Add MTP (Midpoint Between Two Points) as a keyword that can be typed
during any point-picking command (e.g. LINE) to suspend the current
command, prompt for two points, and return the midpoint to the parent.
- New Mid2PointCommand registered under both "MTP" and "M2P" aliases
- ReturnPoint CmdResult variant feeds the resolved midpoint back to
the suspended parent command
- MTP/M2P typed during a point step suspends the active command and
starts the midpoint modifier; Escape restores the parent command
- Preview wires show a rubber-band line with a triangle marker at
the midpoint
- Character-by-character typing is routed correctly even with dynamic
input active (digits no longer leak into dyn fields)
- Three automation tests cover the full workflow, ESC restoration, and
dynamic-input character routing
**TEXTFILL marked the drawing modified.** It is an application preference —
it lives in a process global and is snapshotted into settings.json — but it
was missing from the list of names that persist, so setting it dirtied the
open drawing instead and never reached the settings file through that path.
**LTSCALE and CELTSCALE validated differently depending on the door.** The
standalone commands reject a value of zero or less, because a non-positive
linetype scale degenerates every dash pattern in the drawing. `SETVAR LTSCALE
-5` accepted it. A test drives both entry points for both variables and fails
on the SETVAR path without the fix.
**ISAVEBAK, SAVETIME and FILEASSOC were missing from the autocomplete
registry** although all three dispatch, so the command line never offered
them.
**`bg_color` and `paper_bg_color` were dead fields**, always written as `None`
and ignored on load since the model-space configuration superseded them.
Removing them is safe: the config is `#[serde(default)]` and ignores unknown
keys, so existing settings files simply stop carrying them.
One thing the survey flagged that turned out not to be a bug: on the Display
page the model background row hides itself outside Custom mode while the
paper and desk rows do not. That asymmetry is correct — the canvas mode
governs only the model background, and the other two apply in every mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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 <[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]>
Resolve curve intersections through cadkernel, retain empty exact results, gather analytic candidates independently of tessellation, and bound material uploads. Preserve large MINSERT data while limiting rendering work; remove obsolete review narratives.
`hit` was one number covering five things: resolving candidate handles, the
wire box test, two hatch tests and two mesh tests. `select-commit` now
reports them apart, which immediately reframed the problem — at 186 468
entities the wire box test is 55 ms of 206, the hatch tests are 103, and
handle resolution is 47.
Two changes alongside it, both in the crossing scan.
Skipping a wire already in the selection was keyed by hashing its name, once
per triangle and once per glyph inside the box. A bitmap over wire indices
answers the same question with an array index. The name set stays behind it,
because several wires can share one entity's name and the output dedups by
name; a wire whose name is already in that set now gets tested once more
before being dropped, which costs one projection and changes no output.
The degenerate-wire loop that ends both the box and the lasso scans tested
`seen.contains(wire.name)` before the structural tests beside it. `||`
short-circuits, so with the name lookup last a wire with two or more points —
very nearly all of them — is dropped without hashing anything. That loop
walks every candidate, so it was one string hash per wire in the box.
A window over a whole drawing spent 407 ms gathering candidates and 259 ms
testing them, of 825 ms total, at 186 468 entities.
**Gathering** ran eight spatial queries because that is what hover and
snapping need between them. An area selection reads five: the wires and their
segments, plus the fill triangles, pick triangles and glyphs that
`indexed_box_crossing_hits` uses to catch hatches and text inside the box.
The three that exist only for snapping are skipped.
That was worth 148 ms. The rest came from the queries themselves.
`SpatialGrid::query` sorts its result twice — once over the entry indices, to
remove the repeats an entry collects for spanning several cells, and once
over the values. Over a box covering the drawing that is two O(n log n)
passes across 4.4 M elements to remove a handful of duplicates.
`query_unordered` returns the same set in cell order with the duplicates left
in, and reserves the space it needs instead of growing a 17 MB vector in
steps. Gathering went from 515 ms to 69 ms on a synthetic set at that size,
and from 407 ms to 27-40 ms in the application.
Everything an area selection does with the result already dedups and does not
read the order. Click picking keeps the sorted `query`, where scan order
decides which of two overlapping entities a click lands on.
**Testing** projected both endpoints of every segment in the box, then threw
the result away for any wire already selected. A circle or a polyline
contributes one segment per tessellated span, so at 24 spans per wire that is
23 projection pairs out of 24 doing nothing. Skipping a wire once it is in
took a 4.4 M-segment scan from roughly a second to 42 ms.
The overlay path — active after any edit, so most of a working session —
needed the same treatment, including its own merge: `extend_indexed` sorts
and dedups every category, which would have put back the sorts this removes.
`extend_indexed_area` keeps the dedup on `wire_indices`, and must: the window
branch of `box_hit` walks it directly, so a wire left in twice would be
selected twice.
Tests cover the equivalence in both directions: the area query matches the
full one as a set in every category an area selection reads, and the merge
dedups `wire_indices` and nothing else.
Selecting a whole drawing was unusable on a 186 468-entity file. Four costs
scaled with the selection where they did not have to.
Every selected handle triggered a walk of the entire document to find LEADERs
pointing at it. On the file this came from, selecting 471 583 entities in a
585 786-entity drawing did not finish inside eight minutes. A reverse index
built once per geometry epoch answers the same question; a test asserts it
returns exactly what the walk returned, including the case of two leaders on
one annotation.
Group expansion asked the selection about every group: for each selected
handle it scanned each group's own member list. Asking each group once
whether it holds anything selected turns that around.
Selecting and deselecting went one entity at a time, and `deselect_entity`
rebuilt the ordered list with a `retain` per handle, so removing N of M
walked the order list N times. Both now take a slice.
Grips were built for every selected entity. AutoCAD stops at GRIPOBJLIMIT,
and the DWG header does not carry the variable, so its default of 100 stands
in for it.
The remaining two commits are measurement: `select-commit` reports the phases
of a selection separately, which is what showed the bulk paths had been added
to the press-drag branch while a click-move-click window goes through a
different one entirely.
The first measurement showed four consecutive edits at ~192 ms each with
a handler cost of 0.55 ms. That is below the `update` line's 5 ms
threshold, so the log reports the latency but not what asked for it —
and whether a live command preview is bumping the geometry epoch on every
mouse move is exactly the question the numbers raise.
`nav-prepare` now carries the message label alongside the op.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Drawing a point in a large drawing feels slow, and nothing currently
measures the thing the user actually waits for. `update` times the message
handler, `wires-build` and friends time the rebuild, but the span between
them — press to the frame that shows the new geometry — has no number.
Navigation already has exactly that plumbing: `record_nav_perf` stamps an
instant when the input arrives, `prepare` and `encode` pick it up, and
`nav-prepare` / `nav-render` report `input`, `build`, `prepare` and
`elapsed` from the original event.
`NavPerfOp::Edit` reuses it. `update` snapshots `geometry_epoch` before
dispatch and stamps the sample when it moved, so any message that changed
geometry — a drawn point, a grip commit, an undo — reports its full
latency rather than only the handler's share.
Diagnostic only: `record_nav_perf` sets a pending sample and nothing else,
so no LOD or settle behaviour changes.
Nothing is optimised here on purpose. Four call sites feed the snapper
along different branches, and picking one to instrument before knowing
which dominates is how the earlier rounds of this work were wasted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Capture the rendered canvas during the clean frame instead of requesting synchronous GPU buffer readback. Preserve embedded previews and allow saving when canvas readback is denied. Add a browser save and reopen regression check.
Fixes#1021
Karim Jerbi