The header repeated the active rig's hardware string and mode list beside
the rig picker. With a real SDR that reads
SoapySDR driver=airspyhf,serial=c852eb5dd23539f8 · RX · SDR filters ·
LSB · USB · CW · CWR · AM · +7 modes
which is longer than every other control in the bar combined, and it is
already on the About tab in full, split across its Rig, Active rig,
Connection, Modes and VFO rows.
Remove the element and the builder behind it. Rig switching keeps its
feedback through the existing hint channel rather than by briefly
rewriting a permanent label, and the identity that belongs in a header —
the rig's display name — stays in the left subtitle.
The freed width is not spent: the tab strip now reaches Settings before
it needs to scroll, where it previously faded out during Statistics.
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The header's height depended on the viewport width, and not even
monotonically: 112px at 1440, 169px at 1100, 131px at 900, 246px at 720.
Both control groups wrapped, so every width produced a different ragged
block — eight page tabs across four rows at 1100px, and action controls
across three. Four different control heights (32, 34, 45 and 54px) sat
in the same row, the 54px one being the rig picker with its summary
stacked underneath, and on narrow viewports the icon buttons stretched to
fill half the row, rendering a play triangle centred in a 249px box.
Lay both groups out as one row that never wraps. Controls are a uniform
2rem and no longer stretch, the rig summary sits inline beside its select,
and the page tabs scroll instead of wrapping. Secondary controls —
layout, style and theme — move into an overflow menu when the bar cannot
hold them, leaving audio, record and the rig picker inline.
Deciding when they no longer fit needs natural widths, not rendered ones:
the nav has min-width 0 and scrolls, so it always shrinks to the leftover
space and always reports scrolling, and the bar reports overflow even when
nothing is clipped. scrollWidth on the scroll container is its
unconstrained content width, which is what the fit test compares against
the space available.
Measured after the change: 72px at 1440, 1280, 1100, 900 and 480, every
control 32px, nothing clipped at any width.
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A layout seeds the collapsible sections; it should not hold them there.
applyLayout writes the disclosure state of the advanced, audio and
scheduler sections, and it runs far more often than a layout change:
render() calls applyRigList() for every SSE frame carrying `remotes`,
which calls setActiveRig() unconditionally, which re-applies the layout.
An operator who expanded a section that the selected layout collapses by
default therefore had it shut again within about a second, which read as
the section being locked by the layout — most visibly the scheduler under
Compact.
Write the section state only when the layout actually changes, or the
first time each section appears in the DOM, since the advanced controls
are constructed after the first applyLayout call. Switching layout still
reseeds every section, so choosing a layout keeps meaning "give me these
defaults".
Verified in Chromium: with Compact selected, activating the scheduler
summary opens the section and it survives both a rig-state refresh and a
repeated applyLayout, while selecting Full still reseeds it.
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The bookmark fix addressed one instance of a defect the TypeScript
migration left across the feature entries. app.js stopped being a
classic script, so its top-level declarations are no longer shared
globals, but the converted entries kept reading them as window
properties that nothing publishes.
Restore the broken behavior:
- ais, aprs, hf-aprs read serverLat, serverLon and haversineKm as
undefined, so every positioned packet rendered an empty distance.
- ais, aprs, hf-aprs, cw, sat, vdes, wefax, wspr called an undefined
postPath, so clear-history and decoder toggles threw.
- scheduler read authRole as undefined, so the lazy-load path never
self-initialized and the Settings tab opened an inert scheduler.
- background-decode read authEnabled as undefined, so control gating
fell back to role-only.
- vchan read fifteen application values and services as undefined:
mode and bandwidth sync, the out-of-band hint, RX audio restart, and
the frequency field all silently no-opped on a virtual channel.
- vchan wrapped window.refreshFreqDisplay, capturing an undefined
original exactly as it did for setRigFrequency, so leaving a channel
never restored the application's own frequency display.
- _audioChannelOverride was a const that nothing could assign, so RX
audio always subscribed to the primary channel.
- ftx-family read fmtTime, a helper legacy ft8.js owned locally, so
decode bar timestamps rendered empty.
Declare the contract once in plugins/host.ts and import it from the
feature entries, rather than restoring globals that
docs/frontend-architecture.md excludes. trx.state gains jogUnit,
rxActive and audioChannelOverride, and makes lastModeName writable;
trx.core gains the tuning, RDS, WFM, jog and RX audio services the
entries need. vchan interception moves to an interceptFreqDisplay
service method that refreshFreqDisplay calls, matching the frequency,
mode and bandwidth interception it already registers.
Reading registry-built elements through a strict lookup is the same
defect as in bookmarks: renderTimelineNeedle guards its result, but
schedulerEl throws, so the now-initializing scheduler crashed on the
timeline needle group that its own SVG creates.
Feature tests move onto a shared host fixture, and entries that now
import a common module are bundled through bundleEntry like the other
shared-module entries. Covers scheduler self-initialization and the
distance path that the bare window reads broke.
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The TypeScript migration turned app.js from a classic script into an ES
module, so its top-level declarations stopped being shared globals.
bookmarks.ts was converted verbatim and kept reading them as window
properties, which app.ts no longer publishes.
Every bookmark interaction read undefined: the Add Bookmark and Select
All buttons stayed hidden because the auth check saw no authEnabled or
authRole, per-rig scopes were missing from the scope picker and the move
target, decoder checkboxes were never built, and Tune threw on
bridge.postPath before issuing a single request.
Extend the typed window.trx host contract instead of restoring globals,
as docs/frontend-architecture.md closes the standalone window property
list. trx.state publishes authEnabled; trx.core publishes
setRigFrequency, applyLocalTunedFrequency, armOptimisticFrequency,
syncBandwidthInput, scheduleSpectrumDraw, and onDecoderRegistryReady.
Replace the vchan setRigFrequency wrapper with an interceptFrequency
service method, matching interceptMode and interceptBandwidth. The
wrapper captured an undefined original and silently dropped every tune;
routing interception through setRigFrequency also restores virtual
channel redirection for the application's own tuning.
Read registry-built elements through bmOptionalEl, since bmEl throws and
the decoder checkboxes and decode toggle buttons are legitimately absent
until the registry arrives.
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