The desktop plasma window (L4PLASMAWIN, "BattleTech - Plasma") is created by a
different TU than the per-display panels, so it couldn't be a gWins[] entry and
sat outside the sticky-layout / ,noframe system. Add a tiny extern-window
registry to L4GLASSWIN so it rides the same glass_layout.cfg:
- BTGlassLayout_QueryWindow(title, rect, noframe) -- read a title's saved rect
and ,noframe flag (used by the plasma on creation, BEFORE sizing, since
WS_POPUP's frame extent differs from the framed tool window).
- BTGlassLayout_RegisterExtern(hwnd, title) -- register an externally-created
window so SaveLayout writes its line (with a last-known-rect cache so a
teardown before the save still preserves the line).
- BTGlassLayout_Save() -- public save trigger the plasma WndProc calls on
WM_EXITSIZEMOVE / teardown.
L4PLASMAWIN now reads its saved rect+flag on create (WS_POPUP when ,noframe,
position restored), registers itself, and saves on finished-drag/teardown. All
BT_GLASS-gated; the pod is untouched. The plasma blits directly every frame, so
it has no WM_TIMER focus-throttle.
Verified: Release links clean; drag wrote "BattleTech - Plasma=321,222,528,167",
reload with ,noframe brought it up WS_POPUP (WS_CAPTION absent) at 321,222.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First dist feedback ('there is no glass panel'): both windows opened at the
top-left with no-activate and the game window then covered them. The pod's
physical panel is always visible -- so is the glass one now: the button
panel parks at the screen's right edge, the plasma bottom-right, both
WS_EX_TOPMOST. Verified live: panel left=2616 top=12 topmost, plasma
bottom-right topmost, game window below.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Cyd: the on-screen panel now mirrors vRIO (C:\VWE\vrio -- CockpitLayout.cs
+ PanelCanvas.cs, itself the RIOJoy profile-editor layout from the original
Win32 RIO mockup): five 4x2 MFD clusters (addresses descending), four 1x8
board columns (Throttle/Secondary/Screen/Joystick), the two 4x4 hex keypads
(0x50/0x60 -- cells emit real keypad KeyEvents: internal=pilot unit, external=
operator unit), physical names (Panic/Main/Hat*/Pinky...), vRIO colors: red
lamp cells + yellow Secondary/Screen + neutral-blue keypads, flash half-
periods 500/250/125ms, right-click latch (gold outline). 104 controls.
PlasmaWindow: the gauge renderer writes the 128x32 buffer TOP-DOWN -- the
bottom-up flip rendered the marquee upside down (user-reported); copy straight.
Button-trap guard (the e2c21c4 pattern): the authentic base
ConfigureMappableMessageHandler FAIL trap is abort() under DEBUGOFF -- any
aux/zoom button without its L4 override reconstructed KILLED the game on
press. Default now: loud [FAIL] log + ignore; BT_BUTTON_TRAP=1 restores the
hard trap. Verified live: synthetic click on a Secondary cell -> 2 [FAIL]
lines (press+release through panel->PadRIO->ProcessRIOEvent->streamed
mapping), game survives and keeps ticking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NEW gated TUs: L4PADPANEL (GDI top-level window, all-W APIs: the pod button
banks -- upper/lower aux, 12 secondary, specials/hat/handle, 63 buttons --
clickable via PadRIO::SetScreenButton with lamp-lit faces from GetLampState,
10 Hz repaint; created by the PadRIO ctor on BT_PAD_PANEL=1) and L4PLASMAWIN
(PlasmaWindow : Video8BitBuffered -- the gauge renderer draws the 128x32
plasma into its pixelBuffer through the SAME code path as the serial device;
Update() blits orange-on-black at L4PLASMASCALE, default x4). Gated seams:
L4GREND.cpp L4PLASMA=SCREEN branch; btl4main.cpp -platform glass preset
(PAD,KEYBOARD + BT_DEV_GAUGES + SCREEN plasma + panel; env always overrides;
non-glass builds log+fall back to DEV); run.cmd glass token. MFD surfaces
need NO new code: the existing dock-bottom / BT_DEV_GAUGES_WINDOW=1 /
BT_DEV_GAUGES_DOCK=1 modes are the display story.
Verified live: -platform glass boots GLASS profile, panel + plasma windows
up, pad detected, dev gauges awake, mission loop clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 4.8