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feat(panes): split, zoom, swap, resize and clear panes from the web - #726
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POST /api/pane/split, zoom, swap, resize and clear, one herdr RPC each (pane.split, pane.zoom, pane.swap, pane.resize, pane.clear), validated before the RPC and answering herdr's pane_not_found in the error envelope, as /api/pane/close does. The machine proxy forwards them. Measured on herdr 0.9.3: pane.resize moves the border on the side it names when the pane has a neighbour there, else the opposite border.
A zoom, swap, resize or focus change in a tab is broadcast as session-changed, so a browser learns of the TUI's layout changes at once instead of at the poll. On a connection of its own, like pane.focused: an older herdr that refuses the type must not cost pane exits.
The tab's menu offers Split right / down, Zoom pane, Swap with the neighbours the pane has, Wider / Narrower / Taller / Shorter where a border can move, and Clear pane, and heads a tab of several panes with a map of its layout drawn from herdr's rects: a cell opens its pane, the open one is in the accent, the zoomed one carries the glyph. The palette has Split pane right / down, the same "and open it" (herdr's --focus) and Zoom pane. A split keeps the user's pane, as --no-focus keeps herdr's. After a layout call the strip reads the snapshot back at once, so a menu reopened inside the refetch debounce acts on the layout as it is.
The demo splits, zooms, swaps and resizes its own layouts, and clears nothing, so the site's client shows the controls.
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- Around line 501-502: Update the layout subscription restart callback in the
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…press Review of #726. The phone sheet of a two-pane tab lists a dozen 48px actions, more than a short phone's 92% holds, and `.modal` hides its overflow: the actions now scroll between the sheet's head and Cancel (`.row-sheet-items`). The desktop popover was capped at 320px however much room the screen had, which cut "Zoom pane" off at 1280x800: it is now as tall as its items, up to the room on its side of the button, and scrolls only on a screen too short for it. The layout map's cells take the same focus-preserving mousedown as the menu's items, so Safari's blur on a press cannot close the menu before the click selects the pane.
…stand Review of #726. herdr focuses the pane before it reads the zoom mode, so a `toggle` for pane B of a tab zoomed on A unzoomed the tab instead of showing B alone: the menu and the palette now send the `on` or `off` their label names (`zoomMode`, lib/layoutMap.ts), and an already_zoomed answer whose tab now shows the asked pane alone counts as done. A "Split pane right and open it" that answered after the user had opened another pane or PC switched them back to the new pane: the selection carries a generation (lib/selectionMark.ts) and a split opens its pane only while nothing was opened since it was asked. A PC whose bridge is from before these routes answers 404 for the route itself: the tab's menu and the palette now say "This PC's bridge does not offer this yet" instead of a raw failure (`routeMissing`, lib/api.ts; the palette's line is `.pane-notice` over the pane).
… again Review of #726. The demo moved one neighbour's rect by a share of the tab, so in a nested layout (split right, then that pane down) widening the left pane moved only the upper-right pane and left the lower-right one overlapping it. The demo now recovers herdr's split tree from the rects (src/lib/layoutTree.ts), moves the ratio of the split the border belongs to by the amount on the split's own extent, as herdr does (capped at 0.5, the ratio held to 0.1..0.9), and lays every pane under it out again; the tests assert the rects still tile the area. Its zoom focuses the pane before it reads the mode, as herdr does.
Review of #726. The contract said `amount` was a share of the tab and allowed up to 1; herdr moves the ratio of the split the border belongs to (0.25 in a 60-column half of a 120-column tab moves it 15 columns, not 30), caps the amount at 0.5 and holds the ratio to 0.1..0.9. The docs say so and the server refuses more than 0.5 (invalid_amount) rather than let herdr quietly take less. The contract test gains the nested-split case, the cross-pane zoom semantics the UI relies on, and a clear case that prints a marker, sees it on the screen, clears, and polls until it is gone.
ui-regression pinned the tab menu to Rename tab and Close tab; a one-pane tab now offers Split right, Split down and Clear pane first, which is what CI's browser lane failed on.
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The tab menu read 오른쏙 for 오른쪽.
A render React throws away (Strict Mode, a replay) moved the selection generation on, so a split asked to open its pane could find the selection changed when it had not. The mark now moves in a layout effect keyed on the PC and pane; every reader runs from an event or a reply, after the commit.
…ream is back A border moved while the layout.updated subscription was down went unseen until the next move: the restart now broadcasts session-changed, as the lifecycle stream does, without a snapshot of its own.
…rols main's #725 follows layout.updated on the lifecycle stream, whose restart already tells the clients to read again: the branch's own layout.updated subscription, its parser and their tests go, and the changelog entry no longer claims the event.
… on its map Review of #726. Nothing pinned the menu's fixes: on a 1280x800 screen the popover of a two-pane tab must show every item with nothing to scroll (a 320px cap cut Zoom pane off), a press on a cell of the layout map must keep the menu open for Safari and its click open that pane, and on a 320x640 phone the sheet's dozen actions must scroll between its head and Cancel, which stay on the screen, so the last of them is reachable by touch. scripts/tab-menu-regression.ts checks the three, on its own or from ui-regression.ts.
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- Around line 556-558: Ensure the demo workspace and tab creation handlers add a
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…lear pane A workspace or tab the demo created, and a SPECS pane backfilled without a recorded one (cli-tools), had no layouts entry, so every layout route answered pane_not_found for them: each gets herdr's one-pane layout now. Clear pane answered ok and left the terminal as it was; the sockets attached to the pane are sent a clear screen.
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Neither new finding was rejected. Both exact sequences failed against the unfixed implementation before the change. Unit coverage retains the existing non-overlap/full-coverage assertions and adds positive dimensions, independent rows, recovery, width saturation, and swap/zoom/close continuity. Validation on pushed tip c0901c2:
Evidence is under Cleanup: demo Chromium closed, loopback server stopped, temporary demo bundle removed; both isolated live QA runs finished with their browsers and servers closed and their herdr sockets removed. The contract runner removed its disposable isolation directory. Lock refusals alone were retried; admitted checks passed. Existing Vite large-chunk warnings remain. This response covers only the two new findings. The PR has not been merged. |
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What changed
herdr's pane layout operations, which only its TUI had, from the web UI. Everything is one herdr RPC per action; the app builds no layout state of its own.
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shared/protocol.ts,server/herdr/client.ts,server/index.ts)POST /api/pane/split {pane_id, direction: right|down, focus?}→{ok, pane}(the new pane;focusis herdr's--focus, default off like--no-focus)POST /api/pane/zoom {pane_id, mode?: toggle|on|off}→{ok, zoomed, changed, reason}POST /api/pane/swap {pane_id, direction: left|right|up|down}→{ok, changed, reason, target_pane_id}(no_neighborwhen there is none)POST /api/pane/resize {pane_id, direction, amount?}→{ok, changed, reason}(unchangedwhen no border can move that way)POST /api/pane/clear {pane_id}→{ok}invalid_body,missing_pane_id,invalid_direction,invalid_focus,invalid_mode,invalid_amount); herdr'spane_not_foundcomes back as the 404 envelope; the same same-origin +x-herdr-machineguard as/api/pane/close.MACHINE_PROXY_PATHforwards the five routes, so remote PCs work.server/collector.tsfollows herdr'slayout.updatedevents on a connection of its own (likepane.focused, so an older herdr that refuses the type cannot cost pane exits) and broadcastssession-changed: a zoom, swap or resize made in the TUI reaches every browser at once instead of at the 5 s poll.Client
src/lib/layoutMap.ts: cells of the tab's area in percent fromlayouts[].panes[].rect, neighbour detection, and whichpane.resizecall makes a pane wider/narrower/taller/shorter. Measured on herdr 0.9.3:pane.resizemoves the pane's own border on the named side when a neighbour is there, otherwise the opposite border, so a pane between two others grows on both and is narrowed through its neighbour.src/components/LayoutMap.tsx+.css: the compact layout map (tokens only); a cell opens its pane, the open pane in the accent wash, the zoomed pane carries the zoom glyph.TabStrip.tsx: the tab's menu (right-click / chevron; a bottom sheet on touch viaRowMenu) heads with the map for a tab of several panes and offers Split right / Split down, Zoom pane / Unzoom pane, Swap left/right/up/down (only the sides with a neighbour), Wider / Narrower / Taller / Shorter (only the axis with a neighbour) and Clear pane, acting on the pane the tab opens. A split keeps the user's pane (herdr's--no-focus). herdr's "nothing changed" answers show in the strip's notice line. After a layout call the strip reads the snapshot back at once (a menu reopened inside the 500 ms refetch debounce must act on the layout as it is now; caught by the browser QA).CommandPalette.tsx+lib/actions.ts: Split pane right / down, the same and open it (focus: true; the app then selects the new pane) and Zoom pane when the tab has several panes.site/demo/transport.tsanswers the five routes on the demo's layouts. i18n ko/ja/zh entries, CHANGELOG line, DESIGN.md (menu items, layout map, palette).herdr RPCs used:
pane.split,pane.zoom,pane.swap,pane.resize,pane.clear; events:layout.updated.How checked
bun run check fast→ PASS (2297 pass, 0 fail; typecheck, build, generated types, unit tests incl. newsrc/lib/layoutMap.test.ts(9),server/collector.test.ts(+3),server/machines.test.ts,src/lib/i18n.test.ts).bun run check run bun test --timeout 15000 ./server/pane-layout.contract.test.ts→ PASS (10 tests on the isolated test herdr: validation per route,pane_not_found404 on every route, cross-origin refusal, split right/down with and without focus read back from herdr's layout rects, zoom/already_zoomed/unzoom, swap +no_neighbor, resize by amount +unchanged, clear).bun run check run --build bun scripts/mobile-tabs-regression.ts→ PASS (the phone tab-strip regression; report status verified)./tmp/parity-qa-A/qa.ts, 22 checks PASS) against the isolated sessionherdr-web-ui-qa-Awith a real server on :7451, Playwright Chromium at 1280px and 390px (isMobile, touch), and a herdr TUI client in a PTY rendered through xterm.js for screenshots:herdr --session herdr-web-ui-qa-A pane listgrew by one, the layout rect stands right of the root with herdr's focus unchanged, the TUI showsalphaandbetaside by side (tui-after-web-split.png/.txt), the strip counts "2 panes" without a reload;layouts[].zoomedtrue, the TUI tab bar showsZwithalphaalone (tui-zoomed.png), the map marks the zoomed cell and offers Unzoom pane;prefix+vandprefix+zwritten to the PTY → the strip read "4 panes" and the map marked the zoomed cell with no reload;/tmp/parity-qa-A/01-desktop-strip.png,02-desktop-menu-one-pane.png,03-desktop-menu-two-panes.png,04-desktop-menu-zoomed.png,05-desktop-palette-split.png,06-desktop-menu-three-panes.png,07-desktop-menu-after-tui-split-zoom.png,08-phone-strip.png,09-phone-sheet.png,10-phone-sheet-selected.png,tui-*.png/.txt,snapshot-*.json,pane-list-after-web-split.txt,qa-results.json.Known limits
layout_updatedalso fires when the TUI's focus moves between panes; each one is asession-changedbroadcast (debounced client refetch).