- The camera menu leads with the user's own camera, with the effect in
force, full width at sixteen by nine: a background is judged by how it
looks rather than by its thumbnail.
- It shows the pipeline's own track again, not a second capture. Each
provider keeps the camera its pipeline is synced to, before joining and
after, and hands it out with its state, so two calls on a page keep
their own. It is reported again only when it changes, which keeps the
preview from blanking on every change of state.
- It and the pre-join preview share useAttachedTrack, which detaches only
its own element: the pre-join preview detached every element showing
its track, the menu's among them.
- Paid for out of the list's share of the call, so a menu with it is no
taller: at the top where the list keeps its floor after paying, else
first among the options, scrolling away with them. Its size comes from
the tokens the stylesheets draw it with, so it is placed once.
- While the first effect is prepared the preview shows the wait; with the
camera off it says so, and an effect can still be chosen.
- The video is rounded itself as well as clipped by its frame: Firefox
composites it on a layer of its own, which the frame's rounded clip
didn't reach at 100% zoom. Confirmed by hand, as headless Firefox draws
it rounded either way.
- Every camera story shows the preview, with a stand-in camera drawn to a
stream. End to end on Chromium and Firefox, the lobby's menu shows the
camera and then the chosen picture.
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- The first effect chosen in a session shows a spinner on its own tile,
in place of the tick, until a frame carrying it is drawn. Later changes
show nothing, having nothing to prepare.
- Ended by the frame, not the promises, which resolve while the segmenter
is still being built. The transformer reports the first frame that went
through the segmenter; one passed through untouched doesn't count.
- The pipeline publishes the wait with its state, and both footer view
models take it as an input.
- The lobby tests' provider mock gains the observable hook, built once: a
fresh observable per render rebuilt the footer on every render.
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- AppViewModel creates them, next to its media devices, as review asked;
BackgroundEffectsProvider takes them as a prop rather than building
them in an effect.
- The component build, which has no AppViewModel of its own, now makes one
in the effect that made its media devices, so both builds get their
state the same way.
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- One name, as review asked: TrackProcessorContext becomes
BackgroundEffectsContext, with BackgroundEffectsProvider,
BackgroundEffectsState, useBackgroundEffects,
useBackgroundEffectsState$ and useSyncBackgroundEffects.
- The state's Behavior is backgroundEffectsState$ wherever it is passed,
in place of trackProcessorState$, trackerProcessorState$ and
processorState$.
- Renames only: nothing changes in behaviour.
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- Compound 10.3.0 bounds a menu by the space it has and scrolls what
doesn't fit, within a boundary the app passes. The menus pass the call
area, 16px in from its sides, rather than measuring its width.
- The 296px width is the menu's own style. Compound gives that style only
to the dropdown, so menuIsDrawer, which copied its phone rule, goes.
- Compound draws the menu's frame over its content, so nothing that
scrolls can hide it in Safari: the list, headings and meter no longer
keep a border width clear of it, and the checks that they did go.
- The device list is Compound's scroll area, so it fades out at the
foot with Compound's chevron while there is more below.
- The microphone menu's meter sticks at that foot, with rows scrolling
under it as before, so the list has no fade above it: Compound's is a
mask fixed to the list's edge, while a bounce at the top carries the
meter with the rows. The band under the meter is filled, or rows would
show there. The edge fades from where the chevron starts, so a bounce
fades the meter out before it reaches the chevron. A row reached by
keyboard stays above the meter.
- The list's height is still its share of the call.
- The component harness leaves the host's stylesheets unscoped, Compound's
among them, as a host does: scoped, they never reached the menu, which is
portalled out of Element Call's root.
- Its specs check only Element Call's own document styles on the host
page, and find the device list within Compound's scroll area.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
With this change, views now read every reactive value through `useBehavior`, as
`architecture.md` already prescribes. Where a view reads a plain stream, the view
model now exposes a `Behavior`.
* Give the microphone level its own observable
* Add a microphone level meter
* Show speakers and microphones in the quick audio menu
* Wire speaker selection through the call footer
* Add stories for the meter and the device menu
* Add end-to-end specs for the quick audio menu
* Keep the footer while a menu opened from it is open
* Use the shared audio capture stub in the lobby test
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Since we removed the extra 'legacy' mode, meaning there's nothing simplified anymore by translating things over to a JWT service version.
(Also, simplify some things by making the mode static for the duration of a call.)
The call reached for react-router in five places to send the user
"home": on leaving without a lobby, from the lobby's recents link, from
the post-call screen, from the error page's return button and from the
header logo. Home is the standalone app's home page; the call has no
idea where that is, and a component has no such place at all — its host
decides what follows a call. Yet the component had to mount a
MemoryRouter just so those hooks would not throw.
`useLeaveToHome` is the way home as the shell supplies it: the app
provides `navigate("/")` from inside its router, the component provides
nothing, and everything that used to link to "/" now either calls it or,
when there is none, offers no way out. The logo becomes a plain logo,
the recents and "not now" links disappear, the error page's button does
too. `ClientProvider`'s logout goes the same way. The component no
longer renders a router.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three layers stood between a shell and the call: `ElementCall` (the
component), `ElementCallView` and `GroupCallView`. The middle one only
held the `joined` flag and the mute state, both of which nothing outside
the call reads any more, so it is folded into the view it wrapped. That
view is now `CallView`, since "group call" is a name from before
Element Call handled anything else.
Its docstring says what it is: the whole lifecycle of a call — lobby,
the call itself, and what comes after — with the lobby and the post-call
screen each present or skipped depending on the parameters and the host.
Both the standalone RoomPage and the component render it directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The move from media queries to `@container element-call` queries left a
few places still asking the viewport: the room header's compact size
and the lobby's footer placement went through `useMediaQuery`, the
lobby's video preview was `50vh` tall, the reaction picker was capped at
`100vw`, and the content insets and the gradient background were sized
from `100vw`/`100vh`. Embedded in a corner of a host's page, each of
those answered for the page rather than the corner.
`useRootSizeMatches` is `useMediaQuery` for the root element, built on
the same `observeElementSize$` the layout uses; the lengths become
container units. Container units resolve against the nearest query
container, and there are others in the tree (the spotlight layouts, the
media tiles), so base.css says when they may be used.
jsdom gives the body no size at all, which would have every such query
read as a tiny window; the test setup now gives it a desktop's, matching
what the media query mock already answered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Whether to offer the profile settings was inferred from whether the host
could close Element Call. For a component with no host bridge — the
default — nothing could, so an embedded Element Call let the user edit
the profile of an account that belongs to the host application.
`HostBridge.supportsProfileChanges` states it directly: true standalone,
where Element Call signed the user in itself; false for a widget's host
and for anything embedding the component (which sets it itself, since
the client it hands over is its own). The profile tab and the profile
shortcut follow that. What a host's ability to close us still decides —
what to show after the call ends — is a question about who owns our
lifetime, and stays keyed on `close`.
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The call and the lobby each set `document.title`, so a component
embedded in a host renamed the host's tab to "Element Call | <room>".
The title belongs to whoever owns the page: the standalone app's
RoomPage now sets it, for whichever room it has got as far as knowing
about, and the call itself no longer touches it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opening settings in an embedded call put the dialog in the middle of the host's
window, spilling outside the container, and with two calls on a page the second
drew over the first's dialog.
The container established a stacking context but not a containing block, which
are two different things and only the first had been done. `position: fixed`
resolves against the viewport unless an ancestor makes itself the containing
block, so the modal scrim and dialog in Overlay.module.css — `fixed`, `inset:
0`, centred, because in the standalone app they are meant to cover the page —
were positioned and sized against the window. Layout and paint containment
makes the container the containing block for those descendants and clips what
we paint to our own box. The second-call-on-top symptom goes with it, since the
dialog now stays inside the first call's box and there is nothing to overlap.
Two sibling components still cannot draw over one another by construction,
neither being able to leave its own stacking context, but that only shows if a
host overlaps them.
Containment clips a box measured in viewport units but cannot resize it, so
anything positioned that way is simply put somewhere outside the container and
disappears. That applied to the reactions overlay, a `100vw` by `100vh` box, and
to the reaction picker, which sits at `82vh` so as to appear near the footer it
belongs to. Both are positioned against whatever Element Call treats as its
root — `[data-overlay-container]` in the app, which is the size of the page, and
the host's container when embedded — so percentages mean the same thing there
and the right thing here. The earpiece overlay is `inset: 0` with no viewport
units, so containment is enough for it.
Three viewport-relative sizes remain, all of which need more than a change of
unit: the lobby's video preview is `50vh` on a flex item with an aspect ratio,
`--content-inset-*` ramps up to a desktop inset from the window width, and the
picker's `max-width` cap is the window's.
The clipping cuts both ways: a menu near the edge of a small container is
trimmed rather than overflowing into the host. That is the trade an embedded
component makes.
toggleScreenSharing only had `.catch(logger.error)`, so a getDisplayMedia
request that hangs (element-call-rageshakes#17152: Element Desktop on
Windows, the user pressed the screen share button 14 times in 25 seconds
and the log shows nothing but the toggle lines and livekit-client's
"waiting for pending publication promise timed out") left the user with
a button that does nothing and us with no evidence of why.
Log when a toggle is requested and when it completes or fails, with the
elapsed time, so a hang is visible in the logs. Explicit failures other
than the user cancelling the picker show as a non-modal "Could not start
screen sharing" toast. Nothing is inferred from a toggle taking a long
time: the user may simply be choosing what to share.
ElementCallView took muteStates as a prop, which would have meant an
embedder building one before it could show a call. It could not simply make
its own: RoomPage created one on mount whichever branch it went on to
render, and two would both report the user's mute state to the host,
talking over each other.
Move the construction into a useMuteStates hook, and give the lobby shown
while waiting to be let into a room its own component. Each lobby now holds
mute state only while it is on screen, so there is never a second one, and
the component can own the call's.
KnockLobbyView also takes the room summary and label handling that RoomPage
was assembling on its behalf, leaving the page with arriving at a call
rather than being in one.
Being in a call and deciding to show one are different jobs, but RoomPage
did both: routing, authentication, resolving room aliases and knocking, and
then the call itself. Only the first set belongs to whatever is hosting
Element Call.
Add ElementCallView as the seam between them. It takes a client and a call
to join, and owns whether the user has joined — which is the call's own
business rather than its host's. RoomPage keeps everything about arriving
at a call and renders this for the call itself.
Nothing else moves yet. muteStates is still passed in, because the
standalone shell shares one with the lobby it shows while waiting to be let
into a room, and two instances would both report the user's mute state to
the host.
The SDK stopped sending join notifications: it threaded callIntent into
createCallViewModel$ but not its pair sendNotificationType, which
enterRTCSession used to read for itself, so an explicit
?sendNotificationType=ring — or an intent that implies one — no longer
reached joinRTCSession.
The mechanism is worth fixing rather than the instance. The defaults on
CallViewModelOptions describe a standalone Element Call, so a widget
caller that misses a field gets standalone behaviour rather than an error,
and the SDK is only ever a widget. Give both callers one shared mapping so
they cannot drift, and cover the whole chain from URL to options in tests.
autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft and waitForCallPickup stay out of it: the view
model never read those from the parameters, so enabling them for the SDK
would be a change in its behaviour rather than a fix.
The remaining reads of the widget global were all asking one of two
different questions, so they get two different answers.
The app shell — the auth hooks, automatic guest registration, the group
call loader's diagnostic and the initial mute state — wants to know
whether Element Call was launched as a widget. That is a property of the
URL it was launched with, so expose the isWidget that computeUrlParams
already computed internally, documented as being for shell use only.
The call interface — whether to offer the profile settings tab — wants to
know something about its host, so it asks the bridge. A host that can
dismiss Element Call owns the user's account, so their profile is not ours
to edit; this reuses the close capability as a proxy, with a TODO
alongside the others.
ClientContext also takes supportsReactions from the bridge rather than
checking four widget capabilities itself, which removes widgetApi from
InitResult — a field that was always null outside widget mode.
Note this changes behaviour for a malformed widget URL: one carrying a
widget ID and parent URL but missing the room, user, device or base URL
would previously have fallen back to registering a guest user, and will
now not.
MuteStates, CallViewModel and LocalMember reached the host through the
widget global. None of them are React components, so they take the bridge
as an explicit parameter: a constructor argument for MuteStates, a field
on CallViewModelOptions, and one on createLocalMembership$'s props.
src/state no longer refers to the widget API.
The conditionals around it mostly disappear: nullHostBridge's observables
are NEVER, so there is nothing to guard, and a request carries its own
reply rather than needing the transport and the original event.
CallViewModelWidget.test.ts drove hangup by emitting on the mocked
widget's action emitter, so it now injects a bridge instead, and checks
that the request is acknowledged.
ErrorView needed a widget only to decide whether to offer a close button
or a link home. That prop was threaded down through ErrorPage, RichError
and GroupCallErrorBoundary from seven call sites, to answer the single
question of whether the host can dismiss Element Call — which the host
bridge now answers directly through the presence of close().
Read the bridge from context in ErrorView and remove the prop, along with
the plumbing that carried it.
No functional change: the rendered output is unchanged, as the existing
snapshot confirms.
Move GroupCallView onto the host bridge
GroupCallView asked the widget API to keep it on screen, to close it, and
to tell it when a preloaded call should join. Route all three through the
host bridge and drop the widget prop.
The view models reached for getUrlParams() — and so window.location —
from deep inside the call path: CallViewModel, MediaDevices, Publisher,
LocalMember and the footer view model. An embedded Element Call has no URL
of its own, so these values have to arrive as arguments instead.
Add the relevant options to CallViewModelOptions, to the MediaDevices and
Publisher constructors, to createLocalMembership$ and enterRTCSession, and
to createCallFooterViewModel. The remaining React consumers read the
context added in the previous commit. AppViewModel now takes its audio
output options too, moving that URL read out to main.tsx, where the app
shell can act as the adapter.
The new CallViewModelOptions fields are optional, defaulting to what the
URL parameters resolve to outside widget mode; the MediaDevices and
Publisher arguments are required, so that every construction site has to
be explicit.
useTheme.test.ts mocked the UrlParams module with a factory, so it needed
updating to mock the hook rather than getUrlParams.
No functional change.
Element Call writes its theme classes, background and layout attributes
straight onto document.body, and portals its modals there too. That is
only correct while it owns the page; embedded in a host application it
has to confine itself to the container it was mounted into.
Add a RootElementContext, defaulting to document.body so that the
standalone and widget builds are unaffected, and point the theme classes,
data-background, no-scroll-body and the fullscreen target at it.
Give the Modal and Toast portals an explicit container as well. Radix and
vaul both default to document.body, so without this every modal, drawer
and toast would render outside the container and lose the theme and
platform attributes set on it.
No functional change: the root element is document.body until an embedder
provides otherwise.
On the combined Storybook docs page for the call footer, the layout switches would not show the correct state until you hovered over them because they all shared the same input name and thus were interpreted as belonging to the same radio group.
