diff --git a/docs/22-ui.md b/docs/22-ui.md
index 88ef180..d79ef20 100644
--- a/docs/22-ui.md
+++ b/docs/22-ui.md
@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ declarative blocks yourself between the same two frame calls, with the whole DSL
 available. The demo this chapter quotes, [`examples/uidemo`](../examples/uidemo), does
 both: its title menu and HUD are widgets, its options screen is raw `CLAY()`.
 
+**What this chapter assumes.** A program that already brings libakgl up — the
+`akgl_game_init` startup order from [Chapter 7](07-the-game-and-the-frame.md) (or
+[Chapter 3](03-getting-started.md)'s smallest window), plus one loaded font from
+[Chapter 17](17-text-and-fonts.md). None of that is restated here, and the UI adds only
+three calls to it, shown below. When something in *your* bring-up fights you, the demo's
+`startup()` in [`examples/uidemo/uidemo.c`](../examples/uidemo/uidemo.c) is the complete
+working sequence to diff against — including the `main()` shape, which the runnable
+snippets in this manual deliberately hide.
+
 Like collision, the subsystem is optional at runtime rather than at build time: it is
 always compiled in, costs static storage until `akgl_ui_init` runs, and a game that
 never calls that pays nothing else.
@@ -242,8 +251,13 @@ static akgl_UiMenu title_menu = {
 Declaring it each frame is `akgl_ui_menu(&title_menu)`. Input reaches it two ways, and
 they meet in the same struct: `akgl_ui_menu_handle_event` moves `selected` from the
 arrow keys and D-pad (wrapping at both ends) and sets `activated` on Return or gamepad
-South; the mouse selects by *moving onto* a row and activates by clicking one, during
-the declaration itself. A stationary pointer claims nothing — parking the mouse over the
+South — exactly `SDLK_UP`, `SDLK_DOWN` and `SDLK_RETURN` against `SDL_Event.key.key`,
+and `SDL_GAMEPAD_BUTTON_DPAD_UP`, `_DPAD_DOWN` and `_SOUTH` against
+`SDL_Event.gbutton.button`. Keycodes, not scancodes — which only matters when you
+*synthesize* events, as the demo's `--demo` script does: a hand-built key event must
+fill in `key.key`, or it matches nothing and the menu silently ignores it. The mouse
+selects by *moving onto* a row and activates by clicking one, during the declaration
+itself. A stationary pointer claims nothing — parking the mouse over the
 menu must not pin the selection against the keyboard, which would otherwise fight it
 sixty times a second and lose.
 
diff --git a/include/akgl/ui.h b/include/akgl/ui.h
index 01f43da..58ebcf2 100644
--- a/include/akgl/ui.h
+++ b/include/akgl/ui.h
@@ -391,6 +391,13 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *akgl_ui_frame_end(akgl_RenderBackend *self);
  *              -- clay keeps the pointer, not a copy. May be empty, which
  *              draws an empty panel.
  * @param style Look to draw with, or `NULL` for the textbox palette.
+ *
+ * @note The panel's height is fixed at #AKGL_UI_DIALOG_HEIGHT and the text is
+ *       not clipped to it: a message that wraps to more lines than fit runs
+ *       past the bottom border, visibly. That is the same behaviour as the
+ *       hand-rolled panel this widget mirrors, and it is deliberate --
+ *       overflow you can see beats truncation you cannot. Size the height for
+ *       your longest message, or raise the override.
  * @return `NULL` on success, otherwise an error context owned by the caller.
  * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If @p id or @p text is `NULL`.
  * @throws AKGL_ERR_UI If the subsystem is not initialized or no frame is