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]>
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