Don't reflow the alt buffer on resize #12719

zadjii-msft · 2022-03-18T13:07:04Z

VTE only rewraps the contents of the (normal screen + its scrollback
buffer) on a resize event. It doesn't rewrap the contents of the
alternate screen. The alternate screen is used by applications which
repaint it after a resize event. So, it doesn't really matter. However,
in that short time window, after resizing the terminal but before the
application catches up, this prevents vertical lines

It was really hard to get a gif of this where it happened and was small
enough to upload to GH, but there is one in #12719.

There's something in this branch that fixes a scrolling issue in the
parent PR. I'm partially filing this so I can look at the diffs here and
try and figure out what that is. I kinda want to just take all 3 alt
buffer PRs as a single atomic unit, but splitting them up made sense
from a review standpoint.

Closes #3493

Resizing is surely boned but this is 1000% percent better than nothing at all.

…n conpty. That didn't work, unfortunately

…f that we're supposed to do when entering/exiting the alt buffer

…t worked" because conpty magic.

…er-terminal

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I'm inclined to trust the resizing code in conhost here, even though it scares me. I don't love that we have to reimplement part of ResizeWindow...

However, there's two concerning uses of _mutableViewport after you've fully decoupled them:

mouse event clamping

terminal/src/cascadia/TerminalCore/Terminal.cpp

Line 696 in 098f6e3

_mutableViewport.ToOrigin().Clamp(clampedPos);

this whole block in AdjustCursorPosition

terminal/src/cascadia/TerminalCore/Terminal.cpp

Lines 1117 to 1128 in 098f6e3

    
           // our _scrollOffset 
        
           if (!_inAltBuffer() && (updatedViewport || newRows != 0)) 
        
           { 
        
               const auto oldScrollOffset = _scrollOffset; 
        
               // scroll if... 
        
               //   - no selection is active 
        
               //   - viewport is already at the bottom 
        
               const bool scrollToOutput = !IsSelectionActive() && _scrollOffset == 0; 
        
               _scrollOffset = scrollToOutput ? 0 : _scrollOffset + scrollAmount + newRows;

Are those worth worrying about? I can imagine a world where we make the window wider in the alt buffer but mouse events are clamped to the smaller main buffer and fail to work properly after resize.

(Do we have tests covering this?)

DHowett · 2022-04-13T23:25:09Z

src/cascadia/TerminalCore/Terminal.cpp

    const COORD origin{ 0, gsl::narrow<short>(_VisibleStartIndex()) };
+    const COORD size{ _inAltBuffer() ? _altBufferSize.to_win32_coord() :


This is almost aching for another helper ... or, seems like you could use the Dimensions off the GetMutableViewport helper's return value? I'd prefer concentrating the magic in one place. :)

Can't we make a til::rect _viewports[2] and index into it with a bool _altBufferInUse?
Like... _viewports[_altBufferInUse].to_win32_coord() or something like that...
(I didn't say anything since we're already stretched thin as is.)

Bear in mind that we'll probably need to support more buffers than just main and alt in the long term. So I'd expect properties like this would ultimately be part of the text buffer itself, and then you could just do something like _activeBuffer().mutableViewport. But we also need to get the architecture synced up with conhost, which currently manages this sort of state in the SCREEN_INFORMATION class. Not that I'm saying this is essential for now, but if you're trying to clean up the code, it's best to also consider how we are likely to extend this in the future.

DHowett · 2022-04-13T23:27:14Z

src/host/screenInfo.cpp

-
-                // If we happened to move the top of the window past
-                // the 0th row (first row in the buffer)
-                if (srNewViewport.Top < 0)


Don't totally understand why this disappeared

I removed that code while debugging the crash issue.
Check out my commit here: 4c1404d (#12719)

Line 1227-1231 it says:

if (srNewViewport.Top < 0) { srNewViewport.Bottom -= srNewViewport.Top; srNewViewport.Top = 0; }

That if condition makes the removed code with its fail-fast, etc. redundant.

I didn't look at that block you introduced below as being related since the comment said "off the right" instead of "off the bottom"!

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I think this is the conhost half of the changes

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This quite nearly implements everything for the Terminal half

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Most of the remaining todos, comments

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defer main buffer resizes till we exit, to try and prevent flashing i…

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deferred resizing both in the Terminal and the ConPTY

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Stashing this for now. I think this does the save/restore cursor stuf…

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start writing tests

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make this test way more elaborate

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	// our _scrollOffset
	if (!_inAltBuffer() && (updatedViewport \|\| newRows != 0))
	{
	const auto oldScrollOffset = _scrollOffset;

	// scroll if...
	// - no selection is active
	// - viewport is already at the bottom
	const bool scrollToOutput = !IsSelectionActive() && _scrollOffset == 0;

	_scrollOffset = scrollToOutput ? 0 : _scrollOffset + scrollAmount + newRows;

		const COORD origin{ 0, gsl::narrow<short>(_VisibleStartIndex()) };
		const COORD size{ _inAltBuffer() ? _altBufferSize.to_win32_coord() :

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