Implement speech style toolbar live-edit refinements and whole speech show controls

- Added a new specification for the speech style toolbar live-edit, detailing immediate style application, scoped effect demonstration, and hover feedback.
- Introduced refinements to the speech style toolbar, including improved chooser sizing, exclusive stage editing during speech composition, and removal of redundant controls.
- Documented new stage controls for managing how the whole speech shows, including options for bubble arrangement, word appearance, and bubble motion.
- Created a new log file for speech padding syntax to track engine versioning.

docs/tech_debt_and_optimizations.md

@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ This document tracks known technical debt, optimization opportunities, and minor
 | 50  | **Phase 12 paused-edit autosave stores authored state, not the frozen snapshot** — queue/rule edits occur at `t > 0` while stage bodies are at temporary physical transforms. | Medium | ✅ Resolved | A 1.0 s debounce writes the existing `.scene` schema using authored object transforms plus current queues/rules. The timer can finish after Resume; runtime pose, velocities, reactive consequences, and action history are session-only. Paused edits therefore autosave without turning the live pose into the authored starting layout. (2026-09-24) |
 | 51  | **Phase 11 throw distance and speed are shared across prop types** — the landing-target solver does not yet tune throwability by material or weight. | Low | Open | Deliberately deferred from the approved landing-target amendment. If playtesting needs it, add an explicit gameplay throwability factor based on prop weight/material; do not rely on rigid-body mass to change gravity or mutate physical mass for throw balance. Current shared limits are a 3,600 px target radius and 2,100 px/s speed cap. (2026-09-25) |
 | 52  | **Throw target preview ignores earlier queued pickups** — the live preview requires `_held_prop`, so editing a pending throw after a pending pickup at `t = 0` cannot show the actual planned throw arc. | Medium | ✅ Resolved | The preview now infers a virtual held-prop state from the authored queue prefix and provides a pure, non-mutating planning trajectory using the prop/grip and predicted pickup stand-off. When a prop cannot be resolved, it shows a neutral explanation; runtime still recomputes from actual state. User verified the result. (2026-09-25) |
+| 53  | **Phase 13 speech stacks may exceed very small stage viewports** — long simultaneous stacks compete with the side composer and stage chrome. | Low | Planned | The spec sets defensive eight-card and per-card text bounds, keeps frames near a stable screen size, fits the displayed group within the visible stage area without changing saved character-relative placement, and requires a visible overflow cue when a stack cannot fit legibly. Responsive paging for unusually small windows is deferred until observed in editor playtesting. See `specs/phase_13_speech_bubbles.md`. (2026-09-26) |
+| 54  | **Phase 13 font samples vary by platform until fonts are bundled** — OS `SystemFont` aliases can resolve Comic/Pixel/Scary choices to different families or generic fallbacks. | Low | Deferred | User explicitly deferred font bundling. Keep system-font previews now; a later task can add visually distinct, redistributable fonts with license/attribution files and point the speech presets to them. See `specs/phase_13_speech_bubbles.md`. (2026-09-27) |
+| 55  | **Speech styling has no general Undo history** — style choices update the recoverable draft immediately, but committed text, bubble order/placement, and styling share no undo stack. | Medium | Deferred | User chose immediate style application and deferred Undo for this release. Save speech commits the complete draft to the scene; composer Cancel discards the whole edit session. A future undo command boundary should cover the whole speech draft; token offsets must remain coherent after text edits. See `specs/speech_style_toolbar_live_edit.md`. (2026-09-29) |
+| 56  | **RichTextLabel has no dependable per-token 44 px hit rectangles for mixed-font speech** — exact metadata clicks can target narrow punctuation only at its rendered glyph. | Low | Planned | Use a temporary picker of tokens on the tapped rendered line, each with a 44 × 44 px hit area, while retaining exact metadata taps for comfortable words. Avoid estimating glyph boxes from raw string widths because shaping and wrapping can disagree. Revisit a dedicated token renderer only if editor playtesting shows the picker is insufficient. See `specs/speech_style_toolbar.md`. (2026-09-28) |
+| 57  | **Speech composition must temporarily own stage input** — normal scene controls can otherwise select or alter characters and props while the user is editing speech. | Medium | Planned | Gate stage object interactions while the composer is open; keep speech bubble selection/drag, explicit speech placement, and camera-only navigation available. A non-bubble stage click clears the token target but must not activate the object underneath. Verify deferred token clicks and drag thresholds. See `specs/speech_style_toolbar_refinements.md`. (2026-09-28) |
+| 58  | **Speech-wide Show settings retain per-bubble render copies** — action-level reveal and motion settings are mirrored into every bubble visual for the current renderer and duration calculations. | Low | Planned | `SpeechPayload.normalize()` is the synchronization boundary; scene and rule encoders must retain the new action-level fields. Older mixed bubble settings intentionally migrate from the first bubble when edited, so later distinct motion/reveal choices are no longer expressible in the group model. If a future renderer reads action-level settings directly, the duplicate visual keys can be removed in a versioned payload migration. See `specs/speech_whole_sequence_show.md`. (2026-09-30) |
+| 59  | **Stage-only speech edits remain drafts until session completion** — a recoverable draft can differ from its queue/rule target while the child is styling. | Medium | Planned | Done speech is the single validated in-memory commit boundary. A Scene Save request during composition is deferred until the user explicitly completes speech; it never commits implicitly or writes the stale queue/rule target. Cancel speech confirms before discarding an edited draft. This avoids premature persistence of blank bubbles and stale scene data. Recovery remains draft-only. See `specs/speech_stage_only_editor.md`. (2026-09-30) |
 
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@@ -118,7 +125,25 @@ This document tracks known technical debt, optimization opportunities, and minor
 | 2026-09-25 | Phase 11 throw UX amendment approved (`specs/phase_11_prop_interactions.md` §1.1): treat the saved cursor point as aim plus power (distance maps smoothly to a 300–1,250 px/s capped speed), preview the collision-limited ballistic impact, and replace the short windup with a reach-clamped overhand arc that releases during its forward sweep. The existing `{type, target_position}` queue payload remains unchanged. |
 | 2026-09-25 | Phase 11 throw landing-target amendment approved (`specs/phase_11_prop_interactions.md` §1.2): clamp the cursor's effective target to 800 px from the stickman root, solve the fastest valid descending trajectory under a 1,250 px/s cap, distinguish the raw cursor/effective target/early collision markers, and preserve the fixed world-space queue payload. Open-air targets remain valid; prop weight/material throwability is deferred under #51. |
 | 2026-09-25 | Phase 11 throw-range tuning updated after user feedback: target radius 3,600 px and speed cap 2,100 px/s. The queue-aware, non-mutating target-preview amendment (`specs/phase_11_prop_interactions.md` §1.3) was approved, implemented, and user verified; row #52 is resolved. Throw limits remain shared across prop types under open row #51. |
+| 2026-09-26 | Phase 13 comic speech specification drafted for user sign-off (`specs/phase_13_speech_bubbles.md`). Approved choices: a side composer with a live character-attached preview; simultaneous stacks by default or one-at-a-time transitions; automatic reading time with optional longer choices; character-relative placement; and reactive speech that temporarily takes visual priority, then resumes queued speech at its saved time. One tap targets one whole word; effect, font, and color controls apply to that word, while font/color controls edit bubble defaults with no target. The target remains visible while controls take focus; separate tapped words retain separate safe, validated style records. Drag highlighting, Shift-click, and multiselect/append are outside the interaction. The architecture uses one normalized Dictionary payload across queue/rule JSON, a shared RichTextLabel renderer, and runner-owned elapsed clocks for pause-safe replay. It preserves legacy `{text,duration}` actions. Logged #53 for tiny-viewport stack fit; arbitrary BBCode and per-bubble Resource files are deliberate scope exclusions, not open defects. |
+| 2026-09-27 | Phase 13 composer refinement written for final user sign-off (`specs/phase_13_speech_bubbles.md`): one active text editor with high-contrast snippet tabs and a vertical-only responsive inspector; example frame/font/size controls; 16 named text-color swatches; graphical whole-word target; separate Effects/Show/Timing groups; Show all/One at a time and Normal/Slow/Slower labels mapped to existing serialized IDs; clarified Bounce in/Simply appear; no placement arrows or auto-seconds label; live-head triangular tails with no line crossing the character; and a full replay followed by a one-second blank stage. User chose recoverable local drafts while retaining **Save speech** as the commit point. Draft recovery never mutates queues/rules/scene state; Save commits and clears, Cancel discards and clears, and stale targets recover only as an unbound draft pending an explicit destination. |
+| 2026-09-27 | User approved the Phase 13 composer refinement for implementation. Font binaries are explicitly deferred; keep OS system-font aliases for the sample buttons and retain #54 as deferred. |
+| 2026-09-27 | User approved the Phase 13 follow-up (`specs/phase_13_speech_bubbles.md` §9): keep core inspector cards open with larger ribbon headers; clarify word targeting; fix full-word markers and selected-control states; give bubbles independent character-local placement and an above-character stagger that never fits downward across the actor; route scrolling to the composer under the pointer; and preserve valid speech through queue save/load while rejecting partial scene saves. Code is implemented, syntax checks passed, and in-editor verification is pending. |
+| 2026-09-27 | Phase 13 verification follow-up: strengthened rounded word-marker coverage/clipping, added per-word size styling alongside font and color, and made speech commits confirm that the action actually entered the character queue before closing the composer. Syntax checks passed; verify save/reload and marker behavior in-editor. |
+| 2026-09-28 | Fixed Phase 13 scene-load rejection for saved per-word styles: JSON parsing yields whole-number offsets as floats, while speech validation required `int`. Validation now accepts finite integral numeric offsets and normalization stores them as integers. `game_scenes/talk.scene` loaded through the Sandbox Stage CLI without a skipped-speech warning; the scene file was not modified. |
+| 2026-09-28 | Speech styling toolbar architecture spec written for final user sign-off (`specs/speech_style_toolbar.md`). The stage-anchored Frame/Letters/Effects toolbar uses one theme-backed chooser and a provisional visual copy: Done commits a style to the composer draft; Cancel discards it without affecting recovery. A shared token scanner extends saved half-open style offsets to punctuation, and a temporary rendered-line token picker provides 44 px choices when glyphs are cramped. The inspector keeps Message and Save speech. User deferred general Undo; logged #55 and #56. No implementation code was changed in this phase. |
+| 2026-09-28 | Speech style toolbar refinements approved and implemented (`specs/speech_style_toolbar_refinements.md`). The chooser now sizes to content with overflow scrolling, ribbon headings, active categories, and centered large buttons; stage clicks clear the token target while preserving bubble selection, and speech composition blocks unrelated scene edits while retaining bubble controls and camera navigation. The full-sequence control is **Preview speech** beside Save speech. Godot headless syntax checks pass; in-editor verification is pending. |
+| 2026-09-29 | Speech style live-edit refinement approved and implemented (`specs/speech_style_toolbar_live_edit.md`). Choices now update the recoverable draft directly; token effects demo for one second without replaying the sequence; **Done styling** hides the toolbar while keeping speech editing open; selected choice borders persist on hover; and the token target uses a translucent rounded marker. Godot headless syntax checks pass; editor verification is pending. |
+| 2026-09-29 | Speech style follow-up fixes: hold bubble geometry steady during the one-second token effect demo; center speech text after font/size changes; and make whole-bubble font/size/color defaults clear matching per-word overrides. Godot headless syntax checks pass; editor verification is pending. |
 
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+| 2026-09-29 | Speech Message/Emoji/Timing follow-up approved for implementation (specs/speech_message_emoji_timing.md): move Message plus its emoji picker and action-wide Timing to the stage toolbar; use two Speech/Style rows; make unselected Effects apply to the whole bubble via a backward-compatible bubble default with token overrides; keep text editing separate from stage token targeting and preserve unaffected style spans. |
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+| 2026-09-30 | Stage speech-wide Show architecture specification written for user sign-off (`specs/speech_whole_sequence_show.md`). No bubble focus presents Bubbles, Words appear, and Bubble motion directly beside the group; a bubble/token click swaps to Speech Style, while Done styling or an empty stage click returns to group controls. The action owns reveal and motion values, all existing/future bubbles inherit them, and older mixed settings migrate from the first bubble. Logged #58 for synchronized per-bubble render copies. No implementation code changed. |
+| 2026-09-30 | Stage-only speech editor architecture specification drafted for user sign-off (`specs/speech_stage_only_editor.md`). Removes the Comic Speech Inspector, moves Show/Timing/Preview/More to Show Speech and Message/Frame/Letters/Effects plus sequence controls to Speech Style, and keeps persistent Done speech and Cancel speech controls. Draft recovery remains immediate; Done commits once to the queue/rule buffer, while Scene Save waits for the explicit Done commit. New bubble defaults, placement, one-step removal Undo, order controls, input ownership, and the existing eight-bubble cap are specified. Logged #59. No implementation code changed. |
+| 2026-10-01 | Comic Chain speech behavior revised after preview feedback (`specs/speech_comic_chain_layout.md`): Comic chain is the third persistent **Show bubbles** choice and builds cumulatively, while Stack/Same spot remain placement actions. Entering the mode applies measured Stack positions. Later balloon connectors use blunt joins drawn behind predecessor frames; Think uses dots. Older `bubble_layout: comic_chain` payloads migrate to `arrangement: comic_chain`. |
+| 2026-10-03 | Speech bubble order badges now use selection-independent positions (`specs/speech_badge_stability.md`). Badge clustering responds to actual proximity; Show Speech and Speech Style panels avoid the stable badge bounds instead of moving badges when selection changes. |
+| 2026-10-03 | Speech badge clusters now also form when bubble frames intersect. For overlapping bubbles, the sorted badge row anchors above the largest frame, preventing a smaller bubble's badge from appearing through the larger bubble's text. |
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