ai.interactive.fiction/NOTE.md

Now let's fix the history scrolling: 1.) Make sure

does not scroll! This should have no scrollbar or scrolling css whatsoever. It's fixed size. The #story_scrollbar should have a fixed height of 100% of #page_right and be placed absolutely over the parent, so it cannot be influenced by anything next or below it and it does not let clicks bubble through it to anything else below (no unpausing story on scrollbar usage). Neither #story or anything inside it should have a scrollbar! 2.) Every text or image block that is inserted into the dom should update it's entry in the historyDB to include it's height in lines. Every time this happens the height is added to a game engine value that stores the length of the game history in lines. The #page_rigiht is considered to have a fixed height in lines (calculate id). The #story_scrollbar is calculated using the position and size in lines of the current page view to the game history. For this calculation the history ends at the latestRenderedBlockId, not the latestBlockId. 3.) When a new block is put into the dom, the #story div is moved up (dynamically with an ease in/ease out animation) within the #page_rigt div until its bottom edge aligns with the bottom edge of it's parent (that's scrolling to the bottom). Any time this position changes the scrollbar is updated accordingly. 4.) Scrolling using the arrow up or arrow down keys or the mousewheel moves the pane smoothly up and down until it's end. There should be a value storing the block currently shown in the center of the page. The system dynamically adds and removes blocks to the top and bottom of the #paragraphs list so that there are 20 blocks above and 20 blocks below the central block (if available) at all times. 5.) Any kind of manual scrolling, be it via mousewheel, arrow keys up/down, or using the scrollbar immediately disables autoplay. 6.) Inserting images should first insert the image covered, then scroll down, and only once the scrolling animation finished start the revealing fade in of the image which should take 2 seconds.

Scrolling using the arrow keys or mousewheel works fine now, But I found the following bugs already: 1.) Autoplay does not disable on scrolling. 2.) Restoring the chapter beginning shows the chapter heading as a normal line of text and no longer produces the drop-cap. 3.) Loading a game that was saved while choices were present does not restore the choice dialog. 4.) The game now seems to always scroll to the center of the page to add/animate in new content. Please keep this position at the page bottom as it was, only adding as much space as needed for the new content (like before). 5.) Make sure autoscrolling or manual scrolling always stops at the nearest line boundary, so no cut of lines can be visible. 6.) Suggest a plan how to fix the scrollbar controls. They look correct now. But moving them with the mouse feels clunky and somethimes it triggers strange behavior. We need a solution where the bar can be moved freele up and down without doing anything yet. Once released the content between the current position and the target position including the necessary margins are loaded before the scrolling is animated and then the now unneccessary blocks unloaded.

That sounds still too complicated! Why invalidate the layout index? Assume the following: 1.) The #right_page div has a size relative to the window. There is ONE line height value, which is a divisor or the page height/the page height has a fixed number of lines: Line height = Page height/fixed number of lines. 2.) All content has an exact multiple of line height as height all margins and paddings included. 3.) Therefore any coordinates or pixel sizes of the virtual content pane can be derived mathematically from line coordinates. 4.) Scrolling means translating the content vertically (with ease in/eas out animation) to the closest position where the page edges aligns with line edges.