fe79fa58f3040e69e5ac3fa38037674b007d2e61
braney
  Sat Sep 12 13:47:50 2026 -0700
docent: ten regression tests for multi-region view, refs #38252

One script per Closed multi-region ticket, asserting the behavior the ticket
says is correct, on genome-test.  Before these the only script here that
entered multi-region at all was rm35580, which uses singleAltHaplo to reach a
different bug.

Between them they cover the four modes, the dialog, the custom-region BED
reader, hideEmptySubtracks across windows, and highlights in both directions
across the mode change:

rm22144  the alt-haplotype input is in the dialog, and hgSuggest
type=altOrPatch resolves the ticket's own mhc, apd and NT_187643
rm23922  the Multi-region and Reverse buttons carry class='pressed' while
their mode is on, and lose it on exit
rm26772  a zero-length BED line names itself instead of aborting with
"Window out of range"
rm27855  hg19 GTEx Gene in singleAltHaplo on chr6_cox_hap2 renders and
clicks through instead of freezing
rm29452  the dialog's exit radio is enabled and checked from a normal view,
and selectable from inside exon view (#34776's half, the missing
hgTracks.virtModeType in the dialog's JSON)
rm29787  custom regions in UCSC chrom names work on hs1
rm30833  a highlight survives turning multi-region on
rm34250  a highlight made in multi-region survives exiting, back in chr1
coordinates
rm35472  hideEmptySubtracks over two windows keeps both subtracks that have
items in one of them, and still hides the one with items in neither
rm37175  exon view keeps the last searched transcript

All ten are assertion-only: every fix shipped long ago.  make test is 47 of 47
green, 7m34s.

README.txt gains the two things they cost a red run each.  Never assert on a
title attribute: hgTracks' tooltip code moves it into data-tooltip once the
page's JavaScript has run.  And multi-region is fully reachable from a goto:
URL -- virtModeType, multiRegionsBedInput, singleAltHaploId, virtWinFull,
<composite>.hideEmptySubtracks -- but the dialog is not, because what it
decides is in JavaScript.

Three candidates were rejected and should not be picked again: #32544 was
closed by deferring to #37256 and is not fixed, #27891 needs a track with a
trackDb multiRegionsBedUrl and /gbdb/hg38/covidMuts/covidMuts.regions.bed does
not exist, and #24055's gesture is an ajax visibility change that no Docent
verb makes.

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+# #29452 -- "Exit multi-region mode" was greyed out in the multi-region dialog.  Two users
+# wrote in saying they were locked in the mode (#34775, #34776), and the two halves of the
+# answer are both asserted here because they are the same dialog and the same symptom.
+#
+# The greying was nine lines of JavaScript in popUpHgt, hg/js/hgTracks.js:
+#
+#     if (!hgTracks.virtModeType) {
+#         $('#virtModeTypeDefaultLabel').addClass('disabled');
+#         $('#virtModeType[value="exonMostly"]').prop('checked', true);
+#         $('#virtModeType[value="default"]').prop('disabled', 'disabled');
+#     }
+#
+# and it went wrong twice over.  The dialog page rewrites the hgTracks JS object, and
+# hg/hgTracks/config.c did not put virtModeType back into it, so `!hgTracks.virtModeType`
+# was true even when the browser WAS in multi-region mode: the exit radio was disabled
+# exactly when a user needed it, which is the "help, I'm locked in" report.  Galt put the
+# setting back in 57fc6dd48cd and made it follow the convention of being sent only when it
+# is not "default" in 61fe3764cf9 (both fixes #34776), then deleted the disabling block
+# altogether in 0ca07ef7f6c (fixes #29452), which is the state asserted below.
+#
+# The server has never sent either state: config.c writes CHECKED on whichever mode the
+# cart holds and no disabled attribute at all.  So this has to open the real dialog and
+# let the page's own JavaScript run -- a curl of hgTracksConfigMultiRegionPage=multi-region
+# passes on the buggy build too.
+#
+# These are selector assertions on hgTracks' own ids, which README.txt says to reach for
+# last.  This is the case it leaves: a disabled radio and an enabled one render the same
+# text, and the dialog has no track image for rows:, height: or color: to read.
+proof:
+  - "assertion-only 2026-09-12 -- written from the ticket and from 0ca07ef7f6c, long after the fix shipped"
+
+target: genome-test
+db: hg38
+position: chr17:43044295-43125364
+reset: true
+fast: true
+steps:
+  - go: chr17:43044295-43125364
+
+  # Not in multi-region mode, which is the state the deleted block keyed off.  The button
+  # carries no `pressed` class here -- see rm23922 for that half.
+  - expect: {rows: [ruler], noHas: '#hgTracksConfigMultiRegionPage.pressed'}
+
+  - click: '#hgTracksConfigMultiRegionPage'
+  - wait: '#multiRegionsBedInput'
+
+  # The dialog is a jQuery UI dialog, which hides rather than removes, so ask for it
+  # visible.  The positive text check is here because every noHas: below would also pass
+  # on a dialog that failed to load at all.
+  - expect:
+      has: '#hgTracksDialog:visible'
+      text: "Exit multi-region mode"
+
+  # #29452: exit is selectable, and it is the selection.  On a build with the block,
+  # "default" is disabled and unchecked and "exonMostly" is checked instead, so all four
+  # of these fail together.
+  - expect:
+      has:
+        - 'input[name="virtModeType"][value="default"]:checked'
+        - 'input[name="virtModeType"][value="default"]:enabled'
+      noHas:
+        - '#virtModeTypeDefaultLabel.disabled'
+        - 'input[name="virtModeType"][value="exonMostly"]:checked'
+
+  # Now the same dialog from INSIDE a multi-region view, which is where #34776's users
+  # were stuck.
+  - goto: "/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&position=chr17%3A43044295-43125364&virtModeType=exonMostly&pix=1100"
+  - expect: {rows: [ruler], has: '#hgTracksConfigMultiRegionPage.pressed'}
+  - click: '#hgTracksConfigMultiRegionPage'
+  - wait: '#multiRegionsBedInput'
+
+  # The status line is written by the JS from hgTracks.virtModeType, so it is the reading
+  # of the object that 57fc6dd48cd put back: without that setting the dialog believed it
+  # was in the default view and said "Select a multi-region viewing mode below" instead.
+  # The exit radio has to be selectable here too, and the mode the browser is actually in
+  # is the one that is checked.
+  - expect:
+      has:
+        - '#hgTracksDialog:visible'
+        - 'input[name="virtModeType"][value="default"]:enabled'
+        - 'input[name="virtModeType"][value="exonMostly"]:checked'
+      text: "The display is currently in"
+      noHas: '#virtModeTypeDefaultLabel.disabled'