reasampler/src/shell/panel/CLAUDE.md

src/shell/panel — the docked bank-panel shell + the shared LICE draw kit

Scope

The REAPER-facing shell for the docked bank panel: the eight bank_panel split TUs (panel_window / panel_layout / panel_render / panel_input / panel_drag / panel_thumbnails / panel_audition / panel_bank_ops, sharing state via panel_state.h), plus draw_kit, the shared LICE draw shell also consumed by the VST3 editor (shell/instrument/).

Pure layout/hit-test/palette modules the panel draws through (theme, component_geometry, bank_grid, tab_strip, mode_switch, action_bar, footer_bar, overflow_menu, prune_button, mode_enable, insert_fx_enable, tooltip, card_drag, card_meta) live in core/ui / core/model and are documented there — this directory consumes them but does not own them. The promptless bank-mutation verbs (bankOpCreate/Rename/Delete/… + persistBankOp) that panel_bank_ops skins live in shell/bank_ops, a sibling directory, not here.

Invariants

• Draw through the kit, by palette ROLE, not hardcoded hue. The shared LICE-based drawing kit is the one source of drawing for the whole system — a button, row, slider, or waveform looks identical in the bank panel, the embed strip, and the VST editor because it is the same kit function, drawn against palette roles (bg/base, bg/panel, bg/cell, accent/primary, accent/secondary, accent/tertiary, accent/hot, text/primary, text/dim, line/hairline, warn) rather than a literal color. The kit palette stays abstract (role→color, one constants block), so a whole visual direction is a single-file change (Phase L, DS-1/DS-2).
• Dock-panel layout is a thorough redesign, not a light re-skin (DS-3). The panel lays out the full button/affordance inventory intuitively and uncluttered, then applies the kit — but this does not restructure the panel bones: the vertical-split / grid / tab structure is sound and stays as-is; a redesign designs the layout of the button inventory around it, not through it.
• What Phase L does not change (Precision / invariant implications):
  • The pure/shell split holds — all layout/hit-test stays in pure CTest-covered geometry modules; the kit's draw half is shell, its geometry half is pure, even where a WDL piece is reused. No hit-test math moves into untestable code.
  • RT discipline is untouched — the kit is draw-thread only; nothing here touches process or any off-thread reload handoff (a VST3-instrument concern).
  • Read-only-over-bank is untouched — this is look-and-feel; no data-ownership change.
  • The capture/placement load-bearing principle is untouched — Phase L draws; it does not capture, place, or mutate the bank.
  • VST3 class UID / component-state contract is unchanged.
  • Windows-only (D5) — font/GDI/HFONT choices assume Windows; no cross-platform font-fallback concern.

Modules

• bank_panel (shell/panel/: panel_window / panel_layout / panel_render / panel_input / panel_drag / panel_thumbnails / panel_audition / panel_bank_ops, sharing state via panel_state.h — Q-W2 split of the former god-module into eight TUs) — docked LICE-drawn grid with three-zone layout: top toolbar (Capture → Placement, frequent acts only, via action_bar, short labels; Maintenance and the rarer Placement/Capture variants sit in the More (⋯) overflow menu via overflow_menu), bottom toolbar (four opposite-mode tag buttons + Show Both), and footer ([Arrange|Design] toggle, Tail button, Prune via footer_bar). Grid renders in sparse slot order with gap cells, drop dispatch, metadata overlay, and selection via accent/tertiary purple border. Draws through the L1 kit by palette role; OS drag-out via drag_out + drag_out_win. panel_window owns the SWELL dialog lifecycle + dialog proc + drop-target opt-in; panel_layout the toolbar/footer/menu rects + vertical-split geometry (the one geometry source both paint and hit-test read); panel_render the WM_PAINT draw; panel_input click/wheel/keyboard routing + the new-content auto-tag timer; panel_drag the hover + card-drag state machine + drop dispatch; panel_thumbnails the PCM→envelope thumbnail cache + the bank-change fingerprint pass; panel_audition the preview-playback engine; panel_bank_ops the menu/prompt UX skin over the promptless shell/bank_ops verbs. draw_kit (shared with the VST3 editor) stays a separate TU.
  • panel_window — SWELL dialog lifecycle + dialog proc + drop-target opt-in. The drop splits by extension: a .rsbank is a whole bank and routes to the package-import action (one NEW bank each), everything else keeps the audio-ingest route.
  • panel_layout — toolbar/footer/menu rects + vertical-split geometry (the one geometry source both paint and hit-test read).
  • panel_render — the WM_PAINT draw.
  • panel_input — click/wheel/keyboard routing + the new-content auto-tag timer.
  • panel_drag — the hover + card-drag state machine + drop dispatch.
  • panel_thumbnails — the PCM→envelope thumbnail cache + the bank-change fingerprint pass.
  • panel_audition — the preview-playback engine.
  • panel_bank_ops — the menu/prompt UX skin over the promptless shell/bank_ops verbs.
• draw_kit — shared LICE draw shell: fillSurface, drawButton/drawSlider/drawListRow/drawWaveform, cached-font text(), full interaction-state model, double-buffer preserved. Consumes theme + component_geometry. Its antialiasing contract — which surfaces alias, which cannot, and the LICE primitive each answers with — is the disposition table in docs/product/visual-design-language.md §8, which governs drawWaveform as much as this doc does. drawWaveform's per-column vertical arithmetic is NOT here: it is the pure, unit-tested component_geometry::waveformBand/waveformColumnSpan pair, because this TU is DAW-verified and not unit-tested.

Gotchas

• No external UI framework. iPlug2 / JUCE / VSTGUI are rejected (DS-1). LICE + reused WDL pieces are the toolkit; reject any path that pulls in a new framework.
• No hit-test geometry in untestable shell code. Even when reusing a WDL piece (e.g. a vwnd control for a long scroll list), layout/hit-test math stays in pure CTest-covered modules — do not import a WDL control's retained-mode object model wholesale, since its controls own their hit-test internally and that would move geometry into untestable shell code.
• Verify every LICE/WDL/SWELL API name/signature against vendor/WDL before use.