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Fix brush auto-fill, overwrite-empty erasing and single-click erasing - #10071

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Fixes three brush regressions from #9972.

Auto-fill. A brush stroke released near where it started gets its enclosed area filled again, in the same undo step as the stroke, as before #9972. The new brush path had simply stopped calling finishSectionLabeler, which does the fill via the existing lasso/trace path (getFillingVoxelBuffer2D + labelWithVoxelBuffer2D, including the closedness check — release within 2 × brush radius of the start — and the area limit). The brush now calls it again, like every other tool.

Erasing with "overwrite empty". The UI promises that in this mode "in case of erasing, only the current segment ID is overwritten", but the new brush path mapped the mode to "only write over background" — so erasing, which writes 0, erased nothing at all. EditContext now carries an overwritableValue (0 when painting, the active segment when erasing, as in the old labelWithVoxelBuffer2D), and the cube's background probe became getIsOverwritableFunction(address, value). Also, the "No voxels were changed" hint works again: the brush used to mark every stroke as having written voxels.

Erasing with a single click crashed the saga (TypeError: undefined is not iterable in SectionLabeler.getUnzoomedCentroid). Since #6162, handleDrawStart adds the press position to the contour so that single clicks count for interpolation; handleEraseStart never did, so an erase click that never moves left the contour empty. handleEraseStart now does the same, so a single erase click registers a label point like a single draw click or a moving erase stroke (and erase-trace polygons start at the press position, like trace polygons). getUnzoomedCentroid() now returns null for an empty contour instead of throwing, so callers have to handle that case.

As before, the overwrite check is exact at the current mag only. Coarser/finer mags are written without it, since checking them would require loading their data — so erasing at a coarse mag also clears other segments in the finer mags underneath. The design doc (§1.2, §4, §5.3, §5.4, diagrams) is updated accordingly, including correcting §5.3, which claimed erasing was always "overwrite all".

Steps to test:

  • Brush a closed loop (release near the start): the inside gets filled. A single undo removes both the fill and the stroke.
  • Brush an open stroke: nothing is filled, and a single undo removes it.
  • Select "overwrite empty" (or hold Ctrl), make segment A active and erase across segments A and B: only A is erased.
  • With "overwrite empty", erase over segments that aren't active: nothing changes and the "No voxels were changed" hint appears.
  • Erase with a single click, without moving the mouse: the dab is erased, no error.

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Brush edits now filter loaded voxels against a configured overwrite value. Erase starts record the initial contour position. Brush completion handles enclosed-area fills and empty contours.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Overwrite-empty value and filtering
frontend/javascripts/viewer/model/volumetracing/core/*, frontend/javascripts/viewer/model/volumetracing/integration/*, frontend/javascripts/viewer/model/volumetracing/not_yet_integrated/working_data_cube.ts, frontend/javascripts/viewer/model/sagas/volumetracing_saga.tsx, frontend/javascripts/test/model/volumetracing/core/*, design/volume_annotation_architecture.md
EditContext carries overwritableValue. Transaction predicates and rasterization use this value for loaded voxels. Absent or pending buckets retain optimistic writes.
Erase contours and brush completion
frontend/javascripts/viewer/controller/combinations/volume_handlers.ts, frontend/javascripts/viewer/model/volumetracing/legacy/section_labeling.ts, frontend/javascripts/viewer/model/sagas/volumetracing_saga.tsx, frontend/javascripts/test/sagas/volumetracing/volumetracing_saga_integration_1.spec.ts, design/volume_annotation_architecture.md, unreleased_changes/10071.md
Erase starts add the initial contour position. Brush completion records voxel changes when present and registers a label point only when the contour has a centroid. Integration tests cover overwrite-empty erasing, single-click erasing, and fill undo behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d1e40

The brush fixes appear mergeable after normal checks; the previously reported extra undo step is no longer present.

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The change affects 3 systems.

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Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in design/volume_annotation_architecture.md: The stated limitation of overwrite-empty-only now also covers erasing: it does not protect other segments hidden in finer detail beneath a coarse voxel.
  • observed — Modified behavior in design/volume_annotation_architecture.md: EditContext adds overwritableValue, specified as 0n for painting and the active segment ID for erasing.
  • observed — Modified behavior in design/volume_annotation_architecture.md: The architecture diagram adds overwritableValue to EditContext.
  • observed — Modified behavior in design/volume_annotation_architecture.md: The BucketWriter diagram replaces the optional isBackground predicate with isOverwritable.
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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Issue #4786 covers auto-fill undo behavior only. The pull request also changes overwrite-empty erasing, the no-change warning, single-click erasing, related transaction interfaces, design documentatio… Remove the overwrite-empty and single-click erasing changes from this pull request, or link active issues that directly require those changes.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #4786 requires the automatic fill from a brush circle to be undoable with Ctrl+Z. The integration test verifies that an enclosed brush stroke fills the area and that one undo removes both the fi…
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains all three changes: brush auto-fill, overwrite-empty erasing, and single-click erasing. It also includes testing steps and regression context.
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A rabbit paints a voxel bright,
Then checks which value may take flight.
A circle closes, fills its space,
And undo keeps the stroke in place.
The empty contour leaves no trace.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@philippotto philippotto added frontend bug fix This PR fixes a bug labels Sep 29, 2026
The new brush path mapped "overwrite empty" to "only write over background".
Erasing writes 0, so in that mode it compared 0 against itself and erased
nothing — while the UI promises "in case of erasing, only the current segment
ID is overwritten", which is what labelWithVoxelBuffer2D does via its
overwritableValue.

EditContext now carries overwritableValue (0n when painting, the active
segment when erasing), and the cube's background probe becomes
getIsOverwritableFunction(address, value). As before, the predicate is exact
at the source mag only: mag propagation writes unconditionally, so erasing at
a coarse mag also clears other segments in the finer mags underneath.

wroteVoxelsBox is now set from the stroke's actual write count instead of
unconditionally, so the "no voxels were changed" hint fires again when
overwrite-empty skipped everything.

The design doc's §5.3 claimed erasing was always overwrite-all; corrected,
along with the EditContext sketch, emitSpan, the diagrams and §5.4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@philippotto philippotto changed the title Re-add the auto-close feature for brushing Restore brush auto-fill and overwrite-empty erasing Sep 29, 2026
@philippotto philippotto changed the title Restore brush auto-fill and overwrite-empty erasing Fix brush auto-fill, overwrite-empty erasing and single-click erasing Sep 29, 2026
An erase click that never moves left the contour empty: handleDrawStart has
added the press position to the contour since #6162 ("make interpolation work
when brushing without dragging"), but handleEraseStart never did. The brush
branch then called getUnzoomedCentroid(), which for an empty contour
destructures contourList[0] and throws "undefined is not iterable".

handleEraseStart now adds the press position too, so a single erase click
registers a label point (interpolation, tracing direction) just like a single
draw click or an erase stroke that moves. Erase-trace polygons therefore start
at the press position, as trace polygons already do.

getUnzoomedCentroid() returns null for an empty contour instead of throwing,
so the case is in the type and both callers have to handle it.

Also turns the changelog entry into Fixed entries, since the regressions
reached production.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comment on lines +35 to +39
/**
* A predicate telling whether a voxel of this bucket currently holds
* `overwritableValue`, for the overwrite-empty-only filter. Null when the
* bucket has no authoritative content to test against.
*/

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I know we discussed the value of the docstring. however, now that this abstracts over background, I find the docstring helpful. also, it explains the meaning of the return value being null.

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@frontend/javascripts/viewer/model/sagas/volumetracing_saga.tsx:
- Around line 358-360: Update the fill path used before the
`finishAnnotationStrokeAction` dispatch so it skips labeling and the separate
undo step when filling produces no interior voxels. Check the filled buffer for
interior voxels and return an empty `VoxelBuffer2D` when none remain, while
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sweet, looking good. Thanks for fixing this 🎉

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