Add native folder dialog to pending project tabs#177
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Augments the existing inline "Project directory:" prompt with a clickable [ Browse… ] hint that opens a native folder picker (rfd) starting at $HOME, spawning the project tab immediately on selection. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Require the main-thread dialog spawn pattern (build the rfd future in update(), await in Task::perform) instead of constructing the dialog inside the async block, which Iced polls off-main-thread - Guard open_project_from_path against stale tab_ids (dialog is non-modal; pending tab can be closed or submitted while it is open) - Add a re-entrancy guard against double-spawned dialogs - Put the pending check first in the mouse-press arm and swallow other mouse handling for pending tabs; add Pointer hover affordance - Acknowledge the missing App-level test harness and push testable logic into pure functions / TabStore methods - Pin down rfd version/feature notes, $HOME consistency, unparented dialog behavior, and a drag-and-drop follow-up enabled by the helper Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
cargo run --example rfd_spike: builds the AsyncFileDialog future synchronously in update() (main thread, verified by thread-name logging) and awaits it via Task::perform. On macOS / Iced 0.14 / Rust 1.94 the picker opens with the app responsive, returns the picked path, and returns None on cancel — no freezes or panics. rfd 0.17 lands as a dev-dependency for now; promote to a real dependency when the feature is wired. Spec's risk section updated with the validation result. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A clickable [ Browse… ] hint below the Project directory: prompt opens the OS folder picker (rfd::AsyncFileDialog); picking a folder spawns the project tab exactly like typing the path and pressing Enter. The inline text prompt is unchanged. Implementation notes, per the design spec: - The dialog future is built inside update() (main thread — required by rfd on macOS) and only awaited via Task::perform. - The Submit arm's canonicalize → dedup → spawn → focus sequence moved into a shared open_project_from_path helper, which no-ops when the pending tab is gone: the dialog is non-modal, so its result can arrive after the tab was closed or submitted by typing. - An app-level project_dialog_open flag drops re-entrant Browse clicks while a picker is in flight. - Pending tabs swallow mouse presses so clicks no longer fall through to the selection machinery on the empty grid; hovering the hint shows a pointer cursor. - Pending-tab text renders in the configured terminal font so the drawn label matches the char-metric-based click rect (Font::MONOSPACE has a different advance and clipped the trailing bracket). - ~ expansion extracted to expand_tilde and unit-tested, along with browse_hint_rect geometry and hit-testing. Manually verified on macOS: hint hover/click, picker open/cancel, spawn-on-pick, dedup-to-existing-project, and re-entrancy guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The spec served its purpose during design, spike, and implementation; the PR carries the relevant context in its description and commit messages instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
It validated the macOS main-thread dialog spawn before the feature was wired; the real Browse… flow now exercises the same pattern, so the example had no remaining job and would only bitrot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| /// Open the native folder picker for the pending tab `tab_id`. | ||
| OpenProjectDialog(usize), | ||
| /// Folder picker resolved; `None` means cancelled. | ||
| ProjectDialogResult { tab_id: usize, path: Option<PathBuf> }, |
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nit. This isn't in keeping with the naming convention of the rest of these messages. How about SpawnOrFocusProjectTab? Same with the corresponding handler.
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Done in 245bf6b — renamed ProjectDialogResult → SpawnOrFocusProjectTab and handle_project_dialog_result → handle_spawn_or_focus_project_tab. Left OpenProjectDialog as-is since it parallels OpenPr and describes opening the picker rather than the spawn/focus outcome — happy to rename that too if you'd prefer.
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Per PR review: the result message and its handler are now named for the action they perform (spawn a new project tab or focus an existing one) rather than the dialog mechanism, matching the action-oriented convention of the other Message variants. OpenProjectDialog keeps its name — it parallels OpenPr and accurately describes opening the picker. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Adds a clickable
[ Browse… ]hint to the pending project tab (Ctrl+T) that opens the native OS folder picker viarfd. Picking a folder spawns the project tab exactly like typing the path and pressing Enter — canonicalize, dedup against already-open projects, spawn, focus. The inline text prompt is unchanged; the dialog is an additional option.Implementation notes
update()(main thread) and only awaited viaTask::performon Iced's executor. Building it inside the async block would spawn the dialog off-main-thread, which rfd warns against on macOS and which has a history of winit event-loop freezes. Validated standalone with a spike before wiring (see branch history).open_project_from_pathhelper no-ops when the result'stab_idno longer exists; tab IDs are never reused, so a stale result can't alias onto a newer tab.project_dialog_openflag drops Browse clicks while a picker is already in flight.Font::MONOSPACEhas a different advance and clipped the trailing bracket).Submitarm's canonicalize → dedup → spawn → focus sequence moved into the shared helper;~expansion was extracted to a pureexpand_tildefunction.Testing
expand_tilde(4) andbrowse_hint_rectgeometry/hit-testing (3); full suite passes (85).Out of scope (deliberately): parenting the dialog to the main window via
set_parent, remembering the last-used directory, and folder drag-and-drop onto the pending tab (the shared helper makes that a cheap follow-up).🤖 Generated with Claude Code