A pass over the whole interface, driven by using it on a 5.7-hour capture.
**Layout.** The 320px sidebar of labelled widgets is now a 46px icon rail —
one column of square buttons, sized so it costs the spectrogram as little
width as possible — plus a menubar for one-shot actions. Menu items are
defined by naming a keymap entry, so an item reuses that binding's action,
gate and shortcut label and the two can't drift; items grey out under
exactly the conditions that make the shortcut a no-op. Settings that need
more than an on/off (FFT size, colours/levels, annotation kinds) open as
popouts beside the rail rather than widening it. Every toggle has exactly
one home: nothing is reachable from both the rail and a menu.
Icons are drawn from raylib primitives rather than an atlas or font
glyphs — the bundled font has no symbol coverage, and vector shapes stay
crisp at any UI scale with no assets to ship.
**Navigation.** Left-drag now pans and Ctrl+drag box-selects, with Tab
swapping which is bare (Ctrl always means "the other one", so either mode
does both). Previously a bare left-drag did three different things
depending on invisible state, with no cursor feedback; the cursor now
reports the active gesture. Wheeling a scrollbar pans that axis, or zooms
it with Shift.
**Minimap.** Whole-file thumbnail in the top-right with the current view
drawn on it; click or drag to scrub, corner handle switches between two
sizes. Rendered once per size into a cached texture and rebuilt only when
its content changes — panning and zooming just move the rectangle drawn on
top. The reduction is strided (each thumbnail cell samples at most 8x8),
because reducing every segment x bin meant ~1 G reads per rebuild and a
visible hitch on every overlay toggle.
**Fixes found along the way:**
- The timeline lane mapped events across the whole file while the
spectrogram above it showed a zoomed window, so the two only lined up at
full zoom-out and an event's tick sat nowhere near its burst. It is also
properly toggleable now: the old flag only grew an always-present lane.
- Clicks preferred the spectrogram over the minimap. Input handling runs
~900 lines before the draw pass that computed the minimap's rect, so a
press there started a pan AND a scrub — two handlers writing app.view in
one frame. Geometry queries that input depends on now live outside the
draw pass.
- Repainting during the background fill re-ran the full synchrosqueeze
every 0.5 s. Zoomed out that is ~0.5 G bin-visits with four trig calls
each, twice a second, for minutes — while showing almost nothing new,
since folded segments land in columns already drawn. The interval now
scales with how much work a repaint actually costs.
- IsUserInteracting() sweeps 512 key codes and was called three times a
frame; memoized per frame.
- Frequency labels were drawn at a fixed offset wider than their gutter and
overflowed into the rail. They are measured and right-aligned now, with
one format chosen per axis so the column doesn't mix "3k" with "2.3k".
- The horizontal scrollbar is pinned to the window bottom; it used to sit
mid-layout competing with the scope's divider, and the scope covered it
outright at larger window sizes.
- The scope starts hidden — the spectrogram is the primary view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8ZWfr5XZyyDttvkhJUgHN
Three things, all surfaced while working a multi-node protocol issue on a
5.7-hour capture.
**Loading was frame-paced, not compute-bound.** The STFT overview advanced
a fixed 200 segments per frame, so the frame limiter — not the FFT — set
the pace: 478k segments at ACTIVE_FPS meant over a minute spent waiting
between frames rather than computing. The tell was absurd: backgrounding
the window, which skips presenting entirely, loaded the same file in
seconds. The progress bar was slower precisely because you were watching
it. The overview is now computed in one blocking call after presenting the
loading panel, so focused load matches the unfocused speed. The panel says
the window will stop responding and drops the percentage, which could not
animate and would have read as a hang. ACTIVE_FPS 30 -> 60 while here;
idle still parks at ~0% CPU through the event-wait path.
Background work also no longer stops when the window loses focus. Pending
work now counts as "active" regardless of focus, so the loop doesn't block
in PollInputEvents waiting for input that isn't coming, and an unfocused
frame with work outstanding skips the draw pass entirely rather than
throttling the high-res fill to the refresh rate.
**Collision detection.** Annotations that overlap in both time and
frequency are flagged, merged into contiguous regions, and drawn as red
bands confined to the band the overlap occupies (padded, so a narrow
overlap stays findable) rather than spanning the full axis and hiding the
signal being pointed at. N / Shift+N and sidebar buttons jump between
regions, centring each without disturbing the current zoom.
Point markers are excluded: control events and assertions have no band and
zero duration, and treating a missing band as "whole spectrum" — which is
how they are *drawn* — made every marker collide with whatever it sat
inside. That was 38% of the reported collisions on a real capture. Only
things that actually occupy the air can interfere. Counts verified against
an independent reference implementation on two captures.
**Scope waveform via min/max summary.** The envelope rescanned every
visible sample every frame — ~245M reads, near 1 GB of memory traffic, on
a multi-hour file, measured at ~60 ms/frame for a few hundred pixel
columns. It now draws from 1024-sample buckets built once at load (60 ms,
1.9 MB), measured at ~0.07 ms/frame. Keeping both extremes per bucket
means single-sample transients still show at full zoom-out, which plain
decimation would drop; verified that no column ever understates a true
peak. Zoomed in past a bucket it falls back to raw samples, which is cheap
there by definition.
Also fixes ComputeCollisions never running for files opened through the
file browser, and moves the collision panel above the annotations dropdown
where it isn't pushed off the bottom of the sidebar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8ZWfr5XZyyDttvkhJUgHN
The minimum visible time window was a flat 2% of the file, but view.start
and view.end are normalized to the whole signal — so the achievable time
resolution scaled with file length. A 30-minute recording could never show
less than a 36-second span, while a 30-second one reached 0.6 s. Long
captures were effectively unreadable at the sample level no matter how far
you scrolled.
Derive the floor from the STFT hop instead (MinTimeViewWidth): segments sit
fftSize/HOP_RATIO samples apart, so the real limit is the point where only
a handful of segments span the viewport and further zoom would interpolate
rather than reveal. The floor is now a constant ~43 ms at 48 kHz/1024
regardless of duration — an 844x improvement on a 30-minute file, and it
tightens further with a smaller FFT. Guards cover the unloaded (sampleRate
0) and shorter-than-the-floor cases.
Zooming is also no longer forced to move both axes together. The bare wheel
keeps the existing coupled behaviour; Shift+wheel is time-only and
Ctrl+wheel frequency-only, so a long capture can be stretched along time
without collapsing the frequency range to match.
Time-axis labels now pick their precision from the span between adjacent
ticks (1 to 4 decimals, and m:ss.sss past a minute). At the spans this
change makes reachable the old fixed "%.1fs" printed the same value in
every slot, which read as a frozen axis.
Adds a `wheel X Y N [mod]` action to shot_input.sh for exercising zoom
headlessly, and known_bugs.md for behaviour that is unspecified rather
than broken.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8ZWfr5XZyyDttvkhJUgHN
- README: rewrite Build section for the hand-written Makefile (make /
make DEBUG=1 / run / test / bench). Add a "System dependencies" table
with the X11+GL dev packages per distro (apt/dnf/pacman/zypper/apk),
since a clone won't build without them and the error is otherwise
cryptic. Fix stale ./bin/Debug paths to ./bin/Release.
- Makefile: add `make check-deps` — probes for the required X11/GL dev
headers and prints the install command for the detected distro on
failure (via /etc/os-release).
- build_web.sh: auto-discover app modules from src/*.c (drop the
hardcoded APP_MODULES list that had to be hand-synced), matching the
desktop Makefile. Excludes the desktop platform backends. Remove the
stale rspektrum.make reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- README: embed resources/Screenshot.png under the intro
- remove accidentally-committed app export outputs (spectrogram_full.png,
spectrogram_export.png) and gitignore them so they don't return
- remove unused resources/wabbit_alpha.png and stray .qwen/settings.json.orig
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite --render to compute the spectrogram and write a PNG entirely on the
CPU, with no window, no GL context, and no X server. Previously it opened a
hidden GL window and grabbed LoadImageFromScreen(), which still required an X
server (Xvfb); the output was a UI screenshot rather than the spectrogram data.
The new path (RunHeadlessRender) loads the WAV, computes the STFT, colorizes
the bitmap at native STFT resolution, bakes the mLnL annotation overlay onto
it, and exports — all CPU-only. render.c gains a GL-free colorize
(BuildSpectrogramImageCPU), a CPU font loader (LoadFontCPU), and a CPU overlay
drawer (DrawAnnotationsToImage).
Annotations draw outline + label only: mLnL captures contain many overlapping
full-band boxes whose translucent fills alpha-stack to opaque and bury the
signal. The outline marks each region while the spectrogram reads through; a
dark backing strip keeps labels legible. Note: MeasureTextEx/ImageText* bail
when font.texture.id == 0, so the CPU font sets a sentinel non-zero id (the
draw path reads glyph images, never the texture).
Render options: --annotation-opacity (overlay strength), --annotation-kinds
(comma-separated kind filter), --width (resize; default native). Removed the
obsolete --pane/--height window options and the screenshot workaround.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the stale Unity-port README (wrong controls, premake build,
missing features). Documents the mLink/mLnL focus, real keybindings,
make-based build, headless --render mode, and the Xvfb GUI-driving
primer. Consolidates the old SPECTROGRAM_README.md into README.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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