The Design tab's MCP socket must not wait for someone to click the tab

Building the Design tab on first use (1750c52211) leaves m_design_panel null
until a human selects the tab. McpControl::handle_on_main refused every verb
while it was null, so start_mcp_control_if_enabled() opened the socket and
then answered "Design panel not ready" to everything — for the whole session
if nobody clicked. That is precisely the headless case the socket exists for:
the click-test rig drives this app over it with no window manager and no user.

MainFrame::ensure_design_panel() now builds the panel on demand and returns
it; the tab activation and the MCP dispatcher both go through it, so there is
one construction site rather than two. Safe to build wx controls there: that
handler is dispatched on the main thread by CallAfter, as its own comment
says.

The startup saving is untouched — a launch that never opens the tab and never
speaks MCP still builds nothing.

Verified: libslic3r_gui builds clean 745/745; fork parity green with snaporca,
which carries the same fix (McpControl.cpp is a byte-identical shared source).
This commit is contained in:
Tommaso Bianchi
2026-08-28 14:11:23 +02:00
parent 149ae6c7fe
commit cdd41e230d
3 changed files with 24 additions and 8 deletions
+14 -6
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@@ -1245,6 +1245,19 @@ void MainFrame::show_option(bool show)
}
}
#ifdef SLIC3R_CAD
DesignPanel* MainFrame::ensure_design_panel()
{
if (m_design_panel == nullptr && m_design_page != nullptr) {
wxBusyCursor busy;
m_design_panel = new DesignPanel(m_design_page);
m_design_page->GetSizer()->Add(m_design_panel, 1, wxEXPAND);
m_design_page->Layout();
}
return m_design_panel;
}
#endif
void MainFrame::init_tabpanel() {
// wxNB_NOPAGETHEME: Disable Windows Vista theme for the Notebook background. The theme performance is terrible on
// Windows 10 with multiple high resolution displays connected.
@@ -1290,12 +1303,7 @@ void MainFrame::init_tabpanel() {
// Built on first activation, never at startup: the panel creates several hundred
// controls and its own GL canvas, which a user who does not open the tab should
// not pay for.
if (m_design_panel == nullptr) {
wxBusyCursor busy;
m_design_panel = new DesignPanel(m_design_page);
m_design_page->GetSizer()->Add(m_design_panel, 1, wxEXPAND);
m_design_page->Layout();
}
ensure_design_panel();
// Re-sync the Design bed to the active printer: the panel is built before the
// printer profile is fully applied, so its bed must refresh on activation or the
// grid (true bed) spills past the stale default bed quad.