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topkoa 330995588c feat(panes): panes.state(id) — let a plugin apply its own pane's values
mirrorGlobal covers the case where a pane drives a plain global that some
renderer reads each frame. It does not cover the far more common one: a
plugin whose MAIN-realm code is the authority — it clamps, it persists, it
emits events, it owns the audio graph or the camera rig — and which must
therefore APPLY the pane's values itself rather than have core splat them
somewhere.

Camera Director is the case that forced this. Its brain is the sole writer
of the camera store, the sole broadcaster on splitscreen's channel, and the
only thing that clamps an axis to its legal range. A pane cannot write
window.__h3dCamCtl behind its back without desynchronising its presets, its
persistence, and the panel's own sliders — and running the brain inside the
pane realm would make it a SECOND store writer and a second broadcaster,
racing the real one.

So: `panes.state(id)` hands the main realm the open pane's store
(get/set/all/subscribe). A plugin seeds it on `panes:opened`, subscribes,
and applies what comes back through its own API. The pane stays
realm-agnostic — it only ever touches ctx.state — and the plugin stays the
single source of truth.

For that to work, the hub now broadcasts EVERY change to the store, not just
the ones a pane asked for: it subscribes to the store on connect rather than
echoing pane-originated writes by hand. A value the plugin clamps or corrects
therefore reaches the pane window immediately, and there is exactly one path
by which state arrives in a pane — so it cannot drift.

Signed-off-by: topkoa <topkoa@gmail.com>
2026-07-12 17:58:51 -04:00
topkoa fefb9051a4 feat(panes): pop-out windows — the pane realm, hub, and remote transport
A pane can now leave the main window entirely. Same `mount(root, ctx)`,
same file, different JS realm — which is what the ctx-only contract in the
previous commit was for.

## A purpose-built document, not the app shell with a flag on it

`GET /pane` serves static/panes/pane.html: the bridge, the runtime, and
the pane's own script. No highway, no library, no v3 shell, no <audio>,
no Tailwind.

The splitscreen follower takes the other road — it reloads the whole app
at `/?ssFollower=1` and hides what it doesn't want — and pays for it with
an anti-flash block that must run before any script parses (index.html),
bail-outs in app.js and shell.js, and ~40 lines of CSS hiding core
elements by id. It loads the entire app to throw it away. A pane window
has nothing to throw away, so it boots in milliseconds and there is
nothing to flash.

The cost is that `window.feedBack` in a pane realm is a deliberate,
documented SUBSET. The runtime installs exactly what a pane is promised —
`panes.register`, and the no-op chip/dock calls a shared script may make
at load — so a pane reaching for something it was never given fails
loudly at authoring time instead of subtly at runtime.

## The channel

BroadcastChannel('feedback-panes'), same origin. This works only because
Electron's setWindowOpenHandler returns `action: 'allow'` for same-origin
URLs: `deny` would push the window to the system browser, a different
Chromium instance, where BroadcastChannel cannot reach it and the pane
would silently never sync. That flag is load-bearing.

  hello -> snapshot   resync-on-open, always. The snapshot is the only way
                      the pane realm learns anything.
  state               main is authoritative. A pane's write is a REQUEST;
                      main applies it and echoes to every realm, so a
                      losing write self-corrects instead of splitting brain.
  rpc / rpc:reply     ctx.call() -> the capability bus, with a 10s deadline.
                      Without one, a main window that died mid-call leaves
                      the pane's promise pending forever.
  event               allowlisted bus events, JSON-safe. A CustomEvent
                      carrying a DOM node (highway:canvas-replaced does)
                      would throw on postMessage and take the channel down
                      for everyone, so detail is round-tripped through JSON.
  stream              one coalesced message per pane per frame, OVERWRITING
                      anything not yet flushed. Queueing would build a
                      backlog: Chromium throttles a backgrounded window, and
                      the main window is exactly what's backgrounded while
                      the user looks at the pane.
  sub / unsub         refcounts the main-realm sampler.
  bye                 both directions.

## The follower clock

The pane extrapolates between broadcasts: anchor + observedRate * elapsed,
capped at 2s. observedRate is learned from the broadcasts themselves
(dt/dwall) so it tracks the speed slider without being told about it, and
seeks/pauses are excluded from the fit — a jump is not a tempo. Capping it
means a dead main window decays into a frozen clock rather than one that
confidently runs away. This is splitscreen's hard-won trick, generalized:
panes just call ctx.playhead().

## Failure modes, all of them

- Main window closes -> `bye {main-closed}` and the pane says so plainly,
  rather than showing a frozen playhead that looks live. The host also
  closes its windows outright; a pane that cannot be fed should not be on
  screen.
- Pane window X'd or crashed -> a `closed` poll reaps it (a crashed
  renderer never sends `bye`), the pane closes, and the chip's dialog comes
  back. Without this the user's dialog stays hidden with no way back.
- Popup blocked -> a toast, and we bail BEFORE the manager records
  anything, so the caller's dialog stays exactly where it was.
- Nobody answers `hello` in 5s -> the window says so instead of spinning.
- A pane with no `script` is a closure in this realm and cannot honestly
  cross a window boundary. The window host declines it (canHost) and the
  router falls back to the dock.
- A browser blocks window.open() outside a user gesture, so a popped-out
  pane cannot be auto-restored on page load — it would only ever produce a
  "blocked" toast. Such a pane comes back in the DOCK, and the chip pops it
  out again on the next click. (autoRestore: false. The desktop host will
  set it true.)

Hosts may now declare `remote: true`, meaning the pane's mount() runs in
another realm: the manager then owns only the authoritative state store and
never calls mount() itself. That is the seam the Electron BrowserWindow +
tray host drops into next, with no change here.

Verified: popped Now Playing and Mixer into real windows. The pane realm has
no window.highway, no capability bus and no <audio>, yet the Mixer renders
its faders via ctx.call('audio-mix','list-faders') across the channel — and
dragging that fader IN THE PANE WINDOW moved the main window's song volume
to 55 and persisted it. Closing the pane window un-hid the mixer dialog,
removed the stub and restored the chip, while the other pane window stayed
open.

Signed-off-by: topkoa <topkoa@gmail.com>
2026-07-12 17:03:21 -04:00
topkoa e5cbea2e9f feat(panes): core detachable pane system + pop-out chip
The option-heavy player UIs (mixer, camera director, viz, audio routing)
all live in the rail popovers, which are exclusive: openPopFor() closes
the last one before opening the next. You cannot watch the mixer while
riding the camera, and both vanish the moment you look at the highway.

Add `window.feedBack.panes` — a core registry for live UI that is
authored once as `mount(root, ctx)` and hosted anywhere. Panes are
non-exclusive, and they survive song switches structurally: the dock is a
body child outside every .screen, so the per-song teardown never sees it.

The adoption cost for a plugin is two calls:

    feedBack.panes.register({ id, title, icon, mount, unmount });
    feedBack.panes.attachChip(myExistingDialogEl, id);

attachChip injects THE standard pop-out chip. Clicking it opens the pane
and hides the plugin's dialog, leaving a stub to bring it back. Core owns
the hide/restore, so every plugin's pop-out looks and behaves the same —
which is the point. It hides via a dedicated .fb-pane-detached class, not
.hidden/[hidden], because the dialogs we attach to already toggle those.

Everything a pane may touch arrives through `ctx` — never a global. That
is what will let the same mount() run inside a pop-out window, a separate
JS realm with no window.feedBack, no window.highway and no audio graph:

  ctx.call(domain, cmd, payload)  -> the capability bus
  ctx.on(event, fn)              -> the feedBack bus (allowlisted)
  ctx.subscribe(stream, fn)      -> playhead / meters
  ctx.state.get/set              -> persisted, main realm is the only writer
  ctx.playhead(), ctx.song(), ctx.toast(), ctx.close()

ctx tracks every subscription it hands out and drops them on unmount, so
a pane cannot leak listeners across a dock/undock cycle.

Streams exist because an AnalyserNode cannot cross a window boundary:
levels are reduced to numbers in the realm that owns the audio graph.
One shared rAF loop, refcounted against live subscriptions, dirty-checked
before fan-out, and stopped dead when the last pane closes.

Hosts register themselves with the manager rather than being imported by
it — the dock lands at priority 0 (the floor, always available), so the
OS pane window can drop in later without this code changing.

Ships two built-in panes: Now Playing (the reference pane — reads the bus,
a stream, and levels, and touches no globals) and Mixer (the same faders
as the rail, via ctx.call('audio-mix', ...), with the chip attached to the
real #mixer-control). Plus a "Panes" rail popover to open panes that have
no dialog of their own; the system tray will mirror that list.

Note the dock sits at z-index 110, not on the docs/plugin-v3-ui.md ladder
(transport 20, rail 30, popovers 40) — those live INSIDE #player's
stacking context, and #player is itself fixed at z-index 100. A dock below
100 is invisible on the one screen panes exist for. Body-level ladder:
#player 100 < dock 110 < toasts 120 < modals 200.

Pop-out windows, the system tray, manifest-declared panes and mirrorGlobal
(the window.__h3dCamCtl proxy the camera director needs) follow.

Signed-off-by: topkoa <topkoa@gmail.com>
2026-07-12 16:54:15 -04:00