gui: the form in columns, groups that say what they are, refusals that offer their fix by donislawdev · Pull Request #126 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-09-23T12:06:54Z

The window's layout, rebuilt round by round from the owner's verdicts on the running window.

Fields stand in four columns, each taking the fewest columns its value needs. A refusal is written under its row, across it.
Every section of a work screen folds. Settings of a format, of a damage and notes for the manifest are framed groups with a rail in the colour of their kind. A refusal about a field in a folded section opens it.
A menu shows its arrow in the accent. A box to tick carries its name beside it. Buttons side by side stand apart. Donate is quieter, and on About it sits in the Support card.
A size below a format's minimum offers a button that puts the smallest size in the box. A refusal about a file, a manifest or a run already in the output directory stands under that box with Open folder.
A refusal takes down "Working out what this would cost...".
The run line counts formats past three. A grey default says "default: 60". The licence wraps to the window and carried code is a table.

Seven new guards, nine rewritten for the new layout, mutation entries proven on the real tree. Stored screens and the catalogue are written again. Nothing touches the engine, the bytes of any file or the command line.

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New Features
- Reorganized generation, preset, and recipe forms into compact layouts with collapsible sections.
- Added clearer default-value hints and field-level guidance with actions, including an option to use the smallest permitted size.
- Updated the About page with a Support card and clearer, structured software and licence information.
Bug Fixes
- Refusals during preview or generation planning no longer leave a stale “Working out what this would cost...” message visible.

A prototype of a new layout, built round by round from the running window. Guards, stored screens and the catalogue are not updated yet. - parts.Grid lays a section's fields in four columns, each field taking the fewest columns that hold it and filling them. A refusal is drawn under its row, across it, instead of inside a 185 px column. - A group of settings that folds away is framed, with a rail in the colour of what it is about: a format's settings, a damage's, notes. - Every section of a work screen folds; a refusal opens the one it is about, and the state survives the batch screen rebuilding. - A box to tick carries its name beside it, wherever it comes from. - Lists are ordinary text with the marker on the first line (O235). - Buttons in a row stand GapButtons apart; Donate is quiet words, and on About it moved into the Support card. - A menu marks the keyboard with a ring only, not a fill. - The run line counts formats past three; a placeholder that is a default says so; the About screen wraps the licence and tabulates carried code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

…rototype) - A size below what a format can make carries its minimum as a number, so the refusal under the size box offers a button that puts that exact size in the box. Nothing is filled in by itself. - A refusal about what is already in the output directory - a file or a manifest the run will not write over, or another run writing there - is placed under the output directory box instead of a one line strip at the foot, with a button that opens the directory. Placed by the window: the engine's address for it is unchanged, because the command line reads that address into its machine readable reports. - A refusal takes down "Working out what this would cost...", which a preview or a Generate refused while planning left standing over it. - A field asks the grid for its width without its refusal, so a long sentence or the button under it no longer widens its column. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

…ns for the new layout - A menu draws its arrow in the primary colour. A menu and a box to type in were the same to the pixel; of three ways shown side by side in the running window the owner chose this one. - Seven guards for what the layout promises: short fields share a row a column each, a size refusal offers the smallest size and pressing it puts that size in the box, a refusal about the directory stands under it with the way to it, a refusal stands under its row across it, a menu's arrow is in the accent, a folded section opens for a refusal inside it, and a group of settings wears the colour of its kind. - Guards that described the old layout say what the new one promises: an arrow on the edge the fields start on, a number one column wide, boxes on the grid's columns, a box to tick named beside it, the licence word for word rather than line for line, a default worded as one. - The catalogue draws the grid, a refusal under a row, a fix offered, a box to tick level with a field, the kinds of group and the table of three columns. The stored screens are written again. - Placing a refusal moved out of refuse into a function, and three functions of the prototype were flattened, so the depth ceilings hold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

…ction are not words Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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The pull request revises form layout across the Generate, Preset, and Recipe screens. It adds collapsible sections, grid-based fields, refusal actions, and updated status text. The About page also changes its Donate placement and carried-item presentation.

Changes

Form layout and refusal handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Grid and field components `internal/gui/parts/`, `internal/gui/catalogue/`	New grid, wide-content, toggle-label, button-row, and grouped-fold components support the revised form layouts. Refusal areas can display actions, including a suggested minimum size.
Window sections and refusal actions `internal/gui/window/generate.go`, `preset.go`, `recipe.go`, `run.go`, `sections.go`, `internal/gui/text/*`	Generate, Preset, and Recipe use shared foldable sections and grid layouts. Refusals clear the status line, appear on matching fields, open their containing sections, and can offer field-specific actions.
Updated form fixtures and regression checks `internal/guard/`, `internal/guard/testdata/screens/generate-.xml`, `preset-.xml`, `recipe-.xml`	GUI checks and screen fixtures cover column layouts, folded sections, refusal placement and actions, toggle labels, menu-arrow colors, and revised controls.
About content and carried-item ledger `internal/gui/window/about.go`, `internal/legal/carried.go`, `internal/guard/testdata/screens/about.xml`, `internal/guard/window_test.go`	The About page moves Donate into Support and displays carried items in separate component, licence, and copyright columns. The licence notice is reformatted for display.

Changelog entries
CHANGELOG.md record the form, refusal, and presentation changes, including the planning-refusal status-line fix.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Runner
  participant Fields
  participant Sections
  participant OpenFolder
  Runner->>Runner: Clear status line
  Runner->>Fields: Place refusal on matching field
  Fields->>Fields: Mark refusal and offer applicable action
  Runner->>Sections: Open section containing refused field
  Runner->>Fields: Reveal first marked field
  Fields->>OpenFolder: Run output-directory action when selected

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d543f

The form redesign is largely sound. Pressing "Use the smallest size" on a boundary-mode size can leave the same refusal in place. The stored batch-screen refusal snapshot does not actually show a refusal. Wrapped About-page credits can overlap in a narrow window. These are window-only issues that are straightforward to fix, and none affects generated files or the command line.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main user-visible and code changes: column-based forms, named groups, and refusal fixes. It is specific and 86 characters long.
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Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed implementation is UI-facing: it is confined to `internal/gui` plus `internal/legal` presentation helpers. The diff does not change engine, CLI, file-byte, or other non-UI runtime beh…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	No prohibited leftovers were introduced. The authoritative diff adds no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env paths. Added Go code contains no prohibited debug calls such as fmt.Pri…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The PR changes Fyne GUI code, but it does not introduce hardcoded UI styling on individual controls. New sizes, gaps, insets, text sizes, radii, and stroke widths use shared tokens such as `GridColumn…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem is introduced. The new Grid and ButtonRow layouts scan their visible children linearly, and the forms use a small fixed number of fields. The new About ledger is also a li…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	No custom-check failure is introduced. Changed production code contains no new asset loading, settings/data writes, network requests, privilege requests, or background workers. The new folder action i…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	The PR does not introduce an unsafe file parser. Production changes add no XML, CSV, XLSX, YAML, archive, or file-read APIs. The only production path API added is `filepath.Dir` in `inTheWay`, which d…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The check is not applicable. The authoritative diff changes GUI layout, rendering, refusal presentation, text, fixtures, and legal display code. It does not add or change network filters, proxies, fir…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR changes user-facing text, including `Use the smallest size, {{.Size}}`, `default: {{.Value}}`, format-count text, and checkbox wording. These labels are specific, include units where needed, an…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak was introduced. The production diff adds GUI layout, renderer, folding, and callback state only. It adds no timers, goroutines, subscriptions, file or network handles, processes, nati…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The PR scope matches the title and description. The changed source implements the documented GUI layout, folding, refusal actions, menu styling, About presentation, and text updates; the description a…

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In `@internal/guard/formcolumns_test.go`:
- Around line 133-136: In the test’s output-directory field check, separate the
nil case from the Saying() content assertion: fail with a clear message if
Lookup(engine.SettingOutDir) returns nil, then call Saying() only for a non-nil
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In `@internal/guard/testdata/screens/recipe-refused.xml`:
- Around line 340-375: Update the recipe-refused test setup so it clears both
the target name and size fields before pressing Preview, then regenerate the
fixture to capture the validation refusal messages. Use the existing field
identifiers and test helpers, and ensure any section containing a marked field
is open in the resulting fixture.

In `@internal/gui/parts/fixes.go`:
- Around line 37-42: Update fixFor so BelowMinimumError does not propose a fix
that repeats the rejected below-limit size for KeyBoundary; skip the fix for
that field or adjust its boundary value so the lower size reaches Minimum. Add a
guard test confirming the KeyBoundary-specific behavior.

In `@internal/gui/parts/ledger.go`:
- Line 80: Update Column.Layout so it applies the current column widths to each
ledger row before measuring row heights, then position the rows using those
updated heights. This ensures wrapping Prose cells fit without overlapping
subsequent rows.

In `@internal/gui/parts/parts.go`:
- Around line 198-200: Update the outdated Grid layout comments to reflect the
four-column sizing behavior. In internal/gui/parts/parts.go lines 198-200,
describe fields as using GridColumns columns and taking the width they need; in
internal/gui/window/generate.go lines 379-381, state that format, size, count,
and damage share one four-column row; in internal/gui/window/preset.go lines
81-82, describe preset settings as taking the fewest grid columns that hold
them; and in internal/gui/window/recipe.go lines 411-413, state that format,
count, the size-way switch, and the shown size box share the grid columns.

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