tests/language/ui/no_device.txt

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? 40 : RUNTIME ERROR MENU needs a UI device and this runtime has none
Give BASIC menus, dialogs and HUD labels over libakgl's UI helpers Group K, and the first verbs to reach the akgl_ui subsystem 0.9.0 brought in: MENU and GETMENU and RMENU, DIALOG, HUD and UISTYLE. A program that wanted a title screen had to draw one out of CHAR and GETKEY, which is what both breakout tutorials make a reader do. The interesting part is the impedance mismatch. libakgl's UI is immediate mode -- widgets are re-declared inside a frame bracket every frame and clay borrows their text until the bracket closes -- and a BASIC program says MENU 1, "START" on line 100 and expects it up on line 900, several hundred frames later. So src/ui_akgl.c is retained on this side and immediate on that one: the record's entry points are setters that copy into akbasic_AkglUi, and akbasic_ui_akgl_render() replays the whole set once a frame from the host's pump. No BASIC string, which lives in the per-line value pool, is ever what clay is handed. The shapes are borrowed rather than invented. MENU retires the way SOLID does -- no entries retires one, no arguments retire them all. GETMENU holds the step loop the way GETKEY does, so parking is not blocking: the step still returns, the host keeps its frame rate, and the sprite, audio and collision services keep running underneath because they run before the blocking checks. RMENU(n,1) reads and clears the way BUMP() does. Withdrawing the device or retiring the menu releases a holding GETMENU with 0 rather than wedging the script, which is akbasic_input_service()'s rule for a withdrawn keyboard. One thing a program has to know, and docs/19-user-interface.md says it twice: a menu that is up owns the cursor keys and Return. It has to, and retiring it gives them back -- forget the MENU n before an INPUT and the INPUT never sees the Return that ends it. akbasic_runtime_set_ui() is its own function rather than a fifth argument to akbasic_runtime_set_devices(), whose signature has twenty-eight call sites in tests and documentation that are about something else. deps/libakgl is not touched. akgl_UiAnchor has the four corners and dead centre, so HUD offers exactly those five; TODO.md records what a top-centre and bottom-centre would cost upstream, along with the three other things this deliberately leaves out. No new error code either -- DEVICE, BOUNDS, SYNTAX and TYPE cover the group, and 520 stays free. tools/screenshot.c had to learn that "needs a font" and "draws the text grid" are two questions. They were one, and a UI figure came out black: the text layer owns every pixel of the rows it covers and painted over the widgets. The new ui=1 fence attribute asks for the first without the second; MAINTENANCE.md documents it. 112/112 in both configurations, 112/112 under ASan and UBSan, coverage 94.1% against the 90% gate with src/runtime_ui.c at 99% of lines and 100% of functions, doxygen clean, and the four new figures byte-identical on a re-render. TODO.md section 8's gate table was stale on several counts besides these and is refreshed with measured numbers. Co-Authored-By: Tachikoma (Claude Code Opus 5 1M) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EwxGB6TdoVvZ11KQQME9cL Co-Authored-By: Andrew Kesterson <andrew@aklabs.net> 2026-08-02 18:37:10 -04:00			`BEFORE`
			`? 40 : RUNTIME ERROR MENU needs a UI device and this runtime has none`