Width, height and length belong to the PROJECT, not to a scene: a scene
cropped on the timeline and regenerated comes back at the project's size,
because the crop was a timeline decision and a regenerate is a new scene.
They sit in the Constructor beside the prompt -- the two things settled in
one sitting -- and travel to the graph on the path the prompt already uses.
No new mechanism: the pipeline declares roles at `project.video` the same
way it declares the prompt, so core still names no node and no setting. A
role whose value is a number gets a number control instead of a box; that
is the whole of the UI change. What the pipeline does not offer is not
shown, so a graph with no length input simply has no Length.
Bounds are the NODE's and stay there -- it already refuses a value outside
them with a reason, beside Generate. A project file is the one thing here
that outlives the code that wrote it, so everything read back out of one is
checked: a whole positive number, or gone.
Also, four faults the browser suite was already red with before this:
* Six tests still clicked a rail toggle that moved into the timeline head.
* At 420px the panel OVERLAYS the centre -- and the named toggles are in
the centre, so the panel covered the control that closes it. That is the
v4 trap this project forbids. They are not offered at that width now; the
View menu, which nothing can cover, is the way in and out.
* A 768px window laid out 860px wide and scrolled sideways. Root cause, and
it was never about one component: a flex item's automatic minimum is its
CONTENT, so every stack, split, panel body and frame region in the app
handed its content's width upward. A scroller that cannot shrink below
what it holds is not a scroller -- the strip of scenes made the WINDOW as
wide as the strip. Floored at the five places every layout routes through.
* A bin test counted `.cx-cell-glyph` across the whole page, so the timeline
drawing cells with the same glyph in them broke a test about the bin.
* Generate was washed out on light and the fade downwards was why. Light's
accent carries WHITE text, which caps how bright the fill can go before
the label starts disappearing into it -- so the button sits AT the accent
now and DARKENS under the pointer, where white only reads better. Dark's
accent carries near-black text and has no such ceiling, so it does the
opposite: rest at the accent, lighter on hover. Measured in both, at rest
and hovered: no gradient stop under 4:1.
* A section label sat directly on the dividing line above it -- the
collapsible's body had no top padding of its own, so "APPEARANCE" read as
belonging to the divider rather than to the card under it.
* A checkbox in this app is a switch with a sentence under it, not a tick in
a list. At 4px of padding the label and its hint sat hard against the top
and bottom of their card, and a hint wrapping to two lines had nowhere to
wrap into.
* Row content is weighted to the left now: hard against the border, a card
read as leaning, because what sits opposite a control is usually the short
half of a wrapped line rather than anything at all.
And one regression caught in the screenshot: the settings row stacks below a
CONTAINER width, and that threshold was written as 300px -- which happened to
be just above what the properties column resolved to. Trimming 4px of padding
off two nested boxes widened it past the line, and every setting in that
column went back to being shredded, in a commit about something else. It is
360 now, which is what the numbers say it should always have been: a 180px
control column needs at least as much again beside it.
v4's arrangement, which is the one that reads as an editor: a zone head
holds what acts on THAT zone, so the app grows a bar of its own for what
acts on the app.
* The menu bar. Brand, View and Settings, and whether ComfyUI is still on
the other end. Only menus with something real in them exist -- an empty
File menu is a promise the app does not keep.
* The prompt is written in the CONSTRUCTOR, a window. v4 called this the
Composer; that name is taken here by the element kit, and two things
called Composer in one repo is one thing nobody can search for. It is
the longest thing a person writes and the least often read, and a
permanent third of the centre column is the room the timeline needs.
The host is built at startup and outlives every opening, so a window
that opens twice does not throw away what was typed.
* The timeline replaces it, and Generate moves into its head with what
the run is doing at the far end of the same head. No bar across the
bottom: one that spans the window belongs to no region.
Four faults found on the way, three of them mine and one much older:
* THE OVERLAY ROOT WAS A STACKING CONTEXT. It documents at length that it
must never be one -- and then set `position: fixed`, which makes one on
its own. So the whole z ladder was measured inside that single element:
an open menu at z 500 painted UNDER a button at z 1. Every overlay in
the app was one positive z-index away from being buried, and the only
reason nobody had seen it is that almost nothing claims a z-index. The
root is static and zero-sized now; every layer in it is fixed already.
* Generate's hover ran `filter: brightness()`, which lightens the LABEL
along with the fill under it -- the one thing that had to stay readable
lost contrast in both themes. Only the fill moves now, and which way it
moves depends on the theme: dark's accent carries near-black text so it
goes lighter, light's carries white so it goes darker. Measured: no
gradient stop under 4.1:1, hovered or at rest.
* A fixed-height head could not shrink below the width of everything in
it, and a head now holds a title, three controls and a status. That
min-content became the centre column's, so a 768px window laid out
878px wide and scrolled sideways. It wraps now, as v4's does.
* A CSS patch of mine silently did nothing because its anchor text had
moved and I had left the assertion off that one replacement. Every
patch asserts now.
Ran v4 side by side to see what the difference actually was, and it was
not spacing. v4 fills the window edge to edge and divides its zones with
hairlines; v5 floated rounded, shadowed cards on a visible page
background. One reads as an editing suite, the other as a dashboard.
So panel gains a second variant. "default" is still a card, for something
that floats -- inside a window, on a page. "zone" is a region of the app:
square, no shadow, no border of its own, divided from its neighbours by
the one hairline everything else uses. The workspace keeps no gutter
between regions; the preview zone is flush, because padding around a
picture is a frame nobody asked for, and its surround is letterbox black
rather than a panel colour.
The right column was two stacked panels with two heads for one thing.
It is one zone now.
And the surfaces have depth, derived from each theme's own elevation
scale so neither needs a rule of its own: a vertical fall on every band
and every raised control, the accent gradient and a bloom under a primary
button, a wash off the top-right of the page, tokenised thin scrollbars,
an accent mark on every zone title, and v4's film grain -- overlay at
3.5% on dark, multiply at 1.5% on light, and painted with no z-index so
anything that opens above the frame stays crisp.
The layout was assembled by hand and read like it. Measured at 1440x900:
the three columns started at three different heights, a panel head was 41px
when it held a control and 34 when it did not, the gap left of the centre
was 7px and right of it 19, the properties column sat 11px further in than
the others inside a border that meant nothing, and five controls in one
list had four different widths -- a <select> takes the width of its widest
option, so the row listing checkpoint filenames was 124px wider than its
neighbours.
Now: --gutter is the space between regions, between two panels stacked in
a column, and inside the bands; the head band height is the panel head
height is the collapsible head height; --control-col gives every settings
control the same two edges. The frame's bands run edge to edge and the
content is inset by the gutter, so the app has an outline instead of a
margin that changed per region.
Also here, all of it visible in the same screenshot:
* The status sat against the Generate button with 1300px of empty bar to
its left -- everything was in one right-aligned group. What the app says
is at the start of the row now, what you press is at the end.
* A panel body is a column with a gap: two things put in it by two parts
of the app had whatever space their line boxes happened to leave.
* A container query adds no specificity, so the narrow-panel rule written
above the rules it overrides lost -- and flex-basis in a column is
HEIGHT, which turned four settings into a panel two screens long.
* The theme you picked was thrown away on every load: the appearance
module applied its own declared default over the choice the page had
already applied from storage. It adopts the live value now, and a panel
is built after setup so its control shows what setup settled on.
Every module panel was decoration. The values lived in the browser and
nothing sent them, so a modifier switched on was one the run never heard
about. They now travel with the pipeline on every check, and core places
them wherever a module says they belong -- announced, not known, so the
node that carries them is not privileged.
Settings with nowhere to go are said beside Generate rather than
swallowed, and the warning survives the run it is about: the status line
is redrawn by every message, so a warning put there was gone the moment
the run said Queued.
Also: a settings row in a docked panel squeezed its label to one word per
line, because the control keeps a 140px floor and took it out of the
label. Below the width where they fit side by side, they stack.
One wide modal, a card per group, and a group that opens into a node list
beside that node/'s parameters, saved a group at a time. Groups travel on the
slot, so a pipeline keeps its own arrangement and a new group is a slot
claiming a name nobody used.
Values are drafted until Save; adding, removing, replacing and moving a node
go to the server as they happen, because only it can say whether the result
still wires up.
An unset dropdown reads "not set" rather than showing the first file as though
it had been chosen -- v4 recorded that trap, and picking the entry the box
already shows fires no change, so the one click that looks like the fix does
nothing.
New: region.stack, a frame header, a modal footer that can be refilled.
Not yet: wiring. A socket says so where a control would be.
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The columns were a share of the viewport, which is not a measurement of
anything. A 900x900 window -- an ordinary shape -- gave the properties column
198px, in which "Loosen the starting image" wrapped over three lines and a
section heading broke mid-word; 375px put three columns side by side with
clipped headings and a preview no wider than a thumbnail. A panel is now as wide
as a settings row needs, and below 760px it stops taking space from the centre
and overlays it instead.
The element decides what is OPEN and the stylesheet decides how it is DRAWN, so
entering that mode closes both panels and only one opens at a time -- two
overlays over a narrow centre is the same problem with an extra step. What was
open is restored on the way out, and none of it touches the remembered
preference: a window being small is not the user changing their mind.
The rails paint above the overlay. Without that the panel covered the only
control that closes it, which is the exact fault this arrangement exists to
avoid, arriving by a different route the moment the panel stopped taking its own
space.
Also: the prompt was holding 38% of the height for two lines of text. The result
gets the room; the divider is still draggable.
ComfyUI's own queue and its own socket, not a second one alongside them. A
FunPack queue would be a second thing tracking what is running, and the one the
user believes is whichever spoke last -- so this speaks to /prompt, /interrupt
and /ws as any ComfyUI client does and holds only a view of the server's state.
The graph is asked for, never assembled here, for the same reason.
The client id is remembered: ComfyUI addresses progress to the client that
queued the run, so a reload with a fresh id hears nothing about the generation
already in flight -- the run continues, the GPU time is spent, and the app says
Ready.
Faults found on the way, each in code that already had passing tests:
* `[hidden]` was inert across the whole kit. The UA rule is element-level, so
`.cx-btn { display: inline-flex }` beats it -- Cancel was marked hidden, sat
there, and nothing reported anything. jsdom cannot see it: the attribute was
always correct. One reset rule, and a browser test over four element kinds.
* A panel passed no height to its body and a split pane passed none to its
panes, so the viewer asked for 100% of `auto` and collapsed to a single line
inside a panel that was the right size around it.
* subscribe() delivered the first state outside the guard every later delivery
gets, so one bad listener took down whoever was wiring the UI up -- at
startup, before anything existed to report it.
* A whole tests directory was never run: the test script globbed
composer/tests only. `node --test` discovers them itself now, so there is no
list to forget.
* `empty` was not in the content rule's key list, so three elements were never
asked to prove their empty-state text comes back as text rather than markup.
The dev server now mounts the REAL routes -- register() already took a route
table -- instead of reimplementing them over http.server. It answered POST
/api/pipeline with 501, so the edit-and-queue path could not be looked at, which
is the one thing the dev server exists for.
v4's Simple mode is the Editor with about ten `display: none !important` rules
over it, which is not a smaller app but the same one wearing a mask. It broke in
the way that arrangement always breaks: a collapsed column was marked [hidden],
nothing can slide a display:none element into view, and the panel button did
nothing at all and said nothing. So the same shape is built the other way round
-- a region that does not exist yet is ABSENT, and the toggles live in rails
that are siblings of the panels, never inside what they hide.
Two kit elements, because both are layout primitives rather than app code:
frame.app establishes the one definite height everything else fills, and
workspace.docked is the centre-shrinks-between-two-panels arrangement.
Three faults found by looking at it rather than by reasoning about it:
* The prompt was in the DOM with no pixels. A vertical split inside a parent
whose height came from its content resolves its second pane to zero, and
nothing anywhere reports that.
* The whole app rendered as a strip at the top of an empty window: `100%` of a
`min-height` is `auto`.
* Two fixed-width panels plus their rails are wider than a 480px window, and the
page scrolled sideways -- taking the transport bar with it.
The collapse is deliberately not animated: a remembered-closed panel would
animate shut on every load, which reads as the app doing something rather than
as a preference being restored.
Also: jsdom gives a document with no url an OPAQUE ORIGIN, where reading
window.localStorage throws on the property access itself. Everything that
remembers a preference was silently taking its fallback path in every jsdom
test, so "it is remembered" could not be tested at the cheap layer and looked
like it worked.
The plan asked for jsdom AND Playwright from the start and only jsdom was
ever built. jsdom has no layout engine: getBoundingClientRect answers zeros,
container queries never fire, a theme is an attribute rather than a computed
cascade. So every claim about POSITION or SIZE in this kit was unchecked, and
the unit suite could not have noticed either of these.
A popover bounded its height and not its width. `max-height: 60vh` was there
from the start; there was no max-inline-size at all, so a long unbroken
string -- a file path, a model filename -- made the popover wider than the
screen and anchor.js could not save it: it can move a box, not shrink one.
Measured at 1436px inside a 1280px viewport, off the right edge in all four
corners.
A horizontal split could not fit a narrow screen. The first pane carries an
inline size and `flex: 0 0 auto`, so it would not shrink, and the page
scrolled sideways at 360px -- 407px of content in a 360px viewport. It wraps
now, which stacks the panes, rather than a media query: the kit sizes itself
from its container and not from the window.
Nine layout tests: every overlay corner, an overlay taller than the viewport,
both themes resolving every token they use, light actually being lighter than
dark, and no horizontal scrollbar at five widths. `npm run test:all` runs both
suites.
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wheel.half pins the centre to a screen edge and fans the items inward, for a
control that lives at the edge and has nowhere to open a full wheel. The arc
geometry is now shared with the full wheel, so the two cannot disagree about
which item a direction means. The hub is a glyph sized to the dead zone: the
cancel target you see is the one you hit.
list.rows takes a real control per row. A bare number printed beside the reorder
arrows reads as a stepper for that number, so moving a LoRA looked like editing
its weight.
setBusy re-derived disabled from the constructor's value, so finishing a busy
spell re-enabled a button that had been disabled since; busy and disabled are
tracked separately now.
An emptied number field committed as 0 and snapped to min, discarding the last
good value -- a browser normalises invalid text to empty, and Number('') is
finite so it sailed past the isFinite guard.
A context menu anchors to a POINT, and that stand-in reached the dismiss stack,
which threw on the first click anywhere.
55 element groups across text, buttons, choice, input, slider, layout, status,
overlays, gallery and the wheel picker. Each lands in a registry-driven
catalogue that shows every variant in both themes, so an element that fails to
register is visibly absent rather than quietly missing.
rule_content_is_data iterates the REGISTRY, not a list: a new element is
attacked with markup the moment it calls define(), and one without a demo fails
the suite. That is announcement-not-enumeration applied to the tests.
Fixes found while building: checkbox silently ignored its label (inverted
logic left it with aria-label=toggle), the overlay root set z-index 0 and so
became a stacking context that trapped every overlay it was built to free, and
raising a window left its peers' z stale because z is derived from position --
claim() now notifies a rung when a peer moves.
The wheel highlights the actual sector rather than a box around the label: the
lit shape is the region that picks the item, which is what makes it aimable.
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