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shai-almog and others added 8 commits April 23, 2026 17:00
Unblocks the half-built Metal stub so the -Dios.metal=true build path
compiles and can launch with a cleared CAMetalLayer. OpenGL ES 2 remains
the default backend.

- New CN1RenderingView protocol covering the shared method surface
  (setFramebuffer/presentFramebuffer/updateFrameBufferSize:h:/
  addPeerComponent:/keyboard+text callbacks). Both EAGLView and METALView
  adopt it so CodenameOne_GLViewController can drive either backend.
- METALView.m: fixed the missing endEncoding syntax error, removed GL
  holdover calls in setFramebuffer, corrected Swift-style Metal method
  names (newCommandQueue/commandBuffer/renderCommandEncoderWithDescriptor:),
  handle nextDrawable returning nil (drop frame, never block), implement
  updateFrameBufferSize:h: with a Y-down ortho projection matrix so we
  don't need the GL path's _glScalef(1,-1,1)+translate workaround.
- Added MainWindowMETAL.xib and CodenameOne_METALViewController.xib --
  the two files IPhoneBuilder.java:698-699 copies into place at build
  time. The Metal xib instantiates METALView as the view with
  CodenameOne_GLViewController as its custom class so we reuse the
  existing 2300-line god-object controller rather than forking it.
- CodenameOne_GLViewController.m: the eaglView accessor finds METALView
  under CN1_USE_METAL; the one EAGLView-only call site (setContext:) is
  guarded.
- METAL_PORT_STATUS.md tracks phase progress and architectural decisions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two bugs blocked the Metal path from actually building:

1. CN1_USE_METAL was never defined. IPhoneBuilder.java:697 uncomments
   "//#define CN1_USE_METAL" in CN1ES2compat.h at build time, but that
   comment line didn't exist. Added it with a note pointing at the
   maven plugin site that depends on it.

2. METALView.{h,m} both start with "#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL" but didn't
   import the header that defines the macro. When compiling METALView.m
   the preprocessor saw CN1_USE_METAL undefined, treated the whole file
   as empty, and the linker then reported undefined _OBJC_CLASS_$_METALView
   referenced from CodenameOne_GLViewController. Fixed by importing
   CN1ES2compat.h before the ifdef in both files.

xcodebuild of a hellocodenameone-generated Xcode project on
iphonesimulator now completes with "BUILD SUCCEEDED" under
-Dcodename1.arg.ios.metal=true.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
awakeFromNib calls [eaglView setFramebuffer] once during init (with no
matching presentFramebuffer), then drawFrame calls setFramebuffer again
on every frame. Under OpenGL this is harmless -- the first setFramebuffer
just binds a framebuffer that the second call rebinds. Under Metal,
each setFramebuffer allocates a new MTLRenderCommandEncoder, and the
second call released the first encoder without endEncoding, triggering
Apple's assertion "Command encoder released without endEncoding" and a
SIGABRT on app launch.

Fix: at the top of setFramebuffer, end any live encoder and discard the
existing commandBuffer/drawable before starting a fresh pass.

Runtime validation: hellocodenameone with -Dcodename1.arg.ios.metal=true
now launches on iOS 26 simulator without the assertion. CN1SS screenshot
tests (KotlinUiTest, FillRect, DrawRect, ...) run to completion on the
Metal path; the resulting PNGs are blank because no ExecutableOp has
been ported to Metal yet -- that's Phase 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduces the Metal rendering backend's shared state and API that
each ExecutableOp's Metal branch calls into. No ops are ported yet --
this commit just wires up the foundation:

- CN1Metalcompat.{h,m}: higher-level C API for Metal draws. Holds the
  active MTLRenderCommandEncoder, projection/modelView/transform
  matrices, and scissor state. Exposes CN1MetalBeginFrame/EndFrame
  (called by METALView.setFramebuffer/presentFramebuffer),
  CN1MetalFillRect / CN1MetalClearRect / CN1MetalDrawImage primitive
  dispatch, CN1MetalSetTransform, CN1MetalSetScissor, and matrix stack
  helpers (Push/Pop/Scale/Translate/Rotate). Ops call these from their
  #ifdef CN1_USE_METAL branches.

- CN1MetalShaders.metal: MSL for the MVP pipeline variants
  (SolidColor, TexturedRGBA, AlphaMask, ClearPunch). Xcode compiles
  these offline into default.metallib at build time.

- CN1MetalPipelineCache.{h,m}: lazy-builds one MTLRenderPipelineState
  per variant on first use, keyed by pipeline enum. Premultiplied-alpha
  blending on color attachments to match the GL path's behavior;
  ClearPunch has blending disabled.

- METALView.m: setFramebuffer now calls CN1MetalBeginFrame after
  creating the encoder; presentFramebuffer calls CN1MetalEndFrame
  before endEncoding. The back-to-back-setFramebuffer safety path
  also calls CN1MetalEndFrame on the abandoned encoder to keep the
  compat layer's activeEncoder reference in sync.

- ByteCodeTranslator.java: register .metal as sourcecode.metal in the
  generated project.pbxproj and include it in the Sources build phase
  so Xcode builds default.metallib from our shader source.

Still to do in Phase 1: port FillRect/ClearRect/DrawImage/ClipRect/
SetTransform ops to call the new API, then validate a red-rect renders
through Metal end-to-end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires the first five ops to the Phase 1 Metal backend via one-line
#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL branches at the top of their execute methods:

- FillRect            -> CN1MetalFillRect
- ClearRect           -> CN1MetalClearRect
- DrawImage           -> CN1MetalDrawImage (texture rasterized per-draw;
                         caching deferred to Phase 1.5)
- ClipRect            -> CN1MetalSetScissor (rectangular only; stencil
                         clipping for texture/polygon clips falls back
                         to a bounding box -- Phase 2 will implement
                         proper non-rectangular clipping)
- SetTransform        -> CN1MetalSetTransform

The GL path is unchanged on builds without CN1_USE_METAL.

xcodebuild validation pending: Xcode 26.3 on iOS 26 SDK requires
"xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain" to install the Metal
compiler before CN1MetalShaders.metal will build. Once installed, the
.metal file compiles into default.metallib alongside the app binary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captures the Phase 0 → Phase 1 transition: scaffolding done, MVP ops
ported, Metal Toolchain dependency documented, full step-by-step
verification flow recorded (including the Java version juggling and
the fact that codename1.arg.* must live in settings.properties -- the
Maven -D form is not picked up by CN1BuildMojo).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two compile/link bugs that blocked Phase 1 end-to-end validation:

1. CN1Metalcompat.h, CN1Metalcompat.m, and CN1MetalPipelineCache.h
   started with #ifdef CN1_USE_METAL but didn't import CN1ES2compat.h
   first -- the same bug that initially broke METALView.{h,m}. Without
   the import, the preprocessor saw CN1_USE_METAL undefined, skipped
   the whole file, and the linker reported _CN1MetalBeginFrame /
   _CN1MetalFillRect etc. undefined. Fixed by importing CN1ES2compat.h
   before the ifdef in all three files.

2. CN1MetalShaders.metal declared setVertexBytes-backed buffers as
   "const device float2 *" -- but setVertexBytes routes through the
   constant address space in MSL, not device. Changed to "constant
   float2 *" for positions and texcoords in both the solid and textured
   vertex shaders.

After these fixes, xcodebuild succeeds, default.metallib is built from
the shader source and embedded in the app bundle, and Metal ops run
at ~120fps (drawQuad log confirms 841 draws in 6s with non-nil encoder
and pipeline state). The hellocodenameone Form renders its grey
background through Metal -- text and other content still blank because
DrawString and other ops aren't ported yet (Phase 2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1 end-to-end verified on iPhone 17 Pro simulator with the iOS 26
SDK (Xcode 26.3):

- xcodebuild produces HelloCodenameOne.app with default.metallib
  embedded from CN1MetalShaders.metal.
- drawQuad trace shows 841 draws per 6s with non-nil encoder + pipeline
  state; no Metal validation assertions.
- A smoke-test CN1MetalFillRect at the tail of each frame renders a
  bright red rectangle on screen -- conclusive visual proof Metal is
  rasterising to the CAMetalLayer drawable.
- Form background renders through Metal (grey visible, not the
  clearColor=black default).

Known follow-ups now captured for Phase 2:
- Coordinate-system calibration (logical-point vs physical-pixel
  mismatch revealed by the smoke test's larger-than-expected rect).
- GLUIImage MTLTexture caching so DrawImage doesn't rasterise per draw.
- Header-include convention for any new source checking CN1_USE_METAL
  (import CN1ES2compat.h BEFORE the ifdef, or the whole file becomes
  invisible to the preprocessor -- we have hit this bug twice now).
- Metal Toolchain one-time install on Xcode 26.3+.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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shai-almog commented Apr 23, 2026

Compared 34 screenshots: 34 matched.
✅ JavaScript-port screenshot tests passed.

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✅ Continuous Quality Report

Test & Coverage

Static Analysis

  • SpotBugs [Report archive]
    • ByteCodeTranslator: 0 findings (no issues)
    • android: 0 findings (no issues)
    • codenameone-maven-plugin: 0 findings (no issues)
    • core-unittests: 0 findings (no issues)
    • ios: 0 findings (no issues)
  • PMD: 0 findings (no issues) [Report archive]
  • Checkstyle: 0 findings (no issues) [Report archive]

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✅ ByteCodeTranslator Quality Report

Test & Coverage

  • Tests: 644 total, 0 failed, 2 skipped

Benchmark Results

  • Execution Time: 9653 ms

  • Hotspots (Top 20 sampled methods):

    • 24.76% java.lang.String.indexOf (418 samples)
    • 21.98% com.codename1.tools.translator.Parser.isMethodUsed (371 samples)
    • 6.22% java.lang.Object.hashCode (105 samples)
    • 5.92% com.codename1.tools.translator.Parser.addToConstantPool (100 samples)
    • 5.63% java.util.ArrayList.indexOf (95 samples)
    • 4.03% com.codename1.tools.translator.ByteCodeClass.markDependent (68 samples)
    • 2.49% java.lang.System.identityHashCode (42 samples)
    • 2.43% com.codename1.tools.translator.BytecodeMethod.addToConstantPool (41 samples)
    • 1.84% com.codename1.tools.translator.ByteCodeClass.updateAllDependencies (31 samples)
    • 1.72% com.codename1.tools.translator.ByteCodeClass.calcUsedByNative (29 samples)
    • 1.72% com.codename1.tools.translator.BytecodeMethod.optimize (29 samples)
    • 1.36% com.codename1.tools.translator.Parser.generateClassAndMethodIndexHeader (23 samples)
    • 1.18% com.codename1.tools.translator.BytecodeMethod.appendCMethodPrefix (20 samples)
    • 0.95% com.codename1.tools.translator.BytecodeMethod.appendMethodSignatureSuffixFromDesc (16 samples)
    • 0.89% java.lang.StringCoding.encode (15 samples)
    • 0.77% com.codename1.tools.translator.Parser.getClassByName (13 samples)
    • 0.71% sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Encoder.encode (12 samples)
    • 0.71% com.codename1.tools.translator.BytecodeMethod.equals (12 samples)
    • 0.71% java.lang.StringBuilder.append (12 samples)
    • 0.65% com.codename1.tools.translator.Parser.cullMethods (11 samples)
  • ⚠️ Coverage report not generated.

Static Analysis

  • ✅ SpotBugs: no findings (report was not generated by the build).
  • ⚠️ PMD report not generated.
  • ⚠️ Checkstyle report not generated.

Generated automatically by the PR CI workflow.

Two bugs that manifested on CI but not locally (local had stale
manual copies in a duplicate path that masked both):

1. ByteCodeTranslator.java#getFileListEntry emitted .metal file
   references with path="<AppName>-src/CN1MetalShaders.metal". Combined
   with the enclosing group's own path ("<AppName>-src"), Xcode then
   tried to open "<AppName>-src/<AppName>-src/CN1MetalShaders.metal"
   and failed with "Build input file cannot be found". Added .metal to
   the extension list that gets a bare path (same treatment as .m /
   .swift / .xib) so the fileref is just "CN1MetalShaders.metal" and
   the group's path produces the correct single-level resolution. The
   getFileType addition from the previous commit now also takes effect
   (file type is sourcecode.metal rather than the generic "file"
   fallback).

2. ClipRect.m imported CN1Metalcompat.h inside #ifdef CN1_USE_METAL
   BEFORE it imported CodenameOne_GLViewController.h -- which is what
   pulls in CN1ES2compat.h where CN1_USE_METAL is defined. So the top
   ifdef evaluated false and CN1Metalcompat.h was skipped, but by the
   time we reached ClipRect.execute the macro had been pulled in via
   a later transitive include, so its #ifdef-guarded Metal branch was
   compiled -- calling undeclared CN1MetalSetScissor. Reordered the
   imports so CodenameOne_GLViewController.h comes first; now both
   ifdef evaluations see the macro consistently. Other ported ops
   (FillRect/ClearRect/DrawImage/SetTransform) already had the correct
   order.

Verified: clean hellocodenameone regen + xcodebuild on iphonesimulator
BUILDS SUCCEEDED with both fixes in place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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iOS screenshot updates

Compared 82 screenshots: 76 matched, 6 updated.

  • ButtonTheme_dark — updated screenshot. Screenshot differs (1179x2556 px, bit depth 8).

    ButtonTheme_dark
    Preview info: Preview provided by instrumentation.
    Full-resolution PNG saved as ButtonTheme_dark.png in workflow artifacts.

  • ButtonTheme_light — updated screenshot. Screenshot differs (1179x2556 px, bit depth 8).

    ButtonTheme_light
    Preview info: Preview provided by instrumentation.
    Full-resolution PNG saved as ButtonTheme_light.png in workflow artifacts.

  • graphics-draw-string — updated screenshot. Screenshot differs (1179x2556 px, bit depth 8).

    graphics-draw-string
    Preview info: JPEG preview quality 10; JPEG preview quality 10; downscaled to 413x895.
    Full-resolution PNG saved as graphics-draw-string.png in workflow artifacts.

  • graphics-draw-string-decorated — updated screenshot. Screenshot differs (1179x2556 px, bit depth 8).

    graphics-draw-string-decorated
    Preview info: JPEG preview quality 10; JPEG preview quality 10; downscaled to 590x1278.
    Full-resolution PNG saved as graphics-draw-string-decorated.png in workflow artifacts.

  • SwitchTheme_dark — updated screenshot. Screenshot differs (1179x2556 px, bit depth 8).

    SwitchTheme_dark
    Preview info: Preview provided by instrumentation.
    Full-resolution PNG saved as SwitchTheme_dark.png in workflow artifacts.

  • SwitchTheme_light — updated screenshot. Screenshot differs (1179x2556 px, bit depth 8).

    SwitchTheme_light
    Preview info: Preview provided by instrumentation.
    Full-resolution PNG saved as SwitchTheme_light.png in workflow artifacts.

Benchmark Results

  • VM Translation Time: 0 seconds
  • Compilation Time: 373 seconds

Build and Run Timing

Metric Duration
Simulator Boot 83000 ms
Simulator Boot (Run) 1000 ms
App Install 22000 ms
App Launch 15000 ms
Test Execution 293000 ms

Detailed Performance Metrics

Metric Duration
Base64 payload size 8192 bytes
Base64 benchmark iterations 6000
Base64 native encode 1101.000 ms
Base64 CN1 encode 1288.000 ms
Base64 encode ratio (CN1/native) 1.170x (17.0% slower)
Base64 native decode 856.000 ms
Base64 CN1 decode 923.000 ms
Base64 decode ratio (CN1/native) 1.078x (7.8% slower)
Base64 SIMD encode 441.000 ms
Base64 encode ratio (SIMD/native) 0.401x (59.9% faster)
Base64 encode ratio (SIMD/CN1) 0.342x (65.8% faster)
Base64 SIMD decode 386.000 ms
Base64 decode ratio (SIMD/native) 0.451x (54.9% faster)
Base64 decode ratio (SIMD/CN1) 0.418x (58.2% faster)
Image encode benchmark iterations 100
Image createMask (SIMD off) 60.000 ms
Image createMask (SIMD on) 10.000 ms
Image createMask ratio (SIMD on/off) 0.167x (83.3% faster)
Image applyMask (SIMD off) 129.000 ms
Image applyMask (SIMD on) 72.000 ms
Image applyMask ratio (SIMD on/off) 0.558x (44.2% faster)
Image modifyAlpha (SIMD off) 189.000 ms
Image modifyAlpha (SIMD on) 91.000 ms
Image modifyAlpha ratio (SIMD on/off) 0.481x (51.9% faster)
Image modifyAlpha removeColor (SIMD off) 187.000 ms
Image modifyAlpha removeColor (SIMD on) 168.000 ms
Image modifyAlpha removeColor ratio (SIMD on/off) 0.898x (10.2% faster)
Image PNG encode (SIMD off) 1177.000 ms
Image PNG encode (SIMD on) 864.000 ms
Image PNG encode ratio (SIMD on/off) 0.734x (26.6% faster)
Image JPEG encode 497.000 ms

shai-almog and others added 17 commits April 23, 2026 22:20
Four intertwined fixes land together -- in isolation none of them
produce a visible Form, together they do.

1. Orthographic projection Y flip. CN1MetalOrtho was called with
   (bottom=0, top=h), which maps input y=0 to NDC y=-1 (bottom of
   screen). iOS UIKit passes y=0 as top-of-screen. Swapped to
   (bottom=h, top=0) so y=0 maps to NDC y=+1. The GL path handles
   this via _glScalef(1,-1,1)+translate in drawFrame, which we skip
   on Metal.

2. Framebuffer dimensions in physical pixels. updateFrameBufferSize:h:
   is called by CodenameOne_GLViewController with
   self.view.bounds.size (logical points). EAGLView tolerates that
   because it re-reads the renderbuffer's actual pixel dims via
   glGetRenderbufferParameteriv. METALView now ignores its w/h args
   and always computes pw/ph from self.bounds * contentScaleFactor.
   layoutSubviews also calls updateFrameBufferSize so the drawable
   resizes when the view reaches its real size (initWithCoder runs
   with the xib's 320x460 placeholder).

3. Persistent screenTexture + blit. CN1's drawFrame only queues the
   ops that changed since the previous frame -- the OpenGL path
   relies on the renderbuffer preserving pixels across frames. Metal
   drawables are ephemeral (each nextDrawable returns a fresh
   drawable). A persistent offscreen MTLTexture ("screenTexture") now
   owns the accumulated frame; ops render into it with
   MTLLoadActionLoad, and presentFramebuffer blits it to the drawable
   and presents. The drawable is only acquired at present time to
   minimise its dwell and avoid nextDrawable stalls.

4. setFramebuffer idempotence. drawFrame can be invoked multiple
   times per visible frame (awakeFromNib issues one unpaired call,
   and CN1SS test runs trigger extra repaints). The old code created
   a fresh encoder on each call and threw away the previous one's
   queued ops. Now setFramebuffer is a no-op if an encoder already
   exists -- only presentFramebuffer ends+commits+presents.

Also ports four more ExecutableOps:
  - DrawLine  -> CN1MetalDrawLine (line primitive, solid color)
  - DrawRect  -> CN1MetalDrawRect (closed line-strip outline)
  - FillPolygon -> CN1MetalFillPolygon (fan-triangulated to a
    triangle list, fits setVertexBytes' 4KB ceiling -- convex only,
    matching the GL path's assumption)
  - Scale     -> CN1MetalSetTransform with multiplied scale matrix
                 (Rotate + ResetAffine route through SetTransform,
                 which was already ported, so they work implicitly)

ClipRect's Metal branch is temporarily disabled (clipApplied=YES
return). Its scissor rect is being passed coords that don't match
the framebuffer's physical-pixel space, which clipped most of the
drawable to a small top strip. Diagnosed by seeing the Form bg paint
correctly once ClipRect is bypassed. Coord-space fix tracked in
METAL_PORT_STATUS.md as a separate Phase 2 task; until it lands,
irregular (polygon/stencil) clips also fall through to a bounding
box, same as before.

Visual validation: hellocodenameone on iPhone 17 Pro simulator now
paints its Form background across the full screen through Metal.
Text and other content still missing because DrawString is not yet
ported (separate Phase 2 task).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Phase 2 in progress — Form bg renders through Metal on iPhone 17
  Pro simulator.
- Lists what landed (ortho Y flip, physical-pixel framebuffer, layout
  sync, persistent screenTexture, idempotent setFramebuffer, four
  more ported ops) and what's still in flight (ClipRect coord space,
  DrawString, GLUIImage caching, gradients, path rendering).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a second job build-ios-metal that mirrors the existing build-ios
flow but enables codename1.arg.ios.metal=true before building
hellocodenameone. Runs the same run-ios-ui-tests.sh screenshot suite
against the Metal-backed build and uploads artifacts as
ios-ui-tests-metal.

- Downloads Xcode 26+ MetalToolchain component (required to compile
  CN1MetalShaders.metal; no-op if already present).
- Patches codenameone_settings.properties to set ios.metal=true. The
  Codename One Maven plugin reads build args from that file, not from
  -D system properties, so we can't just add a -D to build-ios-app.sh.
- Non-blocking (continue-on-error) while Metal is in development:
  screenshot comparisons will differ until DrawString is ported and
  ClipRect coord-space is fixed (Phase 2 follow-ups in
  Ports/iOSPort/METAL_PORT_STATUS.md). The job still runs on every PR
  so we can download artifacts and watch for new regressions; flip to
  blocking once Metal reaches GL parity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Install Metal Toolchain step was calling xcodebuild without setting
DEVELOPER_DIR, so it used the runner's default (pre-Xcode-16) xcodebuild
which doesn't support -downloadComponent. Exit 64 with a usage dump.

build-ios-app.sh and run-ios-ui-tests.sh both pick Xcode 26 explicitly
via /Applications/Xcode_26*.app; apply the same selection here so the
download uses an xcodebuild that actually knows the flag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The build-ios-metal job was already running the same
scripts/hellocodenameone-based screenshot suite as the GL job --
downloading run-ios-ui-tests.sh's pre-rendered screenshot-comment.md
from the artifact zip to see the status took a bunch of clicks. Add
a post-tests step that writes a markdown table of per-test match
status (plus the headline count) to $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY so the
Metal port's current state is visible on the workflow run page, and
echoes a ::notice with the headline ("N/37 matched") that shows up
in the checks summary.

Today the Metal variant reports 0/37 matched vs GL's 36/37 because
DrawString isn't ported yet and ClipRect is bypassed. That number
is the live indicator of how close Metal is to GL parity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Metal is not going to be pixel-identical to the GL backend -- once
CoreText glyph rendering lands (Phase 4) sub-pixel positioning alone
will produce intentional diffs, and gradient / path rasterisation
already does. Sharing scripts/ios/screenshots/ would force every
Metal improvement to perturb the GL validation and vice versa.

- scripts/run-ios-ui-tests.sh: honour a SCREENSHOT_REF_DIR env-var
  override and fall back to scripts/ios/screenshots when unset.
- scripts/ios/screenshots-metal/: new Metal-specific baseline,
  seeded from the current GL goldens as a starting point so drift
  is visible in diffs rather than all-new. README explains the
  update workflow.
- .github/workflows/scripts-ios.yml: build-ios-metal now sets
  SCREENSHOT_REF_DIR to the Metal baseline; trigger paths pick up
  changes there. GL job is unchanged.
- METAL_PORT_STATUS.md: documents the separate baseline + rationale.

Today's Metal CI compares against its own copy of the GL goldens
(so the headline is still 0/37 matched) but future commits can
update screenshots-metal/ as each Metal op lands, tracking the
port's progress independently of the GL validation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…scalar)

The previous "Publish Metal screenshot summary" step embedded a Python
heredoc inside a YAML "run: |" block. Heredoc content preserves every
line verbatim, but Python top-level statements cannot be indented --
so the Python lines had to start at column 1, which broke out of the
YAML block scalar:

    could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 337

Two consecutive runs failed with "workflow file issue" before either
job could start. Moved the summary logic to
scripts/ci/metal-screenshot-summary.py with --markdown / --headline
modes, and the workflow step now just calls python3 on that file.
YAML validator (Ruby) accepts the updated workflow and the script
produces the same output against the artifact from the last green
run (0/37 matched, table of 37 rows).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…size

The ClipRect Metal branch was bypassed in 55e2249 because enabling it
clipped the drawable to a top strip. The fix is NOT in CN1MetalSetScissor
-- the passed coords are already correct physical pixels -- but in
METALView.updateFrameBufferSize. When the view's final bounds (402x874
at 3x on iPhone 17 Pro) arrive via layoutSubviews, the xib-time encoder
is still alive and keeps references to the stale 960x1380 screenTexture,
and CN1Metalcompat's cached currentFramebufferWidth/Height stay at the
xib's placeholder values for the whole frame. Every ClipRect that round
clamps the input 1206x2622 scissor to 960x1380, and every draw writes to
the 960x1380 texture, which we then blit to the 1206x2622 drawable --
hence the top-strip rendering.

Fix: if updateFrameBufferSize changes dimensions and an encoder is mid-
frame, end the encoder cleanly, commit the command buffer (no present,
the old screenTexture is about to be discarded anyway), and nil the
state. The next setFramebuffer creates a fresh encoder against the new
screenTexture and CN1MetalBeginFrame captures the correct dimensions.

Verified on iPhone 17 Pro simulator with hellocodenameone: Form now
renders across the whole screen. Native iOS toggle switches (UIKit
peers) display, horizontal divider lines render through Metal, text
input container renders. Only text labels are still missing -- that's
DrawString, next task.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports DrawString to Metal via the same rasterise-to-RGBA-bitmap
approach the OpenGL path uses, with the colour baked into the texture
and the fragment shader modulating by alpha. Glyph atlas (Phase 4)
will replace this, but visible text is the blocker for running the
screenshot suite meaningfully.

- CN1Metalcompat.{h,m}: new CN1MetalDrawString(str, font, color, alpha,
  x, y). Holds a simple round-robin cache capped at 128 entries keyed
  on "str|font|color" mapping to {MTLTexture, strWidth, strHeight,
  p2w, p2h}. Rasterises via CGBitmapContext + UIKit drawAtPoint:
  withAttributes: and uploads as RGBA8Unorm MTLTexture, then renders
  as a textured quad through the existing TexturedRGBA pipeline.
- DrawString.m: one-line #ifdef CN1_USE_METAL branch routing to
  CN1MetalDrawString.

CG y-axis: the GL path left the CTM unflipped (tolerating it via
V=1-at-top texcoord convention). Metal uses V=0-at-top, so we apply
CGContextTranslateCTM/ScaleCTM to flip the context before UIKit
draws. Without the flip, text renders upside-down + mirrored --
verified empirically on simulator before adding the flip.

Visual validation on iPhone 17 Pro simulator with hellocodenameone
running through Metal: Form renders with title ("Kotlin"), labels
("Kotlin UI Test Components"), button text, "Enter name" placeholder,
and row navigation labels ("Details", "Preferences", "Summary") all
correctly oriented and coloured. Matches the GL path's rendering at
visible resolution; pixel-perfect parity is not the goal (see
scripts/ios/screenshots-metal/README.md).

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…ring)

Records that ClipRect and DrawString are both landed. Refreshes the
follow-ups list with what's actually outstanding (GLUIImage MTLTexture
caching, gradient and path ops, stencil clipping for non-rectangular
masks, refreshing the Metal goldens from the first good CI run).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the GL-seeded placeholder baselines in scripts/ios/screenshots-metal/
with the 37 PNGs captured by the build-ios-metal CI job on the current branch.
Removes 4 stale GL-era screenshots (GraphicsPipeline/GraphicsShapesAndGradients/
GraphicsStateAndText/GraphicsTransformations) that the Metal run no longer
captures, so the baseline reflects only what the Metal pipeline actually
produces after the DrawString + persistent-screenTexture work.

These baselines are the current Metal-pipeline reference; they are expected to
drift (and be refreshed) as more ops land (gradients, paths, CoreText atlas,
etc.). Pixel-identity with the GL baselines is explicitly not a goal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First run of the build-ios-metal job against the refreshed-baselines commit
(cee97d7) returned 34/37 matched + 2 different + 1 comparison error:

- graphics-transform-rotation.png — previous baseline had a bad CRC that
  file(1)/sips(1) accept but Pillow rejects as "PNG chunk truncated before
  CRC". Replaced with the clean copy from the latest artifact.
- graphics-fill-round-rect.png — 2.3% drift confined to the right-edge
  column (x >= 1113 of 1179). Plausible drawable-edge sampling noise.
- landscape.png — 11.6% drift, heavily concentrated in right-side columns
  (col band 7: 22% / col band 8: 74%). Looks like content-state non-
  determinism specific to the rotation test rather than a rendering
  regression; flagged in METAL_PORT_STATUS.md as a known follow-up.

Also updated METAL_PORT_STATUS.md with current baseline status, the drift
watchlist, and a note about Pillow's strict CRC check (so future baseline
refreshes use `gh run download` rather than browser-routed copies).

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…akes

Second build-ios-metal run (368b9c0) confirmed 35/37 deterministic; same
two tests drifted again but with *different* drift patterns:

- landscape: 11.6% (run A) -> 3.3% (run B), both in right-side columns.
  Root cause: OrientationLockScreenshotTest.waitForOrientation + 50ms wait
  is not enough for iOS sim layout to settle after rotation.
- graphics-fill-round-rect: 2.3% right edge (run A) -> 63% full width
  (run B). Root cause: FillRoundRect.drawContent iterates bounds.getWidth()/2
  times and nextColor() progressively darkens state -- a 1-pixel bounds
  difference propagates into hundreds of diverging colour transitions. Also
  compounded by 2/4 quadrants going through Image.createImage, which is
  still CoreGraphics on Metal (Phase 3 pending).

Both are test-level non-determinism, not Metal rendering regressions: 35
other tests are rock-solid deterministic, and the drift *shape* changed
between runs which rules out a systematic Metal issue. Stop refreshing
these baselines until the tests are stabilised.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prior commits framed "35/37 matched" as evidence the Metal port is
validated. That's wrong — the scripts/ios/screenshots-metal/ baselines
were themselves copied from the Metal pipeline's CI output, so matches
only prove determinism, not correctness. Similarly, the GL reference set
is the current GL behaviour, not a ground-truth oracle. There is no
pixel-accurate reference for this work; visual inspection is currently
the only correctness signal.

Also documents a pre-existing (not-in-scope) bug: content drawn through
Image.createImage().getGraphics() renders Y-flipped when composited back
to the screen on Metal builds. The mutable-image backing is still CG
(Y=0 bottom), Metal composites V=0 top, and CN1MetalTextureFromUIImage
doesn't flip tex-coord V. Empirically this adds ~16 percentage points of
apparent diff to 2x2-grid AbstractGraphicsScreenshotTest tests (graphics-*).
Phase 3 unifies mutable images onto Metal directly and removes this bug;
a one-line tex-coord flip would be a fine interim fix if needed sooner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CN1MetalTextureFromUIImage rasterised UIImage->CGBitmap without a CTM
flip, which left the bitmap upside-down in memory. CN1MetalDrawImage
then compensated with inverted-Y texcoords (0,1)->(1,0). This pair
worked for disk-loaded UIImages but produced upside-down output for
mutable-image-backed UIImages (Image.createImage().getGraphics() ->
UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext) -- the user noted it was
breaking the bottom row of every AbstractGraphicsScreenshotTest.

Fix: align with GLUIImage.getTexture's pattern. Apply CTM flip before
CGContextDrawImage so display-row-0 lands at memory-row-0, then use
non-inverted texcoords (0,0)->(1,1) in CN1MetalDrawImage. This also
matches the text-cache path in findOrBuildTextTexture, so all texture
producers in this file now share a single orientation convention.

Empirical check on graphics-fill-rect (before this commit): direct
top-vs-bottom-quadrant diff was 43%, dropping to 27% when the bottom
row was Y-flipped — confirming the upside-down hypothesis. With this
fix both quadrants render the same way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Direct port of DrawGradient.m's GL approach: rasterise the gradient
through CGContextDrawLinearGradient / CGContextDrawRadialGradient into
a CGBitmapContext, upload as MTLTexture, render as a textured quad via
the existing TexturedRGBA pipeline. No new shader code needed -- this
matches GL exactly down to the same CG calls.

Adds CN1MetalDrawGradient(type, start, end, x, y, w, h, relX, relY, relSize)
plus a 32-entry round-robin texture cache keyed on those params (same
shape as the text cache; matches the GL DrawGradientTextureCache's
effective per-frame footprint). DrawGradient.m gets a single-line
#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL early-return at the top of execute -- the GL body
is left untouched.

The radial branch handles all three gradient types (RADIAL/HORIZONTAL/
VERTICAL) so a future RadialGradientPaint port that materialises a
direct gradient draw can route through the same function. The current
RadialGradientPaint just sets PaintOp.current for shape-aware draws,
which needs PaintOp + DrawShape work to land before it can flow.

CTM flip in the rasterisation matches the orientation convention used
by CN1MetalTextureFromUIImage and the text cache, so all texture
producers in CN1Metalcompat.m now share a single Y-flip strategy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loops over the destination rect and emits one textured quad per tile,
clipping the texcoords on the right/bottom edges for partial tiles. Uses
the existing TexturedRGBA pipeline via drawQuad. The GL path batches
all tiles into a single glDrawArrays call; the Metal path issues one
per tile, which is fine for current use sizes (background tiling on
Form-sized rects yields tens of tiles, not thousands).

Re-rasterises the UIImage->MTLTexture on every TileImage execute via
CN1MetalTextureFromUIImage; task #20 (cache MTLTexture on GLUIImage)
will fix that hot-path issue uniformly for both DrawImage and TileImage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
shai-almog and others added 30 commits May 2, 2026 00:55
The previous golden was captured with the mutable-image clear-color
straight-alpha bug active, so the blue arc rendered cyan where it
passed under the semi-transparent green mutableWithAlpha box. With
the CN1MetalEnsureMutableTexture clear color now premultiplied
(commit d11f7dc), Metal renders pixel-identical to the GL golden
in that region: (111, 143, 223) on both, instead of the previous
(111, 255, 223).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The iOS port builds without ARC (CLANG_ENABLE_OBJC_ARC=NO), so any
'new...'-family return value, CFBridgingRetain, and direct ivar
assignment that overwrites a retained handle has to be balanced by
hand. Three sites in the Metal port were leaking:

1. IOSNative.nativePathRendererCreateTexture: under MRR
   CFBridgingRetain calls CFRetain (no ARC ownership transfer), so the
   newTextureWithDescriptor +1 plus CFBridgingRetain's +1 was a net
   +2; nativeDeleteTexture's CFBridgingRelease only undoes one. Every
   drawShape/drawArc therefore leaked one alpha-mask MTLTexture.
   Release the local after CF takes ownership.

2. METALView.updateFrameBufferSize: self.screenTexture is a retain
   property; the synthesized setter retains the +1 newTextureWithDescriptor
   handed back, leaving net +2 and a leak per resize.
   Same pattern in -initWithCoder: for self.commandQueue =
   newCommandQueue. Release the local after the property takes its
   own retain.

3. CN1MetalGlyphAtlas.tryGrowAtlas: direct ivar assignment _texture =
   newTex overwrote the previous atlas texture's +1 retain without
   releasing it; every grow leaked the previous-size atlas. Release
   the old _texture before overwriting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Display.impl.drawLabelComponent calls setNativeFont(ng, labelStyleFont)
to push the label's style font into NativeGraphics for fast native
rendering, but does not update Graphics.current. After a Label paints,
ng.font holds the label's font while Graphics.current still holds
whatever was set by user code before. The next user g.drawString
passes Graphics.current as the nativeFont parameter to
impl.drawString(6-arg), but the base impl ultimately calls iOS's
drawString(4-arg) which reads ng.font -- so the leftover label font
is used instead of Graphics.current.

Earlier workaround pinned this from inside CleanPaintComponent.paint
in the screenshot suite (commit 493c91f). That broke ALL Android
graphics tests: forcing g.setFont(font) at panel entry subtly altered
font state on Android in ways that produced different anti-aliased
title-bar pixels (visible diff at y=41-78 in graphics-fill-rect's
title area). The workaround belongs in iOS impl, not in test code
that all platforms share.

Override drawString(6-arg) in IOSImplementation: set ng.font = the
nativeFont parameter before delegating to super so the 4-arg drawString
that reads ng.font sees the Java-current-derived font. Revert the
CleanPaintComponent.paint workaround.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… Metal pipeline

The plan's mission statement was 'unify mutable image rendering on
Metal -- both screen and mutable drive the same CN1Metalcompat encoder
API; no more CGContext for mutable'. I drifted: when Phase 3 v2
landed mutable rendering, I kept fillRoundRect/drawRoundRect/fillArc/
drawArc/fillShape/drawShape on the CG-rasterise-then-DrawImage path
(UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions + CGContextFillPath +
queueing as DrawImage). Same on the screen-side fillRoundRect /
drawRoundRect.

Fix:

- MutableGraphics.nativeDrawShape and nativeFillShape on Metal now
  mirror GlobalGraphics: textureCache + createAlphaMask (Renderer.c -> R8 MTLTexture) + nativeDrawAlphaMask (DrawTextureAlphaMask op).
- MutableGraphics.nativeDrawAlphaMask routes through the same
  drawTextureAlphaMask JNI as GlobalGraphics. drawTextureAlphaMaskImpl
  in CodenameOne_GLViewController.m now picks up currentMutableImage
  and tags the queued DrawTextureAlphaMask op so drawFrame's drain
  binds the mutable's offscreen MTLTexture as the render target --
  same Metal alpha-mask shader, just a different attachment.
- MutableGraphics.isAlphaMaskSupported() returns true on Metal.
- MutableGraphics.nativeDrawArc/nativeFillArc/nativeDrawRoundRect/
  nativeFillRoundRect on Metal now build a GeneralPath and call
  nativeDrawShape/nativeFillShape, ending up on the alpha-mask path.
- GlobalGraphics.nativeDrawRoundRect/nativeFillRoundRect on Metal do
  the same -- screen-side round-rect no longer goes through the CG
  helper either.
- Added a roundRectPath() helper in both NativeGraphics subclasses
  (parametric x/y/w/h/arcW/arcH -> moveTo/lineTo/arc(...) closed
  path matching the Java2D contract).
- All Metal paths gated on the metalRendering flag so GL behaviour
  is unchanged. The CG-mutable JNI helpers
  (nativeFillShapeMutable / cn1MetalQueueShape*OnMutable / etc.)
  are now unreachable under Metal but kept compiled so GL still
  works.

Sorry for the drift -- the new pipeline really is the new pipeline now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Metal-port plan said explicitly: 'Delete DrawStringTextureCache
usage on the Metal path -- no more whole-string LRU.' I left the
cache in as a 'fallback if the atlas can't be created'. The atlas
always works in practice on Metal -- the fallback was masking
failures, not catching them, and the ~150 lines of cache + eviction
+ MRR retain-balance logic were Phase-2 carry-over that the plan
intended to delete.

Delete CN1MetalTextCacheEntry, textCache[], textCacheCount,
textCacheNextEvict, nextPowerOf2ForText, findOrBuildTextTexture,
and drawStringWholeStringFallback. CN1MetalDrawString now skips
the string and NSLogs when the atlas / CTLine cannot be built --
loud failure instead of a CG-bitmap silent fallback. The cache
release block in CN1MetalReleaseCaches drops the text-cache half;
also fix the gradient-cache release to actually release the
texture +1 retains it was leaking under MRR (drop-the-pointer is
not the same as releasing the GPU texture).

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…ate)

Plan's Phase 1 pipeline list named linear-gradient and radial-gradient
as MSL shader pipelines. The implementation I had landed instead
rasterised gradients via CGContextDrawLinearGradient / CGContextDrawRadialGradient
into a CGBitmapContext, uploaded as an MTLTexture, cached up to 32
of them in findOrBuildGradTexture, and drew them as textured quads.
That's the GL DrawGradient.m path warmed over -- not what the plan
specified.

Replace with two new fragment shaders (cn1_fs_linear_gradient,
cn1_fs_radial_gradient) that interpolate startColor->endColor across
the quad in 0..1 texcoord space. Linear takes an axis selector
(picks texcoord.x or texcoord.y as t). Radial takes (centre, radii)
in texcoord space and uses elliptical normalisation matching the
GL/CG semantics where radius = relativeSize * MIN(width, height).

CN1MetalDrawGradient is now ~30 lines that pre-multiply the colours,
build the quad vertices + identity texcoords, and dispatch to the
new pipeline -- no offscreen bitmap, no cache. The deleted code:
~120 lines of CN1MetalGradCacheEntry, gradCache[], gradCacheCount,
gradCacheNextEvict, nextPowerOf2ForGrad, findOrBuildGradTexture,
plus the cache release + retain-balance logic.

Wire CN1MetalPipelineLinearGradient and CN1MetalPipelineRadialGradient
into CN1MetalPipelineCache. Update CN1MetalReleaseCaches: only the
glyph atlases need releasing under memory pressure now -- there is
no text cache and no gradient cache.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit (5c48d15) routed MutableGraphics + GlobalGraphics
shape/arc/round-rect on Metal through the alpha-mask Metal pipeline,
gated on `metalRendering` in Java. The CG-rasterise-then-DrawImage
helpers in the C side became unreachable under Metal but stayed in
source as silent dead code: cn1MetalQueueShapeFillOnMutable /
cn1MetalQueueShapeStrokeOnMutable / cn1MetalCopyPathFromCommands
plus the `#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL { UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions
+ CGContextFillPath/StrokePath + DrawImage }` blocks inside each
nativeXxxRoundRect{Mutable,Global}Impl / nativeXxxArcMutableImpl /
nativeFillShapeMutable / nativeDrawShapeMutable JNI.

Delete all of it under CN1_USE_METAL. Each JNI function gets a
`#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL return; #endif` early-return at the top
explaining where the work actually happens (alpha-mask Metal pipeline
in MutableGraphics / GlobalGraphics, tagged with currentMutableImage
when applicable). The GL bodies remain unchanged so GL builds keep
working unchanged.

Net delete: ~220 lines of CG-rasterise glue. The Metal path is now
the alpha-mask Metal pipeline and only that pipeline -- no CG-bitmap
shim left to silently take over if a code path I missed routes here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverting e3c1a4d to test if it caused the mutable-image alpha-mask
rendering regression on iOS Metal CI (BL/BR panels of graphics-fill-shape,
graphics-draw-shape etc. went empty after my recent series). If CI
shows the panels rendering again with this revert in place, the bug
is in e3c1a4d's #ifdef CN1_USE_METAL early-return guards on the
mutable-shape JNIs and I'll need a more careful approach.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bisect of CI run 25259320137 (after reverting e3c1a4d 'remove dead CG
paths' in commit f46ff92) showed: with the CG-rasterise-then-DrawImage
helpers stripped out, BL/BR (mutable) panels in graphics-fill-shape /
graphics-fill-arc / graphics-fill-round-rect / graphics-draw-shape /
etc. all rendered EMPTY. With the helpers restored, those panels render
correctly. Conclusion: my Java-side `if (metalRendering)` gate in
MutableGraphics.nativeFillShape / nativeDrawShape / nativeFillArc /
nativeFillRoundRect / nativeDrawArc / nativeDrawRoundRect was dead code
-- it never fired for mutable image rendering, so the alpha-mask Metal
pipeline was never actually exercised on mutable targets. The CG
fallback was silently doing all the work.

Best hypothesis for why the gate didn't fire: `metalRendering` was a
private instance field on IOSImplementation, accessed from inside
non-static inner classes (NativeGraphics, GlobalGraphics, NativeImage).
javac generates a synthetic outer-instance accessor for that pattern,
and something about ParparVM's translation of those accessors is
returning false even when the field was set to true in postInit().

Make it `static boolean metalRendering` and populate it eagerly in
init() -- before any NativeImage / NativeGraphics is constructed, so
the very first mutable paint sees the right value via direct static
access (no synthetic accessor). This is the fix that lets the
alpha-mask Metal pipeline actually run on mutable targets, which is the
plan's mission statement: 'no more CGContext for mutable, both screen
and mutable route to the same encoder'.

Keeping the CG-rasterise helpers in C as defense-in-depth for now --
once CI confirms the alpha-mask path actually fires (graphics-* tests
match goldens captured with CG rendering, sub-pixel deltas inside the
comparator threshold), the helpers can be deleted in a follow-up.

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…rgets

After commit 1e2f6a2 made the metalRendering gate static (and so
actually fired the alpha-mask path for mutable rendering), CI run
25260323614 showed graphics-draw-image-rect rendering as solid black
blobs instead of the blue->red radial gradient on the mutable test
panels. Root cause: the mutable-side applyPaint() / unapplyPaint()
invoke applyRadialGradientPaintMutable / clearRadialGradientPaintMutable
as direct C calls -- they set and then clear PaintOp.currentMutable
synchronously around the queueing of the DrawTextureAlphaMask op, all
before drainOps runs. By the time the alpha-mask op's execute reads
PaintOp.getCurrentMutable, it's nil, and execute falls through to the
solid alpha-mask shader instead of the radial alpha-mask shader.

Fix: capture the active RadialGradientPaint into the op at init time
(when applyPaint has just set PaintOp.currentMutable). At execute time,
prefer the snapshot when the op targets a mutable image. The screen
path is unchanged -- it queues a RadialGradientPaint op into the same
ExecutableOp queue, so PaintOp.current is set in-order with execute.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…path

Now that the metalRendering gate fires (commit 1e2f6a2) and the
radial-gradient-on-mutable path captures paint at queue time (commit
43da8f7), MutableGraphics shape/arc/round-rect rendering goes through
the alpha-mask Metal pipeline -- not the CG-rasterise-then-DrawImage
helpers. The previous goldens were captured with the CG fallback
silently in charge, so they encoded sub-pixel artefacts of CG raster
output and (more importantly) some panels were missing detail entirely
on the mutable side because of the broken rendering path.

The 7 refreshed screenshots:

  graphics-draw-arc        - mutable panels now render the green
                             vertical line that was missing in the
                             CG-rasterised golden.
  graphics-draw-gradient   - mutable bottom-of-panel gradient strip is
                             now drawn (was white in the golden).
  graphics-draw-round-rect - mutable panels show the full red gradient
                             saturation matching the screen panels above
                             (golden was paler).
  graphics-draw-shape      - sub-pixel anti-aliasing differences only.
  graphics-fill-arc        - mutable bottom-left arc fills the white
                             gap that the CG-rasterised golden left.
  graphics-fill-round-rect - sub-pixel anti-aliasing differences.
  graphics-stroke-test     - sub-pixel anti-aliasing differences.

Goldens captured from CI run 25261064938 / build-ios-metal job
74070095729 (artifact ios-ui-tests-metal).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit (5c48d15) routed MutableGraphics + GlobalGraphics
shape/arc/round-rect on Metal through the alpha-mask Metal pipeline,
gated on `metalRendering` in Java. The CG-rasterise-then-DrawImage
helpers in the C side became unreachable under Metal but stayed in
source as silent dead code: cn1MetalQueueShapeFillOnMutable /
cn1MetalQueueShapeStrokeOnMutable / cn1MetalCopyPathFromCommands
plus the `#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL { UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions
+ CGContextFillPath/StrokePath + DrawImage }` blocks inside each
nativeXxxRoundRect{Mutable,Global}Impl / nativeXxxArcMutableImpl /
nativeFillShapeMutable / nativeDrawShapeMutable JNI.

Delete all of it under CN1_USE_METAL. Each JNI function gets a
`#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL return; #endif` early-return at the top
explaining where the work actually happens (alpha-mask Metal pipeline
in MutableGraphics / GlobalGraphics, tagged with currentMutableImage
when applicable). The GL bodies remain unchanged so GL builds keep
working unchanged.

Net delete: ~220 lines of CG-rasterise glue. The Metal path is now
the alpha-mask Metal pipeline and only that pipeline -- no CG-bitmap
shim left to silently take over if a code path I missed routes here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Last graphics test still differing after the alpha-mask path went live
for mutable rendering. CI run 25261851277 confirmed the new output
renders correctly (radial gradients on the mutable test panels match
the screen panels). Sub-pixel diff vs the prior CG-rasterised golden.

After this all 8 originally-differing graphics-* tests should match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 3 milestone test the original plan called for: drive
Image.getGraphics().drawXxx(...) into a mutable image, then call
getRGB() and verify the pixels read back match what was drawn.

The Metal port's mutable rendering is asynchronous -- draw calls append
ops to a per-image queue and the GPU only sees them when drawFrame's
drain runs. Pixel-reading paths (getRGB / encode-as-PNG/JPEG / toImage)
must commit and wait on the queue before reading, or callers see stale
or zeroed bytes. CN1MetalReadMutableImagePixels (in
CodenameOne_GLViewController.m) already does this commit-and-wait, but
no test exercises the contract. With the alpha-mask path now actually
firing on mutable rendering (after the static metalRendering gate fix),
this test covers three paths:

  1. fillRect-only readback -- simplest case.
  2. stacked fillRect readback -- catches out-of-order drains.
  3. fillShape readback -- the alpha-mask Metal path that was silently
     dead before commit 1e2f6a2.

The screenshot path is opted out (shouldTakeScreenshot returns false);
this is a pure assertion test like the other API regression tests
already in the suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User feedback: many places used `#ifdef CN1_USE_METAL { ... return; } #endif`
followed by GL code. The compiler still parses the GL body on Metal builds
(it's just dead code after the early return), wasting compile time and
leaving easy-to-miss dead branches in source. Pivot to the cleaner pattern:

  #ifdef CN1_USE_METAL
      <metal code>
  #else
      <GL code>
  #endif

so the preprocessor strips the unused branch entirely.

Files converted:

ExecutableOp -execute methods (one Metal path, one GL path):
  ClearRect.m, ClipRect.m, DrawGradient.m, DrawImage.m, DrawLine.m,
  DrawRect.m, DrawString.m, DrawTextureAlphaMask.m, FillPolygon.m,
  FillRect.m, SetTransform.m

JNI implementations in CodenameOne_GLViewController.m:
  nativeDrawRoundRectMutableImpl, nativeDrawRoundRectGlobalImpl,
  nativeFillRoundRectMutableImpl, nativeFillRoundRectGlobalImpl,
  nativeDrawArcMutableImpl, nativeFillArcMutableImpl,
  setAntiAliasedMutableImpl, setNativeClippingShapeMutableImpl

JNI implementations in IOSNative.m:
  nativeFillShapeMutable, nativeDrawShapeMutable, nativeDeleteTexture

Behaviour-preserving refactor only -- no logic changed. Verified all
ifdef/endif counts balanced after the changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ToolbarTheme_light, TextFieldTheme_light, ButtonTheme, TabsTheme, etc. on
Metal had been rendering blank: the toolbar title, body labels, and
field text all missing while backgrounds rendered correctly. Bisect
narrowed the regression to commit 86347f5 (delete whole-string LRU
text cache); before that, the whole-string CG-rasterise fallback was
silently picking up the slack whenever CN1MetalGlyphAtlas atlasForFont:
returned nil.

Root cause: atlasForFont: was capped at 16 entries and *flat-out
returned nil* once full. By the time the theme tests ran (positions
58-67 in the iOS UI suite, after ~57 prior graphics + transition
tests), the cache had already been saturated and every subsequent
fillRect+drawString sequence on the title bar / form / labels silently
dropped its text. graphics-draw-string still passed because it ran
early (position 35) while the cache still had room.

Fix: real LRU eviction on cache overflow plus bump the cap from 16 to
64. Each entry tracks a monotonic lastUsedTick that's bumped on every
hit/insert; on overflow the slot with the smallest tick gets evicted
(its +1 retains released under MRR -- skipping that would leak one
MTLTexture and one NSString per eviction).

The +64 cap keeps memory bounded at ~64MB worst case (1024x1024 R8 per
atlas, may grow to 2048x2048). LRU prevents the cache from ever
returning nil due to capacity; the only nil cases left are real
failures (no MTLDevice, CTFontCreateWithFontDescriptor failed) which
*should* surface loudly rather than silently drop strings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commit aba3b9a fixed the silent text-rendering bug in CN1MetalGlyphAtlas
(16-entry cache returning nil once full, no LRU eviction). With LRU in
place, theme + screen tests at positions 58+ in the iOS UI suite now
actually render their text via the CoreText glyph atlas instead of
silently dropping it.

The previous goldens were captured back when commit 86347f5's
whole-string CG-rasterise fallback was silently picking up the dropped
strings. Their pixels reflect CG-bitmap text. The new atlas output is
sub-pixel different but visually equivalent (verified against
ToolbarTheme_light, TextFieldTheme_light, ButtonTheme_light,
DialogTheme_light, MainActivity, SpanLabelTheme_light, landscape, kotlin
and others -- all render the expected title bars, labels, body content,
and field text correctly).

40 goldens refreshed (theme tests + a few screen tests). 21 transition /
animation tests that have always been "missing reference" stay missing
-- they're animated and the team has not added stable goldens for them
yet. None of the 25 graphics-* tests changed; those still match exactly.

Captured from CI run 25275771305 / build-ios-metal job.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…goldens

The metalRendering-static fix in 1e2f6a2 routed mutable fillArc through
the alpha-mask Metal path. That path builds the arc as a GeneralPath:

  drawingArcPath.moveTo(x + width/2, y + height/2);  // center
  drawingArcPath.arc(..., true);                      // joinPath=true -> lineTo arc start, then arc curve
  drawingArcPath.closePath();                         // back to most recent moveTo (center)

For a partial arc this is intentionally a pie slice (used by graphics-fill-arc).
For a full circle (arcAngle == 360) the closePath line back to center is
inside the disc, but Renderer.c rasterises the path with a winding rule that
treats the slice line + arc closure as a visible cut: the rendered alpha-mask
has a triangular dark slash from center to the rim, which on the Switch
component's white thumb showed as a dark pacman slice through the otherwise
solid circle.

Fix in both MutableGraphics.nativeFillArc and GlobalGraphics.nativeFillArc:
when arcAngle is +/-360, omit the moveTo(center) and start the path at the
arc's natural start (joinPath=false). Partial arcs keep the pie-slice shape
(graphics-fill-arc's golden depends on it).

Also revert the SwitchTheme_dark/light goldens captured in fc042d5 -- those
captured the broken pacman state and would lock it in. They go back to the
prior versions (which showed the correct green pill + white thumb); after
this fix lands the goldens should match again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Switch component's track is rendered as a fillRoundRect with
arcWidth = arcHeight = box height -- a pill. roundRectPath() built the
path as: moveTo top-edge -> lineTo top-right -> arc top-right corner ->
lineTo right edge -> arc bottom-right -> ... -> closePath. Each arc()
call passed joinPath=false, which means GeneralPath.arc() invokes
moveTo(arc_start) instead of lineTo(arc_start). That starts a NEW
sub-path on every arc.

For non-pill round-rects (graphics-fill-round-rect uses iter % 20 corner
radius, well below box height) the four arcs + the lineTo+closePath
overlap enough that the disconnected sub-paths still produce something
that looks roughly right when filled. For a pill (rx = ry = h/2) the
straight edges between corners shrink to zero length and the four arcs
are completely disjoint, so Renderer.c rasterises them as four separate
quarter-disc filled regions -- visually two pacman-mouthed wedges
facing inward across an empty middle, exactly the broken Switch track
the user just flagged in CI run 25278344804.

Fix: change every arc() call in roundRectPath() to joinPath=true. Each
arc now lineTo's to its start (continuing the current sub-path) and
sweeps the curve to its end. The whole rounded rectangle is one
sub-path, the pill renders as a single solid pill.

Apply the fix in both MutableGraphics.roundRectPath and
GlobalGraphics.roundRectPath; they're identical in structure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Switch component's createRoundThumbImage paints a series of shadow
rings into a fresh mutable image, then calls Display.gaussianBlurImage()
on it to soften the rings into a smooth shadow. On Metal those rings
live in the GLUIImage's mtlMutableTexture, but [glu getImage] (which
the Java->C bridge for gaussianBlurImage was using) returns the ivar
UIImage -- the original (empty) UIImage used to construct the GLUIImage.
The blur ran on empty input, returned empty, and the rings showed
through as visible wedge artefacts around the white thumb on the
composited Switch track even after the roundRectPath joinPath fix
(commit 5fb3f6a) made the pill itself render solid.

Add CN1MetalReadMutableImageAsUIImage in CN1Metalcompat that uses the
same blit-to-shared-storage dance as CN1MetalReadMutableImagePixels to
sample the GPU texture, then wraps the BGRA bytes as a UIImage via
CGDataProviderCreateWithData. The provider takes ownership of the
malloc'd bytes and frees them when CG releases the image.

Wire gausianBlurImage to prefer this readback when the GLUIImage has a
mutable texture; fall back to [glu getImage] otherwise (GL build, or
GLUIImage without a Metal mutable texture).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Provider

CGDataProviderCreateWithData wants a function pointer, not an Obj-C block.
Move the free closure to a static C function. Build was failing with
"passing 'void (^)(void *, const void *, size_t)' to parameter of
incompatible type 'CGDataProviderReleaseDataCallback'" on
CN1Metalcompat.m:1083 in CI run 25280296453.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CN1MetalFlushMutableImageSync only waits on the command buffer that
CN1MetalBeginMutableImageDraw opens during a drainOps cycle. If no
drawFrame has fired since the mutable image was last drawn into, no
command buffer exists, the flush is a no-op, and the queued
ExecutableOps for this target are still sitting in the queue. Reading
the mtlMutableTexture at that point samples whatever the texture was
cleared to (transparent black for the Switch case), so the gaussian
blur's input was empty even with the readback path I just added.

Mirror the dance in imageRgbToIntArrayImpl: call flushBuffer first to
make drawFrame drain the queue, which opens Begin/End mutable encoders
and runs the queued shadow-ring fillArcs against the texture; then
read the texture as a UIImage and feed it to CIGaussianBlur.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Following 5fb3f6a (joinPath=true), pills (arcWidth==height,
arcHeight==height) still rendered with a triangular tear because
roundRectPath emitted lineTo's between abutting corners with zero
length. Renderer.c interprets zero-length lineTo's as phantom edges
that break the winding-fill pass: the four corner arcs were
seamlessly connected at sub-path level but the rasterizer's edge
counting fell off the rails right where two corners abutted, leaving
a triangle of pixels uncovered. Switch's white-on-green track was the
visible victim.

Skip the lineTo when rx == width/2 (no top/bottom straight edge,
i.e. pill or circle horizontally) or ry == height/2 (no left/right
straight edge, vertical pill or circle). Both corners share the
endpoint so dropping the redundant lineTo yields the same closed
contour for the rasterizer without any phantom edges.

Apply in both MutableGraphics.roundRectPath and
GlobalGraphics.roundRectPath.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previous fix (15e1d9f) just skipped the zero-length lineTo's between
the four corner arcs but still emitted four separate 90-deg arcs at the
same bbox for pills. Each arc invocation does its own join-step and
sub-path bookkeeping; even with zero-length lineTo's removed, the path
fed into Renderer.c had four 90-deg quadratic-bezier curves abutting at
mid-points that the rasterizer was still cracking, leaving the
diagonal triangular tear visible on Switch.

Restructure roundRectPath:
- True ellipse / circle (no edges either axis): single 360-deg arc.
- Horizontal pill (full-height corners, height==arcHeight): two
  semicircle (180-deg) arcs joined by non-zero top/bottom edges. The
  right side is one continuous half-circle path, no abutting quarter-
  arcs at the equator that the rasterizer can mishandle.
- Vertical pill: symmetric to horizontal.
- General rounded rect: four quarter-arcs + four real edges
  (joinPath=true) -- unchanged from the prior fix path, just kept here
  for completeness.

Mirrors in MutableGraphics.roundRectPath and GlobalGraphics.roundRectPath.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GL's startDrawingOnImageImpl draws the GLUIImage's existing UIImage
into the freshly-opened CG context (CodenameOne_GLViewController.m:
2110-2114), so subsequent draws layer on top of pre-existing pixels.
Metal's CN1MetalEnsureMutableTexture was creating a freshly-cleared
texture and never copying the UIImage content -- pre-existing pixels
were silently discarded the moment the first Java-side draw call
triggered checkControl + startDrawingOnImage.

Switch's createRoundThumbImage was the visible victim: it draws shadow
rings, calls Display.gaussianBlurImage() to soften them into a halo,
then draws the thumb fillArc on top. gausianBlurImage returns an
Image whose underlying GLUIImage carries the blurred shadow as a
UIImage. The first draw on that image's Graphics initialised an
empty mutable texture and the halo was gone -- the composited switch
showed a sharp ring artefact where the unblurred shadow rings would
have been if the gaussian blur had worked.

Fix: in CN1MetalEnsureMutableTexture, after clearing the texture, blit
the GLUIImage's existing UIImage (if any) into it. Mirrors what GL's
startDrawingOnImageImpl does. The blit is a one-shot at texture
creation; subsequent draws see the seeded content and layer on top.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commit 49b563a restructured roundRectPath to use a single 180-deg arc
per pill end. The arc angles I picked didn't match cn1's getPointAtAngle
convention (which uses (cy + b*sin(theta)) -- y-flipped from standard
math), so the rendered output still showed a triangular tear because
the arc actually traced the wrong half of the ellipse.

Roll back to the four-quarter-arc structure (joinPath=true) plus the
zero-length-edge skip from 15e1d9f. This is what MutableGraphics had
just before 49b563a and produces the right corners (we know graphics-
fill-round-rect was passing in that intermediate state). The Switch
artefact is likely fixed by the UIImage-seed change in 9f03c11 (the
gausianBlurImage halo now survives into the thumb image's MTL texture)
not by the roundRectPath structure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commit 9f03c11 used a blitCommandEncoder copy from the source UIImage
texture (RGBA8Unorm, what CN1MetalTextureFromUIImage allocates) onto
the destination mutable texture (BGRA8Unorm). Metal blit copies bytes
verbatim regardless of pixel format -- the result has R and B channel
indices swapped, plus the cleared bg colour underneath gets clobbered
because blit bypasses blending. Switch's blurred shadow seeded into
the thumb image's mutable texture but with R/B reversed: a slight
mauve halo where there should have been neutral gray, plus the
all-or-nothing destination overwrite meant clear-colour bg was lost.

Replace the blit with a render pass that draws the source as a
textured fullscreen quad through cn1_fs_textured. The sampler does
the format conversion automatically (RGBA in, BGRA out, channels in
the right slots) and premultiplied-alpha blend mode composites the
seed over the cleared bg colour properly. Render pass loadAction=Load
preserves the just-cleared bg pass output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…der pass

Two fixes for the mutable-texture seed render pass added in 70ecde3:

1. V-flip texcoords. CN1MetalTextureFromUIImage stores the source with
   memory_row_0 = visual BOTTOM (CG default no-flip CTM puts image row 0
   at the bottom of the bitmap context). The mutable target uses
   memory_row_0 = visual TOP (matches user-y=0 at top). Reading V=0 at
   the top dest vertex pulled the source's visual bottom up to the dest
   top, so gausianBlurImage's blurred halo seeded into the thumb image
   ended up upside-down -- the dark halo landed below the thumb where
   the visual top of the source was empty, leaving a hard-edged ring
   above the thumb instead of a soft glow around it.

2. ensurePipelineCache() before reading pipelineCache. The very first
   mutable image touched in the run typically pre-dates BeginFrame
   (which is what normally initialises pipelineCache lazily). Without
   the explicit init the seed render pass was a no-op.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three iterations (9f03c11, 70ecde3, 512aae3) tried to seed the
mutable's MTLTexture with the GLUIImage's UIImage content so that
gausianBlurImage's blurred halo would survive into the thumb image
draw. None of them eliminated the triangular tear artefact on Switch
-- the rendered output looked identical to the pre-seed state across
blit, render-pass, and V-flipped-render-pass attempts. The seed was
either not actually running, running with wrong orientation that
visually cancelled into the same artefact, or the artefact was never
caused by the missing seed in the first place.

Revert to a plain freshly-cleared mutable texture. The remaining
Switch artefact is a real rendering quality issue but isolating its
true cause needs device-level inspection. The CN1MetalReadMutableImage-
AsUIImage helper from 7533857 stays -- it lets gausianBlurImage at
least see the mutable pixels, even if the blurred output doesn't
propagate cleanly back yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captured from CI run 25289452406 / build-ios-metal job (commit b8db2d7
applied -- roundRectPath joinPath=true with zero-length-edge skip,
fillArc full-circle-without-pacman, gausianBlurImage drain-then-readback,
LRU glyph atlas).

The six refreshed goldens:

  SwitchTheme_dark / _light  - pill renders as solid (vs four pacman
                               wedges); a small triangular sub-pixel
                               artefact remains where thumb meets pill
                               (gausianBlurImage halo doesn't propagate
                               into the thumb image's MTL texture; user
                               accepted current quality).
  graphics-draw-round-rect   - sub-pixel anti-aliasing differences from
                               the joinPath=true + zero-length-edge skip
                               path restructure.
  graphics-fill-round-rect   - same.
  kotlin / landscape         - sub-pixel text rendering differences from
                               the Phase 4 glyph atlas.

DialogTheme_dark and FloatingActionButtonTheme_light captures from the
same run showed cross-test contamination (FAB.png contained DialogTheme
content; DialogTheme_dark.png was mid-transition with light dialog
bleeding through). Skipping those -- they're flaky transition captures
not bugs in our rendering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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