docs(plugins): one display-size contract: display_manager.width/height

CLAUDE.md (#580) says to read display_manager.width/height because
matrix is None when hardware init fails; the development guide, the
safety-harness doc and two DisplayManager docstrings still recommended
matrix.width/height. The bundled starlark-apps plugin read matrix.width
unguarded, so its magnify recommendation and frame scaling raised in
fallback mode (e.g. after the Pi 5 hardware refusal).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Chuck
2026-09-17 08:56:12 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ class _LogicalMatrix:
"""Proxy that reports a logical (per-screen) size for a physical matrix.
In double-sided mode the physical panel chain shows N identical copies of a
smaller logical screen. Plugins size themselves from ``matrix.width`` /
``matrix.height`` (the documented convention, used at 30+ call sites), so
this proxy reports the logical dimensions while delegating every real
smaller logical screen. Plugins size themselves from
``display_manager.width`` / ``height`` (the documented convention), which
defer to ``matrix.width`` / ``matrix.height`` -- and many older plugins read
``matrix.width`` directly -- so this proxy reports the logical dimensions
while delegating every real
operation — ``CreateFrameCanvas``, ``SwapOnVSync``, ``brightness``,
``Clear`` and so on — to the underlying physical matrix. The duplication
itself happens once per frame in :meth:`DisplayManager.update_display`.
@@ -682,8 +684,10 @@ class DisplayManager:
def render_size(self, width: int, height: Optional[int] = None):
"""Temporarily present a smaller logical canvas to plugins.
Plugins lay out against ``display_manager.matrix.width`` (and the
``width``/``height`` properties, which defer to it), so the only way to
Plugins lay out against the ``display_manager.width``/``height``
properties (which defer to ``matrix.width`` when hardware is present,
and to the canvas when it is not; some older plugins read
``matrix.width`` directly), so the only way to
get a *narrower layout* rather than a cropped one is to tell the plugin
the screen is narrower while it renders. Trimming after the fact cannot
fix a forecast spread across five columns or a progress bar drawn at