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Fixes #2891.

The right rail laid the navigation cluster out bottom-up in the same fixed-height panel as the panel buttons, so once the window was shorter than both groups (about 770 pt on main, which is a 1080 px screen at 150 % interface size) the cluster simply grew up over Tags and Signatures. Thanks to @musaad-sharikh for the measured thresholds, they made this quick to pin down. Now, when the heights measured on the previous frame don't fit, the rail's content goes into a vertical scroll area: the cluster sits right below the panel buttons and the rail scrolls as one column, so every control stays visible and clickable. On the frame where the rail first appears, before anything is measured, a layout that overflows is discarded and redone, so that frame never shows the overlap either. A rail that fits keeps exactly the layout it has today, so normal windows and the canvas beside the rail don't move by a pixel. Since it works from measured heights, it doesn't depend on how many buttons either group has, and also covers the extra layout and scrolling toggles in #2828.

I went with scrolling rather than folding the cluster into an overflow menu because it needs no new strings or duplicated actions and keeps the bottom-up order people know; happy to switch to an overflow ("more") button if you'd rather match Acrobat's collapsing behaviour.

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  • a_short_rail_scrolls_instead_of_overlapping_its_controls (tests/ui.rs, 1920×1080 at 150 % and 200 % interface size, no two rail controls may overlap): fails on main (150%: "Signatures" … overlaps "" …, the page box), passes here
  • cargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --test ui rail, --test editing, --test view, --test viewer
  • cargo clippy -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • Looked at examples/shot.rs renders at 900, 770, 720, 640 and 540 pt: unchanged at 900, no overlap below
  • a_short_rail_does_not_overlap_on_its_first_frame (tests/ui.rs, 1920×1080 at 200 %, checks the first frame the rail is shown on): fails without the discard, passes here
  • (macOS, Apple silicon)

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  • Bug Fixes
    • The navigation rail now scrolls when its controls do not fit, placing page navigation below the panel controls. This keeps rail controls accessible in shorter windows and at larger UI scales.
    • The rail now selects the appropriate scrolling behavior from its first displayed frame.
  • Tests
    • Added checks that rail controls remain visible and do not overlap at 150% and 200% UI scale.

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Rail clicks, page entry, and resizing with a focused page field work in headless checks at 100-200% scale. Both upstream rail tests pass. One small startup edge remains: at 1920x1080 and 200%, the first returned rail frame places Tags at y=361..395 and Fit at y=363..395; the next frame separates them. Could the initial height measurement request a discard, with a test that checks that frame?

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Approving at ca2def3.

Review of the diff: when the heights measured on the previous frame do not fit, the rail's content goes into a vertical ScrollArea with the navigation cluster directly under the panel buttons. A rail that fits keeps the old bottom-up layout. The comparison is strict and works from measured heights, so I see no way for it to flip between the two layouts on a steady frame. No new unwrap, expect or indexing. The rest of the large diff is the existing rail code re-indented into the closures, with no logic changes that I could find.

Validated on a Linux validation host, in a detached worktree of this head (head and source hashes unchanged before and after):

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: pass
  • cargo test --locked -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --test ui: 51 passed, 0 failed
  • a_short_rail_scrolls_instead_of_overlapping_its_controls on its own: 1 passed
  • cargo test --locked -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --test viewer: 53 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo clippy --locked -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings: pass
  • cargo xtask layers: pass

Red check: with crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs restored to the merge base and the new test kept, the test fails at ui.rs:224 ("150%: "Signatures" ... overlaps "" ..."), not at compilation.

Not blocking, and already raised by another reviewer: on the very first frame at a size that needs scrolling, the heights are not measured yet, so the first frame can still overlap and the next one separates them. My test settles for 6 steps, so it does not cover that frame.

Not verified: native rendering on any platform, other window sizes than the two in the test, and the wasm32 build of this crate (not run by me; the hosted CI results on this head showed it green).

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The right rail measures its panel buttons and navigation controls. It switches to a scrollable layout when their combined height exceeds the available space. Regression tests check control presence and overlap at higher interface scales, including on the first frame.

Changes: Right rail overflow handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Measure rail content and handle overflow
crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs
right_rail compares the panel-button and navigation heights with the available space. It uses scrolling when the controls do not fit and requests a discarded pass when the first measurement finds overflow.
Check scaled-window control layout
crates/ui-egui/tests/ui.rs
Tests check that required controls are present and do not overlap at 150% and 200% interface scales, including on the first rendered frame.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • storytold/pdfcraft#3040: Both PRs address right-rail control overlap in short windows. This PR measures group heights and scrolls on overflow; PR #3040 uses a single scroll area and reflows the navigation cluster.

Suggested reviewers: sanyamsingh001, chiranjeevi-max, srt8hellcat2-ui

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Short rails should scroll, but controls can briefly overlap when the rail gains content near the height limit. This is a bounded visual risk to address or explicitly accept before merging.

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@ahmadmuj good catch, and thanks for pinning it down to the exact frame. Pushed 0e7cd29 for it.

On the frame where the rail first appears there are no measured heights yet, so the groups are laid out as if they fit. Now, if the groups measured on that pass don't fit, the rail calls request_discard and egui redoes the pass with the heights (crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs:781-785). It only does that when nothing is measured yet and the groups overflow, so a rail that fits never costs an extra pass, and later frames never discard.

New test: a_short_rail_does_not_overlap_on_its_first_frame (tests/ui.rs:216). It settles the app at 1920×1080 and 200 % with no document, opens the fixture, runs a single step() and checks the frame that comes back. Without the discard it fails on that frame (200%: "Page thumbnails" … overlaps "" …). The overlap check is now a helper shared with the existing test.

One limitation: this depends on egui's max_passes being at least 2. That's the default and the app doesn't change it, but with max_passes = 1 the first frame would overlap again, as before.

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if overflows { egui::ScrollArea::vertical().id_salt("rail").auto_shrink([false, false]).show(ui, body).inner } else { body(ui) };
// Unmeasured, this pass laid the groups out as if they fit: when they don't, it is
// redone with the heights rather than shown overlapping for a frame.
if measured.is_none() && heights.0 + 4.0 + heights.1 > height {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Redo the pass whenever the plain layout overflowed, not only when nothing was measured.

The discard runs only when measured.is_none(). The same problem occurs when stored heights exist but are out of date, and the rail content gets taller:

  • Switching from a document without an Accessibility report to one with a report adds the Accessibility Checker button (about 38 pt).
  • The extra toggles from #2828 can do the same.

Near the height limit, this pass uses the old heights. It computes overflows == false and runs body without the ScrollArea. The bottom-up navigation cluster then draws over the panel buttons for one frame. This is the overlap from #2891.

To fix it, test the new measurement whenever this pass used the plain layout. When measured is None, overflows is already false, so the change also covers the first-frame case. The change cannot cause repeated discards. The redone pass computes overflows == true from the new heights, and the condition is then false.

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--- "a/crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs"
+++ "b/crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs"
@@ -778,11 +778,12 @@
             };
             let heights =
                 if overflows { egui::ScrollArea::vertical().id_salt("rail").auto_shrink([false, false]).show(ui, body).inner } else { body(ui) };
-            // Unmeasured, this pass laid the groups out as if they fit: when they don't, it is
-            // redone with the heights rather than shown overlapping for a frame.
-            if measured.is_none() && heights.0 + 4.0 + heights.1 > height {
+            // This pass laid the groups out as if they fit (unmeasured, or the content grew since
+            // the last frame). When they do not fit, redo the pass with the new heights so that
+            // no frame shows the groups overlapping.
+            if !overflows && heights.0 + 4.0 + heights.1 > height {
                 ui.ctx().request_discard("right rail measured its groups");
             }
             ui.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(heights_id, heights));
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Checked 0e7cd29: the first visible rail frame stays separated at 100%, 150%, and 200%, with short/tall windows and Accessibility on/off. Fitting and settled frames use one pass; scrolling, page entry, and resize checks pass. Removing request_discard makes your new regression fail with overlap; restoring it passes. This verifies my original startup finding. Native window rendering remains untested.

…torytold#2891)

The rail has not measured its panel buttons and navigation on the frame it
first appears, so that frame laid them out as if they fit and drew them over
each other at a large interface size. When the unmeasured groups do not fit,
the pass is discarded and redone with the heights.
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Right rail: page navigation cluster overlaps the panel buttons when the window is short in points (worse at higher Interface size, e.g. 150 %)

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