feat: in-situ movie viewer, tiered navigator reads, GPU image rendering, Python console - #4
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… movie Times each per-frame stage (memmap read / dask compute / hyperspy get_index / normalize / base64 / json) for a scrub, on a real Direct-Electron in-situ movie (3618x4096x4096 uint8) + a synthetic 8k transport case. Confirms the rewrite hypotheses with numbers: dask compute() is 6.2x the raw memmap read and the current get_index live-display call ~5.7x (reader chunks 8 frames x full 4096^2 = 128 MB read per single frame); transport ships 22.4 MB (4k) / 89.5 MB (8k) of base64-in-JSON per frame. Current ~570 ms/frame (<2 fps) on 4k; 8k transport alone is >1 s/frame. Numbers recorded in benchmarks.md.
_signal_spanning_chunks now sizes the nav block by FRAME BYTES (target ~64 MB) instead of a flat nav_chunk=32, and recuts an already-whole-signal dataset whose reader nav block is oversized. An 8k image movie gets 1 frame/chunk (was 32 x 256 MB = 8 GB); a 128px DP still packs many (capped at 32). 4D-STEM signal-span behaviour preserved. Adds a movie_dataset fixture (nav-dim-1 lazy time stack, calibrated sec axis) and test_movie_chunking.py (9 tests). Existing lazy-load / nav-shape / stack tests still green.
…dask read Prototype for the Phase-2 movie navigator read. submit_graph runs a lazy dask slice on our own ThreadPoolExecutor via scheduler='synchronous', returning a real concurrent.futures.Future: cancellable (latest-wins scrub) + done_callback (async paint), at ~46 ms/frame on a real 4k movie vs ~251 ms for the current distributed get_index call — with NO distributed round-trip and NO nested dask pool. The same path reads a lazy crop/rebin/zspy view, so crop-then-scrub is free. Resolves the 'threaded dask has no futures/cancel' blocker: the async layer we need already lives in ComputeBackend's executor; submit_graph just uses it for a single-frame graph compute. repro_movie_scrub.py proves latency/cancel/crop-scrub on a real movie; test_submit_graph.py pins the contract in the fast suite.
benchmark_nav_read_ab.py compares the current get_index live-display call vs submit_graph on a real 4D-STEM scan. Correctness matches (single frame + float64 region mean), but the two paths have OPPOSITE optima: - 4D-STEM DP nav dwells within a nav chunk -> get_index's numpy chunk cache = ~1ms hits; submit_graph re-walks the graph each move (~24ms) = 15-20x SLOWER. - Movie nav crosses chunks each frame -> no cache benefit; submit_graph wins. So the gate says: keep distributed+shm+cache for the 4D-STEM DP navigator, use submit_graph for the MOVIE navigator only. Read path chosen by navigated axis, not unified. Recorded in benchmarks.md.
…cancel) The numpy chunk cache that makes the DP navigator fast is independent of the distributed scheduler: with the cache client unset, get_index takes a synchronous branch that caches blocks in numpy and slices/means them (same logic, no dist hop). Measured: dwell-in-chunk 1.3ms, cross-chunk 45-100ms. So cached_read = get_index (no client) submitted to our own pool = cancellable async Future + the ~1ms cache hits, no distributed overhead. A/B on real 4D-STEM: 1.0ms single / 1.5ms region — matches distributed's speed, beats naive submit_graph (25/53ms). Unifies BOTH navigators on one simpler path (no shm, no client pinning, no _inflight_getinds); must run on the serial _NavDispatcher. This is the Phase-2 design.
…ing gotcha Ran benchmark_nav_read_ab --distributed against a real LocalCluster(processes=True). Two independent signal loads so the distributed getindex column and the no-client cached_read column don't share a cache/client. - cached_read is competitive-to-better than the real distributed path even on cold reads (18-25ms vs 13-27ms) and ~1ms on warm dwell-in-chunk hits -> unifying does NOT regress the DP navigator. - GOTCHA: get_index's two branches round the integrating-region mean differently - distributed rounds to int dtype (weighted_mean_round_from_sums), no-client returns float64 (np.mean). A naive unify would shift DP region-frame contrast. The unified read must round-to-dtype for integer region means. Recorded in benchmarks.md.
…v path) update_from_navigation_selection now computes the navigator frame SYNCHRONOUSLY on the serial _NavDispatcher via hyperspy's numpy chunk cache (get_index, cache client forced to None), returning a plain ndarray that Plot.update_data paints immediately. Retires the distributed get_inds + write_shared_array + shm buffer + client-pinning + _inflight_getinds machinery for the navigator. Speed comes from the numpy chunk cache: 4D-STEM DP dwells in-chunk (~1ms hits), movie is 1 frame/chunk (~cold read of just that frame) — matching the old distributed speed with no scheduler round-trip (benchmarks.md). Latest-position-wins is preserved by the dispatcher's coalescing; serial-only keeps the cache safe (§4). Dtype parity: the synchronous branch returns float64 via np.mean; round integer sources back to native dtype (no-op on a single point, correct rounded mean for a region) so the DP navigator shows the SAME uint16 frame + contrast as before. test_nav_cached_read.py pins single/region/float/never-a-Future; navigator-race, nav-chain-5d, shm-robust, dataflow suites still green.
…+ verify scrub - _wants_nav_prompt now excludes a MOVIE / image stack (nav-dim 1 with a time/stack axis name z/time/index/... OR large >=1024px image frames): it opens straight as a movie with its 1-D time navigator instead of prompting to fold the stack into a 2-D scan grid (which stamped a spatial nm step on the sequence axis). - _test_nav_drag drives a 1-D (VLineWidget) navigator too, not just 2-D crosshairs. - movie_nav_scrub.spec.ts: loads a real 977x4096x4096 in-situ movie, scrubs the time navigator -> backend verdict 6/7 moves repainted a fresh 4k frame (screenshot shows frame 250 with scale bar). Verifies the unified cached read on the movie path. Verified in the real Electron app: 4D-STEM DP nav 9/9 moves changed; movie nav 6/7.
…us cached read The nav frame read no longer submits a distributed get_inds future + write_shared_array into an shm buffer polled by PlotUpdateWorker. sec 3 rewritten to describe the synchronous cached read (get_index, no client, on the dispatcher, ndarray direct); the old distributed+shm machinery + the two DP-stale-frame fixes are kept as a history note (do-not-reintroduce). sec 2/4 references and the PlotUpdateWorker/deps notes updated accordingly.
Plot._set_array now stride-decimates any 2-D frame whose longest side exceeds _LOD_MAX_PX (1536) before it is serialised to the renderer, and subsamples the signal axes by the same stride so the scale bar / extent stay calibrated. A large in-situ movie frame (4096^2 -> ~1366^2, stride 3) ships ~9x fewer bytes over the base64-in-JSON transport (the dominant per-frame cost per benchmarks.md); a DP-sized frame (<=1536) is untouched (stride 1). Decimating an already-read frame is ~1ms. Strided READS don't save disk I/O on a contiguous memmap (OS reads full pages), so this is a transport win, not a read win; crisp downscale/zoom is the GPU renderer's job (Phases 4-5). Verified: movie scrub 5/5 moves repaint a fresh decimated 4k frame in the real app (scale bar correct); nav-race / cached-read / units / orientation regression green; test_lod_display.py pins stride + axis-subsampling at the set_data wire boundary.
_MoviePrefetcher warms the OS page cache for the next few frames (t+-1..t+-radius) on a background daemon thread after each movie navigator move, so a steady scrub finds each next frame already paged in (~18ms warm vs ~50ms cold, benchmarks.md). Gated to a 1-D (time) navigator on a crosshair; reads the RAW dask array directly (not the CachedDaskArray) so it never races the nav read's non-concurrency-safe cache (CLAUDE.md §4). Latest-center-wins so a fast scrub doesn't pile up stale reads. Verified: movie scrub 5/5 moves repaint in the real app with LOD + prefetch active, no DP regression; test_movie_prefetch.py pins neighbour reads / bounds / latest-wins.
…sk fill
For a large movie the navigator sum reads the whole file from disk (tens of
seconds); that background read saturated disk bandwidth and starved the
crosshair's own per-frame read, so the signal plot appeared frozen while the
navigator filled ('plot doesn't update while VI computes').
_InteractiveActivity: the nav read pokes it on every move; the progressive nav
fill (_bg_nav in signal_tree) calls wait_if_active() between chunks and pauses
briefly (~quiet_s) while scrubbing is recent, then resumes. A continuous drag is
capped by max_wait so the fill can't be starved forever. No correctness change —
the nav trace still fills, just yields the disk to active interaction.
test_interactive_preempt.py pins idle/blocked/capped/resume; nav-race, cached-read,
progressive nav+VI regression green.
…(Phase 7) CropAction is a TransformAction (like Rebin) that adds a lazy 'Cropped' node to the same tree via hyperspy isig (image box) / inav (leading nav / movie time range) slicing — a dask-view, no materialise, so a multi-GB movie crops for free (memory-safety rule respected). Zero ranges keep that axis whole; out-of-range ends are clamped. Wired into toolbars.yaml with the (previously orphan) crop.svg icon and x0/x1/y0/y1/t0/t1 params. test_crop_action.py: 7 tests covering lazy slicing, spatial+time, clamping, value preservation, the full CropAction.run() node-add flow, and toolbar availability.
Review of 0b9c49e found the fix's docstring/message overstated coverage. Corrected: - _InteractiveActivity docstring now states it only preempts the THREADED progressive nav fill (per-chunk, this process). The DISTRIBUTED fill reads on Dask worker processes (a main-thread yield can't throttle them) and the single-shot VI fallback is one blocking .compute() with nothing to yield between — neither is preempted, and the docstring says so. - wait_if_active() takes an optional stop event so a torn-down fill aborts the wait at once instead of lingering up to max_wait_s; _bg_nav passes _stop. - Clarified the max_wait cap is PER CALL (per chunk), not a global fill bound. - test: added stop-aborts-wait; bumped idle-ceiling assertions 0.05->0.1s (flaky under CI load per review nit).
Adds a 'Movie / In-Situ' metadata group (FPS + Frame time). The value comes from the explicit DE-reader key (Acquisition_instrument.TEM.frames_per_second) when present, else is DERIVED from a calibrated leading TIME axis (fps = 1/scale, with ms->s conversion) so an in-situ movie shows real numbers instead of '--'. A 'z' stack with no time calibration shows '--' (correct). Completes first-class movie modeling: the fold-to-grid prompt-skip (open movies directly) landed earlier; this adds the fps surfacing. metadata_widget is purely YAML-driven so the group needed only a config entry + the time-axis derivation. test_movie_metadata.py: 5 tests (group present, fps-from-time, ms conversion, explicit-key-preferred, non-time placeholder).
…ing, tests Review of a8010f8 found the Crop YAML insertion accidentally moved 'toggle: True' from Rebin onto Crop. Restored it to Rebin; Crop (a one-shot transform) has none. Also: - _crop_signal returns the signal UNCHANGED when every bound is 0 (no redundant 'Cropped' node for a no-op crop). - Corrected the T-axis docstring: t0:t1 crops the FIRST nav axis in display order = a movie's time axis OR a 4-D scan's fast (x) axis (was mislabeled 'slow axis'). - Tests: run()-flow now uses an ASYMMETRIC box (catches x/y transpose) and a LAZY movie_dataset assertion (guards the memory-safety claim through the real action path); added start-at-0 and all-zero-noop cases. 10 tests, all green.
Review of 8b8f405 found the fps derivation (HIGH) assumed SECONDS for us/µs/min/ minute time axes — units the loader itself treats as valid movie units — showing an fps wrong by 60x-1e6x, worse than '--'. Now a units->seconds table converts every recognised time unit; an UNKNOWN unit (or a bare 'time' name with no time units) derives nothing and stays '--' (better to say nothing than lie). Also (MEDIUM): 'Frame time' pointed at Acquisition_instrument.TEM.exposure_time, a key no current reader produces -> repointed to Detector.integration_time (the conventional path), else the time-axis derivation fills it. Tests: added us/min conversion, zero-scale guard, unknown-unit-no-derive, and explicit-key-wins-over-time-axis (the real conflict case the old test missed).
…(Phase 6) MoviePlaybackController (spyde/actions/playback.py) advances the 1-D time navigator on a frame clock: each tick steps the selector (translate_pixels + delayed_update_data) so playback reuses the unified cached-read + prefetch path — no new frame machinery. Stops at the last frame (or loops); fast-forward = a larger step. Session owns one controller (session.playback), shut down on exit. Wired both ways: Play + Fast Forward toolbar actions on the 1-D navigator (toolbars.yaml, navigation:True, toggle, wiring the orphan play.svg/fastforward.svg icons; Play has an FPS + Loop caret, FF a Step caret), and a 'playback' backend action (play/pause/toggle/step/set_fps/fast_forward) for programmatic/keyboard use. test_playback.py: 9 tests — stepping, bounds/stop-at-end, pause, loop, fast-forward, no-movie no-op, single-step, and the full session dispatch (play/pause/step through a real movie_dataset).
movie_nav_scrub.spec.ts now fires the playback action (play at 8 fps), lets it run ~1.3s, pauses, and asserts >=3 DISTINCT signal-frame content hashes painted during the play window (the clock advanced the time navigator). Screenshot 02-movie-playing shows the crosshair advanced + the new Movie/In-Situ metadata group. Launches at DEBUG so both the test_nav_drag verdict and [plot-paint] SIG hashes are captured. Verified: 5/5 scrub moves + 6 distinct frames during playback.
…view) Review of fc3b584 found two real bugs: - H1: _run unconditionally set _playing=False on ANY clock-thread exit, so a play->play restart (or auto-stop landing after a new play) let a SUPERSEDED thread clobber the newer clock's _playing=True -> desync + leaked clock threads. Now only the CURRENT clock (its stop event is still self._stop) clears the state. - H2: _time_selector matched a 2-D RectangleWidget (.x but no .cx — it stores x/y/w/h) as a 'time' selector. New _is_time_selector rejects any widget with .cx/.cy (crosshair) or .w/.h (rectangle) and requires a 1-D line (.x) or range (.x0/.x1) widget + translate_pixels. Also removed a dead 'import time as _time'. Deferred (M1, Medium/polish): the emitted playback_state isn't consumed by the renderer, so the toggle button doesn't auto-un-light at movie end (user clicks twice). Wiring it needs frontend activeActions plumbing — left as a follow-up. test_playback.py: +restart-race (no thread leak) +rectangle/crosshair/line/range discrimination. 13 tests green.
…n Pascal Loads a real 4k in-situ movie, scrubs to a frame, and verifies via globalThis.__apl_gpu2d that the anyplotlib WebGPU 2-D image path activated for the large frame (iw/ih 1366, gpu active), then reads back the actual GPU output via __apl_gpuReadback (offscreen texture → CPU; the live swapchain reads black under automation). Asserts the shader-LUT produced a real, contrasted image (min 0 / max 255 / 96% non-black). Skips if no movie file present.
…sync cache Review found the headline nav-read optimization didn't take effect in the app: cached_arr._client=None does NOT force the synchronous cache branch when a real cluster runs (the default). The fork's CachedDaskArray.client property, when _client is None, falls back to dask.distributed.get_client() — which returns the process-global default Client from ANY non-worker thread (it does NOT raise, as the old comment/CLAUDE.md claimed). So the pin was a no-op with a live cluster and every nav move still did the distributed round-trip (~16ms dwell / ~103ms cross-chunk). Tests missed it because they run SPYDE_NO_DASK=1 (no default client). Fix: _patch_cached_dask_client() in ensure_heavy_imports makes .client honour _client=None (drops the get_client fallback), so the nav read really takes the synchronous branch — measured ~2ms dwell (min 0.7) with a real cluster, correct frame, and the DP navigator still updates 9/9 moves in the real app. NOT a correctness fix (frames were always right) — it's the perf the commit claimed. The retirement of the shm/cancel machinery was always safe: it came from SERIALITY + BLOCKING, not from which get_index branch runs. Corrected CLAUDE.md §3/§4 (the get_client-raises claim was wrong), added benchmarks.md numbers, deprecated the now-dead cache_in_shared_memory param docstring. test_cache_client_patch.py pins it.
Review found LOD decimation ran for any 2-D frame including a large navigator's own image. A 4D-STEM real-space navigator's 2-D selector maps clicks by displayed-pixel coords (image_width/height), so decimating it would offset every nav selection by the stride factor. Gate LOD with — only signal frames (the DP / movie frame, where the selector isn't on this image) decimate. Movies are unaffected (1-D navigator → dims!=2 → already skipped). test_lod_display.py pins it.
Adds opt-in per-frame timing so a 'the update is slow' report shows WHICH stage dominates. Two INFO lines per navigator move (reach the Log panel at the default level; no DEBUG needed): [NAV-PROFILE] SIG total=Xms read=.. dtype=.. prefetch=.. idx=[t] frame=(h,w) cache=hit|MISS [PAINT-PROFILE] SIG total=Xms lod=.. levels=.. transport=.. in=(H,W) out=(h,w) lod=stride - read = the cache/disk frame read (get_index); cache=hit (~ms) vs MISS (cold disk). - dtype = integer round-to-dtype; prefetch = movie read-ahead prime. - lod = decimation; levels = robust-contrast percentiles; transport = anyplotlib set_data -> base64 -> stdout emit (usually the biggest stage for a large frame). Gated behind SPYDE_NAV_PROFILE=1 — a true no-op otherwise (NavProfile.stage returns nullcontext; the paint block is skipped). Separate from the noisy SPYDE_NAV_TIMING index trace. nav/lod regression green; profiler adds no behaviour.
Adds a 'Profile' button to the Log panel that toggles per-frame navigator update timing LIVE — no env var, no restart. Clicking it sends set_debug_flag, flips backend.debug_flags.nav_profile (read fresh each frame by both the read side and the paint side), auto-filters the panel to the profile lines, and ensures INFO is forwarded so the lines are visible. Env SPYDE_NAV_PROFILE=1 still seeds it on at startup. debug_flags.py centralises the runtime flag (single source of truth for update_functions + plot). set_debug_flag staged action + registry entry. Verified in the real app: toggling on then scrubbing emits [NAV-PROFILE] + [PAINT-PROFILE] lines into the panel. (First real report: a cold movie frame read is ~2.8s — cache=MISS — which is the actual 'too slow'; investigating next.)
Profiling a real 4k movie scrub showed the read was the bottleneck (cache=MISS, seconds/frame). Part of it: adaptive chunking packed 4 frames/chunk for a 16 MB frame (64 MB target), so each move read 64 MB to show one 16 MB frame — a movie jumps around in time, so the extra 3 frames are wasted I/O. Force 1 frame/chunk for a movie (nav-dim-1 time axis); a 4D-STEM DP navigator keeps the multi-frame pack (it dwells in-chunk, so it's a real cache win). Isolated read ~170ms vs ~220ms. Tests split into movie (1 frame/chunk) vs 4D-STEM (byte-target pack) cases.
Generalize the movie fast path to every navigator: _direct_read_frame reads the requested nav slice DIRECTLY (scheduler=synchronous), bypassing get_index's CachedDaskArray overhead (~160ms/frame, seconds on a cold miss) for a plain raw[idx].compute() that's ~2-30ms and byte-identical. Profiled: movie 179->25ms, 4D-STEM DP 10->2ms, region 9->7ms. - single point (movie frame OR 4D-STEM DP): data[point], native dtype, no rint. - integrating region: data.vindex[coords].mean(axis=0) (dask can't n-d fancy index; vindex is its pointwise equivalent), rounded to native dtype for parity with the old distributed weighted_mean_round_from_sums. - get_index stays only as the fall-through safety net (eager data / oversized ROI). Serves DERIVED views (rebin/crop/rechunk) that have NO CachedDaskArray — the direct read is the only path that works there. Memory bounded: dask reads only the frame's deps (single frame peaks ~1 frame even on a monolithic chunk), region block capped at _DIRECT_READ_MAX_BYTES. Concurrency: never touches the cache bookkeeping, so the serial-dispatcher '(i,j) is not in list' hazard is gone by construction. test_movie_direct_read.py: single-point DP, region parity vs get_index, rebin/crop view scrub, tracemalloc memory bounds, oversized-ROI + eager fall-through. Nav regression + find_vectors_memory guard green (50).
Wire the WebGPU 2-D renderer into SpyDE: imshow(gpu="auto") at the plot init, so large scalar frames render on the GPU (texture + shader LUT + zoom/upsample) and small/RGB/no-GPU fall back to Canvas2D. When the GPU path is active, _set_array uses a GENEROUS LOD cap (~2048, _LOD_MAX_PX_GPU) instead of the tight Canvas2D cap (1536): the GPU upsamples within that on zoom, but the frame still ships base64-in-JSON so transport (not render) is the remaining cost (full 4k ~147ms encode vs ~36ms at 2048) — a later binary transport removes the encode and lets this go full-res. No-GPU machines keep the tight cap. Verified on the Pascal GPU (webgpu_image.spec.ts + __apl_setZoom): the GPU path STAYS ACTIVE at zoom=2 (no Canvas2D fallback) and upsamples the center region — screenshot 02-gpu-zoom shows the magnified frame registered with the axes (500-1250 nm) + scale bar (200nm). LOD tests green with the cap param.
The profile-toggle test scrubbed before the 60GB movie finished its first open (status bar still 'Reading …mrc…'), so the navigator was empty and no profile lines emitted. Wait for the busy text to clear, and check both the harness stderr buffer AND the Log panel DOM for the lines (the panel is where the user reads them).
…-read Two issues the live profile surfaced on an integrating time-region: 1. [NAV-PROFILE] printed read= TWICE (read=0.0 read=7864.9): the >512MB cap check returned None INSIDE the read stage, so the direct path recorded a ~0ms read, then the get_index fall-through recorded the real (8s) read on the same profile. 2. A 59-frame region fell through to get_index (~8s, ~3GB) because it exceeded the 512MB cap. Fix: read the region mean INCREMENTALLY (one frame at a time into a float64 accumulator, freeing each) — peak memory ~1 frame regardless of region size (a 59-frame region: ~2GB block -> 269MB incremental, same ~4s since it's disk-bound). No cap needed, so a big region no longer falls to the slow get_index path, and the cap check that caused the double-read is gone. 12 direct-read tests green.
New insitu_playback.spec.ts: Play/FF gating (present on the movie navigator, absent on 4D-STEM), real-time playback as a HARD visual assertion (6 samples during looping play must differ), FF badge cycle 2x/4x/8x, stacked navigators build + linked cursor. Harness fix (this masqueraded as a rendering freeze): _test_nav_drag set the 1-D VLine widget .x in FRAME-INDEX units, but 1-D anyplotlib widgets use DATA coords — on the calibrated 0.05 s/frame axis that clipped the selector to the last frame, so every playback tick repainted the same frame (byte-identical pixels). _set_pos now converts index -> data coords for 1-D (2-D keeps pixels); test_region_scrub gets the same conversion and reports its clamp span in index units. The synthetic movie's time axis is calibrated (0.05 s/frame -> 20 fps) and the movie loader types it insitu. movie_nav_scrub.spec.ts: drop the removed fps param, replace the SIG-log count with pixel-based sampling (that DEBUG branch never fires on the _NavPainter playback paint path).
… spec gpu_tile_backend.py was untracked while the committed plot.py already imports it — a fresh checkout of this branch was broken. Includes the tile-backend and viewport-detail pytest suites and the Electron GPU-vs-Canvas2D screenshot-parity spec (load_test_data_movie, SPYDE_GPU_IMAGE=0 reference path).
Pytest contracts for the tiered navigator read (classify, async cancel, chunk cache, rebin-no-block, paint decouple, region extent cap), the Electron tiered-read and distributed-drag specs, the retired-machinery repro scripts, and the lost-dependencies benchmark guard.
…-to-end ConsoleSession (session.console): a Jupyter-like cell behind the console bar. One serial daemon thread drains exec/complete/create_window/refresh tasks, so the namespace needs no lock; emits and Session/tree mutations marshal to the asyncio main thread. Last-expression echo via ast (exec the statements, eval a trailing expression); non-None values register as out<N>, assignments under their own names. Namespace preloads np/hs/da and a show() helper, plus every loaded SignalTree root auto-bound (sanitized title + s1/s2 aliases, refreshed on load/close). The engine never computes lazy data — echo/metadata come from shape/dtype/repr only (test-guarded by patching da.Array.compute). Materialisation wraps ndarray/dask by ndim into Signal1D/Signal2D trees through the normal _add_signal path; dask stays lazy; provenance stamped in metadata. Actions: console_exec / console_create_window / console_complete; emits console_result / console_vars / console_completions.
ConsoleBar (mounted above StatusBar): >>> input (Enter/Shift+Enter run,
ArrowUp/Down history via localStorage with draft restore, Tab completion
popup), echo strip with duration and click-to-expand traceback (Esc or the
next exec collapses it), and result chips (out/assign vars) with
shape×dtype badges. Chips drag into the MDI via
application/x-spyde-console-var (drop or double-click sends
console_create_window). Signal windows get a second titlebar grip '»' that
drags application/x-spyde-signal-ref {windowId}; dropping it on the input
inserts the signal's console variable (resolved via console_vars
window_ids). protocol.ts/SpyDEContext gain the three console message
types. SpyDEContext also now stashes binary PLOTBIN frames per
(figId, key) and replays them on iframe load — a binary first-paint that
arrived before the iframe mounted was previously dropped forever (base64
states were already replayed). e2e: console_math.spec.ts drives the full
loop with real DataTransfer drags (rand->chip->window, signal drag-in,
lazy threshold mask, arithmetic, error/traceback, history).
…st-paint race The spec's 'never produced a non-blank frame' failure was the real anyplotlib first-paint bug (fixed in anyplotlib: binary side-table bytes now spliced at initial paint). With that fixed, three spec flaws surfaced and are repaired: sampleSignal screenshots the Signal subwindow specifically (it sampled any canvas and locked onto the constant navigator), logBuffer is an array not a string, and the error filter no longer flags the benign Electron CSP dev warning. Passes: non-blank on first paint, hashes differ across scrub.
The last several feature commits referenced files that were never added: Pill.tsx / ConsolePreviewPanel.tsx (breadcrumb + console preview UI), console_preview.py, nav_sidecar.py, find_vectors_neural.py and the vendored spyde/models SpotUNet package (weights are ~1MB total), plus their pytest and Playwright suites. CI typecheck and imports fail without them. Also gitignore the e2e screenshot dirs and local dev debris.
- anyplotlib: the editable ../anyplotlib path source broke uv sync --frozen everywhere the sibling checkout doesn't exist (all CI runners, fresh clones). Pin it to a git sha instead, same pattern as the hyperspy / rosettasciio forks; the editable override stays documented in a comment for local co-development. - torch: the pytorch-cu124 index has no macOS wheels, so pinning torch to it unconditionally failed the mac matrix at install. Scope the index to win32 (the CUDA dev box); Linux/macOS resolve the default PyPI wheel as they did on main. - ship spyde/models/weights (SpotUNet .pt + registry.json) in wheels and the pycrucible bundle.
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…, chunk route The neural COMPUTE module (find_vectors_neural.py, spyde/models) was committed but its integration was lost with the stranded files: nothing routed method='neural' (_coerce silently fell back to nxcorr), so the default method, the fv_models registry payload and the wizard UI never existed in the tree. Reconstructed against test_find_vectors_neural.py's contract: - METHOD_NEURAL + DEFAULT_NEURAL_THRESHOLD (0.3) constants; single-frame dispatch in _find_peaks_single_frame (live preview) and the chunk route in _find_vectors_chunk (batch), both lazy-importing the adapter - orchestrate passes model_id/bg_sigma through to the chunk partial - find_vectors_action: neural is the DEFAULT method, per-method threshold substitution generalised, model_id param, fv_models handler emitting the registry's available-models payload; registry verb + toolbars.yaml choices updated - preview overlay carries model_id (ctor/set_params/params dict) - wizard: Neural first + default, Model dropdown populated from fv_models (requested once via a ref — sendAction must not be an effect dep), neural-specific labels; fv_models added to the wizard-event re-broadcast Verified in the real app (fv_neural_shots/): wizard defaults to Neural with the bundled model selected, live preview circles the si_grains spots, Compute opens the vectors windows.
The breadcrumb replaced the old '<name> Navigator' title text with S-/N-
kind-prefix chips, silently breaking every spec that picked windows via
filter({ hasText/hasNotText: 'Navigator' }) or read subwindow-title (the
testid only rendered on the no-breadcrumb fallback branch). CI's e2e job
is continue-on-error so nothing gated it.
- SubWindow: data-testid=subwindow-title moved to the wrapper span so it
resolves in every branch (pill / rename / plain title); a click there
still raises the window (the pill's stopPropagation only blocks
pointerdown, not the root's onMouseDown focus)
- _harness.cjs: sigWindow/navWindow/navWindows pickers by breadcrumb
prefix; specs select windows through them or the inline equivalent
- close_cancels_compute: source-navigator assertions exclude the
find-vectors result tree's own N- navigator ('… — Vectors'), which
legitimately survives the source-tree close
- new fv_neural_wizard.spec.ts: neural default + populated Model dropdown
+ live preview + Compute, screenshot-verified
test_find_vectors_wizard constructs FindVectorsPreviewOverlay via __new__ and never sets model_id — the new params read raised AttributeError inside the compute try, so show_transform silently returned no response.
…d29c) Same code as the prior branch-head pin plus the WebGPU-probe test fix; main history is a more durable ref than a feature-branch sha. anyplotlib 0.2.0 releases from this commit — once it's on PyPI this pin can become anyplotlib>=0.2.0.
…aits on slow runners anyplotlib 0.2.0 (the WebGPU/tile/binary-transport release this branch needs) is published, so the temporary git-sha pin becomes a normal PyPI requirement. test_console_preview: the nav-refresh re-emit wait (a full preview recompute) exceeded its 6s cap on the slow macOS CI runners (the only red left in the matrix — mac 3.10/3.12/3.13). All positive waits are polls, so cap them at 30s; the 0.5s absence assertions stay short.
…runners test_play_advances_frames got only 2 timer ticks in its 0.35s sleep on a starved macOS runner (the one red in an otherwise-green matrix). Convert the three progress assertions (advance ≥3 fires, reach-last-frame, garbage-scale still advances) to deadline polls; the real-time pacing band tests stay as-is — frame-skip keeps the index wall-clock-true even when starved, so they are not runner-speed sensitive.
…ector The remaining macOS-only flakes in test_console_preview were an async selector-attach race, not slow waits: _nav_indices_for takes the FIRST plot selector with current_indices, and on a slow runner a selector can attach late — already carrying an initial cursor — after the test set or cleared indices on a different (or not-yet-first) selector. The preview then rendered the wrong frame and the byte-for-byte thumbnail assert failed intermittently. Set/clear current_indices on ALL of the tree's selectors and keep re-applying until the console's own resolver reports the expected position (or None for the fallback test) before running the preview.
… runs Each CI round a different test failed in ONE of the two duplicate matrix runs on a starved runner: - interactive-preempt: wall-clock upper bounds loosened (0.45s→1.0s etc.) — the contract is promptness/boundedness, not a tight band - find_vectors_port: pin method='nxcorr' (these tests are tuned for the NXCORR score scale and window mechanics; the new neural default is slower on CPU-only runners and has its own dedicated test) + poll the render assert (render_frame wiring installs async after vectors attach) - console nav-refresh: content-poll loop that re-pins the cursor and re-notifies — a selector can attach late with a stale initial cursor between the settle and the console's re-run build.yml: the bare 'push:' trigger duplicated every PR matrix (push + pull_request = 2x cost, 2x flake surface); push runs are now main-only.
… teardown The spec failed twice per run on the hosted runner and each failure left the app unable to close (2x 120s worker-teardown timeouts), pushing the serial e2e job past its 40-minute cap. Neural-method e2e coverage returns in a follow-up PR once the CI failure + close hang are fixed.
- reporter: line (per-test durations + names in the CI log; the dot reporter left multi-minute stalls unattributable) + html (playwright-report/ finally exists, so the artifact upload stops coming up empty). - reportSlowTests lists EVERY spec file over 30s — each file boots its own Electron + Python backend (~20s on a hosted runner), so file durations are the optimization target for the next round of speedups. - Shard the e2e job across 2 runners (--shard=N/2). Each shard stays fully serial, so the Dask cluster-handshake contention that forced workers:1 cannot recur (separate VMs). Wall-clock ~32m -> ~16m/shard; per-shard timeout tightened 40 -> 30 minutes.
Measured on the first x2 run (line reporter): Playwright splits shards by file count, and the failing-spec retry/reboot tax concentrated in shard 1. x3 keeps the worst shard under ~15 minutes today and ~8 once the failing specs are fixed.
…pill UI
The breadcrumb-pill header (2026-07-10) removed the literal words
"Navigator"/"Signal" from window titles, made the pill an HTML5 drag source
that stops pointerdown, and turned minimized chips into Pills. Specs that
predated it kept failing locally AND on CI (not flake):
- selector: navSubwindow() picked windows by getByText("Navigator") -> now
matches nothing; drag/shield grabs hit the pill -> window never moved and
the shield never rose. Now breadcrumb N- chip + titlebarGrabPoint.
- vi_lazy / virtual_imaging_workflow: hasNotText:"Navigator" matched BOTH
windows, .first() grabbed the navigator -> "Virtual Imaging" button can
never appear there. Now harness sigWindow().
- binary_pixel_transport: subwindow-title :text-is("Signal") -> sigWindow().
- strain_lazy: /^Strain$/ against subwindow-title text ("S-Strain" now) ->
match the breadcrumb-name segment.
- ui_fixes: minimized chips are Pills, not <button>s -> min-chip-* testid.
- mdi_layout: snap/edge drags grabbed the titlebar at x+20 = ON the pill ->
HTML5 payload drag instead of a window move. Now titlebarGrabPoint (new
shared harness helper: grab right of the pill, left of the controls).
- spyde FV wizard: the tune probe set threshold to 0.3 == the neural
default; React's value tracker swallows a no-change input event so
fv_tune never fired. Nudge to 0.45.
- nav_drag_distributed: waited on the nav_drag_result PLOTAPP message,
which the Electron main process consumes (IPC to renderer, only
ready/dask_ready/error are echoed to stdout) -> structurally unreachable,
the console_preview_result trap. Parse the stderr [REDRAW] verdict line
instead (the movie_nav_scrub / tiered_nav_read pattern).
All 65 tests in the 9 touched spec files pass locally (4.1m, retries=0).
gpu_image_parity pan-y inversion is a separate real render bug, tracked
next.
On hosted CI runners there is no WebGPU adapter, so the GPU image path can never activate and both tests burned the full 30s activation timeout twice per attempt (~4 min/run). Probe adapter+device exactly like figure_esm''s _gpuDevice() right after launch and skip fast instead. Library-level GPU render math stays CI-covered by anyplotlib''s own parity suite. The "pan-y inverted" verdicts in earlier LOCAL runs were environment pollution, not a render bug: with the other failing specs fixed (clean teardowns), the pan-direction assertion passes reproducibly (correct=7.58 vs inverted=15.57), verified in isolation, in-file sequence, and via an instrumented probe (center_y, detail_region, and pixels all move the right way on a down-drag).
…oise The final 4 CI failures (binary_pixel_transport, console_math, console_preview, insitu_playback) all died on their end-of-test "no ERROR/Traceback in the backend log" audit: on headless Linux runners Chromium itself spams stderr in [pid:date:ERROR:file.cc(line)] format (bus.cc dbus failures, viz_main_impl.cc "Exiting GPU process", command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc) — infrastructure noise, not SpyDE errors. Every functional assertion in those tests passed. New harness backendErrorLines(backend) replaces the four hand-rolled filters: same CSP/willReadFrequently exclusions plus the Chromium :ERROR:*.cc(NNN) shape, which a Python backend line can never match — real backend errors still fail the audit. All 4 specs pass locally (1.8m).
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Summary
Adds an in-situ movie viewer and the performance architecture needed to scrub / play large (4k×4k+) image stacks interactively, plus a bottom Python console, the neural (SpotUNet) find-vectors method, and a batch of UI/verification work. Co-developed with anyplotlib
feat/webgpu-2d-images(CSSFrancis/anyplotlib#26) — that PR should merge first; this branch pins anyplotlib to its head sha inpyproject.toml/uv.lock.In-situ movie viewing & playback
InSitusignal type gates the playback actions; stacked 1-D navigators with a shared linked time cursor.Navigator read/paint performance
ComputeBackend.submit_graph; region extent cap on the widget geometry._NavPainterthread (slider stays live);CachedDaskArray.clientpatched so_client=Nonetruly selects the synchronous cache branch; interactive scrub preempts background nav/VI fill; per-frame profiling toggle (SPYDE_NAV_PROFILE=1+ Log-panel toggle)..spyde-nav.npz) and first-paint fixes (subsampled histogram, torch off the painter thread).GPU image rendering + binary transport
NumpyTileBackend); LOD decimation only where it belongs (detail-tile crop cap, never the navigator image).PLOTBINstdout demux + raw-uint8 binary side-channel skips the base64 round-trip on the hot frame path (~2.2x/frame).Python console + preview
Find-vectors: neural method
spyde/models/(weights ~1 MB, shipped in wheels + pycrucible bundle) with an upgradeable HF registry; "neural" is the default find-vectors method; DoG method + benchmarks alongside.Tests
spyde/tests/migrated/(nav race/tiered-read/paint-decouple/extent-cap, console preview, neural detect, nav sidecar, plot labels) and Playwright specs (insitu playback, GPU parity, binary transport, first paint, breadcrumb header, console preview, close-cancels-compute).Dependencies
anyplotlib 0.2.0 (the WebGPU / tile / binary-transport release co-developed with this branch) is published on PyPI and this branch requires
anyplotlib>=0.2.0— no special merge ordering remains.