The film list bug gave no failure anywhere: the data was right, the markup compiled, and the list rendered. Two guards now check that the list can be walked to its end, both by driving input rather than by reading markup. tests/film_list_reaches_every_stock.rs runs in CI and needs no display. It builds the real AppWindow on Slint's testing backend and gives it 28 stocks. It dispatches window events through the same routing a window uses: popup, Flickables, arbitration. It then checks that the last stock is on screen, that is, not clipped away: - after Down past the end, and that Enter chooses it; - after drags on the list; - after a run of wheel events with a still pointer; - after dragging the scrollbar thumb. Element queries need the Slint compiler's debug tables, which build.rs emitted only for the `automation` feature. It now emits them for every debug build too. Release builds, the ones that ship, are unchanged. The testing backend is a dev-dependency at the same pinned version the automation feature already uses, so no new crate enters the lockfile. The test is compiled out of release test runs. film_reach in tools/manual/scenes.py is the same check on the recording rig: a real X pointer from xdotool, the release build, and the demo library. It makes no picture, so it adds nothing to the manual. It runs with every recording, or alone with `record.sh LIBRARY film_reach`, and fails the run if the last stock (Ilford HP5 Plus) is out of reach by the wheel, a drag, the scrollbar or the keys. Both have to add the popup's position back. The testing backend reports anything inside a popup relative to the popup, and so does the automation hook built on it. They take the popup's position from the Film row and Slint's clamp into the window.
tools/manual — the pictures in docs/manual
record.sh drives the desktop build on a private X server and records the
scenes in scenes.py into docs/manual/media/:
tools/manual/record.sh /var/tmp/dr-demo/library # every scene
tools/manual/record.sh /var/tmp/dr-demo/library develop_zoom # one, and what it needs
tools/manual/record.sh --changed /var/tmp/dr-demo/library # those whose sources moved
tools/manual/record.sh --check # the manual and the scenes agree
tools/manual/record.sh --list
Set DR_LIBRARY_SNAPSHOT to a pristine copy of the library: a recording
rates, files and merges, and the snapshot is copied over the library first.
Each run starts from a fresh profile under DR_HOME.
Controls by name
The binary is built with --features automation, which lets the app answer
"where is the control labelled Exposure?" over the Unix socket named by
DR_AUTOMATION (ui/dr-ui/src/automation.rs). No other build has the
feature, and a build that has it listens only when the variable is set. The
names are the accessible labels a screen reader reads, so a scene says
click_on('Select@Button') or slide('Exposure', 24) rather than a pixel,
and survives a panel that moves. The pointer itself is still xdotool.
DR_HOME=/var/tmp/x tools/manual/drive.py launch /some/folder # a feature build in DR_BIN
tools/manual/drive.py labels # every name on screen
tools/manual/drive.py click-on 'Settings@Button'
tools/manual/drive.py ids canvas # things with no name: id:canvas-image
tools/manual/drive.py stop
Grid cells are named by file (_MG_8393@ListItem), rating stars 1 star
to 5 stars. What a scene cannot name — a point on the photograph, the crop
rectangle's corner — it places relative to something it can
(drive.photo(fx, fy), id:move-area).
Scenes and the manual
Each scene in scenes.py declares the pictures it makes, as the manual names
them, and the globs of the sources that could change them. --check fails
when the manual shows a picture no scene makes, or a scene makes one the
manual does not show; it reads two files and runs in CI. --changed
re-records a scene when one of its sources, or its own code, has changed
since the commit that last touched its pictures.
Two things the scripts know that are not obvious: a Slint TouchArea wants
a held press, not xdotool's click; and the app is driven on Xvfb rather
than the desktop because under XWayland at scale 2 a pointer warp lands at
twice the coordinate asked for.