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No issue: follows up #346 (panel tidy), from the same pass over these panels.

What changes for the user

• A popup beside the icon. The rail's icons (Texture Set Settings, Display, Shader Settings, History, and a new Log icon) opened their panel as a separate floating window at a fixed point near the middle of the main window, which on Windows is its own OS window with the system's open animation. Each now opens in a popup beside its icon, level with it, drawn in the app like the menus: the same popup frame as the File/Edit menus and the right-click Properties popup, with a 1 point outline in the accent color.
• Covers the column. The popup reaches from the rail a little into the viewport, so the panels between the viewport and the rail (texture sets, layers, properties) never show beside it.
• Sized to its contents. Display, Shader and Texture Set Settings fit their contents up to 640 points, then scroll. History and Log take one height, 400 points. A popup that would run past the window's bottom moves up.
• One at a time. Opening another panel closes the open one; so do its icon, its close button, a press outside it (not in one of its own dropdowns) and Escape. Window ▸ Views opens these panels the same way, and Project configuration opens Display Settings in its popup.
• Drag to dock. Dragging the popup's title hands the drag to the dock: drop it on a tab strip to dock the panel there, anywhere else to float it.
• The rail follows the dock. A rail panel that is in the dock, docked or floating, has no rail icon; closing it there brings the icon back. Texture Set Settings starts as a tab beside Layers, so it has no icon until that tab is closed.

Not changed

• Bake mode has no rail; its panels open in the dock as before.
• Panels outside the rail, every panel's contents, and saved layouts (the open popup is not saved).
• Display and Shader Settings in the dock: their scroll areas now take their contents' height instead of filling the panel, so a popup can fit them; the panel below them is empty either way.

How it works

• rail_popup.rs: the rail records its strip and icon rects and the dock records the viewport's rect each frame; docking::show then draws the popup, an egui::Area at Order::Foreground placed from those (egui keeps it on screen).
• The title drag floats the panel at the popup's rect (Dock::float_at), then on the next frame, once the dock area has drawn that layout, starts craft-ui's own tab drag with craft_ui::docking::begin_drag. Starting it in the same frame does not work: the dock area cancels its drags when the layout changed since it last drew.
• docking::panel_body is the dock's panel bodies, moved out of DockContent::body so the popup draws the same contents.

Tests

New ui-egui rail module in the shared tests/it/ executable (kittest): one panel at a time, and its icon closes it; the popup is level with its icon, and moves up in a window too short for it; Close, a press outside and Escape close it; dragging the title out floats the panel, removes its icon and frees the rail for another; dragging the title onto a tab strip docks it there; closing Texture Set Settings' tab brings its icon; Window ▸ Views and Project configuration open the popup. They check what is on screen (the popup's title beside its Close button, panel-only settings, the rail icons, the dock), so on main they compile and all 8 fail: https://github.com/Rebornim/texturecraft-builds/actions/runs/42526367871 (this branch's tests with crates/ui-egui/src from 4be75a2).

Rebased onto main 4be75a2. Ran locally (Rust 1.95.0, dev profile): cargo test -p texturecraft-ui-egui --test it rail:: (8 passed). Upstream gate on head e7e4304: https://github.com/storytold/texturecraft/actions/runs/42526741392 (ubuntu-24.04 and windows-latest green).

Strings

None added or removed: the panel names and "Close" exist.

Overlaps

• Reference images: a Reference panel and a 3D view overlay #269 adds a panel to DockContent::body's match, which this PR moves to panel_body; whichever lands second moves its arm.
• History and Log fill their 400 point popup once Tidy the Shader, Display, History and Log panels #346 lands (their lists fill their panel); before it, their lists stop at a fixed height inside it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Open view panels from the side rail in popups positioned beside their icons.
  • Move panels between rail popups and the dock by dragging their titles.
  • Open the Display panel’s rail popup from the project configuration menu.
• Improvements
  • Close rail popups using Escape, the Close button, the selected rail icon, or a click outside the popup.
  • Panel popups adjust to fit the window, and Display and Shader content can scroll vertically.

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Walkthrough

The UI adds rail-panel popups with toolbar and menu entry points. Popups support dismissal and title dragging that can float or dock a panel. Integration tests cover popup behavior, menu actions, and drag interactions.

Changes: Rail Panel Popups

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rail state and entry points crates/ui-egui/src/state.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/toolbar.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/main.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/rail.rs	UiState stores the transient selected rail panel. Toolbar icons and menu commands route rail-backed panels to the popup system. Tests cover panel selection, dock visibility, and menu entry points.
Popup lifecycle and dock integration crates/ui-egui/src/rail_popup.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/docking.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/rail.rs	The popup is positioned beside the rail and supports closing, outside-press dismissal, Escape, and title dragging. Dock rendering records the viewport and handles floating or docking a dragged panel. Display and Shader scrolling can shrink vertically. Tests cover popup placement, dismissal, and drag behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Rail as toolbar::rail
  participant Popup as rail_popup
  participant Dock as Dock
  User->>Rail: Click a rail panel icon
  Rail->>Popup: toggle(panel)
  Popup->>Popup: Set the selected rail panel
  Popup->>Popup: Render popup during dock rendering
  User->>Popup: Drag the popup title
  Popup->>Dock: float_at(panel, popup rectangle)
  Popup->>Dock: Hand off drag while the primary pointer is down

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The Window ▸ Views menu shows no checkmark for a panel that is open in a rail popup. The popups themselves work, so this is a small inconsistency that can be fixed in a follow-up.

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Minor · The Window ▸ Views checkmark ignores panels open in the rail popup. · menus.rs:254

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The Window ▸ Views checkmark ignores panels open in the rail popup.

This PR routes ui.view.display, ui.view.shader, ui.view.history, ui.view.log and ui.view.textureSetSettings through rail_popup::toggle. A panel opened that way sets app.ui.rail_panel and is not in the dock. menu_item still computes checked from dock.is_open(p) only.

While the Shader popup is open, the Views menu shows "Shader Settings" as unchecked. Clicking the item then closes the popup, so the checkmark state and the click result disagree.

Include rail_panel in the check:

🐛 Proposed fix

-        id => crate::docking::view_panel(id).map(|p| app.ui.dock.is_open(p)),
+        id => crate::docking::view_panel(id).map(|p| app.ui.dock.is_open(p) || app.ui.rail_panel == Some(p)),

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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs at line 254:
Update the view-item checked-state logic in menu_item to account for panels open
in the rail popup as well as panels open in the dock. Use app.ui.rail_panel
alongside app.ui.dock.is_open so a rail-open panel is shown as checked.

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- Line 254: Update the view-item checked-state logic in menu_item to account for
panels open in the rail popup as well as panels open in the dock. Use
app.ui.rail_panel alongside app.ui.dock.is_open so a rail-open panel is shown as
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What it does: Pull request #352 changes the rail panels in storytold/texturecraft so Texture Set Settings, Display, Shader Settings, History, and a new Log panel open in a popup beside their rail icon instead of as a separate floating window, sized to their contents up to 640 points (400 points for History and Log), one at a time, closable by icon, close button, outside press, or Escape, and draggable by title to dock or float, with the rail icon hidden while the panel is docked or floating.

Logical units:

• Popup rendering beside the icon in rail_popup.rs, using the dock viewport and rail icon rects, with the same frame as the menus
• One-at-a-time open/close behavior, including Window ▸ Views and Project configuration entry points
• Title drag handoff to the dock for docking on a tab strip or floating elsewhere
• Rail icon visibility following dock state, with Texture Set Settings starting as a tab beside Layers
• Moved dock panel bodies in docking::panel_body so the popup and dock draw the same contents, and dock scroll areas sized to contents for Display and Shader Settings

Findings:

• [tests] crates/ui-egui/tests/rail.rs, all tests: assertions rely on the new internal UiState::rail_panel field, so the suite does not compile on main instead of failing. Fix: prefer observable assertions such as visible labels and dock.is_open for the main scenarios, keeping internal-state checks only where no observable equivalent exists.

Overlaps: Follows up #346 (panel tidy) from the same pass over these panels; no other overlaps listed.

Verdict: Needs changes. The 3 most important points are: (1) the rail tests depend on the new internal UiState::rail_panel field and therefore do not compile on main, (2) main scenarios should use observable assertions instead, and (3) internal-state checks should be retained only where no observable equivalent exists.

[Rebornim]

Rebased onto main 4be75a2 (head e7e4304, gate green on both OSes).

@eliets2 — fixed in e7e4304: the rail tests no longer read UiState::rail_panel. They check the popup on screen instead (its title level with its Close button, settings only that panel shows, the rail icons, dock.is_open/is_visible). On main they now compile and all 8 fail (run, this branch's tests against main's crates/ui-egui/src). They also moved into the shared tests/it/ executable from #355.

@coderabbitai, the Views checkmark (menus.rs:254): leaving it as is. Opening the Window menu is a press outside the popup, which closes it, so the menu never shows while a rail popup is open. A kittest probe confirmed it: the popup is closed after the Window press, and Shader Settings shows unchecked, which is correct.

Also from the rebase: Escape closes the rail popup only when no dropdown is open, the same rule main now uses for the Properties popup and the one this PR uses for presses outside the popup.

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#!/bin/bash
set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '=== revision ==='
git rev-parse HEAD
printf '%s\n' '=== applicable instruction files ==='
for f in AGENTS.md crates/AGENTS.md crates/ui-egui/AGENTS.md crates/ui-egui/src/AGENTS.md; do
  if test -f "$f"; then printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$f"; cat "$f"; fi
done
printf '%s\n' '=== menus.rs outline and contents ==='
fd -g menus.rs . --exec sh -c 'echo "--- $1"; ast-grep outline "$1" --items all; cat -n "$1"' sh {}
printf '%s\n' '=== rail_popup.rs outline and dismissal logic ==='
fd -g rail_popup.rs . --exec sh -c 'echo "--- $1"; ast-grep outline "$1" --items all; rg -n -C 7 "popup|pressed|contains|Escape|show\\(" "$1"' sh {}
printf '%s\n' '=== menu opening and rail popup references ==='
rg -n -C 4 'rail_panel|popup::is|Popup::is|view\.|Window|menu_button|MenuBar|Escape' crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs crates/ui-egui/src/rail_popup.rs

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@Rebornim Thanks for the explanation and the probe. The outside-press handling supports your result, so I withdraw my Views checkmark concern.

The Escape guard also matches the Properties popup guard. I did not run the tests.

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