[animation] start animations from the value shown at the clock's time, instead of from presentation() - #98
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…, instead of from presentation() Every animation begins at `AnimationClock`'s time for the turn, but 12 places started one from `presentation()`, which Core Animation evaluates at the time of the transaction's first presentation read of a layer with animations. In a long turn, such as a render pass over many items, the two are milliseconds apart in either direction, so the new animation started that far along or behind the motion it interrupted. A layer also has no presentation layer before it's committed. `shownValue(forKeyPath:)` computes the value a key path shows at the clock's time from the model value and the layer's animations, composed and interpolated the way Core Animation does: additive animations add and others replace, opacities and the corner radius clamp after each animation like the render server, colors interpolate in extended sRGB with straight alpha, and paths point by point. An animation it can't evaluate falls back to `presentation()`. Parity tests compare it with `presentation()` on a paused timeline on macOS and iOS, and a `CARenderer` test checks the clamped values against the rendered pixels. The animation walk reads Core Animation's keys without bridging them to Swift strings, in a local autorelease pool since `perform(_:)` autoreleases the layer, and skips the clock when nothing animates the key path. An animated color or opacity change costs about 0.4 µs more when nothing else animates and 1.2 µs more with colors in flight, since the start value has to include the animations added earlier in the pass. Non-animated updates get slightly faster, with 12.5% fewer allocations. `modelValue(forKeyPath:)` and the typed model readers move to `CALayer+KeyPathValue.swift`, `AdditiveValue`, `ExtendedSRGB` and `AnimationInterpolation` get their own files and tests, and `AGENTS.md` corrects when Core Animation fixes the presentation time and adds three performance lessons. Fixes #96.
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ModifierNode->>CALayer: retarget key path
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CALayer-->>ModifierNode: provide replacement animation start value
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…nd related key paths, and skip animations that don't show The shown value missed kinds of animations that `presentation()` accounts for. A group's animations, and an animation of a component or a parent of the key path, such as `position.x` for `position` or `bounds` for `bounds.size`, change what the key path shows, but the walk matched key paths exactly, so the shown value was the model value and an animation starting from it jumped. A value function turns the interpolated number into a transform, so the shown value was a number, and retargeting `transform` crashed at the next commit with `-[NSConcreteValue doubleValue]: unrecognized selector`. The walk now yields the animations that change a key path through another key path as indirect ones, and the shown value falls back to `presentation()` when one of them shows, or when an animation with a value function does. Retarget leaves indirect animations running and starts from what they show, and `basicAnimations`, `propertyAnimations` and `removeAnimations(forKeyPath:)` keep only the key path's own animations, as before. An animation that doesn't show, as it hasn't begun without a backwards fill or has ended, is now skipped before its values are checked, so a to-only or keyframe animation outside its window no longer forces the fallback. The related key path check costs about 7 ns per animation of another key path in the walk, and a render pass over 300 rows doesn't change measurably. `AGENTS.md` adds two design lessons: enumerate a system's inputs before replacing its evaluation, and check whether an input applies before requiring it to be supported.
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🟡 Minor · Preserve the model color when shownColor cannot evaluate. · ModifierNode.swift:358
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the model color when
shownColorcannot evaluate.When a reused hosted layer has no presentation layer,
shownValuecan returnnilfor an unsupported color animation. The threeModifierNodecolor closures then useColor.clear.cgColor, so replacement animations start from clear instead of the existing model color. This can cause a visible clear transition for background, border, and shadow colors.Keep the generic
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- Line 358: Update the typed CGColor accessor used by ModifierNode’s background,
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…nd keep the modifiers' model fallbacks The shown value checked whether an animation shows only after `elapsedTime(at:)` accepted its timing, which it doesn't for a time offset, repeats or autoreverses. So a repeating animation scheduled later without a backwards fill, which has no effect yet, still forced the `presentation()` fallback, which reads another time, or nothing on an uncommitted layer. Whether an animation has begun depends only on its begin time and speed, so `elapsedTime(at:)` is now made of `timeSinceBegin(at:)` and `hasEvaluableTiming`, and the shown value skips an animation that hasn't begun without a backwards fill before it checks the timing. `ModifierNode` started its background, border and shadow colors and its shadow path from the shown value, or clear. Without a presentation layer, an animation the shown value can't evaluate, such as a keyframe animation, left the value unknown, so the new animation started from clear instead of the model value, as it did before. The model value is the fallback again, before clear.
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…at animations without a key aren't included Whether an animation had begun was read from the sign of its time since the begin time, which a negative speed flips and a zero speed zeroes. A probe on macOS showed that Core Animation shows neither before its begin time without a backwards fill, and plays an animation at a negative speed backwards from its end once it begins. So the shown value evaluated a reversed animation before it began, skipped it once it had, and showed a paused animation's from value before it began. The begin time is now compared with the time directly, which holds at any speed, and a begun animation at a negative speed falls back to `presentation()`. An animation added without a key isn't listed by `animationKeys()` and can't be looked up, so the shown value and `retarget(keyPath:to:)` can't see it. Their docs say so. The shown value's two paths repeated the decision of whether an animation shows and can be evaluated. `KeyPathAnimation.effect(at:)` now makes it once, and each path checks only its values, with the value function check on the path that handles transforms.
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… the duration Core Animation gives it `add(_:forKey:)` stores a copy of the animation whose zero or negative duration it has already replaced with the transaction's animation duration, 0.25 s by default, and with a zero transaction duration it doesn't add the animation at all, so the shown value never sees a zero duration. The test covers the default duration, a transaction's duration and a zero transaction duration. It flushes the transaction first, since XCTest doesn't commit the implicit transaction between tests, so a duration an earlier test set without committing would carry over.
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Fixes #96. Every animation begins at
AnimationClock's time for the turn, but 12 places started one frompresentation(), which Core Animation evaluates at the time of the transaction's first presentation read of a layer with animations. In a long turn the two are milliseconds apart in either direction, so a new animation started that far along or behind the motion it interrupted. A layer also has no presentation layer before it's committed.CALayer.shownValue(forKeyPath:), with typedshownColor,shownPathandshownOpacity, computes the value a key path shows at the clock's time from the model value and the layer's animations. It composes them like Core Animation: additive animations add, others replace, andopacity,shadowOpacityandcornerRadiusclamp after each animation like the render server. An animation that doesn't show at the time is skipped, whatever its values or timing. A showing animation it can't evaluate falls back topresentation(): a group, an animation of a component or a parent of the key path, such asposition.xforpositionorboundsforbounds.size, an animation with a value function or a negative speed, or one whose values or timing it doesn't model. An animation added without a key isn't included, since Core Animation doesn't list it, andretarget(keyPath:to:)didn't see one before either.ExtendedSRGB, which keeps the last few ColorSync conversions on the main thread), and paths with the same segments point by point (AnimationInterpolation).retarget(keyPath:to:), which reuses the animations it already collected, the delayed from value inanimate,DropShadowLayer,InnerShadowLayer,ModifierNodeandColorNode.ModifierNodekeeps its fallback to the model value, then clear, when the shown value is unknown.[String], in a local autorelease pool sinceperform(_:)autoreleases the layer, and doesn't read the clock when nothing animates the key path.basicAnimations,propertyAnimationsandremoveAnimations(forKeyPath:)share it and keep only the key path's own animations. Retarget leaves a group or an animation of a related key path running and starts its replacement from what it shows.modelValue(forKeyPath:)and the typed model readers live inCALayer+KeyPathValue.swift, whose switches list key paths in the orderCALayerdeclares them.AdditiveValuemoves to its own file, and the test helpers that read animation values and color components are consolidated inTestUtilities.makeAnimation(_:)documents its.bothfill mode.AGENTS.mdcorrects when Core Animation fixes the presentation time (only a read of a layer with animations does) and adds three performance lessons, two design lessons, and a note to judge CHANGELOG entries against the last release.swiftlintdisable comments in_ComposeNode_Template_Layer.swiftandNSLabel.swiftmove onto their lines, like the ones this change touches.Performance
A render pass over 300 rows whose background, border and shadow colors and shadow opacity change. Release build on macOS, median of 30 rounds, autorelease pool drains included:
An animated color or opacity change costs about 0.4 µs more when nothing else animates and about 1.2 µs more with colors in flight. The start value has to include the animations added earlier in the same pass, which
presentation()ignores, and Core Animation makesanimationKeysandanimation(forKey:)several times slower right after an animation is added to a layer. With only the start value reads switched back topresentation(), this branch matches master exactly, so the rest of the change costs nothing. These paths run when an update starts or retargets animations, not every frame. The review fixes for groups, value functions and related key paths add about 7 ns per animation of another key path to the walk and don't change the pass measurably.Test plan
cd ComposeUI && swift test: 1382 tests pass on macOS.xcodebuild testin the iOS simulator: 1299 tests pass.fatalErrorininit(layer:)ofDropShadowLayerandInnerShadowLayer. It traps, was uncovered before, and is in the diff only because its SwiftLint comment moved onto the line, so it's the 2 lines Codecov reports missing.shownValuematchespresentation()on a paused timeline for colors in several color spaces, paths, sizes, points, additive and non-additive stacks, and springs.CARendererrenders (macOS only).test_animationSequence_doesntExtendTheLayersLifetimefails without the local autorelease pool.ModifierNode's model fallbacks, have tests that fail on the second commit.make formatandmake lint.Summary by CodeRabbit