The panel was anchored to the view's right edge and centered in the band above
the build button bar. Requiring it beside the selection instead splits its
placement inputs in two: the anchor rectangle and the side are frozen when the
selection starts, so the panel neither chases a scrolling view nor moves as the
selection grows, while its geometry is re-solved from them whenever its own size
changes.
Two neighbouring requirements described the old placement and had to follow:
the build bar's "the panel confines itself to the band above the bar", and the
controls panel's claim that the two panels sit on opposite sides of the view --
a selection in the lower left now puts them in the same corner, and keeping them
apart is the selection panel's job.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JcReq7hVk4KUPhTDKWAG7K
Six things the player reported, five of them about where things sit and what is
listed:
- HP goes to the top of the runtime group, above everything else a card shows.
Only the HQ had it elsewhere; the ship and station cards already led with it.
- A construction site's progress moves out of the runtime group's place and
directly under the header, so how far along the site is reads before what it
is configured to become.
- The production bar moves between the input and output buffers, so a producing
building reads in the direction its materials flow: what goes in, what is
being made of it, what has come out. BufferSection held both buffer sections
and so could not be split around it; the two sections and the production
section are now the card's own, in that order.
- Locked items are left out of the buffers. An auto-recipe building's buffers
are sized over every recipe of its type, so a Smelter carried an input for
quartz -- which the player cannot mine yet -- and an output for the silicon it
would smelt into. Both are dropped now, as everywhere else that hides what is
not unlocked.
- An idle auto-recipe building lists what it handles rather than nothing. It has
no selected recipe to name, so a Reprocessing Plant between cycles showed no
output buffer at all. Its sections now list the unlocked items of every recipe
of its type -- the union its buffers were sized over -- without a per-cycle
denominator, since no one recipe is in force.
The sixth was the bars vanishing whenever the window lost focus, to a modal
dialog or to another application. They were filled with the palette's current
highlight, and the palette follows the window's focus: the inactive group's
highlight sits close enough to the card's background to read as gone. They ask
for the active group by name now.
Measured on a freshly built Smelter, which is the case that showed three of
these at once:
INPUT BUFFERS 0 Copper Ore | 0 Iron Ore | 0 Scrap
PRODUCTION idle
OUTPUT BUFFER 0/2 Copper Ingot | 0/2 Iron Ingot
Quartz and silicon filtered out, production between the buffers, and an idle
building still saying what it handles.
Requirements updated for the ordering, the locked-item rule and the idle
auto-recipe listing (REQ-UI-SELECTION-CARD, REQ-UI-SINGLE-SELECTION,
REQ-UI-PRODUCTION-PROGRESS, REQ-UI-HQ-PANEL).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JcReq7hVk4KUPhTDKWAG7K
It was confined to the band above the build button bar's strip, borrowing the
selection panel's rule. That rule exists because the selection panel is
full-height on the right, where the bar's strip is genuinely in the way. This
panel is short and in the corner, and the bar is centered and sized to its
buttons, so the corner is normally free -- reserving the whole strip pushed the
panel up for a collision that was not happening.
It now sits in the bottom-left corner and shares the view's bottom edge with
the bar, rising only when the panel's rectangle would actually intersect the
bar's, in which case it clears the bar's top by the usual margin and caps its
height at what is left. So it moves for a wide bar and a wide panel, and drops
back into the corner as soon as they no longer meet.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YHcUerKAZKWNvSKJxYKbnG
Ctrl+click works with an empty selection -- it picks the object under the
cursor much as a plain click does -- so leaving it out of the General card is
an omission rather than a claim the panel declines to make. The catalog already
implied that by listing it under Selection only; the accuracy rule now says so
outright, alongside the three omissions it already named.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YHcUerKAZKWNvSKJxYKbnG
The General card was the one that ran its context rows and the global ones
together as a flat list. That made it the exception a player has to notice: the
same six rows sit under a caption everywhere else, so leaving them uncaptioned
here asks the reader to work out that they are the same six.
Requirement wording corrected with it -- it claimed the always-available rows
were the General context's entire content, which was never true. General has
Select, Select area and Deconstruct mode of its own above the divider, exactly
like the other contexts.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YHcUerKAZKWNvSKJxYKbnG
Adds REQ-UI-CONTROLS-PANEL/-CARD/-CONTENT/-ACCURACY: a left-anchored panel,
bottom-aligned within the same band the selection panel uses, collapsed and
expanded by clicking its header. Five control contexts derived from the build
mode and the selection, each with its own rows above a shared always-available
block.
The accuracy rule is the load-bearing part: a row must have the effect its
label names, or not be shown -- no greyed rows. That makes four rows
conditional on more than the context (C/Ctrl+C on the selection holding a
placeable building, the belt-drag row on the builder type, the RMB/Q split on a
drag being in progress, and Place vs Apply settings on the hovered ghost
resolving to a configuration transfer), and it makes the context-to-rows
mapping testable against the real bindings.
Also names the panel in the layout diagram, REQ-UI-WORLD-SIZE, and
REQ-UI-MODAL-DIM, and records in REQ-UI-HOTKEYS that the panel and the build
button badges display bindings rather than define them.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YHcUerKAZKWNvSKJxYKbnG
The panel's content requirements described one panel that changes shape.
Restate them as one card structure plus a catalog of contents picked by
what is selected, so each selection has a named content and the parts
mean the same thing wherever they appear.
New:
- REQ-UI-SELECTION-CARD: header (symbol, name, one optional right slot),
configuration group, runtime group. A construction site replaces the
whole runtime group with a Construction bar and keeps its configuration
group, per REQ-BLD-SITE-CONFIG.
- REQ-UI-SELECTION-CONTENT: the catalog table.
- REQ-UI-SELECTION-STATUS: the header status dot, derived from
REQ-UI-STATUS-LIGHT's evaluation rather than a second definition.
- REQ-UI-SELECTION-AGGREGATE: a homogeneous multi-selection collapses into
one content with a count, but only where every part aggregates -- belt
subsystem tiles and debris. Splitters mixed with belts and several
production buildings fall back to the count summary.
- REQ-UI-RECIPE-SUMMARY: the inputs -> outputs, duration line, including a
shipyard's module contributions.
- REQ-UI-HQ-PANEL: global block stock plus HP, because blocks bypass the
buffers into the global stock (REQ-HQ-BELT-INPUT).
Rewritten: REQ-UI-SINGLE-SELECTION (item chips; an output chip's
denominator is now the buffer capacity, not the per-cycle amount),
REQ-UI-PRODUCTION-PROGRESS (bar, and no longer the cycle time's home),
REQ-UI-MULTI-SELECTION (count rows and a total cost row), REQ-UI-BELT-CLEAR,
REQ-UI-SHIP-STATS-PANEL, REQ-UI-STATION-STATS-PANEL, REQ-UI-SHIP-BEHAVIOR
(moves into the header slot), REQ-UI-FIELD-MULTI-SELECTION and
REQ-UI-DEBRIS-PANEL (debris-only selections now aggregate).
Requirements only; no code changes.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JcReq7hVk4KUPhTDKWAG7K
Remove the 25% side panel column: the header bar and game world view now
span the full window width, and the selection panel floats over the world
at its right edge, content-sized and shown only while something is
selected.
REQ-UI-PANEL-COLUMN is replaced by REQ-UI-SELECTION-PANEL, which defines
the panel's geometry, visibility, overlay, and input rules. The panel is
centered within the view height less its margins and the build button
bar's strip, so the bar never has to move out of its way. Rename the
"selected building panel" to "selection panel" throughout, since it has
long shown ships, stations, and debris too.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JcReq7hVk4KUPhTDKWAG7K
