The application has no support-file search path — the four folders it uses
are functions returning fixed paths, not settings. Rather than build a Files
page that pretends otherwise, this one answers the question people actually
open it to ask: where does this thing keep my plot styles. Each row shows the
location and opens it in the file manager, and a row whose path the platform
could not give says so with its button disabled.
General gains buttons through to the plugin manager, the keyboard shortcut
editor and the alias editor. Those three have good dialogs of their own and
are not absorbed; Options simply stops being a place you cannot reach them
from.
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The ViewCube, the UCS icon, its at-origin placement and selection cycling all
have commands and status-bar pills, and all four kept their value only on the
app struct. Turn the ViewCube off with NAVVCUBE, restart, and it is back.
Nothing failed — the setting evaporated — so a checkbox for any of them would
have been a checkbox that forgets. They are persisted first, with a
round-trip test, and only then given controls.
The new 3D Modeling page carries the three view tools plus the drawing
variables that decide how solids are tessellated: ISOLINES, DISPSILH, SURFU,
SURFV, SURFTYPE, SOLIDHIST and SHOWHIST. Those are saved in the DWG rather
than in preferences, so the page says so beside each group and hides them
entirely when no drawing is open.
Changing them also rebuilds the geometry. The SETVAR path never did, which is
why the comment beside LTSCALE's invalidation exists — the same reasoning
applies here, and without it a new isoline count does not appear until some
unrelated edit rebuilds the solid.
Selection cycling joins the Selection page next to the other two selection
modes, since that is what it is.
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Two drafting preferences had no proper home. The Drafting Settings dialog
displays the drafting rotation and offers only a Reset button — there was no
way to type an angle short of `SETVAR SNAPANG`. The polar tracking increment
existed in exactly one place: a pop-up hanging off the status-bar pill.
The rotation is a text field over an edit buffer rather than the value
itself, so clearing it to retype does not snap the crosshair to zero on the
way through; the buffer is reseeded whenever the value is restored from
behind it. Angles render without a trailing `.0`, matching how the polar
pop-up has always shown them — same kind of number, same reader.
Snap modes, grid spacing and object snap stay in Drafting Settings, where
they belong; the page links to it.
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Zoom direction and factor, whether TEXTEDIT ends after one object, whether
continued dimensions inherit the base dimension's style, which points QDIM
measures from, and which annotative objects pick up a newly set scale. All
six work today; none had a control.
Two of them needed their meaning worked out rather than copied.
ANNOAUTOSCALE stores the mode in the magnitude and on/off in the sign, and
the four modes are not documented anywhere in the app — the command prompt
just says `[-4..4]`. Reading `add_annotation_scale_to_objects` gives them:
1 skips layers that are off, frozen, locked or frozen in the viewport, 2
keeps the locked ones, 3 skips only locked, 4 takes everything. The dropdown
names them instead of showing bare numbers, and choosing Off negates rather
than zeroing, so the mode survives being switched off and back on — which is
the convention the status-bar pill already follows.
The QDIM origin priority had no system variable at all; it could only be
reached through a keyword inside the running command.
Drawing units stay in their own dialog; this page links to it.
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Three settings that work, persist, and could only be reached by typing their
name: TEXTFILL, CLIPROMPTLINES and COMMANDLINEFADETIME. The last two govern
how much of the command window is prompt and how long its history lingers —
the kind of thing people fiddle with once and then leave, which is exactly
what a settings dialog is for.
One fix rides along. TEXTFILL is a process-global, so changing it invalidates
the text in every open drawing; the SETVAR path rebuilt only the active tab,
leaving the others rendering the previous setting until an unrelated edit
happened to rebuild them. Both paths now go through
`invalidate_text_everywhere`, so the checkbox and the command cannot disagree.
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General had become three unrelated controls: a language picker, a save format
and a file association. The last two move to an Open and Save page, where
they join the two saving preferences that have never had a widget.
Automatic save has worked since the SAVETIME command was added and is
persisted; the only way to change the interval was to type it. Same for the
`.bak` copy from #205 and its ISAVEBAK command. Both are settings people
expect to find in a dialog, and neither was in one.
The page also carries a button through to the Plot dialog. Options holds the
preferences; the plot device, paper and plot styles stay where they already
work well. Note that the modal stack shows one dialog at a time, so the
button replaces Options rather than stacking on it.
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The dialog laid its pages out as a row of buttons across the top, which is
what AutoCAD does and what fits while there are four of them. The pages this
series adds take it to nine, and the names are translated into 21 languages —
a row of nine German or Russian page names does not fit at any dialog width
worth having.
The rail is now a vertical list down the left, the dialog is 880×620 rather
than 540×560, and the content pane scrolls on its own.
Which page was open is now remembered. With four pages, reopening on General
was a shrug; with nine it means hunting for the one you were last in.
The ribbon's Options tool has existed all along — `ToolDef`, icon and all —
but was marked `#[allow(dead_code)]` and never added to a group, so the
dialog could only be reached by typing OPTIONS or from the start page. It
now sits in Manage ▸ Application, beside About.
No settings change in this commit; it is only the shell the rest needs.
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Options → Selection already carried the pick box, the selection-area effect
and the grip visuals. Four settings behind it were finished, persisted and
reachable only by typing a system variable, and one more was a constant.
**Four that only needed a widget.** `SELECTIONEFFECT`, `SELECTIONPREVIEW`,
`PICKADD` and `PICKDRAG` are all wired end to end already. `SELECTIONEFFECT`
was the odd one: the card's own "Restore Defaults" button resets it, so it
could be turned off by a button and only turned back on from the command
line.
`SELECTIONPREVIEW` is a bitmask and gets one checkbox per bit, which is why
`set_preview_bit` exists rather than two inline expressions — the bits are
the thing this change is most able to get backwards.
The `PICKADD` checkbox is worded as AutoCAD words it, "use Shift to add to
selection", which is the *inverse* of the stored flag. That inversion is
commented at both ends; it reads as a bug otherwise.
**`GRIPOBJLIMIT`.** The limit past which a selection gets no grips arrived
with the selection work as a hardcoded 100, matching AutoCAD's default. It is
now a setting, a slider and a system variable, following `PICKBOX`'s path
exactly. AutoCAD's 0 means "no limit", which the old `>` comparison could not
express, so the read now guards on it — with a test, because zero is the one
value that would otherwise suppress every grip instead of allowing all of
them.
The slider covers 0..=1000, where every useful value lives; the sysvar takes
AutoCAD's full 0..=32767, and a larger value set from the command line parks
the handle at the end while the read-out keeps showing the real number.
**`SelectionPrefs`** replaces the `pick_box` parameter rather than adding
three more. `view_window` already took seventeen positional arguments, and
`pick_add` / `pick_drag_rect` are two adjacent `bool`s that would swap
silently at the call site.
**Two fixes found on the way.** `OPTIONS` and `OP` were registered for
autocomplete but never dispatched, so typing either answered "Unknown
command" and the dialog could only be opened from the start page. And the
`SELECTIONPREVIEW` doc comment had its bits the wrong way round — the code
reads `& 1` for the idle rollover and `& 2` for the in-command one, as
AutoCAD does — which would have put the two new checkboxes' labels backwards.
**Not done, deliberately.** `PICKFIRST` and `PICKAUTO` exist but are always
on, with no variable. `PICKSTYLE` is stored in the header and read by nobody
— group expansion decides from the group's own `selectable` flag — so an
"object grouping" checkbox would control nothing. Associative-hatch selection
does not exist as a selection behaviour. Each needs a behaviour change rather
than an exposure.
Of the ten new strings, en-US and el-GR are translated; the other nineteen
locales carry the English text. Composing them from existing keys, the way
el-GR composes the neighbouring labels, only works for one of the ten —
there is no existing key for "limit", "unlimited", "shift", "rectangle" or
"lasso", and "Grips: Objects" as the label of a numeric limit would be worse
than an untranslated string.
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Model space appearance now follows the active UI theme instead of a
hardcoded dark background. Canvas mode is user-selectable (Match Theme /
Classic CAD Dark / Custom RGB), with matching controls for the paper
sheet and desk surround backgrounds and grid opacity.
Implements industry-standard CAD system variables, all settable via
command name, SETVAR, and the Options dialog:
- COLORTHEME (0/1 dark/light UI scheme, preserves custom palettes)
- COLORSCHEME (interactive named-theme selection)
- BACKGROUND (THEME/CLASSIC/DEFAULT/DESK presets, RGB triplets)
- SELECTIONAREA, SELECTIONAREAOPACITY (translucent marquee fill)
- WINDOWSAREACOLOR/WINDOWAREACOLOR, CROSSINGAREACOLOR (ACI or theme)
- SELECTIONEFFECT, SELECTIONEFFECTCOLOR (GPU highlight pass, driven by
selection_generation invalidation — no retessellation)
- SELECTIONPREVIEW (bit 0 = idle rollover, bit 1 = in-command hover)
- GRIPSIZE, GRIPCOLOR, GRIPHOT, GRIPHOVER (grip overlay styling)
Replace manual key entry with per-row capture cells: clicking + Add
inserts a draft row at the top with its key cell armed, and the next
key combination is recorded and normalized (Ctrl+Shift+S →
CTRL+SHIFT+S). While armed, a dedicated keyboard listener swallows all
input so recorded shortcuts do not execute in the drawing.
Draft rows are transient and confirmed only through an explicit accept
button, so the table never retains empty rows. Duplicate keys and
unrunnable commands are flagged in danger styling with a persistent
warning naming the conflicting command. Added reset-to-defaults with
confirmation, apply-and-exit, a shortcut count, and an unsaved-changes
guard on close.
The status-bar units button wrote INSUNITS, which nothing on screen reads.
INSUNITS only tells the drawing how to scale content arriving from
elsewhere, so picking a unit relabelled the drawing and changed nothing
visible — the selector looked broken because the variable it moved was
invisible.
Point the button at LUNITS instead, the setting that decides how every
coordinate and distance is written, and give the three questions the word
"units" runs together a place each:
- The button offers the five length formats, each shown beside a sample of
itself, so Engineering and Architectural are told apart by sight.
- UNITS / DDUNITS opens a real dialog: length and angle format and
precision, the direction angle zero points, whether positive angles run
clockwise, and the insertion unit. Its sample comes from the same
formatters the drawing uses, so it cannot drift from the readout.
- DWGUNITS converts. Model geometry, viewport framing, the header's length
defaults and each dimension style's scale all move together in one undo
step; paper space is left alone, since the sheet is still the same sheet.
Locked layers are converted too — a half-converted drawing would be at
two scales at once.
The coordinate readout formatted at four decimal places whatever the
drawing asked for; it now goes through the same format_length the
properties panel uses. That made the angle formats reachable in turn, so
degrees-minutes-seconds now carries the d/'/" marks that say which
convention it is, and surveyor's units are written at all.
Typed input is still plain decimal: a length the readout writes as
5'-6 1/2" cannot yet be typed back. ANGBASE and ANGDIR are stored but not
yet applied to displayed directions.
Closes#668
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Registering as the .dwg/.dxf handler was reachable only by typing
FILEASSOC, which is also the only thing that installs the icons the
desktop shows — so a user with no reason to know the command had no way
to arrive at either.
The checkbox makes the same two calls the command does, so the stored
setting and the actual registration cannot drift apart. A registration
the system refuses puts the checkbox back rather than leaving it showing
a state that is not true.
The line under it says the icons come with it, since that is what sends
people looking for this in the first place.
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Drawings arrive from elsewhere carrying someone else's layer names, and
folding them into a set of house layers meant renaming and merging by
hand, one layer at a time.
LAYTRANS reads a layer set out of another drawing and moves this one onto
it. Given a file it maps every name the two already share and translates
at once, which is all most incoming drawings need. Bare, it opens a
translator: the drawing's layers on one side, the loaded set on the
other, mappings built up between them and applied only on Translate, so a
mapping can be reconsidered and the whole translation is a single undo
step. Mappings can be saved and read back, objects can be forced to
ByLayer so the target layer's properties are what actually shows, and the
result can be written out as a log.
The move itself is the one LAYMRG already made for a single pair, so
LAYMRG now goes through it too rather than keeping its own copy.
Three things fell out for free or nearly so. A standards file is a
drawing, so .dws and .dwt need nothing but a place in the file filter.
The entity list is flat and holds block definitions, so objects inside
blocks travel with everything else instead of being stranded on a layer
that no longer exists. And a target layer that this drawing already has
is left alone: the drawing has an opinion about it, and restyling it
would reach past what was asked for -- only newly created targets take
the standard's properties.
Mappings are saved beside the drawing rather than inside a DWS. That is
where AutoCAD keeps them, but putting them there would mean inventing a
place in the drawing that nothing else reads back.
Closes#624
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- preserve command history colors after reopening
- remove collapsed command bar residue and split the unsaved prompt
- read system text when the drawing clipboard is empty
Refs #467
Refs #468
Refs #470
Pin Iced 0.15 so dialogs can measure content before distributing the resolved frame across child panels. Keep the web plugin notice compact and non-resizable.\n\nCloses #582
Use the operating system trust store and Windows proxy settings while keeping TLS verification enabled. Add retryable registry errors with copyable diagnostics.\n\nRefs #563
Replace the raw sentinel input with typed CAD lineweight options so special
values display correctly and unsupported values cannot be entered.
Refs #522
Hold edit leases and compare disk fingerprints before replacement so another editor cannot be silently overwritten.
Offer retry, reload, Save As, or explicit overwrite recovery.
Closes#498
A thin divider after the Name header resizes the column by drag
(60-640 px, session-persistent), riding the shared modal drag flow.
The name elide budget follows the column width, so widening the
column reveals long layer names; the hover tooltip stays for overflow.
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Deleting/renaming Standard was already blocked in the five style
managers, but a file saved without the built-ins (foreign or damaged)
opened with broken style dropdowns and nothing to reference — re-seed
missing Standard text/dim/table/mleader/mline styles on every open.
Every modal dialog now shows its name in the title bar: centred at
15px across the dialog width, with the move grip and close button
overlaid at the right edge. The bar takes an explicit width from the
caller — a Fill child inside the Shrink frame would blow the dialog
out to the full screen.
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