Buffer undo trace to a ring, add dump action, stop per-tick loadSaveProj spam

Trace lines fill a 4096-line ring instead of hitting the console per line;
DUMP_UNDO_TRACE drains it in one ShowConsoleMsg call. Overflow is marked, not silent.

src/app/main.cpp

@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ static void RunShowVersion(int) {
     // the console window).
     ShowConsoleMsg(("ReaSampler " + reasampler::version::appVersion() + "\n").c_str());
 }
+// TEMPORARY: drains the undo-trace ring buffer to the console in one call. See
+// undo_trace.h; revert together with the rest of the undo-span tracing pass.
+static void RunDumpUndoTrace(int) { reasampler::undoTraceDump(); }
 
 // ONE row per bindable action this TU owns: FOREVER-STABLE id suffix, Actions-list
 // phrase, handler, per-row arg. Registration, hookcommand dispatch, and the unload
@@ -170,6 +173,9 @@ static std::vector<reasampler::ActionTableRow> buildMainActionTable() {
     rows.push_back({"IMPORT_BANK_PACKAGE", "import bank package (.rsbank)",
                     &RunImportBankPackage});
     rows.push_back({"SHOW_VERSION", "show version", &RunShowVersion});
+    // TEMPORARY: see undo_trace.h; revert together with the rest of the undo-span
+    // tracing pass.
+    rows.push_back({"DUMP_UNDO_TRACE", "DIAG: dump undo trace", &RunDumpUndoTrace});
 
     return rows;
 }
@@ -185,10 +191,15 @@ static void OnTimer()
     if (capture::g_rtCapture) capture::DriveRealtimeCapture(g_session);
 
     // TEMPORARY: captured in a local (rather than calling GetCurrentProjectInLoadSave()
-    // twice) so the trace can report the value on every tick, standoff or not, with no
+    // twice) so the trace can report it without a second call, with no change to the
-    // change to the call below. See undo_trace.h.
+    // call below. See undo_trace.h. Traced only on CHANGE — every tick reads this
+    // regardless of state, and the transition is the whole point of the line.
     ReaProject* const loadSaveProj = GetCurrentProjectInLoadSave();
-    REASAMPLER_TRACE("[Timer] loadSaveProj=%p", (void*)loadSaveProj);
+    static ReaProject* s_tracedLoadSaveProj = nullptr;
+    if (loadSaveProj != s_tracedLoadSaveProj) {
+        REASAMPLER_TRACE("[Timer] loadSaveProj=%p", (void*)loadSaveProj);
+        s_tracedLoadSaveProj = loadSaveProj;
+    }
 
     // A project load or save is IN FLIGHT, so this tick is running inside its own message
     // pump — a restore brings plugins online and a plugin load pumps. Everything below

src/shell/undo/undo_trace.cpp

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <chrono>
 #include <cstdarg>
 #include <cstdio>
+#include <string>
 
 #define REAPERAPI_MINIMAL
 #define REAPERAPI_WANT_ShowConsoleMsg
@@ -19,7 +20,21 @@ namespace reasampler {
 
 namespace {
 
-unsigned long long g_seq = 0;
+// A few thousand lines comfortably outlasts a full mode switch, its background park
+// drain, and a mid-drain undo — the exact span the dump has to still hold whole when
+// fired well after the fact. Static storage: one allocation for the process, none per
+// line.
+constexpr std::size_t kCapacity  = 4096;
+constexpr std::size_t kLineChars = 288;
+
+struct Line {
+    char text[kLineChars];
+};
+
+Line              g_lines[kCapacity];
+std::size_t       g_next         = 0;  // next write slot, wraps
+unsigned long long g_totalWritten = 0;  // lines written since the last dump/clear
+unsigned long long g_seq          = 0;
 
 double startMs() {
     static const double t0 = std::chrono::duration<double, std::milli>(
@@ -38,15 +53,40 @@ double nowMs() {
 }  // namespace
 
 void undoTrace(const char* fmt, ...) {
-    char body[256];
+    char body[224];
     va_list args;
     va_start(args, fmt);
     std::vsnprintf(body, sizeof(body), fmt, args);
     va_end(args);
 
-    char line[320];
+    Line& line = g_lines[g_next];
-    std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line), "!SHOW:#%llu %.0fms %s\n", ++g_seq, nowMs(), body);
+    std::snprintf(line.text, sizeof(line.text), "#%llu %.0fms %s\n", ++g_seq, nowMs(), body);
-    ShowConsoleMsg(line);
+    g_next = (g_next + 1) % kCapacity;
+    ++g_totalWritten;
+}
+
+void undoTraceDump() {
+    const bool overflowed = g_totalWritten > kCapacity;
+    const std::size_t count =
+        overflowed ? kCapacity : static_cast<std::size_t>(g_totalWritten);
+    const std::size_t oldest = overflowed ? g_next : 0;
+
+    std::string out;
+    out.reserve(count * 96 + 128);
+    if (overflowed) {
+        char marker[128];
+        std::snprintf(marker, sizeof(marker),
+                      "[UT OVERFLOW: %llu lines dropped, buffer holds %zu]\n",
+                      g_totalWritten - kCapacity, kCapacity);
+        out += marker;
+    }
+    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < count; ++i) out += g_lines[(oldest + i) % kCapacity].text;
+    if (out.empty()) out = "[UT] buffer empty\n";
+
+    ShowConsoleMsg(out.c_str());
+
+    g_next         = 0;
+    g_totalWritten = 0;
 }
 
 }  // namespace reasampler

src/shell/undo/undo_trace.h

@@ -3,19 +3,31 @@
 // Ctrl-Z-mid-drain). NOT for shipping. ONE switch below gates every trace line in the
 // tree; flip REASAMPLER_UNDO_TRACE to 0, or delete this file pair plus the call sites
 // that include it, to revert.
+//
+// Lines land in an in-memory ring buffer, never straight to the console — a tick-rate
+// trace point that called ShowConsoleMsg directly scrolled the console faster than
+// Daniel could copy the interesting span. "DIAG: dump undo trace"
+// (shell/actions/action_registry, DUMP_UNDO_TRACE) is the one bindable action that
+// drains the buffer to the console.
 #define REASAMPLER_UNDO_TRACE 1
 
 #if REASAMPLER_UNDO_TRACE
 
 namespace reasampler {
 
-// Emits one line via ShowConsoleMsg: "UT#<seq> <ms>ms <fmt...>\n", "!SHOW:"-prefixed so
+// Appends one line to the ring buffer: "#<seq> <ms>ms <fmt...>\n". printf-style;
-// a trace point on a background tick never forces the console open. printf-style;
 // sequence number and a monotonic millisecond timestamp are stamped here so lines sort
-// and date themselves even pasted back out of order. Keep each `fmt` short — this has to
+// and date themselves however the buffer is later drained. No ShowConsoleMsg call here
-// read at a glance in REAPER's console.
+// — that is what kept this off the reentrancy risk a tick-rate console write posed.
+// Keep each `fmt` short — this has to read at a glance once dumped.
 void undoTrace(const char* fmt, ...);
 
+// Dumps the whole buffer to the console in ONE ShowConsoleMsg call, oldest line
+// first, then clears it. If the buffer wrapped since the last dump, the dump is
+// prefixed with a marker naming how many lines were lost rather than dropping them
+// silently.
+void undoTraceDump();
+
 }  // namespace reasampler
 
 #define REASAMPLER_TRACE(...) ::reasampler::undoTrace(__VA_ARGS__)