makeover_tui/

lib.rs

//! The terminal renderer for [`makeover_layout`].
//!
//! <!-- wiki: makeover-tui -->
//!
//! Named for the target and not for ratatui, the same way
//! `makeover-immediate` is named for the mode and not for egui.
//!
//! # What a terminal actually costs you
//!
//! Not colour. That was the original assumption here and it is wrong on any
//! terminal built this decade. Measured across the 31 shipped themes
//! (`makeover`'s `well_fidelity` example):
//!
//! | | ANSI-16 | ANSI-256 | truecolor |
//! |---|---|---|---|
//! | a well collapses onto its face | 18/31 | 4/31 | 2/31 |
//! | at least one bevel edge vanishes into its face | 31/31 | 4/31 | 0 |
//!
//! The threshold is 256, not 24-bit, and the two failures that survive at
//! truecolor are not terminal failures at all: they are the themes whose
//! raised surface is already white, so the lightening clamps and the well
//! lands exactly on its face. Those render identically in a browser.
//! `makeover`'s own `well_is_distinct_from_its_face` test already names them.
//!
//! **What a terminal costs is geometry, and no amount of colour fixes it.**
//! An edge occupies a whole cell on each side. A cell is roughly 8x17 pixels,
//! so a one-pixel bevel becomes something an order of magnitude heavier, which
//! is why [`frame`] hands back a shrunk [`Rect`] instead of pretending the
//! region survived intact. There is nowhere to put a corner radius, so
//! `radius_control` and `radius_container` mean the same thing here. A fill
//! can only begin and end on a cell boundary.
//!
//! That is the constraint worth designing against. It does not improve, it is
//! not detectable, and it applies equally to the best terminal ever written.
//!
//! # Where fidelity does matter
//!
//! At [`Fidelity::Ansi16`] the depth vocabulary collapses outright: a well
//! cannot be filled distinctly on most themes *and* a bevel loses an edge on
//! every one of them, so a raised card and a well both read as a single-tone
//! box. Colour cannot carry the distinction, so [`frame`] carries it with the
//! glyphs instead.
//!
//! Above that, colour carries it and the glyph fallback never fires.
//!
//! [`Palette::shows`] is worth reading correctly in light of the numbers: it
//! is **not** a low-colour workaround. It is a correctness check that a fill
//! will be visible against what is behind it, and at truecolor it fires on
//! exactly the two clamping themes, which is precisely when it should.
//!
//! # The correction this renderer forced
//!
//! [`makeover_layout::Fill`] briefly carried a `fallback` method, returning
//! `Page` for `Well` so a consumer without `surface-well` had something to
//! use. That is an answer for a renderer that can always paint a colour. Here
//! it is actively wrong: page *is* the surface a well is usually cut into, so
//! falling back to it produces the exact invisibility the fallback was meant
//! to avoid.
//!
//! Substituting one intent for another is renderer policy, not description.
//! The fallback moved out of the description and into
//! `makeover-immediate`, where it belongs, which is the first thing a second
//! renderer was built to find.

#![forbid(unsafe_code)]

use makeover_layout::{Bevel, Depth, Edge, Fill};
use ratatui::buffer::Buffer;
use ratatui::layout::Rect;
use ratatui::style::Color;

/// How many colours the terminal can actually show.
///
/// Only [`Fidelity::Ansi16`] changes what this crate draws. Above it, colour
/// separates a raised surface from a well on every shipped theme, and the
/// glyph fallback below never fires. Recorded rather than inferred, because a
/// caller that quantised its palette knows the answer and this crate cannot
/// recover it from the colours afterwards.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
pub enum Fidelity {
    /// Sixteen colours. Depth cannot be carried by colour: a well collapses
    /// onto its face on 18 of 31 themes and a bevel loses an edge on all 31.
    Ansi16,
    /// The 6x6x6 cube and the grey ramp. Enough on 27 of 31 themes.
    Ansi256,
    /// 24-bit. The only failures left belong to the theme, not the terminal.
    #[default]
    TrueColor,
}

impl Fidelity {
    /// Read the terminal's own claim, from `COLORTERM` then `TERM`.
    ///
    /// Deliberately credulous. A terminal that understates itself costs a
    /// slightly heavier frame; one that overstates itself was going to render
    /// wrongly regardless of what this crate assumed.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn detect() -> Self {
        let colorterm = std::env::var("COLORTERM").unwrap_or_default();
        if colorterm.contains("truecolor") || colorterm.contains("24bit") {
            return Self::TrueColor;
        }
        let term = std::env::var("TERM").unwrap_or_default();
        if term.contains("256color") || term.contains("direct") {
            return Self::Ansi256;
        }
        if term.is_empty() {
            return Self::TrueColor;
        }
        Self::Ansi16
    }

    /// Whether colour alone can tell a raised surface from a well here.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn separates_depth(self) -> bool {
        !matches!(self, Self::Ansi16)
    }
}

/// The resolved colours this renderer needs.
///
/// Supply them already quantised to whatever the terminal can show. That is
/// what makes [`Palette::shows`] a plain inequality rather than a colour-space
/// calculation: by the time a colour reaches here, the question of what the
/// terminal will actually paint has been answered.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Palette {
    /// `surface-page`.
    pub page: Color,
    /// `surface-raised`.
    pub raised: Color,
    /// `surface-overlay`.
    pub overlay: Color,
    /// `surface-well`, absent on makeover before 2.3.0.
    pub well: Option<Color>,
    /// `bevel-light`.
    pub bevel_light: Color,
    /// `bevel-dark`.
    pub bevel_dark: Color,
    /// What the terminal can show. Defaults to [`Fidelity::TrueColor`].
    pub fidelity: Fidelity,
}

impl Palette {
    /// Resolve a surface intent, or `None` where the theme has no such colour.
    ///
    /// No substitution happens here. A missing intent stays missing, and
    /// [`frame`] answers it with structure instead of with a different colour.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn fill(&self, fill: Fill) -> Option<Color> {
        match fill {
            Fill::Page => Some(self.page),
            Fill::Raised => Some(self.raised),
            Fill::Overlay => Some(self.overlay),
            Fill::Well => self.well,
        }
    }

    /// Resolve a bevel edge intent.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn edge(&self, edge: Edge) -> Color {
        match edge {
            Edge::Light => self.bevel_light,
            Edge::Dark => self.bevel_dark,
        }
    }

    /// Whether painting `fill` over `behind` would show anything.
    ///
    /// The whole of the terminal's problem in one predicate. On a truecolor
    /// terminal this is almost always true; in sixteen colours it is false
    /// often enough that a design relying on fills is a design that vanishes.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn shows(fill: Color, behind: Color) -> bool {
        fill != behind
    }

    /// Whether this palette can express a bevel as two distinct edges.
    ///
    /// Measured, this is the wrong thing to worry about: the two edge colours
    /// never quantise onto each other, at any depth, on any shipped theme.
    /// What does happen is an edge vanishing into the *face* it is drawn on,
    /// on every theme at sixteen colours. Kept because a hand-built palette
    /// can still collide, and cheap to ask.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn two_tone(&self) -> bool {
        self.bevel_light != self.bevel_dark
    }

    /// Whether depth has to be carried by glyphs rather than by colour.
    ///
    /// True when the terminal cannot separate the two surfaces, which is the
    /// sixteen-colour case and nothing else.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn needs_glyph_depth(&self) -> bool {
        !self.fidelity.separates_depth()
    }
}

/// Box-drawing characters for a frame's edges and corners.
///
/// Two sets, because at sixteen colours the glyphs are the only thing left to
/// carry depth: a well cannot be filled distinctly and a bevel loses an edge,
/// so a raised card and a well would otherwise be the same single-tone box.
/// A doubled line reads as standing off the page and a light one as cut into
/// it, which is the same claim the fill and the bevel make in colour.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub(crate) struct GlyphSet {
    pub(crate) horizontal: &'static str,
    pub(crate) vertical: &'static str,
    pub(crate) top_left: &'static str,
    pub(crate) top_right: &'static str,
    pub(crate) bottom_left: &'static str,
    pub(crate) bottom_right: &'static str,
}

pub(crate) const LIGHT: GlyphSet = GlyphSet {
    horizontal: "─",
    vertical: "│",
    top_left: "┌",
    top_right: "┐",
    bottom_left: "└",
    bottom_right: "┘",
};

pub(crate) const DOUBLE: GlyphSet = GlyphSet {
    horizontal: "═",
    vertical: "║",
    top_left: "╔",
    top_right: "╗",
    bottom_left: "╚",
    bottom_right: "╝",
};

/// Paint a two-tone edge around the outside of `area`.
///
/// Light takes the top and left, dark the bottom and right, and the two shared
/// corners go to dark. That corner rule is not arbitrary: it is the same one
/// `makeover-immediate` produces by drawing its dark polyline second, so a
/// control does not change which corner is lit when it moves between a
/// terminal and a window.
///
/// Costs a cell on each side, which a pixel renderer's bevel does not. Use the
/// [`Rect`] returned by [`frame`] rather than assuming the area is intact.
pub fn paint_bevel(buf: &mut Buffer, area: Rect, bevel: Bevel, palette: &Palette) {
    paint_bevel_with(buf, area, bevel, palette, LIGHT);
}

fn paint_bevel_with(buf: &mut Buffer, area: Rect, bevel: Bevel, palette: &Palette, set: GlyphSet) {
    if area.width < 2 || area.height < 2 {
        return;
    }
    let (top_left, bottom_right) = bevel.edges();
    let light = palette.edge(top_left);
    let dark = palette.edge(bottom_right);

    let (x0, y0) = (area.x, area.y);
    let (x1, y1) = (area.right() - 1, area.bottom() - 1);

    // Light first: top edge and left edge, corners included.
    for x in x0..=x1 {
        buf[(x, y0)].set_symbol(set.horizontal).set_fg(light);
    }
    for y in y0..=y1 {
        buf[(x0, y)].set_symbol(set.vertical).set_fg(light);
    }
    // Dark second, so the two shared corners land on it.
    for x in x0..=x1 {
        buf[(x, y1)].set_symbol(set.horizontal).set_fg(dark);
    }
    for y in y0..=y1 {
        buf[(x1, y)].set_symbol(set.vertical).set_fg(dark);
    }

    buf[(x0, y0)].set_symbol(set.top_left).set_fg(light);
    buf[(x1, y0)].set_symbol(set.top_right).set_fg(dark);
    buf[(x0, y1)].set_symbol(set.bottom_left).set_fg(dark);
    buf[(x1, y1)].set_symbol(set.bottom_right).set_fg(dark);
}

/// Draw a region at a given [`Depth`] and return the area left for content.
///
/// The fill is painted only when it would be visible against what is already
/// in the buffer. Everything else is the edge, which is why a well still reads
/// as a well on a terminal that cannot colour one.
pub fn frame(buf: &mut Buffer, area: Rect, depth: Depth, palette: &Palette) -> Rect {
    if area.is_empty() {
        return area;
    }
    let behind = buf[(area.x, area.y)].bg;

    if let Some(color) = depth.fill().and_then(|f| palette.fill(f))
        && Palette::shows(color, behind)
    {
        for y in area.top()..area.bottom() {
            for x in area.left()..area.right() {
                buf[(x, y)].set_bg(color);
            }
        }
    }

    match depth.bevel() {
        Some(bevel) if area.width >= 2 && area.height >= 2 => {
            // Colour separates raised from well wherever it can. Where it
            // cannot, the glyphs do, and only then: a doubled frame on every
            // terminal would be shouting.
            let set = match (palette.needs_glyph_depth(), depth) {
                (true, Depth::Raised) => DOUBLE,
                _ => LIGHT,
            };
            paint_bevel_with(buf, area, bevel, palette, set);
            Rect::new(area.x + 1, area.y + 1, area.width - 2, area.height - 2)
        }
        _ => area,
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    fn palette(well: Option<Color>) -> Palette {
        Palette {
            page: Color::Indexed(7),
            raised: Color::Indexed(15),
            overlay: Color::Indexed(8),
            well,
            bevel_light: Color::Indexed(15),
            bevel_dark: Color::Indexed(0),
            fidelity: Fidelity::TrueColor,
        }
    }

    fn buffer() -> Buffer {
        Buffer::empty(Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4))
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_well_that_cannot_be_coloured_is_still_drawn() {
        // The 18-of-31 case: no surface-well token at all.
        let p = palette(None);
        let mut buf = buffer();
        frame(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Well, &p);
        // No fill was available, but the region still reads as recessed.
        assert_eq!(buf[(0, 0)].symbol(), LIGHT.top_left);
        assert_eq!(buf[(0, 0)].bg, Color::Reset);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_fill_that_matches_its_surroundings_is_not_painted() {
        let p = palette(Some(Color::Indexed(7)));
        let mut buf = buffer();
        // Everything behind is already page-coloured, and the well quantised
        // onto it. Painting it would be a no-op that hides the real problem.
        for y in 0..4 {
            for x in 0..6 {
                buf[(x, y)].set_bg(Color::Indexed(7));
            }
        }
        frame(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Well, &p);
        assert!(!Palette::shows(Color::Indexed(7), Color::Indexed(7)));
        // The edge is what carries the meaning here.
        assert_eq!(buf[(5, 3)].symbol(), LIGHT.bottom_right);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_visible_fill_is_painted() {
        let p = palette(Some(Color::Indexed(4)));
        let mut buf = buffer();
        frame(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Well, &p);
        assert_eq!(buf[(2, 2)].bg, Color::Indexed(4));
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_light_falls_from_the_top_left_and_corners_go_dark() {
        let p = palette(None);
        let mut buf = buffer();
        paint_bevel(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Bevel::Raised, &p);
        assert_eq!(buf[(0, 0)].fg, p.bevel_light); // top-left
        assert_eq!(buf[(3, 0)].fg, p.bevel_light); // top edge
        assert_eq!(buf[(0, 2)].fg, p.bevel_light); // left edge
        assert_eq!(buf[(5, 3)].fg, p.bevel_dark); // bottom-right
        // The two shared corners go to dark, matching what the immediate
        // renderer produces by drawing its dark polyline second.
        assert_eq!(buf[(5, 0)].fg, p.bevel_dark);
        assert_eq!(buf[(0, 3)].fg, p.bevel_dark);
    }

    #[test]
    fn pressing_swaps_the_lit_side() {
        let p = palette(None);
        let mut buf = buffer();
        paint_bevel(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Bevel::Raised.pressed(), &p);
        assert_eq!(buf[(0, 0)].fg, p.bevel_dark);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_sixteen_colour_terminal_can_lose_the_second_tone() {
        // Not a failure: one box is still a boundary. The palette says so
        // rather than the renderer pretending otherwise.
        let flat = Palette {
            bevel_dark: Color::Indexed(15),
            ..palette(None)
        };
        assert!(!flat.two_tone());
        assert!(palette(None).two_tone());
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_edge_costs_a_cell_on_every_side() {
        let p = palette(None);
        let mut buf = buffer();
        let inner = frame(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Raised, &p);
        assert_eq!(inner, Rect::new(1, 1, 4, 2));
        // Flat takes no cells, because it draws no edge.
        let same = frame(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Flat, &p);
        assert_eq!(same, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4));
    }

    #[test]
    fn sixteen_colours_carries_depth_in_the_glyphs_instead() {
        // Colour cannot separate raised from well here: the fill collapses on
        // most themes and an edge vanishes on all of them. The frame has to
        // say it some other way or the two become the same box.
        let p = Palette {
            fidelity: Fidelity::Ansi16,
            ..palette(None)
        };
        assert!(p.needs_glyph_depth());
        let mut raised = buffer();
        frame(&mut raised, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Raised, &p);
        let mut well = buffer();
        frame(&mut well, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Well, &p);
        assert_eq!(raised[(0, 0)].symbol(), DOUBLE.top_left);
        assert_eq!(well[(0, 0)].symbol(), LIGHT.top_left);
        assert_ne!(raised[(0, 0)].symbol(), well[(0, 0)].symbol());
    }

    #[test]
    fn above_sixteen_colours_the_glyphs_stay_out_of_it() {
        // The fallback must not fire where colour already works, or every
        // modern terminal gets a doubled frame it did not need.
        for f in [Fidelity::Ansi256, Fidelity::TrueColor] {
            let p = Palette {
                fidelity: f,
                ..palette(Some(Color::Indexed(4)))
            };
            assert!(!p.needs_glyph_depth());
            let mut buf = buffer();
            frame(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 6, 4), Depth::Raised, &p);
            assert_eq!(
                buf[(0, 0)].symbol(),
                LIGHT.top_left,
                "{f:?} got a heavier frame"
            );
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn detection_defaults_generously_and_only_downgrades_on_evidence() {
        assert!(Fidelity::default().separates_depth());
        assert!(Fidelity::TrueColor.separates_depth());
        assert!(Fidelity::Ansi256.separates_depth());
        assert!(!Fidelity::Ansi16.separates_depth());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_region_too_small_for_an_edge_is_left_alone() {
        let p = palette(None);
        let mut buf = buffer();
        let inner = frame(&mut buf, Rect::new(0, 0, 1, 1), Depth::Raised, &p);
        assert_eq!(inner, Rect::new(0, 0, 1, 1));
    }
}