Sixty-five new strings, each one added to the source catalogue and given a
value in every locale — not English placeholders. Terminology follows what
each locale already uses for the surrounding labels rather than being coined
fresh: grips, selection, preview, viewport, annotation scale and the UCS all
have established words in these files, and the new strings use them.
System-variable names stay in Latin uppercase inside the parentheses, as they
already do in every locale's SETVAR listing — they are identifiers, not prose.
One trap worth recording: Fluent attribute names must begin with a letter, so
the obvious slug for "3D Modeling" is not a legal key. It parses as far as
the message body and then fails the whole file, which surfaces as
`Invalid Fluent syntax in EnUs` with a byte offset rather than as anything
naming the attribute.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ten strings the Options card gained were English in nineteen of the
twenty-one locales. They are now translated in all of them, using the words
each locale already uses for the surrounding labels — de-DE "Griffe",
fr-FR "Poignées", zh-CN "夹点", zh-TW "掣點" and so on for grips, and the
same for selection, preview and object. System-variable names stay in Latin
uppercase, as they already do in every locale's SETVAR listing.
Composing them from existing keys, the way el-GR composes the neighbouring
labels, only worked 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 read worse than English.
The rollover preview was reported as possibly not working. It works, and now
says so: `the_idle_rollover_follows_bit_one` drives a settled hover over a
line and checks what the scene highlighted, for all four values of the
bitmask. Bit 1 alone highlights, bit 2 alone does not, both do, neither does
not. That is the assertion the inverted config comment would have made
someone doubt — the pick simply needs the cursor still for the 500 ms of
`HOVER_DWELL_MS` before it runs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The renderer shares one set of wire GPU buffers per wire_content_id
across every pane and viewport slot. Every geometry edit mints a new
content id, so every edit builds a new set -- and the old one stayed in
wire_buffer_cache until the map exceeded sixteen entries.
Sixteen entries is a sane bound for small drawings and fatal for large
ones. The policy counted entries, not bytes. On the reproducer a single
set is most of the card: the VRAM trace shows 572 MiB baseline rising to
1871 MiB on a 2048 MiB GT 1030. The second set has nowhere to go, so the
first edit after opening exhausts VRAM. The perf log shows exactly that
-- two `shared-fullupload` lines, an edit, then the process dies.
Evict on every miss instead of at a count threshold, and do it before
building the replacement rather than after, so the old allocation is
released while the new one is still being sized. Dropping this slot's own
handles first is what lets the retain see the superseded entry as
garbage; a pane still drawing that content keeps its own clone and its
strong count stays above one, so shared geometry is never pulled out
from under a live viewport.
The trade is that returning to a previous content id -- undo, mostly --
now rebuilds instead of hitting a warm entry. On a card where the
alternative is dying, that is the right way round.
Adds a PERF line reporting evicted and retained entry counts, so the
policy can be watched rather than assumed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implement the AutoCAD compatible HATCHTOBACK (HB) command and enhance the interactive DRAWORDER command pipeline with comprehensive verb selection and viewport entity picking.
Key implementations and architectural details:
1. HATCHTOBACK command execution
* Isolates entities belonging to the active layout block record or global space.
* Filters out entities residing on locked layers using an efficient hash set lookup.
* Records targeted delta undo operations on SortEntitiesTable objects (~100 bytes) rather than snapshotting full document structures.
* Performs granular draw depth cache invalidation via Scene::invalidate_draw_depth, preserving existing geometry tessellations and spatial indices.
* Emits localized user notifications when no qualifying hatch entities are found.
2. Interactive DrawOrderCommand state machine
* Supports preselected entities as well as interactive on demand selection gathering.
* Implements subverb selection supporting single character shortcuts (A for Above, U for Under, F for Front, B for Back) and case insensitive keyword parsing.
* Enables interactive reference object picking directly in the viewport via needs_entity_pick and on_entity_pick callbacks.
* Supports hexadecimal handle specification directly from the command line interface.
3. Ecosystem and system integration
* Bumps DEFAULT_ALIASES_VERSION from 2 to 3 to register the HB alias while preserving existing user overrides.
* Integrates HATCHTOBACK and HB into dynamic autocomplete registries.
* Adds localized message strings across all 20 Fluent translation catalogs.
* Corrects hatch boundary serialization flags to ensure outermost boundary rings consistently carry the external attribute.
Complete missing keys in the existing translations and add selectable Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Arabic, and Japanese resources.\n\nThe large compatibility catalogs for the new locales remain in progress.
- 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
Hakan Seven