zed/crates/gpui
Mikayla Maki 6f40da77b6
Fix scrolling in collab panel (#4105)
When the `List` element's state is `ListState::reset()`, it eagerly
trashes it's cached element heights in anticipation of a prompt render.
But, due to the recent `display_layer` changes, that re-render is not
always forthcoming. This is a problem for `ListState::scroll()`, which
depends on these cached elements to correctly calculate the new logical
scroll offset.

Solutions we attempted:

- Cache the element heights and continue the scroll calculation 
- This was conceptually incorrect, reset should only be called when the
underlying data has been changed, making any calculation with the old
results meaningless.
- Lazily re-compute the element heights in scroll 
- Beyond being a non-trivial refactor, this would probably also cause us
to double-render the list in a single frame, which is bad.
- Cache the scroll offset and only calculate it in paint 
- This solution felt awkward to implement and meant we can't supply
synchronous list scroll events.
- Delay resetting until paint 
- This means that all of the other APIs that `ListState` supplies would
give temporarily incorrect results, worsening the problem

Given these issues, we settled on the solution with the least
compromises: drop scroll events if the state has been `reset()` between
`paint()` and `scroll()`. This shifts the responsibility for the problem
out of the List element and into consumers of `List`, if you want
perfectly smooth scrolling then you need to use `reset()` judiciously
and prefer `splice()`.

That said, I tested this by aggressively scrolling the Collab panel, and
it seems to work as well as it did before.

This PR also includes some initial testing infrastructure for working
with input from the platform and rendered elements.

Release Notes:

- N/A
2024-01-17 14:11:34 -08:00
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docs Remove some todo!'s 2024-01-09 11:36:36 +02:00
src Fix scrolling in collab panel (#4105) 2024-01-17 14:11:34 -08:00
tests Remove some todo!'s 2024-01-09 11:36:36 +02:00
build.rs Rebuild shader header when cbindgen sources have changed 2024-01-15 16:23:22 +01:00
Cargo.toml Revert "Use taffy to retrieve the parent for a given layout node" 2024-01-16 10:44:24 -05:00