Port press-to-capture dialog safeguards to the alias editor: transient top draft row with explicit accept, duplicate-alias and unknown-command danger styling plus persistent banners, reset-to-defaults with inline confirmation, Apply and Apply-and-Exit, alias count, Esc-cancels-draft-first, and unsaved-changes guard on close.
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.
Advancing ocad.pgp.version (or the web counterpart) could succeed while the
merged alias table write failed, so a later launch skipped migration against a
stale file and permanently lost the new aliases. Gate the version write on the
alias-table write (native fs::write / web set_item) succeeding.
Existing installs only got newly-added default aliases when storage was
absent; load_aliases parsed an already-present ocad.pgp or web alias table
verbatim, so R/RA/RE/REA remained unknown to profiles seeded before version 2.
Introduce a versioned default merge: track the default-table version each
profile has seen (wordless ocad.pgp.version marker / localStorage key) and
fold in only the aliases introduced after that version, never overwriting
user-defined mappings or resurrecting deliberately removed aliases. On first
migration the merged table and the advanced marker are persisted so later
launches skip the already-delivered aliases.
Command aliases (L→LINE, CC→COPYCLIP) were scattered across dispatch match
arms and CommandRegistration name arrays. Move them all into a single
user-editable file:
- assets/ocad.pgp: shipped default alias table (ALIAS,*COMMAND format),
embedded and copied to config/ocad.pgp on first launch; only that user
copy is read after. AA→AREA default closes#286.
- resolve_alias() rewrites the leading command token at the top of
dispatch_command_inner, so aliases resolve for every path (families,
plugins, Repeat menu). Args after the first space are untouched.
- Autocomplete hides alias keys and, when the whole input is an alias,
surfaces its target command as the top (highlighted) suggestion so the
highlight matches what Enter runs (AA→AREA, L→LINE).
- ALIASEDIT opens a new editor modal (add/edit/delete rows) with an Apply
button; Apply persists to ocad.pgp, closing discards unapplied edits.
- Strip alias tokens from all 8 dispatch match-arm files and 71 module
CommandRegistration arrays, keeping canonical/synonym/distinct-command
names. ocad.pgp is now the sole source: deleting or remapping an alias
there takes effect. CUI stays on the keyboard-shortcut panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Karim Jerbi