From 9695cb098c784792af79c22d46a17f7bc7247d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Schneider Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:43:57 -0300 Subject: Repaint PDF highlights by row, send rasters by shared memory, and animate messages PDF highlights (hover preview, search, selection) are baked into page rasters, and any change re-rendered the whole page with MuPDF; the TTY then re-sent it as base64 (4.7 MB a page), the GUI as a new texture. Worse, a pointer motion over a PDF invalidated the page even when no preview was shown, so every motion paid that. Now: - A raster whose baked highlight set equals the wanted one is left alone. - A highlighted page keeps its clean rows (before highlights and tint); a change repaints only the rows of quads that differ, running MuPDF's highlight pass (pardes_pdf_paint_highlights) over those clean rows and tinting them: the operations a full render performs, so the pixels are identical. MuPDF band renders are NOT bit-identical to a whole page (edge rows, resampled images), so they are never used to patch; the comment claiming otherwise is corrected. - ImagePlace.patch hands shells the changed rows; the GUI uploads just those rows into the texture it holds. - The TTY probes kitty shared memory (t=s) with an id vaxis never reaches and sends rasters as a /dev/shm name when the terminal reads it; direct base64 otherwise (ssh). - Shells that take row patches (GUI, TTY with shm) repaint a selection while it is dragged instead of only on release. Latency elsewhere: - TTY: an animating frame no longer sleeps 16 ms blind; a tick thread posts into the input queue, so input inside the frame is handled at once. - TTY and GUI: queued pointer motions coalesce to the last. - GUI: a skipped swapchain image re-arms the frame (3 retries); animations still tick while nothing presents. - Editing: the line index is carried across an edit instead of rebuilt from a scan of the whole file per keystroke. Messages fall into their row (ease-in; the GUI slides the band out from under the tagline, a terminal fades it), stay until the next input as before, linger MessageLinger ms (default 800), and dissolve (ease-out). MessageAnimation toggles it; both are settings, in Config and startup files. The snapshot harness pins the old behaviour. The detached server now ticks animations. A restored terminal comes back live: the old screen and scrollback (dumped as clean VT by ghostty's formatter, replayed at the new size; older dumps fall back to their rendered text), a dim "restored history" marker, then a new shell in the directory it was in. Right-click on a line number in a file pane looks at that line (a sticky context header's number included). Measured with an external pty driver (TTY), an in-process fence trace (GUI, PARDES_TEST_LATENCY), and test/pdf_pointer_bench.zig (pixel identity against the baseline and a whole-page oracle); balanced A/A/B rounds, paired per-round statistics. Messages stack: each event gets its own row and its own fall, linger and dissolve; a line keeps its row until it leaves and a new one fills the first free row. Announcements and statuses are replaced in place, not stacked. MessageFall, MessageDissolve and DumpDir are settings Config reports. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) --- src/tag_layer.zig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/tag_layer.zig') diff --git a/src/tag_layer.zig b/src/tag_layer.zig index 0fb2297d..f8cc6eca 100644 --- a/src/tag_layer.zig +++ b/src/tag_layer.zig @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ pub const Layer = struct { bg: [3]u8 = .{ 0, 0, 0 }, cells: []pardes.Cell = &.{}, cursor: ?struct { col: u16, bar: bool = false } = null, + /// Vertical offset in rows (negative: above its viewport), for a band + /// that is moving into place. A pixel shell draws it offset and clipped + /// to the rows below the viewport's top; the grid has no such thing. + slide: f32 = 0, pub fn capacity(layer: *const Layer, metrics: pardes.RowMetrics) u16 { return @intCast(@min(std.math.maxInt(u16), @max(1, @as(u32, layer.viewport.w) * @max(1, metrics.body_w) / @max(1, metrics.tagline_w)))); -- cgit v1.3