gui: a window the toolkit could not create is a refusal that says why, not a process with no window in it - #108
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…, not a process with no window in it Measured on a Windows Server 2025 guest without 3D acceleration: the graphics driver offers no OpenGL, so the toolkit cannot create its window. It logged why to a standard error the windows-subsystem binary does not have, and then ran a loop nothing ends - a double click, nothing on screen, and tfg-gui.exe in the task list until the session ended. The window is now shown and then asked, through the driver's NativeWindow, whether it got a native window. When it did not, the binary says so on standard error and in a system dialog - what did not happen, why in the toolkit's own words, that everything is on the command line, and what to do about it - and exits 1 without running the loop. On a machine where the window opens this is the same two calls ShowAndRun made, in the same order. user32.dll is loaded by name for the dialog, which is allowed because it is a KnownDLL - measured in the registry, among the same thirty seven as kernel32 - and both guards over library loads list it with that reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…the changelog carries the refusal Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe GUI now detects failed native-window creation, captures the toolkit cause, reports a localized error through stderr and a Windows dialog, and exits with status 1. Non-Windows builds keep terminal-only reporting. Documentation describes the OpenGL requirement and command-line fallback. ChangesGUI startup refusal handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GUI binary
participant Fyne toolkit
participant Native window
participant stderr
participant Windows dialog
GUI binary->>Fyne toolkit: Show window
Fyne toolkit->>Native window: Create native handle
Native window-->>GUI binary: Return handle state
alt Handle exists
GUI binary->>Fyne toolkit: Run toolkit loop
else Handle is unavailable
GUI binary->>Fyne toolkit: Extract Cause:
GUI binary->>stderr: Write refusal message
GUI binary->>Windows dialog: Display refusal message
GUI binary-->>GUI binary: Exit with status 1
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new startup diagnostic path has a narrow test gap: its source guard could accept incorrect log-writer wiring and fail to protect toolkit-cause reporting. Fixing the assertion is low risk and improves regression protection. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 12 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Full details: Clear User-Facing TextExplanation The new refusal message clearly states what happened, gives the OpenGL 2.1 cause, and tells the user to run Resolution Replace the default Full details: No Resource LeaksExplanation The PR adds an unbounded log accumulator in Resolution Limit log capture to window startup. Save the previous logger writer, capture only through ✨ Finishing Touches📝 Generate docstrings
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- Line 195: Update the MultiWriter argument validation around copyFirst so it
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| case "MultiWriter": | ||
| if pkg, ok := fun.X.(*ast.Ident); ok && pkg.Name == "io" && strings.HasSuffix(rel, "run_cgo.go") && len(call.Args) == 2 { | ||
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Match both io.MultiWriter destinations.
The guard accepts any address expression as the first argument, so io.MultiWriter(&other, log.Writer()) passes while said remains empty. CauseFrom(said.String()) then cannot extract the toolkit's Cause: line. A non-log.Writer() second argument also passes, although it does not by itself stop said from receiving output. Assert that the arguments are exactly &said and log.Writer().
Proposed fix
-first, ok := call.Args[0].(*ast.UnaryExpr)
-copyFirst = ok && first.Op == token.AND
+copyFirst = false
+if first, ok := call.Args[0].(*ast.UnaryExpr); ok && first.Op == token.AND {
+ if name, ok := first.X.(*ast.Ident); ok && name.Name == "said" {
+ if second, ok := call.Args[1].(*ast.CallExpr); ok {
+ if writer, ok := second.Fun.(*ast.SelectorExpr); ok &&
+ writer.Sel.Name == "Writer" {
+ if pkg, ok := writer.X.(*ast.Ident); ok && pkg.Name == "log" {
+ copyFirst = true
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
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In `@internal/guard/windowrefused_test.go` at line 195, Update the MultiWriter
argument validation around copyFirst so it only accepts exactly &said as the
first destination and log.Writer() as the second; reject other address
expressions or writer arguments while preserving the existing AND-operator
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…e is read from, not any buffer An outside review of the pull request named it: the guard asked only that the first writer be an address, so a copy into some other buffer passed while the one CauseFrom reads stayed empty. The buffer is now named by the code - the one CauseFrom(x.String()) reads - and the copy has to go there. A mutation that copies into another buffer is caught. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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On a Windows machine whose graphics driver offers no OpenGL 2.1 - measured on a Windows Server 2025 guest under VirtualBox without 3D acceleration - the window binary opened nothing, said nothing, and stayed in the task list until the session ended. The toolkit's window creation failed, it logged why to a standard error that a windows-subsystem binary does not have, and then its loop waited forever on a channel nobody closes.
The window is now shown and then asked, through the driver's public
NativeWindow, whether it got a native window. When it did not, the binary says what did not happen, quotes the driver's reason as the toolkit reported it, points at the command line (which needs no graphics driver), and exits 1 - on standard error and in a system dialog, because the window that would have carried the message is what failed. On a machine where the window opens this is the same two callsShowAndRunmade, in the same order.Measured
Same VM, same script, before and after:
Testing Files Generator could not open its windowWGL: The driver does not appear to support OpenGLControl on a machine with a GPU: the window opens as before, standard error empty.
Guards
windowrefused_test.go: a stand-in window with each platform's native context, empty and filled - refused and never run at zero, run at a handle, and a driver that cannot answer counts as open. The toolkit's cause line reaches the sentence and its absence does not break it. The window binary goes through the seam and never throughShowAndRun, with the log copy ahead of the stream that is not there.user32.dllis loaded by name for the dialog, which both library guards allow because it is a KnownDLL, measured in the registry.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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