LlamaCasty/HANDOFF.md

HANDOFF — 2026-11-02 (scene-local alert ticker)

State

• main; ticker work is local and not pushed.
• Standalone SourceType.Ticker is addable once per scene, has per-source settings, and shows the in-memory current + queued alert feed. It does not persist event history.
• Stream Alerts keeps one box per layout; its ticker shares Ticker settings but shows only the active event. Existing per-Source columns persist the settings without a schema migration.
• Focused build succeeded; the new integration test and all AlertTickerPreviewDisplayTests pass.

Next action

Next queued unit: Day 1 system-message strip; also check the queued Debug-only test-access rule. Keep one integration test per change. Do not push absent a milestone/checkpoint request.

Landmines

• Build/test with Windows dotnet.exe; the full suite can hang in WASAPI teardown.
• Focused ticker tests pass; clean app build is 0 warnings. Full suite reports 13–14 UI/content failures (508/521 or 507/521 pass), matching the prior baseline note; none is a ticker test. Their relationship to this change is unconfirmed, and verify.sh currently only allows two other tests.
• The integration assertion is in ytLive.Tests/AlertTickerPreviewDisplayTests.cs and must use LayoutPathOverride/clear it in finally if it constructs MainWindow.
• Scene tickers are dynamic per-element sources; only the AlertBox ticker uses the pump's global ticker overlay callback.
• Bundled FFmpeg stays outside the single-file exe (ExcludeFromSingleFile="true").