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+-- Chrome.printThrough (src/ui/gen2/Chrome.lua) used to run every string
+-- through the GbcPalette shade-remap shader whenever a palette was given,
+-- with no regard for whether the glyph it was about to draw came from a
+-- tile page or from a TTF.  The shader recovers a shade by reading the
+-- RED CHANNEL of an already-rasterized 2bpp tile pixel (SHADER_SOURCE in
+-- src/render/GbcPalette.lua); a TTF glyph is LÖVE's own anti-aliased
+-- coverage mask, drawn as plain white with the current tint carrying the
+-- ink colour, which that same channel read always reports as shade 0 --
+-- painting every character the SAME colour as the paper rect printThrough
+-- had just drawn behind it, i.e. invisible.  Reported against a real Gold
+-- build running a TTF translation mod: the naming screen's keyboard,
+-- Diploma and Pokegear text all vanish, since all three draw through this
+-- one routine (gen1recomp#1642).
+--
+-- The switch is per GLYPH, not per string: a TTF-mod build still keeps
+-- multi-byte charmap sequences (the naming screen's own <PK>/<MN> cells,
+-- the 'd/'l/'s ligatures) and anything a mod names in ttf.tiles on their ROM
+-- tiles (src/render/Font.lua's Font.split), so one call can mix both kinds
+-- of glyph and each must take its own path.
+--
+-- No real shader runs headless (love_stub does not stub newShader), so this
+-- cannot check a rendered pixel.  Font.encode/drawCode/advanceOf/width are
+-- replaced with fakes that hand printThrough a fixed list of glyph codes,
+-- so what is checked is the two things that decide the outcome: which
+-- glyphs skip the shader, and what colour is active when each one draws.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.harness")
+
+love = require("tests.love_stub")
+
+require("src.core.Logger").warn = function() end
+
+local Chrome = require("src.ui.gen2.Chrome")
+local GbcPalette = require("src.render.GbcPalette")
+local Font = require("src.render.Font")
+
+-- Palette arrays are 1-indexed shade 0..3, same order GbcPalette.useRaw
+-- reads (src/render/GbcPalette.lua channel()).
+local PALETTE = { { 200, 220, 255 }, { 150, 170, 220 }, { 90, 100, 160 }, { 10, 10, 30 } }
+
+local TILE_CODE = 0x80
+local TTF_CODE = Font.TTF_BASE + 65 -- 'A', were it decoded
+
+-- "text" is a plain list of glyph codes for this suite; Font.width/encode
+-- pass it straight through, matching how a real caller's string would
+-- decode to a list of codes.
+Font.width = function(codes) return #codes * 8 end
+Font.encode = function(codes) return codes end
+Font.advanceOf = function(_code) return 8 end
+
+local drawn
+Font.drawCode = function(code, x, y)
+  drawn[#drawn + 1] = { code = code, x = x, y = y, color = { love.graphics.getColor() } }
+end
+
+local useRawCalls
+local realUseRaw = GbcPalette.useRaw
+GbcPalette.useRaw = function(...)
+  useRawCalls = useRawCalls + 1
+  return realUseRaw(...)
+end
+
+GbcPalette.available = function() return true end
+
+local function colorsEq(a, b)
+  return math.abs(a[1] - b[1]) < 1e-9 and math.abs(a[2] - b[2]) < 1e-9
+    and math.abs(a[3] - b[3]) < 1e-9
+end
+
+-- ------------------------------------------------------- all tile glyphs
+do
+  useRawCalls = 0
+  drawn = {}
+  Chrome.printThrough({ TILE_CODE, TILE_CODE }, 0, 0, PALETTE)
+  T.eq(useRawCalls, 1, "one shaded run binds the shader once, not per glyph")
+  T.eq(#drawn, 2, "both glyphs drew")
+  for i, d in ipairs(drawn) do
+    T.check(colorsEq(d.color, { 1, 1, 1, 1 }),
+      ("tile glyph %d is tinted white, letting the shader pick the colour"):format(i))
+  end
+end
+
+-- -------------------------------------------------------- all TTF glyphs
+do
+  useRawCalls = 0
+  drawn = {}
+  Chrome.printThrough({ TTF_CODE, TTF_CODE }, 0, 0, PALETTE)
+  T.eq(useRawCalls, 0, "a TTF glyph never binds the shade-remap shader")
+  T.eq(#drawn, 2, "both glyphs drew")
+  local ink = Chrome.throughPalette(PALETTE, false)[4]
+  for i, d in ipairs(drawn) do
+    T.check(colorsEq(d.color, { ink[1] / 255, ink[2] / 255, ink[3] / 255, 1 }),
+      ("TTF glyph %d is tinted with the palette's own ink colour"):format(i))
+  end
+end
+
+-- --------------------------------------------- mixed: tile, TTF, then tile
+do
+  useRawCalls = 0
+  drawn = {}
+  Chrome.printThrough({ TILE_CODE, TTF_CODE, TILE_CODE }, 0, 0, PALETTE)
+  T.eq(useRawCalls, 2,
+    "the shader re-binds once per return to a tile glyph, not once for the whole string")
+  T.eq(#drawn, 3, "all three glyphs drew")
+  local ink = Chrome.throughPalette(PALETTE, false)[4]
+  T.check(colorsEq(drawn[1].color, { 1, 1, 1, 1 }), "1st (tile) glyph: white/shaded")
+  T.check(colorsEq(drawn[2].color, { ink[1] / 255, ink[2] / 255, ink[3] / 255, 1 }),
+    "2nd (TTF) glyph, mid-string, still gets the ink tint")
+  T.check(colorsEq(drawn[3].color, { 1, 1, 1, 1 }), "3rd (tile) glyph: shaded again")
+end
+
+-- ---------------------------------------------------- inverted TTF ink
+do
+  drawn = {}
+  Chrome.printThrough({ TTF_CODE }, 0, 0, PALETTE, true)
+  local ink = Chrome.throughPalette(PALETTE, true)[4]
+  T.check(colorsEq(drawn[1].color, { ink[1] / 255, ink[2] / 255, ink[3] / 255, 1 }),
+    "an inverted call tints TTF ink with the inverted palette's own shade-3 entry")
+end
+
+-- ---------------------------------------------- DMG mode's own TTF ink
+do
+  GbcPalette.setMode("dmg")
+  drawn = {}
+  Chrome.printThrough({ TTF_CODE }, 0, 0, PALETTE)
+  local ink = Chrome.throughPalette(PALETTE, false)[4]
+  T.check(colorsEq(drawn[1].color, { ink[1] / 255, ink[2] / 255, ink[3] / 255, 1 }),
+    "DMG mode's own resolved palette (four grey hardware shades) still reaches the TTF ink")
+  GbcPalette.setMode("gbc")
+end
+
+T.finish("gen2_chrome_print_through_ttf_test")