Two looks were somebody else's language spoken well, and neither was the
product's. A dashboard nobody has dressed yet should look like the rest
of the app, so there is now a third set that follows the root
DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md to the letter — `--card` surfaces told from the page
by a hairline and a low shadow rather than by colour, every control a
pill, 16px panels, frosted floating chrome, one slate-blue accent spent
on what a person can act on — and it is what `look` means when nothing
says otherwise.
That also turns the exemption the other way round. The dashboard is still
allowed to look unlike the product; it just no longer does so by default.
An existing dashboard, which has never named a look, lands on the design
it had before any of this.
Restraint is the style rather than an omission here: no ripple, no glow,
no lift, and a press answered by the colour changing. The one deliberate
departure is the selector, which holds its choice in `--primary` rather
than the `--accent` the segmented rule asks for — that is a decision
about the widget, not about the look, and a control must not change what
it signals when the drawing changes. All three sets hold it the same way.
A dashboard is a wall panel somebody hangs in their own hallway, so it
now wears what they choose: a look, and a palette of their own colours.
Two complete component sets live under `Dashboard/ui/` — `glass`
(translucent panes over a slowly moving ground) and `material` (Material
3 tonal cards) — behind one prop contract. Every control's state,
keyboard and `aria-` live in `ui/core` and are shared, so the two sets
are the same dashboard drawn twice rather than two products: a set only
decides what a control looks like while doing it.
Four settings join the channel, each drivable by a flow like any other:
`look`, `palette`, `background` and `touch`. A palette is an ordered list
of hex colours — background, surface, primary, accent, text, then more
chart colours — pasted from a coolors.co link or typed, written onto the
canvas as the token variables everything already reads. Trailing roles
are derived, so three colours are a whole dashboard, and derived text is
held to AA rather than trusted (`theme.check.ts` measures it). A palette
also decides light or dark, since its first colour is the ground.
Widgets are measured against their own tile with container queries rather
than against the viewport, animate through `motion`, and can be drawn
without their title. The three reworks:
- a bar draws a row per reading, up to eight, each in the dashboard's own
data colours and each able to carry its own scale — replacing readings
nested in one fill, which could only ever share one colour and stop at
three. Documents written the old way are read as rows.
- a chart's range picker moved to a column down its right-hand edge, which
gives the plot back a whole row of a short tile.
- the colour wheel became a disc: hue is the angle and saturation the
distance from the middle, so a colour is one gesture rather than three,
with brightness on a slider beside it.
`index.css` and `lib/motion.ts` are untouched — the dashboard overrides
token *values* on its canvas, never the blocks the two repos share.
A chart that named no palette took the ramp in order, so three lines drew
slots 1, 2 and 3 — adjacent steps of a ramp that carries identity by lightness
alone, which at a 2px stroke read as close to one picture. Each count now
takes the slots furthest apart that the ramp allows: 1 -> 1, 2 -> 1/5,
3 -> 1/3/5, 4 -> 1/2/4/5. Five lines are unchanged.
Moving a default is only safe because the mechanism around it is inert: a
palette a dashboard wrote down is still drawn exactly as written, so no stored
document means anything different than it did. `palette.check.ts` now pins the
spread table and says which of the two properties is permanent.
An unnamed palette is empty rather than the whole ramp, so the settings panel
shows nothing picked when a dashboard is on automatic — and deselecting the
last colour is now the way back to it.
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A dashboard names the data colours its charts draw with: an ordered, distinct
subset of the `--chart-1…5` ramp, stored on the settings channel that already
carries `theme` and `locked`. No backend or client change — `SettingDef.value`
is free-form and a name this build does not wire up is left alone rather than
refused.
Naming none is the whole ramp, which resolves to the identical token per
series as the `--chart-${(index % 5) + 1}` charts drew with before, so every
existing dashboard is unaffected. `palette.check.ts` asserts that equivalence
rather than trusting it.
Distinct slots, not free assignment with repeats: only slot 1 against slot 5
clears 3:1 within the ramp, so two traces on one slot could not be told apart.
Status colour is deliberately outside the palette — a fault is `--destructive`
because of what it means, not because of where it sits.
The provider is mounted by the editor as well as the view, so picking a
palette repaints the charts beside the panel instead of describing them.
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A dashboard canvas is CSS-scaled to fit its panel while uPlot maps the
pointer against its own unscaled plot width, so the cursor drifted further
right the further into a chart it went. A `cursor.move` refiner divides the
visual offset back into layout pixels; unscaled hosts get a no-op.
A querying chart's range picker moves onto the frame's title line through a
new `useHeaderSlot`, giving the plot back the row it spent. The editor's drag
handle is the header, so the picker is exempted from it.
Charts can be drawn as a monotone cubic spline — uPlot's own path builder,
monotone so a smoothed line never invents a reading between two real ones.
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A dashboard could only ever receive as a set of tiles. This adds the dashboard
itself as a receiver: `settings` maps a name to a value plus an optional
binding. Unbound, the setting is simply its value — a wall panel that is always
dark costs no flow. Bound, a flow drives it live and the value is the fallback.
Two settings are wired: `theme` (system/light/dark) and `locked` (read-only).
There is no schedule field on purpose — a node publishing to the bound message
on a cron is what a schedule is here, which is the point of a channel.
- `messages_for()` now walks a dashboard's bound settings as well as its
widgets' bindings. Without this a paired screen is refused its own theme
message, on the one surface the setting exists for; it bounds the socket too.
- `locked` is gated in `usePublish`, so every control inherits it, and each
control also draws itself disabled — a dead button reads as broken otherwise.
The panel surface says Read-only in the corner.
- The theme is a class on the dashboard's own surface, never the root: inside
the app shell it must not flip the chrome. `.light` gains the tokens `.dark`
already had (mirrored in the index repo) so both directions work on a subtree.
- Settings bindings are type-checked from the document alone, the rule widget
bindings follow, and mirrored on the server.
- A bound setting is drawn on the flow canvas as a dashboard-level endpoint.
- The demo's house flow now publishes `home.panel_theme`, which the demo
dashboard's theme binds to: the panel goes dark after sunset, at no tile cost.
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A custom hue ring — a conic gradient, not a canvas — with saturation and
brightness sliders beside or under it depending on the tile's shape, sized
for a wall panel and reachable from a keyboard. It publishes [h, s, v] by
default, which is what the reference installation's DMX encoders read, and
`format` switches that to [r, g, b] or "#rrggbb".
`usePublish` moves to its own module so a widget in a file of its own can
reach it without importing `widgets.tsx` back.
- IconPicker replaces the three icon selects (rail icon, icon-widget rule,
"Otherwise"): the glyphs in a grid, and a button that clears back to none —
which a Radix SelectItem could never offer.
- ModePicker/StylePicker drop out in favour of a shared ui/Segmented, the same
sliding-thumb shape RangePicker and the widget-side control already wear.
- PanelRail draws no scrollbars at all: hiding them also takes back the gutter
a vertical bar claimed from a column exactly as wide as its buttons, which is
what pushed a horizontal bar under them.
- The panels dialog can re-pair one screen (POST /panels/{id}/unpair) without
deleting the panel it hangs on.
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Shrinking a dashboard's canvas silently clipped whatever now fell past the
bottom edge: `maxRows` constrains a drag and nothing else, so a stored placement
is corrected against the column count alone. Nothing warned, and nothing offered
a way out.
The remedy is a notice rather than a reflow, because the canvas height is
written on every keystroke — typing 400 passes through 4 and 40, and anything
that moved widgets would flatten the arrangement while the number was still
being typed. The notice carries the reflow as its one button, and packing is
sideways because the grid already compacts vertically: nothing below the canvas
has room above it.
Dropping a widget also selected it, which opened its panel, which rescaled the
canvas under the pointer. The drag handle was simply missing from the selector
that already exempts the resize handle — which is why resizing never had this
problem.
Also: an icon rule's caption could only be set through the API, and the panel
rail drew two letters where a dashboard can now carry a lucide icon.
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A bar drew its nested reading on top of the outer one in --chart-5, which
measures 2.53:1 against --primary and lost the 3:1 guideline for non-text. The
readings now partition the fill end to end, up to three of them, in a token of
their own: --primary-nested, the primary hue a few steps deeper, 3.14:1 light
and 3.12:1 dark. It cannot also clear 3:1 against --muted — in dark those two
are 5.82:1 apart and a colour 3:1 from both would need a 9:1 gap — so a segment
is drawn inside a gutter of outer fill rather than ever bordering the track,
which is what separates neighbours too, and what caps the count at three. A
nested value larger than its outer used to spill onto the track; it is clamped.
`inner` still reads as a single binding, so no dashboard needs migrating.
On a phone, .widget-grid took its width from the widest thing any widget held —
a truncating flex item still offers its whole unwrapped line as a min-content
contribution — and a handful of widgets had no floor of their own: the uPlot
legend is a table, a fieldset carries min-inline-size: min-content from the UA
sheet, and buttons are whitespace-nowrap. Each is capped now. A widget's body
scrolls rather than clipping, so long text stops painting over the title.
Gauges and bars move between readings instead of jumping, and a segmented
control slides one thumb rather than recolouring cells. The gauge arc is drawn
whole and revealed by its dash, because `d` cannot be transitioned.
UplotChart pushed new readings only when the point count changed, so once a
rolling window was full a refetch left the old values on screen.
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The four widget types added this round had renderers but no way to configure
them. The panel now offers a bar's nested reading, unit and range (no step —
that is a slider's), the forecast's item count on the agenda's field, a chart's
y axis title beside its y range, and the icon's mapping editor: a value, a
glyph and a colour per row, first match wins, with a fallback glyph below.
Adds tests/widgets.spec.ts, which asserts each of them on /view: the nested bar
inside its outer fill, the glyph following the message, five forecast columns
fading outwards, a clock that reads the wall without being flagged unbound,
a segmented control and a latching button reading back what they published,
and an unbound tile that says so instead of taking the page down. The axis
title is drawn into uPlot's canvas, so it is checked by panel round-trip.
mobile.spec.ts grows a bar and a forecast so the width check covers them.
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Plumbing only: the widget-type literal and its dtype table on both sides,
the regenerated client, a curated lucide map and four stubs the renderers
are wired to. Also a latching switch and a segmented dropdown, both a
`style` on the control that already publishes and reads back, plus the
option editor a dropdown never had.
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A chart is drawn in buckets, and nothing it can show changes until the
bucket it is drawing closes — so the resolution sets the refresh rather
than a flat five-second floor. A week at quarter-hour buckets now asks
four times an hour instead of sixty, for the same picture. Leaving the
field empty follows the window; a slower rate is still honoured.
`make seed-example` builds the thing to evaluate it with: a flow that
logs a temperature to InfluxDB, a flow that answers a chart's request by
turning the window into Flux and the rows back into a series, and a
dashboard holding the chart. The reading flow declares the request as an
input with a starting value, which is how a flow says a value reaches it
from a panel rather than from a node upstream.
Axis labels keep enough decimals to stay distinct — `si` rounds to three
figures, so every tick of a chart living inside one degree read "19".
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A chart can now ask for what it draws instead of reading the ring the
engine keeps. It publishes a request — the window and the resolution —
exactly as a slider publishes a value, and draws the series a flow
answers with. What serves the request is the flow's business, so the
widget never learns which database was behind it.
The answer says what it was computed for and one computed for another
window is ignored, so two charts on one node cost a duplicate query
rather than overwriting each other's picture. Identical requests still
in flight are asked once per tab, and the refresh has a floor under it.
The panel gains the presentation the document could already hold: the
per-series label, a unit, and a y axis that can be pinned.
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A dashboard now carries the canvas it is drawn for (canvas_width /
canvas_height, presets plus two numbers in the settings panel). Editor and
wall panel render that surface at its true pixel size and scale it to fit,
so a side panel opening changes only the scale — never the arrangement
being made. With the width and column count known the dot pitch is exact,
(width + gap) / columns by row height + gap, so a dot sits where every
widget corner snaps. The wall panel shows no dots.
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One shell for both editors. Flows and dashboards each get a searchable
overview under the padded shell, their editors move to the full-bleed
canvas, and the floating chrome is shared: a title bar that only says
what you are looking at, and a bottom dock carrying everything else —
the flow bar's status, settings and Publish moved down there, the
add-flow button moved to the overview.
Dashboards gain the rest of M4's visualization work:
- widgets are picked by clicking them, with the header as the drag
handle so a slider still slides and a switch still flips while
editing; settings moved into the flows' SidePanel
- react-grid-layout for drag and edge-resize, so the stored x/y finally
mean something; a dashboard nobody arranged is shelf-packed once
- a per-dashboard grid size, so a panel can be matched to its screen
- the chart widget, drawn with uPlot: several messages on one axis, fed
from the stored history plus the live socket tail, coloured from the
new --chart-1..5 ramp
- /view/{name}: the URL a wall panel is pointed at — no sidebar, no
footer, no editing, and no editor code, since routes are split
- a widget wired to a payload type it cannot carry, or wired to nothing
at all, carries the same red dot a failing node does; the picker
records the type it bound and WidgetDef refuses a mismatch on save
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