feat(player): draw no volume control where there is no volume

volume-control asks the player whether there is a volume of ours to
control, and renders nothing when there is not.  The decision is in the
control rather than at either mount point because there are two, and
one of them -- the bottom bar's -- lives in index.html, which has no
module scope to make it conditional.

It could not have been a width, and that is the whole design decision.
Every other stand-down rule in this app is keyed on a viewport, because
a width is what a browser can answer and what every tier can test.
This one is a property of the build: keyed on width, an Android tablet
at 600px or more draws the bar's slider over a level the backend has
pinned -- a control that cannot act, on exactly the platform the rule
exists for, which library-status-indicator settled is worse than none.
The same rule is wrong the other way below 600px, where a narrow
desktop window has no hardware keys to fall back on.  index.css keeps
its phone rule, which is now about room and says so.

Rendering nothing and hiding the host are both needed and are separate
assertions: an empty shadow root is what stops a by-role or positional
query finding a button that cannot act, and :host([hidden]) is what
stops the element taking a flex item's worth of the transport.  The
host rule has to be written down, since :host { display: inline-flex }
outranks the UA's [hidden].

Measured at 424x439 by flipping the constant and rebuilding: the album
art goes 39px to 68px and the transport 172px to 143px -- 29px, being
the 21px control plus the 8px gap a hidden box stops drawing.  The
bar's centring is unaffected, since #23's outer columns are the same
min() expression rather than content-sized.

volume-ownership.test.ts is the tier that can exercise the Android
rendering, on an ordinary Linux runner, because the predicate is a
stubbable backend answer.  Both of its tests were confirmed to fail on
the build before this.

Closes #64
Closes #172
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2026-08-21 00:53:36 -04:00
parent 867ced8c81
commit 2be6fb3066
6 changed files with 239 additions and 11 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
import { LitElement, html, css } from 'lit';
import { LitElement, html, css, nothing } from 'lit';
import { customElement, state } from 'lit/decorators.js';
import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/slider/slider.js';
@@ -27,6 +27,26 @@ export class VolumeControl extends LitElement {
@state()
private popup = volumeStyleStore.popup;
/**
* Whether there is a volume of ours to control at all (#64).
*
* The decision is made here rather than at either mount point,
* because there are two -- the bottom bar's copy lives in
* `index.html`, which has no module scope to make it conditional --
* and one of them is a control the shell cannot un-render. So the
* control answers for itself, and the bar and the phone's
* full-screen transport get the same answer without either knowing
* the question exists.
*
* It renders `nothing` *and* hides the host: an empty shadow root is
* what stops a positional or role query finding a button that cannot
* act, and `:host([hidden])` is what stops the element occupying a
* flex item's worth of the transport -- the `:host` display above
* outranks the UA's `[hidden]` rule, so it has to be said.
*/
@state()
private available = volumeStyleStore.available;
private unsubscribeStyle?: () => void;
// Locally-tracked volume while the user is actively dragging or scrolling.
@@ -43,6 +63,13 @@ export class VolumeControl extends LitElement {
align-items: center;
}
/* See the available field. A gap is only drawn between boxes,
so a hidden host costs its parent nothing -- which is where the
29px this gives back to Now Playing comes from (#172). */
:host([hidden]) {
display: none;
}
button {
background: none;
border: none;
@@ -154,12 +181,15 @@ export class VolumeControl extends LitElement {
this.unsubscribeStyle = volumeStyleStore.subscribe(() => {
this.popup = volumeStyleStore.popup;
this.setAvailable(volumeStyleStore.available);
// Switching to the slider while the popup is open would leave the
// document listener installed for a popup that no longer renders.
if (!this.popup) this.closeSlider();
});
this.setAvailable(volumeStyleStore.available);
void volumeStyleStore.init();
}
@@ -233,7 +263,25 @@ export class VolumeControl extends LitElement {
// RENDER
// ===================================================================
/**
* `hidden` is set imperatively rather than reflected from the state,
* because it has to be on the *host* and a `@state` does not reflect.
* It is the right attribute besides: it takes the element out of the
* accessibility tree as well as out of the layout.
*/
private setAvailable(available: boolean) {
this.available = available;
this.hidden = !available;
// A popup left open when the control goes away would keep its
// document click listener installed for markup that no longer
// renders.
if (!available) this.closeSlider();
}
override render() {
if (!this.available) return nothing;
const muted = this.player.muted;
// Inline, the icon is the mute toggle rather than a disclosure:
@@ -343,6 +343,12 @@ export class NowPlayingView extends LitElement {
a media query because the bottom bar wants a
different answer at this same viewport. -->
<player-controls context="full"></player-controls>
<!-- Rendered unconditionally and absent on its own
terms where the device owns the volume (#64): the
control asks the player, not this view and not the
viewport. A hidden host draws no gap, so that is
29px of a 439px screen back to the album art
(#172). -->
<volume-control></volume-control>
</div>
`;