* MEASUREINIT: choose the units of new drawings, kept in the profile
NEW, QNEW and the first drawing at startup were always imperial unless a
template or {"metric": true} was given, and nothing kept a metric choice
across restarts. MEASUREINIT (0 imperial, the default; 1 metric) is now a
profile variable: NEW without `metric` or a template follows it, the app's
startup drawing follows it, and Options > Files shows it as "Units of new
drawings". QNEWTEMPLATE and an explicit `metric` still win.
Part of #1182.
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* contributors: add Richard Sauer (aussieboer61)
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Selecting or hovering an object outlined each filled primitive (TrueType
glyphs, dimension and leader arrowheads, solid hatches, wide polylines)
by the rectangle around its triangles, and dashed everything else. A
selected dimension's text became a row of dashed boxes, one per glyph,
and its closed arrowheads small rectangles.
Selected objects are now redrawn in the selection colour: lines solid,
fills filled half see-through (so the lines and text on a highlighted
hatch stay visible), and the whole object reads as selected, text and
arrowheads included. A wipeout is always outlined, since filling it would
hide the drawing under it.
The Options dialog's Selection tab is laid out as AutoCAD's, with the
settings CADCraft can act on, each one AutoCAD's variable, kept in the
user profile:
- Selection modes: noun/verb selection (PICKFIRST), Shift to add
(PICKADD), Object grouping (PICKSTYLE bit 1, now saved in the profile).
- Selection effect color (selectionColor, an interface preference; null
is the theme's).
- Grips: Show grips (GRIPS) and the object selection limit for display of
grips (GRIPOBJLIMIT, 100; 0 no limit): grips are neither drawn nor
picked beyond it.
- Selection preview (SELECTIONPREVIEW): the object under the cursor is
highlighted when a command is active (2) and when none is (1).
- Visual Effect Settings: the selection area effect (SELECTIONAREA,
WINDOWAREACOLOR 150, CROSSINGAREACOLOR 100, SELECTIONAREAOPACITY 25)
and the Selection Preview Filter (PREVIEWFILTER 3: 1 objects on locked
layers, 2 xrefs, 4 tables, 8 multiline text, 16 hatches, 32 groups).
As in AutoCAD these are typed, not on the dialog: HIGHLIGHT (0 shows only
the grips of selected objects; not saved, so every session starts
highlighted), SELECTIONEFFECT (1 the selection colour, 0 dashed lines with
fills outlined along their real boundary) and PREVIEWEFFECT (the preview
dashed 0, thicker 1 or both 2).
Left for later, as CADCraft lacks what they control: lasso, grip tips and
menus, group grips, grips within blocks, associative hatch selection,
command and property preview, PICKDRAG, PICKAUTO and PROPOBJLIMIT.
DisplayList::fill_outlines returns the boundary of the region a filled
primitive covers as closed polylines (edges only one triangle has; the
slab filler's horizontal cuts, which need not line up between trapezoids,
are split at every x on their line and kept where an odd number cover
them), falling back to the bounding box over 600,000 vertices. The GPU
and CPU highlight paths and the drawing comparison overlay share the same
looks.
The new labels have Ukrainian rows (the required catalog); other
languages fall back to English.
Co-authored-by: Cody Vogt <18035288+codyvogt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
Dylan M. Taylor