Tester-Request from Jin (2026-05-03): TempTabs should be pinnable so a
key conversation partner survives a relog. Right-click a TempTab and
choose Pin Tab / Unpin Tab / Promote to permanent.
Pool semantics:
- AutoTellTabsLimit (15) still gates the auto-managed unpinned pool.
- Pinned TempTabs live in their own pool, hard-capped at 5.
- The 6th pin attempt fails with a notification; users can unpin first
or promote to permanent.
- Unpinning into a full unpinned pool drops the oldest unpinned (no
user friction).
Mechanics:
- Tab.IsPinned (default false); Tab.Clone() carries it.
- Migration v16 -> v17 (additive; existing tabs default to unpinned).
- Three strip-sites synchronised through TabLifecycleHelpers:
Plugin.cs load-time, Plugin.SaveConfig, Configuration.UpdateFrom.
- AutoTellTabsService:
* MaxPinnedTempTabs constant.
* F2.1 _activeTempTabCount counter retired — ActiveTempTabCount is
now Tabs.Count(predicate). Pin/Unpin/Promote transitions are
cold-path and don't need lock-free reads.
* DropOldestTempTab filters on IsInUnpinnedPool so pinned tabs are
never drop candidates.
* OnLogout strips only the unpinned pool; pinned popouts and the
active-tab switch behave correspondingly.
* TryPin / Unpin / PromoteToPermanent service methods.
- ChatLogWindow tab context menu: Pin / Unpin / Promote with disabled-
state at-cap tooltip + Promote tooltip explaining the channel-filter
side effect.
- HellionStrings (EN+DE) for menu labels, tooltips, the limit warning.
- AutoTellTabsLimit slider description now flags the separate pinned
pool so users aren't surprised by 18 tabs when the limit reads 15.
MessageStore's Migrate0 (and the Migrate1/2/3 siblings) called
Plugin.Log.Information directly, which prevented an isolated xUnit
construction test from running — Dalamud.dll cannot load in the test
AppDomain. With IPluginLogProxy threaded through the ctor and the inner
MessageEnumerator, the whole MessageStore.cs file is now Dalamud-static
free and the Build-Suite covers it (Floor 688 -> 690).
This is the second half of F12.2; the remaining ~82 Plugin.Log call
sites in the rest of the plugin will be routed through the static
Plugin.LogProxy wrapper in a follow-up commit.
F12.2 closes the gap that F12.1 left open: MessageStore's ctor calls
Plugin.Log.Information inside Migrate0, which prevents an isolated xUnit
construction test (Dalamud.dll cannot load in the test AppDomain).
The proxy mirrors IPluginLog's full surface (Verbose/Debug/Information/
Info/Warning/Error/Fatal — both Info and Information as Dalamud exposes
them) with both single-string and Exception+string overloads, so the
~91 existing Plugin.Log.* call-sites become a drop-in rewrite to
Plugin.LogProxy.*.
A later DI-container adoption cycle (v1.5.x) may swap this for
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging's ILogger<T>; this commit is the
intermediate decorator step.
`id + 1.ToString()` resolves as `id.ToString() + "1"`, producing "01"
instead of "1" for the ArrowRight button. The single live caller
(DbViewer page navigation) still produced unique IDs by accident, but
the semantics were wrong. Explicit parentheses fix it.
Crystal Nocturne (royal sapphire + electric magenta on obsidian, by
CRYSTALLITE) replaces Moonlit Bloom in the built-in roster. The same
chat-channel tinting convention applies: sapphire-blue identity on
party/team channels, accent-magenta on tells, and an alternating
mint/yellow/peach palette across the eight linkshell slots so each
LS stays individually distinguishable on the dark obsidian background.
Users who had Moonlit Bloom selected fall back to the default Hellion
Arctic on the first plugin load. A custom JSON copy of Moonlit Bloom
dropped into pluginConfigs/HellionChat/themes/ keeps working as a
user theme.
Plus a cosmetic re-sort of the registry: insertion order now drives a
deliberate Theme-Picker grid layout (3 columns) — blue family in row 1,
purple to magenta in row 2, green/warm/classic in row 3, Synthwave
Sunset alone in row 4 as a retro bonus.
Plugin.cs:171-172 hardcoded the version into the schema-gate
InvalidOperationException string. The follow-up rename in v1.4.7 will
move this to Plugin.Interface.Manifest.AssemblyVersion so this commit
stops happening every cycle, but for v1.4.6 the bare version bump is
the smallest change.
Also picks up a one-line csharpier reflow on UrlValidation.cs
collapsed by the format pass.
csproj <Version>, yaml changelog block (v1.4.6 added on top, v1.4.2
rotated out per the slim-4-versions rule), repo.json AssemblyVersion
+ TestingAssemblyVersion + the three DownloadLink URLs + Changelog
string, all in sync.
Inspired by ChatTwo upstream f35b7d3 (Infiziert90, 2026-05-12).
Upstream dropped the width parameter entirely because nothing called
it. We keep the parameter — two ChatLogWindow header buttons (Cog,
EyeSlash) size themselves to match the preceding ChannelIcon button.
The actual bug is local: the previous size = width - 2 * CellPadding.X
mixed a raw int (HUD-scale unaware) with CellPadding.X (HUD-scaled),
so the button shrank under elevated HUD scale. ImGui.Button handles
its own frame padding internally, so the measured width passes
through unchanged.
Cherry-pick from ChatTwo upstream f35b7d3 (Infiziert90, 2026-05-12).
Chat.SetChannel allocates a native Utf8String for the target name and
then runs a validity check. The previous early return on an invalid
linkshell skipped Dtor and leaked the native allocation; every invalid
linkshell switch added one Utf8String to the unmanaged heap.
- Renamed ValidAnyLinkshell to IsChannelOrExistingLinkshell so the
call-site reads naturally.
- Wrapped ChangeChatChannel in the validity check instead of
early-returning. Dtor now runs on every path.
- ChatLogWindow follows the rename at its single call-site.
Cherry-pick from ChatTwo upstream f35b7d3 (Infiziert90, 2026-05-12).
Tab.Clone() used to assign CurrentChannel = CurrentChannel and run
TellTarget.From(TellTarget). The first was a plain reference copy of
the UsedChannel — the clone and the source shared the same channel
state, so a channel switch or TellTarget update on a PopOut/Temp tab
also mutated its origin tab. The second was a static factory call
that read like a constructor where every other place uses Clone().
- TellTarget: static From(t) replaced by instance Clone(); only
call-site swapped to TellTarget.Clone().
- UsedChannel: new Clone() that copies the scalar fields and runs
Clone() on the two TellTarget references (null-safe).
- Tab.Clone(): CurrentChannel goes through UsedChannel.Clone().
Ten Util.OpenLink call-sites across five files now go through the
IPlatformUtil indirection: WrapperUtil.TryOpenUri, the Settings Ko-Fi
buttons (x2), the Information tab (issues link plus media/upstream
links, x3), the Integrations tab (Honorific repo/author plus forge
discord, x3), and the ThemeAndLayout 'open themes folder' button.
A future addition to this pattern only needs to plug into IPlatformUtil
instead of touching Dalamud.Utility.Util directly.
MessageStore.Connect used to call Util.IsWine() directly via a
DalamudUtil alias, which made the ctor unreachable from the xUnit
test AppDomain: any test that allocated a MessageStore tripped a
FileNotFoundException on Dalamud.dll before reaching the assertion.
The ctor now takes an IPlatformUtil and reads the cached IsWine
property. MessageManager passes Plugin.PlatformUtil in. Production
behaviour is identical; the test path can now substitute a fake
and exercise the SQLite migration logic in isolation.
Introduces a thin interface around Util.IsWine and Util.OpenLink so
services can be constructed in an isolated xUnit AppDomain without
forcing Dalamud.dll onto the assembly search path. Production wiring
(DalamudPlatformUtil) caches IsWine at ctor time — it's a runtime
probe that never changes for the lifetime of a plugin instance,
mirroring the Lightless DalamudUtilService pattern.
Plugin.PlatformUtil is wired in the Phase-1 ctor so any service that
LoadAsync allocates can resolve the platform indirection without
plumbing the instance through additional constructor params.
Follow-up commits route MessageStore and the OpenLink call-sites
through this interface.
The pre-serialization snapshot used to clone the entire Config.Tabs
list, then Clear/AddRange the snapshot back. With a typical config of
~30 user-defined tabs plus up to 15 session-only temp tabs, that's a
45-item clone on every save. The persistent tabs never leave the list
during this routine, so cloning only the temp subset is functionally
identical and keeps the allocation proportional to AutoTellTabsLimit.
The 2px underline pill was hardcoded — at 125/150% DPI the surrounding
tab layout scaled with ImGuiHelpers.GlobalScale but the pill stayed
2px, so the line landed on sub-pixel boundaries and rendered as a
fuzzy band. Now: height scales with GlobalScale (clamped to >=1px),
and the DrawList coordinates round to physical pixels via MathF.Round
so the rect aligns with the framebuffer grid.
DrawCard used to call ImGui.GetWindowDrawList once per card, so a frame
with 10 settings cards took 10 draw-list lookups. The list is the same
for every card in the same frame, so Draw() now resolves it once and
passes the pointer down. Pattern parity with ChatLogWindow's frame-local
draw-list handling.
HellionStyle.PushGlobal had two lines that resolved the child-bg alpha
based on window opacity. Moves the 0.999f threshold and the alpha-mask
into HellionStyleHelpers.ResolveChildBgAlpha so the logic is reachable
from the build suite without touching the ImGui surface.
BrandingLinks (5 Hellion-owned URLs) and IntegrationLinks (2 third-party
plugin URLs) now run through UrlValidation.ValidateAll from a
[ModuleInitializer] hook. A malformed URL throws InvalidOperationException
at plugin load with the source class and the broken URL in the message,
instead of silently failing when a user clicks the button.
CA2255 is suppressed at the attribute sites — the warning is for library
code shipped to unknown consumers, but the plugin DLL is loaded directly
by Dalamud, which makes module-init the right one-shot hook.
The atlas-toolkit pipeline can throw InvalidOperationException or
ArgumentException when a configured font is structurally broken (e.g.
unreadable header, unsupported glyph table). Previously only IO-shaped
throws routed to the NotoSansCjkRegular fallback, so a corrupt font
config would take down the entire atlas build instead of degrading
gracefully. The warning log now carries the exception type name so the
diagnostic path can tell which class of throw triggered the fallback.
Pattern-adherence pass after the cycle's code commits:
- ChatLogWindow.cs: NotifiedDrawFailure renamed from
_notifiedDrawFailure. The file's per-window state flags (DrewThisFrame,
WasDocked, Activate, PlayedClosingSound, …) all use PascalCase
without underscore prefix; the new flag now matches that
- Plugin.cs: trim the session-only RemoveAll comment from 5 lines to 2
and add the standard TEST-MIRROR pointer line. Same shape as
AutoTellTabsService.cs:28 and the other six TEST-MIRROR sites
- InputHistoryService.cs: add the TEST-MIRROR pointer for the new
Build-Suite tests
Manifest sync across csproj, yaml, repo.json, README, CHANGELOG,
ROADMAP and the Plugin.cs schema-gate error message. ROADMAP also gets
the v1.4.4 release block that was missed in that cycle's closure.
Forge-post v1.4.5.md follows the established frontmatter + DE-body
convention; the EN block is sourced from the yaml changelog by the
forge-announce workflow.
Below roughly 340 px content width the version slot starts overlapping
the four slots to its left because the right-aligned SameLine still
plants the text where its baseline would have been. New 200 px width
threshold drops the version line entirely below that, so the other
slots stay readable. The version is back as soon as the window grows.
Expands the one-liner above Plugin.cs:167-168 to spell out *why* the
RemoveAll runs before AutoTellTabsService.Initialize: tells are
typically privacy-filtered, so resurrecting a tab from a crashed
session would trigger DB reconstruction on the next load. Also links
to the TEST-MIRROR pin in the Build-Suite for future readers.
GetHellionFontBytes used to throw a FileNotFoundException when the
embedded Hellion font resource was missing — only possible on a broken
csproj or a hand-rolled dev build, never on a signed release, but the
throw bubbled up and broke the entire UiBuilder font atlas.
Replaced with a nullable TryGetHellionFontBytes that logs a warning
and returns null on miss. The RegularFont delegate now falls back to
the same system-font path that UseHellionFont=false already uses, so
the plugin still loads and the issue surfaces in /xllog instead of as
a crash.
Static InputHistoryService entries used to survive a plugin reload
because static field state doesn't get cleaned up on its own. The new
Reset() method clears the list and is wired into Plugin.DisposeAsync
alongside the existing pure-memory cleanups, so the next plugin load
starts with an empty history instead of inheriting the previous
session's typed commands.
Splits accept from close: OnClose no longer silently sets
FirstRunCompleted, so the X-button leaves the wizard pending and it
reopens on the next plugin load. A new footer 'Later — keep defaults'
button is the explicit path to dismiss the wizard without picking a
profile; defaults stay active and the choice persists.
Strings are bilingual (EN + DE) with a tooltip explaining the
behaviour. Card height now reserves room for the footer separator.
Surfaces a per-session warning notification when DrawChatLog throws so
the user knows something went wrong instead of staring at an empty
window. Stack trace stays in /xllog as before. The one-shot guard
prevents the notification stack from flooding frame-by-frame; it
resets only on the next plugin reload.
- IsAllowedForStorage warning now only fires for ChatTypes the build
doesn't recognise (Enum.IsDefined), not for opted-out known ones
- Drop stale tests-location comment in HonorificService
Pre-push grep-verification found four stale v1.4.3 mentions outside the
Slim-Rule history files:
- Plugin.cs schema-gate error message referenced v1.4.3 by name in both
the comment and the user-facing exception text. Schema stays at v16,
but the message now points at the current release
- README.md latest-release badge bumped to v1.4.4
- README.md version header bumped to v1.4.4
- README.md Project Status block rewritten for v1.4.4 with the threading
and IPC safety items as the lead
ROADMAP.md historical references to v1.4.3 are intentional (released-tag,
foundation-reference) and stay.
F3.2: a future FFXIV patch can introduce ChatTypes that aren't on any
existing whitelist, and the filter currently routes them silently
through the unknown-channel failsafe. Add a dedup HashSet (per runtime,
NonSerialized) so the first hit per ChatType logs a Warning. The
failsafe behaviour itself is unchanged — only visibility is new.
F3.1: future FFXIV patches can add new ChatTypes that aren't on any
existing whitelist. With the field defaulted to false a new install
would silently drop those channels until the user opts in. New configs
now start with PrivacyPersistUnknownChannels=true via a constant in
PrivacyDefaults. Existing configs keep their explicit choice — the
deserializer overrides the initializer, so no migration and no schema
bump.
F9.2: PreloadCache spawned a new Thread without IsBackground, which kept
the plugin unload blocked until the warmup finished (typically
100-300 ms). Setting IsBackground=true plus a named thread matches the
pattern already used in MessageManager (F6.1) and Plugin.RetentionSweep
(F9.3) since v1.4.0.
F4.1: replace the block threading comment with per-method banners that
read like documentation at the call site. F4.2: TryUnsubscribe now logs
Warning instead of Debug — a silent unsubscribe failure leaks a live
subscription across plugin reloads. F4.3: CurrentTitle gets a one-line
banner matching the same convention.
F2.1: ActiveTempTabCount was doing a LINQ Count under _tempTabsLock on
every read, including the hot-path HandleTell guard. Replace with an
Interlocked counter kept in sync with Config.Tabs from inside the
existing mutation paths (SpawnTempTab, DropOldestTempTab, OnLogout).
Initialize from the persisted Tabs list on Initialize() to handle
configs that already contain TempTabs from a prior session.
Plugin.cs SaveConfig snapshot-restore mutates Config.Tabs outside of
AutoTellTabsService; expose ResyncTempTabCounter() and call it after
AddRange so the counter stays consistent. Plugin.cs:168 crash-recovery
RemoveAll runs before Initialize() and is covered by the init snapshot.
- SettingsOverview: replace dynamic key lookup via ResourceManager with
direct HellionStrings property access; switch static readonly array to
BuildCardDefs() method to ensure correct initialization order
- ThemeAndLayout: replace all ResourceManager.GetString calls with direct
HellionStrings/Language property access throughout DrawThemeSection()
and DrawChatColorsApplyBanner()
Also rework DE/EN string copy for a more natural, less formal tone in the German localization, and to better match the English source text. This includes
- Translated project documentation (LEARNING-JOURNEY, CONTRIBUTORS, AI_DISCLOSURE) to English for better accessibility.
- Standardized internal code documentation by converting XML-doc blocks to standard comment format.
- Cleaned up inline comments and removed redundant versioning metadata across the codebase.
- Refactored non-functional text elements to improve readability and maintain a consistent style.
Updated .editorconfig to set indent_style=space and indent_size=4 for C# files. Reformat all .cs files to apply the new indentation settings. No code logic changes, just whitespace reformatting.
also updated some comments in files in shorter and Precise way. No logic changes, just comment rewording for clarity and conciseness.
Add .prettierrc.json, .markdownlint.json, .yamllint.yaml, .gitattributes
Run CSharpier, Prettier and markdownlint across the entire codebase.
No logic changes — formatting, using order and line endings only.
Migrations: all current users are on schema v16, the v9 to v16 migration
chain ran in v1.2.1 and earlier. Replace the seven in-LoadAsync migration
blocks with a hard schema-gate in the Phase-1 ctor; older configs trigger
a clear "install v1.4.2 first" error. Code-hygiene change, fast-path
saving is negligible. Remove the now-unused TryReadPreV13ThemeOpacity
helper that only served the v13 to v14 block.
AutoTranslate.PreloadCache: was sync ~300 ms in LoadAsync. Move to
Task.Run so plugin-load returns ~300 ms earlier. Trade-off: first
auto-translate use of a session may have a sub-second hitch if the
cache hasn't finished warming. Acceptable, it is first-use cost
instead of every-load cost.
The previous fire-and-forget Task.Run pattern could leave Plugin.FontManager
null when the first UiBuilder.Draw tick fires (ChatLogWindow dereferences
FontManager.FontAwesome / RegularFont / ItalicFont in its draw paths).
Allocate FontManager and call BuildFonts() synchronously, mirroring
ChatTwo Plugin.cs:152. BuildFonts itself is non-blocking — it just
registers IFontHandles with Dalamud's atlas; the actual atlas rebuild
runs on Dalamud's pipeline a few frames later, so the perceived-load
win still holds (LoadAsync no longer waits for atlas build).
BuildFontsAsync in FontManager.cs stays for the Settings-driven manual
rebuild path.
Phase-1 was still doing 7 schema migrations and 25+ service allocations
synchronously, blocking the ctor return. Move all of that to LoadAsync,
keeping only bootstrap-essentials in the ctor: conflict detection,
config load, language init, ImGui init, WindowSystem skeleton.
Decouple the font task from the LoadAsync await — font-build runs
fire-and-forget, so first frames render with Dalamud's default font
until the Hellion-Exo2/NotoSans atlas rebuild completes (visible
"font-pop"). Mirrors ChatTwo's pattern; the perceived-load win comes
from "Finished loading" landing earlier, not from a faster atlas build.
JonKazama-Hellion
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