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Sylpheed/crates/sylpheed-formats/examples/rest_fallback_audit.rs
sylph-decoder c89e4da723 re: my own 1697 audited -- and the first correction failed its control
Applying the port's physical-story rule to my own number. '1 697 fallback fires
return a visible pose' was published as if it were a defect count; it is not, since
an element that genuinely ends visible should rest visible.

The first correction split the 1 697 by whether the element's LAST keyframe is
visible: 347 correct, 1 350 transient peaks. Plausible, arithmetic fine, and
WRONG -- 12 278 of 13 991 elements (87.8 %) end at alpha 0 because a screen's exit
ramp drives everything to zero, so the split carries almost no information. The
1 350 is not published.

What survives needs no such split: the fallback runs only when no two adjacent
poses are equal, i.e. only when no pose is held, so every pose it can return is
un-held by construction -- and 1 457 of the 2 305 times it returns the element's
MAXIMUM alpha, the brightest un-held pose.

I ran that control only because the port had just been bitten by the same exit
ramp, its census calling ptmsg -- the main menu's permanent footer -- 'a 2-unit
flash'. Without its message the 1 350 would have shipped.

METHOD gains the sharpened form: the physical-story test catches confident FALSE
claims, not just nulls. A wrong number usually still has a story, just an absurd
one. Plus the tell that its fix was right -- re-keyed on the screen's span, the
false positives fell out on their own, and a definition that stops needing
hand-maintained exceptions is usually the correct one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
2026-08-30 12:13:46 +00:00

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//! Does "1 697 fallback fires return a visible pose" survive being said out loud?
//!
//! `rest-fallback-census.txt` reports that of 2 305 elements where the dwell
//! fallback decides, 1 697 rest at `alpha > 0`. It was written as if that number
//! were the defect. **It is only a defect where the element is a transient.** An
//! element that genuinely ends visible and stays visible SHOULD rest visible, and
//! the fallback happening to be the path that got there is not an error.
//!
//! The port agent hit the mirror image of this: it counted a screen's own exit
//! ramp as the end of an element's visibility, so `ptmsg` — the main menu's
//! permanent footer — came out as "a 2-unit flash". The story collapsed when
//! said aloud. This asks the same question of my number.
//!
//! Split the 1 697 by what the element's LAST keyframe does:
//! * last alpha > 0 -> the element ends visible; resting visible is right
//! * last alpha == 0 -> it fades out; a visible rest is a transient's peak
//!
//! cargo run -p sylpheed-formats --example rest_fallback_audit
use sylpheed_formats::{pak::PakArchive, ui_layout};
use std::path::PathBuf;
fn main() {
let root = PathBuf::from(std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").expect("SYLPHEED_DISC"));
let mut paks: Vec<PathBuf> = std::fs::read_dir(root.join("dat")).expect("dat/")
.filter_map(|e| e.ok().map(|e| e.path()))
.filter(|p| p.extension().is_some_and(|x| x == "pak")).collect();
paks.sort();
let (mut fires, mut vis, mut ends_visible, mut ends_zero, mut at_peak) = (0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
// ⚠️ The port agent's exit-ramp finding applies to THIS split too: if a
// screen's exit ramp drives every element to a=0, then "last keyframe a=0"
// says nothing about the element being a transient. Measure it on ALL
// elements before using it on the 1 697.
let (mut all_el, mut all_end_zero) = (0usize, 0usize);
for pak in &paks {
let Ok(ar) = PakArchive::open(pak) else { continue };
for e in ar.entries() {
let Ok(by) = ar.read(e) else { continue };
let Some(b) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by) else { continue };
for el in &b.elements {
if el.keyframes.len() < 2 { continue }
all_el += 1;
if (el.keyframes.last().unwrap().fade >> 24) & 0xff == 0 { all_end_zero += 1 }
if el.keyframes.windows(2).any(|w| w[0].x == w[1].x && w[0].y == w[1].y
&& w[0].scale_x == w[1].scale_x && w[0].scale_y == w[1].scale_y
&& w[0].fade == w[1].fade) { continue }
fires += 1;
let Some(r) = el.rest() else { continue };
let a = (r.fade >> 24) & 0xff;
if a == 0 { continue }
vis += 1;
let last = (el.keyframes.last().unwrap().fade >> 24) & 0xff;
if last > 0 { ends_visible += 1 } else { ends_zero += 1 }
let peak = el.keyframes.iter().map(|k| (k.fade >> 24) & 0xff).max().unwrap_or(0);
if a == peak { at_peak += 1 }
}
}
}
println!("fallback fires {fires}");
println!(" of those, rest alpha > 0 {vis}");
println!(" element's LAST keyframe alpha > 0 {ends_visible} <- ends visible; resting visible is CORRECT");
println!(" element's LAST keyframe alpha = 0 {ends_zero} <- fades out; a visible rest is a transient's peak");
println!(" rest alpha == the element's MAX {at_peak}");
println!("\nCONTROL on the split itself — is 'ends at a=0' near-universal?");
println!(" all elements with >= 2 keyframes {all_el}");
println!(" of those, last keyframe alpha = 0 {all_end_zero} ({:.1} %)",
100.0 * all_end_zero as f64 / all_el as f64);
println!("\n--- END (if this line is missing, the run did not finish) ---");
}