fix(frame): correct child geometry and border rendering - #270
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Represent minibuffer-only frames without inventing an extra line and resolve fractional child dimensions before placement. Carry child-frame and outer borders independently through layout and rendering so exact pixel sizing preserves every edge, including the bottom border.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds child-frame outer-border state, layout propagation, and WGPU rendering. It also adds owned, shared, and dedicated-only child-frame minibuffer handling, minibuffer-only redisplay resizing, fractional child-frame geometry, and related regression tests. ChangesChild-frame outer borders
Minibuffer and child-frame geometry
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR improves child-frame geometry and border rendering, but invalid minibuffer input can still leave an orphaned terminal child frame, and translucent borders can appear darker at the corners. These are bounded but concrete issues, so the PR is not ready to merge until they are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FrameLayout
participant OutputBuilder
participant DisplayState
participant WgpuRenderer
FrameLayout->>OutputBuilder: pass frame border identity
OutputBuilder->>DisplayState: install outer-border state and pixel size
DisplayState->>WgpuRenderer: provide frame content and border data
WgpuRenderer->>WgpuRenderer: render content, then four border strips
sequenceDiagram
participant Redisplay
participant ResizeHelper
participant ResizeMiniFrame
participant ResizeBuiltin
Redisplay->>ResizeHelper: process visible minibuffer-only frames
ResizeHelper->>ResizeMiniFrame: call window--resize-mini-frame
ResizeMiniFrame->>ResizeBuiltin: apply staged minibuffer dimensions
ResizeBuiltin->>ResizeMiniFrame: return updated minibuffer bounds
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In `@neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/renderer/child_frames.rs`:
- Around line 353-392: Update the outer border construction in the child-frame
rendering path so the left and right quads start at offset_y + outer_bw and use
height frame_h - 2.0 * outer_bw, while preserving the full-width top and bottom
strips. This prevents corner pixels from being covered twice when using
translucent child.outer_border_color.
In `@neovm-core/src/emacs_core/window_cmds/mod.rs`:
- Around line 5457-5469: Move the resolve_child_shared_minibuffer call before
frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal in the terminal child-frame creation flow,
preserving its existing arguments and ?. Use the resulting child_minibuffer for
the subsequent minibuffer_buffer_id calculation, and leave frame creation
unchanged after validation succeeds.
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neomacs-display-protocol/src/frame_glyphs.rsneomacs-display-protocol/src/glyph_matrix.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/display_frame_output.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/display_mock_frame.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/engine.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/neovm_bridge.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/output/builder.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/output/builder_test.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/output/frame_state.rsneomacs-layout-engine/src/output/install_request.rsneomacs-layout-engine/tests/child_frame_border.rsneomacs-layout-engine/tests/neovm_bridge_minibuffer.rsneomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/renderer/child_frames.rsneovm-core/src/emacs_core/builtins/symbols.rsneovm-core/src/emacs_core/eval.rsneovm-core/src/emacs_core/eval_test.rsneovm-core/src/emacs_core/frame.rsneovm-core/src/emacs_core/window_cmds/mod.rsneovm-core/src/emacs_core/window_cmds/tests.rsneovm-core/src/window/mod.rsneovm-core/src/window/window_test.rs
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| let outer_bw = child | ||
| .outer_border_width | ||
| .max(0.0) | ||
| .min(frame_w.max(0.0) / 2.0) | ||
| .min(frame_h.max(0.0) / 2.0); | ||
| if outer_bw > 0.0 { | ||
| let mut outer_border_verts: Vec<RectVertex> = Vec::new(); | ||
| self.add_rect( | ||
| &mut outer_border_verts, | ||
| offset_x, | ||
| offset_y, | ||
| frame_w, | ||
| outer_bw, | ||
| &child.outer_border_color, | ||
| ); | ||
| self.add_rect( | ||
| &mut outer_border_verts, | ||
| offset_x, | ||
| offset_y + frame_h - outer_bw, | ||
| frame_w, | ||
| outer_bw, | ||
| &child.outer_border_color, | ||
| ); | ||
| self.add_rect( | ||
| &mut outer_border_verts, | ||
| offset_x, | ||
| offset_y, | ||
| outer_bw, | ||
| frame_h, | ||
| &child.outer_border_color, | ||
| ); | ||
| self.add_rect( | ||
| &mut outer_border_verts, | ||
| offset_x + frame_w - outer_bw, | ||
| offset_y, | ||
| outer_bw, | ||
| frame_h, | ||
| &child.outer_border_color, | ||
| ); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Overlapping corner quads double-blend a translucent outer border.
The top/bottom strips span the full frame_w, and the left/right strips span the full frame_h. All four corners are covered by two overlapping rectangles. When outer_border_color has alpha less than 1.0, blending draws each corner twice, making corners visibly darker than the straight edges. Shrink the left/right strips to the vertical span between the top and bottom strips so no pixel is covered twice.
🎨 Proposed fix to avoid double-blended corners
self.add_rect(
&mut outer_border_verts,
offset_x,
offset_y,
- outer_bw,
- frame_h,
+ outer_bw,
+ frame_h - 2.0 * outer_bw,
&child.outer_border_color,
);
+ // (adjust the y origin to start below the top strip)
self.add_rect(
&mut outer_border_verts,
offset_x + frame_w - outer_bw,
offset_y,
- outer_bw,
- frame_h,
+ outer_bw,
+ frame_h - 2.0 * outer_bw,
&child.outer_border_color,
);Apply the corresponding y offset (offset_y + outer_bw) to both left/right rectangles so they start below the top strip and end above the bottom strip.
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In `@neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/renderer/child_frames.rs` around lines 353 - 392,
Update the outer border construction in the child-frame rendering path so the
left and right quads start at offset_y + outer_bw and use height frame_h - 2.0 *
outer_bw, while preserving the full-width top and bottom strips. This prevents
corner pixels from being covered twice when using translucent
child.outer_border_color.
| let fid = | ||
| frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal(name, terminal_id, width, height, buf_id); | ||
| let shared_minibuffer = | ||
| let child_minibuffer = | ||
| resolve_child_shared_minibuffer(frames, parent_id, minibuffer_param)?; | ||
| let minibuffer_buffer_id = if matches!(child_minibuffer, ChildMinibuffer::Only) { | ||
| Some( | ||
| buffers | ||
| .find_buffer_by_name(" *Minibuf-0*") | ||
| .unwrap_or_else(|| buffers.create_buffer(" *Minibuf-0*")), | ||
| ) | ||
| } else { | ||
| None | ||
| }; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Fix the frame leak when resolve_child_shared_minibuffer fails for a terminal child frame.
frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal runs at Line 5457-5458 and allocates and stores the new frame fid in FrameManager before resolve_child_shared_minibuffer runs at Line 5459-5460. resolve_child_shared_minibuffer signals "The minibuffer' parameter does not specify a valid minibuffer window"when the parameter does not resolve to a valid shared minibuffer window. The?operator then returns frommake_frame_plain` immediately, before the frame is ever deleted or returned to the caller.
resolve_child_shared_minibuffer only reads frames and parent_id; it does not need fid. Call it before frame creation, matching the ordering already used in x_create_frame_impl (Line 5884-5887, which resolves child_minibuffer before frames.create_frame_value(...) at Line 5898).
Without this fix, an invalid (minibuffer . SOME-WINDOW) argument to make-terminal-frame/make-frame for a TTY child frame leaves an orphaned Frame entry in FrameManager that was never returned to Lisp. Because nothing removes it, it can still surface through any code that iterates frames.frame_list() (for example (frame-list)), showing a phantom frame the caller never created.
🐛 Proposed fix: resolve the minibuffer parameter before creating the frame
let buf_id = buffers
.current_buffer()
.map(|b| b.id)
.unwrap_or(BufferId(0));
- let fid =
- frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal(name, terminal_id, width, height, buf_id);
let child_minibuffer =
resolve_child_shared_minibuffer(frames, parent_id, minibuffer_param)?;
+ let fid =
+ frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal(name, terminal_id, width, height, buf_id);
let minibuffer_buffer_id = if matches!(child_minibuffer, ChildMinibuffer::Only) {📝 Committable suggestion
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| let fid = | |
| frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal(name, terminal_id, width, height, buf_id); | |
| let shared_minibuffer = | |
| let child_minibuffer = | |
| resolve_child_shared_minibuffer(frames, parent_id, minibuffer_param)?; | |
| let minibuffer_buffer_id = if matches!(child_minibuffer, ChildMinibuffer::Only) { | |
| Some( | |
| buffers | |
| .find_buffer_by_name(" *Minibuf-0*") | |
| .unwrap_or_else(|| buffers.create_buffer(" *Minibuf-0*")), | |
| ) | |
| } else { | |
| None | |
| }; | |
| let child_minibuffer = | |
| resolve_child_shared_minibuffer(frames, parent_id, minibuffer_param)?; | |
| let fid = | |
| frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal(name, terminal_id, width, height, buf_id); | |
| let minibuffer_buffer_id = if matches!(child_minibuffer, ChildMinibuffer::Only) { | |
| Some( | |
| buffers | |
| .find_buffer_by_name(" *Minibuf-0*") | |
| .unwrap_or_else(|| buffers.create_buffer(" *Minibuf-0*")), | |
| ) | |
| } else { | |
| None | |
| }; |
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In `@neovm-core/src/emacs_core/window_cmds/mod.rs` around lines 5457 - 5469, Move
the resolve_child_shared_minibuffer call before
frames.create_frame_value_on_terminal in the terminal child-frame creation flow,
preserving its existing arguments and ?. Use the resulting child_minibuffer for
the subsequent minibuffer_buffer_id calculation, and leave frame creation
unchanged after validation succeeds.
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Pull request overview
This PR corrects several interrelated child/minibuffer-only frame geometry and border-rendering problems. Minibuffer-only frames are now represented with the root window acting as the minibuffer (rather than adding an extra minibuffer line), fractional child width/height are resolved before fractional position so placement uses final dimensions, and the internal child-frame-border is carried independently from the outer border-width/border-color through the display protocol, layout state, and WGPU renderer. It fits into the frame/display subsystem that bridges the Emacs-compatible core (neovm-core) with the layout engine and renderer, and targets packages like mini-frame.
Changes:
- Introduce a
ChildMinibufferenum (Own/Shared/Only) and represent minibuffer-only frames via the root window; resize them during redisplay and viaresize-mini-window-internal. - Resolve fractional child size before fractional position, preserving exact pixel dimensions through builder/layout installation.
- Carry outer border width/color independently across the display protocol, layout engine, and render the square outer border separately in WGPU.
Reviewed changes
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| neovm-core/src/window/mod.rs | Adds outer_border_width() and only counts a minibuffer line when a minibuffer leaf exists. |
| neovm-core/src/emacs_core/window_cmds/mod.rs | Adds ChildMinibuffer enum and handles the minibuffer-only case using the root window. |
| neovm-core/src/emacs_core/frame.rs | Resolves fractional child width/height before fractional left/top positioning. |
| neovm-core/src/emacs_core/eval.rs | Runs window--resize-mini-frame for visible minibuffer-only frames during redisplay. |
| neovm-core/src/emacs_core/builtins/symbols.rs | Makes resize-mini-window-internal apply staged pixel heights with conservation checks. |
| neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/renderer/child_frames.rs | Renders the square outer border after content. |
| neomacs-layout-engine/src/engine.rs | Sources child border color from the child-frame-border face and outer border from frame params. |
| neomacs-layout-engine/src/output/builder.rs | Reorders pixel-size assignment before install_into so placement uses exact pixels. |
| neomacs-layout-engine/src/output/{frame_state,install_request}.rs | Threads outer border fields through build/install state. |
| neomacs-layout-engine/src/{display_frame_output,display_mock_frame,neovm_bridge}.rs | Propagates outer border and marks minibuffer-only root windows. |
| neomacs-display-protocol/src/{glyph_matrix,frame_glyphs}.rs | Adds serialized outer border fields to frame state/buffer. |
| Tests (window_test, window_cmds/tests, frame/eval tests, layout-engine integration tests, builder_test) | Add regressions for minibuffer roles, fractional geometry, exact pixels, and border preservation. |
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Issue
Child and minibuffer-only frames can receive incorrect geometry in several related ways:
child-frame-borderis conflated with the outerborder-width/border-color, so internal and external borders cannot be represented independently and the bottom edge can disappear.These problems are visible with packages such as
mini-frame, where the child must have exact content dimensions and a complete border on every edge.Solution
Verification
neovm_bridge_minibufferintegration test passes.child_frame_borderintegration tests pass (2 tests).dev-releasebuild starts successfully in batch, clean GUI, and normal GUI modes.On the standalone frame branch, Windows
neovm-core --libtest filtering is currently blocked by an existing upstream Windows-only compile error inload_test.rs; the production crate and the frame-specific integration tests compile and pass independently.Summary by CodeRabbit