A balloon that found no room beside a long caption dropped to just below
it, inside the art band: on the fix loop it covered the code page and the
"19 tests" label of the board, and elsewhere it sat on Claude's face (a
balloon of three lines or fewer was exempt from the clamp). A sweep over
the 11 corpus sessions, every turn, both modes, at 390, 820, 1100 and
1440 px and beside the diff drawer found 131 of 690 balloons covering a
click region or Claude's face.
Every balloon (Claude's, the loop's aimed one, the ask panel's, yours and
a notice) is now placed by _storyFitBalloon from the scene's layout at
its finished frame (StoryArt.layout, a dry run on a scratch canvas), so
an entrance with objects still in flight never moves it or the panel's
height. It must end above every click region under it (its tail above
those under the tail) and above Claude's face; a click region holding
his face is Claude himself and only the face rule applies to it. When
two lines do not fit, the panel grows for caption and balloon together
and the scene stands lower. The growth is computed at the panel's usual
height (storyBalloonRoom, pure), so a refit of the grown panel asks for
the same height: one extra pass, never an oscillation. The rest of a
long text clamps as before.
agent() now names Claude by his default colour, not by being cyan, so
the cyan fourth helper no longer takes the balloon, and the check scene
reports how high Claude's jump lifts his face.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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