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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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.
Reading a drawing by path is gated off on wasm, and two features added
since 0.9.3 call it unconditionally: importing a drawing as a block, and
taking layer standards from one. Both compile into the web build, so the
web bundle stopped building and the v0.9.4 Pages deploy failed.
Neither feature can work in the browser — a file arrives through the page,
not from a filesystem the app can open — so the fix is not to make them
work but to let them say so. `load_file` now exists on wasm and returns
that as its error, which both callers already surface. Keeping the
signature means neither has to know that the web has no files, and the
next feature that reads a second drawing will not break the bundle
either.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The placement options arrived with their prompts and messages written as
plain Rust strings, so they were the only command left speaking English
whatever the interface was set to.
They go through t! / tf! now like every other prompt, and the strings are
registered so the call actually reaches a translation: a source string
only resolves if the generated lookup knows it, and t! on an unknown
string just hands the source back. Keys follow what the table already
uses — the slug of the source, cut to forty-six characters, and the first
ten hex digits of its SHA-1 — which reproduces 2978 of the 3161 entries
exactly; the rest are hand-written ones predating the generator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Hakan Seven