Two creator directives, 2026-11-01.
**Ctrl-down dismisses an open zoom box.** Window-level PreviewKeyDown, so the same hand that
opened it can put it away. It cannot cancel itself at creation: Ctrl is already held before
the right-click that makes the box, so the keydown fires while nothing is open.
**Follow mode, default Anchor.** A PillToggle in App Settings ("Follow the box"), persisted
as Zoom.FollowBox. Off — the default — keeps the 2026-10-08 model: the capture stays on the
clicked point and dragging only moves the box over it. On, UpdateZoomMove re-anchors the
capture to the box centre (half the box's size, clamped per axis), so the magnifier shows
whatever it hovers. Flipping to Follow while the box is open snaps it immediately.
Three tests: anchor drags leave CaptureX alone, follow moves it to the expected quarter-offset
centre, and the setting round-trips through LayoutStore (tested against the store, not via two
view models — two live VMs fight over the temp DB, which is a fixture problem, not a bug).
Both new test classes share a collection tag: MainViewModel.LayoutPathOverride is static, and
xUnit runs classes in parallel, so without it the two view models collided (one failure in a
combined run, clean when run apart).
Release build 0 warnings; 14 tests pass across zoom, entitlement and preview history. Debug
build is blocked by the running app (PID 47388) — close it and the exe updates.
The marquee now has the dial it needs. `ScoreboardPresenter.PixelsPerSecond` is the single owner of
the range (20-400, default 120), the layer's properties expose it with a live px/s readout, and the
value is persisted as Scoreboard.ScrollSpeed because it is a READABILITY choice — re-dialling it
every launch would be a tax on the creator who needs the strip to be readable.
Advance() still takes an optional override so tests can drive exact distances.
Guard: the presenter test proves speed is real (same elapsed time, twice the speed, different
window) — not a value that is stored and ignored — and the panel test pins the control, its range
and the persistence key.
Creator: "even if it's not visible, we want to avoid polling."
ScoreboardEnabled is the layer's master switch in the properties panel. Off means two things:
- the strip frame is null in every scene (per-scene eye toggles stay independent), and
- the cadence policy returns None at every phase — a scoreboard nobody can see must not spend quota.
The switch is persisted (Scoreboard.Enabled), because one that resets would quietly resume polling.
The polling gate is ScoreboardPollsEnabled: master switch AND at least one scene with a visible
scoreboard — so hiding it in all five scenes also stops the polls.
Guards: ScoreboardCadenceTests adds the switch off across live/test/recording; ScoreboardProperties
pins the checkbox and the VM surface.
Unit 9, the one that matters most for this creator.
MASTER STRIP (top, nearest the preview):
- one ladder fed by the MEASURED mix — `AudioMixer` now measures the buffer the encoder receives
(`MasterLevel`, `MasterImbalanceDb`), so the master cannot show a source instead of the output
- `-12.4 dB` readout, and ONE L/R flag that appears above a 6 dB gap instead of a second ladder
- bitrate / FPS / dropped / duration from the existing health poll
MONO OUTPUT:
- `AudioFold.ToMono` averages each stereo pair into both channels, applied after the limiter and
the sync delay, so the stream AND the recording get what was folded
- `MonoOutput` is persisted (`Audio.MonoOutput`) and restored at startup: an accessibility switch
that resets each session is an accessibility failure
- one click in the strip, remembered forever
Guard: AudioFoldTests (hard-left reaches the right at half amplitude, hard-right — the inaudible
case — reaches the left, centred material keeps its level, mono buffers untouched) and
MasterStripTests (the strip binds the measured mix + the switch, the store round-trips it, and the
fold is the tested helper rather than new arithmetic). 33 audio tests green.
- Source.IsBrandLogo persisted (additive migration); layer healed on load, removal blocked
- Image stored as an asset; settings keep the asset id and file name
- App Settings: Brand Logo file field with Browse
- Default placement top-left; per-scene eye uses the existing element visibility
Test: BrandLogoTests; layout/background tests pass (34). Not pushed.
Right-click in the live preview now procs a box that is actually visible and
populated with the zoomed region, and each Zoom View Shape sculpts the box per
spec. OBS-style derivative: magnifier box shows the composited region and dims
the surroundings (same pattern as OBS "zoom" / preview region highlights).
Root causes of the invisible box (two WPF traps, recorded in MyMistakes.md):
- Empty <VisualBrush Stretch="None"/> used as an OpacityMask paints nothing,
so the mask alpha is 0 and the WHOLE box (border included) went transparent.
- ZoomBox lived inside CanvasGrid while its VisualBrush sampled CanvasGrid — a
circular reference WPF renders as nothing. Hoisted ZoomBox to a sibling of
CanvasGrid inside a new PreviewCanvas wrapper (same 1920x1080 space).
Shape semantics (MainViewModel.ActivateZoom):
- Circle: square, click point = center.
- VerticalRectangle (phone): tall 9:16, click point = top-left corner.
- HorizontalRectangle (tablet): wide 16:9, click point = top-left corner.
- Boxes stay fully inside 1920x1080 via Math.Clamp.
UI: ZoomRectOutline/ZoomCircleOutline shapes replace the square Border;
circle clips the box to an EllipseGeometry; brush Visual released when inactive.
Zoom View Shape dropdown now uses the standard YtComboBox style.
Test (Good Dog rule, one integration test): ZoomBoxInteractionTests verifies
aspect/anchoring/clamp per shape and the matching outline+clip in the real
MainWindow. Full suite 404 passed, 0 warnings.
Memory: HANDOFF.md zoom state updated; WPF VisualBrush traps appended to
MyMistakes.md.
TASK 43's alert box grows a real video celebration. Per-alert IAlertClipDecoder
(ffmpeg bgra + f32le pipes, real-time paced, disposed at drain) plays the shipped
Assets/alert-default.mp4 (stamped into the Asset table at startup) unless the
creator picks their own file — path reference only, never stored in the DB; the
six AlertRenderer animations stay the fallback. ~0.3s fade rides the alpha
envelope on straight-source copies (EOF freeze-frames then fades out); audio
forwards to a new AudioMixer alert ring (8s, 48k stereo) drained at unity — no
duck, creator ruling — scaled by volume × fade. An auto-composed marquee ticker
('Funder — Super Chat · $10.00', 140px/s) scrolls top-of-frame via a
FramePump._alertTicker seam through Render/CompositeLayers, mixed into the cache
signature (dynamic overlay, never baked). New Stream Alerts section in LeftPanel.
Derivative-work references (how OBS/Streamlabs alert boxes do per-alert video):
- https://support.streamlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/217741147-Setting-Up-Your-Streamlabs-Alerts (custom image/video per alert type + variations)
- https://obsproject.com/kb/stream-tutorial-2-alerts (alert overlay as an on-screen zone)
- https://streamlabs.com/content-hub/widgets/alert-box (per-event alert playback)
Good Dog: AlertLayerVideoTests drives a fake IAlertClipDecoder through the whole
lifecycle in one pass (custom path wins, decoder spawns/disposes, fade envelope
0→127→255, audio volume×fade, ticker scrolls, EOF fade-drain to idle). It caught
the clip branch of Advance not clearing _current before AdvanceToNext — the layer
stayed IsPlaying after drain (MyMistakes post-mortem).
Full vstest 319/319; clean build 0 warnings; scope check green.
Positive offsets still delay the whole mix via the delay line (lip-sync fix);
negative offsets now ARM once at StartLive and drop |N| ms off the pipe's write
head so audio events land earlier when audio runs BEHIND video. Slider relabeled
AUDIO SYNC, Min −500, locked while live/recording (IsEditMode). LayoutStore and
VM clamp to −500..500.
OBS reference for eat-the-head negative sync: https://obsproject.com/kb/obs-studio/buffering-time (negative sync values pull audio earlier by discarding buffered player audio).
Test: StartLive_NegativeOffset_AdvancesAudio_ByDroppingTheStreamHead (6x0.9 head
must be eaten before 0.2 bed reaches the wire).
LayoutStore.cs 1402 -> 47-line shell + 5 partials, grouped by functionality
(line count is a consequence, not the goal):
- LayoutStore.Migrations.cs: all DB schema migration (EnsureSchema, GetUserVersion,
MigrateSourceTable/WebcamConfigTable/ToV3/SceneTable/SceneSocialBarColumn/
SocialsTable/SocialEntryTable)
- LayoutStore.Load.cs: Load() scene/source read-back
- LayoutStore.Save.cs: Save() full scene tree write
- LayoutStore.Settings.cs: key/value settings + mic/record-folder/reusable-stream
+ license/transition/broadcast/hotkey/window-state GetSetting/UpsertSetting
- LayoutStore.Assets.cs: GetAssetBytes/UpsertAsset blob IO
- LayoutStore.cs: shell — Instance, fields, ctor, Dispose
Converted to public partial class LayoutStore : IDisposable. Pruned per-file
dead usings. Phase 3 DOWN: no production .cs exceeds 500 lines.
Zero behavior change; build 0 warnings; 246 pass, only the 2 known failures.
Docs: ViewModels/index.md Phase 3 tracker updated in same commit.
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