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Problem

Fixes interrupted floating-preview resize gestures reported in #22988 (GitCafe mirror #22998). A lost release could leave a resize active, so later buttonless hover enlarged or moved the preview and left it stranded over the conversation. Resizing also mixed a captured frame with the live source aspect ratio, allowing a source update to change its size during the gesture.

Change

Capture fractional geometry from the preview element at pointerdown and freeze that frame's ratio for the gesture. Each handle owns its pointer capture. Release, cancellation, capture loss, blur, and missing primary-button state end the gesture; idle moves do nothing. A new pointerdown discards stale capture state if a handle disappeared. Finish clamps position through the existing resolver while preserving the user's chosen width and interaction type.

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Fixes #22988

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow; GitCafe mirror #22998.

This is gesture-only: no chat/composer inset, details-card folding, anchor, or placement-policy changes. #16831 supplied the interrupted-gesture findings; its removal of intentional inset/folding behavior was why it was closed unmerged, and those layout changes are excluded here.

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Evidence re-captured as narrated before/after recordings per EVIDENCE.md. Compared before 680152e27b with after db94329f89. Captured all nine rows of the fixture matrix: evidence index · independent proof audit: SUFFICIENT.

Every recording pair has matching scripted steps and decoded-video timestamps above it. Normal gestures use native drags above the minimum size. Interruption/transition rows acquire native pointer capture before deterministic event injection. Physical outside-window release is explicitly excluded.

Blur now releases capture and holds at 355×222; before continues to 460×288 despite blur. Missing release now holds at 280×175; before continues to 318×199.

Adverse transition finding (needs maintainer review): R5 after ends with its bottom edge at 656 instead of 612, a 44 px drift absent before. R5/R6 rendered aspect ratios also change during source resizing. These recordings document failed expectations, not passing transition behaviour. Normal samples use whole-pixel geometry and do not independently distinguish the fractional-geometry fix or transient self-correcting jumps.

Row Script, timestamps and pair
R1 — NW normal · 1440×900 · light Recording pair
R2 — E normal · 1440×900 · dark Recording pair
R3 — NW blur · 1440×900 · dark Recording pair
R4 — E missing release · 390×844 · light Recording pair
R5 — NW source transition · 1440×900 · light Recording pair
R6 — E source transition · 390×844 · dark Recording pair
R7 — NW normal · 390×844 · dark Recording pair
R8 — E normal · 390×844 · light Recording pair
S1 — Resting · 1440×900 · light Static pair and diffs

Out of scope: other handle/termination/theme combinations and drag/pill/actions keep shared-controller sampling within eight pairs. Physical outside-window release, touch and native Electron/device/PDF/mobile require separate input or environments. Providers, contracts, backend and relay/tunnel paths are unchanged.

Environment: Linux x86_64, Chromium 154, DPR 2, loaded system UI sans-serif; identical isolated seeds and local static fixture. CSS viewports 1440×900 and 390×844, light/dark. Per-capture UTC clocks appear in the index. MP4 rasters are 2880×1800 and 780×1688; static PNGs show the full desktop surface downsampled to 1280×800.

Static before:

S1-before.png

Static after:

S1-after.png

Static delta: 10,760/1,024,000 nonzero pixels; 962 above 16/255; maximum channel delta 71. All changes lie inside streamed content. S1 includes unmasked zero-threshold ×8 and >16/255 diff images. The auditor reproduced these metrics exactly.

What else changed: the PR extracts the pointer controller, wires blur/lost-capture termination into the shared shell, adds controller tests and makes an empty-obstacle constant private. No styles, transports, contracts, providers or backend changes. Capture-only differences include stream rasterization, annotation timing and local IDs.

Capture: Codex gpt-6.1-sol; proof audit: Claude Opus 5.5.

Model/harness: GPT-6.1-Sol through Codex in T3 Code; independent GPT-6.1-Sol/Codex and Claude Opus 5.5 reviews and evidence audits.

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Walkthrough

The mini-player now delegates drag and resize gestures to a controller. The controller manages pointer capture, geometry, gesture completion, and touch-tap detection. The shell commits move or resize results and ends gestures on blur or lost pointer capture.

Changes: Preview mini-player gestures

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gesture controller and behavior tests
apps/web/src/components/preview/previewMiniPlayerGesture.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/previewMiniPlayerGesture.test.ts
The controller validates pointer input and geometry, updates drag and resize frames, and handles gesture completion. Tests cover resize geometry, termination, capture loss, and touch-tap detection.
Mini-player shell integration
apps/web/src/components/preview/ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer.tsx
The shell delegates gesture events to the controller and commits move or resize results. It ends gestures on blur and lost pointer capture.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 42570

Resizing a floating preview from the top-left corner while its source aspect ratio changes can move the preview's fixed bottom edge. The main fix for resize gestures that never end is unaffected. This is a narrow edge case that can be fixed in a follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning Issue #22988 requires the resize to follow the pointer, stop on release, and retain the chosen size and position. The controller handles the termination paths and commits a final clamped frame. Howeve… Keep the pointerdown frame and source ratio fixed until the gesture ends. Do not replace the active frame or source when the live source changes. Add an automated transition test that asserts stable rendered ratio, chosen width, and final p…
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Title check Passed The title is concise, conventional, and clearly identifies the floating preview resize fix addressed by the changes.
Description check Passed The description includes the problem, implementation approach, scope and approval reference, detailed verification evidence, environment, limitations, and UI recordings. It also clearly discloses adve…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed gesture controller, shell termination wiring, gesture tests, and private layout constant support issue #22988. The changes do not add unrelated provider, contract, backend, transport, styl…
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The description includes the problem, implementation approach, scope and approval reference, detailed verification evidence, environment, limitations, and UI recordings. It also clearly discloses adverse source-transition findings that require maintainer review.

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Explanation

The changed gesture controller, shell termination wiring, gesture tests, and private layout constant support issue #22988. The changes do not add unrelated provider, contract, backend, transport, style, chat inset, details-card, anchor, or placement-policy behavior.

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Explanation

Issue #22988 requires the resize to follow the pointer, stop on release, and retain the chosen size and position. The controller handles the termination paths and commits a final clamped frame. However, the stated gesture requirement also freezes the captured frame ratio. move detects a source change, rereads the rendered frame, replaces active.frame, and then uses the new space.source; the ratio therefore changes during the gesture. The transition test asserts the new live ratio, and the PR reports final position drift in R5.

Resolution

Keep the pointerdown frame and source ratio fixed until the gesture ends. Do not replace the active frame or source when the live source changes. Add an automated transition test that asserts stable rendered ratio, chosen width, and final position.

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…ze prop

Resize now reads the rendered frame, so MiniPlayerShell no longer needs the
source size. Tests keep the ratio freeze, every gesture termination path,
width preservation, stale-capture recovery and touch tap detection.

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Prompt to fix all issues
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Make the rendered preview frame keep the captured gesture geometry and ratio
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…anges

Resizing froze the start frame's ratio while rendering took height from the
live source, so a source change mid-gesture moved the opposite edge. Resize
and the release clamp now use the live source, matching rendering.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

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Capture the source aspect ratio at pointerdown and use it for every resize
calculation until the gesture ends. Add an integration regression test that
changes the source size during an active resize and asserts the rendered ratio,
final width, and final position.

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…e after a source change

When the preview source size changed mid-gesture, the player re-rendered
at the new aspect ratio but the gesture kept resizing from the frame and
anchor captured at pointerdown, so the next move snapped the player by the
height difference. The gesture now re-reads the rendered frame and resumes
from the last committed pointer position when the source size changes.

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…source change

Rendering derives the player's height from the live source ratio, so a
source change during a resize grew the player away from the edge the
gesture holds fixed, and the previous change adopted that displaced edge
as the new anchor. The gesture now refits its frames to the new ratio
around the original anchored edges and commits that frame on the next
move or release.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/preview/previewMiniPlayerGesture.ts:
- Line 128: Update the gesture rebase around active.frame so a source-ratio
change during a northwest resize preserves the pre-change bottom edge whenever
the container permits; do not adopt the shifted rendered edge. Update the
source-transition test to assert the chosen bottom edge and verify the
zero-delta rebase.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the reviewers still had findings after 3 rounds (the work is on main...fix/issue-22988):

  1. [major] apps/web/src/components/preview/previewMiniPlayerGesture.ts:130: Not fixed: the reported self-growth still occurs while the resize pointer remains stationary. followSource runs only on movement or termination, whereas rendering immediately uses the live source ratio. The actual canvas resolver produced bottom edges 612 at pointerdown, 656 after the source update, and 611.67 after release. This head fixes persistent post-release drift, but leaves the visible 44-pixel growth and subsequent correction during the reported interaction.
    Fails with: A web or desktop browser floating preview starts at (996,433), 268×179, in a 1440×900 container. Hold its northwest resize handle without moving, then change the source from 1200×800 to 1200×1000. The player becomes 268×223 at the unchanged position until another pointer event or release.

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