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fix(layout): model LiteGraph's per-row and per-block widget padding - #886

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Stacked on #885 (→ #884#883#882). Rebases onto main as the stack lands.

What was wrong

LiteGraph does not stack widget rows flush. LGraphNode.computeSize accumulates each widget's height plus a 4px inter-row gap, then adds a single 8px pad for the block once the loop finishes. layout.py modelled a flat 12px instead.

That happens to land within 4px at exactly one widget, and drifts with every additional row:

widgets LiteGraph old model short by
1 32 32 0
2 56 52 4
3 80 72 8
6 152 132 20

Under-measurement is the direction that produces the overlap users report: the placer leaves a gap it believes is clear, and the renderer fills it.

How it was found

Not by reading — by measuring. ComfyUI_frontend #17901 replays a recorded batched turn and reads boundingBox() off the rendered node elements. Two agent-added CLIPTextEncode nodes, placed by this module at a nominal 10px clear gap, render 132 graph px tall against the 116 modelled and overlap by 6px:

recorded   pos [715, 280] and [715, 406], size [240, 86]
modelled   86 body + 30 title = 116 graph px  ->  10px clear
rendered   118.8 screen px at 0.9 = 132 graph px  ->  6px overlap

That spec is marked test.fail() and flips green when the estimate catches up. It is the check that will tell us this actually worked, which no Python test can do — the Python tests grade the same arithmetic that was wrong.

Tests

test_widget_height_matches_litegraph asserted a per-widget delta of exactly 20, so it encoded the bug it was named after. It now asserts 24, and two new tests cover the block padding and its absence on widgetless nodes (upstream's +8 is inside if (widgets?.length), so a Reroute must not pay for it).

All three verified red on the parent commit, green here. Full suite: 46 failures, byte-identical to the parent's 46 — zero introduced.

What is deliberately not fixed here

A multiline text widget renders far taller than the 20px NODE_WIDGET_HEIGHT assumed for every widget, and that is the larger half of the same 20px gap. I measured it at roughly 70px for CLIPTextEncode's text, but I could not attribute that number to a single named upstream constant — Vue nodes size DOM widgets through computeLayoutSize, whose min-height comes from CSS custom properties with a 50px fallback, and my measurement does not match that cleanly.

Encoding a guessed constant would repeat exactly the mistake this whole line of work exists to correct. The CLI already parses multiline from object_info (PortOptions.multiline), so the input is available once the right height is established; it needs a measurement pass against the renderer, not an estimate.

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The layout now calculates widget height with LiteGraph row gaps and block padding. Tests cover nodes with zero, one, and three widgets.

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Widget height calculation and validation
comfy_cli/layout.py, tests/comfy_cli/test_layout.py
estimate_size now includes 4px gaps between widget rows and one 8px block pad. Widgetless nodes return zero widget height. Tests cover zero, one, and three widgets. The rows now stack with gap-aware math.

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Widget-bearing nodes may be placed with unnecessary extra spacing. The impact is bounded, but the row-gap calculation should be corrected.

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LiteGraph does not stack widget rows flush. computeSize accumulates each
widget's height plus a 4px inter-row gap, then adds a single 8px pad for the
block. This module modelled a flat 12px instead, which lands within 4px at
exactly one widget and drifts with every additional row: 8px short at three
widgets, 20px short at six.

Under-measurement is the direction that produces the overlap users report --
the placer leaves a gap it believes is clear, and the renderer fills it.

Found by measurement, not by reading. ComfyUI_frontend #17901 replays a
recorded batched turn and reads boundingBox() off the rendered nodes: two
agent-added CLIPTextEncode nodes, placed by this module at a nominal 10px
clear gap, render 132 graph px tall against the 116 modelled and overlap by
6px. That spec is marked test.fail() and will flip green when the estimate
catches up.

test_widget_height_matches_litegraph asserted a per-widget delta of exactly 20
and so encoded the bug it was named after; it now asserts 24 and two new tests
cover the block padding and its absence on widgetless nodes. All three verified
red on the parent commit.

Full suite: 46 failures, byte-identical to the parent's 46. Zero introduced.

NOT fixed here, because it is measured but not yet attributable to a named
upstream constant: a multiline text widget renders far taller than the 20px
NODE_WIDGET_HEIGHT assumed for every widget, which is the larger half of the
same 20px gap. Encoding a guessed constant for it would repeat the mistake
this whole line of work exists to correct.
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Exact-head Fallow audit for 298fdae7821b2aa232f54820011b1131af5eef75: the pinned base f35e41c972aadd6017414dcf53d97891df99b507 has no Fallow workflow/configuration, so no Fallow-triggered rebase applies. The two-file diff is Python-only, making Fallow source analysis not applicable. The focused layout suite passed 26/26; repository-wide Ruff lint and format checks plus the exact-range whitespace check passed. A bounded full Pytest run reached 15% of 7,634 tests with no failures before the required two-minute stop; all current hosted checks report success. The final live guard preserved the exact head/base, Christian authorship, no approval, and no merge-queue request. No product edit, push, or merge was performed.

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Reviewed. The per-row gap plus block pad matches computeSize, and widgetless nodes are correctly excluded. Layout suite passes, and the full suite shows no new failures against main. Nit: the PR body still says it's stacked on #885, but it's based on main now.

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The width model under-estimates, and under-estimating width is what produces the
overlap users report: the placer puts the next column a node-width away and the
real node reaches past it.

LiteGraph's own formula is NODE_WIDTH * (1.5 if widgets else 1.0) = 210, which no
widget-bearing node actually renders at. Measured across 27 classes in a real
browser: every node carrying a widget renders at 270 or wider, every node
carrying a MULTILINE widget at 400 or wider. Fourteen of fourteen non-multiline
widget classes land at exactly 270 when their content is narrower, and seven of
seven multiline classes at exactly 400 -- the shape of a floor, not a fixed
width. KSamplerAdvanced 312, ControlNetApply 317.9 and CheckpointLoader 396.9
exceed it on content, which is what confirms it.

Before this, on the eight classes in the release fixtures, five were
under-estimated: CLIPTextEncode by 150, EmptyLatentImage and
CheckpointLoaderSimple by 60, LatentUpscale by 48, SaveImage by 40. After, zero
are. The three over-estimates (KSampler +19, ConditioningCombine +48, VAEDecode
+6) are left alone: over-spacing wastes canvas, which nobody has filed.

Effect on the release fixtures, scoring placer output against measured width AND
height: txt2img 16,123 -> 0 px^2, four-prompts 0 -> 0. #886 and #887 fixed the
height term; this is the width term of the same defect, and txt2img needs all
three.

Known over-estimate, accepted: Note and MarkdownNote carry a multiline widget but
render at 140 because they are annotation nodes with no slots. They get floored
to 400 and will be over-spaced. Left deliberately -- the direction argument above
applies, and special-casing them on "no inputs and no outputs" is a guess I have
not measured.

17 parametrized cases assert the floor never exceeds what a class renders, plus
four behavioural tests. All verified red on the parent.
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🟡 Minor · Count gaps only between widget rows. · layout.py:74-82

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Count gaps only between widget rows.

_widgets_height currently adds a 4px gap for every widget, including the last one. For positive counts, the LiteGraph contract is n * 20 + (n - 1) * 4 + 8, so the helper overestimates every widget-bearing node by 4px. estimate_size passes this value to placement collision checks and emitted node sizes.

Use n_widgets - 1 gaps in the shared helper, then update the tests to expect 28px, 52px, and 76px for one, two, and three widgets. The last row must not receive a free gap.

return n_widgets * WIDGET_H + (n_widgets - 1) * _WIDGET_ROW_GAP + _WIDGET_BLOCK_PAD

This shared change corrects the affected placement and emitted-size paths.

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In `@comfy_cli/layout.py` around lines 74 - 82, Update _widgets_height to count
_WIDGET_ROW_GAP only between rows, using n_widgets - 1 gaps for positive counts
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