ACE UI App Loader v0.26.0

Changes since 0.24.0

App drawer

• Opens when the mouse comes near the edge instead of on a 10px strip. The zone scales with the screen (2rem: 32px at 1080p, 43px at 1440p) and is adjustable up to 10rem.
• Zone can be limited to the top, middle or bottom third of the edge, with an optional dwell.
• Three ways to open: hover, "Click at edge" or "Hotkey only".
• Hotkey to toggle the drawer (unbound by default, Delete unbinds).
• "Close after" sets how long it waits before closing.
• "Always open" pins the drawer; PIN button in the header does the same.
• Can sit on the left edge.
• Width, top/bottom insets, scale and opacity are settings.
• Motion: slide, fade or none.
• Red edge line lights up when the mouse gets near; shown for 4 s after every HUD load. Can be set to always or off.
• The zone is drawn as a red box while the drawer options are open, and the drawer stays open meanwhile.
• Mouse leaving the game window to another monitor no longer opens the drawer.
• Triple screen (experimental) and Edge offset settings.
• App list scrolls when it is longer than the panel.
• Hidden HUD closes the drawer; dragging a panel to the edge does not open it; clicking outside closes it unless it is pinned.
• The hotkey closes a pinned drawer and unpins it.
• Opened with the hotkey, it waits for the mouse to reach it before closing by itself.
• All settings clamped on apply; Reset to defaults in the pane, ACEUIAppLoader.drawer.resetSettings() from the dev console.
• New README troubleshooting entry: "The drawer is there but I can't open it".
• Logs [drawer] built: right, zone 2rem (43px), 1rem = 21.33px, viewport 2560x1440, trigger hover once per load.

Windows

• Windows left open through Escape/resume or a restart come back, on the page they were opened on.
• A window closed by hand stays closed.
• Each page keeps its own list, so a window used on a menu page no longer wipes the HUD's.

Settings windows

• Panes can be wider, use 2 or 3 columns, show choices as pills, toggles as chips, hints in a footer, and hide rows that don't apply. Opt-in; old panes unchanged.
• Range settings can show a unit ("2 rem", "350 ms").
• Key settings can be unbound.

UI Capabilities Probe 0.5.0

• New "Pointer & screen" category.
• Model recorder: logs what the HUD telemetry models do over a session (rec: lines). Keeps going through Escape/resume and game restarts until switched off.

Fixes

• An app whose start-up threw stayed marked as running and could not be started or stopped again.
• A toggle setting with a non-boolean stored value read as on.
• Settings panes wrote "Trying to set display property to invalid value!" to the game log every time they opened.
• Log check: a preset-list retry that succeeds is a note; the give-up line on the HUD is a failure; each HUD load is checked on its own; app names listed once.
• A panel with no parent element no longer throws.
• A drawer switch flipped right after a game start no longer wipes the other saved switches.
• The headless test runner can no longer hang after a timeout and leave a browser running.

For app authors

• settings.define(app, specs, layout): width, hints: "footer", title. Sections: columns: 2|3, flow: "chips". Choice: segmented, labels. Range: unit. Key: empty. Any spec: when(app). See docs/ui.md.
• window.reopen(id, fn), discard(id), discardAll().
• Drawer API: setPinned, isPinned, resetSettings, metrics, inZone, inPanel, applyLook.
• An app's attach should be all or nothing: if it throws, the drawer can start the app again.
• App kit rejects display: inline-flex and inline-block (not supported by the engine).
• MIN_CASES counts all of an app's harnesses together.
• The test doubles' near() fails on NaN (a transform never written used to pass).
• release_app.py says so when given a folder that is not an app.
• New library tests for reloads after Escape/resume and after a restart. 135 browser cases.