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Export As: composite a layer and write files on a worker - #14161
Layer › Export As… and Quick Export as PNG composited the layer on the UI thread, and composited it again for the dialog's size fields, its preview, its size estimate and the export itself. On a storyboard PSB (1.1 gigapixels) exporting one board froze the window for 17.4 s to open the dialog and 21.6 s more for its preview; Quick Export as PNG froze it for 17.6 s, and the Wayland compositor (COSMIC) closed the window. #5104 moved the preview of large whole documents to a worker; the layer path and the export's encoding still ran on the UI thread.
One composite per layer: the layer's export document (layer_menu_cmds::layer_document) is made once and kept (LAYER_SOURCE, keyed by the document Arc and the layer) for the dialog, its preview and estimate workers, and the export. It's released when the export ends.
Opening the dialog: from the menu (open_selected_layers), with background jobs on, the first layer is composited by a job ("Preparing Export As: " in the status bar). The dialog opens when it lands, and only for the document it was made from. Without background jobs (tests, the web) it opens as before.
Exporting: Export As (a layer, several layers or the whole document) and Quick Export of several layers composite, convert, encode and write on a job through Services::save_file, as background saves do (Large layered saves (TIFF / PSD→PSB) block the UI with no progress indicator #2017): progress, Cancel until the file is being replaced, then "Exported ()" and the encoder's warnings. Without a worker save the export runs on this thread as before.
batch_paths takes the layers' names, so the layers are composited one at a time on the worker instead of all up front.
Tried
In a Flatpak build on the storyboard PSB: Export As and Quick Export as PNG on a storyboard group from the Layers panel. The window stayed responsive throughout (no slow frames logged), the dialog opened once the board was ready, and the files were written.
Tests
jobs_ui::tests::layer_export_as_prepares_and_writes_in_the_background: Layer › Export As returns a pending job, the dialog opens when it lands, and Export writes through the worker save with its status and warnings.
batch_name_tests updated for batch_paths taking names.
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Layer exports now reuse cached composites and can prepare selected layers and write exports through background jobs. Quick Export and dialog confirmation use layer names for batch paths. Export jobs participate in event handling, cancellation, action recording, and window-close behavior.
Changes: Layer export workflow
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Summary
Cache and prepare selected layers crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/menus/invoke.rs
Selected-layer export uses cached composites. The dialog can prepare a composite in a background job, and layer.exportAs routes selected layers through the shared dialog.
The export dialog can composite and save through a background worker. The UI tracks exports while polling, handles export events, and delays window closure until exports finish. JobCtx::end_commit clears committed state between commit steps. Tests cover job recording, commit cancellation, background export, synchronous fallback, and close behavior after a write failure.
Export routes and batch paths crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs
Quick Export and dialog confirmation use cached sources or background saving. Batch output paths derive from layer names. Whole-document actions are recorded after successful writes.
Export As now composites layers and writes files on a worker. The earlier concerns about memory held after a cancel and about a window closing over an export error appear fixed. No merge-blocking risk remains.
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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs:
- Line 1267: In the synchronous fallback path, release the cached layer
composite after `source_document_from` returns the local source `Arc` and before
`write_export`, so the local export remains valid without retaining the cache.
Add a regression test covering this fallback and verifying the cached source is
forgotten after acquisition.
- Line 338: Extend the window-close wait guard to include active export work
launched through start_job with EXPORT_JOB, alongside saves and print jobs. Add
an exporting() check next to printing() that reports whether a session job using
EXPORT_JOB is active, and use it in the guard so closing waits for the export
worker to finish.
- Line 327: Update the export flow in start_export so each save call has a
commit point scoped to that file, allowing cancellation until that file is
replaced. Adjust the SaveCtl/JobCtx commit state only as needed to prevent one
file’s commit from blocking cancellation of later saves, and keep job-level
result handling unchanged.
- Line 1265: Update the whole-document export flow in confirm so it does not
record the automation step or journal entry when start_export returns a pending
result. Pass the captured destination and settings to the EXPORT_JOB completion
handler, and record them only after successful completion; failures and
cancellations must not be recorded. Preserve the existing synchronous behavior
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Minor · Skip caching the composite when its export was cancelled during… · export_dialog.rs:191
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs:191 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Skip caching the composite when its export was cancelled during compositing.
A cancel can arrive while the worker is compositing a later layer. The cancellation clears LAYER_SOURCE when its event is polled. The worker can then store its composite after that clear. The cached source document and composite then stay until the next export-job event or a different layer's composite replaces them.
The worker can check the job's cancel flag while it holds the LAYER_SOURCE lock. A cancel sets that flag before its event reaches the UI, and the UI clear takes the same lock. A store made after a cancel is then skipped, and a store made before the cancel is cleared by the UI.
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-fn layer_source(doc: &Arc<Document>, id: photocraft_doc::LayerId) -> Result<Arc<Document>, String> {- if let Some(out) = cached_layer_source(doc, id) {- return Ok(out);- }- let out = Arc::new(photocraft_engine::layer_menu_cmds::layer_document(doc, id).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?);- *LAYER_SOURCE.lock().unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner) = Some((doc.clone(), id, out.clone()));- Ok(out)-}+fn layer_source(doc: &Arc<Document>, id: photocraft_doc::LayerId) -> Result<Arc<Document>, String> {+ layer_source_for(None, doc, id)+}++/// [`layer_source`] for a worker. A job cancelled while it composites keeps nothing, so the+/// cancel's cleanup is not undone.+fn layer_source_for(+ job: Option<&photocraft_engine::jobs::JobCtx>,+ doc: &Arc<Document>,+ id: photocraft_doc::LayerId,+) -> Result<Arc<Document>, String> {+ if let Some(out) = cached_layer_source(doc, id) {+ return Ok(out);+ }+ let out = Arc::new(photocraft_engine::layer_menu_cmds::layer_document(doc, id).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?);+ let mut kept = LAYER_SOURCE.lock().unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner);+ if !job.is_some_and(|ctx| ctx.cancelled()) {+ *kept = Some((doc.clone(), id, out.clone()));+ }+ Ok(out)+}
- let work = move |_| layer_source(&doc, first).map(drop).map_err(photocraft_engine::EngineError::Other),+ let work = move |ctx| layer_source_for(Some(ctx), &doc, first).map(drop).map_err(photocraft_engine::EngineError::Other),
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs at line 191:
Update the worker’s LAYER_SOURCE cache write to check the job’s cancellation flag while holding the same lock used to clear the cache, and skip storing the composite if cancellation has occurred. Apply this to the worker compositing paths so a store before cancellation is cleared and a store after cancellation cannot restore the cached source.
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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs:
- Line 354: Update the start_job/start_registered path so an export job records
the recording owner active at dispatch, allowing apply_job to include the Export
As step in that recording. Before changing shared start_registered behavior,
check its callers, including the camera and jobs UI paths, and preserve their
existing recording semantics.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/jobs_ui.rs:
- Line 481: Update the EXPORT_JOB failure or cancellation path in
export_dialog::on_job_event to clear app.jobs.close_after_saves before returning
false, matching the existing save-failure behavior. Add a regression test that
holds a close during an export, fails or cancels the export, and verifies the
flag is cleared and the window remains open.
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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs:
- Line 191: Update the worker’s LAYER_SOURCE cache write to check the job’s
cancellation flag while holding the same lock used to clear the cache, and skip
storing the composite if cancellation has occurred. Apply this to the worker
compositing paths so a store before cancellation is cleared and a store after
cancellation cannot restore the cached source.
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Minor · Release the kept layer when a prepare job is cancelled or fails. · export_dialog.rs:185-205
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs:185-205 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Release the kept layer when a prepare job is cancelled or fails.
A cancelled file.export.prepareLayer job can finish its worker after it stores the layer composite in LAYER_SOURCE. The cancel is accepted because the job never commits. on_job_event then receives Cancelled, and its fallback arm returns without calling forget_layer_source(). The source document and composite stay in memory until the next export or the next Export As prepare replaces them. For a large storyboard, that is gigabytes held after the user has stopped. EXPORT_JOB already releases the cache on every outcome. PREPARE_JOB should do the same for outcomes other than Done.
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(EXPORT_JOB, _) => {
forget_layer_source();
// A failed or cancelled export doesn't close the window over its notice, as with saves.
app.jobs.close_after_saves = false;
false
}
+ (PREPARE_JOB, _) => {+ // A failed or cancelled prepare never opens its dialog, so nothing still needs the kept layer.+ forget_layer_source();+ false+ }
_ => false,
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/export_dialog.rs around lines 185 - 205:
Update on_job_event to release the cached layer source for PREPARE_JOB outcomes other than Done by calling forget_layer_source, while preserving the existing Done behavior and other job handling.
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- Around line 185-205: Update on_job_event to release the cached layer source
for PREPARE_JOB outcomes other than Done by calling forget_layer_source, while
preserving the existing Done behavior and other job handling.
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Fixed as suggested: workers composite through layer_source_for(Some(ctx), …), which skips storing the composite when the job was cancelled, checked under the LAYER_SOURCE lock the cancel's clean-up takes.
on_job_event now releases the kept layer for every PREPARE_JOB outcome other than Done. A worker cancelled before it stores already keeps nothing (layer_source_for checks the cancel under the cache lock); this covers a cancel accepted just after the store.
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Layer › Export As… and Quick Export as PNG composited the layer on the UI thread, and composited it again for the dialog's size fields, its preview, its size estimate and the export itself. On a storyboard PSB (1.1 gigapixels) exporting one board froze the window for 17.4 s to open the dialog and 21.6 s more for its preview; Quick Export as PNG froze it for 17.6 s, and the Wayland compositor (COSMIC) closed the window. #5104 moved the preview of large whole documents to a worker; the layer path and the export's encoding still ran on the UI thread.
layer_menu_cmds::layer_document) is made once and kept (LAYER_SOURCE, keyed by the documentArcand the layer) for the dialog, its preview and estimate workers, and the export. It's released when the export ends.open_selected_layers), with background jobs on, the first layer is composited by a job ("Preparing Export As: " in the status bar). The dialog opens when it lands, and only for the document it was made from. Without background jobs (tests, the web) it opens as before.Services::save_file, as background saves do (Large layered saves (TIFF / PSD→PSB) block the UI with no progress indicator #2017): progress, Cancel until the file is being replaced, then "Exported ()" and the encoder's warnings. Without a worker save the export runs on this thread as before.batch_pathstakes the layers' names, so the layers are composited one at a time on the worker instead of all up front.Tried
In a Flatpak build on the storyboard PSB: Export As and Quick Export as PNG on a storyboard group from the Layers panel. The window stayed responsive throughout (no slow frames logged), the dialog opened once the board was ready, and the files were written.
Tests
jobs_ui::tests::layer_export_as_prepares_and_writes_in_the_background: Layer › Export As returns a pending job, the dialog opens when it lands, and Export writes through the worker save with its status and warnings.batch_name_testsupdated forbatch_pathstaking names.Related: #5106 (print-scale performance), #210 (background jobs).
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