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Drive the real NegPy desktop app headlessly and capture rendered evidence — use when verifying pipeline/UI changes end-to-end (not via pytest).

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name	verify
description	Drive the real NegPy desktop app headlessly and capture rendered evidence — use when verifying pipeline/UI changes end-to-end (not via pytest).

Verifying NegPy changes end-to-end

The surface is the PyQt6 GUI; the render pipeline's output is the canvas.

Recipe that works

Sandbox app state so the run never touches ~/Documents/NegPy: NEGPY_USER_DIR=<scratch>/negpy_home (checked in get_default_user_dir). Create the subdirs from _bootstrap_environment (or call it) before StorageRepository.initialize().
Suppress the first-run tutorial or every window grab is dimmed by the overlay: repo.save_global_setting("tutorial_seen", True) before constructing MainWindow.
Headless display: xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1920x1080x24" uv run python driver.py. wgpu/Vulkan works fine under Xvfb on this machine (real GPU).
Driver skeleton: build the app exactly like negpy/desktop/main.py (StorageRepository → DesktopSessionManager → AppController → MainWindow), then drive a QTimer state machine:
- controller.load_file("samples/06.raw") — same method the Files sidebar calls.
- advance steps on controller.image_updated (skip state.last_metrics["splash"], guard against multiple emissions per render, ~600 ms settle).
- change edits like the sidebars do: session.update_config(replace(state.config, ...))
  - controller.request_render().
- pixel evidence: window.canvas.grab() (canvas only, overlay-free) → numpy stats; window.grab().save(...) for reviewer screenshots.
- exit with a nonzero code on failed assertions; 120 s timeout guard.

A working driver from the dodge/burn + toning verification lives in the session scratchpad as drive_verify.py — copy its grab/set_cfg/state-machine parts rather than rewriting.

Gotchas

samples/06.raw is a dark graveyard scene — burn/dodge probes need the sky band (top of frame in raw coords) to see roll-off; mid-frame is near black.
Mask vertices are raw-image normalized coords, not canvas coords; analyze screenshots diff-based (before - after > threshold) instead of guessing where a mask lands on the canvas.
Status bar process label may lag when configs are set programmatically — don't treat it as ground truth for the active mode.

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The surface is the PyQt6 GUI; the render pipeline's output is the canvas.

Recipe that works

Sandbox app state so the run never touches ~/Documents/NegPy: NEGPY_USER_DIR=<scratch>/negpy_home (checked in get_default_user_dir). Create the subdirs from _bootstrap_environment (or call it) before StorageRepository.initialize().

Suppress the first-run tutorial or every window grab is dimmed by the overlay: repo.save_global_setting("tutorial_seen", True) before constructing MainWindow.

Headless display: xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1920x1080x24" uv run python driver.py. wgpu/Vulkan works fine under Xvfb on this machine (real GPU).

Driver skeleton: build the app exactly like negpy/desktop/main.py (StorageRepository → DesktopSessionManager → AppController → MainWindow), then drive a QTimer state machine:

controller.load_file("samples/06.raw") — same method the Files sidebar calls.
advance steps on controller.image_updated (skip state.last_metrics["splash"], guard against multiple emissions per render, ~600 ms settle).
change edits like the sidebars do: session.update_config(replace(state.config, ...))
- controller.request_render().
pixel evidence: window.canvas.grab() (canvas only, overlay-free) → numpy stats; window.grab().save(...) for reviewer screenshots.
exit with a nonzero code on failed assertions; 120 s timeout guard.

A working driver from the dodge/burn + toning verification lives in the session scratchpad as drive_verify.py — copy its grab/set_cfg/state-machine parts rather than rewriting.

Gotchas

samples/06.raw is a dark graveyard scene — burn/dodge probes need the sky band (top of frame in raw coords) to see roll-off; mid-frame is near black.

Mask vertices are raw-image normalized coords, not canvas coords; analyze screenshots diff-based (before - after > threshold) instead of guessing where a mask lands on the canvas.

Status bar process label may lag when configs are set programmatically — don't treat it as ground truth for the active mode.