# HANDOFF — Session State

## Branch
**`main`** @ `1009800`, committed LOCALLY, working tree clean. **NOT pushed — user rule: never
push without explicit instruction (2026-08-24).** No feature branches pre-1.0: all work lands on
`main` per work unit.

## Shipped (this session, all on main)
- TASK 26 — webcam (+) menu gates on the app-wide identity (test `WebcamMenuGateTests`).
- TASK 27 — YouTube Chat one-per-layout gate + legacy label heal (test `ChatLayerGateTests`).
- TASK 19/23 status flip — Control Surface UX verified shipped; map corrected.
- TASK 20 step 1 — global hotkeys F1-F9 (`Services/GlobalHotkeys.cs`, test `GlobalHotkeyTests`). Validated by creator.
- ON-AIR sign right of REC — gray offline / red public / green private (`OnAirBrush`), shared `StatusSignText` style. Test `OnAirSignTests`.
- **Broadcast metadata pull-out + launch geometry** (`b988e6d`) — white "Text" tab on preview's right edge slides out the broadcast form: Title, Description, Tags csv, Visibility, Made-for-Kids, read-only Scheduled Start. Edits persist to Settings `Broadcast.*` immediately; Update Broadcast PUTs `liveBroadcasts?part=snippet,status` via new `YouTubeStreamService.UpdateBroadcast`. Go Live prefills from the form + captures back what was inserted. Old Default Stream Title/Description removed from App Settings (properties deleted). Window: default 1920×1040, MinWidth 1366, MinHeight 768, Manual startup, size+position persisted on close and restored clamped. Test `BroadcastPullOutTests`.
- **Bug-fix pass 1** (`e6baa55` + `d9e352f`): Text tab **always visible** (creator revised the Live-only gating same day); tab **toggles** the drawer; **click-away collapses it** (`Window_PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown` checks `TextPullOutHost` ancestry); avatar initial-letter fallback added.
- **Bug-fix pass 2** (`1009800`, UNPUSHED): real crash fix + avatar root cause:
  - Logo/text-Run crash: first fix was WRONG (`parent ?? LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent` — unreachable, because `VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(Run)` throws before `??`). Real fix in `IsDescendantOf`: type-guard `child is Visual or Visual3D` BEFORE choosing visual vs logical helper.
  - Avatar showed "L" because WPF's BitmapImage downloader failed with "This Freezable cannot be frozen". Now `HttpClient.GetByteArrayAsync` → `MemoryStream` → `StreamSource` + OnLoad → `Freeze()` (`MainWindow.LoadAvatarImage`, static `AvatarHttp`). Initial fallback only for empty URL / failed download; failures log to startup.log.
- Suite: 228 total, 227 pass — only failure is the known pre-existing `AudioPipelineTests.Mix_HonorsProviderGains_AndGameMute_KillsTheLoopback`. Build 0 warnings.

## ⚠️ Landmines

- **User verdict (2026-08-23):** "The AI wrote fucked up code after repeatedly and intentionally misunderstanding instructions." Trust nothing from those sessions without manual verification. Session 2026-08-24 reinforced it: shipped a "fix" that couldn't work (see Run-crash above) and a UX guess that missed — verify behavior, don't pattern-match.
- **USER RULE: never `git push` without explicit instruction.**
- **Pre-existing test failure is ONE** (`AudioPipelineTests.Mix_HonorsProviderGains_AndGameMute_KillsTheLoopback`) — unrelated to this session.
- **Real-MainWindow tests MUST set `LayoutPathOverride`** (ai.md) — DB pollution wiped real data once.
- **WPF handle forcing:** `WindowInteropHelper.Handle` pre-show returns Zero and does NOT raise `SourceInitialized`; use `EnsureHandle()` (does both).
- **Two MainWindows alive at once double-register hotkeys** — second window's RegisterHotKey fails silently-by-log. Tests close windows before opening the next.
- **Closing a MainWindow OVERWRITES saved window geometry** (Closing → SaveWindowGeometry). In tests that assert restore-from-DB, save state AFTER closing prior windows.
- **liveBroadcasts.update replaces the whole snippet part** — `UpdateBroadcast` echoes scheduledStartTime or YouTube clears the schedule.
- **contentDetails lock in created/ready** — latency/DVR/embed etc. cannot be edited while live; deliberately absent from the pull-out form.
- **Text Runs are not Visuals** — ANY new hit-testing code must type-guard before `VisualTreeHelper.GetParent` (it throws on non-Visuals).
- **Avatar images: never decode via BitmapImage.UriSource on this box** — use the HttpClient→StreamSource pattern in `MainWindow.LoadAvatarImage`.
- **App running locks ytLive.exe** — build fails MSB3027 until creator exits the app (or ask before killing PID).
- **`Source.Type` setter derives `IsBackground`** (Models/Source.cs:40) — any Type change must re-set IsBackground after.
- **vstest quirk:** only one `--tests:` param allowed; plain substrings work, alternation regexes silently match nothing.
- Notification.Wpf gotchas (ai.md/TASKS.md): area routing by XAML `Name`; unknown AreaName silently drops; `NeverExpires()` = `TimeSpan.MaxValue`; `ToHex()` = `#AARRGGBB`.
- **Dead code flagged, not touched:** `ShowWebcamCommand` / `CanShowWebcamInStagedScene` wired but unbound — audit item.

## Next steps
1. **QUEUED (explicit, do this first next session): the red button at the bottom of the Text drawer ("Update Broadcast", YtButton style) must ALSO close the drawer when clicked** — so the drawer closes three ways: tab click (toggle), off-form click-away, and that bottom button. Creator confirmed meaning after I wasted time asking ("what else would you call the red button at the bottom of the form"). Implementation hint: extend `CloseDrawerCommand` usage or have the button's click set `IsDrawerOpen = false` after `UpdateRemoteAsync` completes (creator's wording: "put code behind the event button" = wire the dismiss behavior; keep Update's remote push as-is). Add/extend test in `BroadcastPullOutTests`.
2. Verify unpushed fixes on next launch: logo click opens About (no crash); avatar shows the real profile image (startup.log free of `Avatar load failed`); then PUSH pending creator go-ahead.
3. Continue queue: TASK 20 step 2 (hotkey config UI + persistence), TASK 17 web source, TASK 18 local recording, TASK 21 media source.
4. Loose ends: dead `ShowWebcamCommand`, AudioPipelineTests failure, Velopack update URL.

## Build
```bash
"/mnt/c/Program Files/dotnet/dotnet.exe" build "C:\Users\gramp\Documents\Code\projects\ytLive\ytLive.csproj"
"/mnt/c/Program Files/dotnet/dotnet.exe" vstest "C:\Users\gramp\Documents\Code\projects\ytLive\ytLive.Tests\bin\Debug\net8.0-windows10.0.19041.0\ytLive.Tests.dll"
```

## Polar.sh resources
| Resource | ID |
|---|---|
| Org ID | `c05fb364-b967-4f6c-adf2-8a144e46d085` |
| Product | `d105dfa1-497e-423b-8cd4-e0ee2e3abbc0` |
| Price | `7c1b6f70-cf8c-46df-9bc8-6703f9fa64d0` |
| Benefit | `80f66bc1-d5a3-44a1-b9ea-1709ae508535` |
| Checkout URL | `https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_ueMy8AyAClO0o0yo19IroZwKTbD587gzUsjEW3bFapw` |
| Validate endpoint | `POST https://api.polar.sh/v1/customer-portal/license-keys/validate` |
| Key prefix | `LCYT-` |

## v1 vision
> A streaming tool so intuitive it needs no manual — go live or record in minutes, OBS-free.