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Count the Levels and Curves histograms off the UI thread: an edit with one selected no longer freezes the window (#11559) - #11576
Part of #11559, the part where "hide or show a layer: the mouse freezes until the image is updated" with a tone editor open.
Cause
The Levels, Curves and other tone editors (in Properties and in Image › Adjustments) draw a histogram of the image below the adjustment. tone::histograms recounted it on the UI thread whenever the pixels changed. On a large document that means compositing the image below at full size, effects included, so the window froze while it was counted. It froze again on every hide, show or undo while such a layer was selected, and when the layer was first selected.
The Histogram panel already counts the same histograms off the UI thread (histogram_panel::spawn). The editors didn't.
Change
Counting off the UI thread.tone::histograms counts on a worker thread, one count at a time per layer and source. A count for another layer, source or document is replaced, not waited for. The web build and failed spawns still count inline.
A short wait first. The frame waits up to COUNT_GRACE (16 ms, about a frame) for the result, so a small document's histograms show in the same frame as before.
While a count runs. The editor shows the last histograms counted for the same layer and source, drawn faded (ToneHistograms::tint), until the new ones land and repaint. Before the first ever lands, the area is empty and faded. EditorCx holds Option<ToneHistograms>: the histograms and whether they're stale, in one value.
Levels' Auto. Auto computes its result from the histogram, so it's disabled while the histogram is stale, with a hover note saying why. It never reads a stale histogram.
A worker that dies without delivering isn't started again: the next count runs in the frame, as before this change.
Release builds of main e4e2607 and this branch, on a 6000 × 4000 document. It has a Drop Shadow + Stroke + Bevel layer, a Soft Light texture layer, and Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers, with the Curves layer selected in Properties.
Machine: M3 Pro, load average 3–4, one run each.
Method: frame times from control-channel replies, which are answered once per frame, plus the app's own slow-frame log.
main
this PR
Selecting the Curves layer
724 ms frame
26 ms
Hiding or showing the texture layer (3 times each)
170–214 ms frames
41–68 ms (the canvas refresh)
Histograms up to date after the change
counted on the UI thread
land 185–241 ms later, window responsive throughout
A note for anyone timing PhotoCraft this way on macOS: App Nap throttles the app about 20 s after launch when its window isn't frontmost. Every count, on main or here, then takes 1.5 to 4 s. These measurements were taken with NSAppSleepDisabled set for the test binaries.
tone_histograms_are_counted_off_the_ui_thread_and_the_last_ones_shown_meanwhile (2400 × 1600 document, zero grace)
Before any count lands, the histograms are empty and stale.
After a pixel edit, the editor gets the previous histograms, stale, with a count in flight.
What lands equals compute_histograms on the new document.
Seen red: with the count awaited inline, it fails with "counted on the UI thread".
a_count_within_the_grace_shows_at_once: a small document's histograms come back fresh within the grace.
a_count_for_another_source_is_replaced: a new source's count replaces one still running for another. Seen red without the replacement.
after_a_worker_died_the_count_runs_in_the_frame: after a dead worker, the next count runs in the frame and no worker is started again. Seen red without the fallback.
The existing editor tests pass, including the Levels and Curves histogram and Auto tests and histogram_ignores_the_edited_adjustment.
cargo xtask ci passes locally, apart from macOS-only failures that are the same on main. In photocraft-ui-egui, 32 tests fail without the optional craft-fonts checkout, identically on main.
Compositing cost: the histograms still composite the image below at full size. This PR only moves that work off the UI thread.
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New Features
Tone-adjustment histograms now update in the background, helping keep the interface responsive during recalculation.
Previous histogram results remain visible with a faded appearance while updated results are being prepared; before the first result is ready, the histogram area appears empty and faded.
Bug Fixes
Levels’ Auto control now waits for current histogram results before applying adjustments, and indicates when it is waiting.
…h one selected no longer freezes the window (storytold#11559)
The tone editors (Levels, Curves, Threshold… in Properties and Image › Adjustments) recounted
their histogram on the UI thread whenever the pixels changed, compositing the image below at
full size: on a styled 24-megapixel document, selecting a Curves layer froze the window for
about 700 ms and every hide, show or undo while it was selected for about 200 ms.
They are now counted on a worker thread, as the Histogram panel's are. The frame waits up to
16 ms for the result, so small documents show it at once; otherwise the editor shows the last
histograms counted for the same layer and source, marked stale, until the new ones land.
Levels' Auto waits for them rather than reading a stale histogram.
Selecting the Curves layer went from a 724 ms frame to 26 ms, and hiding or showing a layer from
170–214 ms to 41–68 ms; the histograms land about 200 ms later (M3 Pro, release, one run each).
Tone-editor histogram counting now runs on native worker threads where available, with inline fallback on WebAssembly or thread-spawn failure. Editors can show cached counts as faded while recounting. Levels Auto waits until a fresh histogram is available.
Histogram requests reuse matching cached results or start a count. Native workers send completed results and request a repaint. WebAssembly and worker-spawn failure use inline counting. Tests cover stale results, completion, job replacement, and worker disconnection.
Editor integration and stale display crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_dialog.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/*, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/session.rs, docs/gaps.md
Editor callers pass the UI context and provide optional ToneHistograms. Histogram rendering applies state-based tinting. Levels Auto is disabled while the histogram is stale or unavailable. Documentation records the histogram work and related measurements.
sequenceDiagram
participant ToneEditor
participant ToneHistograms
participant PhotocraftApp
participant NativeWorker
ToneEditor->>ToneHistograms: Request histogram with UI context
ToneHistograms->>PhotocraftApp: Check cache or start count
PhotocraftApp->>NativeWorker: Count histogram on native builds
NativeWorker->>PhotocraftApp: Send completed counts
PhotocraftApp->>ToneEditor: Request repaint
ToneEditor->>ToneHistograms: Request histogram on next frame
ToneHistograms-->>ToneEditor: Return cached fresh or stale counts
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Possibly related issues
storytold/photocraft\#9327 — The issue tracks long work on the UI thread and calls for background execution; this change moves tone-editor histogram counting to a worker where supported.
Suggested reviewers:aiongg
Merge Risk: Low · up to 54f2f
Histogram counting moves off the UI thread, which addresses the reported freezes. The remaining open concerns are minor: Levels Auto may be enabled without a usable histogram, a test could be flaky, a commit during the first count may force a recount, and histograms may flicker when two editors use different sources. They are worth follow-up but do not block merging.
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The existing Auto test uses a fresh histogram. If the stale guard is removed, Auto can commit endpoints from old pixels. Add a UI test that attempts the click with hist_stale: true and checks that the parameters remain unchanged. Use a histogram that would otherwise change the parameters.
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/levels.rs at line
72:
Add a UI test for the Auto button in the levels dialog that sets hist_stale to
true and verifies clicking Auto leaves the parameters unchanged. Use histogram
data that would change the parameters if Auto were enabled, and keep the
existing fresh-histogram test intact.
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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/levels.rs:
- Line 72: Update the enabled condition for the Auto button in the `auto`
assignment to require both an available histogram and a fresh histogram.
Preserve the existing click handling, and keep Auto disabled while the first
histogram is still counting.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/widgets/tone.rs:
- Around line 792-795: Update the histogram test around the `histograms` call so
the worker cannot publish its result before the stale-histogram assertions run.
Hold the worker result until those assertions complete, then release it before
calling `landed`; preserve the existing stale-state and histogram-identity
checks.
- Around line 447-449: Keep histogram results separate for each active source
instead of replacing the single `app.tone_hist` value when `app.tone_hist_job`
completes. Key and retrieve cached results by source so Properties and
adjustment dialogs retain their own histograms, and Levels Auto uses the result
for its requested source.
- Line 420: Update the commit handling around the tone histogram job created by
count so a pending count remains valid when an adjustment commit does not change
its inputs. Preserve the pending job’s revision in that case, and only
invalidate or recount when the histogram inputs actually change.
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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/levels.rs:
- Line 72: Add a UI test for the Auto button in the levels dialog that sets
hist_stale to true and verifies clicking Auto leaves the parameters unchanged.
Use histogram data that would change the parameters if Auto were enabled, and
keep the existing fresh-histogram test intact.
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When the first histogram is still counting, Auto is enabled, but clicking it does nothing. Disable Auto until a fresh histogram is available.
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--- "a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/levels.rs"+++ "b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/levels.rs"@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
ch = editor_channel_picker(ui, cx.mem.with("levels-ch"), &channels);
ui.with_layout(egui::Layout::right_to_left(egui::Align::Center), |ui| {
// Auto reads the histogram: not one of the document as it was before its last change.
- auto = ui.add_enabled_ui(!cx.hist_stale, |ui| widgets::secondary_button(ui, tl!("Auto"), 0.0)).inner.clicked();+ auto = ui.add_enabled_ui(cx.hist.is_some() && !cx.hist_stale, |ui| widgets::secondary_button(ui, tl!("Auto"), 0.0)).inner.clicked();
});
});
let (chan, _, hist_i) = channels.get(ch).cloned().unwrap_or((ToneChannel { key: "", label: "" }, String::new(), 0));
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auto = ui.add_enabled_ui(!cx.hist_stale, |ui| widgets::secondary_button(ui,tl!("Auto"),0.0)).inner.clicked();
auto = ui.add_enabled_ui(cx.hist.is_some() && !cx.hist_stale, |ui| widgets::secondary_button(ui,tl!("Auto"),0.0)).inner.clicked();
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Update the enabled condition for the Auto button in the `auto` assignment to
require both an available histogram and a fresh histogram. Preserve the existing
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Preserve matching pending counts across adjustment commits.
If an adjustment is committed during its first count, the completed histogram is treated as stale and counted again. This delays the histogram and Levels Auto. Preserve the pending count’s revision when the commit leaves its input unchanged.
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Update the commit handling around the tone histogram job created by count so a
pending count remains valid when an adjustment commit does not change its
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recount when the histogram inputs actually change.
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nl -ba crates/ui-egui/src/panels/channels_panel.rs | sed -n '90,140p;480,535p'
rg -n 'fn sync_mask_targets|properties_layer\s*=' crates/ui-egui/src/app/targets.rs crates/ui-egui/src/panels crates/ui-egui/src/app
nl -ba crates/ui-egui/src/app/targets.rs | sed -n '100,220p'
nl -ba crates/engine/src/cmd/channel_cmds/targeting.rs | sed -n '330,405p'
nl -ba crates/ui-egui/src/panels/mask_thumbs_ui/tests.rs | sed -n '830,885p'
Repository: storytold/photocraft
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Keep histogram caches separate by source.
When Properties and an adjustment dialog request different sources, each completed count replaces the other editor’s histogram. The histograms can repeatedly disappear, and Levels Auto can appear enabled but do nothing. Keep a cached result for each active source.
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/widgets/tone.rs around lines 447 - 449:
Keep histogram results separate for each active source instead of replacing the
single `app.tone_hist` value when `app.tone_hist_job` completes. Key and
retrieve cached results by source so Properties and adjustment dialogs retain
their own histograms, and Levels Auto uses the result for its requested source.
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Synchronize the worker before asserting stale histograms.
If the worker finishes before the receive check, the test receives a fresh histogram and fails despite correct behavior. Hold the worker’s result until after the stale assertions, then release it before calling landed.
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/widgets/tone.rs around lines 792 - 795:
Update the histogram test around the `histograms` call so the worker cannot
publish its result before the stale-histogram assertions run. Hold the worker
result until those assertions complete, then release it before calling `landed`;
preserve the existing stale-state and histogram-identity checks.
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First-pass review notes (automated, from the ux specialist angle). Please treat as suggestions and verify before acting.
The change moves Levels/Curves histogram counting off the UI thread in tone::histograms: it spawns one worker at a time, waits up to 16 ms (COUNT_GRACE) for a fast result, otherwise shows the previous histograms for the same layer/source marked internally as stale until the new ones land and trigger a repaint, and disables Levels' Auto while stale.
Logical units
crates/ui-egui/src/widgets/tone.rs — histograms, ToneJob/ToneHistograms, land, store, count, COUNT_GRACE, new test module.
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/session.rs and crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_dialog.rs — call sites now pass ui.ctx(), unwrap Option<ToneHistograms>, split into hist + hist_stale.
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/adjust_editors/levels.rs — Auto wrapped in add_enabled_ui(!cx.hist_stale, ...).
crates/ui-egui/src/app.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs — new tone_hist_job state.
Test-only EditorCx constructions in curves.rs, ui_tests.rs, adjust_editors.rs tests.
docs/gaps.md — G2 progress note.
Findings by unit
widgets/tone.rs::histograms / ToneHistograms::stale: the stale flag is never rendered. Only levels.rs reads hist_stale; Curves (and any other needs_histogram editor) displays the old histogram with no visual distinction — no dimming, badge, or label in the diff. A user dragging a curve against a histogram from before the last edit has no way to know it is out of date. Fix: surface stale state in the histogram widget itself (e.g. reduced opacity plus a "updating" caption), not only in Levels' Auto.
widgets/tone.rs::histograms (no-cache path): before any count has landed it returns None, so the editor shows an empty histogram area with no loading placeholder or spinner. On first selection of a large document this is a blank box for ~200 ms (per the PR's own measurements), indistinguishable from "no data". Fix: render a loading state when hist is None but a job is in flight.
widgets/tone.rs::histograms (one-job-at-a-time): if a count for layer A is in flight and the user selects layer B, B gets None (blank, per above) and its count cannot start until A's finishes, then B's own count starts — two sequential waits with a blank histogram throughout. Fix: cancel/supersede the in-flight job on layer/source change, or at least show the loading state for B.
dialogs/adjust_editors/levels.rs::levels: Auto is disabled via add_enabled_ui with no tooltip, label, or status text explaining why. A greyed-out Auto with no reason reads as broken, especially since it re-enables silently ~200 ms later. Fix: add a tooltip/status ("Waiting for histogram…") while hist_stale.
widgets/tone.rs::land / count: if the worker panics, land drops the job on Disconnected and the next frame spawns a new one, indefinitely. Auto stays disabled and the histogram stays stale/blank forever with no error or fallback to inline counting. Fix: count consecutive failures and fall back to inline counting (or surface an error) after the first disconnect.
widgets/tone.rs::histograms: ctx.request_repaint_after(30 ms) is issued on every call while a job is in flight, in addition to the worker's ctx.request_repaint(). If the editor is open this keeps the UI on a 30 ms repaint loop for the whole count; combined with the 16 ms blocking recv_timeout on job start, small-document interactions still pay a frame of latency. Not a correctness bug, but the polling interval and the blocking wait should be justified or replaced with the worker's repaint alone.
dialogs/adjust_editors.rs::EditorCx: hist: Option<Arc<Histograms>> plus a separate hist_stale: bool permits inconsistent states (None + stale, stale with no histogram) that every call site must now keep in sync by hand — already repeated in three test constructions. Fix: keep the Option<ToneHistograms> as the single field so stale-ness cannot diverge from the histogram it describes.
widgets/tone.rs tests: COUNT_GRACE is zero under cfg(test), so the production path where the frame blocks up to 16 ms and shows fresh histograms immediately is never exercised; the test only proves the stale path. Fix: add a test (or a test-only override) covering the grace-period hit.
docs/gaps.md: the G2 entry accurately says Auto "waits for them" but does not mention that the histogram itself is shown stale without any on-screen indication, so the documented user-visible behaviour understates what the user actually sees.
Overlaps with other open PRs
All 15 listed open PRs (#11246, #11251, #11252, #11289, #11290, #11295, #11298, #11308, #11346, #11358, #11436, #11437, #11443, #11444, #11449) touch the same files, so this change — which alters tone::histograms' signature, EditorCx, and PhotocraftApp state — will conflict with any of them that also edit widgets/tone.rs, adjust_editors.rs, session.rs, or levels.rs. The signature change to histograms (new ctx parameter, Option return) is the highest-risk overlap point.
Verdict: needs changes
Stale histograms are shown with no visual indication in Curves and other editors — only Levels' Auto reacts to
…for another source
Review follow-ups for the off-thread tone histograms (storytold#11559):
- A histogram being counted again is drawn faded in Levels, Curves and Threshold, so one of the
document before its last change doesn't pass for a current one; before the first count lands
the area is empty and faded rather than blank.
- EditorCx holds Option<ToneHistograms> instead of the histograms beside a separate stale flag,
which could disagree. Levels' Auto says why it is disabled while it waits.
- A count for another layer, source or document is replaced instead of waited for.
- A worker that died without delivering is not started again every frame: the next count runs
in the frame, as before, so its failure surfaces as it did.
- No 30 ms repaint polling while a count runs: the worker repaints when it lands.
- The grace is a parameter (no test-only constant), and its hit is tested.
Thanks @eliets2, most of these were worth doing. Addressed in 15b3b6b, and main is merged in since (54f2f9b):
Stale histograms show it. While a count runs, the histogram is drawn faded in Levels, Curves and Threshold (ToneHistograms::tint). Before the first count lands, the area is empty and faded rather than blank.
One field.EditorCx holds Option<ToneHistograms> instead of hist beside a separate hist_stale, so the two can't disagree.
Auto explains itself. While it's disabled it shows "Waiting for the histogram to update" on hover, and it never reads a stale histogram.
Counts for another source are replaced. Choosing another layer, source or document no longer waits for the previous count; it starts its own.
A dead worker isn't respawned every frame. If the worker dies without delivering, the next count runs in the frame, as it did before this PR, so a failure surfaces as it did.
No 30 ms polling. The worker's own repaint when it lands is enough.
The grace path is tested. The grace is now a parameter instead of a cfg(test) constant. a_count_within_the_grace_shows_at_once covers a count that lands within it.
New tests:a_count_for_another_source_is_replaced and after_a_worker_died_the_count_runs_in_the_frame, each seen failing with its change reverted.
On the overlaps: none of the 15 listed PRs touches widgets/tone.rs. Three (#11251, #11289, #11308) touch adjust_dialog.rs or levels.rs, where the changes here are a few lines, so any conflict should be small.
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Part of #11559, the part where "hide or show a layer: the mouse freezes until the image is updated" with a tone editor open.
Cause
The Levels, Curves and other tone editors (in Properties and in Image › Adjustments) draw a histogram of the image below the adjustment.
tone::histogramsrecounted it on the UI thread whenever the pixels changed. On a large document that means compositing the image below at full size, effects included, so the window froze while it was counted. It froze again on every hide, show or undo while such a layer was selected, and when the layer was first selected.The Histogram panel already counts the same histograms off the UI thread (
histogram_panel::spawn). The editors didn't.Change
tone::histogramscounts on a worker thread, one count at a time per layer and source. A count for another layer, source or document is replaced, not waited for. The web build and failed spawns still count inline.COUNT_GRACE(16 ms, about a frame) for the result, so a small document's histograms show in the same frame as before.ToneHistograms::tint), until the new ones land and repaint. Before the first ever lands, the area is empty and faded.EditorCxholdsOption<ToneHistograms>: the histograms and whether they're stale, in one value.keep_after_commitstill applies after the editor's own commits.Measured
Release builds of main e4e2607 and this branch, on a 6000 × 4000 document. It has a Drop Shadow + Stroke + Bevel layer, a Soft Light texture layer, and Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers, with the Curves layer selected in Properties.
A note for anyone timing PhotoCraft this way on macOS: App Nap throttles the app about 20 s after launch when its window isn't frontmost. Every count, on main or here, then takes 1.5 to 4 s. These measurements were taken with
NSAppSleepDisabledset for the test binaries.Tests (
widgets/tone.rs,counted_off_the_ui_thread)tone_histograms_are_counted_off_the_ui_thread_and_the_last_ones_shown_meanwhile(2400 × 1600 document, zero grace)compute_histogramson the new document.a_count_within_the_grace_shows_at_once: a small document's histograms come back fresh within the grace.a_count_for_another_source_is_replaced: a new source's count replaces one still running for another. Seen red without the replacement.after_a_worker_died_the_count_runs_in_the_frame: after a dead worker, the next count runs in the frame and no worker is started again. Seen red without the fallback.histogram_ignores_the_edited_adjustment.cargo xtask cipasses locally, apart from macOS-only failures that are the same onmain. Inphotocraft-ui-egui, 32 tests fail without the optional craft-fonts checkout, identically onmain.Not changed
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