fix(remote-gui): Windows repaint fixes — log-view blanking (#445) + list rows blanking on scroll/keyboard (#478) - #477
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…eeze/Thaw (amule-project#445) amule-project#471 tried to fix the "log view goes blank on every new line" Windows regression by thawing before scrolling, but it made no difference: the AppendText still ran while the control was frozen. Appending to a frozen wxTE_RICH2 (RichEdit) on Windows leaves its line/scroll metrics stale, so on Thaw the view renders blank with the newest line pinned to the top until a manual scroll forces a recompute. The Freeze()/Thaw() that amule-project#451 wrapped the per-poll appends in is the actual culprit, not the scroll order. Drop the Freeze()/Thaw() and append on a live control (as the pre-amule-project#451 code did). Keep the two real wins from amule-project#451: the daemon's 5000-lines-per-poll cap and the conditional SetDefaultStyle, plus one coalesced ShowPosition per poll instead of per line (m_logBatching still suppresses the per-line scroll). The per-line SetDefaultStyle was the dominant first-sync cost, so responsiveness is retained without the frozen-append rendering corruption. macOS/GTK recompute metrics regardless and were unaffected either way.
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amule-project#478) amule-project#348 replaced the vendored wxListMainWindow::OnScroll's synchronous HandleOnScroll(event) with event.Skip() -- HandleOnScroll became a private member in wx 3.3.3, so the macOS/Linux CI (on wx 3.3.x) stopped compiling. On wxMSW the resulting deferred-scroll path (wxScrollHelperBase::HandleOnScroll -> ScrollWindow) blits the retained rows and only invalidates the newly exposed strip, which is then left unpainted: rows go blank on mouse-wheel, scrollbar and pagination scrolling until a redraw is forced. Verified in the wx 3.2.10 and 3.3.x sources that the scroll+repaint mechanism is identical, so this is a wxMSW platform behavior, not a wx-version one. Rather than gate on platform or wx version (both fragile -- the former needs the now-private HandleOnScroll, the latter breaks once Windows ships wx 3.3.3), reimplement the synchronous scroll using only the public wxScrollHelper API (GetViewStart / GetScrollLines / GetScrollPageSize / Scroll), mirroring HandleOnScroll()/CalcScrollInc(): translate the scroll event into a target position in scroll units and scroll to it. Factor the "scroll + repaint" sequence into a shared ScrollListTo(x, y) helper (Update() to flush pending paints so the blit is clean, Scroll(), then ResetVisibleLinesRange() so the exposed rows repaint) and route both OnScroll (scrollbar/wheel) and MoveToItem (keyboard nav) through it. This also fixes the keyboard HOME/END/PgUp/PgDn blanking, which was the same bug from a different path: MoveToItem only reset the visible-line range after Scroll() under __WXMAC__, so on Windows the range stayed stale and keyboard scrolls came up blank. The reset now runs on every platform via the shared helper, and the old __WXMAC__-only workaround is gone. Not skipping the event means the base scroll helper won't also scroll, so no double-scroll. Works on every supported wx (>= 3.2.0) and every platform with no version or platform guard; compiles against wx 3.3.3. Refs amule-project#478
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The amuleGUI log panes used a wxTE_RICH2 (RichEdit) control, which holds the whole document and reflows O(n) on scroll, so a remote-GUI first-sync backlog of tens of thousands of daemon-log lines made scrolling crawl and mispaint (only the tail visible until a manual scroll). Replace the three log/info panes (aMule Log, aMuleGUI Log, server info) with a new CMuleLogCtrl backed by wxStyledTextCtrl (Scintilla), which renders only the visible lines: full history is kept and scrolling stays O(visible) at any size, with character-level selection/find preserved. Lines word-wrap; critical lines are bold via per-line styles. Tail-scroll only fires when already at the bottom; a scroll requested while the pane is hidden is deferred to the first idle once it is on screen (in the base control, so all three panes share it). Removes the RichEdit workaround stack (per-poll batching, the Freeze/Thaw lineage of #451/#471/#477). The stc component ships with every platform's wxWidgets and is requested only for the GUI library; the Windows portable bundles its DLL via the existing GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES install step. Reported in #547.
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Two Windows-only aMuleGUI repaint fixes reported by @ghysler.
1. Log view blanks on every new line (#445) — confirmed fixed
Follow-up to #471. #471 thawed the control before scrolling, but
AppendTextstill ran while the control was frozen; on Windows, appending to a frozenwxTE_RICH2leaves its line/scroll metrics stale, so onThaw()the view blanks until a manual scroll. Fix: drop theFreeze()/Thaw()and append on a live control, keeping the #451 wins (daemon 5000-lines/poll, conditionalSetDefaultStyle, one coalescedShowPositionper poll). ghysler confirmed fixed.2. List rows disappear on scroll — mouse and keyboard (#478)
Regression from #348, which replaced the vendored
wxListMainWindow::OnScroll's synchronousHandleOnScroll(event)withevent.Skip()(wx 3.3.3 madeHandleOnScrollprivate, breaking the macOS/Linux CI). On wxMSW the resulting deferred-scroll path (wxScrollHelperBase::HandleOnScroll→ScrollWindow) blits the retained rows and only invalidates the newly-exposed strip, which is then left unpainted — rows blank on wheel/scrollbar/pagination scrolling. Verified in both the wx 3.2.10 and 3.3.x sources that the scroll+repaint mechanism is identical, so it's a wxMSW platform behavior, not a wx-version one.Rather than gate on platform or wx version (the former needs the now-private
HandleOnScroll; the latter breaks once Windows ships wx 3.3.3), reimplement the synchronous scroll using only the publicwxScrollHelperAPI (GetViewStart/GetScrollLines/GetScrollPageSize/Scroll), mirroringHandleOnScroll()/CalcScrollInc().The "scroll + repaint" sequence is factored into a shared
ScrollListTo(x, y)helper (Update()to flush pending paints so the blit is clean →Scroll()→ResetVisibleLinesRange()so the exposed rows repaint), and bothOnScroll(scrollbar/wheel) andMoveToItem(keyboard nav) go through it. That also fixes the keyboard HOME/END/PgUp/PgDn blanking — same bug, different path:MoveToItemonly reset the visible-line range afterScroll()under__WXMAC__, so on Windows it stayed stale and keyboard scrolls came up blank. The reset now runs on every platform via the shared helper.Not skipping the event means the base helper won't also scroll (no double-scroll). Works on every supported wx (≥ 3.2.0) and every platform, no version or platform guard, and compiles against wx 3.3.3.
Both are client-side, GUI-rendering only — no daemon or EC protocol change.