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fix(cursor): land the flat cursor on each click, and smooth less by default - #1336

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Summary

  • The flat cursor sprite now uses CursorTrack::pinned_at, like the 3D cursor: the drawn tip, ctx.cursor, ctx.clicks, the bounce and the impact ring meet at every click, whatever the smoothing.
  • pinned_at starts a click's approach only after the previous click's hold, so two close clicks each get the tip on their own point.
  • New projects default to 0.3 cursor smoothing (about 95 ms of spring lag, against 190 ms at 0.67). Saved projects keep their value.

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Part of #1335

Type of change

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  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

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Measurement in #1335: on a scripted demo take, the drawn cursor sat 106 to 150 px from the click at the 0.67 default. With this change it is under 0.5 px at the click and during the hold.

Testing

  • New test the_flat_cursor_lands_on_the_click_under_smoothing: drawn tip, ctx.cursor and ctx.clicks within 0.5 px at 0, 40 and 100 ms after a click, smoothing 0 / 0.3 / 0.67 / 1.
  • cargo test -p openscreen-compositor on Windows: 459 passed, 1 failed. The failure, playback_off_the_end_of_the_programme_stays_on_the_last_clip, fails on main too without this change.
  • TS unit tests not run locally: the only TS change is the default constant, no test asserts it.
  • Not measured in the real app. Per frame cost: one extra pass over the clicks within 0.35 s of t.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Flat cursors now stay aligned with the effect pointer during click contact, regardless of the smoothing setting.
    • Cursor timing adapts to closely spaced clicks, accounting for the previous click’s hold so each click is pinned at the right time and transitions between points remain gradual.
  • Improvements
    • The default cursor smoothing is lower, reducing spring lag.

…efault

Click effects (bounce, impact ring, ctx.clicks) sit on the raw click
point, but the flat sprite was drawn on the smoothed spring, which trails
the pointer by ~190 ms at the 0.67 default: on a click right after a move
the effects landed up to 150 px beside the cursor. The flat sprite now
uses pinned_at like the 3D cursor, so the drawn tip, ctx.cursor and
ctx.clicks meet at every click whatever the smoothing.

pinned_at also starts a click's approach only after the previous click's
hold, so two clicks 200 ms apart each get the tip on their own point.

New projects default to 0.3 smoothing (~95 ms of lag).
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Click approach timing now accounts for the preceding click’s shortened hold. Flat cursors use the pinned click position. Tests check click transitions and cursor alignment across smoothing values. The default cursor smoothing value changes from 0.67 to 0.3.

Changes: Cursor positioning

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Click timing and cursor placement
crates/compositor/src/cursor.rs, crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs, src/lib/projectDefaults.ts
Click holds shorten when another click follows closely, and the next approach starts after the shortened hold. Flat cursors use the pinned click position. Tests cover transitions between clicks and alignment across smoothing values. The default smoothing value changes to 0.3.

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- Line 384: Update the successive-click timing calculation in the `Some(p)`
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the available gap for the second approach instead of clamping it to 1 ms. Add a
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Comment thread crates/compositor/src/cursor.rs Outdated
…proach

Two clicks on distinct points under 100 ms apart cut the second approach
to 1 ms, so the tip jumped between them in one frame. Under twice the
hold, the hold and the next approach now split the gap evenly.
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