Add overflow handling: keep ordered content whole instead of rotating a window

The width budget split any oversized plugin by advancing a window each cycle.
That is right for interchangeable items — news headlines, odds, stock prices —
but wrong for ordered content: a league table showed ranks 1-6, then resumed at
7 two rotations later, which reads as out of order and out of context. Nobody
needs rank 23 in a ticker; they need the top of the table, every time.

overflow_mode chooses between them:

  rotate   — advance a window each cycle so everything is seen eventually
             (unchanged default)
  truncate — always show the start and drop the rest, keeping ordered content
             coherent. Records no window state, so every pass starts at the top.

Per-plugin vegas_overflow overrides the global setting, since one install has
both kinds of plugin. Also adds per-plugin vegas_max_width_screens, so content
that must stay whole can be given more room — or uncapped with 0 — without
lifting the cap on every ticker.

Applied on the test rig: f1-scoreboard and ledmatrix-leaderboard set to
truncate, and baseball given 4.5 screens because it was showing 8 of 9 games
when the whole slate needed only a little more room. Verified: F1 now reports
"the first 10 of 116 ... the rest are not shown", baseball has dropped out of
the budget log entirely, and stocks, odds-ticker and stock-news still rotate.

Also corrects the crop log, which claimed "window advances next cycle"
unconditionally and so misreported truncated crops. A test now pins the
behaviour behind the message: truncate must leave no offset recorded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ
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2026-07-29 15:40:37 -04:00
co-authored by Claude
parent 7b6b7cd153
commit a413849891
6 changed files with 283 additions and 30 deletions
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@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ def save_main_config():
'vegas_intra_plugin_gap', 'vegas_render_width_pct',
'vegas_min_content_separation', 'vegas_min_cut_gap',
'vegas_continuous_scroll', 'vegas_extend_threshold_screens',
'vegas_smooth_scroll']
'vegas_smooth_scroll', 'vegas_overflow_mode']
if any(k in data for k in vegas_fields):
if 'display' not in current_config:
@@ -951,6 +951,16 @@ def save_main_config():
# max_plugin_width_ratio is the one fractional setting, so it is
# handled outside the integer loop below.
if data.get('vegas_overflow_mode') not in ('', None):
mode = str(data['vegas_overflow_mode']).strip().lower()
if mode not in ('rotate', 'truncate'):
return jsonify({
'status': 'error',
'message': "Invalid value for vegas_overflow_mode: "
"must be 'rotate' or 'truncate'"
}), 400
vegas_config['overflow_mode'] = mode
if data.get('vegas_extend_threshold_screens') not in ('', None):
try:
screens = float(data['vegas_extend_threshold_screens'])
@@ -547,6 +547,14 @@
class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="form-group" id="setting-display-vegas_overflow_mode" data-setting-key="display.vegas_scroll.overflow_mode">
<label for="vegas_overflow_mode" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">When A Plugin Is Too Wide{{ ui.help_tip('What to do when a plugin has more content than its width allowance.\nRotate through it: show a different slice each time round, so everything is seen eventually. Right for interchangeable items like news headlines, odds or stock prices.\nShow the start only: always display from the beginning and drop the rest. Right for ordered content — a league table that shows ranks 1-6 and then resumes at 7 two rotations later reads as out of order.\nDefault: rotate. Override for one plugin with vegas_overflow in its own settings.', 'Overflow Handling') }}</label>
<select id="vegas_overflow_mode" name="vegas_overflow_mode" class="form-control">
<option value="rotate" {% if main_config.display.get('vegas_scroll', {}).get('overflow_mode', 'rotate') == 'rotate' %}selected{% endif %}>Rotate through it (default)</option>
<option value="truncate" {% if main_config.display.get('vegas_scroll', {}).get('overflow_mode', 'rotate') == 'truncate' %}selected{% endif %}>Show the start only</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-group" id="setting-display-vegas_max_plugin_width_ratio" data-setting-key="display.vegas_scroll.max_plugin_width_ratio">
<label for="vegas_max_plugin_width_ratio" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">Max Plugin Width (screens){{ ui.help_tip('Caps how much of one cycle a single plugin may occupy, measured in screen widths (020).\nDefault: 3. A long ticker such as a news feed or leaderboard is trimmed to this and the remainder shown on later cycles, so one plugin cannot hold the display for minutes. Set 0 for no limit.', 'Max Plugin Width') }}</label>
<input type="number"