diff --git a/fktry/src/ui/screenview.test.ts b/fktry/src/ui/screenview.test.ts
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+// @vitest-environment happy-dom
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { createScreenView } from './screenview';
+
+function mount(withInlineStyle = false) {
+  document.body.innerHTML = withInlineStyle
+    ? '<canvas id="screen" style="position:fixed;top:10px"></canvas>'
+    : '<canvas id="screen"></canvas>';
+  const source = document.getElementById('screen') as HTMLCanvasElement;
+  const view = createScreenView(source);
+  document.body.append(view.el);
+  return { view, source };
+}
+
+const click = (el: Element) => el.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('pointerdown', { bubbles: true }));
+
+describe('THE SCREEN click-to-enlarge', () => {
+  it('starts closed and leaves THE SCREEN alone', () => {
+    const { view, source } = mount();
+    expect(view.isOpen()).toBe(false);
+    expect(source.getAttribute('style')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('enlarges THE SCREEN and dims the backdrop when clicked', () => {
+    const { view, source } = mount();
+    click(source);
+    expect(view.isOpen()).toBe(true);
+    expect(view.el.classList.contains('is-open')).toBe(true);
+    const style = source.getAttribute('style')!;
+    expect(style).toContain('position:fixed');
+    expect(style).toContain('z-index:41'); // above the backdrop
+  });
+
+  it('restores THE SCREEN exactly as it found it', () => {
+    // Another lane owns this element; we must hand it back untouched.
+    const { view, source } = mount();
+    click(source);
+    view.close();
+    expect(source.getAttribute('style')).toBeNull();
+    expect(view.isOpen()).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('preserves inline styles LANE-SCREEN may add later', () => {
+    const { view, source } = mount(true);
+    const before = source.getAttribute('style');
+    click(source);
+    expect(source.getAttribute('style')).toContain('top:10px'); // ours appended, not replacing
+    view.close();
+    expect(source.getAttribute('style')).toBe(before);
+  });
+
+  it('closes when the enlarged SCREEN is clicked again', () => {
+    const { view, source } = mount();
+    click(source);
+    click(source);
+    expect(view.isOpen()).toBe(false);
+    expect(source.getAttribute('style')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('closes on a click on the dimmed backdrop', () => {
+    const { view, source } = mount();
+    click(source);
+    click(view.el);
+    expect(view.isOpen()).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('close() is idempotent and does not clobber the style on a second call', () => {
+    const { view, source } = mount(true);
+    const before = source.getAttribute('style');
+    view.close();
+    view.close();
+    expect(source.getAttribute('style')).toBe(before);
+  });
+
+  it('survives having no SCREEN to enlarge', () => {
+    document.body.innerHTML = '';
+    const view = createScreenView(null);
+    expect(() => { view.toggle(); view.close(); }).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/fktry/src/ui/screenview.ts b/fktry/src/ui/screenview.ts
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+/**
+ * LANE-UI — THE SCREEN click-to-enlarge (order 8). The sky is the score; let people look.
+ *
+ * Clicking THE SCREEN toggles a centered ~2.5× view over a dimmed backdrop. Esc or a
+ * click closes it.
+ *
+ * We enlarge the real `#screen` element with inline styles rather than mirroring it into
+ * our own canvas: THE SCREEN is a WebGL canvas, and `drawImage` from a WebGL context
+ * without `preserveDrawingBuffer` returns black (verified — the mirror rendered empty).
+ * Asking LANE-SCREEN to enable that flag would cost them a frame buffer copy every frame
+ * for a feature used occasionally, so the transform is both cheaper and what the order
+ * specified.
+ *
+ * Touching another lane's element is done carefully: we snapshot its `style` attribute on
+ * open and restore it verbatim on close, so THE SCREEN's own positioning stays SCREEN's
+ * to change.
+ */
+import { cls, el } from './dom';
+
+export interface ScreenView {
+  /** The dimming backdrop, mounted in #ui. */
+  el: HTMLElement;
+  toggle(): void;
+  close(): void;
+  isOpen(): boolean;
+}
+
+/** Inline styles applied to #screen while enlarged. z-index clears the backdrop (40). */
+const ENLARGED = [
+  'position:fixed',
+  'top:50%',
+  'left:50%',
+  'transform:translate(-50%,-50%)',
+  'width:min(800px, calc(100vw - 80px))',
+  'height:auto',
+  'z-index:41',
+  'cursor:zoom-out',
+  'image-rendering:pixelated', // it's a dying video file — let the blocks show
+].join(';');
+
+export function createScreenView(source: HTMLElement | null): ScreenView {
+  const backdrop = el('div');
+  backdrop.id = 'fk-screenview';
+
+  let open = false;
+  /** The element's own style attribute before we touched it. */
+  let savedStyle: string | null = null;
+
+  function apply() {
+    if (!source) return;
+    savedStyle = source.getAttribute('style');
+    source.setAttribute('style', `${savedStyle ? savedStyle + ';' : ''}${ENLARGED}`);
+  }
+
+  function restore() {
+    if (!source) return;
+    if (savedStyle === null) source.removeAttribute('style');
+    else source.setAttribute('style', savedStyle);
+    savedStyle = null;
+  }
+
+  function close() {
+    if (!open) return;
+    open = false;
+    cls(backdrop, 'is-open', false);
+    restore();
+  }
+
+  function toggle() {
+    if (open) return close();
+    open = true;
+    cls(backdrop, 'is-open', true);
+    apply();
+  }
+
+  // A click on the dimmed backdrop closes. So does a click on the enlarged SCREEN, which
+  // sits above the backdrop — that's the same toggle listener below.
+  backdrop.addEventListener('pointerdown', close);
+  source?.addEventListener('pointerdown', toggle);
+
+  return { el: backdrop, toggle, close, isOpen: () => open };
+}