From cb68350b860de90d98b38da5b16bee823474ebaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "prompt.ac/@jeffrey" <mail@aesthetic.computer>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 22:40:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] chat: keep pruttivox on the normal frame pump

---
 .../public/aesthetic.computer/disks/chat.mjs  | 29 ++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/chat.mjs b/system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/chat.mjs
index 2d00901674..457b295c59 100644
--- a/system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/chat.mjs
+++ b/system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/chat.mjs
@@ -307,26 +307,24 @@ function messageHitWidth(layout) {
   return Math.max(layout.width, voxRight);
 }
 
-function voxStop(api) {
+function voxStop() {
   if (!vox) return;
   vox?.playing?.kill?.(0.05);
   vox = null;
-  api?.needsPaint?.();
 }
 
 async function voxToggle(message, api) {
   if (vox && vox.messageId === message.id) {
-    voxStop(api);
+    voxStop();
     return;
   }
-  voxStop(api);
+  voxStop();
   const my = (vox = {
     messageId: message.id,
     phase: "loading",
     wordIndex: -1,
     prefix: (message.from || "").length + 1, // fullMessage = from + " " + text
   });
-  api.needsPaint?.();
   try {
     const res = await fetch(`/api/pruttivox?id=${encodeURIComponent(message.id)}`);
     if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`pruttivox ${res.status}`);
@@ -339,22 +337,15 @@ async function voxToggle(message, api) {
     if (vox !== my) return;
     my.playing = api.sound.play(sfx, undefined, {
       kill: () => {
-        if (vox === my) {
-          vox = null;
-          api.needsPaint?.();
-        }
+        if (vox === my) vox = null;
       },
     });
     my.startedAt = performance.now();
     my.phase = "playing";
-    api.needsPaint?.();
     console.log("🗣️ Vox playing:", message.id, my.words.length, "words");
   } catch (err) {
     console.warn("🗣️ Vox failed:", err);
-    if (vox === my) {
-      vox = null;
-      api.needsPaint?.();
-    }
+    if (vox === my) vox = null;
   }
 }
 
@@ -4475,10 +4466,10 @@ function act(
 }
 
 function sim({ api, num, send, net, store }) {
-  // 🗣️ Advance the vox karaoke while a message is being spoken. The chip and
-  // highlight are discrete states, so repaint only when one changes. Asking
-  // for a frame on every sim tick makes the renderer expose half-drained
-  // command batches as visible flicker on dense laklok screens.
+  // 🗣️ Advance the vox karaoke while a message is being spoken. Chat's
+  // paint loop is already continuous, so changing state here is enough. A
+  // second needsPaint request races the normal frame pump and briefly exposes
+  // a half-painted dense laklok screen at each karaoke transition.
   // The karaoke clocks on wall time from play start — the sfx progress API
   // never answers (it fails for the stock `sfx` piece too), and for short
   // clips at speed 1.0 the word timestamps need no correction. The kill
@@ -4487,7 +4478,6 @@ function sim({ api, num, send, net, store }) {
     const t = (performance.now() - vox.startedAt) / 1000;
     if (t > (vox.duration || 0) + 1.5) {
       vox = null;
-      api.needsPaint?.();
     } else {
       let index = -1;
       for (let i = 0; i < vox.words.length; i += 1) {
@@ -4496,7 +4486,6 @@ function sim({ api, num, send, net, store }) {
       }
       if (index !== vox.wordIndex) {
         vox.wordIndex = index;
-        api.needsPaint?.();
       }
     }
   }
-- 
2.51.2