Engine fixes for the weather cross-platform example

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Engine fixes found while taking the weather example to Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. The renderer PRs depend on these, so this one should merge first.

• :root custom properties applied on the first mount. The document root was never styled by the mount pass, so every var() below it resolved to nothing and weather's .screen padding came out as 0 on every target. Two complementary fixes: Tree::mount queues the root for styling, and the mount batch pulls in a root that was never styled.
• var() lengths no longer cached as misses. A node styled before it was parented resolved the var to nothing, and that cache entry answered every later lookup.
• pointer-events inherits, as in CSS.
• A text-align line box no longer breaks shrink-to-fit. A single text run widened to the whole content box made auto-width buttons claim the full row; the forecast tab strip pushed "Days" off screen.
• Static font-weight rules take effect. They were registered with an Ignored declaration, so the font pass skipped them and later passes dropped them: every node kept weight 400 on every target.

Verified: weather built and compared against a Chrome rendering of the same CSS on macOS and the iOS simulator. The padding and the semibold labels now match.

Related PRs (merge core first):

• cli: Add a gea.designWidth manifest field cli#3
• docs: https://github.com/geastack/docs/pull/1
• android: Render the weather example correctly on Android android#1
• apple: Render the weather example correctly on macOS and iOS apple#3
• windows: Scale to gea.designWidth and render the weather example correctly on Windows windows#6
• simulator: Inline the app's .env in the web dev server simulator#8
• examples: Make weather a cross-platform example (Android, iOS, macOS, Windows) examples#2

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• Bug Fixes
  • Text-only lines now expand to the available width only for supported alignment settings, preventing unintended layout changes.
  • Inherited pointer-event settings now apply consistently across elements and are reflected in style updates.
  • Newly mounted content receives updated styling, including when an unstyled parent root needs its first style pass. Repeated mounts of the same root do not trigger redundant updates.
  • Font-related style rules and dynamic length values are handled more consistently, including values that depend on custom properties.

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The changes update font-rule resolution and dynamic length caching, add pointer_events to inherited style handling, recalculate styles when a mounted root changes, and restrict width expansion for sole text runs by alignment.

Changes

Style Resolution and Inheritance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Font rule resolution and length caching packages/engine/ui/style.cpp	Direct-property rules select matching font declarations. Grouped rules use the last matching font-metric declaration. Dynamic length caching excludes font-relative expressions and expressions with custom-property runtime inputs.
Pointer-events inheritance and comparison packages/engine/ui/style.cpp	Inherited styles copy pointer_events. Computed-style storage and output include the property when enabled, and style comparison detects changes to it.
Mounted-root recomputation packages/engine/ui/document.h, packages/engine/ui/style.cpp, packages/engine/ui/tree_render.cpp	Tree::mount notifies style handling when the mounted root changes. Style recomputation handles valid roots and can queue an untracked ultimate ancestor during a mount batch.

Text Layout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sole text-run width placement packages/engine/ui/layout.cpp	A sole text run expands to line-box width only for text_align values 1 or 2 when it has no explicit width.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dashersw

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4fd74

The styling fixes are mergeable with a bounded performance follow-up: percent-based length expressions unnecessarily repeat evaluation, but their results remain correct.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4fd74

The inspected changes remain within UI styling, layout, and interaction handling. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but before-and-after exposure and platform-specific interruption behavior were not fully verified.

Retained concerns
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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated effects are confined to node styling, rendered geometry, and pointer targeting in the engine UI tree. Complete public-caller reachability and exposure across host implementations are not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The inspected text-width gate changes the geometry produced from existing style inputs. Fresh measurement and ancestor-based press targeting counter the proposed stale-width and containing-control bypass paths; they do not establish application authorization or safety of uninspected callers.

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packages/engine/ui/style.cpp (1)

5879-5880: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cache percent-only length expressions dynamically.

The current predicate excludes percent expressions from both caches. This does not cause incorrect results. The dynamic-cache key includes the expression handle, node ID, percent basis, and axis, so percent-only expressions can reuse a resolved value for the same key. The current code only repeats evaluation.

Add a recursive Var-specific predicate. Keep the existing fontRelative guard, recursion-depth limit, and invalid-handle checks. Keep compiledLengthSpecHasCustomRuntimeInputs unchanged for static-cache decisions.

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+bool compiledLengthSpecHasCustomPropertyInputs(const CssLengthSpec &length, int depth);
+
+bool compiledLengthExpressionHasCustomPropertyInputs(const CssLengthExpression &expression, int depth)
+{
+	if (depth > 8) return true;
+	if (expression.kind == CssLengthExpressionKind::Var) return true;
+	if (compiledLengthSpecHasCustomPropertyInputs(expression.a, depth + 1)) return true;
+	switch (expression.kind) {
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Add:
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Subtract:
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Min:
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Max:
+		return compiledLengthSpecHasCustomPropertyInputs(expression.b, depth + 1);
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Clamp:
+		return compiledLengthSpecHasCustomPropertyInputs(expression.b, depth + 1) ||
+		       compiledLengthSpecHasCustomPropertyInputs(expression.c, depth + 1);
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Multiply:
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Divide:
+		return false;
+	case CssLengthExpressionKind::Var:
+		return true;
+	}
+	return true;
+}
+
+bool compiledLengthSpecHasCustomPropertyInputs(const CssLengthSpec &length, int depth)
+{
+	if (depth > 8) return true;
+	if (length.unit != CssLengthUnit::Expression) return false;
+	const auto &list = compiledCssLengthExpressions();
+	const std::uint16_t handle = static_cast<std::uint16_t>(length.value);
+	if (handle >= list.size()) return true;
+	return compiledLengthExpressionHasCustomPropertyInputs(list[handle], depth + 1);
+}
+
 	const bool fontRelative = g_fontSizeBasisNode >= 0 || lengthDependsOnFont(length, nodeId);
-	const bool cacheable = !fontRelative && !compiledLengthSpecHasCustomRuntimeInputs(length, depth);
+	const bool cacheable = !fontRelative && !compiledLengthSpecHasCustomPropertyInputs(length, depth);

This is a performance refactor, not a functional-correctness issue. It can avoid repeated expression evaluation on the same node and percent basis.

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Review comment at @packages/engine/ui/style.cpp around lines 5879 - 5880:
Update the dynamic-cache eligibility check for cacheable so percent-only
expressions can be cached, using a recursive predicate that rejects
Var-dependent inputs while preserving the fontRelative guard, recursion-depth
limit, and invalid-handle checks. Leave compiledLengthSpecHasCustomRuntimeInputs
unchanged for static-cache decisions.

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Review comments at @packages/engine/ui/style.cpp:
- Around line 5879-5880: Update the dynamic-cache eligibility check for
cacheable so percent-only expressions can be cached, using a recursive predicate
that rejects Var-dependent inputs while preserving the fontRelative guard,
recursion-depth limit, and invalid-handle checks. Leave
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