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nothing is sent. Enable it in Settings → Chat → ACE reports entering
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the channel; sending now works. (`@join roleplay` / `@leave roleplay`
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also flip it, effective immediately.)
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- Legacy family single-print: `/f hi` (in a fellowship) shows ONE line,
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not two. Same for /v /p /m /cv if you have the allegiance structure.
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- `/a hi` without an allegiance → refusal, not a silent drop.
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## 4. Commands (CH4)
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- `:waves` and `;waves` → emote. `@f, hi` (trailing comma) works.
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- `@t Two Word Name, hello` → comma splits the name (needs an alt with a
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multi-word name to fully verify).
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- `@g hi` → goes to FELLOWSHIP (not the global General room!). Without a
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fellowship expect a server-side error — the important thing is it does
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NOT broadcast globally.
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- `@allegiance boot Bob` → "Please see @help Allegiance for more
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information..." locally; nothing broadcast, nothing sent.
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- `@house abandon` → TWO confirmation dialogs. **Decline** (unless you
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really want to abandon a house). Declining either stage sends nothing.
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- `@mr` → help text only. `@clist general` → channel list from ACE.
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- An unknown verb like `@somenonsense` → passes through to ACE (server
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answers, client does not swallow it).
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## 5. Help text (round 3, 2026-08-10)
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- `/help` (no args) → TWO lines in the chat window: a "Note: You may
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substitute a forward slash..." line, then "Available help:" followed by
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13 real retail topic one-liners (allegiances/channels/chatting/death/
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emote/fillcomps/friends/house/squelch/status/text/commands). This
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replaced an acdream-invented cheat sheet ("Chat: /say...", "Client:
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/help...") — that text should no longer appear at all.
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- `/help death` → the SAME "Note:" line first, then a SECOND line starting
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"For more information, type @help <command>." immediately followed by
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the 8-line corpse/death command listing — not just the 8 lines alone.
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- `/help somenonsenseverb` → "Unknown command" (no "Note:" line before it;
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retail's fallback skips the wrapper). This still shows in the CHAT
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window rather than the SpewBox — a known, tracked gap (#367/AP-186), not
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a new bug to report.
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## Known-open, do not report as new
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- Ctrl+M mute chord (#358) — still broken, separate from this campaign.
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- SpewBox line lifetime is still a placeholder (AP-177) pending a retail
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measurement session; position/font are now best-available
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approximations (AP-178), not confirmed retail pixel values.
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- `/help <verb>` fallback ("Unknown command") shows in the chat window,
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not the SpewBox — retail types it for the SpewBox exclusively, but
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`ChatCommandRouter` has no path there yet (#367/AP-186).
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- Allegiance management subcommands print the help refusal instead of
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executing (#360); `@day`/`@log`/`@render` deferred (#361); four request
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commands send but responses aren't rendered yet (#362).
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