In the desktop preview, the annotation tools could not reach anything inside a same-origin iframe, such as a Storybook story canvas (iframe.html on the same origin). Reproduced on main cefb544af3 in the real desktop app (Linux, Electron under Xvfb) with a Storybook-like page on localhost:6006: with Select, hovering a story button outlined nothing, and clicking it went through to the page. The tool keys pressed while the frame had focus also went to the page. A Region drag stopped at the iframe edge, never finished, and became a text selection inside the frame. Nested same-origin frames failed the same way; opening iframe.html directly worked.
The annotation preload runs only in the guest's top frame, so it now also covers every reachable same-origin frame (apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts):
load listener on each document re-attaches to frames that load or navigate during a session. Teardown removes all of them.instanceof checks failed on nodes from another frame, so they are replaced with nodeType/localName checks. Computed styles use the element's own window.AnnotationStyles.generated.ts gains a .transform utility, because its generator scans the source for class names.Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#30117
Triaged via the automated issue flow.
vp test run src/preview (apps/desktop): 22 files, 250 tests pass. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip and typecheck (desktop, scripts) pass. No new tests: PickPreload.ts is an Electron preload that needs real layout and cross-frame input, and apps/desktop has no browser test runner. Proof is from the real app, as below.<iframe src="iframe.html">, the same page nested in another bordered frame, and a scale(0.5) zoom wrapper.| Row | Before cefb544af3 | After 558139360c / 974d8e82d2 |
|---|---|---|
| Select a story button inside the iframe | no hover outline, the stale sidebar outline stays, the click goes through to the button | outline and button#btn-primary.primary label, editor opens, no click reaches the page |
| Region drag across the story | marquee stops at the iframe edge, pointerup lost, text selected in the frame | inner elements selected, no text selection |
| Draw and Erase across the frame boundary | no element, region or stroke created inside the frame; the click reaches the button (its counter reads "Primary 2") and the story text gets selected | stroke follows the pointer across the boundary; Erase removes the element, region and stroke |
| Nested frame (frame inside frame, border, padding) | nothing inside reachable | Select, Region, Draw and Erase work at both levels |
Storybook-style zoom (transform: scale) | nothing inside reachable | outline fits the scaled button exactly |
| Tool keys and Escape with focus in the frame | go to the page | switch tools and cancel the session |
| Focus leaves the frame (native X11 click into the address bar) | n/a | hover outline cleared (recaptured at 974d8e82d2) |
| Attach an element inside the frame | n/a | the delivered crop covers the element; the composer gets the context |
Captured: 13 matrix rows (107 full-window stills, 20 recordings), with matched before/after recordings and zero/threshold-8 diffs for the single-frame Select and Draw/Erase rows; the other rows are captured on the fix side only. An independent rebuild at 974d8e82d2 reproduced the Select hover capture; the only pixel differences were text antialiasing.
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Verdict: Needs Human Approval
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The change enables annotation tools inside same-origin preview frames. An unresolved listener-cleanup concern describes a navigation race that can leave a frame non-interactive after annotation ends and needs resolution.
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Annotation picking now reaches same-origin frame content. It maps pointer positions and element bounds into top-viewport coordinates, includes frame descendants in selection, and manages annotation listeners and cursor styles as frames load or disappear.
Changes: Same-origin iframe annotation
| Layer / File(s) | Summary |
|---|---|
Frame coordinate mapping and hit testing apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts | Frame points and rectangles are mapped into the top viewport and clipped to visible frame viewports. Point picking recurses into same-origin frame content. |
Annotation interactions and element handling apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts | Pointer tools, marquee selection, erasing, and submitted bounds use top-viewport coordinates. Element metadata and style inspection use the owning document and window. |
Frame input and cursor lifecycle apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts | Annotation listeners, active-tool state, and cursor styles are added to discovered frames and removed when frames disappear or the session ends. |
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium
Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, thatsnoi
72bd9Annotation picking now works in same-origin iframes. Two edge cases remain: an iframe can stay non-interactive after an annotation session ends if it navigated mid-session, and the submitted screenshot can include extra page content when a selected element is scrolled out of its frame. Neither blocks the main flow, but both are worth fixing.
| Check name | Status | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Title check | Passed | The title clearly summarizes the main change: annotation tools can select content inside same-origin iframes. |
| Description check | Passed | The description covers the problem, change, linked issue and scope, and verification results. It also states platform and test limitations. Before-and-after screenshots are required for UI changes, bu… |
| Linked Issues check | Passed | The active coding requirement in [#30117] is to select and comment on story elements inside a same-origin iframe, including Region selection. The reviewed changes in PickPreload.ts recursively hit-t… |
| Out of Scope Changes check | Passed | The changes support annotation behavior required by [#30117]. Frame input listeners, hit testing, coordinate mapping, cross-realm DOM checks, cursor styling, and frame metadata all enable annotation w… |
Explanation
The description covers the problem, change, linked issue and scope, and verification results. It also states platform and test limitations. Before-and-after screenshots are required for UI changes, but the description says the captures could not be embedded and will be added in a comment.
Explanation
The active coding requirement in [#30117] is to select and comment on story elements inside a same-origin iframe, including Region selection. The reviewed changes in PickPreload.ts recursively hit-test same-origin frames, map and clip element bounds to the top viewport, and handle annotation input across those frames. The PR report also describes successful Select and Region behavior in the desktop app. The issue does not require a specific automated test addition.
Explanation
The changes support annotation behavior required by [#30117]. Frame input listeners, hit testing, coordinate mapping, cross-realm DOM checks, cursor styling, and frame metadata all enable annotation within same-origin frames. The .transform utility is reported as generated styling support for that behavior. No unrelated change is identified. The generated file was excluded from review, but its contents are not needed to establish scope compliance.
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| 6 | Inline comments: |
| 7 | Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts: |
| 8 | - Around line 1613-1616: Update frame tracking in attachFrames to retain each |
| 9 | frame’s Window alongside its style, and pass that stored Window to unlisten in |
| 10 | the stale-frame cleanup and teardown paths instead of re-reading |
| 11 | root.defaultView. Keep refreshToolButtons iterating the tracked Documents, and |
| 12 | preserve the existing listener setup behavior. |
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| … | … | @@ -1454,15 +1594,65 @@ function startAnnotation(sendEnabled: boolean): void { | |
| 1613 | + | function unlisten(root: Document): void { | |
| 1614 | + | root.removeEventListener("load", onLoad, true); | |
| 1615 | + | const view = root.defaultView; | |
| 1616 | + | if (!view) return; | |
External image Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Remove frame listeners from the window they were added to, not from root.defaultView at teardown time.
unlisten(frame) looks up the window through root.defaultView. That property returns null once the frame has navigated away from the stored document. When that happens, the early return skips every pointerdown, click, keydown and other window listener.
This leaks listeners in one specific case:
attachFrames runs while a same-origin iframe still shows its initial about:blank document. This happens when the session starts during iframe load.listen adds the handlers to that frame's Window.src. The HTML spec reuses the Window object for this navigation from the initial about:blank document.teardown runs after the navigation commits but before load fires. The load event is what would re-key the map to the new document.teardown then calls unlisten(oldDoc). oldDoc.defaultView is null, so the handlers stay on the live Window. The handlers do not check finished. As a result, onPointerDown and onClick keep calling preventDefault() inside the iframe after the session has ended. The iframe stays non-interactive until the page reloads.
The same lookup also runs in the stale-frame loop in attachFrames.
Fix: store the window when you attach the frame, and use the stored window for removal.
| 1 | - const frames = new Map<Document, HTMLStyleElement>(); |
| 2 | + const frames = new Map<Document, { view: Window; style: HTMLStyleElement }>(); |
| 1 | - function listen(root: Document): void { |
| 2 | + function listen(root: Document, view: Window | null = root.defaultView): void { |
| 3 | // A frame load stops at its document instead of reaching the window. |
| 4 | root.addEventListener("load", onLoad, { capture: true, passive: true }); |
| 5 | - const view = root.defaultView; |
| 6 | if (!view) return; |
| 1 | - function unlisten(root: Document): void { |
| 2 | + function unlisten(root: Document, view: Window | null = root.defaultView): void { |
| 3 | root.removeEventListener("load", onLoad, true); |
| 4 | - const view = root.defaultView; |
| 5 | if (!view) return; |
| 1 | - for (const [frame, style] of frames) { |
| 2 | + for (const [frame, { view, style }] of frames) { |
| 3 | if (current.includes(frame)) continue; |
| 4 | - unlisten(frame); |
| 5 | + unlisten(frame, view); |
| 6 | style.remove(); |
| 7 | frames.delete(frame); |
| 8 | } |
| 9 | for (const frame of current) { |
| 10 | - if (frames.has(frame) || !frame.defaultView || !frame.documentElement) continue; |
| 11 | + const view = frame.defaultView; |
| 12 | + if (frames.has(frame) || !view || !frame.documentElement) continue; |
| 13 | ... |
| 14 | - listen(frame); |
| 15 | - frames.set(frame, style); |
| 16 | + listen(frame, view); |
| 17 | + frames.set(frame, { view, style }); |
| 18 | } |
Make the same change in teardown: for (const [frame, { view, style }] of frames) { unlisten(frame, view); ... }. Also update refreshToolButtons so that it still iterates frames.keys().
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| 5 | |
| 6 | Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts around lines 1613 - |
| 7 | 1616: |
| 8 | Update frame tracking in attachFrames to retain each frame’s Window alongside |
| 9 | its style, and pass that stored Window to unlisten in the stale-frame cleanup |
| 10 | and teardown paths instead of re-reading root.defaultView. Keep |
| 11 | refreshToolButtons iterating the tracked Documents, and preserve the existing |
| 12 | listener setup behavior. |
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[GPT-6.1 Sol][Codex] on behalf of shivam.
Handoff from the stopped issue-watch job for https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30117. Nothing was pushed, and these results are from our separate prototype, not this PR's head.
Reproduced on corex, Linux Chromium in T3's Browser panel at 1280×800, using the actual annotation preload and react-grab with Electron IPC shimmed, against a Storybook-shaped same-origin iframe fixture. At main cefb544af3c98224874419198c0359b652ca3c94, Select showed no child outline/editor and the click reached the button. A Region drag selected iframe text instead of annotating it. This was a source-browser reproduction, not a native Electron or macOS pass.
Our prototype 5da6886ea64098db89d3c6b1c74271fe5630ec6a passed Select and Region across the child/top boundary without underlying clicks or text selection. Captured context had the child URL, selector html > body > #primary, styles and correct top-viewport bounds. Nested srcdoc selection, child reload rebinding and Erase also worked. Programmatic child scrolling moved the selected outline; native wheel scrolling was not verified. The screenshots and recordings below are from that prototype commit.
Additional cases found during our review, useful for the handoff:
SecurityError; cleanup must still finish. In prototype 2811516de98148e56504f0ce9f4e7b215f4fb004, a scrolled-out child returned an empty rect, and IPC cancel after cross-origin navigation removed all overlay nodes.Tests: extracted baseline helpers produced three failing cases and one passing case. All six focused geometry/lifecycle cases pass at our last commit 03a8d97703e698f2305dfb25273ef1e948c2dc51. The initial prototype passed check:changed and desktop/web builds on Boat. The final check:changed run finished with six tests passing but failed typechecking on two nullable values in our own test additions; no final build ran after that failure. No retries or further work started after takeover. Native macOS, real Storybook and the actual Electron attachment crop remain unverified by this job; the Mac test was cancelled while still queued.
Before, Select click reaches the story button: Baseline interaction recording
After, our separate prototype selects the child button: Prototype interaction recording
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| 4 | minimal, and validate. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Inline comments: |
| 7 | Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts: |
| 8 | - Line 1841: Update the screenshot-union calculation around elementRect and |
| 9 | unionRects to exclude rectangles fully clipped by their frame, including |
| 10 | zero-size rectangles positioned beyond the frame. Preserve visible zero-width or |
| 11 | zero-height SVG lines in the union, and leave each element’s payload rect |
| 12 | unchanged. |
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| … | … | @@ -1700,7 +1838,7 @@ function startAnnotation( | |
| 1701 | 1839 | id: target.id, | |
| 1702 | 1840 | element, | |
| 1703 | - | rect: rectFromDomRect(target.element.getBoundingClientRect()), | |
| 1841 | + | rect: elementRect(target.element), | |
External image Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Script executed:
| 1 | rg -n 'function intersectRects|function unionRects|function elementRect|function getAnnotationBounds|screenshotRect' apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts |
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 376
Script executed:
| 1 | cat -n apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts | sed -n '200,440p;1330,1445p;1750,1900p' |
| 2 | rg -n -F -e 'unionRects(' -e 'elementRect(' -e 'selectedElements' -e 'screenshotRect' -- apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts |
| 3 | git diff 43915a4064b341cd040f24c1b906d87222e403de 72bd9277d4d68971b3077bddd94d3118d3aad3fa -- apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts | sed -n '1,230p' |
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 34034
Script executed:
| 1 | rg -n -F -e 'selected.set(' -e 'selected.delete(' -e 'selected.clear(' -e 'visibleElementRect' -e 'screenshotRect' -e 'ELEMENT_PICKED_CHANNEL' -- apps/desktop/src/preview |
| 2 | cat -n apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts | sed -n '450,510p;1460,1645p;1645,1745p' |
| 3 | rg -n -F -e 'screenshotRect' -e 'ELEMENT_PICKED_CHANNEL' -- apps/desktop/src |
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 17564
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| 1 | cat -n apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts | sed -n '1040,1135p' |
| 2 | cat -n apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts | sed -n '2110,2295p' |
| 3 | rg -n -F -e 'capturePage(' -e 'crop(' -e 'annotationBounds' -e 'screenshotRect' -- apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts |
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 14307
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| 1 | cat -n apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts | sed -n '235,345p' |
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Exclude fully clipped frame rectangles from the screenshot union.
If a selected element moves outside its frame, elementRect can return a zero-size rectangle whose position lies beyond the frame. unionRects can then enlarge the screenshot crop to include unrelated content.
Exclude fully clipped rectangles from the union, while preserving visible zero-width or zero-height SVG lines. Keep each element’s payload rect unchanged.
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| 2 | |
| 3 | Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts at line 1841: |
| 4 | Update the screenshot-union calculation around elementRect and unionRects to exclude rectangles fully clipped by their frame, including zero-size rectangles positioned beyond the frame. Preserve visible zero-width or zero-height SVG lines in the union, and leave each element’s payload rect unchanged. |
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Environment for every capture: real Linux Electron desktop under headless-desktop; 1600×1000 window, 1600×920 browser viewport, light theme. Each commit was built in its own worktree with fresh isolated state and the same synthetic project. Storybook runs on localhost:6006; addons and the app sidebar are hidden.
Steps on both commits: open the story manager URL; Annotate → Select → hover and click the blue component → Attach if available. Repeat using Region and drag around the component. Repeat both tools for the green nested-frame component and amber component in a 75%-scaled nested frame. The same script drives both sides.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| 43915a4064 | 72bd9277d4 |
| Full interaction recording | Same scripted interaction |
| Select produces no component editor. Before: story Select | Select outlines the component and offers Attach. After: story Select |
| Region selects page text. Before: story Region | Region selects the component without selecting page text. After: story Region |
| Nested frame fails. Before: nested Region | Nested frame selects correctly. After: nested Region |
| Scaled frame fails. Before: scaled Select | Scaled frame selects correctly. After: scaled Select |
Base produced zero attachments across six attempts. Head produced six successful attachments, without page-text selection. The actual attachment results retain the story iframe, nested.html, and scaled.html URLs. Translated element bounds match the visible components: 260×110, 260×80, and 195×60 respectively.
Actual head attachment crops, in the same light-theme desktop environment:
Story component attachment Nested component attachment Scaled component attachment
Reproduction files: desktop driver, UI setup, identical interaction script, Storybook fixture.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
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