fix: Reactive focus review crashed on projects with $variables; failures now show a notice

conditioning.py

@@ -787,6 +787,10 @@ def focus_scene_texts(scene_segments, variables=None, placement="start"):
         placement=placement, postfix=scene_segments.get("postfix", ""))
     anchor = (canonical.get("anchor_expanded", "") or "").strip()
     postfix = (canonical.get("postfix_expanded", "") or "").strip()
+    try:
+        from .templates import resolve_variables as _resolve_variables
+    except ImportError:
+        from templates import resolve_variables as _resolve_variables
     texts = []
     for s in canonical.get("scenes", []) or []:
         seg = (s.get("expanded") or "").strip()

movie_editor/frontend/reactive_focus.js

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
     const r = el("div", "ov-field full");
     r.appendChild(el("span", "ov-label", label));
     const chips = el("div", "ov-checklist");
+    chips.style.cssText = "flex-direction:row;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:6px";
     const btns = options.map(([value, text]) => {
       const b = el("button", "btn", text);
       b.type = "button";
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@
       scenes = (await window.MovieEditorAPI.focusOptions(project.id, sceneIds)).scenes || [];
     } catch (e) {
       console.warn("[FunPack] reactive focus: could not list targets —", e.message);
+      window.Store.get().notice = `Reactive focus was skipped: ${e.message}`;
       return true;
     }
     const objOr = (v) => (v && typeof v === "object" ? v : {});

tests/test_focus_memory.py

@@ -192,6 +192,11 @@ def test_focus_scene_texts_and_options_follow_the_generation_path(monkeypatch):
     assert "touches <Subject 1>'s chin" in texts[0]
     opts = sc.focus_options(texts[0])
     assert opts[0]["candidates"] and opts[0]["auto_lemma"]
+    # A project with $variables must resolve them, not crash the review.
+    with_var = conditioning.focus_scene_texts(
+        {"anchor": "", "scenes": ["[Shot 1] $who waves."], "postfix": ""},
+        [{"name": "who", "value": "a tall man"}], "start")
+    assert "a tall man waves" in with_var[0]
 
 
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