perf(w-div): resolve h-full at the render layer, which also makes it intrinsic-safe - #200
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`h-full` has to answer a question only layout can answer: is the incoming
height bounded. The widget-layer way to ask it is a `LayoutBuilder`, and that
carried two costs.
The documented one. A `LayoutBuilder` cannot answer an intrinsic query, so any
`IntrinsicHeight` or `IntrinsicWidth` above `h-full` asserted `LayoutBuilder
does not support returning intrinsic dimensions`. That limitation was written
down on five surfaces with an escape hatch ("use explicit `h-*` instead")
rather than fixed.
The measured one. A `LayoutBuilder` defers its whole subtree into a second
layout pass, and `h-full` is common on a scrolling screen: a consumer measured
1056 of them in one eight-scroll session against 258 widget builds, one per
element carrying the class, re-run every frame.
`WindFullHeightBox` reads `constraints` directly, so it needs neither. It is
the same move `WindCrossStretch`, `WindMainExtentProvider` and `WindMinWidthBox`
already make for their own sizing questions, and it leaves `grid` as the only
`LayoutBuilder` path in the package.
Intrinsics are left to `RenderProxyBox`, which forwards them to the child, and
that is the honest answer for a box whose job is to take what it is given. The
first version overrode them to report the fallback height, reasoning that a
fill box "wants" the screen; under an `IntrinsicHeight` beside a 60 pixel
sibling that made the row 600 rather than 60.
Behaviour is otherwise unchanged, and that is asserted rather than asserted-to.
`test/widgets/w_div/full_height_sizing_test.dart` was written against the OLD
implementation first and pins every branch the old code had: bounded, unbounded,
with and without a width factor, the outer box's own size, and the fractions
that never went through this path. Ten passed before the change and pass after.
Two existing tests moved from white-box to behaviour. One asserted a
`FractionallySizedBox` carrying two factors, the other a `LayoutBuilder`
descendant; both pinned a composition rather than anything a user can observe,
and the second was asserting the exact thing this commit removes. They now
assert the resulting sizes.
The two remaining cases in the new file are skipped, with the reproduction and
the reason inline: `h-full max-h-*` discards the cap when the parent bounds the
height, because the cap arrives as a `ConstrainedBox` inside the sizing wrapper
and `BoxConstraints.enforce` computes `clamp(120, 400, 400)`. That is
pre-existing on 1.5.1, unaffected either way by this change, and its fix is a
wrapping-order change rather than anything this class does.
Post-change sync: `doc/layout/sizing.md` (the Intrinsic Sizing Limitation
section is now about `grid` alone), `doc/layout/flexbox.md`, `SKILL.md` plus
three references, and `CHANGELOG.md` under Fixed, Changed and Known. No
`README.md` change: no new widget, token family or theme field, and the roster
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWind replaces ChangesIntrinsic-safe sizing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change moves h-full sizing to a constraint-aware render object, preserving bounded and fallback sizing while supporting intrinsic and dry layout. The documented intrinsic-sizing guidance now consistently identifies nested grid as the remaining limitation, and no merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WDiv
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WDiv->>WindFullHeightBox: Apply h-full sizing configuration
WindFullHeightBox->>RenderFullHeight: Create or update render object
RenderFullHeight->>RenderFullHeight: Resolve layout and intrinsic dimensions
RenderFullHeight->>Child: Measure or lay out child
Child-->>RenderFullHeight: Return size
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Note Kodizm (AI-generated). May contain mistakes; verify before acting. The render-object rewrite is sound and the characterisation suite is the right way to have landed it, but one width interaction changed silently and the "widthFactor is only ever 1.0" premise the code rests on is contradicted by a test in this same PR. Major
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gridstill triggers the intrinsic assertion. This example still attributes the failure toh-fullorbasis-*, so it contradicts the documented behavior.Proposed documentation fix
-// Throws if a card resolves h-full / basis-* internally: +// Throws if the subtree contains grid-cols-*: IntrinsicHeight( - child: WDiv(className: 'flex flex-row', children: cards), + child: WDiv(className: 'grid grid-cols-2', children: cards), )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 19-21: Move the existing max-height behavior bullet from the
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codecov/patch flagged 32 uncovered lines on the new render object while the project gate passed, because the project gate is a total and the patch gate is about the lines a PR adds. All four groups were real behaviour rather than lines to pad. `updateRenderObject` and the four setters are what make a className change or a rotation re-resolve rather than keep the size the box first computed; the `max-w-*` clamp had no test at all; a childless element still has to report a size; and a dry layout that disagrees with the layout it precedes gives a measuring parent one answer and then renders another. The two null-child branches are unreachable from `WDiv`, which is the only construction site and passes the accumulated subtree rather than null. They stay because a RenderProxyBox has to survive a null child, and carry a block-form ignore with that reason: the line form does not survive `dart format`, which moves the statement onto a continuation line and leaves the pragma behind. Coverage 94.5% to 95.2%, and nothing in the new file is uncovered.
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…ct the story Two review rounds, and the second one is where I had this wrong rather than merely incomplete. I filed `h-full max-h-*` as a pre-existing defect and skipped two tests against it. Measured as an A/B against master, it is two different things: Under a LOOSE bounded height the cap was discarded and now applies. Master's bounded branch wrapped no `ConstrainedBox` at all, so `h-full max-h-[120px]` under a `ConstrainedBox(maxHeight: 400)` rendered 400; it renders 120 here. That is a fix this PR already contained and did not claim. Under a TIGHT one it still yields the parent's height, and that is correct rather than the same bug: a tight constraint is the parent stating an exact size, and no className overrides it. The two skipped tests asserted 120 there and were simply wrong. They are gone, replaced by one case for each parent. The same mechanism was hiding a second discard on the other axis, which the review flagged as a possible regression. It is the reverse: `w-1/2 h-full max-w-[100px]` in a 300 pixel parent renders 150 on master and 100 here. Master put its `ConstrainedBox` outside the `FractionallySizedBox`, but `enforce` clamps an additional constraint into the incoming range, and against the tight width the fraction had already produced it computed `clamp(100, 150, 150)`. The arithmetic in the review was right and the direction was not, which took an A/B to establish rather than a reading. Also corrected, all of it review-found: The two `coverage:ignore` blocks are gone. Their stated reason, that a null child is unreachable from `WDiv`, is false: a childless `WDiv` carrying only `h-full` builds no core structure and reaches the box with null. The two tests that looked like they covered it carried `w-[40px]`, which gives the box a child, so they covered nothing; one of them was vacuous besides, asserting a height its own wrapper had already fixed. Both branches are now genuinely covered and the file has no uncovered line. `widthFactor`'s doc claimed 1.0 was the only value it ever takes, which a test in this same PR contradicts (`w-1/2 h-full` arrives with 0.5). `doc/layout/grid.md` still said `h-full` and `basis-*` carry a `LayoutBuilder`; it was the sixth surface and the first sync pass missed it. Two strategy comments in `w_div.dart` still described the deleted approach, and a `reason:` string in `sizing_test.dart` still named `LayoutBuilder` on an assertion rewritten not to care. `CHANGELOG`'s `### Known` is not one of the subsections `CLAUDE.md` allows, and the mechanism it described was master's rather than this branch's. Gone; the caps are under `Fixed` where they belong. Gates: `dart analyze` clean, `dart format .` no diff, 1782 tests green with one pre-existing skip and none of mine, `./tool/coverage.sh 90` at 95.2%, `tool/check-docs.py` 0 issues.
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…outBuilder Two were the residual the third review named: `:1723` and `:1756` still said "LayoutBuilder only for h-full in unbounded contexts" and "Use LayoutBuilder only when needed for unbounded axis". The sibling at `:1637` was fixed last commit and these were missed. Three more were adjacent and are fixed here rather than left, because a file that contradicts itself is worse than one that is merely out of date. Only one of the three is this PR's doing: `_buildStretchGrid`'s doc said `h-full` and `basis-*` "all carry a `LayoutBuilder`". The other two predate it and were already contradicted by the code beside them, `_applyMainAxisBasis` at `:874` stating in as many words that neither basis path uses one. Comments only.
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The last two open review findings, plus one adjacent to them. `doc/layout/sizing.md` states four paragraphs above that `grid` is the only remaining trigger, then gave an example blaming a card that "resolves h-full / basis-* internally". CodeRabbit caught it. The throwing example is a `grid` now, and the safe counterpart is the `items-stretch` grid the escape-hatch list already recommends first. Verified rather than reasoned: the `grid` case raises `LayoutBuilder does not support returning intrinsic dimensions` under an `IntrinsicHeight` and the `items-stretch` case renders clean. `wind_equal_height_row.dart` said Wind cell content "frequently contains a `LayoutBuilder` (flex cross-axis stretch, `h-full`, `basis-*`)". That is the last companion spot, the one Kodizm flagged as fine to leave for a follow-up. All three are render objects now. The widget's rationale is untouched: a nested `grid` still carries one, a cell subtree is arbitrary caller content either way, and real layout is what a `LayoutBuilder` supports where the intrinsic protocol is not. `w_div.dart:854` said the basis pre-check exists "so the common no-basis case skips the LayoutBuilder wrap". It skips the `WindMainExtentProvider` wrap, and the doc comment twenty lines below already says in as many words that neither basis path uses a `LayoutBuilder`. This one predates the PR and is fixed here for the reason the last commit gave: a file that contradicts itself is worse than one merely out of date. Comments and one doc example. No executable line changed.
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* docs(skill): move the version marker to 2.14.0, which #200 left behind `SKILL.md` frontmatter went to `version: 2.14.0` with the `h-full` content change, but the `<!-- fluttersdk_wind 1.5.x | Skill vN (date) -->` marker on line 8 stayed at `v2.13.2 (2026-09-07)`. The two have moved together on every skill change since 1.4.x, so the file now states two different versions of itself. The `1.5.x` half is correct as it stands, so this is the skill version and the date only. * release: 1.5.2 One change, `h-full`, and the two `max-*` discards it turned out to be hiding. `h-full` resolved through a `LayoutBuilder`, which cannot answer an intrinsic query, so any `IntrinsicHeight` or `IntrinsicWidth` above it asserted and the limitation was written down on five surfaces with an escape hatch rather than fixed. It is the `WindFullHeightBox` render object now (#200): it renders under an `IntrinsicHeight`, in a `Table` cell and in an `items-stretch` grid cell, and it answers intrinsics by forwarding to its child, so it matches the tallest sibling instead of reporting the screen. `grid` is the last `LayoutBuilder` in the package. The render object also costs one object where the old path cost two, and drops the deferred layout pass with it. Measured in a consumer's broadcast grid at 5000 channels, one eight-scroll session: 840 `_RenderLayoutBuilder` and 840 `RenderFractionallySizedOverflowBox` become 1008 `_RenderFullHeight`, with everything else moving within noise. Expect two visible changes on upgrade. `max-h-*` and `max-w-*` now apply to an `h-full` element where they were silently discarded: `h-full max-h-[120px]` under a `ConstrainedBox(maxHeight: 400)` rendered 400 and renders 120, and `w-1/2 h-full max-w-[100px]` in a 300 pixel parent rendered 150 and renders 100. A TIGHT parent still wins over `max-h-*`, which is the parent stating an exact size rather than the same bug. And an `h-full` element under an `IntrinsicHeight` now matches its tallest sibling where it used to report the screen height. Six surfaces bumped, the patch-release set: `pubspec.yaml`, `example/pubspec.yaml`, the `dartdoc_options.yaml` source-link tag, the `llms.txt` version string, the `CHANGELOG.md` promotion with its two link references, and the `example/pubspec.lock` path-dep entry (produced by `flutter pub get` inside `example/`; the diff is that one line, with no `source: path` churn and the root lockfile untouched). `skills/wind-ui/` needs no version move on a patch: the nine reference H1s, SKILL.md's own H1, the description prefix and the `1.5.x` marker all still read right. The skill's own version went to 2.14.0 with the content change in #200, and the commit before this one moves the marker that was left behind. Gates: `dart analyze` clean, `dart format` no diff, `flutter test` 1782 passing with the one pre-existing skip, `./tool/coverage.sh 90` at 95.2%, and `tool/check-docs.py` 0 issues across 72 doc pages.
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h-fullhas to answer a question only layout can answer: is the incoming height bounded. The widget-layer way to ask it is aLayoutBuilder, and that carried two costs.The documented one. A
LayoutBuildercannot answer an intrinsic query, so anyIntrinsicHeightorIntrinsicWidthaboveh-fullassertedLayoutBuilder does not support returning intrinsic dimensions. The limitation was written down on five surfaces with an escape hatch ("use explicith-*instead") rather than fixed.The measured one. A
LayoutBuilderdefers its whole subtree into a second layout pass, andh-fullis common on a scrolling screen. Measured in a consumer's broadcast grid at 5000 channels, one eight-scroll session, profile build:One per element carrying the class, re-laid-out every frame.
The change
WindFullHeightBoxreadsconstraintsdirectly, so it needs neither the deferral nor the pair. It is the same moveWindCrossStretch,WindMainExtentProviderandWindMinWidthBoxalready make for their own sizing questions, and it leavesgridas the onlyLayoutBuilderpath in the package.Re-measured in the same consumer, same session, counts normalised per painted frame:
_RenderLayoutBuilderRenderFractionallySizedOverflowBox_RenderFullHeightRenderConstrainedBoxRenderSemanticsAnnotationsTwo render objects per
h-fullbecome one, and the deferred layout pass is gone. Everything else moves within noise.Intrinsics
Left to
RenderProxyBox, which forwards them to the child. That is the honest answer for a box whose job is to take what it is given: its natural height is its content's, and the fill happens against whatever the parent then offers.The first version overrode both to report the fallback height, reasoning that a fill box "wants" the screen. Under an
IntrinsicHeightbeside a 60 pixel sibling that made the row 600 rather than 60, which is the opposite of whath-fullmeans. Both cases are now tests.How equivalence is established
test/widgets/w_div/full_height_sizing_test.dartwas written against the old implementation first, and pins every branch the old code had: bounded, unbounded, with and without a width factor, the outer box's own reported size, and the fractions that never went through this path. Ten passed before the change and pass after.Two existing tests moved from white-box to behaviour. One asserted a
FractionallySizedBoxcarrying two factors; the other asserted aLayoutBuilderdescendant, which is the exact thing this PR removes. Both pinned a composition rather than anything a user can observe, and both now assert the resulting sizes.The intrinsic-safety claim is an A/B, not an inference: the new test throws
LayoutBuilder does not support returning intrinsic dimensionsonmasterand passes here.It also fixes both max-* caps, which review turned up
I first filed
h-full max-h-*as a pre-existing defect and skipped two tests against it. Measured as an A/B against master, it is two different things:ConstrainedBox(maxHeight: 400))SizedBox(height: 400))The loose case is a fix this PR already contained and did not claim: master's bounded branch wrapped no
ConstrainedBoxat all. The tight case is correct, not the same bug: a tight constraint is the parent stating an exact size, and no className overrides it. The two skipped tests asserted 120 there and were wrong; they are gone, replaced by one case per parent.The same mechanism hid a second discard on the other axis.
w-1/2 h-full max-w-[100px]in a 300 pixel parent renders 150 on master and 100 here: master put itsConstrainedBoxoutside theFractionallySizedBox, andBoxConstraints.enforceclamps an additional constraint into the incoming range, so against the tight width the fraction had already produced it computedclamp(100, 150, 150).Both are now under
Fixedin the CHANGELOG, with tests.Post-change sync
doc/layout/sizing.md: the Intrinsic Sizing Limitation section is now aboutgridalone, and says theh-fullescape hatch can be dropped.doc/layout/flexbox.md: the intrinsic-safety note namesh-fulltoo.SKILL.md(version stamp 2.13.2 to 2.14.0) plusreferences/layouts.md,references/tokens.md,references/tailwind-divergence.md.CHANGELOG.mdunderFixed,ChangedandQuality.README.md: no new widget, token family or theme field; the roster is unchanged.example/: no doc<x-preview>moved.Gates
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h-fullnow works reliably in intrinsic layouts, includingIntrinsicHeight, table cells, and stretched grid cells.max-h-*andmax-w-*constraints are applied correctly to full-size elements.Bug Fixes
h-full.Documentation
h-fullbehavior.