Detail panes: path in the head, text flows around the poster

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ First release.
 - **Series drill-down:** seasons and episodes with monitoring, automatic search and release search.
 - **Downloads:** SABnzbd queue and history plus the Radarr and Sonarr queues; pause/resume, delete,
   retry, remove and blocklist.
-- **Posters:** a thumbnail at the top right of the detail panes, title and facts to its left, plot
+- **Posters:** a thumbnail at the top right of the detail panes with the text flowing around it (quadrant or, on capable terminals, sextant block rendering; `ui.cover_style`).
-  below (quadrant or, on capable terminals, sextant block rendering; `ui.cover_style`).
 - **Log (F5) and popups:** feedback appears as fading popups; the log keeps the history.
 - Connection indicators for all three services, context-sensitive key hints, `?` help.
 - JSON config with environment overrides (`ARR_TUI_*`), `--version`, cross-platform builds

README.md

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ A terminal UI to search for movies and series with [Radarr](https://radarr.video
   optionally start the automatic search.
 - **Interactive search**: list the releases Radarr/Sonarr find (approved or rejected, with reasons),
   sort and filter them (by approval, quality, x265 / x264 / AV1, HDR, Dolby Vision, audio format, language), and grab one. Series: pick a season or a single episode first.
-- **Posters**: the detail panes show the poster at the top right, with title and facts to its left
+- **Posters**: the detail panes show the poster at the top right; title, facts, path and plot
-  and the plot below. It is drawn with colored block characters (works over SSH, needs a terminal
+  flow along its left side and continue at full width below it. It is drawn with colored block characters (works over SSH, needs a terminal
   with colors). Library items use the copy stored in Radarr/Sonarr; search results are downloaded
   from the metadata provider's image host (TMDb, TheTVDB). Turn it off with
   `"ui": {"covers": false}`. `"ui": {"cover_style": ...}` picks the characters: `quadrant` (2x2

SPECS.md

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Notes:
   - Radarr and Sonarr queues (status, warnings, import errors), so stuck imports are visible.
   - Global speed / pause state in the status bar. Pause/resume and delete a SABnzbd job.
 - **Status bar / help:** the bottom bar lists the keys that work in the current view or panel; the top right shows the connection state of each service; `?` opens the full key reference.
-- **Posters:** the detail panes show the poster at the top right, the title and facts to its left and the plot below both; on panes too small for that, everything is one text. The poster is drawn with block characters in 24-bit colors: every cell shows several pixels in the best two-color split (`quadrant`: 2×2 pixels, glyphs from the Block Elements range every font has; `sextant`: 2×3 pixels, sharper, glyphs from Symbols for Legacy Computing). `ui.cover_style` is `auto` (default: sextant on kitty, WezTerm, foot, Ghostty, quadrant elsewhere), `quadrant` or `sextant`. JPEG/PNG only, decoded and downscaled in the process, so no terminal graphics protocol is needed. Library items fetch `/MediaCover/<id>/poster-250.jpg` from their Radarr/Sonarr instance with the API key; search results fall back to the provider's `remoteUrl` (fetched without credentials). Posters are cached in memory, failed downloads are not retried for two minutes, and the poster shrinks or disappears when the pane is too short. `ui.covers: false` disables it.
+- **Posters:** the detail panes show the poster at the top right; the head (title, facts, path) and the plot are one text that flows along the poster's left side and continues at full width below it (text is wrapped by arr-tui itself, with a narrower width for the first lines); on panes too small for the poster, the text simply uses the full width. The poster is drawn with block characters in 24-bit colors: every cell shows several pixels in the best two-color split (`quadrant`: 2×2 pixels, glyphs from the Block Elements range every font has; `sextant`: 2×3 pixels, sharper, glyphs from Symbols for Legacy Computing). `ui.cover_style` is `auto` (default: sextant on kitty, WezTerm, foot, Ghostty, quadrant elsewhere), `quadrant` or `sextant`. JPEG/PNG only, decoded and downscaled in the process, so no terminal graphics protocol is needed. Library items fetch `/MediaCover/<id>/poster-250.jpg` from their Radarr/Sonarr instance with the API key; search results fall back to the provider's `remoteUrl` (fetched without credentials). Posters are cached in memory, failed downloads are not retried for two minutes, and the poster shrinks or disappears when the pane is too short. `ui.covers: false` disables it.
 - **Notifications and log (F5):** feedback about actions (added, deleted, grabbed, failures) appears as popups in the bottom right that fade away (errors stay longer). Everything is also kept in the Log view; only connection changes of the background polling are logged, not every failed poll.
 
 ### 4.2 v0.2 (done, M8)

internal/ui/detail.go

@@ -2,55 +2,56 @@ package ui
 
 import (
 	"image"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2"
 	"github.com/rivo/tview"
 )
 
 const (
-	minCoverRows = 6  // a smaller poster is not worth showing
+	minCoverRows = 6 // a smaller poster is not worth showing
-	minCoverCols = 8  //
+	minCoverCols = 8
-	minTextRows  = 10 // the poster never takes these rows from the text
+	minTextRows  = 6 // the poster never takes these rows from the text
 )
 
-// detailPane shows the details of one title: the head (title and facts) with
+// detailPane shows the details of one title as one flowing text with the
-// the poster to its right on top, and the plot below both. On panes too small
+// poster floating at the top right: the head (title and facts) and the plot
-// for the poster everything is one text.
+// run along the poster on the left and continue at full width below it. On
+// panes too small for the poster the text simply uses the full width.
 type detailPane struct {
-	*tview.Flex // column: top row, plot
+	*tview.Flex // holds the text; the poster is drawn on top of its corner
 	app         *App
-	top         *tview.Flex // row: head, cover
+	text        *tview.TextView
-	head        *tview.TextView
 	cover       *coverView
-	plot        *tview.TextView
 
-	text     detailText
+	detail   detailText
 	want     string // key of the poster that should be shown
 	hasCover bool   // a poster (or its loading note) is part of the content
-	combined bool   // head and plot are shown together in the plot view
+
+	// What the text was last wrapped for.
+	laidOut struct {
+		width, narrow, rows int
+		valid               bool
+	}
+	coverW, coverH int // size of the poster on screen, 0 = hidden
 }
 
 func newDetailPane(app *App) *detailPane {
 	d := &detailPane{
-		Flex:  tview.NewFlex().SetDirection(tview.FlexRow),
+		Flex:  tview.NewFlex(),
 		app:   app,
-		top:   tview.NewFlex(),
+		text:  tview.NewTextView().SetDynamicColors(true).SetWrap(false),
-		head:  tview.NewTextView().SetDynamicColors(true).SetWordWrap(true),
 		cover: newCoverView(app.coverStyle),
-		plot:  tview.NewTextView().SetDynamicColors(true).SetWordWrap(true),
 	}
-	d.cover.SetBorderPadding(0, 0, 1, 0)
+	d.AddItem(d.text, 0, 1, false)
-	d.top.AddItem(d.head, 0, 1, false).AddItem(d.cover, 0, 0, false)
-	d.AddItem(d.top, 0, 0, false).AddItem(d.plot, 0, 1, false)
 	d.SetBorder(true).SetTitle(" Details ")
-	d.combined = true
 	return d
 }
 
 // Show displays the text and, if there is one, the poster.
 func (d *detailPane) Show(text detailText, ref coverRef) {
-	d.text = text
+	d.detail = text
-	d.applyText()
+	d.laidOut.valid = false
 	if !d.app.covers || ref.fetch == nil {
 		d.want, d.hasCover = "", false
 		d.cover.setImage(nil)
@@ -75,33 +76,71 @@ func (d *detailPane) Show(text detailText, ref coverRef) {
 // Clear empties the pane.
 func (d *detailPane) Clear() { d.Show(detailText{}, coverRef{}) }
 
-// applyText puts the texts into their views for the current layout.
-func (d *detailPane) applyText() {
-	if d.combined {
-		d.head.SetText("")
-		d.plot.SetText(d.text.String()).ScrollToBeginning()
-		return
-	}
-	d.head.SetText(d.text.head).ScrollToBeginning()
-	d.plot.SetText(d.text.plot).ScrollToBeginning()
-}
-
 func (d *detailPane) Draw(screen tcell.Screen) {
-	_, _, w, h := d.GetInnerRect()
+	x, y, w, h := d.GetInnerRect()
-	coverW, coverH := 0, 0
+
+	d.coverW, d.coverH = 0, 0
 	if d.hasCover {
 		aw, ah := d.cover.aspect()
-		// At most 40% of the width, and the plot keeps its rows.
+		// At most 40% of the width, and the text keeps some rows below.
-		coverW, coverH = coverCells(aw, ah, w*2/5, h-minTextRows)
+		d.coverW, d.coverH = coverCells(aw, ah, w*2/5, h-minTextRows)
-		if coverH < minCoverRows || coverW < minCoverCols {
+		if d.coverH < minCoverRows || d.coverW < minCoverCols {
-			coverW, coverH = 0, 0
+			d.coverW, d.coverH = 0, 0
 		}
 	}
-	if combined := coverW == 0; combined != d.combined {
+
-		d.combined = combined
+	narrow, rows := w, 0
-		d.applyText()
+	if d.coverW > 0 {
+		narrow, rows = w-d.coverW-1, d.coverH // one column of space left of the poster
 	}
-	d.ResizeItem(d.top, coverH, 0)
+	if !d.laidOut.valid || d.laidOut.width != w || d.laidOut.narrow != narrow || d.laidOut.rows != rows {
-	d.top.ResizeItem(d.cover, coverW+1, 0) // +1: the padding left of the poster
+		d.laidOut.width, d.laidOut.narrow, d.laidOut.rows, d.laidOut.valid = w, narrow, rows, true
+		d.text.SetText(strings.Join(flowWrap(d.detail.String(), narrow, w, rows), "\n"))
+	}
+
 	d.Flex.Draw(screen)
+	if d.coverW > 0 {
+		d.cover.SetRect(x+w-d.coverW, y, d.coverW, d.coverH)
+		d.cover.Draw(screen)
+	}
+}
+
+// flowWrap word-wraps text for a column that is narrow for its first
+// narrowRows lines and wide afterwards, like text flowing around a picture
+// floating at the top right. Newlines in the text are kept. Color tags have
+// no width and carry over from line to line.
+func flowWrap(text string, narrow, wide, narrowRows int) []string {
+	var lines []string
+	var cur strings.Builder
+	curW := 0
+	limit := func() int {
+		if len(lines) < narrowRows {
+			return max(narrow, 1)
+		}
+		return max(wide, 1)
+	}
+	flush := func() {
+		lines = append(lines, cur.String())
+		cur.Reset()
+		curW = 0
+	}
+	for _, para := range strings.Split(text, "\n") {
+		for _, word := range strings.Fields(para) {
+			ww := tview.TaggedStringWidth(word)
+			if curW > 0 && curW+1+ww > limit() {
+				flush()
+			}
+			if curW > 0 {
+				cur.WriteByte(' ')
+				curW++
+			}
+			cur.WriteString(word)
+			curW += ww
+		}
+		flush() // end of paragraph
+	}
+	for len(lines) > 0 && strings.TrimSpace(lines[len(lines)-1]) == "" {
+		lines = lines[:len(lines)-1]
+	}
+	return lines
 }

internal/ui/detail_test.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2"
+	"github.com/rivo/tview"
 )
 
 func rowText(screen tcell.SimulationScreen, y, x0, x1 int) string {
@@ -16,7 +17,38 @@ func rowText(screen tcell.SimulationScreen, y, x0, x1 int) string {
 	return b.String()
 }
 
-func TestDetailPaneLayout(t *testing.T) {
+func TestFlowWrap(t *testing.T) {
+	text := "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten"
+	// Narrow (10) for the first two lines, wide (25) afterwards.
+	got := flowWrap(text, 10, 25, 2)
+	want := []string{"one two", "three four", "five six seven eight nine", "ten"}
+	if strings.Join(got, "|") != strings.Join(want, "|") {
+		t.Errorf("got %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+	// Without a poster everything is wide.
+	if got := flowWrap(text, 10, 25, 0); got[0] != "one two three four five" {
+		t.Errorf("no poster: %q", got)
+	}
+	// Newlines are kept, blank lines too; trailing blank lines are dropped.
+	got = flowWrap("head\nfacts\n\nplot words\n", 20, 20, 0)
+	if strings.Join(got, "|") != "head|facts||plot words" {
+		t.Errorf("newlines: %q", got)
+	}
+	// Color tags have no width and escaped brackets count as one character.
+	got = flowWrap("[red]ab[-] cd ef", 5, 5, 0)
+	if strings.Join(got, "|") != "[red]ab[-] cd|ef" {
+		t.Errorf("tags: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := flowWrap(tview.Escape("[1080p]")+" x", 9, 9, 0); len(got) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("escaped brackets: %q", got)
+	}
+	// A word wider than the column is not split or lost.
+	if got := flowWrap("a verylongwordhere b", 5, 5, 0); strings.Join(got, "|") != "a|verylongwordhere|b" {
+		t.Errorf("long word: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDetailPaneFlowsAroundPoster(t *testing.T) {
 	a := newTestApp(t)
 	screen := tcell.NewSimulationScreen("")
 	if err := screen.Init(); err != nil {
@@ -25,52 +57,51 @@ func TestDetailPaneLayout(t *testing.T) {
 	defer screen.Fini()
 	screen.SetSize(60, 40)
 
+	plot := strings.Repeat("plot ", 220) // long enough to run past the poster
 	d := newDetailPane(a)
 	d.SetRect(0, 0, 60, 40)
-	d.Show(detailText{head: "[::b]The Matrix (1999)[::-]\nStatus: released", plot: "Plot text goes here"}, coverRef{})
+	d.Show(detailText{head: "[::b]The Matrix (1999)[::-]\nStatus: released\n", plot: plot}, coverRef{})
 
-	// Without a poster everything is one text.
+	// Without a poster the text uses the full width from the top.
 	d.Draw(screen)
 	if got := rowText(screen, 1, 1, 30); !strings.HasPrefix(got, "The Matrix (1999)") {
 		t.Errorf("first line = %q", got)
 	}
-	if got := rowText(screen, 3, 1, 30); !strings.HasPrefix(got, "Plot text goes here") {
+	if got := strings.TrimSpace(rowText(screen, 5, 1, 59)); len(got) < 50 {
-		t.Errorf("without a poster the plot follows the head: %q", got)
+		t.Errorf("without a poster the text should use the full width: %q", got)
 	}
 
-	// With a poster: head on the left, poster on the right, plot below both.
+	// With a poster (23×17 cells at the top right) the text runs beside it.
 	d.hasCover = true
 	d.cover.setImage(stripes(40, 60))
 	d.Draw(screen)
+	if d.coverW != 23 || d.coverH != 17 {
+		t.Fatalf("poster size %dx%d, want 23x17", d.coverW, d.coverH)
+	}
 	if got := rowText(screen, 1, 1, 30); !strings.HasPrefix(got, "The Matrix (1999)") {
 		t.Errorf("head moved: %q", got)
 	}
-	coverX := -1
+	if got := rowText(screen, 4, 1, 30); !strings.HasPrefix(got, "plot plot") {
-	for x := 59; x > 30; x-- {
+		t.Errorf("the plot starts beside the poster, right after the head: %q", got)
-		if ch, _, st, _ := screen.GetContent(x, 1); ch != ' ' || st != tcell.StyleDefault {
+	}
-			coverX = x
+	// Beside the poster the text stays left of it (34 columns), below it it uses the full width.
-			break
+	for y := 1; y <= d.coverH; y++ {
+		if got := strings.TrimRight(rowText(screen, y, 1, 35), " "); len([]rune(got)) > 34 {
+			t.Errorf("row %d runs into the poster: %q", y, got)
 		}
 	}
-	if coverX < 55 {
+	if got := strings.TrimSpace(rowText(screen, d.coverH+3, 1, 59)); len(got) < 50 {
-		t.Errorf("no poster against the right edge (last drawn column %d)", coverX)
+		t.Errorf("below the poster the text should use the full width: %q", got)
 	}
-	// The plot starts below the poster: 40*2/5 = 24 columns -> 24*3/2/2 = 18 rows.
+	// The poster sits against the right edge of the pane.
-	plotRow := -1
+	if ch, _, st, _ := screen.GetContent(58, 1); ch == ' ' && st == tcell.StyleDefault {
-	for y := 1; y < 39; y++ {
+		t.Error("nothing drawn at the poster's right edge")
-		if strings.HasPrefix(rowText(screen, y, 1, 30), "Plot text goes here") {
-			plotRow = y
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if plotRow < 18 {
-		t.Errorf("plot at row %d, want below the poster", plotRow)
 	}
 
 	// A pane too short for the poster falls back to plain text.
-	d.SetRect(0, 0, 60, 14)
+	d.SetRect(0, 0, 60, 10)
 	d.Draw(screen)
-	if !d.combined {
+	if d.coverW != 0 {
 		t.Error("a short pane must drop the poster")
 	}
 }

internal/ui/library.go

@@ -106,10 +106,7 @@ func newMovieItem(m radarr.Movie) libItem {
 		it.status = "[yellow]missing"
 	}
 	it.details = movieDetails(m)
-	it.details.head += monitoredLine(m.Monitored) + sizeLine(m.SizeOnDisk)
+	it.details.head += monitoredLine(m.Monitored) + sizeLine(m.SizeOnDisk) + pathLine(m.Path)
-	if path := pathLine(m.Path); path != "" {
-		it.details.plot += "\n\n" + path
-	}
 	return it
 }