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[scroll] use the exact visible size on macOS, instead of the clip view's size rounded to whole pixels - #112

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Summary

  • On macOS, AppKit rounds the clip view's size to whole pixels: a 99.2 pt scroll view gets a 99 pt clip view. visibleSize reported the rounded 99, and ComposeView laid out its content for it, while UIKit reports and lays out for 99.2.
  • visibleSize, the size ComposeView lays out for, contentSize along axes where the content fits, and maxOffsetX/maxOffsetY now use the exact size, so they match UIKit's values for the same view.
  • AppKit still draws through the rounded clip view and snaps where scrolling comes to rest to the window's pixels, which can be up to about a pixel from the exact edges. So canScrollToLeft/Right/Top/Bottom and the gesture routing's out-of-range check count an offset within a pixel of an edge as at the edge.
  • This also fixes trackpad scroll chaining for nested scroll views at fractional sizes. A nested view resting just short of its end kept the gesture and bounced (already in 0.0.5), and since [scroll] keep a set contentOffset as set on macOS, instead of clamping it into the scrollable range #106, one resting just past its end counted as out of range and kept it too.

What changed

  • ScrollView (macOS): a private NSClipView subclass records the size AppKit sets before the clip view rounds it, and visibleSize returns it in content coordinates, scaled by the clip view's own bounds-to-frame ratio along each axis, so magnification and any scaling of the clip view's bounds are included (found in review). A replaced clip view falls back to its own bounds size.
  • ComposeView.renderBounds() (macOS): the size is the view's bounds size, without the pixel rounding that matched the clip view.
  • Scroll range: maxOffsetX/maxOffsetY are the content size minus the exact visible size plus the inset, as on UIKit. Along an axis where the content fits, the document keeps the exact size, so the maximum offset is 0.
  • Edge checks: canScrollTo* and the out-of-range check allow one pixel on screen along each axis, measured in content coordinates. On macOS, pixelSize converts a unit vector along each axis to backing pixels on the clip view, so magnification and scaled bounds are included (found in review). On UIKit it's 1 / windowScaleFactor, since zooming doesn't change the units of the offset.
  • Elasticity: compares the document with the exact visible size, so content as large as the view doesn't bounce by the rounding leftover.
  • Tests:
    • ScrollViewTests: exact visibleSize and maximum offsets at a fractional size, including beside a legacy scroll bar, with the clip view's bounds scaled differently along each axis, and at zero size, the fallback for a replaced clip view, elasticity for a document as large as a fractional-size view, and trackpad routing within a pixel of each of the four ends, resting past and short of each, and with bounds scaled differently on each axis.
    • ScrollView_ScrollingTests: canScrollTo* within and beyond a pixel of each edge, on every platform, and on macOS at 4x and 0.25x magnification, with bounds scaled differently on each axis, and rotated 45°.
    • ComposeView_RenderBoundsTests: the three fractional-size tests now expect exact sizes, with the clip view rounding down, up, and through scaled bounds, and check that fitting content doesn't scroll or bounce.
    • Mutation checks: removing each tolerance clause (the four canScrollTo* checks and the four out-of-range clauses), comparing elasticity against the rounded clip view on either axis, restoring the old render-bounds rounding, using one uniform 1 / windowScaleFactor, converting a whole 1×1 size, swapping the axes in either check, and dividing visibleSize by the magnification each fail a test.

Decisions

  • The document keeps the exact size instead of the clip view's rounded size, so contentSize and the scroll range match UIKit's. AppKit's own scroll range then includes the sub-pixel leftover, see [scroll] Decide whether macOS should snap a set content offset to pixels, as UIKit does #110 below.
  • No pixel tolerance in the elasticity check. Both sizes it compares are exact now, and it keeps the rule from [render] Allow for floating-point noise when deciding whether content overflows the viewport #92, shared with the overflow decisions in render(), that only floating-point noise doesn't count as overflow.
  • No constrainBoundsRect(_:) override to pin AppKit's scroll range to the exact one. A probe showed AppKit snaps where scrolling comes to rest past its own range anyway, so the edge checks need the tolerance either way.
  • The pixel comes from a unit vector per axis, not a converted 1×1 size as the review suggested. Converting a whole size mixes the axes under rotation: a view rotated 45° got a vertical tolerance of 0.

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  • Full macOS suite: 1,409 tests, 0 failures.
  • Full iOS suite: 1,307 tests, 0 failures.
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Fixes #102

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved layout accuracy for views with fractional-point dimensions, preventing rounding from causing content to appear incorrectly sized or scrollable.
    • Improved scroll-edge detection so offsets within one pixel of an edge are treated as being at the edge, helping avoid unintended scrolling and allowing nested gestures to pass to parent scroll views.

…w's size rounded to whole pixels

AppKit rounds the clip view's size to whole pixels, so a 99.2 pt scroll view reported a visible size of 99 and its
content laid out for 99, while UIKit uses 99.2. The clip view now records the size AppKit asks for before rounding it,
so visibleSize, the layout size, contentSize and the scroll range match UIKit's.

AppKit still snaps where scrolling comes to rest to the window's pixels, so the edge checks count an offset within a
pixel of an edge as at the edge. This also fixes trackpad scroll chaining for nested scroll views at fractional sizes.

Fixes #102.
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AppKit scroll views now retain fractional viewport dimensions for visible-size and render-bound calculations. Scroll-edge checks treat offsets within one pixel of a limit as in range. Tests cover fractional dimensions, fitting content, elasticity, and nested gesture routing.

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Fractional scroll geometry

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Exact viewport and render dimensions
ComposeUI/Sources/ComposeUI/ComposeView/ComposeView.swift, ComposeUI/Sources/ComposeUI/CrossPlatform/ScrollView/ScrollView.swift, ComposeUI/Tests/ComposeUITests/ComposeView/ComposeView+RenderBoundsTests.swift, ComposeUI/Tests/ComposeUITests/CrossPlatform/ScrollView/ScrollViewTests.swift
AppKit records the clip view’s unrounded frame size for visibleSize. ComposeView.renderBounds() uses the view’s bounds size. Elasticity checks compare content dimensions with the exact visible size. Tests check fractional sizes, fitting content, and elasticity.
Pixel-tolerant scroll edges
ComposeUI/Sources/ComposeUI/CrossPlatform/ScrollView/ScrollView+Scrolling.swift, ComposeUI/Sources/ComposeUI/CrossPlatform/ScrollView/ScrollView.swift, ComposeUI/Tests/ComposeUITests/CrossPlatform/ScrollView/ScrollView+ScrollingTests.swift, ComposeUI/Tests/ComposeUITests/CrossPlatform/ScrollView/ScrollViewTests.swift
Scrollability and out-of-range checks allow offsets within one pixel of the scroll limits. Tests check edge-proximity behavior and nested gesture routing.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0cbc0

This change keeps fractional scroll-view dimensions on macOS and treats offsets within one pixel of an edge as at the edge. Tests cover the main cases. No merge-blocking risk was found.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0cbc0

The inspected changes remain confined to scroll geometry and UI event routing, with no demonstrated new security exposure. Interrupted gesture behavior and downstream coverage remain partly unresolved, so the assessment is conservative.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated propagation is through local scroll state, ancestor views, and responder routing. The inspected path does not add credential, tenant, persistent-store, or privileged-operation authority; capped dependency coverage prevents extending that conclusion to every downstream application consumer.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Scroll-wheel deltas and mutable view offsets influence gesture destination through geometry predicates and view-hierarchy traversal. The decision remains within the existing responder mechanism; no authentication or authorization transition is implemented in this inspected flow.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #102 requires exact visibleSize and render bounds, fitting content with no fractional AppKit scroll range, and edge-aware elasticity and gesture routing. The PR implements exact visibleSize,… For each fitting axis, round the document view size to the size that NSClipView uses, or use AppKit’s actual scroll geometry consistently. Update updateScrollElasticity() and gesture-range handling to follow that geometry. Add tests tha…
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed source and tests support #102. Exact bounds, clip-view size recording, scroll-range checks, elasticity, and nested gesture routing are connected to the linked issue. The cross-platform pix…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: macOS scrolling now uses the exact visible size instead of the clip view size rounded to whole pixels.
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Issue #102 requires exact visibleSize and render bounds, fitting content with no fractional AppKit scroll range, and edge-aware elasticity and gesture routing. The PR implements exact visibleSize, exact renderBounds(), and per-axis pixel tolerance for edge and gesture checks. However, ScrollView.contentSize keeps the exact document size instead of rounding fitting axes to the rounded clip-view size. The clip view still stores rounded bounds, so AppKit can retain a fractional range. updateScrollElasticity() compares only the exact document size with visibleSize and does not account for that AppKit range. The fitting tests assert the custom exact sizes and maximum offsets, but they do not remove this source-level mismatch.

Resolution

For each fitting axis, round the document view size to the size that NSClipView uses, or use AppKit’s actual scroll geometry consistently. Update updateScrollElasticity() and gesture-range handling to follow that geometry. Add tests that verify actual fitting behavior and elasticity at fractional sizes.

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…along each axis

On macOS, content offsets are in document points, so on a magnified or scaled scroll view a pixel on screen isn't
1 / windowScaleFactor of them. The tolerance now converts a unit vector along each axis to backing pixels on the clip
view, which includes magnification and scaled bounds and keeps the axes apart under rotation.

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…is, instead of by the magnification

A caller can scale the clip view's bounds differently along each axis, which the magnification can't express: with
25 × 40 bounds in a 100 × 100 clip view, AppKit reports a magnification of 4 and visibleSize gave 25 × 25. The size
the clip view was given now scales by the clip view's bounds-to-frame ratio along each axis, which also covers
magnification and stays exact when nothing is scaled.
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