Bricscad nieuwe release

Version 10.4.18

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:25:00 UTC

Fixed

SR25402, SR25386, SR25384 and others: after working for a certain time the application goes hanging, often with a messed up display.
SR25233, SR25181, SR24871: crash occurred when a display driver (incorrectly) reported a screen resolution of 0 (triggering a division by zero in WxWidgets). The code was made more robust and now tries to obtain the screen resolution in alternative ways if a 0 is reported. Logs show that this crash occurred while e.g. dragging entities and while snapping.
SR25021, SR25278, SR25232 - DDEDIT FOCUS: reverted the fix applied in 10.4.11, it introduced focus-behavior issues for modal dialog boxes, both for the DDEDIT command (which it was intended to fix) and for BRX apps.
SR25194 - PC3 editor: crash when clicking the "Custom Properties.." button.

Application Development

SR25367 - BRX: AcDbPlotSettingsValidator::Setxxx(...) functions no longer reset the printer.

Version 10.4.17

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:00:00 UTC

Fixed

Application failed to start on some machines, a message popped up stating that "MiniDumpWriteDump" wasn't found in dbghelp.dll. The possibility to write MiniDumps has been temporarily rolled back.

Version 10.4.16

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:20:00 UTC

Fixed

SR21795, SR23511, SR25233 Improved robustness in order to address crashes that have getActiveView() in the callstack of the report
SR22438 , SR22488, SR22967, SR23511, SR23574, SR22400, SR22532, SR25233, SR23781: Improved robustness in order to address reported crashes. More fixes will follow for the same supportrequests.
Avoid possible duplication of DbField handles when loading dwg2007 files (as detected by AUDIT).

Version 10.4.15

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:20:00 UTC

Fixed

SR24769 - FIELDS: a crash occurred when loading a user provided drawing containing fields in blocks.
SR25227 - LIST: formatted color of entities incorrectly if LUINITS = 3 (or 4).
SR25270 - EXTMIN/MAX: were not updated after freezing layers containing INSERTs.

Version 10.4.14

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:47:00 UTC

Improved

SR24866 - MEMORY: a user-provided drawing required more than 1.5Gb of memory to load and display due to dense, dashed linetype patterns used for long entities. The treshold to switch to displaying such entities using continuous line type was lowered, resulting in reducing the memory need by 1.1 Gb.

Fixed

SR24987 - XREF: a crash occurred on opening a drawing containing erased nested external references.
SR25034 - REFEDIT: suppress 'unknown error' message when the drawing of the preview in the Reference Edit dialog is aborted before completion.
SR25073, SR25147, SR25215 - DWG 2010: crash when editing table entities.
SR25183 - POLYLINE: when WHIPARC was ON, a polyline with curve fit points was displayed with artefacts.
SR25227 - AREA: value of some entity types (OdDbRegions, OdDbSplines) was incorrectly formatted in the LIST command and the Properties panel if LUNITS=3 or 4.
SR25268: unstability or crash during drawings/blocks preview creation when (vlr-dwg-reactor) reactor is attached.
SR25263, SR25268 - LISP: problem with vlr-editor-reactor and vlr-dwg-reactor.
- :vlr-beginSave and :vlr-saveComplete events did not have correct arguments passed (regression since v10.4.10)
- crash occurred if COM interface for a temporary database was not available (NEW command)

Version 10.4.11

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:55:00 UTC

Improved

SR23730 - FONT PREVIEW: improved visibility of used text.

Fixed

SR20247, SR23085 - MNU to CUI converter: separators like [~--] were not recognized, submenus with diesel expressions did not get hasDiesel attribute.
XREF: huge text size was used to display the path of missing Xref files.
SR21802, SR22415, SR22416, SR25007 - XREF: status was changed to Unresolved after the drawing was saved as R18, R15 or R14.
SR22705 - XREF: text with annotative scale, contained in an xref, was not displayed in paperspace viewports.
SR24437 - VBA: loading a large VBA project could fail if updating of references was required.
SR24528 - MATCHPROP: a crash occurred when copying properties from a polyline to a lightweight polyline (or vice versa).
SR24618 - SNAP: crash occurred while snapping to SPLINE in user-provided drawing.
SR24620 - PRINT diagnostics: wrong paper name was used when reporting internal status of printing process (when QAFLAGS bit 256 is set).
SR24709 - PRINT: lineweight of thin polyline segments, preceding segments with width, was ignored during printing and print preview.
SR24918, SR25102 - LEADER: object was displayed incorrectly if loaded from a dwg2010 drawing. This happened because MTEXT annotation width and height are no longer stored in dwg2010 format drawings.
SR24931 - crash report: made processing of cropped raster images more robust.
SR24970 - LAYER COMBO: after creating a new drawing with the 'newwiz' command, the layer combo box in the Entity Properties Toolbar was not updated according to the active drawing.
SR24980 - REFEDIT: edited drawings were saved using the current dwg format, instead they must be saved back to their original format (not to the format specified by SAVEFORMAT).
SR25021, SR25164 - DDEDIT FOCUS: right-click a Text entity, choose 'Edit Text', change the text, click OK. The first time this would work all right but from the second time, the edit text dialog did not get the keyboard focus so one had to click in the dialog before typing. This regression had been introduced in V10.4.7.
SR25034 - REFEDIT: a crash occurred when the drawing of the preview in the Reference Edit dialog was aborted before completion.
HATCH: when using the OpenGL graphics device, hatches in scaled inserts were displayed with incorrect transformation.

Application Development

SR23841 - LISP: ssget did not work correctly if RTDXF0 was used as restype when building the filter.
SR24377 - LISP: (ssget "_X" '((0 . "INSERT") (66 . 0))) did not select inserts without attributes.
SR24888 - DCL: if the dialog focus was manipulated by the function mode_tile before calling start_dialog, the focus no longer is switched to the ok or cancel button.
SR25044 - LISP dwg and editor reactors: the timing and behaviour of ":vlr-beginClose", ":vlr-databaseConstructed" and ":vlr-databaseToBeDestroyed" events was incorrect.
LISP: dxf output/entget operations could lead to crash when applied to vertices of erased polylines.
LISP - (vlax-safearray-fill): when a safearray of type 'vlax-vbvariant' was filled with 'nil' values, the Variant elements were mistakenly set to VT_BOOL instead of VT_EMPTY.
CRASH REPORTS: added call stack data for Lispex.dll and drx applications. Added Bricscad version number.

Version 10.4.10

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:55:00 UTC

Improved

GRADIENT HATCH: performance improvements.

Fixed

SR24725 - XREF: it was not possible to load an xref drawing or insert a drawing if it contained invalid layer pointers. Now items on invalid layers are moved to layer 0.
SR24846 - DIMENSIONS: inaccurate rotated dimension measurement in case the second definition point was very near to the dimension line (around but not less than 1e-10).
SR24862 - GRADIENT HATCH: rotated gradient hatches were scaled incorrectly causing them to load and display very slowly.
SR24901 and others - PANBUFFER: fixed crashes after using buffered panning.
CRASH REPORT: data output to crash_report.txt was corrected.
LAYERS: it was no longer possible to create a layer with a name starting with $ (regression introduced in V10.4.7).

Application Development

SR24197, SR24978 - MENUCMD: (menucmd "P0=*") showed the context menu without item labels.
SR24284 - LISP: wrong hatch pattern was used after creating a SOLID hatch.
SR24452 - MENU: enabled correct loading of resource-only Menu DLL files (as data file).
SR24849 - .NET: a crash/hang-up occurred when .NET based (mixed code) module was loaded on startup.

Version 10.4.8

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:20:00 UTC

Fixed

SR24689 annotative blocks were not displayed.
SR24776: "Polar" and "Relative Polar" tooltip (shown while tracking of e.g. line) was not translatable.
SR24743: fixed validation for KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT character in block name
SR24379, SR17333: Toolbars no longer stack to the left when the Bricscad window is resized (made smaller) horizontally. (And also don't stack to the top when the window is resized vertically). Toolbars that become invisible by the new window size, remain where they are and become visible again when the window size increases.
SR24339: hatch pattern validation routine first checks patterns cache, and only if it's not been created searches pattern in .pat files
SR24732: After copy-pasting an insert the number of references for its block did not increase. The same problem was fixed with the referencecount of image definitions.
SR17873: Eliminated error (An error occurred while rendering entity: Invalid index), appeared on processing of polyline with zero number of vertexes.
SR24789 polyline with thickness was not displayed in shaded mode.

Version 10.4.7

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:20:00 UTC

New

Dwg 2010, also known as R24, is the new native Bricscad drawing format. In case an older save format is preferred please change the variable 'SaveFormat' in the settings dialog.
PRINT DIALOG: a bitmap illustration was added, showing the current paper sheet dimensions and orientation, as well as the orientation, position and size of the printed area.
POINT INPUT: the APPINT keyword can now be used to activate extended apparent intersection snap mode during point input.
SNAP: added support for relative polar snapping. It can be used in commands LINE, PLINE, 3P.
TABLET: Tablet cui files are no longer included in the installation. A zip file containing the tablet cui files along with the corresponding overlay pictures can be downloaded from the Tools section on the Briscad website (http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/bricscad/tools.jsp) More information is available in the Bricscad Help.

Improved

SR24393: toolbars in Toolbars context menu are now sorted alphabetically.
Heavy AUDIT operations have become much faster.
Use Default UCS is used in case the viewport UCS is invalid. This avoids an endless number of warning dialogs about degenerate geometry.
OdaIssue209: Xref path name is now displayed for unresolved xrefs.
SR23939: improved updating performance of properties panel, leading to faster scrollzoom when entities(esp dimensions) were selected.
Rewritten PlotStyle editor and UserProfileManager.
It is now possible to pan with the mouse in Print Preview.
SR23541: If a print fails due to wrong paper size this is now shown on the commandline.
XREF: the file and path name of unresolved xrefs is now displayed in the drawing.
SR15673, SR23456, SR23893 - MENU: DIESEL expressions in menu macro's are no longer evaluated before executing the menu string, but at the point where they occur in the macro.
SR22550 - ATTRIBUTE EDITOR: keyboard shortcut Alt+O has the same effect now as pressing the OK button.
SNAP: added support for ANGBASE and ANGDIR variables during polar snapping.

Fixed

SR24033: insert was not properly updated on the screen when its attributes get erased or new ones are added.
avoid duplicate C:XXX command registration on opening new drawings when LISPINIT=0:
SR23811: Russian descriptions for linetypes were not readable in drawing explorer.
SR24407:CUI: now, also ICO resources from external resource files (DLL) are recognized
r18786:SR17531 SR18467 SR23162 SR24054 SR24399 SR24476 fix commands and getvar calls for TDINDWG and TDUSRTIMER and TIME.
SR24452: added PURGE, EXPLODE, DIMSTY and TXTSTYLE to map of recognized cui icon id's and improved select macros.
Use Default UCS is used in problem drawings with an invalid viewport UCS. This avoids an endless number of warning dialogs about degenerate geometry.
SR24370: DDEDIT command always returned CANCEL status, which broke SDS and Lisp applications when used command.
SR24354: avoid crash occurring on erase of dimension with corrupt DimAssoc object.
SR24413: incorrect file dialog title when selecting images.
SR21274: OSMODE and AUTOSNAP were not always reset after operations that required temporary reset of OSMODE to 0.
TaskDD1381: enabled quadrant snapping to arcs and circles, placed in homogeneously scaled blocks.
SR16246: rectangle command did not create a filleted rectangle if fillet radius is too big.
SR23759: entities not being rendered and rendering error
Explicit regen was needed to bring the display up to date when viewports were using different SHADEMODE rendering settings.
TaskDD1303 : crash on undo of TILEMODE switches after deleting a viewport.
SR24020 : REFEDIT ignored overrides applied to dimensions inside a block, as well as changes to fields inside mtexts in a block.
SR24183 : (getvar "UNDOCTL") returned "group active" bit (value 8) set.
SR24248 - CURSOR: Left clicking on an entity that was already gripped, left a cursor artifact behind.
SR24232: empty BAK file was created next to wblocked drawing.
TaskDD1330: when COORDS=2, and angle value has been added for the LINE and PLINE command, the statusbar should show this fixed angle value till the distance value has been entered.
SR23923: PRINT: large OLE objects failed to print if the print was rotated (e.g. upside down or landscape)
Command SELECT , options Add/Subtract would always take full groups of entities even if PICKSTYLE was 0.
Properties Panel: - select 2 (different) lines. Length and angle in the properties value are *varies*. - Now change the endpoint of one of the lines, using grip edit. - Length and Angle are no longer *varies*, no matter where you put the endpoint.
SR20855: sometimes properties panel was too small when bricscad started.
TaskDD503: FILLET command failed to make fillet of 2 polylines, but second curve was deleted after failed command.
SR24251: Customize Dialog: from partial cui files, shortcut menus and sub menus were added to main menu bar
SR20126: additional diagnostic messages during print (if QAFLAGS bit-value 256 is set).
VPLAYER: command malfunctioned in localized versions.
SR18492 - MULTIPLE: command now repeats a user defined command, instead of the last used native command.
SR21851 - CUSTOMIZE: creating a new tool in the Customize dialog (using menu, toolbar or keyboard tree) with a title that already exists, would overwrite the properties of the existing item.
SR22196 - MENU: from main cui file, now only menus with a 'POP' alias are shown (POP1 until POP32 are accepted). To display other menus, menucmd can still be used
SR23973 - MENU: when a pause symbol in a macro is preceded by a command string, this command string is not executed immediately, but it is placed on the command line for further editing. Example: "^c^cPLINE 0,0 @\". In this case the "@" is placed on the command line to enter relative coordinates. In previous versions, this macro would result in the error: "@\ Unable to recognize entry. Please try again."
SR24166 - MTEXT EDITOR: it was not possible to set Bold type text back to Normal, if this text had the same font type as the default font.
TaskD1407 - DRAWING EXPLORER: toolbar was not displayed completely, the end part was missing (except for the Layer States toolbar).
SR15745 - DIMZIN and DIMAZIN influenced the read-out of the DIST command and the DISTANCE system variable, they should not.
SR21539 - SNAP: it was not possible to snap to the top of a cone.
SR22570 - GROUPS: PICKSTYLE and selection set filters were not correctly applied to groups.
SR23626 - MATCHPROP: new property was not applied to a selection set if it's first element already had the new property.
SR23830 - DISPLAY: ucs icon was not drawn in user provided drawing.
DISPLAY: there was a problem when rendering entities with color kNone.
TaskDD885 - ATTEXT: should not prompt for confirmation to overwrite an existing output file when running in unattended mode.

Application Development

SR24459 LISP : using ESCAPE as input for (grread) did not call the active Lisp error handler, if Bit 3 (=8) was set.
SR24143, dcl/toolbar issue: If a dcl dialog is closed by double clicking on a list_box, a toolbar button that is behind the dialog could be triggered. Indeed, the double click action will be triggered while the mouse button is down for the second time. By the time the mouse button is released at the end of the double click, the dcl dialog is already closed. As a result, a toolbar button on that very position could be triggered. Indeed, a toolbar button is activated when the mouse is released on top of the button. Fixed by activating the toolbar button only if the toolbar has captured the mouse earlier on. Capturing the mouse typically happens when the mouse is pressed down.
SR21261 - LISP reactors: (vlr-owners reactor) did not list the reactor owner(s), if the owner object(s) were erased.
SR23578 - fixed issue with incorrect jigging basepoint.
SR24337 : Lisp (read-line) now supports both linux and windows style line endings.
SR19464, 23281 - JIGS: drag behavior has been changed. The first drag loop runs with the current cross-hair position (without waiting for an actual input event), so the entity is updated accordingly.
SR23789 - LISP: fixed behaviour of pause in LISP (command "_SELECT" pause) or MENU macro ^C^C_SELECT;\. The pause statement now waits for user input until the SELECT command ends, instead of just one input.
SR23957 - COM: AcadApplication.ZoomPickWindow, AcadApplication.ZoomScaled methods did register undo info - they should not.
SR24329: COM: AcadDocument.FullPath returned autosaved name.
SR21611 COM: *ModelSpace, *PaperSpace blocks can be deleted with AcadBlock.Delete method from COM
SR24373:append default 'dwg' extension for drawings when opening them from COM.
SR24574 DCL: When an edit_box receives initial_focus, its contents should be selected, but the selection was cancelled when calling set_tile on the edit_box between new_dialog and start_dialog.
LISP: (load "name.lsp") triggered a memory overrun crash - (load (findfile "name.lsp")) worked fine.
SR22527 - LISP: (findfile) also searched the path of the template file used to create a drawing, it should not.
SR23587 - JIG: acquirePoint now accepts distance input in all cases.
LISP - forum #12384 : when (command PAUSE) is replied to with ESCAPE, some commands do not correctly return RTCAN, so LispEx reported another error than *cancelled*. A temporary workaround was added in the Lisp engine: now, any error input for (command PAUSE) causes, as expected, a "*cancelled*" error.

Version 10.3.16

Thu, 27 May 2010 13:20:00 UTC

Improved

SR20855 - PROPERTIES BAR: a minimum size is enforced.

Application Development

SR24418, 24426, 24440 - LISP (read), (print), (prin1) and (vl-prin1-to-string) functions: processing of escaped text was broken since V10.3.15.
SR24404 - LISP: a crash occurred at document close after heavy use of selection sets, during the Lisp objects cleanup (GarbageCollection).

Version 10.3.15

Fri, 21 May 2010 16:30:00 UTC

Improved

SR20126 - DIAGNOSTICS: extra diagnostic messages were added for improved troubleshooting of print and command history issues. To enable these diagnostic messages set QAFLAGS bit-value 256.

Fixed

SR21584 - CURSOR: redundant crosshairs were left behind on screen after using the layer combo on the Entity Properties toolbar.
SR23781 - CURSOR: redundant crosshairs were left behind on screen after using the scrollbar thumb to pan.
SR24248 - CURSOR: redundant crosshairs were left behind on screen after left-clicking on an entity that was already gripped artifact behind. Problem introduced in 10.3.14.
SR24323, 24361 - CURSOR: redundant crosshairs were left behind on screen after mousewheel-zoom. Problem introduced in 10.3.14.
SR23678 - PAN: orthogonal lines were left behind after buffered panning with polar snap enabled.
SR24060 - LOAD: drawing containing uppercase class names could not be loaded.
SR24166 - MTEXT EDITOR: did not allow to switch off bold type of selected text, if the selected text had the same font as the default font.
SR24209 - DISPLAY: intermittent crash occurred during display of polar tracking paths.
SR24232 - WBLOCK: command created a redundant empty BAK file.
SR24243 - DISPLAY: part of the entities of a block insert were not displayed in a viewport, if the layer they belonged to, was frozen in another viewport.
SR24329 - BatchPlotTool.dvb: after autosaving of a drawing to a .SV$ file, the batch plot tool no longer could find the files to print.
DBMOD: when loading a drawing that had an xref attached, the DBMOD system variable incorrectly indicated that the drawing had been modified. Upon closing the drawing, without having made any changes, this triggered a pointless "Save Changes?" dialog.
PRINT: large OLE objects failed to print if the print was rotated (e.g. upside down or landscape)
UNDO: a crash occurred when using the following scenario: TILEMODE=0, draw a viewport, delete it, mspace, pspace, undo, undo.

Application Development

SR21261 - LISP reactors: (vlr-owners reactor) did not list the reactor owner(s), if the owner object(s) were erased.
SR23578 - fixed issue with incorrect jigging basepoint.
SR23645 - BRX: AcDbDiametricDimension using user specified text position and DIMATFIT != 3 did not generate the second arrowhead.
SR23995, SR24061 - LISP: crash could occur when COM objects were wrapped into Variant objects, and the Variants were released (i.e. when closing Bricscad or during Lisp engine GarbageCollection.)
SR24094 - BRX: added support for the 'functionCode' argument for commands registered with acedRegCmds->addCommand().
LISP: (read "\\SymbolName") failed to create a symbol named \SymbolName, output of (print), (prin1) and commandline echo for a symbol named \SymbolName has been corrected to become \\SymbolName.
LISP, SDS/BRX: improved search sequence for (arxload "file"), acedArxLoad("file"), sds_arxload("file"). When *.arx and *.brx/drx files are co-existing in same place, *.brx/drx are used for loading.

Version 10.3.13

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:35:00 UTC

Fixed

SR23126 - DVIEW:
- Grips, snap markers nor selection rectangle were displayed if the DVIEW clip planes had negative values.
- When entering the Z-clip value as a number, it was incorrectly stored.
SR23530 - LAYER COMBO: when trying to dismiss the layer dropdown list from the Entity Properties toolbar, by clicking in the drawing view, a selection operation was started. Clicking anywhere in a non-client area of the main window did not dismiss the dropdown list. Both issues have been fixed.
SR23746, SR23984, SR23992 - POLYLINE: when the polyline command was ended by pressing the Escape key, separate polylines were created for each segment instead of creating a single polyline. This problem was introduced in V10.3.12 by an incomplete fix for SR23746.
SR23759, 23917, 23918 - DISPLAY: "Screen update interrupted ..." error message appeared if, during switching between layout tabs, an entity was highlighted by SELECTIONPREVIEW.
SR23812, 23923, 23941 - PRINT: OLE object rotation was incorrect when printing orientation was landscape or upside-down. Regression since 10.3.11.
SR23830 - DISPLAY:
- Ucs icon was not displayed in user provided drawing.
- Frame of shaded viewport was not displayed, a zoom operation was required to make it visible.
SR23847 - DISPLAY: text consisting of spaces only could become displayed as dashes.
SR23919 - VIEWPORTS: a crash occurred when joining viewports with different shademodes.
SR23933 - OPEN: a user-provided drawing failed to open. An error message appeared: "Object of type OdShxFont cant be cast to OdTrueTypeFont" followed by a crash.
SR23938 - crash_report.txt file did not contain information. Regression since 10.3.11
ATTEXT: when used in unattended mode, a prompt popped up to ask if it was OK to overwrite existing output files.

Application Development

SR22270 - COM: AcadRasterImage.ClipBoundary coordinates were not transformed between WCS and image coordinates.
SR23720 - COM: IAcadPreferencesFiles::pput_SupportPath() trimmed away the semicolon at the end of the path string.
SR23951 - LISP: (append ....) did concatenate strings, it should only process lists.
LISP: when (command PAUSE) was replied to with ESCAPE, some commands did not correctly return RTCAN, so the Lisp engine reported another error than *cancelled*. Now, any error input for (command PAUSE) will yield a "*cancelled*" error, as expected.
LISP: following code sequence would fail when entered on the commandline: (initget "Ja Nein _ Yes No") (getkword "*** Enter ")
SR19464, 23281 - JIGS: drag behavior has been changed. The first drag loop runs with the current cross-hair position (without waiting for an actual input event), so the entity is updated accordingly.
SR23860 - BRX: AcDbPlotSettingsValidator::setPlotCfgName was not working in all cases.

Version 10.3.12

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:35:00 UTC

Improved

TaskDD1363 - AUTOSAVE: was made faster by avoiding creation of thumbnail preview bitmaps.
Two new print color table files, displaycolors.ctb and displaycolors-darkbg.ctb, were added to allow printing of colors as they display onscreen, both for a white background and for a dark background. In V10.3 the color mapping for printing was revised and corrected for maximum compatibility, historically the color mapping was set too dark.
As a result, every CTB, including default.ctb, yields lighter prints than before. Default.ctb yields colors that are slightly lighter than onscreen, this is intentional. To obtain printed colors that closely match the onscreen colors, the new color tables can be used.

Fixed

regressions introduced in 10.3.11:
- PRINT
  - When the default paper orientation of a system printer (or a pc3) was set to Landscape, the print was scaled undesirably.
  - When printing a paper space layout using Extents print area and Fit scaling, the print was shifted.
- EXPORT: to PDF, WMF and DWF was mirrored.
- OLE
  - Size of pasted OLE objects was incorrect, the Y-coordinate was not taken into account.
  - Some OLE objects failed to print.
  - OLE editor should not be triggered immediately after inserting the OLE object.
- SNAP: a temporary snap track line was left behind on the display after selecting a point.
- SR22280, SR23741 - PROPERTIES BAR: should not pop up when double clicking editable entities.
- SR23730 - FONT combo box: font name look up was case sensitive, it should be case insensitive.

PRINT: drawing was incorrectly clipped when printing with Portrait setting to a Landscape paper sheet.
UNION, INTERSECT, SUBTRACT: if an error occurred, the command was interrupted and tool entities were deleted.
INTERSECT: failed to handle more than 2 entities.
SR22501 - EXPLODE: mtext of an exploded MLeader was placed on a wrong layer.
SR23409 - DIMANGULAR, DIMARC: failed on dashed 2d polylines.
SR23756 - PAN: a crash occurred _after_ grip editing a viewport in paper space, when panning while the grips were still visible.
SR23759, 23830 - DISPLAY: when zooming to the extents of a drawing, error messages appeared: "An error occurred while rendering entity 2B7F7".
SR23830 PAN: display artefacts occurred when panning in Model Space, when using multiple viewports with different rendering types.

Application Development

SR20380 - CMDACTIVE sysvar now returns 0 from STARTUP. Drawing is opened after the dialog is closed.
SR23571 - TEXT command (from LISP): display characters immediately after typing.
SR23576 - LICKEY: added sysvar LICKEY that returns the license key in use.
SR23642 - LISP: strings returned from COM methods "By Reference" were NIL. Fixed problems with (vla-numcustominfo), (vla-GetCustomByKey), (vla-GetCustomByIndex). Small performance improvement for (vla-get/put-xxx) and (vla-xxx) functions.
SR23709 - LISP: (vl-catch-all-apply) was broken.
SR23746 - POLYLINE: command returned RTNORM instead of RTCAN when user pressed Escape. This influences programs that use sds_command or lisp (command) to draw a polyline.
SR23788 - LISP: crash at startup, if a drawing was loaded (by command line or by doubleclick) which contains persistent Lisp reactors.
SR23854 - LISP: there was a problem with (chr number) if number > 255. Now all numbers > 255 are mapped to range 0...255, respecting the codepage. Also fixed: (chr 0) did not yield "", but "\000".

Version 10.3.11

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:35:00 UTC

New

COPY option was added for SCALE and ROTATE commands.
DRAWING EXPLORER: text style preview.
SR19114, SR20973, SR22948, SR23092 - TOOLBARS: support for nested flyout toolbars has been added.
SDS: support for Selection Set callback functions has been added.

Improved

SR22128 - PRINT: text using Truetype fonts was printed heavier (more bold) than when printed on Autocad. This was corrected to increase compatibility of print-outs. IMPORTANT NOTE: from now on TTF text on your print-outs will look slightly thinner, though better readable, the excessive boldness tended to turn small characters into blobs.
SR23473 - MTEXT: when many shx fonts exist in the font search path, there was a noticeable delay before the Mtext dialog opened. This delay is avoided now by caching shx font data.
SR22534 - DRAWORDER: toolbar and command option names were made consistent.
SR23540 - FONT COMBOBOX: some font names could not be read if they are rendered using the font itself, e.g. Wingdings. Therefore, the font names themselves now are rendered using a default font, and a preview of the font is shown at the left side of the font name using the text "Abcd".
SR23554, SR23556 - PRINT PREVIEW: orientation has been adapted - text readable in model or layout view now remains readable in preview. The mouse middle button (wheel) double-click can be used to zoom fit. The zoom list-box control has been removed, the mouse wheel can be used instead.
DRAWING EXPLORER: dialog layout is saved and restored for each type.
SR19949 - COMMAND LINE: performance of printing to the command line was strongly improved.
SR20961 - HATCH: improved accuracy of hatch boundary detection in cases where gaps have to be closed, by favoring points on existing geometry over points on geometry that was added to fill gaps.
SR21277 - SNAP: implemented extended (apparent) intersection snapping. The mode is activated by pressing TAB, to cycle through the current snapping points, until the tooltip 'Intersection' is displayed.
SR21765 - HATCH: added support for detection of boundaries containing Rays and Xlines.
SR22959 - PROFILES: supported expanding of environment variables used in profiles.
TaskDD1270 : PEDITACCEPT system variable is now supported.
SR23101 - PRINT PREVIEW: zooming with the middle-mouse button now preserves the view center and uses the ZOOMFACTOR value. Zoom range was extended (10 to 500 %)
SR23134 - MTEXT EDITOR: improved error reporting in case execution of an external mtext editor fails.
SR23158 - ATTEXT: added support for hidden option keyword '_object'.
SR23212 - TANGENT: construction of a circle/line/donut/cone/cylinder tangent to given circles/lines was not possible if these entities were not coplanar. The requirements became much less restrictive:
1. The entities should no longer be coplanar but reside on parallel planes instead.
2. The current UCS plane should be parallel to the planes in which the entities are.
3. For each given line: Z coordinate of the start point must be equal to the Z coordinate of the end point in the current UCS.
Added the possibility to construct circles tangent to rays, xlines, traces, 2d polylines.
Added the possibility to construct lines tangent to circular segments of 2d polylines.
Added the possibility to work tangent to entities contained in blocks.
TaskDD1304 - When at startup, a drawing name that was specified on the command line was not found, Bricscad did not start. Now Bricscad does start and creates a new drawing instead.
SR23563, DCL performance: A multi-column list_box with many rows was too slow.
SR21136, SR22671, SR22862 - DISPLAY: improved display quality of small circles and curves.
WHIPARC: is used to control whether circles and circular arcs are displayed as true curves or as a series of vectors. Now also ellipses, elliptical arcs and arc segments of polylines are displayed as true curves when WHIPARC is on.
FONT COMBO: the font selection combo boxes in the Drawing Explorer and the Mtext editor now use the font itself when displaying a TTF of SHX font name.
FILE OPEN DIALOG: screen no longer flickers with each directory change in a file dialog without preview.
TOOLBARS: no longer disappear while opening drawings.
SELGRIPS: improved performance when selecting many entities in large drawings.
SR22823 - CUSTOM OBJECTS: custom objects in dictionaries now are converted to and from proxies.
SR23051 - BATCH PLOT: the Visual Basic sample application batch_plot_tool.dvb has been reworked to support localization.
Drawing Explorer:
- block view was made faster for drawings containing many blocks.
- when inserting a drawing from the drawing tree, as a block, and a block definition with the same name already existed, then the already existing block definition was reused, always. Now one can also choose to overwrite the existing block definition.
Settings Dialog:
- moved settings APBOX and APERTURE from Entity Selection to Entity Snaps category.
- removed preference EnableSnapMarker because this same setting is also controlled by the first bit of the AUTOSNAP system variable.
- removed preference EnableFlyOver: the flyover snap mechanism is always enabled.

Fixed

SR21490 - PRINT ORIENTATION: setting the print orientation used to affect the paper orientation, which is incorrect. Instead, the printed now is rotated and the paper orientation is left unmodified. The paper orientation is set using the paper settings for the printer.
TaskDD936 SR23588 :line entity was hidden LENGTHEN command was canceled.
TaskDD1423, SR23383, SR23480 :crash when rendering mleader entity
TaskDD1347, SR222446 added print diagnostic message when there are conflicting nested xrefs.
OdaIssue168,SR19302 :crash when clicking on insert after its attribute was erased.
SR13528 - DRAG: cursor was not visible when dragging outside the active viewport.
SR16957 : Clicking the polar button on the status bar only made the polarmode change available for the next command. Now it becomes available instantly in the active command.
SR21490 - PRINT ORIENTATION: setting the print orientation used to affect the paper orientation, which is incorrect. In V10.3.8 this was corrected for the WinGDI graphics device, now it has also been corrected for the OpenGL device.
SR23271 - INSERT: scale for inserted block was incorrectly applied if X/Y/Z scales were specified individually.
CIRCLE: command did not automatically activate temporary TAN snap in TTR mode (Tangent Tangent Radius).
EXTENSION SNAP: not all possible extension curves were generated for polyline segments.
SR15351 - DDEMODES: the command erronuously opened the Settings dialog at the Attributes section, instead it should open at the Entity Creation section.
SR15560, SR17923, SR23033 - PRINT COLORS: index colors were printed too dark.
SR19880 - HIGHLIGHT: polylines were not displayed when highlighted, if their global width, or width of individual pline segments, was relatively small.
SR20455 - PERIMETER: this variable now stores the value for LENGTHEN.
SR20632 - ZOOM: the 'dynamic' option is now visible both in the command prompt window and on the command line.
SR20913 - PEDIT: lines, circles and arcs remained highlighted after conversion to polyline.
SR21794, SR22480 - HIGHLIGHT: partially or completely overlapping entities were not highlighted if an overlapping entity had a higher draworder priority.
SR22076 - MATCHPROP: polyline width was not copied.
SR22478 - GRIP EDIT: transparent commands caused grip edit to fail.
SR22183 In LAYUNISO command layer state was restored incorrectly if layiso/layuniso commands were called for different viewports.
SR22690 - REFEDIT: if both SELECTIONPREVIEW and option 'Lock entities not in working set' were ON during a REFEDIT session, it was yet possible to edit entities not belonging to the working set.
SR22698 - PAN: if panbuffer was on, and one panned beyond the viewport boundary and afterwards back in, then grips were no longer displayed.
SR22702 - MEASURE/DIVIDE: corrected rotation angles of block references if used while a UCS is enabled and "Align blocks with entity" option is chosen.
HATCH: boundary detection involving reversed spline segments produced incorrect results.
PRINT PREVIEW: plot offset and 0.25 inch header/footer margins were incorrect and different for different zooms.
OSNAP: toggle option ("-osnap t") was broken.
-VIEW: the 'List all views' option didn't work.
TaskDD1360 - XREF ISSUES:
- DETACH: given xref A and xref B, both containing nested Xref C. Detaching of xref A resulted in detaching of Xref C as well. This was not correct: xref B still needed it.
- BIND: was flawed when used in INSERT mode.
- RELATIVE PATHS: were incorrectly processed if the name of a nested xref was the same as another xref of the host drawing.
SR23606 : fixed prompt menu for Rotate3D.
TaskDD1269 - SR23627: hatch with non-zero elevation in non-uniformly scaled block was displayed incorrectly.
TaskDD1088 when TTFASTEXT is on then certain fonts(rod.ttf, andalus.ttf,gautami.ttf) can be displayed incorrectly.
TaskDD1433 - VIEWSIZE variable was not updated after resizing the program window view, causing wrong prints if done right after resizing Bricscad.
SR22551 - DRAWORDER: improved draworder processing in case the SORTENTSTABLE is corrupted with (containing identical keys).
SR22673 - INSERT DIALOG: the current UCS was not taken into account when using the dialog to insert an xref or a block. The problem did not occur when using the command line.
SR22683 - SAVE AS: to DWG13/DXF13 format or older failed for drawings containing associative hatches.
SR22741, SR22742, SR23005 - SDS/LISP: sds_getcolordialog(), and therefore, (acad_colordlg) and (acad_truecolordlg) returned an incorrect value if "ByLayer" had been selected.
SR22793 - OLE: a crash occurred when creating a drawing using a template containing Bricscad OLE object.
SR22827 - UCS: removed optimization in UCS/WORLD code. The command should create an entry in the UCS undo stack even in case of repeated similar calls.
SR22863 - COPYCLIP/PASTECLIP and WBLOCK/INSERT: commands failed when a drawing contained a corrupted layout (using a Null BlockTableRecord reference).
SR22952 - ANNOTATIVE objects (mtexts, texts, attributes) raised an exception during display.
SR22730 - ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSIONS: a crash occurred on copy/paste of malformed associative dimensions.
SR22914 - ATTRIBUTES: a crash occurred when extracting attributes from cross-referenced blocks.
SR23146, SR21668 - PROPERTIES PANEL: for radial dimensions the 'Arrow' field was missing in the properties panel.
SR23151 - REGEN: with REGENMODE Off, regen was not suppressed when changing the LTSCALE system variable.
SR23204 - ATTRIBUTES: it was impossible to edit block attributes via the properties panel.
SR23267 - PAN: fixed display bug when panbuffer is used.
SR23284 - HATCH DIALOG: error occurred when trying to apply an angle to a solid filled hatch while switching from Gradient to Hatch tab.
SR23323 - XREF BIND: a crash occurred when binding a user provided xref containing ADT proxy objects.
DRAWING EXPLORER: a crash occurred when closing the Drawing Explorer while it was drawing preview for an xref file.
DRAWING EXPLORER: after redefining a block insert by copy/paste in the Drawing Explorer, the display of the insert was not updated.
GRIP EDIT: arcs not lying in the XY plane, were not correctly transformed during grip editing. This issue was introduced while implementing multi-grip edit support for V10.1.
GRIP_STRETCH, GRIP_MOVE, GRIP_SCALE, GRIP_ROTATE and GRIP_MIRROR: the hidden option 'Scale' did not work, because the S was already used for Stretch. Now ST is used for Stretch and SC for Scale.
SNAP: INS snapping could not be used for TOLERANCE entities.
SR19166 - PEDIT: prevented modification of polylines in a locked layer by PEDIT.

Application development

TaskDD1365 - - BRX - LISP: for setting true color entmod method no longer requires that DXF420 follows DXF62.
SR19338 - BRX: several fixes for AcGs issues.
SR23594 - BRX enabled possibility of direct distance entry to specify the first point using Entity Snap Tracking
SR20312 - BRX: fixed issues with resizing and edges of floating control bars.
TaskDD1432, SR21003 - LISP :AcadSelectionSet.SelectOnScreen should take in account PICKFIRST when called from Lisp.
SR21977 - BRX: fixed issues with acedRegisterFilterWinMsg.
SR23333 - DCL: when calling set_tile on a dcl text component during a callback, the appearance of the text component was not fully updated until after the callback had finished. This defeated the purpose of setting a "Please wait..." message before executing a slow command during a callback. This has been fixed: the text component is now immediately updated after each call to set_tile.
SR22059 - DCL: a list_box with fixed width font was too narrow. Indeed, the width calculation was made with a character unit independent of the attribute fixed_width_font. This is fixed by adjusting the character unit dependent on the attribute fixed_width_font. Mind that the font cannot be queried for the width of characters since that would break existing layouts based on slightly different fonts
SR22514 - LISP/SDS: sds_entget() output was made compatible with ads_entget() / (entget) by no longer reporting those dxf groups that have default values.
SR22577 - LISP:
- print to command line by (print) (prin1) (vl-prin1-to-string) for text containing control characters was enhanced to become fully compatible.
- added support for strings containing 0 characters (i.e. as returned from COM), the entire string is now stored and processed
SR22280 - BRX: added support for client defined double-click actions for custom entities, which are defined with Protocol Extension.
TaskDD892, SR22720 - BRX: sds_grdraw() can now be called from monitorInputPoint().
SR23563 - DCL: The tabs attribute of a list_box could be parsed only if it contained only integer arguments. When the tabs attribute contained a real number, it was simply skipped. From now on the real number is also parsed and rounded to the nearest integer.
SR23309 - DCL: In a text or text_part component, if the text is specified through the attribute "label", the text component should receive additional width, proportional to the specified text. Until now the same happened when the text was specified through the attribute "value", which is not correct. This has been fixed: additional width will not be added when the attribute "value" is used to specify the text content.
SR22110 - BRX - there was high a CPU-load during MonitorInputPoint loop, caused by a wrong compiler optimization.
SR22110 - BRX: monitorInputPoint function: the 3rd argument was ignored.
SR22498 - LISP: a TEXT command with an empty string argument did not trigger a linefeed.
SR22655, SR23165 - LISP: filtering in (ssget) was broken when SELECTIONPREVIEW != 0.
SR22721 - BRX: crash fixed in AcDbDatabase::wblockCloneObjects.
SR22741, SR22742, SR23005 - LISP: (acad_colordlg) and (acad_truecolordlg) returned
SR22922 - BRX: crash fixed in CAcUiColorComboBox.
SR22989 - COM: when inserting a block using COM the SRCHPATH was not used to look up the file.
SR23032 - LISP: our built-in Lisp engine supports the functionality offered by ai_utils.lisp. We now mimic successful loading of ai_utils.lsp to prevent application error messages triggered by a missing ai_utils.lsp. In result, tools like MVSETUP.lsp which use some ExpressTools functionality, can run now.
SR23121 - LISP: fixed undocumented function (string-split). Added public function (vl-string-split <delimiter> <string>) which works identical to (string-split)
SR23131 - LISP: using Lisp code with text from multiple codepages failed.
SR23136 - BRX: AcDbDatabase::insert did not process AcDbAttributeDefinition types correctly.
SR23152 - LISP: improved (vl-directory-files) function to process "X:" as "X:\\".
SR23158 - LISP: (untrace <myFunction>) does no longer print a message, when "myFunction" was not set for tracing.
SR23159 - BRX: acedDragGen() and sds_draggen ignored the cursor type argument. Regression introduced in V10.2.
SR23178 - DCL: if a row container contains a dcl text component, the text component should be spread over the available width if the container contains no content that can be resized. This has been fixed.
SR23189 - DCL: if a popup_list was changed inside a callback, the content of the popup_list wa not properly updated.
SR23183 - LISP: input from prompt menu or right-click menu was ignored during (command pause). Regression introduced in V10.2.11.
SR23227 - BRX: several bug fixes in AcGiTextStyle::extentsBox and AcDbText::adjustAlignment.
SR23261 - DCL: when changing the selection on a list_box by means of the set_tile function, the list_box did not scroll automatically to make the selected item visible.
SR23275 - DCL: a text component with an initial label consisting of spaces only, did not get a width according to the number of characters. Indeed, before calculating the required width to fit all characters, trailing spaces were trimmed from the label. This has been fixed: from now on trailing spaces will no longer be trimmed during the width calculation.
SR23299 - BRX: AcDbDimension::measurement returned eNotOpenForWrite too eagerly.
SR23321 - DCL: a text component with fixed_width_font set to true should receive width as if fixed_widht_font is not set. This behavior is a legacy quirk that was missing on Bricscad. It is now implemented.
SR23584 - LISP fixes a problem with non-English character display, when read from file (i.e. using (read-line) function). Also (string-split) and (vl-string-split) now act identically.
SR23648 - LISP: fixed (vl-bb-set) and (vl-bb-ref) functions - VLA-OBJECTs could not be stored and retrieved from bulletin board.
SR23327, SR23316 - BRX: improved compatibility of AcDbDimension::setTextPosition.
SR23355 - COM: Document.GetVariable/SetVariable acted on the current (active) document instead of the referenced one.
SR23385 - BRX: AcApDocManagerReactor::documentDestroyed: for a none-saved file, the name was passed without extension.
SR20860 - LISP: (vla-xxx) and (vlaxx-xxx) functions returning a VLA object "by reference" could fail, due to an initialisation problem.
SR21740 - SDS/LISP: if a command invoked by sds_cmd()/(command) failed with a critical error, the rest of the sds_cmd() list was not cleared, instead an attempt was made to execute it as a new command. This has been fixed and, if available, an error description will be printed on the command line.
SR21926 - LISP: (vlax-curve-getParamAtPoint) failed on certain types of lwpolylines.
SR22248 - BRX: a fatal error exception occurred when unloading a drawing document triggered by RawInputSource::fireChar().
SR22254 - LISP: there was a problem when entering points while holding the Shift key down while a Lisp program is running. If the next Lisp statement started a command that expected a selection set, the shift-down state was interpreted as removing the entities from the selection set, instead of adding them.
SR22508 - BRX: a crash could occur when erasing a block table record of a block reference.
SR22578 - LISP: fixed several issues related to (vl-bb-set) and (vl-bb-ref) functions.
SR22855 - BRX/SDS:acedGetStringB() and sds_getstringb() truncated the input string shorter than the actual capacity of the string buffer.
SR22752 - LISP: running a Lisp command C:XXX did not echo the result to the command line.
SR22913 - REACTORS: redundant reactors were added when modifying associative entities, e.g. hatch.
SR22938 - DCL: on a list_box with multiple selection, incrementally setting the selection through consecutive calls to set_tile did not work. Indeed, (progn (set_tile "id" "0") (set_tile "id" "1")) would set the selection to "1" rather than "0 1". This has been fixed: calling set_tile now expands the existing selection if multiple selection is on. There is one exception: calling (set_tile "id" "") always erases the entire selection.
SR22954 - LISP: pressing the escape key did not end a while loop like: (while (> (getvar "CMDACTIVE") 0) (command pause)). Regression introduced in V10.2.12.
SR22966 - FILE OPEN DIALOG: after resizing the dialog, the drawing preview in the Standard File Open dialog could be displayed behind other controls.
SR23003 - DCL: in a list_box, on receiving an up or down cursor key press, a selection callback was always triggered, even if no valid selection could be made. No valid selection can be made in these cases: moving up if the selection is already on top, moving down if the selection is already at bottom, moving up or down in an empty list, moving up or down when nothing is selected. This has been fixed: the callback is triggered only if a new non-empty selection can be set.
TaskDD1309 DRX: it was not possible to run native DRX commands - regression introduced in V10.2.0.
INPUT QUEUE corrections:
- LASTPOINT incorrectly was set to (0,0,0) after running the text command.
- LASTPOINT incorrectly was set to (0,0,0) or the second point when getting a distance, angle or orientation. Lastpoint should not be set in such case.
- TAN SNAP override did not work for points entered by keyboard, menu or script.
LISP/SDS/BRX : (help ) did not open the start (index) page.
TaskDD1286 - SDS: IMPORTANT CHANGE that can influence behavior of 3rd party applications -> points that are passed with sds_command() are snapped now, and input point managers are called.

Version 10.2.14

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:30:01 UTC

Improved

Snap tracking: decreased delay for creation and destruction of track marker.

Fixed

SR22290 - MODELING: a crash occurred when applying a CHAMFER to a cylinder created by extruding a circle.
SR22683 - SAVE AS: a crash occurred when trying to save drawings to r13 format if they contained associative dimensions.
SR23184 - SNAP: when using intersection snap on drawings containing splines of degree 1, hanging could occur.
SR23148 - MIRROR: mirroring a block reference gave different results for scale factors and rotation angle when compared to AutoCAD.

Version 10.2.13

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:30:01 UTC

Improved

SR23051 - BATCH PLOT: the Visual Basic sample application batch_plot_tool.dvb has been reworked to support localization.
Drawing Explorer: when inserting a drawing from the drawing tree, as a block, and a block definition with the same name already existed, then the already existing block definition was reused, always. Now one can also choose to overwrite the existing block definition.

Fixed

SR22551 - DRAWORDER: improved draworder processing in case the SORTENTSTABLE is corrupted, i.e. when several entities have the same draworder key.
SR22673 - INSERT DIALOG: the current UCS was not taken into account when using the dialog to insert an xref or a block. The problem did not occur when using the command line.
SR22683 - SAVE AS: to DWG13/DXF13 format or older failed for drawings containing associative hatches.
SR22793 - OLE: a crash occurred when creating a drawing using a template containing a Bricscad OLE object.
SR22863 - COPYCLIP/PASTECLIP and WBLOCK/INSERT: commands failed when a drawing contained a corrupted layout (using a Null BlockTableRecord reference).
SR22952 - ANNOTATIVE objects (mtexts, texts, attributes) raised an exception during display.
SR22954 - LISP: pressing the escape key did not end a while loop like: (while (> (getvar "CMDACTIVE") 0) (command pause)). Regression introduced in V10.2.12.
DRAWING EXPLORER: after redefining a block insert by copy/paste in the Drawing Explorer, the display of the insert was not updated.
GRIP EDIT: arcs not lying in the XY plane, were not correctly transformed during grip editing. This issue was introduced while implementing multi-grip edit support for V10.1.

Version 10.2.12

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:10:01 UTC

Improved

FLATTEN: orthogonally flattened circular arcs no longer change type to elliptical arcs after flattening.
SR22462 - ZOOM: re-enabled crosshairs for zoom command.

Fixed

SR19763 - ATTEXT: restored case-insensitivity for 'attext' template files.
SR21439 - ATTEXT: number of decimal places displayed in attribute field may vary from 1 to 3.
SR22333 - FLATTEN: leaders could move to wrong location after flatten. Empty text/mtext was moved to the origin.
SR22569 - ATTEXT: fixed incompatible line ending in attext output file.
SR22784 - MTEXT wit ANNOTATION SCALE: in the drawing attached to the request, the height of mtexts with annotation scale was increased when applying a move or copy command.
SR22808 - JIG input: moving the mouse after typing something on the keyboard, without pressing enter, would cause that keyboard input to be ignored.
SR22300, SR22708 - COPY/PASTE: if source UCS was different from target UCS, entities were transformed incorrectly.

Version 10.2.11

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:35:00 UTC

Improved

SR22717 - MENU: implemented support for menu macro's starting with '*^C' to repeat the macro.
SR20924 - PRINT: printing multiple copies was inefficiently implemented and created multiple print jobs instead of one job with several copies. Note: some printer drivers don't support multiple copies, for such cases printing multiple copies is still achieved by creating multiple jobs.

Fixed

SR22181 - LISP: if CMDECHO was set to 0, it was possible to freeze the current layer.
SR22300 - COPY/PASTE: could fail for users that did not have administrator permissions.
SR22522 - DCL: incorrect warning "key is already assigned". If a component inherited the attribute "key" of a parent component, a warning was given if the key already existed, even if a new value for the key was specified in the derived component definition. This has been fixed by postponing the assignment of keys until all attributes have been read. (Note: this fix was already mentioned in V10.2.10. It was incorrect and has been redone.)
SR22582 - VIEWPORT SCALE: zero custom scale values should not be accepted for paper space viewports.
SR20652 - SDS: sds_entdel shouldn't erase viewports from non-active layouts.
SR22656 : there was a failure when "X" input (including the double quotes) was passed in from script or menu. The failure occurred for any string consisting of 1 character enclosed by double quotes, that is: 3 characters in total.
SR22718 - DCL: the dcl parser did not accept "vertical_margin=narrow". 'narrow' and 'wide' were added to the list of allowed values for the predefined attributes 'vertical_margin' and 'horizontal_margin'. The keywords 'none', 'tiny', 'narrow', 'wide' are now allowed. Mind that these keywords are simply ignored. They were added to our parser for backward compatibility.
SR22747 - LISP: right-shift operation (lsh xx -n) returned wrong result.
SR22750 - VIEWPORTS: a new modelspace viewport was invisible, if previously a polygonal or clipped viewport had been created.
SR22759 - BIGFONT: incorrect symbols from bigfont were displayed. The symbols were looked up in the font by their Unicode values while they were defined by according MBCS values. Regression since V10.2.0.
SR22762 - ATTDISP: command did not work in translated versions. The translated keywords for ON, OFF and NORMAL were not recognized.
SR22774 - WIPEOUT: 'LAST' and 'L' command options were not functional.
COM: IAcadUtility::AngleToString() failed to produce strings with 'd' instead of degree symbol (e.g. 45d0')
TaskDD1073 - LISP: creating a GROUP using 'entmake' did not add the required reactors to the grouped entities.

Version 10.2.10

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:35:00 UTC

Improved

SR22399 - LOAD time for xrefs containing circular dependencies was strongly improved.

Fixed

SR21771, SR22432, SR22518 - PRINT: failure to setup printer due to problem with missing paper size.
SR21809 - PEDIT: failed to set uniform width for vertices generated from lines or arcs.
SR21972 - DCL: if tab truncate was ON and a line contained more words than tabs, all excess words were removed. Instead, now a default tab length of 4 is used. The recognition of column labels in a list_box has been improved as follows: If a list_box has the attributes tab, tab_truncate and label, an attempt is made to split the label in column labels. If column labels are correctly recognized, the list_box widget will contain actual column labels, instead of a simple text widget above the list_box. To enable these actual column labels, put the column labels in the label attribute, separated by space characters. Insert additional spaces until the column labels are visually aligned above the columns. As soon as the added spaces sum up to match the tab stops, the column labels will be recognized. By allowing redundant spaces the column labels will remain correctly aligned in dcl implementations that always use a simple text widget. Before this change, the amount of column labels had to be exactly the same as the amount of tab stops specified in the attribute tabs. From now one extra label is allowed. Indeed, specifying n tab stops usually corresponds with n+1 columns. As a result, existing dcl code that "faked" column labels in the label attribute, can suddenly have "real" column labels.
SR22254, SR22549 - LASTPOINT system variable behavior was corrected. LASTPOINT is no longer reset to (0,0,0) when an entity or selection set is passed to a command using LISP, e.g. (entlast).
SR22445 - ZOOM: 'window' option gave inexact results in paper space viewports for certain values of SCREENSIZE, viewport size and view parameters.
SR22451 - LIMITS: the LIMITS command did not recognize the (hidden) _t option, as a result the "Drawing Limits" toolbutton on the Settings toolbar did not work.
SR22508 - LIST: a crash occurred when listing the properties of a block who's block table record had been erased.
SR22522 - DCL: incorrect warning "key is already assigned". If a component inherited the attribute "key" of a parent component, a warning was given if the key already existed, even if a new value for the key was specified in the derived component definition. This has been fixed by postponing the assignment of keys until all attributes have been read.
SR22543 - LOCALIZATION: the Japanese translation of "New View" caused a problem for the Drawing Explorer.
SR22555 - HATCH: the command line version of hatch, -hatch, failed to recognize the "solid" pattern if specified using lower case.
SR22583 - DIVIDE: a crash occurred when no entity or an invalid entity was selected to divide.
SR22633 - GROUP: the Description and XData assigned to a GROUP object, were not copied along to new (anonymous) groups.
SR22657 - DCL: spacer height values smaller than 1.5 (character units) were ignored. The minimum height of a spacer used to be the typical height of a button, which is about 1.5 times the height of a character. The minimum height was changed to zero and the default height was set to 1.5. The same change has been applied for the width of a spacer. This change affects existing spacers with a small size, most notably the predefined component "spacer_0" has changed.
SR22673 - UCS: when attaching an Xref using the Attach External Reference dialog, the current UCS was not taken into account for the position point and the rotation angle. The Attach Raster Image and Insert Block dialogs had the same problem.
SR22687 - VBA: the ListView and CommonDialog controls were missing from the form "frmAddDrawing" in the batch_plot_tool.dvb VBA sample code.

Version 10.2.9

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:35:00 UTC

Improved

SR22395 - ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSIONS: gracefully ignore invalid associations of associative dimension definitions.
SR22482 - PROPERTIES BAR: text from read-only fields can now be copied.

Fixed

SR21049, SR22437 - OLE: entities following a corrupted OLE2FRAME entity were not loaded from the drawing file.
PRINT: when a paper sheet had default landscape orientation (x size > y size) selecting the 'landscape' option in the print dialog resulted in printing in portrait and vice versa.
SR21463 - PRINT DIALOG: when elevation was not zero and viewpoint was not '0,0,1', the plot window area selection was incorrect.
SR21490 - PRINT DIALOG: when changing the printer's paper type and/or orientation in the print dialog, immediately followed by pressing the 'Print button', the new paper type and orientation were not used.
SR22213 - HATCH: hatch boundary detection failed for user-provided drawing.
SR22431 - REFEDIT: adding associative dimensions during a refedit session led to a crash.
SR22483 - LISP: (distof ".") did not return NIL.
SR22461 - LISP: mnl files were loaded in reverse order when opening a document.
SR22461 - BRX: statements separated by a space or newline, issued with sendStringToExecute, were executed in reverse order.
SR22540 - SNAP: a hangup during intersection snap occurred in a user-provided drawing.

Version 10.2.8

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:35:00 UTC

Fixed

SR21460 - COPYMODE: after using the COPY command, the COPYMODE variable was not always correctly reset.
SR21677 - PRINT: vertical polyline edge was removed due to incorrect optimization.
SR22332 - HATCH: if a hatch boundary contained part of a spline, the full length of the spline was stored in the boundary definition, while only the part actually used for the boundary should be stored.
SR22379 - LISP: during (command pause) or pause in menu strings, it was not possible to use a snap override or an XYZ filter. For (getdist) without startpoint it was not possible to enter two points. This was because the pause only waited for a single input.
SR22384 - SCRIPTS: in script mode, acedGetString(B) ignored the first argument.
LISP/SCRIPTS: (command "TEXT" ins sz ang) or (command "DTEXT" ins sz ang) should switch to interactive mode if no text content is provided by the (command) statement.
SETTINGS, category DIM_FORMAT: the "Fit" option could not be translated in Russian.

Version 10.2.7

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:35:00 UTC

Improved

SR21803 - HATCH: adding hatch entities to large drawings became much faster.

Fixed

SR21606, SR21634 - SOLIDEDIT:
- extrude along path did not work for faces.
- BODY/IMPRINT - curves were not selected for imprinting.
SR22199 - WBLOCK: the basepoint used to be set using world coordinates instead of user coordinates.
SR22306, SR22257 - DISPLAY: if an Mtext entity and the next drawn entity shared the same linetype, the next drawn entity was drawn using continuous linetype. This problem occurred as a side-effect of the fix applied for the linetype of underlined Mtext in V10.2.4.
HIDE: triangulation diagonals of coplanar faces became visible when switching off DISPSILH, they shouldn't.

Version 10.2.5

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:35:00 UTC

Fixed

INSTALLER: fixed crash during application startup when V10.2.3 was installed next to a V9 or V8 version.
FLATTEN: instead of an elliptical arc with equal start and end point, a projected circle now always becomes a regular ellipse.

Version 10.2.4

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:35:00 UTC

Fixed

SR21225 - LEADER: DIMSCALE should not be applied to the linetype of leader lines.
SR21373 - COPYCLIP/PASTECLIP: if one of the pasted entities had non-default lineweight, and lineweight display was active (LWDISPLAY = 1), then the entities were copied to a slightly larger Z-coordinate than their original location.
SR21608 - FLATTEN command: Block inserts and hatch entities are no longer exploded by default.
SR21926 - BRX - LISP: incorrect calculation of a parameter of a given point on a curve with big coordinates.
SR21962 - DIMANGULAR and DIMARC: creation failed on dashed polylines.
SR21984 - OPEN: a drawing could not be opened due to Xdata of an AcDbBlockReference object, defining a hatch, that could not be read.
SR21986 - VBA: menus and toolbars loaded via VBA were not available in subsequent Bricscad sessions.
SR22064 - FILLET/CHAMFER: temporarily reverted the support for shift-spacebar selection cycling because the current implementation interfered undesirably with the FILLET and CHAMFER commands.
SR22082 - BRX - LISP: (getpoint basePoint) did not set LASTPOINT to the basePoint, which caused snaps to be calculated incorrectly, i.e. starting from the previous value of LASTPOINT instead of the basePoint argument.
SR22090 - LISP: right-click did not end a (command pause) statement.
SR22114 - VIEWPORT: border of single viewport did not become invisible after command VPORTS/SINGLE.
SR22127 - ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSION: creation was broken in V10.2.3.
Draw Order toolbar behavior was broken in V10.2.3.
MTEXT: underlining was done using the linetype of the Mtext entity instead of the CONTINUOUS linetype.

Version 10.2.3

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:35:00 UTC

Improved

Major PERFORMANCE improvement in zooming to extents. This improvement also affects VIEWPOINT and PLAN changes and viewport operations in paperspace.
Major PERFORMANCE improvement in paperspace when zooming in on viewport content.
PERFORMANCE improvement when working with large xclipped xrefs.
COMMAND QUEUE was redesigned to offer more reliable and more compatible processing of scripts, Lisp (command) statements, Lisp (command pause) statements, and menu macros. This also allowed to improve the processing of input points, the management of entity snap settings and the support for jigging in the BXR API.
OpenGL DISPLAY: improved accuracy when displaying entities located at large coordinates.
3DCONVERT: new version of the 3DCONVERT command was added (old version had been removed in V9.3.)
CURSOR: crosshairs size is relative to windows screensize rather than VIEWSIZE of the drawing window.
HATCH dialog: is resizeable now.
Shift-Spacebar CYCLING over entities in selection preview.
STATUS BAR: coordinate read-out field now acts as a button allowing to switch between cartesian and polar mode.
STATUS BAR: MODEMACRO can now be evaluated on the status bar.
SR20504 - SLIDE LIBS: added support for syntax 'test_slide_library(slide_name).slb'.
SR21207 - Gradient HATCH: added possibility to copy hatch properties.
SR21263 - ICONS: added toolbar icons toolbar, toolbar_standard, toolbar_draw, toolbar_dimension, toolbar_modify, toolbar_properties, hatchedit, zoom_dynamic and zoom_scale.
SR21346 - eTRANSMIT: replaced "Cancel" by "Abort" in the Overwrite mode combobox of the Transmittal Settings dialog.
SR21392 - WIPEOUT: added support for grip editing of wipeout entities.
SR21555 - SECURITYOPTIONS: command was added to the File menu.
SR21699 - DISPLAY: fixed rotated display of entities (caused by drawing corruption).

Fixed

SR20471 - BRX: avoided non-unique names for anonymous entries in OdDbDictionary.
SR20754 - COM: switching plot style display on/off via COM did not affect the visualization.
SR20804 - BRX: fixed setting cursor in JIG, show 'normal' cursor, i.e. arrow, when a modal dialog box is active.
SR20882 - PAN: now 2dwireframe display mode is used during realtime-pan executed after a HIDE command.
SR20910 - ADS/SDS: fixed editor reactor events (lispWillStart, lispEnded, lispCancelled). For ADS/SDS defined functions, these events were fired twice, and lispCancelled was fired instead of lispEnded.
SR21030, SR21426 - COPY/PASTE:
- Remove unnecessary display of UCS icon and grid in pasted objects.
- The resulting pasted OLE object now uses the background color of the container instead of that of Bricscad.
- Quality of graphics deteriorated for Bricscad objects pasted to other applications, especially when zooming out before copying. TTF text representation quality varies in current implementation.
SR21139 - eTRANSMIT: prevented saving transmittal package to current drawing folder.
SR21207 - DISPLAY: gradient hatch display was not updated after changing a gradient parameter using the properties bar.
SR21244 - RASTER IMAGES: the Y-scale was not correctly applied for TFW geo-info.
SR21251 - AUDIT command hangup on drawing containing duplicate references.
SR21294 - HATCH dialog: the right side of the hatch dialog was not displayed on some systems.
SR21336 - MTEXT: defined height was incorrectly stored/saved to older dwg formats.
MTEXT: crash occurred when editing mtext with very large text content.
SR21340 - VIEWPORT: if "Display plot styles" was active for a layout, the border of the active viewport was not displayed bold.
SR21392 - TRIM: extending line segments, intersecting in T-shape, could fail.
SR21408 - LISP: (entmod) failed with entities, when PROXY data (groupcode 310) were included in (entget) list, i.e. with images.
SR21516 - SNAP: "FROM" mode did not take in account entity snapping.
SR21529 - PYRAMID/EDGE: eliminated redundant line during creation of pyramid.
SR21530 - PYRAMID: it was not possible to create upside-down pyramids.
SR21531 - PYRAMID: if base was not lying on XY plane, dynamic display during creation was wrong.
SR21532 - CONE, CYLINDER and WEDGE commands: it was not possible to specify a negative height using the mouse.
SR21540, SR21541 - CONE, CYLINDER, BOX: using the mouse, height could not be entered accurately.
SR21569 - LISP: (textbox) for an empty text or attribute should return '((0 0 0) (0 0 0)), instead of returning 'nil' nil. An empty MTEXT should return 'nil'.
SR21585 - BOX: if first corner or center were not lying on XY plane, dynamic display during creation was wrong.
SR21586 - SLICE: redundant 3DSOLID silhouette lines could remain after SLICE command.
SR21625 - LISP - BRX: unnecessary exceptions are no longer fired from transaction and Undo related code, these could break Lisp/ADS/ARX based applications.
SR21635 - DISPLAY: circular edges were displayed incorrectly after operations like SOLIDEDIT/BODY/SHELL.
SR21665 - BRX: jigging now supports input of direct distance.
SR21725 - INSUNITS: were incorrectly applied in localized (translated) versions.
SR21747 - SAVE: failed due problem when processing an AnnotationScale object.
SR21752 - LISP: (vlax-add-cmd) and (vlax-remove-cmd) were not fully functional.
SR21762 - TIME: the day of the week and the month name could not be translated in localized versions.
SR21770 - UNICODE: if the path to a ECW geocode info file contained unicode characters, the file could not be found.
SR21776 - COM: 1. ambiguous 'Application' keyword led to compilation problems in VBA projects. 2. All enum types are now visible in the global namespace.
SR21812 - APERTURE: don't show aperture pickbox if flyoversnap is off, i.e. if OSMODE = 0 or > 16383.
SR21867 - LISP: (boundp) failed for local variables, nil was returned, regardless.
SR21869 - HATCH patterns all were displayed using Continuous linetype instead of using the actual linetype (regression since memory footprint reduction in V10.1.4).
SR21923 - DCL: in a dcl list_box, automatically added column-headers were not empty but named according to the series "A,B,C...".
SR21938 - DISPLAY: in Shademode Hidden view, if WHIPARC was enabled, arc edges of 3D solids were not displayed.
SR21938, SR21990 - HIDDEN LINE printing: edges of 3D solids partially were missing.
SR22006 - AREA calculation of polylines was incorrect for areas larger than 1.000.000.000 units, due a comparison tolerance issue (regression since V9.3).
EXPLODE: lacked support for ordinate dimensions.
SELECTIONPREVIEW: was not working for groups.
DISPLAY: background rendering of dynamic manual multicolumn mtext was corrected.
LISP: reversed arguments were passed to the CVUNIT calculator.
Drawing Explorer: the previous state (dialog layout) of the Explorer was not correctly restored (regression since V9.3).
TaskDD1151, TaskDD258 - BRX: 'OdEdCommandStackReactor::commandCancelled()' and 'OdEdInputContextReactor::endXXX()' notifications were not sent upon cancelling a command when the command had been invoked by 'sds_cmd()/sds_command()/(command)'.
TaskDD892, TaskDD1144 - BRX:
- points entered by mouse click, keyboard input or scripts were sent to point monitors and filters before applying built-in filters like cartesian snap, ortho, limits check and .xyz filter (cursor movement points did not have this problem).
- implemented support of OdEd::eOrtho flag.

Version 10.1.11

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:35:00 UTC

Improved

SR21449 - SECURITYOPTIONS: implemented extra error handling and improved notification via prompts.
SR21522 - PC3: rephrased error message for unsupported pc3 files.

Fixed

SR21022 - STRETCH: viewport center was not updated upon viewport grip-stretch.
SR21233 - Drawing Explorer: when multiple rows were selected, and a single field was clicked and edited, then upon pressing Enter to confirm the edit, all previously selected rows were selected again. This was confusing, only the edited row will remain selected now.
SR21266 - ENTITY PROPERTIES: the first time the Layer combo opened, the current layer was not scrolled into view.
SR21309 - PERFORMANCE: automatic purge of anonymous blocks upon opening a drawing has been disabled because of the severe performance cost involved. Automatic purging of xref files is maintained.
SR21336 - MTEXT: fixed reading of Mtext heights which led to wrong mtext display. Also fixed a crash when editing huge mtexts.
SR21340 - VIEWPORT: frame of active viewport was not displayed with a bold line if a plot style was applied.
SR21408 - LISP: (entmod) failed when PROXY data (groupcode 310) was included in the (entget) list, e.g. with images.
SR21437 - STRETCH: fixed crash when stretching entities associated with an associative dimension.
SR21442 - SNAP: circles with normal direction (0,0,-1) did not have QUADrant snapping points.
SR21451, SR21494 - COM: automatically replace the references to old versions of app/db type libraries inside a VBA project by the references to the current VBA host.
SR21487 - SPLINES: crash could occur when using closed splines with control points at large coordinates.
SR21494 - COM: GUIDs and paths to the BricscadApp and BricscadDb type libraries have been updated in order to allow differentiation with the V9 type libs.
SR21498 - LOCALIZATION: controls with fixed width in 'eTransmit' and 'Drawing Properties' dialogs were too small to accommodate translated text.
SR21513 - Drawing Explorer: the case of a Drawing Explorer item's name could not be changed, e.g. it was not possible to rename layer "first floor" to "First Floor".
SR21522 - PRINT: error message when selecting a plotter configuration file in the Print dialog was not constructed correctly. The part which explains the kind of error was missing.
SR21544 - BRX: it was not possible to cancel AcEditorReactor::beginDeepCloneXlation().
SR21552 - LISP: (grvecs vectors matrix) failed because matrix was not processed.
SR21554 - HATCH: there was a failure to find a boundary enclosed by a very narrow triangular polyline.
SR21560 - HATCH: there was a failure to find a boundary enclosed by two concentric arcs (section of a half-pipe)
TaskDD881 - SHX fonts: scaling control codes 3 and 4 were not handled correctly, especially in case they were not paired within a single shape, which led to wrong (huge) character sizes, in turn leading to hang-up.
Migration tool : finding the installation folder of a previous version was broken (incorrect registry key was used).
WEDGE: temporary graphics were not removed from screen when cancelling the command.
Crash occurred on application close after using wrong command line arguments. Example command line: "bricscad.exe unexisting_drawing_file_name.dwg".
TaskDD1251 - MTEXT: when editing large texts, the editor was not redrawn after panning.
SR21133 : SR21500 instability and display problems with 3DSolid entities.
SR21721 : Drawing with splines hangs on open.

Version 10.1.10

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:35:00 UTC

Improved

WHIPARC is switched on by default now (controls smooth display of arcs).

Fixed

SR21255: compatibility of the BRX function acedIsDragging() was improved.
SR21271 and SR20619 - TABLET: when a DCL dialog was called via tablet menu, the command was repeated over and over.
SR21307 - Fields in Mtext could not be edited using an external editor.
SR21322 - GRIP EDIT: grip editing of periodic splines worked incorrectly.
SR21322 - GRIP EDIT: fixed moving of spline grip points.
SR21347 - eTRANSMIT: file names containing special Czech characters could not be handled.
SR21374 - GRIP EDIT: perpendicular esnap not working correctly.
TaskDD881 - TEXT: text characters represented as '\U+nnnn' were not displayed, even if character 'nnnn' existed in the corresponding big font.
OFFSET: if the result of offsetting is a closed NURB curve and start/end tangent directions of the curve are the same, the curve should be periodic.

Version 10.1.9

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:35:00 UTC

Improved

Added new icons and menu entries for Dimarc, Gradient and Fields.

Fixed

LOCALIZATION: field names could not be localized.
SR21411 - ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSIONS: a crash occurred when copying a malformed associative dimension snapped to an intersection.

Version 10.1.8

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:35:00 UTC

New Features

SR20752 - DIMDISASSOCIATE command was added. It allows to break the associativity of dimensions.
SR20899 - 'LastTemplate' environment variable was added. It holds the name of the last used template file.

Improved

SNAP TRACKING: Direct Distance Entering can now use a point, acquired by Snap Tracking, as reference.
SR21025 - DCL feature: navigation by character is now supported in list boxes: if a character is typed, the first row starting with that character is selected. If multiple rows start with the same characters, typing the character continuously will cycle through those rows.
eTRANSMIT: drawings are purged now before the transmittal operation and in the transmittal report a list of files that were not copied is added.
SR21165 - STRETCH: added support for stretching the seed points of a hatch, thus improving the hatch recalculation result for associative boundaries.
SR21195 - MENU: added 'Dependencies...' to the Settings menu.

Fixed

SR20707 - RASTER IMAGE: when IMAGEFRAME was Off, the extents of rotated images were incorrectly set, resulting in the images not being displayed.
SR20753 - EXPLODE of non-uniformly scaled blocks with draworder malfunctioned: draworder was not applied and the block reference was not deleted.
SR20757 - XREF BIND did not work for xrefs that were in a layout that had not yet been activated during the drawing session.
SR20873 - COM: fixed Hebrew prompts in Visual Basic 'RunCommand' method.
SR20891 - SDS: application behaviour became unstable after using sds_ssetfirst().
SR21000 - LISP: an out-of-bounds array access in (vl-sort) caused a crash of the Lisp engine.
SR21086 - BRX: intersection of very long lines failed when using acdbInters().
SR21123 - LISP: entities on locked layers were not filtered out when a selection set was passed as a LISP variable, and the passed selection set was modified.
SR21126 - STRETCH: when an associative hatch was stretched, and its stretch point was inside the selected region, and not all of its boundary entities were either stretched or translated, the hatch associativity was broken because of conflicts between the new hatch definition calculated from the modified boundary and the hatch definition calculated from the modified hatch.
SR21201, SR21262 - PAN BUFFER: after pan operations, remnants of the UCS icon could be left behind on the screen.
SR21264 - GRIP EDIT: corrected command prompt strings.
SR21292 - OFFSET: display more informative error message when input curve is not planar.
SR21312, SR21313 - TEXT command: while entering characters, the text was no longer visible in the drawing view (regression since V10.1.1).
SR21325 - XREF: a crash occurred when reloading a user-provided xref file.
SR21344 - eTRANSMIT: report was displayed incorrectly in Notepad (CR and LF characters were displayed as rectangles).
DBMOD: after real-time view operations, flag 1 (object database modified) of the DBMOD system variable erronously was set, instead of flag 4 (view modified).
SNAP: when the X-coordinate of a point was equal to the current elevation, its Z-coordinate was not adjusted according to the current elevation (regression since 9.0.1).
GRIP EDIT: fixed behavior in case several grips were coincident.
GRIP EDIT: the 'hot' (red) grip marker was erased by the SelectionPreview drawing mechanism.
OFFSET: offset of closed spline was not closed due to tolerance applied when offsetting splines.

Version 10.1.7

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:35:00 UTC

Fixed

SR20832 - SHELL: to ensure the user has sufficient rights to create a temporary file, the temporary file for the shell command is now created in the user's TEMP folder.
SR21130 - GRIP edit operations did not correctly reset the CMDNAMES variable.
SR21194 - GRIP_STRETCH of the last vertex of a non-closed polyline failed.
SR21196 , SR19567 SR18049 - CMDECHO: when cmdecho is off, no commandline prompts should be displayed when scripts use command FILLET, LAYER or DIMSTYLE.
SR21228 - OFFSET: failed for polylines that contain only 2 vertices.
CLASSIC version: Acis entities were not-selectable in the Bricscad Classic version, while they should only be not-modifiable.

Version 10.1.5

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:20:00 UTC

Fixed

SR21022 - LOCKED VIEWPORT: viewport scale was changed on stretching a locked viewport.
SR21124 - PYRAMID, TORUS: current layer and color were not used on creation.
SR21167, SR21187 - HATCH: hatch patterns in scaled inserts were not scaled.
TaskDD1036 - GRIPEDIT: if during grip edit the ORTHO setting was toggled, a crash occurred when grips editing finished.

Version 9.3.14

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:00:00 UTC

Fixed

SR19728, SR20974 - SAVE AS: 1. When a read-only file was saved with "save as", using a new name, this new file was also 'read-only', it should not. 2. The read-only flag was not removed in the automatic save files (SV$) either, as a result only the first automatic save succeeded.
SR20598, SR20631 - XREF VISRETAIN: changes were not properly applied from the host drawing for nested xrefs.
SR20652 - MSPACE: after creating a new viewport, switching into modelspace (_mspace command) now switches into the newly created viewport.
SR20683 - MTEXT: mtext created by an external editor should normally be in UTF8 format, but the program now also accepts ASCII text from an external editor.
SR20702 - Error message appeared on opening a drawing with images if their path name contained certain unicode characters.
SR20739 - FILLET failed for circular arc entities located far away from the origin.
SR20764 - EXPLODE: failed for REGIONs with boundaries containing circular arcs.
SR20771 - SOLIDEDIT: option /Face/Delete was broken.
SR20774 - UCS: regression since switching to new SPA-modeler. REVOLVE, SOLIDEDIT\FACE\MOVE|ROTATE|TAPER|COPY, SOLIDEDIT\EDGE\COPY were corrected to properly work in UCS.
SR20861 - DCL: when the content of a dcl text component is dynamically filled with a string that is too wide to fit, it "pushes aside" the components beside it. A dcl text component consists of an outer panel and an inner text widget. To fix a previous support request (SR19189), the width of the outer panel was manipulated to fit the dynamic content. However, this messes up the layouting. This has now been fixed by always expanding the panel width over the available width when layouting. That way, the panel no longer needs to get wider dynamically.
SR20960 - SOLIDEDIT: a crash occurred during operations on faces of the union of a CONE and a BOX.
MODELING: implemented license limitations. If license doesn't allow editing ACIS entities, then these entities will not be selected, to avoid modifications. Viewing ACIS entities is not subject to licensing limitations.
MODELING: fixed wrong display of 3d-solids after modifying a 3d-solid by one of the following commands: FILLET, CHAMFER, SOLIDEDIT/FACE/REMOVE|TAPER|ROTATE|MOVE.
MENU: fixed menu command for drawing circle by 2 tangents and radius.

Version 10.1.4

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:00:00 UTC

New Features

PAN: flicker-free fast view panning.
PDF export now can take plot style tables into account.
MrSID format raster image files are supported now. LizardTech's MrSID is one of the leading geospatial imagery formats.
GRADIENT command (and dialog) for creation of gradient hatches. Properties bar was extended to display gradient parameters and allow their modification.
FIELD command (and dialog) supporting a wide range of FIELD variables that can be used in Mtexts.
UPDATEFIELD command to force explicit update of field variables. New system variable FIELDEVAL.
SELECTIONPREVIEW and PREVIEWFILTER: highlighting of entity that will be selected if the user clicks at the current cursor location. PREVIEWEFFECT=2 (Dashed+Bold mode) is not yet supported.
MTEXT editor now supports fields. Further, the editor has a new button to convert text to uppercase/lowercase.
CYCLING through entities or subentities during selection. To start cycling move the mouse so the pickbox covers multiple entities, then press any Shift + Space and click on entities with the left mouse button. To cycle through the entities just click at any point in the drawing area; the current entity is highlighted on each iteration. To stop cycling press Esc, or Space, or Enter. The last highlighted entity becomes selected in the currently executed selection operation. Picking is possible during a command as well as in idle mode, if CTRLMOUSE is off.
HOT GRIPS: with SHIFT + mouseclick multiple grips can be made hot, in preparation of GRIPEDIT. New settings GRIPHOT and GRIPHOVER were added.
GRIPEDIT: use the context menu or the commandline to cycle through the various grip editing commands STRETCH, SCALE, MOVE, MIRROR, ROTATE.
New BLOCK Creation dialog with new options to control the Insert Unit and the Allow Explode properties of blocks.
New Write BLOCK (WBLOCK) dialog, including option to control the Insert Unit.
ETRANSMIT: lists dependencies of a drawing and allows to package and mail the drawing along with user-selected dependent files. Alternatively, the drawing and the selected dependent files can be uploaded to a Vondle project using eBridge.
- Dwg version of drawings optionally can be changed during transmittal operation.
- Xref paths and paths to image files can be updated to match the actual folder structure.
- Following folder structure options are supported:
  - Organized folder structure
  - Place all files in one folder
  - Keep files and folders as is
FROM snap option: allows to snap to a user-defined offset from a user-selected point.
PASTEORIG command to paste entities at their original location.
DIMARC command allows creation of newly supported entity type Arc Length dimension.
ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSIONS: added support for intersection, apparent intersection and perpendicular snap points.
SECURITYOPTIONS command (and dialog) to set/remove passwords on drawings.
POLAR SNAP: added alignment paths parallel to the Z-axis.

Improved

Performance:
- MEMORY used to process TrueType font text has been reduced up to a factor twenty.
- REDRAW and REGEN performance for TrueType font text considerably improved.
- SELECTION of polylines became (very) much faster, especially for polylines with many vertices.
- SNAP to splines became (very) much faster, especially for splines with many control points/knots.
- SNAP to polylines contained in blocks, when draworder is used, became much faster.
- MEMORY used to display hatches was strongly reduced, REGEN of hatch entities became up to 5 times faster.
- EXTENT calculation performance was improved (e.g. during Zoom Extents).
COLOR PICKER DIALOG: when clicking in the rainbow color field (hue/saturation map), while luminosity is either at 0 or 100%, luminosity is reset to 50%, otherwise, the color preview swatch did not show the picked color and remained black or white.
SR18503 - SPLINES: added Length property in the propertiesbar for spline entities. Added spline Length, Area and Parametric Range to the LIST command output.
SR20852 - BLOCK: the Tools menu now launches the BLOCK command instead of -BLOCK.
EXTRUDE: improved command option compatibility.
ADDINS: the external command registration from VB addins was redesigned so registered commands are now available in all documents. The 'C:' prefix is no longer required.
Removed setting AlwaysUseCrosshair. The pickbox with arrow inside (corresponding to AlwaysUseCrosshair off) is no longer supported. Pickbox with crosshairs is only shown when idle now. During entity selection the crosshairs are now omitted.
SR20196 - The state of the Drawing Explorer's 'Regen On/Off ' button is now stored in the registry and is restored each time the Explorer opens (also between program sessions).
SR20276 - MENU: added PASTEORIG and PASTEBLOCK to the context menu and the pulldown edit menu.
SR20965 - DIMSCALE: implemented dynamic dimension viewport scaling, when DIMSCALE = 0 and creating a dimension or updating a dimensions dimstyle with '-DIMSTYLE APPLY' inside a viewport.
SR21052 - MTEXT Editor: is closed when Ctrl-Enter is hit (editor content is saved).
SR21052 - MTEXT Editor: added the possibility to set the bold/italic attribute of selected text even when the current font is the default ( = set through the text style, not set explicitly). In such case, the font setting for the selected text is now automatically changed to the appropriate explicit font.
COM: 'preserveSubdirs' and 'organizedFolder' properties were added to the ITransmittalInfo interface.

Fixed

XREFS: relative paths to nested xrefs should be resolved in the context of their direct parent, not the top parent drawing.
PROPERTIES BAR: when a UCS was active, vector properties such as 'delta' for line, 'normal' for arc and circle and 'axis' for ellipse were displayed incorrectly.
PROPERTIES BAR: "Fit/Smooth" option for 2d polylines did not work and could make next polyline operations fail. Enabled "Fit/Smooth" option for 3d polylines.
MTEXT: editor zoomed to wrong area of the drawing if edited mtext had non-default justification.
SPELL CHECK: dialog crashed when no dictionaries were found.
SNAP: fixes were applied for nearest and apparent intersection snapping to ellipses.
MODELING: Acis objects were not visible when using a Classic license.
FILLET: fixed filleting of an arc with a spline.
OFFSET: crash could occur when offsetting a spline-fit polyline.
REGION command failed for selections with multiple loops.
SR13213, SR19205 - COMMAND LINE: keyboard focus on the command line was lost after clicking on a floating toolbar title.
SR13777 - ADS/SDS: running C: commands defined by ADS/SDS now correctly triggers the "lispWillStart/lispEnded/lispCancelled" events; also, the CMDACTIVE system variable has bit 5 (32) set in this case ("Lisp is running").
SR16681 - MLEADER: moving and copying of MLeader entities failed in user-provided drawing.
SR16989 - XREF: a reference file containing a corrupted AnnotationScale entity failed to load.
SR17438 - SNAP TRACK: when using the right mouse button as ENTER, combined with direct distance entering, the snap point was off the track. The problem did not occur when using the keyboard to ENTER.
SR18049 - LISP: Fillet command should not print informative messages when run from LISP while CMDECHO = 0.
SR18461 - FILLET: tolerance for filleting non-planar linear entities was increased.
SR18461, SR18618, SR18640, SR19849, SR20741, SR20742 - OFFSET: miscellaneous corrections for offset implementation.
SR18528 - COM: AcadSecurityParams and AcadLayerStateManager objects should be accessible via 'GetInterfaceObject()'
SR19303 - The Z-coordinate of the end point (erroneously) was not the same as the Z-coordinate of the start point, when drawing a line/xline/ray by picking points on the screen, in case the Z-coordinate of the start point was not equal to 0 and ORTHOMODE was ON.
SR19306 - LINEWEIGHT: shapes in complex linetypes were displayed without taking lineweight into account.
SR19490 - DISPLAY: content of paper space viewport disappeared after dynamic zoom in/out, if tracking point had been set.
SR19836 - MText editor: wrong caret positions with Asian text.
SR19945 - ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSIONS: a crash could occur when deleting a layer that contained entities with associative dimensions attached to them.
SR20022 - FILLET: case of polyline that disappeared after filleting.
SR20100 - BRX: when inserting a block, attributes end up in the wrong location.
SR20288 - DCL: display of a border around a dcl list_box
SR20347 - DIMENSION text: incorrect update of manually placed text of an associative dimension in paper space when resizing, zooming or moving a viewport.
SR20351 - TABLET: tabletmenus can now be added in additional partial cui files: they will override tabletmenus that were already there (in previous partial file or in main cui file).
SR20492 - BRX: intermediate commandline output was not suppressed when calling LISP from sds_invoke().
SR20501 - SAVEFILE and SAVENAME system variables behavior was corrected:
- SAVENAME must be empty on new or opened documents that have not been saved in the current session
- SAVENAME must not be changed by the autosave of a document
- SAVEFILE must be empty after the regular save of a document
- SAVENAME and SAVEFILE must be updated before any client reactor receives 'saveComplete' event notification
SR20543 - BRX: fixed improper handling of functionCode in sds_getfuncode() / acedGetFunCode()
SR20554 - BRX: crash when erasing an MTEXT associated with a LEADER in a temporary database.
SR20556 - FILLET: entities disappeared on fillet.
SR20568 - HATCH: fixed issue with wrong hatch angle setting by -HATCH command when ANGBASE was not 0.
SR20598, SR20631 - VISRETAIN was ignored on reopening drawings. Xref changes were not properly applied from the host drawing for nested xrefs.
SR20605 - DCL parse issue: a carriage return (CR, ascii 13) not followed by a linefeed (LF, ascii 10) caused the dcl parser to fail. CR+LF, single LF, single CR are now all treated as valid line endings.
SR20608 - CURSOR: crosshair size was not constant.
SR20612 - BRX: pressing Shift does not reverse ORTHOMODE in OdEdJig.
SR20615 - DCL: Setting a fixed-width font on a dcl list_box did not work.
SR20617 - OLE: errors occurred with OLE objects containing macros: 1) unwanted messages about macros on just open a drawing, 2) failure on open object for edit.
SR20629 - LISP: crash on executing (command "CLOSE") and potential problems with reactors and undo stack if the current document is changed during lisp execution.
SR20638 - CMDACTIVE variable was mistakenly set to 1 during NEW, QNEW, OPEN.
SR20643 - FILLET and CHAMFER: linetype scale, line weight and thickness were not inherited.
SR20651, SR20723 - COPY/PASTE: failed due to drawing file corruptions. Audit was enhanced and can now repair these drawing corruptions.
SR20652 - MSPACE: after creating a new viewport in a layout, MSPACE did not switch into newly created viewport.
SR20676 - LISP: (arxunload) failed when filetype ".brx" was omitted.
SR20679 - Crash occurred if no 3DSOLID entity was selected during command SOLIDEDIT/BODY/(IMPRINT,SEPARATE,SHELL,CLEAN,CHECK).
SR20683 - MTEXT: mtext created by an external editor should normally be in UTF8 format, but the program now also accepts ASCII text from an external editor.
SR20697 - DCL: A list_box without height attribute did have a near-zero height. Fixed by setting a character height of 10 when no height attribute has been specified.
SR20702 - UNICODE: error message appeared on opening a drawing containing images with path names that contained certain unicode characters.
SR20705 - OFFSET: an offset towards the inside of adjacent arc segments at an angle of nearly 180 degrees failed. Also fixed a failure when trying to offset arcs with an offset distance equal to the arc radius.
SR20709 - DCL: crash occurred when cancelling a DCL dialog.
SR20709 - LISP: incompatibility between error handling of Lisp engine and Bricscad application caused stability problem.
SR20730 - Faulty logfiles in non-western codepages.
SR20735 - TRIM: thickness was lost when trimming lines and circles.
SR20735 - OFFSET: thickness of curve was not inherited by the offset curve.
SR20739 - FILLET failed for circular arc entities located far away from the origin.
SR20764 - EXPLODE: failed for REGIONs with boundaries containing circular arcs.
SR20771 - SOLIDEDIT: option /Face/Delete was broken.
SR20774 - UCS: regression since switching to new SPA-modeler. REVOLVE, SOLIDEDIT\FACE\MOVE|ROTATE|TAPER|COPY, SOLIDEDIT\EDGE\COPY were corrected to properly work in UCS.
SR20813 - SNAP: crash occurred during flyover-snap in user-provided drawing.
SR20819 - IMAGES: rendering of images failed when strongly zoomed out (i.e. when the images should be displayed very small).
SR20827 - ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSIONS: improved tolerance for associative dimensions containing invalid data.
SR20837 - DCL: a list_box without an explicit width attribute was not displayed.
SR20851 - WIPEOUT: fixed crash on empty input, implemented support for 2d polyline.
SR20858 - OFFSET: fixed problem which triggered the error message "An error occured while offsetting."
SR20861 - DCL: when the content of a dcl text component is dynamically filled with a string that is too wide to fit, it "pushes aside" the components beside it. A dcl text component consists of an outer panel and an inner text widget. To fix a previous support request (SR19189), the width of the outer panel was manipulated to fit the dynamic content. However, this messes up the layouting. This has now been fixed by always expanding the panel width over the available width when layouting. That way, the panel no longer needs to get wider dynamically.
SR20869 - OFFSET: a fillet was applied to angle edges while the edges should have been extended instead.
SR20870 - OFFSET: width of polyline was not inherited by the offset polyline.
SR20871 - CURSOR: when switching between layouts and moving the cursor to the drawing area, there was an active cursor displayed on screen and half of a cursor in the lower part of drawing area.
SR20877 - SNAP: snap points were incorrectly calculated during grip edit.
SR20892 - CIRCLE: fixed drawing circle by 3 tangents to lines in ucs.
SR20915 - COM: fixed IAcadMenuGroups.Load() method.
SR20930 - PRINT: when selecting 'Previous Plot' in 'Use plot settings from' combo not all dialog controls were reinitialized.
SR20960 - SOLIDEDIT: a crash occurred during operations on faces of the union of a CONE and a BOX.
SR20974, SR19728 - READ-ONLY: When a read-only file was saved using "save as", the new file remained read-only, while it shouldn't. The read-only flag was not removed for the automatic save files (SV$) either, as a result only the first automatic save succeeded.
SR21092 - MTEXT Editor: crash occurred on mtext containing spaces past the word wrap limit.

Important Notes

When migrating settings from Bricscad V9 to Bricscad V10, following settings will not be migrated but will get default values, because of a change in registry format:
- HPGAPTOL
- LWDISPSCALE
- POLARANG
- POLARDIST
- WNDPMAIN (position of the Bricscad main window)
- WNDSMAIN (size of the Bricscad main window)
- WNDPTEXT (position of the prompt history window)
- WNDSTEXT (size of the prompt history window)
V10 uses a different registry structure in the Local Machine section. The minor version numbers (e.g. 9.1, 9.2, 9.3) are replaced by the language. So, the current language of Bricscad can be found in:
HKLM\Software\Bricsys\Bricscad\V10, value "CURVER"
Say CURVER is "en_US", then the Fullversion and InstallDir values can be found in:
HKLM\Software\Bricsys\Bricscad\V10\en_US.
COM: the V10 COM typelib version number was increased from 2.6 (which was an ODA version number) to 10.0. This implies that COM applications built on V9 or prior need to be recompiled using V10 in order to run on V10.

Please use the Support Request pages at www.bricsys.com to report problems.

Version 9.3.13

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:00:00 UTC

Improved

SR20457 - OFFSET: improved offsetting of polylines containing many vertices.
SR20267 - INSTALLATION: if ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX and LOCALROOTPREFIX are set, but pointing to non-existing or empty folders, then all folders required are created and files are copied from userdatacache to local folders.

Fixed

SR19846 - TRIM: trim or extend failed for two almost intersecting line segments in a T-shape.
SR20292, SR20403 - TRIM: fixed trimming of non-planar 3d polylines.
SR20196 - REFEDIT: wrong undo data was saved when REFEDIT started.
SR20196 - ATTACH: when the 'Relative path' option was chosen in the Attach External Reference dialog, only the paths of any xrefs nested in the attached xref were relative, the path of the attached xref itself was absolute while it should have been relative too.
SR20437 - MASSPROP: mass properties were no longer available since switching to the new SPA modeler in V9.3.9.
SR20493, SR20458 MIRROR: Acis entities were no longer correctly transformed by MIRROR, 3DMIRROR commands since switching to the new SPA modeler in V9.3.9.
Memory leak introduced when switching to the SPA modeler has been fixed.
Memory leak introduced during work on display performance of blocks has been fixed.
SR20438 - ARX/BRX: object snap overrides did not work in jig mode.
Localization - PLOT command prompt initget strings: the localized part before the pipe needs to be displayed, not the part after the pipe.

Version 9.3.12

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:00:00 UTC

Version 9.3.12 fixes a localization problem in non English versions. The English version is the same as 9.3.11.

Fixed

Plot command in non English versions: the keywords in the command prompts were not translatable.

Version 9.3.11

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:08:00 UTC

New

SR20329 - DISPSILH: Enabled displaying of silhouettes in HIDE and SHADE commands.
SR20262 - LISP: added (vl-enable-user-cancel t/nil) to enable/disable ESCAPE during Lisp processing.
SR20414 - LISP: added (vl-list-loaded-lisp) : returns the list of loaded Lisp files
LISP: added (vlr-document ).

Improved

SR20452 - INSERT dialog: 'Units' and 'Units Factor' fields did not look as read-only fields.

Fixed

ELLIPSE command: ISOCIRCLE option should not prompt for angles.
SR19969 - PRINT: when calling Preview from Print dialog, closing Preview, switching to another layout and opening the Print dialog again, the settings in the Print dialog were wrong (copied from previous layout).
SR20288 - DCL: when using tabs in a dcl list box, words were always truncated at tab length. Fixing this required re-implementing list_box with a wxGrid instead of a wxListCtrl.
SR20349, SR20357 - OFFSET: fixes were applied for offsetting spline fitted polylines.
SR20382 - INSERT: insertion of empty blocks was not possible.
SR20400 - MIRROR and ARRAY commands were disabled in Paper Space.
SR20411 - CHAMFER: crash occurred when chamfering a line with an arc.
SR20420 - PRINT: when changing Paper Size in the Print dialog, the Plot Scale was not updated accordingly when Fit To Page was set.
SR20424 - Plot Style Editor: crashed at startup after modifying registry access in V9.3.
SR20442 - ERRNO: applications had no possibility to modify ERRNO.
SR20444 - FLATTEN: flattened curves don't keep their original entity layer.
SR20446 - SELECTION: selected triangulated surfaces (highlighted and gripped) were incorrectly displayed in shaded modes.
SR20462 - LISP: a regression since V9.3 caused the popular Spanner application to fail at load time.
SR20422 - if GRIP edit is cancelled "CommandCancelled" event is fired now instead of "CommandEnded".
TaskDD833, SR20453 - INSUNITSDEFSOURCE and INSUNITSDEFTARGET variables are now taken into account if insertion units are undefined.
SR20470: invoking undo begin/end commands from lisp did not work(regression).
Gouraud shade was the same as flat shade.
Selection did not work on triangulated surfaces in Gouraud/flat mode wihout edges.
SR20446 - incorrect visualization of selected triangulated surfaces (highlighting and grips) in shaded modes
SR19619 - OutOfMemory exception when printing an image raster on big paper with high resolution.
SR20382 - it should be possible to insert empty blocks.
SR20408 - splinefitting an open polyline failed if start and endpoint would coincide.
SR20485 - crash when snapping to splines in nearest snap mode.

Version 9.3.10

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:08:00 UTC

New

RECTANGLE command: added AREA and DIMENSIONS options which allow to predefine Length/Width/Area of rectangular polylines.

Improved

Added COPYBASE to the right-click context menu.
Improved print job naming: removed "Printing " prefix and ".dwg" suffix and added layout name suffix instead. Example: "MyDrawing Layout3" instead of "Printing MyDrawing.dwg". When printing to a PDF printer, the suggested file name becomes "MyDrawing Layout3.pdf".
SR20178 - PROMPTMENU: became a system variable again, instead of a preference, to allow get/set from Lisp.

Fixed

TRIM of polylines by themselves was broken, and not revealed by unit tests. Fix was applied and tests were corrected.
SR20196 - TRIM: fixed trim failure documented by user.
SR20346 - MODELER: scaled Acis objects were drawn incorrectly.
SR20357 - MODELER: allow processing of curved polylines and polylines containing duplicate vertices. In the drawing provided by the user, this prevented EXTRUDE to handle a spline fitted polyline.
SR20357 - Spline fitted polylines: due to an incorrect conversion, DIVIDE, MEASURE and OFFSET malfunctioned for this entity type.
CHAMFER: failed between line and polyline in case the intersection point of the chamfered segments was located outside of the area visible in the viewport.
SR20352 - SRCHPATH: UNC path syntax (\\server\path\file) could not be used for the SRCHPATH folders.
SR20317 - HATCH: Inherit properties did not work for User Defined hatches.
ACISOUTVER can now be set using the Settings dialog (was read-only).
Intersection of extremely long lines could fail.
Grips were not displayed in perspective views. This regression was introduced during work on SR19795.
TaskDD283 - TABLET: switching TABMODE system variable on/off (on cmdline or with F4) did not work properly. Tablet button in statusbar issued a transparent command (TABLET command cannot be used transparently).
SR18528 - COM: AcadLayerStateManager object was not available.
SR20359 - COM: Fixed uppercase/lowercase errors in the BricscadApp type library: IAcadMenuGroup::Gettype is now IAcadMenuGroup::GetType, IAcadPopupMenuItem::Gettype is now IAcadPopupMenuItem::GetType and IAcadToolbarItem::Gettype is IAcadToolbarItem::GetType. Property ITransmittalFile::type was renamed to ITransmittalFile::FileType.
SR20355 - LISP: CONVERTPSTYLES command triggered a message box when called from a Lisp (command) or a script.

Version 9.3.9

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:24:00 UTC

New

GEOMETRY Library: Bricscad V9.3 is a milestone release, the first version to use the new geometry library we developed over the last 2 years. We planned to reserve its introduction for the upcoming V10, but decided to already offer our users its benefits in this pre-V10 update. Although we are still fine-tuning the library, you will notice that a.o. it helped hatch boundary detection, offset and trim commands to tremendously improve their capabilities.
OFFSET command code and underlying algorithm have been rewritten from scratch. The OFFSETGAPTYPE setting is supported now. It determines how possible gaps in parallel copies are filled: chamfered, filleted or by extending the adjacent line segments. The PARALLEL command was renamed to OFFSET.
TRIM command code and underlying algorithm have been rewritten from scratch.
Polylines and splines can now be trimmed by themselves.
Support for the Crossing option was added.
During command execution the Shift key now allows to switch between Trim and Extend modus.
HATCH and BOUNDARY command code and underlying algorithm have been rewritten from scratch. Support for bridging gaps in hatch boundaries: when no closed outer boundary can be found, the program will bridge gaps over distances up to the value of HPGAPTOL by calculating extensions of entities.
MODELER: the existing Acis implementation was replaced with the new (Acis-based) SPA modeler implementation of ODA.
AI_BOX, AI_PYRAMID, AI_WEDGE, AI_CONE, AI_CYLINDER, AI_SPHERE, AI_TORUS, AI_DISH, AI_DOME, AI_EDGESURF, REVOLVE, 3D_MESH, PFACE commands were rewritten from scratch.
REVSURF, RULESURF, TABSURF, EDGESURF, DISH and DOME no longer create 3D solids. They now generate meshes. AI_REVSURF, AI_RULESURF, AI_TABSURF, AI_EDGESURF have been deprecated.
CONE and CYLINDER commands have been rewritten from scratch.
Added support for ACISOUTVER system variable which allows to set the ACIS version when using the ACISOUT command.
TABLET: added support for acad-like tablet overlay menus (see: "tablet-a.cui"). All TABLET-related code has been rewritten.
-WBLOCK command was added, dxf binary/precision options were added for wblock in dxf format.
PLOT command was rewritten from scratch and we switched from MFC-based to WxWidgets-based printing (linux preparation).
New WxWidgets based PRINT PREVIEW dialog.
OLE functionality has been rewritten to become fully MFC-independent (linux preparation).
PASTECLIP and PASTESPEC have been rewritten to become fully MFC-independent (linux preparation).
SR17799 - SAVEAS: added support for 'DXF' option. Example: (command "._SAVEAS" "DXF" "_P" "_Y" "_V" "A2004" "_B" "my_drawing")
Added support for REMEMBERFOLDERS system variable.
Added support for WHIPARC system variable, which allows to choose between displaying arcs and circles as a series of vectors or as true circles and arcs.
Added support for DISPPAPERBKG system variable to switch paper sheet image on/off, and DISPPAPERMARGINS system variable to switch display of printable area rectangle on/off.
SR19794: added support for opening password-protected drawings.
TaskDD1141 - COM: added support for AcadRegion and Acad3dSolid objects.
TaskDD1195 - COM: Offset method for curve objects has been added.
TaskDD1136 - COM: added support for
- AcadApplication.WindowState
- AcadApplication.StatusId
- AcadApplication.LoadDVB/UnloadDvb
- AcadDocument.WindowState
- AcadDocument.Width
- AcadDocument.Height
- AcadDocument.HWND
- IAcadBlock.AddExtrudedSolidAlongPath
COM: implemented intersectWith method for all entities derived from curves(arcs, polylines, splines etc - but not yet inserts).
LISP: added support for functions (power x y) and (random x).
SR18273 - LISP: added support for (getvar "MILLISECS")
TaskDD892 - ARX/BRX: added support for 'rawPoint' argument of method OdEdInputPointMonitor::monitorInputPoint().
TaskDD1081 - ARX/BRX: added drx_hatchPalletteDialog API.

Improved

SR19639 - CHAMFER: support was added for creating chamfers between polylines.
CHAMFER: added the possibility to chamfer a polyline with itself.
CHAMFER, FILLET and BREAK compatibility: commands now ignore Pickfirst entities.
DELOBJ: added full support of the DELOBJ system variable for the EXTRUDE, REVOLVE and REGION commands. Changed commands EXTRUDE, REVOLVE: added entity filter in selecting of extruding/revolving profile; only planar closed curves will be selected.
DXFOUT: improved compatibility. Option "Version" returns to the main prompt, option "Entity" can be selected only once.
COMMAND HISTORY has been rewritten and compatibility improved: local command names are stored in the history (not the alias), a command is only stored once in the history (the last occurence removes the previous), and a mistyped command is also stored so a user can bring it back up to edit the mistake.
The non-standard PMTHIST command has been removed because it was causing annoying incompatibilities.
SR18776 - Command line panel (commandbar and textscreen):
- Added Ctrl-A accelerator for 'Select All'.
- Added accelerator indications to menu items.
SR19479 - INSERT dialog: performance improvement when folder contains large number of blocks.
SR18768 - INSERT dialog: following settings are now stored/restore between sessions
- specify on screen insertion point
- specify on screen scale
- specify on screen rotation
- explode
- uniform scale
The settings for the 'Insert Block', 'Attach External Reference' and 'Attach Raster Image' dialogs are stored separately.
SR18224 - PRINT dialog: improved response time when a network printer has been selected.
SR14468, SR17720 - HATCH dialog: 'Pick Points' has become the default button upon opening the hatch/boundary dialog. 'OK' became the default button after boundary selection has been completed.
SR18871 and forum - TRANSPARENT COLOR: Bricscad now uses RGB(192,192,192) as transparent color for toolbar and menu buttons instead of RGB(236,233,216), for better compatibility.
SR19162 - DRAWING EXPLORER: by default layers are now regenerated on closing the Drawing Explorer and not earlier. Previously regeneration could be instant depending on the REGENMODE variable.
SR17809 - DRAWING EXPLORER, View menu: added a show/hide toggle for each of the Explorer panes (Open Drawings, Drawings, Details and Preview).
SR18773 - DRAWING EXPLORER, improved 'select' behaviour in grid view:
- When Enter is pressed while zero or more rows are selected, the cursor is moved one cell down, and no rows are selected.
- When Enter is pressed while multiple rows are selected, the cursor remains inside the selection, it does not move.
SR19797 - DRAWING EXPLORER: when an item is selected in the 'Open Drawings' tree while the 'Details' pane was hidden, the 'Details' pane becomes visible.
SR18776 - SETTINGS dialog: added CLISTATE, CMDLNTEXT, SCRLHIST and TEXTEVAL variables to the "Command Line" category.
SR18033 - REGISTRY performance: continuous registry access to read preference settings is avoided now: all preferences are read from registry at startup, kept in memory and written at close down, if they were changed.
SR18480, TaskDD1143 - PURGE: when opening a drawing, unreferenced xrefs and anonymous blocks are purged now.
TaskDD461 - Added support for associative dimensions and leaders on 2dPolyline and 3dPolyline entities.
SR18115 - MNU to CUI conversion: added support for Accelerator definition by command name.
SR19407, TaskDD859 Properties panel: implemented display of dxf class name in properties panel for custom entities.
SR19492, TaskDD687: Improved performance of internal point selection (ssget "PO"), which a.o. is used for picking OLE items.
SR19654, TaskDD687 - OLE: implemented special pasting of clipboard data in OLE object format for objects that have an 'IViewObject2' interface. For objects that do not support this interface, following message will appear: "No valid clipboard data is available. Cannot perform Paste operation.".
SR16940 - UCS command: was extended to support aligning a UCS to a block.
TaskDD734 - Added support for recognition of external commands registered with underscores (strictly speaking, by mistake) when they are entered with underscores as well. This concerns both global and local command names.
SR18710 - COM: Added firing of AcadDocument.LayoutSwitched, AcadDocument.BeginClose and AcadDocument.BeginDocClose events.
TaskDD1166 - VBA Macro dialog: added Alt+F8 key accelerator to open the dialog.
SR17562 - DCL image/image_button: implemented highlighting with inverted background.
SR19029 - DCL: Implemented support for unicode character sequence "\U+xxx". When reading DCL unicode files, the Unicode BOM (Byte-Order Mark) is detected and skipped.
LISP: general performance improvement by 5% to 15% as well as improved memory management. Following functions are now fully supported: (vla-DeleteProfile), (vla-RenameProfile), (vla-CopyProfile), (vla-GetAllProfileNames) Corrections were applied to (mapcar 'AND ...) and (mapcar 'OR ...).
LISP: performance improvements for (vl-registry-xxx) Registry functions family.
SR19435 - LISP : the lists returned by (tblsearch) and (tblnext) no longer return groupcodes like -1, 100, 102, 330... to provide better compatibility.
SR19435 - LISP: to support old Lisp applications (getvar "EXEDIR") is processed as (getvar "ACADPREFIX").
SR18379 - LISP: source files containing incorrect asymmetric block comments, like
```
;|
;|
|;
```
do no longer cause a load failure.
SR20120 - LISP/ADS: performance of ads_ssname() and (ssname) has been significantly improved.
SR18963 - ARX/BRX/DRX: improved search file sequence for (arxload) *.brx, *.drx, *.arx. This simplifies application and installer design for developers, as using (arxload "file") automatically loads the appropriate file version.
SR19397 - BRX/SDS/LISP: the Lisp engine no longer stores entity names (ads_name/sds_name) in a modified way, this means that BRX applications now can use ads_name/sds_name for special purposes like in ADS/ARX.
Lowercase characters are no longer converted to uppercase when creating LAYER, UCS, VIEW and TEXTSTYLE using the commandline.
The F1 - F10 function keys are now built-in hotkeys. The corresponding accelerator definitions are removed from default.cui for improved CUI file compatibility.

Fixed

SR12447 - STRETCH command & grip-editing: relative polar coordinates could not be displayed in status bar.
SR13522, SR15342, SR19983, SR20309 - UCSICONPOS: enabled UCSICONPOS system variable which allows to control the position of the UCS icon.
SR14447 - INSERT image: corrected scale/rotate/clip trackers when UCS != WCS.
SR14498 - LOGFILEPATH and TEMPPREFIX system variables could not be modified.
SR15471, SR15473, SR18342, SR19099 - CMDECHO: improved support for CMDECHO system variable, mainly in PEDIT, TEXT and BHATCH commands, and in all commands when snap overrides are used in a lisp (command) or an sds_command.
SR15892 - Hatch updating algorithm was improved to fix loss of hatch associativity when moving a hatch and to avoid exceptions when updating a hatch.
SR16016, SR17380, TaskDD979 - MTEXT display was not updated when its style had been changed.
SR16041: Fixed crash with intersection snap and apparent intersection snap that happens immediately when the mouse pointer is nearby spline curves.
SR16333, SR18291 - DIVIDE/MEASURE commands: wrong orientation of dividing block for vertical segment of polyline.
SR16497 - AUDIT: impossible to recover drawing with bad mleaderstyle. Crash in audit() is prevented now.
SR16654: When modifying coordinate property of multiple selected objects (ends of lines, etc) which have '*Varies*' value change was not performed.
SR17280 - LAYFRZ command: fixed a problem when trying to freeze layers within an XREF and working inside a viewport.
SR17342 - Draworder toolbar: when canceling the DRAWORDER command, the option (e.g. "_f") was still sent to the command line, although the draworder command was already finished.
SR17538, SR18772 - Drawing Explorer: when copying a layer state by dragging it onto another drawing, the name of the current drawing unexpectedly was changed to the name of the temporary drawing that is created on the clipboard to achieve this operation.
SR17590, TaskDD1054 - EXTRUDE: sometimes extruded into wrong (opposite) direction. Following modifications were applied: 1. if a curve is extruded, the extrusion direction is set to the normal of the initial curve, not to the normal of the intermediate region. 2. if the normal of the initial curve or region is opposite to the UCS Z axis, the extrusion direction is set to the UCS Z axis.
SR17805, SR18270 - VSLIDE: added support for command line syntax like: _VSLIDE LIBRARY_NAME(SLIDE_NAME_INSIDE_LIBRARY)
SR18003 - MLEADER: text background had improper color and was hiding the text if flag "Is Text Background Color On" was on.
SR18096 - ANGLE property of line was calculated as the angle between the X-axis and the line. Now it is calculated as the angle between the X-axis and the projection of the line onto the XY plane.
SR18173 - FILLET: corrected user-provided non-convex polyline fillet case.
SR18177 - Properties Bar and Entity Properties toolbar: layer color display was not correct.
SR18177 - Color dialog box: true color dialog was not initialized on correct RGB color when starting to edit.
SR18191 - VPLAYER: ALL option now takes into account all viewports in all layouts.
SR18240 - SAVE: failure to save drawing that uses textstyle with font ".shx", i.e. a font of which the name is just a dot.
SR18262 - CTB/STB/PC3 files: format specification string was not fully compatible.
SR18339, SR18396, TaskDD956 - COM: when deleting layouts, there was a crash on deleting the active layout. Also we now disallow deletion of the ModelSpace layout, as well as deletion of the last PaperSpace layout.
SR18344 - When Bricscad was started with a drawing name as command argument , e.g. "Bricscad C:\drawings\test.dwg", and 'ShowFullPathInTitle' was 'on', the title bar showed the drawing name only, not the full path.
SR18360 - Layer combobox: could not select items with numkeys on the numeric keypad.
TaskDD704 - MAXHATCH value was not taken into account when modifying hatch properties.
SR18361 - TRIM: following command options did not work:
- Edge Mode: entering _E or _N at the prompt 'Extend/No Extend
- Projection: entering _N, _U or _V at the prompt 'None/Ucs/View
SR18362, TaskDD1127: plot area window selection in print dialog could work incorrectly if the current view was rotated.
SR18412 - Command line editing: pressing Ctrl+C, V, X, and Delete when the command line has focus, now invokes cut, copy, paste and delete of characters on the command line, instead of launching the commands copyclip, pasteclip and erase in the drawing.
SR18415 - TEXT: Texts with DXF71=2 (Text is backward (mirrored in X)) or DXF71=4 (Text is upside down (mirrored in Y)) are mirrored while moving/copying if MIRRTEXT=0.
SR18440 - VPOINT command did take ANGBASE and ANGDIR into account, while it shouldn't.
SR18481 - Entity Snaps toolbar was not updated after OSNAP had been temporarily switched off during selection of entities.
SR18487,TaskDD247 - MVIEW: crosshair cursor was not undrawn during MVIEW command.
SR18502 - changing the 'plottable' flag of a layer, led to disappearing entities on this layer, till the next 'regen'.
SR18555 - HATCH: fixed application instability when launching BHATCH dialog using invalid HPNAME.
SR18760 - INSERT dialog: when the most recently inserted block was deleted, and the block definition was purged, the block name was still listed in the Insert Block dialog's 'Name' combo.
SR18791 - PRINT failed for a user-provided drawing, due to an improperly handled exception.
TaskDD862 - PRINT: paper image shifted after changing the paper units or the media name.
TaskDD862 - PRINT: when printing from the command line and using the 'window' option to define the plot area, the clipping by window was not performed.
TaskDD862 - PRINT dialog: in 'layout' plot area mode, with non-zero paper image origin, the paper image shifted position when switching between inches and millimeters.
TaskDD862, SR15454 - PRINT issues:
- Printed image exceeded the marked window to some extent.
- When plot stamp header was set, and scale was not 'fit', drawing could be printed over header area.
- When plot stamp header was set, and footer was empty, plot offset (0,0) and plot scale 'fit' setting of drawing was wrongly positioned on paper.
SR18858 - VIEWPORT: creation failed if snap spacing distance was set to (0,0).
SR18885, TaskDD662: saveasr12 dialog default format was not "AutoCAD Release 11/12 Drawing" but R18 instead.
SR18871 - MENU: the MNU to CUI converter now recognizes [---] as well as [--] as a separator, and recognizes // as a comment, also in case // is preceded by tabs or spaces.
SR18939 - Wrong color was displayed for polyface meshes with color ByBlock inside blocks.
SR18939 - SHADEMODE: a polyface mesh with "bylayer" color, on layer 0, inserted in a block, was displayed with the wrong color - the color of layer 0 was used.
SR18944: temporary entity snap was lost after calling a transparent command.
SR18950 - COPY: copy of entities failed if the size of their xdata exceeded 16kb.
SR18998, SR19043 - Crash when erasing associative dimensions and/or their associated entities.
SR19016 - MIRROR of rotated text was incorrect.
SR19017 - UNDO: undo of text mirroring created wrong entity when MIRRTEXT was On.
SR19080 - MENU: The accelerator definitions in MNU files use "CONTROL" whereas in CUI files "CTRL" is used. Due to a bug in the MNU to CUI converter, "CONTROL" was not replaced with "CTRL" in some cases. As a result, typing "Shift" with a character key, would call the accelerator rather than just typing an uppercase character.
SR19083 - PROPERTIES: changing scale/position/rotation of a block using the Property Panel did not change the scale/position/rotation of the block's attributes.
SR19165 - real-time view rotations in locked paperspace viewport lead to rotating the whole space.
SR19228 - MTEXT compatibility: the MText editor was using format code \F for each type of font, while \F should be used for shx fonts and \f for other fonts.
TaskDD47 - IMAGES: since V9.2.2 it was no longer possible to select certain image types when using the IMAGECLIP, IMAGEADJUST and TRANSPARENCY commands.
SR19235 - IMAGES: rotated images, with different scaling for X and Y, were incorrectly displayed.
SR19239 - UNDO of OLE items modification triggered a crash.
SR19272, SR20108 - CUI: toolbar icon tooltips mistakenly showed macro names instead of toolbar button titles.
SR19306 - SHX text in complex linetypes was displayed without lineweight being applied.
SR19335 - EXPORT: export to BMP created files with wrong resolution (DPI), now the default system resolution is used, which is usually 72 DPI.
SR19365 - SELECTION rectangle was not dashed with certain background colors.
SR19398 - XRECORD processing in user-provided drawing led to crash.
SR19492 - SELECTION: when clicking in the drawing to start a selection, large drawings did not repond for several seconds. This concerned a slow-down introduced in V9.2.15. Avoided redundant processing for drawings which don't contain OLE items.
SR19507 - MLINE with zero length of line segment led to a crash when zooming to extents.
SR19559 - DISPLAY: entities with extremely small Z coordinates were not displayed.
SR19569 - IMAGES: incorrect color conversion for transparent images (alpha channel, 32 bpp)
SR19614 - COPYBASE command: the base point was lost when deleting the source entities before pasting the copy.
SR19645 - IMAGES: ANGBASE and ANGDIR were not respected for ECW images with embedded metadata.
SR19650, TaskDD662: paths like \\a\b\c (where 'a' is one-character server name) were wrongly converted to a:\b\c.
SR19671 - PLOT: the "center" option was not available in the -PLOT command when printing paper space layouts. It should only be unavailable when using the "layout" option to set the Plot Area.
SR19673 - INSERT command dialog: used the most recently used default path instead of the most recently used insert path.
SR19705 - PRINT: page setup option 'Display plot styles' was not ignored in model view.
SR19725 - INSERTALIGNED: command didn't align blocks with entities.
SR19728: 'Open as read-only' option in the Open File dialog was ignored when saving drawings.
SR19738, TaskDD1197 - REFEDIT: if the setting "Lock entities not in working set" was on, then attribute definitions, texts and mtexts that were not in the working set still could be modified using the DDEDIT command or the Properties Bar.
TaskDD1197 - REFEDIT: the properties of entities not in working set could be changed during REFEDIT command although 'Lock Entities not in working set' was activated.
SR19762 - DISPLAY: there was a dash missing at the start or end of dashed polylines.
SR19795 - DISPLAY: grips were drawn under a circle when when the Z coordinate of the view target point of the active viewport had a negative value.
SR19783 - Layer Explorer: the state of the 'Show Xref Layers' menu option was not taken into account upon opening the explorer.
SR19785 - PEDIT and 3DPOLYLINE command: the 'Spline' option - available in the context menu - was missing on the commandline.
SR19803 - MTEXT editor: fixed problem of wrong caret position just after a tab character.
SR19832: with some combinations of true-type fonts and system code-pages the Style Explorer showed continuing error messages.
SR19840: Entity snap option "NONE" led to ignoring the picked point and repeating request for input.
SR19890 - MTEXT editor: selecting ByLayer color did not remove the previous color format codes from the mtext.
SR19957 - Rotated shx text became partially invisible.
SR20131, SR20132, TaskDD1099 - BIND: when binding with insert-like behavior, changes made in the host drawing, to xref layers (linetypes, textstyles..) were not retained after bind. Further, if the host contained a linetype with the same name as one of the xref's linetypes, after binding layers that are using this linetype, they were not correctly updated: they still referred to xrefname|linetypename i.o linetypename.
Drawing Explorer: after a BIND or insert operation, the 'layer', 'linetype', 'textstyle', and 'dimension style' views are now updated immediately. Before, one had to temporarily select another drawing before the changes caused by bind/insert were reflected in those views.
SR20148 - PRINT: custom paper sizes were ignored when printer name was longer than 30 characters.
SR20188 - DWGPREFIX: for drawings that resided in the root folder, the path to the "My Documents" folder was returned, instead of volume + volume separator + dir separator (e.g: "c:\")
SR20239 - Raster images: a crash occurred when trying to process greyscale ECW files.
SR20265 - MTEXT: when editing an Mtext in model space through a viewport in paper space, the text could get shifted out of view.
SR20275 - Raster images: ECW files remained locked after being detached from a drawing.
SR20298 - LIST: command did not support IMAGE entities.
MENU: special characters (like ^P, ^E, ...) that toggle system variables, were processed before actually executing the menu command. Now they are processed inline, i.e. in the right order of appearance in the menu string.
-STYLE command: entering a font name which could not be found led to abnormal command completion, and the selected font name was printed as garbage.
MTEXT: when creating mtext using the mtext-dialog, the mtext was created in the WCS plane even if a UCS was active.
COM:
- COM: ThisDrawing.Export no longer refuses to process files with names that contain dots.
- TaskDD6 - COM - ADDINS: Bricscad crashed on exit due to deletion of a no longer existing document if an addin application previously unloaded the document.
- SR18837 - VBA: ThisDrawing.SendCommand() with a lisp command with pause, e.g. (command "insert" "blockname" pause 1 1 0), would return immediately, before processing the lisp pause. The insert command would then continue after the VBA code was finished. This is fixed : now the SendCommand call will only return when the (command) statement, including the pause, has completely finished.
- SR18837 - VBA: sending a lisp (command pause) expression to the command line with ThisDrawing.SendCommand or Application.RunCommand, did not work when the VBA macro was run with the VBARUN command.
- SR19083 - COM: changing scale/position/rotation of AcadBlockReference should respectively change block attributes scale/position/rotation.
- SR19084 - VBAManager dialog should not be closed on VBA project load.
- SR19139 - COM: parameter bits of AcadUtility.GetKeyword were incompatible.
- SR19182 - COM: crash occurred when deleting referenced block definitions.
- SR19230 - COM: AcadDocument.MSpace method did not correctly switch to Paper Space.
- SR19247 - VBA initialization failed when RockAUTO application was loaded on startup.
- SR19325 - COM - VBA: Utility functions to get input printed only the last line of a multi-line prompt if the lines were separated by 'vbNewLine' or 'vbCrLf' constants. Affected functions: GetEntity, GetSubEntity, GetKeyword, GetInteger, GetReal, GetString, GetAngle, GetCorner, GetDistance, GetOrientation and GetPoint.
- SR19366 - COM: crash when deleting layer using VBA.
- SR20181 - COM: crash occurred when executing ThisDrawing.Application.Documents.Item(0).SendCommand(Chr(27)+Chr(27)).
- SR20290 - COM: AcadEntity.Rotate3D method worked incorrectly: it always rotated around an axis going through the origin.
DCL:
- SR17870 - DCL: The tooltip of a dcl image_button was displayed only if the cursor was hovered over the edge of the image_button. Now the tooltip applies to the entire image_button surface.
- SR17868 - DCL: if a radio_button was already selected, a callback event was not triggered when it was clicked.
- SR18280 - DCL: When a dcl text component had alignment property, the alignment got lost when the value was set dynamically (using set_tile). This has been fixed by re-layouting both the text component and its container (instead of only the container, as it used to be).
- SR18497 - DCL : when a DCL dialog was closed, the last-used values for $KEY, $VALUE, $DATA, $REASON, $X and $Y DCL symbols were not available.
- SR18872 - DCL: popup_list with many items was too slow.
- SR19054 - DCL: When mode_tile was used to disable an entire container, enabling a child component of the disabled container did not work as expected. The child component looked enabled, but it did not respond. This issue has been fixed by enabling all parent containers on enabling an individual component.
- SR19126 - DCL cleanup: delayed gui update events were sent to already destroyed gui components. Fixed by disconnecting all gui event handlers upon destruction of the gui component.
- SR19133, SR19178 - DCL: default CANCEL button handler caused wrong action strings to be executed.
- SR19143 - DCL nested dialogs: Calling term_dialog while nested dialogs are running caused Bricscad to crash. Fixed by cleaning up all active modal dialogs in reverse calling order.
- SR19156 - DCL width of dynamic centered text: if a centered text label was supplied dynamically, the width of the text component was not adjusted to the new content.
- SR19189 - DCL: width of dynamically filled text was incorrect.
- SR19288 - DCL & russian characters: the DCL parser interpreted character/byte with value 255 as the end of a string.
- SR19475 - DCL: buttons with short text were too small to fit the text. The width calculation of buttons has been adjusted to correctly incorporate the extents of the text. The border of buttons has also been increased since the space around buttons was too small.
- SR19487 - DCL: the dcl attribute children_fixed_width was applied to all children (including grand children and deeper), whereas it should be applied to immediate children only.
- SR19487, SR19776 - DCL: is_tab_stop=false did not work.
- SR19487 - DCL: labels of built-in dcl components ok_button, ok_cancel,.. were not localized.
- SR19517 - DCL: pressing tab in an edit_box triggered a system warning sound.
- SR19780 - DCL: when the mnemonic of a button is used, the button should be activated, instead of focused only.
- SR20123 - DCL: when the same dcl image or image_button was reused to draw several times, the displaying got slower gradually. Indeed: the previous content was never deleted from the image. This has been fixed: from now on, when a fill is drawn that spans the entire area of the image, all previous content of the image will be erased.
- DCL - LISP: the predefined OK button did not work when using an expression where the "default action" is passed as an empty string, example: (new_dialog "dialog" dclid "")
LISP:
- LISP GarbageCollection: real numbers (REAL) could be lost or damaged, if the real numbers were not stored as local or global variable, as in (list 10.0 20.0 30.0 ...)
- TaskDD240 - LISP: Undo-grouping was made compatible. All operations invoked from Lisp now are undone/redone together with the preceding command/operation. (command) is considered as a command, but not as a Lisp operation in this meaning. For example, the following expression (lisp expr 1)(command ...)(lisp expr 2) is undone with 2 steps. First step: (lisp expr2) and (command ...) Second step: (lisp expr 1). The way of invoking Lisp - using a C:-function, or a non-C:-function or from the command line - does not matter.
- LISP: following reactor events were fixed: vlr-endDwgOpen, vlr-beginClose, vlr-layoutSwitched, vlr-beginDeepCloneXlation, vlr-mainFrameMovedOrResized, vlr-beginInsert, vlr-beginWblockPt.
- LISP: (vla-get-hyperlinkbase) failed.
- LISP: Vla-AddRegion and VLA-AddExtrudedSolid returned wrong data (SafeArray of Variants of IDispatch objects instead of a SafeArray of IDispatch objects).
- SR17953 - LISP: invoking RTxxx commands with (command)/sds_command() led to unworkable state in some cases. Example: (command "RTROT" "SomeString").
- SR18051 - LISP: using (help "xxx.chm" "html/topic") failed, as the .htm extension was missing. Now this syntax is supported as well.
- SR18164 - LISP: using (vla-open) could cause an exception error message due to a synchronisation problem when switching the drawing window.
- SR18211 - LISP: Fixed a synchronization problem when a beginRightClick reactor event displays a shortcut menu using (menucmd).
- SR18279 - LISP: TEXT entity dxf73 (vertical justification) was ignored in (entmake) if it came after the second dxf100 "AcDbText" subclass marker.
- SR18418 - LISP: Fixed a synchronization problem with the newly created drawing when using (vlax-invoke-method 'Add "") resp. (vla-add "")
- SR18569 - LISP: sds_ssget mode was processed case-sensitive, while it should be case-insensitive.
- SR18577 - LISP: sds_defun() and sds_regfunc() used different methods to determine the calling module, which led to unstable behavior of sds_regfunc, sds_getfunccode() and sds_getappname().
- SR18589 - LISP (autoload) function and mechanism:
  - An endless recursion occurred if the loaded Lisp file did not define the specified command, or if loading was stopped due to a Lisp error, before the specified command had been defined.
  - Due to a problem in C:NAME command registration, an exception could occur when the loaded Lisp file redefined the C:NAME command, which eventually stopped Lisp execution.
- SR18599 - LISP: (grread) did not work correctly when the keyboard focus was in the command line. The character wasn't returned until enter was pressed.
- SR18627,TaskDD599 - LISP: the polyline command, when called from lisp, does no longer generate an error when enter is pressed for the first point.
- SR18676, TaskDD599 - LISP: when parsing pasted strings, menu strings and scripts, a lisp expression between parentheses, followed by characters other than semicolon or space, is treated as a whole instead of split into two expressions. A script containing a line "(getstring)", followed by a line "(one)two", is now correctly processed.
- SR19702 - LISP: slide library syntax did not work from LISP.
- SR19732 - LISP : problem when accessing some rare kind of COM TypeLibraries, accessing properties - no properties were found, but access to methods was fine.
- SR18963 - LISP: a memory leak/corruption in Lisp DCL management was fixed.
- SR19576 - LISP: (vl-registry-descendents "HKEY_CURRENT_USER") failed when a Registry Root key was used.
- SR19063 - LISP: there was a scope problem for functions, that were declared to be local functions. After leaving the defun, those functions were still alive. The same problem occurred when a local or global error handler was called. The fix results in a small performance improvement and less memory usage for (defun) and (lambda). Similar failure occurred with (vl-registry-descendents "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT") and (vl-registry-descendents "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE").
ARX/BRX:
- ARX/BRX: drag-and-drop support was added to load application dlls.
- TaskDD1190 - ARX/BRX: EdJig::acquirePoint() did not support direct distance entering.
- SR15936, TaskDD916 - Fixed endless 'kLoadDwgMsg' notifications in case it's handler function invokes a modal dialog.
- SR17410 - ARX/BRX: Jig mode: flicker occurred when drawing osnap tooltips.
- SR18374, TaskDD1211 - ARX/BRX: Fixed: executing acedCommand(RTSTR, _T("_explode"), NULL) followed by acedCommand(RTSTR, _T("_last"), NULL) now immediately explodes the last entity in the drawing, instead of waiting for an to confirm.
- SR19060 - WM_COPYDATA: when sending a WM_COPYDATA to the Bricscad main window, the string is now treated as if it were pasted on the command line, for better compatibility.
- SR19061 - BRX/DRX: a crash occurred when a running BRX/DRX (registered) command unregistered/removed itself.
- SR19249 - ARX/BRX: AcEdInputPointMonitor::monitorInputPoint erronuously got notifications when non-point input was obtained (e.g. getint, getreal, getstring, getkword).
- SR19397 - BRX/DRX: a memory corruption occurred when binary data was transferred via sds_retlist().
- SR19468 - BRX/DRX: registered BRX/DRX commands had no influence on the CMDACTIVE setting (bit 0).
- SR19706 - ARX/BRX: acedInitGet and sds_initget - when using acedGetPoint or sds_getpoint with a first point, keywords were not accepted.
- SR20115 - ARX/BRX: Fixed link failure with OdEdInputPointMonitor class.

NOTES :

Function keys

When switching back and forth between pre/post V9.3.4 Bricscad versions, the CUI file has to be reset in order to have the function keys functioning properly.

Important note for Addin application developers:

We received complaints about the impractical addin-related registry key locations. Therefor the registry key where Bricscad stores its Addins has been changed from
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bricsys\Bricscad\V9\en_US\Profiles\MyProfile\Addins
to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bricsys\Bricscad\V9\en_US\Addins

The registry key where a reference to the above Bricscad Addins key is stored has also been changed, from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\AddIn Designer\Bricsys\Bricscad 8\
to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\AddIn Designer\Bricscad\V9
This implies that existing Addins will have to be recompiled and re-registered in order to run on Bricscad V9.3.4 and more recent.

Version 9.2.16

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:56:00 UTC

Fixed

SR19526 crash after undo of insert or move operations on OLE objects.
SR19255 right side justification of text with trailing spaces is wrong.
SR19612, SR19431, SR19415 : localization and syntax errors in prompts.
SR19273: PAN command does not reset Osnap options anymore.
Fixed urls in help menu.
SR17819 : Drawings are now saved to a temporary file in the drawing folder. If the save process has succeeded, the drawing is renamed to its destination filename.
BRX API SR19240 : no undo on commands executed with postmessage, even if lockDocument had been called.

Version 9.2.15

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:56:00 UTC

Improved

SR18870 - Implemented display of clipping frame (if XCLIPFRAME is on) and selection of insert by clipping frame.
Limit of undo data buffer was considerably increased.

Fixed

SR14708, TaskDD793 - VIEWPORT: stretch by _both_ left corners was failing.
SR18313, TaskDD915 - COM: AcadUtility.GetKeyword method did not recognize keywords.
SR18548 - SHADEMODE did not work for certain drawings.
Drawing Explorer: crash in WxWidget tree control in multi-select mode on Windows Vista. The tree control crashed after item deletion. The crash did not occur immediately upon item deletion, but right after focus was received again by the tree control.
SR18745 - Filled entities rendered with incorrect traits in specific circumstances.
SR18986 - SAT files, where the date in the header is placed on an extra new line, could not be read.
SR18946 - ANSI scripts containing double byte characters could no longer be read since the extension for UNICODE scripts in V9.2.12 (SR18677).
SR18984 - DCL: when a list_box is clicked below its last row, the currently selected row is deselected. This issue is fixed by not allowing an empty selection to be set by clicking. This change does not affect a list_box with multiple selection and it does not affect changing the selection by calling set_tile.
SR18998, SR19043 - Crash when erasing associative dimensions and/or their associated entities.
SR19014 - Plotter Configuration Editor and Plot Style Table Editor dialogs were not shown in some cases when MFC extension DLLs were loaded.
Selection problem in non-plan views when using WinOpenGl graphic system device.
HATCH: true color was lost after cut/paste. Changed dwg version used for clipboard to 2004.

Version 9.2.14

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:56:00 UTC

Fixed

TaskDD951,SR18774: Program became unstable when undoing modification of ACIS entities. This is a regression since V9.2
Fixed crash in Drawing Explorer: In the Drawings tree, in a folder containing both drawings and subfolders, when you opened any drawing (by double-clicking) from any subfolder, and subsequently clicked any folder from the tree, a message appeared: "An unexpected error occured. The aplication became unstable..."
Crash in Drawing Explorer when deleting image definitions from a drawing that was not active.

Version 9.2.13

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:56:00 UTC

Fixed

SR18775 - After VPCLIP Undo failed to restore the original viewport.
TaskDD793 removed fix for locked viewports: changing the height of a locked viewport(eg through properties panel) triggered an unwanted viewport scale change. The fix caused printing problems in V9.2.11 if the overall viewport was locked.
SR18636 - Application became unstable after insertion of a block containing associative hatches failed.
SR18777 - A crash occurred during saving of a drawing if the LeaderLineTypeId (DXF340) of a MLeaderStyle is NULL.
SR18803 - DCL: the dcl command slide_image incorrectly erased all previous content of the dcl image it was called upon. As a result, calling fill_image right before slide_image did not have any effect.
SR18729 - Entity snap tracking points failed to display in user-provided drawing.
SR18754 - -LAYER command did not allow to enter a zero lineweight.
Vla-AddRegion, VLA-AddExtrudedSolid returned wrong data (SafeArray of Variants of IDispatch objects instead of a SafeArray of IDispatch objects).

Version 9.2.12

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:22:00 UTC

Improved

SR12752 - DDEDIT command now also handles dimension entities.
SR18713 - HATCH area calculation was reimplemented using an analytical implementation, instead of a numerical approach using sample points on the boundary, resulting in much more accurate results.
GROUPS: on creation, group names are now converted to uppercase (compatibility improvement).

Fixed

SR18613 - BRX: global function overloads fromAcDbTextStyle: sometimes an incorrect text style was given, although the OK status was returned.
SR18677 - UNICODE scripts could not be read.
SR18713 - Area calculation of LwPolylines with negative bulges was not yet correct. Problem was introduced in V9.2.3. Extra unit tests were added.
TaskDD1138 - COM AddRegion method gave an error when called from an external application.
SR18481 - Entity Snap toolbar was not updated when using 'one shot' osnap mode.
SR18497 - Inserting a drawing into another one did not copy unreferenced blocks.
Regression in V9.2.11. Image aspect ratio was not respected on attaching images.

Version 9.2.11

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:45:00 UTC

Improved

SR18422, SR 18596 - Printing: dots were printed as vertical lines with length = line width. For better compatibility they are now printed as horizontal lines with length = 0.2 times line width.
3 message dialogs erronously used caption "DCL.dll" instead of "Bricscad"
-BOUNDARY command (Advanced, Boundary set): In the option menu, option All is hidden now (it is still there for backward compatiblity with V7) The prompt string is now 'New/' instead off 'New'

Fixed

TaskDD789, SR18004 - RASTER images: positioning of images with embedded geo info was incorrect.
SR18391, SR18603 - Drawing Explorer crashed: 1. when cancelling a block creation which was started from within the Explorer. 2. when inserting blocks from within the Explorer and repeating the operation by right-click (Enter).
SR18465 - Xref files: application could become unstable when loading/unloading Xref files.
SR18531 - A crash occurred when a new baseline/continue associative dimension was created starting from an associative dimension on an XRef.
SR18544 - REFEDIT: a crash occurred when editing an XRef containing associative dimensions.
SR18461 - FILLET operation failed for entities located at huge coordinates.
SR18517 - COM: Bricscad closed down abruptly when sending Char #27 (ESC) to the command line with AcadDocument.SendCommand().
TaskDD793, SR14708, SR17349 - locked viewports became unlocked when the viewport size was changed.
Limited the number of lines written to crash_report.

Version 9.2.10

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:45:00 UTC

Fixed

TaskDD1112, SR18471 - Incorrect printing/previewing area when non-world UCS is used.
SR18457 - Area calculation of LwPolylines with bulges. Problem was introduced in V9.2.3.
SR18454 - Print and display problems which occurred for drawings containing corrupt material references.
SR17633 - Crash when switching layouts after REFEDIT of xref.
SR18493 - Fixed creation of radial and diametric dimensions in paperspace.
SR17822, TaskDD1003 - improved compatibility of DXFOUT command and prompts.
SR18466 - OLE objects on frozen or switched-off layers were selectable and became visible upon selection.
SR18319 - After double-clicking an attribute and then just clicking the OK button, the attribute text height changed, due to an unwanted rounding of the text height value.
TaskDD1002, TaskDD1046, SR18323 - BREAK: the command was aborted upon an empty selection, instead it should continue and repeat the prompt to select entities.
SR18463 - Clipped raster images were incorrectly rendered in DRAFT quality mode.
TaskDD1028, SR18438 - When a linetype used TrueTypeFont (TTF) shapes, through an according shape text style, text using the TTF font of such style was not displayed (even if the font was used in other styles too). Note: Drawing explorer added a .shx extension to the .ttf file names of these fonts (e.g. "arial.ttf.shx").
SR18409 - COM API: AcadBlock.AddRaster method did not search for a raster file in the SRCHPATH folders, nor did it report an error on a non-existing raster file path.
SR18321, SR18475 - DCL: The background of a dcl image was always black: this issue has been fixed by initializing the background color of a slide in a dcl image or image_button using the color specified in 'color' attribute. Previously, it was incorrectly initialized with black.
DCL - During rendering of a slide (from a .sld or .slb file), colors were made adaptive to the background color of the main cad window. Before this fix, the background color of a slide was always black, the foreground color (index 7) was always white. From now on, the background color of a slide is the same as the background color of the main cad window and the foreground color will become black on a light background.

Version 9.2.9

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:15:00 UTC

Improved

SR18386 - PSVPSCALE variable is used when creating paperspace viewports.

Fixed

SR18308, SR18309 - VBA initialization problem.
SR18375 - ERASE command started failing and the application became unstable after aborting a command on associative entities (entities that use reactors, like e.g. hatch, leader)
SR18368 - DXFOUT: document name was not preserved upon DXFOUT completion.
SR18373 - ZOOM command: the 'xp' parameter was not handled correctly when using the SCALE option.
SR18386 - After erasing a viewport, the paper space content was no longer displayed. Regression introduced in V9.2.3
SR18386 - Newly created viewport with extent height of zero was not scaled appropriately (scale was huge).
SR18363 - Application hang-up when changing the dimension style in the Drawing Explorer after deleting a dimension.
SR18023 - Fatal error during copy/paste due to incorrect re-initialization of erased scale list.
SR18335 - Circular arc-shaped parts of region boundaries were displayed reversed in some cases.
SR18434 - AREA command: restored support for "_Object" keyword.

Version 9.2.8

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC

Improved

Added explanation to error message in case the program parameter file default.pgp is not found.

Fixed

SR18330: created slide graphics were mirrored in Y direction (regression was introduced in V9.2.2)
SR18351: partial display of text and out of memory errors when using font iso3098b.shx
SR18315 - COM: creating a Bricscad application object from an external application failed.
TaskDD775, SR18206: RTDISPLAY value was interpreted oppositely (controls drawing of raster images during real-time movements).
SR18301: memory corruption in (vl-file-systime) function could cause the Lisp engine to crash.
SR18304: content of viewport clipped by entity was not plotted if clipping entity was on a 'non-plottable' layer.
SR18180 - CUI files:
- fixed crash when using self-referencing toolbar flyouts
- fixed crash when using self-referencing submenus
- fixed failure with empty submenus
SR18181 - LISP-SDS: sds_entsel and (entsel) returned empty strings for keywords that have no globalized part.
SR17153 - LISP: Fixed crash when executing a code sequence like (ssetfirst nil ss1)(command "erase")
SR18321: dcl image/image_button, color attribute:
- make sure the graphics foreground color will be black on a light background, white otherwise
- make the graphics foreground color the default color of an image or image_button
- display the color "black" (index 0) as the current graphics background color
- display the color "white" (index 7) as the current graphics foreground color

Version 9.2.7

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UTC

New

New Command Bar and Command History window.
- Commandline text input field has been made fully editable.
- Command line font, font size, background and foreground colors can be set using the Settings dialog.
- The right click menu allows to copy text from the Command History window.
- When pasting multiple lines to the command line, all lines but the last one are executed and the last line is put on the command line for editing.
- When pasting a single line to the command line, it is not executed immediately, the user can edit it first.
New WxWidgets-based slide renderer.
TaskDD792, SR16654 - QUICK SELECT: added support for < , <= , > and >= operators.
New command -VPORTS which runs either VIEWPORTS or MVIEW depending on the TILEMODE setting.
Added preference 'ShowFullPathInTitle'. When 'On', the window title bar displays the full path of the drawing, otherwise only file name and extension are shown.
COM API: Added Mirror(), Mirror3D(), ArrayPolar() and ArrayRectangular() methods for all entity types.
TaskDD352 - COM API: added Preferences.Display.GraphicsWinLayoutBackgrndColor, Preferences.Display.XRefFadeIntensity and Preferences.Profile.ActiveProfile (read only)
TaskDD1014 - COM API: added AcadDocument.Plot.PlotToDevice(), AcadDocument.Plot.PlotToFile AcadDocument.Plot.DisplayPlotPreview, AcadDocument.Plot.NumberOfCopies, AcadDocument.Plot.SetLayoutsToPlot
TaskDD1008 - COM API: added IAcad3dSolid.Explode() and IAcadDocument.EvaluateLispExpression() methods.
TaskDD1006 - COM API: added Application.Preferences.OpenSave.SaveAsType property.
LISP API: added (vl-getstartupdir), (vl-getcurrentdir), (vl-setcurrentdir ) and (vl-rmdir ) functions.
SDS API - added sds_ssnamex and sds_nameex function.
A BRX sample application was added and the sample application folder structure was reworked.

Improved

Completely reworked all code involved with selecting, dragging and display of dynamics(dynamics, rubber banding, jigs, snap markers, alignment paths, ...), solving many (often minor but annoying) issues.
SR17677: Drastic performance improvement when inserting many blocks.
SR17204 - decreased memory usage when copying a large number of dimension entities.
TaskDD554 - Nearest and midpoint Object Snaps were added for splines.
Completely reworked SAVE and SAVEAS commands:
- SAVEFILE system variable now contains the path to last automatic save.
- When SAVEFILEPATH system variable is not set, autosave is performed into a temporary directory instead of into the current drawing directory.
- When entering name 'foo.bmp' as save command parameter, drawing 'foo.bmp.dwg' is saved now instead of exporting to foo.bmp
- When entering the name of an existing file as save command parameter, and FILEDIA=0, Bricscad prompts for overwrite and cancels save operation if answer is 'No', instead of asking for a file name again.
- Autosave is always performed using the dwg format, latest version, also if the currently loaded drawing is in dxf format and/or it's version is old.
- SaveComplete reactor now is disabled during autosaving.
- Autosave no longer temporarily changes the name of the document.
When a font is substituted by another font, a notification is printed on the command line.
SR17805 - VSLIDE command has been extended to support slide libraries. The extension "slb" was added to the allowed extensions. The allowed extensions for the vslide command now are "sld", "slb", "emf", "wmf". When a file with extension "slb" is passed to the vslide command, the user is queried for a slide name. The slide library is then searched for a slide with that name.
TaskDD789 - Raster images: added support for rotation angles defined in TFW files.
SR17848 - MText editor now also can handle malformed texts where the open/close braces ({}) do not match.
TaskDD107 - Mtext editor: a click outside of the Mtext editor is considered equivalent to clicking the OK button: modifications are saved and the editor is closed.
Drawing Explorer Xref tree view:
- Multiple selection in tree is supported now.
- When the selection contains nested xrefs, bind option is disabled.
- Unreferenced and unresolved xrefs are no longer shown in grid and icon view (as in tree view).
- A prompt message is now displayed when an Xref could not be bound because it is unresolved.
- 'first level' Xrefs that are also nested in one or more other 'first level' Xrefs are now considered to be nested Xrefs: they cannot be renamed or detached.
Drawing Explorer: 'Show Xref Layers' status is now stored between sessions.
SR16259, SR16300 - Command prompt messages were made easier to understand.
TaskDD1013 - PRINT: improved support for printers with anisotropic scaling.
TaskDD619 - Vpoint dialog: added OK button.
TaskDD859 - Property bar now displays the entity type of partially supported entities , instead of "unknown entity".
Tablet is now initialized from the cui file.
AREA command no longer opens the command bar if it was closed.
TaskDD952 - Settings dialog: removed maximize button, added context help caption button instead of toolbar help button.
TaskDD1022, SR17163 - COM: AcadDocument.Export now allows to export PDF files. The entire drawing is exported as pdf, not just the objects in the selection set. PDF output settings can be set through the Application.Preferences.Output.Pdf object.
LISP: (vlax-dump-object) now lists properties and methods in sorted way.
LISP: (arxload) now shows more detailed error message if the function fails.
SR17419 - LISP symbol names can now have a length of up to 2512 characters instead of 128. AutoLisp symbol names can be up to 2305 characters long.
SDS API: Drastic performance improvement on sds_dictadd, sds_dictdel.
SR17749 - DCL image-menu: faster redrawing of slides in a dcl dialog. Previously the slide was reread from file, now the slide image is kept in memory.
TaskDD77 - VBA: added support for loading referenced dvb projects from a dvb project.

Fixed

TaskDD826 - PRINT: removed unwanted moving of paper image origin to (0,0) after PAGESETUP command when plot area is set to 'Layout'. If initially the paper image was not at (0,0), this bug caused an unexpected jump of the paper image after the PAGESETUP command.
TaskDD862 - PRINT/PAGESETUP: when a UCS was active, unpredictable shifts of the printing area occurred in layout mode.
SR18015 - PRINT: content of block reference on 'not plottable' layer was visible on the plot.
TaskDD1090 - PRINT: setting roll printers to cut off paper right behind the inked area(save roll paper) didn't work.
SR17706 - MTEXT editor: When an Mtext in paper space was over a viewport and a WIPEOUT, the text became hidden while editing.
SR17830 - MTEXT editor: it was not possible to insert special characters like the Numero Sign (U+2116).
SR17703 - Fixed updating and breaking of associative dimensions after mirroring.
TaskDD1043 - It was not possible to load drawing templates containing an Ole2Frame entity.
TaskDD247 - Cursor display: when using crosshair cursor, the "initial" crosshair graphics were not undrawn and remained visible till next redraw/regen.
EXPLODE command now preserves draworder of entities contained in exploded block.
SR17778 - Circles contained in non-uniformly scaled INSERT were exploded as ellipses with radius = 1 and center (0,0,0).
TaskDD1000 - Perspective views: problems with grip display, cursor display and selection were corrected.
SR16424 - Dimension blocks were calculated incorrectly if DIMSCALE = 0.0
AI_BOX command created a polygon mesh instead of a polyface mesh.
SR17373 - 3DCONVERT sometimes created meshes with incorrect faces.
SR17521, SR17585, SR17590 - EXTRUDE worked in opposite direction when a face had opposite orientation corresponding to underlying plane. Further, when the normal direction of an extruded region is collinear and opposite to the UCS Z axis, then UCS Z axis will be used for extrusion direction (Acad compatible behavior)
TaskDD123, SR17894 - When copying or importing a layout, no new viewport should be created.
SR17793 - LENGTHEN: a fatal error occurred if nothing was selected. This regression was introduced in build 12084.
SR18254 - VIEW: 'Save' option saved incorrect view parameters, 'window' option computed the view center incorrectly.
SR18110: update the grid when LIMMIN/MAX change.
SR18056, SR18091: Find and Replace dialog:
- When searching for attributes, and the attribute has one or more empty attribute values, the search stopped, and values that come after the empty one(s) were not found.
- 'Zoom To' button: enlarged zoom scale, because the found entity was not zoomed large enough,
SR17404 - Object snap tooltip string was not updated while cycling through osnap points with TAB.
XREF Bind: BINDTYPE is 0 should switch to BIND mode(use names of the kind xrefname$0$layername), BINDTYPE 1 should switch to INSERT mode(use normal layer and linetype names).
XREF Bind should not take VISRETAIN into account.
TaskDD965, SR16183, SR17931:'-INSERT' command prompted for block redefinition in the command line. It was impossible to redefine a block with INSERT dialog.
TaskDD965, SR16663 - INSERT and -INSERT command: when a block filename is given in command line mode, and this procedure is repeated, the commands did not recognize that the existing block definition comes from that block filename, and (inappropriately) prompted for redefinition. Additionally, = and =<> syntax is now correctly supported.
SR18039 - XRefs of which the saved path contains no extension were not found.
Drawing Explorer, Layers: layers from unresolved Xrefs were displayed, while they shouldn't.
Drawing Explorer: after attaching or detaching an Xref, the layer views were not immediately updated. Only after momentarily selecting another drawing in the Open Drawings tree, or after closing and reopening the Drawing Explorer, the layer view got updated. (After attaching/detaching an xref, its layers should be added/removed from the layer view).
SR17784 - REFCLOSE crash occurred in case all checked out objects were erased and new objects were added.
SR17835 - REFEDIT: entities were shifted to wrong location after editing a block with origin != (0,0,0).
SR17872 - Selected entities did not remain HIGHLIGHTED during operations in commands STRETCH, MOVE, COPY, ROTATE, ROTATE3D, SCALE.
TaskDD817, SR14940 - COPY/PASTE special did not create a unique block name when pasting.
TaskDD817, SR17890 - COPY/PASTE: after several copy/paste operations, non-unique blocknames were generated for the clipboard content.
SR12163, SR17165 - If during panning with the middle mouse button down, the button was released while the cursor was no longer over the drawing view, the real time pan operation was not stopped. Now the real time pan operation is stopped from the moment the mouse re-enters the drawing view, while the middle mouse button is not pressed.
TaskDD1045 - Following FILLET problems have been fixed:
- When using line and polyline input entities
  - with FILLETRAD == 0 and TRIMMODE == remove: undesired extra vertex was added to the polyline.
  - with FILLETRAD != 0 and TRIMMODE == retain: center point for the new arc was incorrectly set, the normal direction of the resulting arc was opposite to the normal direction of the source polyline.
- When using line and arc input entities, with FILLETRAD == 0: wrong end of the arc was being extended due to a coordinate conversion problem.
- Line to arc fillet failed when working in UCS coordinates.
- Behavior when filleting polylines with WIDTH was corrected.
- Behavior when trimming RAYS and XLINES in linear-to-arc FILLET scenarios was corrected.
- For linear-to-arc and arc-to-circle fillets the CRITERION for choosing between possible fillets has been changed to use the distance from the centroid of the picked points to the centers of the possible fillets.
- LAST keyword didn't work for the "Polyline" option of FILLET.
- When trying to fillet a ray to a parallel line a problem occurred.
SR14315 - Toolbars: corrected layer and color comboboxes: when background is white, "ByLayer" color display should change white to black.
SR14337 - Color Combo in toolbar and in Properties toolbar displayed incorrect color swatch if selected entities all had color "ByLayer" but were on different layers.
SR16873 - Regen was missing after layer color change in Properties toolbar.
SR17473 - Raster Image scale was applied incorrectly if the default scale was selected without input (e.g. press Enter).
TaskDD789 - SR18004: ECW geo-info origin point from raster image file was interpreted incorrectly.
SR17463 - Group dialog: groups could not be de-selected by Ctrl-clicking. The groups were no longer displayed highlighted but remained selected.
SR17627- -GROUP command did not allow empty description.
SR17543 - CHPROP command: option LType now accepts _bylayer and _byblock (underscore was not accepted before).
SR17539 - -BOUNDARY command: added _Everything as hidden _Advanced option, for improved compatibility.
TaskDD168, SR17465 - Default (empty) input was not accepted in _UNDO _Auto command option (regression introduced in build 10861)
PSPACE command: if used when already in PSpace, any subsequent MSPACE command failed to activate the modelspace viewport.
SR17045 - Menu mnemonics: modified CUI file to achieve minimal overlap of mnemonics.
TaskDD1006 - Crashes during export to BMP/WMF/EMF were fixed.
TaskDD931 - WMF export: extents of WMF exported image were incorrect if WMFBKGND = off.
SR17026 - After stretching dimensions, feet and inches could display as 9'-12" instead of 10'-0"
SR16922, SR16950 - SCALE, ROTATE/3D, BOX commands: incorrectly or not drawn dynamics.
SR16972 - corrected typo in LAYFRZ command prompt.
POINT command ignored Thickness.
SR16929 - TRIM/EXTEND commands: SORTENTS variable was disregarded when selecting subentities.
Localized versions: error messages originating from the DwgDirect libs were not translatable.

Fixes for 3rd party application development

SR17936 - MOVE/ROTATE/SCALE/MIRROR commands did not correctly update entity xdata for DXF1013, DXF1041, DXF1042, DXF1011.
SR17789 - STRETCH command:
1. If the selection set of entities to be stretched had been pre-made using (ssget), it was not accepted by the command. Now such selection set is accepted and processed as if _all_ stretch points were selected, that is: it is moved instead of stretched.
2. If a pre-made selection was passed as input to the command, any additionally picked entities that were already in the pre-made set, will be replaced in this set.
TaskDD168, SR17516 - db undo stack had a clearing problem.
SR17696 - ZOOM: if the zoom command is called while some snap point is marked, the snap point and snap tool tip were not correctly released.
TaskDD1010, SR16759 - Document referenced by OdApDocManagerReactor::documentCreated reactor had invalid file name in case of File-Open operation.
SR17776 - It was not possible to entdel entities in the *error* function, which is called if the user presses Cancel during an operation.

LISP/SDS API

SR17557 - PLINE command now returns RTERROR instead of RTCAN, no longer causing Lisp code execution to be cancelled.
SR17770 - MSLIDE: 'file exists' message was not suppressed in Lisp and script execution modes.
SR18059 - LISP: using (vlr-remove ...) should disable a reactor but not remove it, otherwise (vlr-add ...) can cause hang-ups or crashes.
TaskDD854, SR15234, SR16878 - LISP: load/unload raster image after entmod() was fixed.
SR17472 - LISP commands were not repeated by typing enter or clicking the right mouse button. Regression was introduced in build 12744.
SR17882 - LISP: (vla-...) functions which return results as Lisp symbols, e.g. (vla-getpapersize obj 'width 'height), did not correctly assign the value returned by COM to their variables, in this example 'width' and 'height'. Only VT_VARIANT compatible values were correctly assigned.
LISP: function (vla-getwidth < lwpolyline > ...) triggered an incorrect error message about a missing method 'GETPLWIDTH'
TaskDD885, SR15234, SR16878 - LISP: garbage collection could cause Lisp data being damaged during Lisp execution.
LISP: when function (getint) was used without preceding (initget), it did not allow empty input.
SR17503 - LISP: code of form (apply 'mapcar (list ...)) or (apply 'mapcar (cons ...)) caused an error message and stopped Lisp execution.
LISP: (command "_fillet" "_radius" rad) did not automatically finish the _FILLET command.
SR17708 - LISP: (vl-load-all) could cause an error while loading a Lisp file, so the file was not loaded.
SR16894 - LISP: if ESCAPE character(s) preceded commands or Lisp expressions, IAcadDocument.SendCommand() failed. Example: DocumentObject.SendCommand(#27#27(load "LispFile.lsp")#13)
LISP: (acad_strlsort) now uses lexicographic sorting to provide AutoLisp-like results.
LISP - 'Last' keyword for (entsel) was malfunctioning when used in scripts.
LISP: (vla-...) functions return an empty SafeArray, with LowerBound = 0 and UpperBound = -1. we mistakenly returned NIL here, which triggered faults in (vlax-variant-value...).
TaskDD1087 - SR17841 - LISP: the startup Lisp files where sometimes not loaded, after a drawing had been closed (ON_START_DEFAULT.LSP, ON_START.LSP, ON_DOC_LOAD_DEFAULT.LSP, ON_DOC_LOAD.LSP)
SR17972 - LISP: in some cases the (ascii) function returned a negative value.
LISP: When no (S::STARTUP) was defined, the Lisp engine sometimes still tried to evaluate this (non-defined) function, which yielded a wrong error message.
SR18053 - LISP: (ver) function now includes locale specification of the running Bricscad version, like "LispEx : Version 1.976 (en)"
TaskDD946 - entget list for DIMSTYLE table records did not contain groupcodes 5, 6, 7, 176, 177, 178, 270.
TaskDD1025 - entget list for 3d-Polyline-Vertex did not contain groupcodes 40, 41, 42, 50, 71, 72, 73, 74. - entget list for LwPolyline did not contain groupcodes 40, 41.
TaskDD907 - Selection with snap did not work in commands, (entsel) and (ssget) functions.
TaskDD907 - Temporary entity snapping did not work in scripts. This regression was introduced in build 9891. An automated test has been added.
LISP/SDS: ssget() selection did not support mode names that started with "_".
SR17397 - SDS: sds_redraw() and (redraw) functions used inverted logic so 'redraw' (1) and 'hide' (2) flags worked in opposite way than intended.
SDS: floating-point values sent with sds_cmd()/sds_command() (resbuf::restype is RTREAL, RTPOINT, RT3DPOINT) lost precision after the 6th decimal.

DCL

SR17749, SR17514 - DCL - IMAGE menu dialog: added support for list items that have no corresponding slide. When an image menu item is specified in a cui file without slide, it is displayed in the list in the image dialog and the corresponding dcl image is left empty. Before this fix, inserting an item without slide corrupted the remainder of the list.
SR17880 - DCL layout problem: an edit_box with an edit_width, but without a label, was incorrectly aligned.
SR17817 - DCL cleanup issue: in some cases a dcl component was destroyed twice.
SR18058, SR18209, SR18255 - DCL:
- A dialog was too wide because of a label with many trailing spaces.
- A text element, a radiobutton and a checkbox did not receive sufficient space at their right side. In a row of dcl components, add more (spare) space to the right side, except when the most-right element is an edit_box or popup_list.
- Add a stretcher in front of a popup_list or edit_box, even if it has no label. A stretcher is an invisible component that takes spare space. Before this change, a stretcher was only added between a non-empty label and the corresponding popup_list or edit_box. As a result, a popup_list or edit_box now appears right-aligned, even if their label is empty.
- added support for fixed width font to dcl text component.
- The width of a popup_list with edit_width attribute was too small as it did not incorporate the width of the arrow of a popup_list.
- The color codes representing dialog background or graphics background did not result in the appropriate color.
- Spread a dcl image or image_button over the available width and height regarding the attributes fixed_width and fixed_height, even if the attribute aspect_ratio has been specified. Before this change, Bricscad respected the aspect_ratio of the image, even in the final layout. Now the aspect_ratio is only used to specify a minimum size.
- When a spacer and a labeled item appear in the same row, divide spare space evenly over the spacer(s) and the labeled item.
- Ignore the default width/height of a list_box when a width/height attribute has been specified.
SR18210 - DCL text: special characters (accents) were not correctly displayed.
SR18115 - DCL: unexpected trim of text containing a tab character: when a dcl text component contains a tab character, the text is only partially visible. This is due to a limitation of our underlying GUI layer: the length of a text cannot correctly be predicted if it contains a tab character. This is fixed by expanding the text over the available width. However, this would break alignment. Indeed, if the text component takes up the entire available width, centering or aligning to the right does not make any difference. So, if alignment is set, the text is not expanded over the available width, but the length of a tab is estimated instead. Mind that therefore aligned text can be some pixels wrong if it contains one or more tab characters.

COM/VBA

SR17726 - COM: AcadEntity.TransformBy gave wrong result.
SR16119 - COM: iterating over an empty collection with 'For Each' VBA statement yielded an error.
SR12442 - COM: do not throw exception upon attempt to add an existing Layer, Block, LineType, TextStyle, DimStyle, Ucs, Viewport or View.
COM: Following assignment was failing: Application.ActiveDocument = Application.Documents(0).
TaskDD953, SR17639 - COM: AcadUCSs::Add() now modifies the existing UCS if a UCS with the specified name already existed.
TaskDD468, SR12187 - COM: UserCoordinateSystems.Add(): sanity checks were added for 1. coincidence of axis points with the origin 2. perpendicularity of the specified X and Y axis.
VBA macros called by (command "vbarun") could not ask for user input. The fiber switching logic was corrected to enable asking for user input.

BRX SDK

An overview of new extensions to the BRX SDK can be found in the Changelog.txt file included with the SDK.

Generic Development aid:

Enabled crash reports. The report is saved to crash_report.txt located in the application's start-up working directory. Two kinds of error exceptions are distinguished:
1. Unhandled (which normally lead to crash); these are marked as "Unhandled" in the report;
2. Handled - in which case the program proposes to save open drawings and exits.
The crash report contains info about: exception type, CPU registers values and calls stack of the crashed thread. To make calls stack report more useful, symbol files (PDBs) are to be provided.

Version 9.1.12

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

SR17914: BRX: function AcGeLineSeg3d::isColinearTo was not always returning a correct result.
SR17869: SHX texts were not exported to PDF if the "SHX text as geometry" option was off.
Print dialog: settings "Plot with plotstyles","Plot object lineweights", "plot paperspace last", "Display plot styles" in "Use plot settings: previous plot" are now persistent between application runs.
Filename returned from OdApDocument::fileName was different from actual if called from an OdRxEventReactor::saveComplete event reactor.

Version 9.1.11

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

SR17593 - SAVEAS command did not ask for overwrite when saving into the same name as opened file in an older DWG format.
SR17697 - unstable behavior and failures in linetype combo when the default plotstyle was missing.
SR17815 - BRX: occasional crash could occur with subsequent calls of acedSSGet and acedSSFree.

Version 9.1.10

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

SR17276 - Previous Plot : if, right after startup, print dialog option 'use plot settings: Previous plot' was set, printing was done to system default printer instead of the selected one.
SR17276 - Print: when using the 'plot' command with a plot style table ('ctb' file), without saving changes to layout, this style table was ignored.
TaskDD826 - Paper area: after updating the page settings ('pagesetup'), the layout is zoomed to fit the rectangular paper area to the screen. Fixed wrong zoom when paper rectangle initially was zoomed far out and located in the left-top or right-bottom corner.
SR17625, SR17107 - Printing: Shx text clipped by viewport boundaries failed to print, and caused print failure of subsequent entitities.
TaskDD1057, SR17520 - insert block dialog: fixed error on providing a block name by typing it in the combobox (rather than selecting it in the list) Also, from now on the OK button is always enabled, so it is not needed to wait for the dialog to realize a correct block name has been typed - the Insert command checks for correctness anyway.
TaskDD915, SR17515 - Problem when saving drawing containing overridden dimension style.
SR17612, SR17698 - Large drawings using material definitions were opening very slowly and allocating a lot of memory.
TaskDD820 - Crash upon opening a drawing that contains a circular dependency of xrefs. Now a message is displayed when a circular reference is detected and removed.
SR17589 - Positioning of attribute definition entities with non-default alignment is fixed.
SR17571 - Fixed attributes alignment problem when loading from DXF R12.
SR17486 - DCL engine: Added quotes and escaping during the substitution of $key and $value in a dcl action attribute. As a result, the resulting value or key will always be of type string. For instance action="(setq variable $value)"; will always return variable as a string.
SR17635 - The lisp/sds function "alert" now uses wxWidgets rather than MFC to display its message. It is now correctly modal when called from DCL.
SR16066 - Pressing F1 while drawing e.g. a line, brings up a dialog to choose a Help-subject. This dialog could cause Bricscad to hang.
SR17164 - Script recording: mouse clicks to enter points were not recorded to scripts correctly, which prevented the scripts to be played.
TaskDD556 - (findfile) and sds_findfile() functions were not fully acad compatible.

Version 9.1.9

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC

New

BRX API: Added support for DemandLoad feature to load applications.
- The DEMANDLOAD system variable can be used to configure the DemandLoading modes.
- DemandLoad information is stored in the Bricscad registry.
- Currently implemented "DemandLoad" settings :
  - onCommand: arx/drx modules are loaded when defined commands are entered
  - onStartup: arx/drx modules are loaded once at session startup
  - onProxy: is temporarily implemented (as workaround) like "onStartup" to ensure that such modules are loaded before entities come in.
  - Disabled: disables any DemandLoad operation for the arx/drx module

Improved

TaskDD1047, SR 17304 - RECOVER and AUDIT commands now can correct wrong identifiers of layer materials.
Added support for AUDITCTL system variable: if ON, the Audit results are saved to a file with the same name as the drawing, but with extension "adt".
SaveAs and Dxfout drawing format names were made fully compatible.

Fixed

SR 17584 - Visibility of dots in printed hatches and linetypes was improved.
SR 17626 - Hatch disappears due to clipping problem.
SR 17623 - TaskDD1061 - MTEXT in PS viewport was not printed.
SR 17553 - Viewport content shifts.
Commands from COM addins were not available.
TaskDD583, SR 16775 - Plot styles were not updated after editing current pst file or selecting another pst file in Print or Page Setup dialog.
SR 17467 - UCSFOLLOW setting triggered a switch to plan view even in locked viewports. This is OK for unlocked viewports but locked viewports should not allow plan view.
SR 17410 - Tool tips in the Bricscad main drawing window remained visible when switching to another application.
TaskDD283 - Tablet: changed to use UNICODE version of tablet API, solving tablet digitizing regressions.
SR 17302 - Angle values sent by 'sds_cmd()' and 'sds_command()' with 'RTANG' and 'RTORINT' resbuf types were misinterpreted if AUNITS was different from 3 or ANGDIR was 1.
SR 17580 - "StartUp" folder is now included in file search operations like (load), (arxload), (findfile) and others
TaskDD59 - acquireAngle() and acquireDist() returned eNormal on empty input (pressed Enter or Space) even if eNullResponseAccepted is not set.
TaskDD59 - transparent calling of commands during jigging led to stop jigging if the calls required user input. This fix also enables to call one jig transparently to another one.
TaskDD59 - Operations causing a drawing redraw, invoked transparently in jig mode, led to ghost graphics of the jig entity.
TaskDD59 - snapping to a grid in jig mode did not work correctly for BRX apps.
Commands from COM addins were not available in Bricscad Classic.

Version 9.1.8

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Improved

SR 17360 - Accelerated opening of Text Styles explorer by caching the list of font names.
SR 17109 - Print preview for very large paper sizes.
SR 17339 - Solved translation issues.
Slow pan operation for raster images.
Mtext editor now also allows to resize the width of right- and center justified mtext.
Mtext editor used to be closed without saving when clicking some command icon during mtext editing. Now a confirmation is asked if changes should be saved.

Fixed

SR 17347 - Could not create Mview when Ortho mode was on.
SR 17376 - Crash when snapping associative dimensions to dimension or leader entities.
SR 17415 - Crash when opening drawing (crash when displaying solid hatch).
TaskDD59 - Cartesian snapping to grid worked unstable.
Drawings containing acis entities crashed when DISPSILH was enabled.
SR 17416 - impossible to open a user provided drawing since V9.1.4 (proxy handling problem).
SR 17299 - Area is displayed as "XX sq. in. (YY sq. ft.)" if LUNITS system variable is 3 (Engineering) or 4 (Architectural).
SR 17255 - Attributes, that have FIELD objects with DXF301="", were not displayed.
TaskDD826 - Printing: when using the Current View option to print a layout, the printed area did not correspond with the actual current view, it was shifted.
SR 17386 - Default value for rotation of xref attachment should ignore ANGBASE.
SR 17412 - DCL: default height of spacer was too high.
SR 17412 - DCL: adjusted radio_button to stretch horizontally by default.
LISP: calling of methods and properties of COM objects from lisp by their names (using vlax-invoke-method, vlax-get-property, vlax-put-property) failed with messages like "Automation Error. Property [PropertyName] not available".
SR 17394 - LISP: support NIL in (vla-...) and (vlax-...) as :vlax-false to keep compatibility with existing code (this is beyond AutoLisp compatibility).
SR 17311 - LISP/SDS: sds_findfile() and (findfile) mistakenly changed the "current working directory" if that was not the "startup directory" - this is fixed, the "current working directory" is no longer changed by any "findfile" operation

Version 9.1.7

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

Printing: dots in dotted lines were hardly visible.
SR 17107, SR 17281 - Printing: Shx text clipped by viewport boundaries failed to print.
TaskDD997, SR 17272 - Lines with dots were not fully clipped by viewport borders (dots were not clipped).
TaskDD1031, SR 17335 - Hatch boundaries containing duplicate vertices caused incomplete printing and displaying.
TaskDD887, SR 17331 - Islands in solid hatches sometimes got filled when they should have been left open.
SR 17346 - Solid hatches having many (thousands) boundary vertices suffered from a performance problem.
TaskDD1024, SR16845 - ATTEXT command generated UNICODE SDF/CDF files instead of ANSI files.
SR 17265 - Crash when a block reference was selected (PickFirst) before starting the TRIM command.
Crash occurred when snapping to zero-length line segment in "Nearest" mode.
Crash occurred when opening an embedded object.
Some messages and prompts could not be translated in localized versions.
TaskDD618, SR 13020 - Corrected area and perimiter computation for multiple faces.
TaskDD710 - PEDIT command: selecting a wrong entity type resulted in an endless iteration.
TaskDD774, SR 16964 - Keyboard input was ignored during entity dragging.
SR 17247 - LISP: (vlax-safearray->list) sometimes returned lists containing wrong or NIL values.
COM API - Setting the active document using Application.ActiveDocument was failing.

Version 9.1.2

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

SR 17059 - 17067 - 17049: User Profile Manager did not work correctly because it used V8's registry.
Mtext editor created new entities in modelspace instead of in current layout.
SR16994: mtext is not visible during editing if mtext background mask is on.
TaskDD1011: image rendering caused a hangup when the image was viewed on its side, so when it should be displayed as a line segment.
SR 16989: drawing containing corrupted objects was only partially displayed in V9.
SR 17068: exception on save in dwg R15 format.
SR 16921: On rotation ACIS entities were wrongly transformed.
Insert was not selectable on an off layer.
COM: Fixed crash in method CAcadSpline::put_Weights().
COM: It was not possible to create ellipse not on WCS XY plane. Now ZAxis of current UCS is used as normal for new ellipse..
Migration of settings from V8 to V9: If Bricscad was installed in a nondefault path, the migrated SRCHPATH sysvar would get wrong values.

Info

From version 9.1.2, Bricscad no longer installs the bonus tools. All functionality exists in the core application.

Version 9.1.1

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 UTC

New

In-place WYSIWYG MText editor. Supports bidirectional text editing and ligatures.
In-place Xref and Block editing with REFEDIT/REFSET/REFCLOSE commands.
Associative dimensions and leaders.
Quick Select tool in Properties Panel.
Support for ECW images.
Support for JPEG2000 raster images.
BRX SDK: BRX is a 100% code-compatible solution for ARX. The runtime brx.dll file required to load and run BRX based applications is installed along with Bricscad (requires Pro license). Interested developers are welcome to contact us to get access to our BRX SDK.
DIMREGEN command for updating associative dimensions.
LAYON, LAYOFF, LAYFRZ, LAYTHW, LAYLCK, LAYULK, LAYISO, LAYUNISO commands in new Layers toolbar.
WIPEOUT command.
TRANSPARENCY command.
TXTEXP command for exploding text.
COPYBASE and PASTEBLOCK commands.
AUDIT command
XATTACH command for attaching xrefs.
Statusbar has been reimplemented. The statusbar is now customizable.
Documentation: Check out the new command reference, included in the help. The developer reference is brought up to date to the V9 COM interface.

Improved

Performance - redraw operation became 3 x faster (on average, depending on drawing content).
Performance - explode became much faster.
Performance - Images: faster raster image display.
TaskDD840 - Performance - Images: much faster redraw for black-and-white images with transparency.
TaskDD840 - Performance - Images: to allow more comfortable handling of larger raster images, IMAGEQUALITY can be set to draft, which reduces color resolution, and large raster images (images with many pixels, not necessarily large files) are scaled to reduce their resolution and memory footprint. This works around a problem where images were not loaded because too much memory was needed.
SR 16406 - Performance - Erase: erasing entities became much faster.
SR 16577 - Performance - Groups: strongly improved selection speed and copy performance for drawings containing many groups. Also strongly improved speed of displaying list of groups in group dialog.
TaskDD801 - Performance - Regen: much faster regen for xclipped inserts containing hatches + optimization of nurbs clipping.
TaskDD869 - TRIM: Text now can act as a cutting edge in the TRIM command.
TaskDD952 - Context help buttons were added to most dialogs + F1-key context help in Drawing Explorer and Newwiz dialogs.
TaskDD804, TaskDD850 - Customize dialog: 'revert to defaults' now opens a dialog where user can choose to reset CUI and/or PGP file.
TaskDD804, SR 14719 - added input validation to the Insert Block dialog.
TaskDD780, SR 16768 - Insert/Attach dialog: It was not possible to key in the name, one was forced to use the browse button. Now the field is editable.
SR 15592 - XLINEs and RAYs are extended to 3 times screen size, in order not to look trimmed after zooming out.
TaskDD64, TaskDD291 - Color dialog:
- added support for color 257 as "ByEntity"
- when 'Varies' was on, Cancel button did not work properly
- 'index' spin control disappeared when it was set to 257
TaskDD728 - CUI: MenuMacroId's now are handled case sensitive.
TaskDD643 - CUI: Added support for toolbar flyout "UseOwnIcon" attribute. Customize dialog can now edit image items in PopMenuRef and ToolbarFlyout.
Rewritten prompt menu with the ability to show hidden prompt options.
CUI Keyboard accelerators: added support for numpad /*-+ buttons and for F13-F24 function keys. Only single chars are accepted with the Ctrl modifier (reject "Shift+A" or "Alt+A"), punctuation chars are rejected.
SR 16360 - default.cui, 'CMEDIT' context menu:
- added 'OBJECT_DIMENSION' menu to handle selection of one dimension object
- added 'dimstyle_apply' to dimension context menus
SR 16162 - Drawing Explorer: the dependency between the various types of xref views were removed, so loading the data for a tree view only happens when the tree view is selected, not when grid view or icon view is selected. Added 'busy' cursor when tree view is selected.
SR 16411 - Drawing Explorer, Layer States: added a 'Save' option to toolbar and menu's. When 'Save' is chosen, the currently selected layer state is overwritten with the current layer settings.
TaskDD940 - POLYGONAL option of XCLIP command was added.
TaskDD957 - LOCK option of MVIEW command was added.
TaskDD958 - JOIN option of VPORTS is reworked to select viewports to join, not two points in different viewports switching the active viewport in between.
TaskDD984 - JOIN command: when joining lines the acceptance test for lines to be parallel/co-directed, was changed to testing for collinear lines instead.
TaskDD873 - SR 15370 - Smoothness of spline curves was improved.
TaskDD522 - Spell Checking dialog was improved: added combo-box "Where to check:" (either "Entire drawing" or "Selected objects") and button for selecting entities. The Dictionary subdialog can now also be reached if no text is selected.
SR 15622 - Added 'Purge' option to the File menu.
TaskDD696 - load VBA on demand only.
SR 15599 - COM API: Allow each COM client to have its own Bricscad server instance.
Implemented new mechanism for partial display updates. Having to explicitly redraw modified entities was a chore for programmers.
TaskDD59 - dev. info: Enabled usage of hot-keys, menus and buttons in jig mode.
SR 15614 - Plot Styles and Plotter Configuration files now are also searched in the subfolders of the Plot Styles and Plotter Configuration folders.
SR 15309 - The status bar context menu for selecting the current dim style only allowed to set one of the first 25 dim styles current. This was extended.
Upgraded to Dwgdirect 2.6.
Upgraded to WxWidgets 2.8.
Upgraded to FreeImage 3.10.0

Fixed

TaskDD860 - Undo/Redo problems in case of switching drawings while running a command: too big undo steps.
TaskDD919 - SR 16079: print preview for the drawing attached to SR 16079 triggered an 'invalid input' exception.
TaskDD991, SR 16671, TaskDD812 - Print: failure to generate one entity's graphics during printing led to aborting the whole operation. Now the program reports about the problem entity and continues printing.
Print dialog: when using 'Layout' plot area and 'Custom' plot scale (e.g. 1:2) the printed area was wrong.
TaskDD835 - Printing of gradient hatches had been broken since V8.2.1 (when upgrading to DwgDirect 2.5.1)
TaskDD950 - SR16242: points on the defpoints layer were printed, they shouldn't.
SR 15595 - When displaying/printing a linetyped entity, and a dot matches the end point of previously output dash, that dot shouldn't be output.
SR 15259 - On Windows 2000 using the Landscape/Portrait radio buttons in the Print dialog caused a hangup.
TaskDD890: values from plot paths were retrieved from previous userprofile.
TaskDD915 - drawing could not be saved (ProblematicTableStyle.dwg).
SR 16302 - Impossible to save drawing due to corrupted X-records.
Potential problems with TTF, leading to INVALID INDEX messages and a failure to save the drawing.
TaskDD991, SR 16671 - regen of entities with many vertices, with non-continuous linetype, could fail with message "invalid input".
DXFOUT command could not save in A2000 format.
TaskDD687 - Fixed crashes on accessing drawings (without opening in the editor) containing OLE items. This happened e.g. when importing layouts from templates, rendering a drawing preview, etc.
SR 15893 - Crash during selection of an entity with very large (>10.000.000.000) coordinates.
SR 16510 - Problem to open drawing using huge coordinates.
TaskDD823 - There was a crash when viewsize value was around 1.e+100 and one tried to zoom out.
SR 16602 - Rendering of Text or Attribute entity with very small text height (1.e-10 or less) failed with error message "An error occurred while rendering entity".
SR 15727 - Crash when processing circle with zero radius in hidden mode.
Moving a circle with zero radius caused a crash.
SR 15792 - Crash on loading dxf files that had missing textstyles.
TaskDD932, SR 16064 - PURGE command could purge blocks that were still referenced (in specific circumstance).
TaskDD866, SR515515, SR16748 - SOLIDEDIT command: faces could not be selected; ACIS entities from DWG2004 format could not be processed.
SR 16787 - when setting POLARANG via the command line, it was displayed in linear format instead of angular format.
SR 16639 - Zoom Extents blocked the application when a drawing contained entities with improper huge coordinates.
TaskDD848, SR 15253 - Zoom commands for locked viewport misbehaved.
TaskDD930 - SR 16159 - UCS icon should not be rescaled after "zoom; previous" command.
SR 16712 - incorrect image scaling along Y axis if TFW-file was applied for image insertion.
Avoid creation of corrupt tablestyle when closing the Settings dialog.
SR 16537 - Underlined text showed gaps in the underline for certain SHX fonts (e.g. romanc.shx)
SR 15996 - It was not possible to load a dxf file containing MleaderStyles with 0 values for DXF91/DXF93/DXF94.
MText alignment for text containing trailing spaces was corrected.
SR 15997 - Negative text height values are no longer accepted for text and mtext entities.
SR 15990 - TaskDD245 - avoid crash on preview of files containing corruptions.
TaskDD931 - SR 16032 - Fixed rendering of TTF fonts in WMF metafiles (regression introduced in v8.2)
TaskDD962 - Singleton mode was broken.
TaskDD968 - CHANGE command: wrong base point for rays/xlines was set if "Entities/Definition points" was selected before doing actual "Change point" action.
SR 16324 - When using the shift+right click menu to select a snap override, polar tracking became disabled.
TaskDD613 - SR 15225 - Attributes were not displayed in the DDATTE dialog if ATTRIB objects in the INSERT did not have corresponding ATTDEF objects in block definition.
SR 15234 - Impossibility to edit attributes with EATTEDIT. Meanwhile EATTEDIT dialog was improved: input validity check is now done in an earlier stage.
SR 14481 - Corrected prompt and dialog box title for the WMFOUT command (it used the same prompts as the MSLIDE command).
TaskDD824 - Switch white lines to black on copy clipboard. Implemented WMFFOREGND and WMFBKGND sysvar.
TaskDD931 - SR 14871: WMFBKGND variable is taken into account when painting background of exported WMF/EMF metafile.
SR 16347 - in the -style command prompt for obliquing angle, the default angle was displayed as a linear unit (e.g: Obliquing angle: <0">) i.o as an angular unit
SR 15353 - Vpoint dialog: Cancel button now closes the dialog.
TaskDD956 - It was not possible to delete the active layout with the "Delete" option of the "Layout" command.
SR 16603 - NEWWIZ dialod didn't remember last used option.
TaskDD837 - SR 15011, 15132, 15631 - Part of the drawing display disappeared after editing an entity in some user-provided drawings, regen was needed to redisplay the entitities.
SR 13157 - When an insert was modified to point to a new block, the display kept using the old block.
TaskDD877 - SR 15525 - Display of polyline width was scaled wrongly for polylines contained in blocks.
SR 13765 - DIMTOL and DIMLIM should be mutually exclusive. Command SETVAR now makes sure that one is switched off if the other is switched on.
SR 15372 - TaskDD596 - Wrong result when moving leader and its annotation together.
SR 15372 - SR 15393 -TaskDD596 - SR 12897 - Justification and alignment settings of copied leader's MTEXT were different from original MTEXT.
SR 12578 - SR 16178: failure to find shape files if their full path was stored in the textstyle.
SR 15343 - Command UCS WORLD in paperspace failed to reset UCS.
TaskDD923 - SR 13871 - drawing crashes on wrong UCS data.
UCS icon was drawn using lineweight when switching TILEMODE.
SR 15667 - Layerstates: it was impossible to restore the Current VP Frozen/Thawed state.
SR 15567 - Layerstates: in Tree View mode it is possible to type the name of another layer state in the Name field. Added a message box displaying a warning.
SR 16179 - Width of polyline was computed incorrectly if:
1. polyline property 'linetype generation' was enabled (dxf70=128) and
2. polyline was transformed, e.g. placed inside a block. Transformation was not applied to the width of the polyline.
SR 12577, SR 16881: Crash during command EXTRUDE.
SR 16746 - Error after using EXTEND on polyline with non-zero width.
TaskDD988 - Polygonal option of VPCLIP is corrected to create LW polylines.
TaskDD940 - XCLIP 'new' and 'generate polyline' options didn't work correctly with inserts of blocks with non-zero base point.
TaskDD439, SR 16691 - commands MOVE and COPY were (incorrectly) able to modify entities on locked layers if these entities were selected before calling the command (PICKFIRST).
SR 15890 - ACIS entity was not displayed correctly after command MOVE.
SR 15942 - hanging occurred during redraw of MINSERT entity, if it had 1 column or 1 row.
TaskDD714 - SR 13801, SR 16445 - text mirroring was incorrect for alignments different from Left/Basic.
SR 16235 - TRIM and EXTEND commands: subentities selection problem when all entities are used as boundary edges.
TRIM and EXTEND commands: Fence option is undone as single step.
TaskDD864 - SR 15873 - SR 15499 - Polar snap tooltip: undo operation during LINE, PLINE, 3DPOLY, LEADER commands did not correctly undo the polar snap base point.
SR 16001 - Settings dialog: fixed get/set 'POLARANG' variable.
SR 15732 - Settings dialog: added COPYMODE system variable.
TaskDD35 - Settings dialog: corrected read-only state of RE_INIT and TEMPPREFIX system variables.
SR 16288 - Some screensavers based on DirectX crashed Bricscad.
TaskDD259 - SR13336, SR14003, SR14655, SR16337 - GRID - Grid display was incorrect in rotated coordinate systems. Fixed grid displaying in any limits (now grid display conform to the limits). Fixed isometric grid displaying. Fixed grid density check. Fixed point snapping for isometric grid.
SR 16348 - Hatch pattern previews were influenced by drawing settings, and as such could become blank or invisible.
SR 16463 - Inheriting properties of a hatch with unknown pattern caused an error.
Bhatch dialog: "current origin" radiobutton remained checked after selecting "new origin" option.
TaskDD821 - Hatch associativity was lost when moving hatched entities.
TaskDD957 - Crash could occur when switching viewports on/off.
SR 16181 - Viewport border remained visible when viewport's layer was switched off.
TaskDD958 - DELETE option of VPORTS is corrected not to delete the "*Active" viewports' configuration.
TaskDD957 - MVIEW is corrected to create LwPolyines disregarding the PLINETYPE setting.
TaskDD913 - INSERT: crash occurred when inserting drawing kadastrale_kaart.dxf.
SR 16127 - incorrect intersection snap when circle is located inside scaled insert.
SR 15734 - In translated versions, the tooltips for ESNAP were not translated.
SR 16104 - after reloading a linetype the linetype combo went blank.
SR 16097 - InsertAligned command : Changed prompt "XYZ/Block mirroring control point" to "Enter block mirroring control point:".
SR 16156 - HELP should work when no document is open.
DIMTFILLCLR system variable was broken.
TaskDD890: using /p switch with .arg file failed to find the file.
TaskDD908 - OLE - fixed the activation of embedded Bricscad document in the Bricscad application.
Prompt messages of RECOVER and PEDIT commands were not translatable.
SR 15571 - choosing a mode for the 'shademode' command did not work in translated versions.
SR 16156 - command TEXT should not switch off ORTHOMODE.
TaskDD918 - SR 16040 - left+right trimming of entered text value; commands _Text / _DText should never "format" entered text.
Drawing Explorer, Drawings Tree - Insert as Block did not work for 'network' files.
TaskDD902 - COPY/copy on Ctrl+drag/MIRROR/ARRAY are changed to copy group objects along with grouped entities.
SR 15782 - Interrupting real-time view operations or entity dragging could cause a crash.
SR 15779 - BREAK command now erases an open pline and does no longer erase a closed pline if the end points of the pline are used as break points.
SR 15766 - corrected ATTMODE options.
TaskDD702 - SR 15687 - regions now can be created from open curves having equal start and end points.
TaskDD742 - a value entered as "7/3" was no longer interpreted as 2.3333 . The error occurred when numerator was greater than denominator.
TaskDD742 - it was no longer possible to use decimals when entering a length in feet. E.g. 3.5' should be accepted and converted to 3'6"
SR 15323 - When freezing/thawing a layer in the current viewport with the layer combo, the layer list scrolled back to the top, and the user had to explicitly do a regen to see the result.
Selection of subentities using window-inside mode was malfunctioning.
TaskDD711 - Added support for DIMUPT variable for rotated dimensions.
TaskDD710 - PEDIT "break" option broke a closed pline incorrectly, it didn't add a substitute for the start vertex to the second produced pline.
TaskDD139 - MENUCMD now supports diesel expressions (menucmd "M=$(...)").
SR 15234 - MENUCMD return value: menu item status query now returns RTKWORD instead of RTNORM.
TaskDD737 - MENULOAD allowed to add the same menu more than once.
TaskDD665 - Right-click context menu on floated toolbars was broken.
SR 15375 - Removed obsolete tools from CUI file, as well as obsolete 32X32 bitmap 'dimstyle.bmp'
SR 15516 - when loading partial CUI files the program now also looks up the corresponding resource dll and/or mnl file as follows :
1. It looks for a file in the same folder with the same name but extension .dll or .mnl
2. It looks for a file anywhere in the SearchPath, with the same name but extension .dll or .mnl
SR 15389 - ICM to CUI conversion:
- Top-level menus without "tearOffName" were not correctly imported.
- Fixed import of submenus (check next subLevel instead of own tearOffName)
- Redundant empty PopMenu items were created in CUI tree.
- Corrected diesel expression for GRIDMODE, SNAPMODE and LIMCHECK vars (use 'eq ON' instead of '= 0').
- Skip items with visibility 1134 (duplicate Entity Snaps items)
- Fixed DlgOpenFile for "Load Main CUI File" ('mnu' filter was selected by default, instead of 'cui').
SR 15291 - Filenames surrounded by quotation marks could not be handled by the commands NEW (template filename) and SAVEAS.
SR 16408 Color dialog: when current color is between 0 and 9, typing another value in the index field did not change the color.
SR 15255 - Parallelograms replacing small TTF text were drawn at wrong positions.
TaskDD842 - When ANGBASE=90, ANGDIR=Clockwise and a block is inserted, the dialog should default to rotation=90 so that the block is inserted upright.
SR 15355 - SR 15433 - Avoid unwanted opening of Prompt History Window during '-DIMSTYLE' command.
TaskDD781 - Crosshair cursor disappeared if pick box was set to values greater than 10.
TaskDD713 - When LUPREC was set to zero, it was not possible to view a scale factor smaller than 1 in the dialogs. The scale factor values in the Property Panel are now displayed independently from the LUPREC sysvar. System variables LWDISPSCALE, DIMRND, DIMALTRND, DIMTM, DIMTP now are displayed independently from the LUPREC sysvar, both on the command line as in the Settings and Drawing Explorer dialogs.
SR 16649 - AcadSummaryInfo: AddCustomInfo, RemoveCustomByIndex and RemoveCustomByKey were not updated.
SR 14717 - If selection by window is performed, snapping to grid is disabled, to prevent confusing entity selection. Selection looked confusing, since the drawn selection rectangle just followed the cursor, while the real area used for selecting was snapped to the grid.
TaskDD838, SR 16834 - Crash is avoided on TOOLBAR/RTPAN/RTZOOM and other commands if executed while no drawing is open.

Programming related

TaskDD275, SR16734 - CMDDIA/Off switches following commands to their command-line (non dialog-based) version: ATTDEF, ATTEXT, BHATCH, COLOR, DDSELECT, DDSETVAR, DDVPOINT, DIMSTYLE, EXPBLOCKS, EXPUCS, GROUP, HATCH, HYPERLINK, INSERT, LAYER, LAYOUT>TEMPLATE, LINETYPE, REFEDIT, RENAME, SETUCS, STYLE, TEXT, UNITS, VIEW, XREF
TaskDD876 - COPY command now uses 'single' instead of 'multiple' mode when executed within a script.
SR 16780 - angtos and rtos functions returned incorrect rounded values when precision was set to more than 8.

LISP/SDS

LISP engine upgrade
- overall performance improvement (5%...8%)
- added more than 440 (vla-...) functions from AutoLISP 2007/2008/2009
- switching between drawings became 30%...40% faster on Dual/Multi-Core processors, because the Lisp engine uses multithreaded compression of the Lisp cores.
- reduced memory requirements and faster processing of COM objects.
- corrected support for binary data in (entget) and (entmod), regarding groupcodes 310-319 and 1004
- corrected and improved support for undocumented VLA Variant datatypes : vlax-vbDate (VT_DATE), vlax-vbCurrency (VT_CY), vlax-vbDecimal (VT_DECIMAL), vlax-vbOle_Color (VT_UI2)
- added support for undocumented symbol *LAST-VALUE*, which always contains the last evaluation result.
LISP: during a (command pause) the Object Properties (Tool)Bar was not updated. This has been modified: whenever Bricscad starts waiting for user input, the GUI is updated.
LISP: during user input requested by (command pause) it was not possible to use osnap overrides.
LISP: on some machines (expt 10 2) could result in 99 instead of 100.
SR 15366 - LISP: problem with (chr) and (ascii) functions when converting characters into numbers and vice versa.
SR 15383 - LISP: (ssdel) function always returned the SelectionSet, while NIL must be returned if entity is not contained in SelectionSet.
LISP Protected Lisp files, generated by CONVERT shareware utility, caused our decoder to fail.
SR 14283 - LISP: entmake ignored data for BLOCK entities.
SR 15207 - LISP: Temporary osnap options did not work when used in a (command) sequence followed by (command pause).
SR 15208 - LISP It was impossible to draw a tangent line using (command "_LINE" "_tan" pause "_tan" pause "").
TaskDD821 - LISP: if the last created entity belongs to a group, ssget "last" option should select all entities of the group instead of just the entity.
SR 15188, 15443 - LISP/DCL files could not be loaded from the Load Application dialog.
SR 15536 - LISP compatibility: the mode string of the (open) function now accepts "a", "a+", "r", "r+", "w", "w+". From any other mode string, only the first character is considered.
SR 16091 - entget: incorrect spline tangents (dxf12/dxf13) appeared in the entget output if the spline had undefined tangents.
TaskDD582 - SR 12846 - entget list for MTEXT did not contain dxf43.
TaskDD777 - DXF: dxf1 of non-xref BLOCK entities was empty in dxf output (including entget()).
LISP : when multiple Bricscad instances were running, the Lisp engine in one Bricscad session could mistakenly use the COM interface from the other, if that session was closed, most (vla-xxx) and (vlax-xxx) functions would fail.
The (equal) function sometimes failed when comparing complex lists. This issue could break and stop the Lisp engine from working properly. The (equal) function has been extended to correctly compare VLA-OBJECTs, also inside lists.
SR 14424 - LISP - if pickfirst is ON and a pickfirst selection set existed, the last "" argument in (command "erase" selectionSet "") would repeat the previous command.
SR 14734 - LISP - (grread) loops were interrupted when zoom or pan with the mouse's scroll button was used.
TaskDD860 - Fixed sds_undogroup() return values. They are RTERROR/RTNORM now, instead of RTERROR/0/1.
APPLOAD dialog: *.arx/*.drx/*.dll files could not be unloaded.
(ssget) logical filter AND with single argument was not accepted.
TaskDD864 - Polar Snapping was broken in SDS input functions.
Corrected behavior of SAVE command in lisp mode: (command "save" "foo.dwg") now asks for overwrite if file "foo.dwg" exists unless "foo.dwg" is not a current document path.
Fixed several problems when empty strings were used: e.g. (vl-string-trim " " "")
SR 16514 - in some cases the (ascii) function returned a negative number.
TaskDD725 - SR 15851: poor performance when moving hatch with many associative boundary objects.
TaskDD726 - SRs 13341, SR 16440: Redefining a block with entmake (LISP or SDS) led to problems including crashes in case the block had references (inserts).
support (vlax-product-key)
(substr) function should support (substr "" x -1).
Fixed: 'getstring' function printed the result string on failure or cancel (the result string is undefined in these cases) when invoked using the 'command' function.
problem with (vlax-make-variant) returned VLA-Object when vlx-vbObject type was expected.
(equal) function should accept VARIANT/SAFEARRAY values.
(vl-symbol-p) function sometimes failed.
(lambda) constructions weren't usable as arguments to other function.s
(vlax-for) function - with particular collection objects, the loop over collection items failed.
Added functions (acet-autoload), (acet-autoload2), (acet-autoloadarx).
If LISPINIT=0, each newly opened drawing will use a Lisp space that is inherited from the drawing which is just opened.
TaskDD258 - added support of lispWillStart/lispEnded/lispCancelled reactor notifications.
APPLOAD : added support for "BWF PROTECTED LISP" files; this new (BlowFish) encrypted Lisp files will be generated by next version of LispEx and DEScoder.exe
SR 16702 - (vlax-ldata-put) and (vlax-ldata-get) functions: storage and retrieval of Lisp data types was corrected.
LISP - (vla-intersectwith) returned a list of reals instead of a <variant 8197>
LISP - SafeArray data returned from external COM applications were sometimes returned as a Variant containing a SafeArray <variant [8192+x]> instead of directly returning the SafeArray as <safearray...>
LISP - (read ";;") caused an endless loop
LISP - the VARIANT data value of VLA VARIANT objects was printed as "..." like #<variant 8 ...>
TaskDD947, SR16234 - 'double click' edit is disabled during Lisp execution.
SR 16799 - LISP/SDS: grread returned wrong second element for value 11 of the 1st element (AUX menu item). Now it returns 0, 1000, 2000 or 3000 depending on whether Ctrl and/or Shift keys were pressed together with the right mouse button press. Note, the AUX menu items themselves and according intermediate values (1-999, 1001-1999 and so on) are not yet supported.
SR 16723 - Export to pdf from Lisp did not work
fixed an issue in (repeat ...) : the was evaluated twice, which can affect the loop count
fixes an issue in (foreach item ...) : the was evaluated twice, which can affect the resulting list and therefore, the entire (foreach) loop
added support for undocumented (vlax-invoke) function
SR 16443 - (command "_INTERSECT") activated the Intersection Entity Snap instead of starting the INTERSECT command.
TaskDD587 - SR 12780 - entmake (both in LISP and SDS) failed to create a TEXT entity if the input list contained a second (100 . "AcDbText") item.
SR 16604, SR 15312- (command "_color") did not repeat the prompt so the user had the impression that the command was finished without asking for a color. (command "line") did not display the prompt menu.
wrong calculation in (rem x y ...) when negative values were used
wrong calculation in (expt num power) when 'num' is a negative integer
SR 16604 - (trace) function : only 1 function could be used as argument, while AutoLisp allows multiple arguments. Also fixed output of (trace) function: normal text output and (trace) output was mixed-up.
SR 16660 - fixed (vlax-ldata-put) function.
added constants vlax-vbdecimal (14) and vlax-vbole_color (19).
(getangle), (getdist), (getorient) and (getpoint): as these functions allow (getxxx ) and (getxxx ) syntax, when using (getxxx ) variant, the message text was not displayed sometimes.
SR 16808 - Fixed: 'getstring' function (both LISP and SDS) fails if a point is sent to it from somewhere using 'command' function (LISP or SDS). Now it converts the point to string and returns it. Note, it ignores Z coord of 3D points. Examples: 1. Invoke 'caller' to run the example: (defun c:called() (alert(getstring)) ) (defun c:caller() (command "called" '(1.1 2.2 3.3))) 2. In the following example the passed offset point was not accepted before the fix: (command "_plot" "_Y" "" "MyPrinter" "" "_Millimeters" "" "_Yes" >"_Extents" "_Fit" '(0.5 0.5) "_No" "." "_No" "_No" "" "_No" "_No")
TaskDD569, SR 16779: bugs in conditional ssget filtering on EED.

DCL

When DCL dialogs were used in multiple drawings, LispEx could sporadically stop working or even crash Bricscad.
When a container has the same parent as a list_box, the container could get displayed way too large. This was caused by scaling list_boxes after layouting. The components with the same parent (siblings) were incorrectly scaled along.
Attribute height must be ignored for a popup_list.
SR 15997 - Negative text height values are no longer accepted for text and mtext entities.
SR 16021 - Error on callback when (double)-clicking on a list_box-item triggered a callback that deletes that item.
SR 16048 - Alignment did not work on a label.
SR 15603 - (and others) - size of columns of list_box.
SR 15547 - Changed default border of Radiobutton and Checkbox from 1 to 2 pixels.
SR 16251 - size of dcl texts that are filled dynamically.
Color attribute with a negative integer value caused a crash. Negative integer values for the color attribute are now accepted as follows: The negative integers -2, -15, -16, -18 are color codes for respectively the graphics background, the dialog background, the dialog foreground and the dialog line color. These color codes are also valid in the dcl functions vector_image and fill_image. Other negative integers are invalid color codes. If an invalid color code is encountered, black will be used instead.
SR 16545 - Added automatic searching for "base.dcl". If "base.dcl" is found, its definitions are used instead of the Bricscad built-in definitions. This mechanism can be used for e.g. translation of Ok and Cancel buttons.
SR 16564 - Fixed right and center alignment on a dcl text component. In dcl extra space is always reserved for possible translations of a text component. This extra space was always added to the right of the text.
SR 15339 - If DCL was called from BRX the event handling (callback mechanism) did not work.
SR 15434 - DCL - receiving Enter for an edit_box: before, connecting with the enter/double click signals was only performed when allow_accept was ON. Now a selection-callback is always triggered on enter/double click. On allow_accept also calls the default component (resulting in closing the dialog).
SR 15376 - DCL - list_box should not have a default initial selection, as opposed to combo controls.
SR 15468 - DCL - DIASTAT variable returned incorrect value. Now it returns 1 if Ok button was used, 0 for Cancel.

COM/VBA

TaskDD696 - SR 16551 - VBA commands failed to execute when launched on startup.
TaskDD773 - SR 14296 - COM: IAcadDocuments.Add method opened a template instead of creating a new drawing using that template.
TaskDD993 - API's: closing more than one document on EXIT now leaves reactor environment intact for all documents.
SR 13832 - API: implemented support of EED placed at the beginning of the input list in bag filers (used for entmake/entmod): behavior of OdDbObject::dxfIn()
SR 16212 - COM: the QUIT method on IAcadApplication closed the Bricscad application, but left it hanging in memory.
SR 16244 - Batch Plot tool: an attempt to set the ComboBox.Text property during "Layouts" dialog initialization interrupted the Batch Plot Tool.
SR 15394 - COM - SourceDoc.CopyObjects failed to copy entities between drawings.
COM - Methods to get/set oblique angle of text were changed to use radians instead of degrees.
TaskDD77 - SR 15371 - Fixed loading of password-protected dvb-projects. The program now asks for a password instead of failing to load the project.
COM - AcadPolyline.AddVertex used a read-only polyline object and threw an exception.
SR 16700 - COM: AddMText method uses the current TEXTSIZE value for height if the specified mtext text style has a zero text height
COM - AcadRasterImage.Rotation returned wrong value if rotation angle is greater than Pi.
COM - VBALOAD failed to load if the user didn't enter a password when a password protected DVB is loaded. Now, if the user enters an empty password, the program will still try to load the dvb, only without substituting the references.

DRX/BRX

SR 16331 - DRX/BRX: Fixed deepClone() for dimension entities
SR 15955 - UNDO/REDO corrupted OdDb2dPolyline created with OdDbPolyline::convertTo()
SR 15234 - For classic polylines the Z value of the 2d vertices should be retrieved from the 2dPolyline elevation, the z value of the vertex should be ignored.
TaskDD687 - DRX/BRX: Following operations failed if called in non-main thread (e.g. from drawing preview creation thread or from a thread created by DRX app) or when called asynchronously via PostMessage(): erasing OLE item, undo/redo of OLE item creating/erasing, loading/saving OLE item, autosaving drawings, executing a registered VBA command, INSERTOBJ of a file, -VBALOAD, VBAUNLOAD, ADDINRUN, VBARUN, AcadApplication.RunMacro, copying layout from template, export to BMP/WMF/EMF, saving or resetting DBMOD on CLOSE, re/setting DBMOD on QUIT, Q/SAVE, applying MTEXT editor results, sds_callinmainthread().
SR 15171 - Default argument should be returned in case of OdDbUserIO::select(,kSelAllowEmpty).
TaskDD892 - Added support for eLastPt point history flag and lastPt param of OdEdInputPointMonitor::monitorInputPoint().

Version 8.2.12

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 UTC

New

New command AUDIT to repair drawings that are already open.

Fixed

TaskDD915 - Safety measure: on exception during saving a file, the backup mechanism is temporarily switched off to saveguard the backup of that file. As soon as the drawing is saved successfully the backup mechanism switches on again.
TaskDD911 - SR15947 failure to open problem drawing.
TaskDD923 - SR13871 - Drawings could not be opened if the UCS-definition of the active viewport contained a zero-length axis.
SR15197 -When ANGBASE=90, ANGDIR=Clockwise and we INSERT a block, the dialog should default to rotation=90 so that the block is inserted upright.
SR16104 - Linetype combo went blank after reloading a linetype
TaskDD959 - SR 16397 imagesize in drawing units was calculated incorrectly now the value of INSUNITS is taken into account.
TaskDD843 - IMAGEATTACH command, it's now allowed to use different X and Y scales when inserting images.
DCL:
- When a container has the same parent as a list_box, the container could get displayed way too large. This was caused by scaling list_boxes after layouting. The components with the same parent (siblings) were incorrectly scaled along.
- Attribute height must be ignored for a popup_list.
- SR 16021 - Error on callback when (double)-clicking on a list_box-item triggered a callback that deletes that item.
- SR 16048 - Alignment did not work on a label.
- SR 16036 - do not erase the previous content of an image on a call to start_image.

Version 8.2.11

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

SR15355,SR15433 - unwanted opening of Prompt History Window in '-DIMSTYLE' command.
TaskDD890: using /p switch with .arg file failed to find the file.
TaskDD890: values from plot paths were retrieved from previous userprofile.
SR15393 - when copying a leader the alignment of the text would change.
TaskDD908 - OLE - fixed the activation of embedded Bricscad document in the Bricscad application.
SR15372, TaskDD596, SR1539 - Justification settings of copied LEADER's MTEXT differs from original MTEXT.
SR15734 - In translated versions, the tooltips for ESNAP were not translated.
Prompt messages of 'recover'command and 'pedit' command were not translatable.
Miscellaneous DCL fixes.
SR 15792 - crash on loading dxf files that had missing textstyles.
SR 15516 - when loading partial cui files the program now also looks up the corresponding resource dll and/or mnl file as follows :
1. It looks for a file in the same folder with the same name but extension .dll or .mnl
2. It looks for a file anywhere in the search path, with the same name but extension .dll or .mnl.
SR15979 - In command PEDIT, crash when editing vertices of polylines when osnap was on.
DRX/BRX - OdApDocument::database()->writeFile() throws an exception.
DRX/BRX - Added save method to OdApDocument class.
DRX/BRX - SR15171 - default argument should be returned in case of OdDbUserIO::select.

Version 8.2.10

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

Much too large undosteps after creating a new drawing with QNEW or NEWWIZ. Even though redo still worked perfectly in such cases, this is an important fix.
SR15781 - crash when displaying problem drawing during processing of viewport-dependent layers.
TaskDD837 - SR 15011, 15132, 15631 - Part of the drawing display disappeared after editing an entity in some user-provided drawings, regen was needed to redisplay the entitities.
TaskDD877 - SR 15525 - Display of polyline width was scaled wrongly for polylines contained in blocks.
TaskDD873 - SR 15370 - Smoothness of spline curves was improved.
SR 15502, 15508 - fixes for SHX text display with non unicode fonts.
SR15259 - fixed hang on switching radio buttons under Windows 2000.
SR15234 EATTEDIT dialog message box appeared: "An unexpected error accurred. The application became unstable. It is recommended to save your work to a temporary file and restart the application."
TaskDD77 - SR 15371 - Fixed loading of password-protected dvb-projects. The program now asks for a password instead of failing to load the project.
SR15595: when displaying/printing a linetyped entity, and a dot matches the end point of previously output dash, that dot shouldn't be output.
TaskDD710 - PEDIT "break" option broke a closed pline incorrectly, it didn't add a substitute for the start vertex to the second produced pline.
SR 15323: When freezing/thawing a layer in the current viewport, the layer list scrolled back to the top, and the user had to explicitly do a regen to see the result.
SR 15571 - choosing a mode for the 'shademode' command did not work in translated versions.
TaskDD835 - Printing of gradient hatches had been broken since V8.2.1
On saving to pre 2007 format text got converted to \M+000nn characters.
Improved support for non unicode shx fonts.
Following operations failed if called in non-main thread (e.g. from drawing preview creation thread or from a thread created by DRX app) or when called asynchronously via PostMessage(): erasing OLE item, undo/redo of OLE item creating/erasing, loading/saving OLE item, autosaving drawings, executing a registered VBA command, INSERTOBJ of a file, -VBALOAD, VBAUNLOAD, ADDINRUN, VBARUN, AcadApplication.RunMacro, copying layout from template, export to BMP/WMF/EMF, saving or resetting DBMOD on CLOSE, re/setting DBMOD on QUIT, Q/SAVE, applying MTEXT editor results, sds_callinmainthread().
SR15077 - Text "%%uword" should render "word" underlined.
COM exe-server is registered with REGCLS_SINGLEUSE flag to allow each COM client to have its own server instance.
SR15394 - failure to copy entities between drawings with AcadDatabase:CopyObjects

Version 8.2.8

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

TaskDD828 - Crash after execution of DRX applications built with .NET.
WIPEOUTS and background of MTEXT entities printed as black.
SR 15267 - paperspace entities are not visible if layout has flag "draw viewports first" set and the main viewport has frozen layers.
SR 15259 - hangup on switching radio buttons under Windows 2000.
SR 15201 - hangup in drawing explorer after switching to another windows application and back.
SR 15208&15313 - Deferred tangent snap: Failure to create a line that was tangent to two circles .
SR 15343 - Shifted print output for paperspaces when printing with option "Layout". This happened when an UCS was active in the paperspace.
DCL layout fixes:
- SR 15188 - a named definition of the form b:a{...} incorrectly required 'a' to be defined earlier in the DCL file.
- SR 15227 - minimum width of default label of button is now the width of a single character.
- It is now possible to retrieve coordinates of an imagebutton when it is pressed.
Localisation issue: Aliases , which are stored in Bricscad.pgp, became unusable because the file format was converted to unicode after editing through the CUSTOMIZE dialog. The fileformat should be ANSI. The menuversion of this release has been increased, so the user can automatically reset the bricscad.pgp on the first startup.

Version 8.2.6

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Fixed

SR15186 - Widths of spaces in TTF text were too wide.
SR15177 - Avoid crash for drawings with self-referring blocks.
TaskDD339 - Fade settings were ignored for some types of images.
Orthomode was ignored during creation of leaders.
Spell check dialog closed immediately without doing text substitutions.
DCL layout fixes:
- The default behaviour for dialogs is now fixed size instead of resizable.
- Initial size of images and imagebuttons was wrong if no explicit width was specified.
- Added padding around the text content of labels.
- When a text component is right or center aligned, its text content is now also right or center aligned.

Version 8.2.5

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UTC

New

Layerstate manager in Drawing Explorer.
Added Export option for PDF. Export to PDF can be configured with command PDFOPTIONS.
Command DwgProps for editing the file properties of a drawing.

Improved

Smooth outline of TrueTypeFont text in print and display.
TaskDD710 - PLINETYPE variable is now taken into account by the PEDIT command.
TaskDD705 - confusing lineweightDisplayScale setting was removed and replaced by LWDISPSCALE
New File Open dialog implemented using WxWidgets.
Performance: Faster regen and large reduction of memory footprint for drawings with many inserts, through optimal sharing of information between multiple inserts of the same block.
Performance: Faster redraw of hatches with solid fill.
Performance: Much faster editing of large selections when properties panel is closed.
Performance: Faster print preview, faster zooming in print preview, faster redraw of preview when the overlap status of the preview window changes.
TaskDD583 - added "Print..." menu item to the right click menu of the layout tabs
Upgraded to Dwgdirect 2.5.

Fixed

SR15075 - Entity Properties Toolbar - Layer Control - Clicking an icon to change any layer's property, caused the list to scroll automatically to show the current layer.
SR14900 - Entity Properties Toolbar - Layer Control - It was not possible to assign a frozen layer to a selection set.
SR 14621 - always show "ByColor" text in "Plot style" property for color-dependent drawings (when PSTYLEMODE=1).
SR15007 - COPY/MOVE didn't display distance/angle notation when COORDS = 2
Coordinate button in properties panel, when a UCS is active : points were incorrectly converted from ucs to wcs, resulting in wrong dynamics and wrong result point.
SR 15033: Several problems related to Architectural unit conversion were fixed.
SR 15035: Angular dimension was displayed as 7d15'60" instead of 7d16'0"
Implemented snapping to ACIS objects when shademode is not wireframe.
Command DIMSTYLE;list no longer opens command history window.
TaskDD815 - SR 14910: After 'zoom extents', the papersheet boundary was drawn using the wrong linetype.
Support dxf-2 for subentity SEQEND.
MAIL command now sets Subject of the mail to the name of the current drawing instead of "Bricscad mail", and preserves the name of the attached drawing instead of renaming it to 'tmpMailXXX.dwg'
Drawing Explorer
- Linetypes, gridview: when the explorer was closed while a cell edit was active, the cursor was no longer redrawn correctly, it remained an arrow.
- Xrefs: it was impossible to rename Xref inserts.
- SR 14006 Drawings Tree: when the 'Add Folder' item was clicked while the item already was selected, the 'Choose a folder' dialog did not open.
- Images:
- use editor with browse button for 'Saved Path' field
- when 'Saved Path' field is edited, and image is loaded, reload it and update preview panel
- Coordinate button in properties panel, when a UCS is active : points were incorrectly converted from ucs to wcs, resulting in wrong dynamics and wrong result point.
- TaskDD822 - SR 15011: if PaperSpace SORTENTSTABLE contains ModelSpace entities, then ModelSpace entities could be displayed in PaperSpace.
- SR 14622 - layer grid: when the 'Lineweight' column was too small, text overflowed in the column next to it, even when the cells of that column were not empty.
- SR 14840 - layer grid: When you tried to THAW the current layer (possible when more than one layer is selected), a message appeared: "The current layer cannot be frozen. Please specify a different layer". Similar for layer On/Off.
TaskDD807 - allow zooming to extents, when extents of the scene are huge.
TaskDD583 - "Page setup" dialog didn't save values to layout when "Save to layout" setting in "Print" dialog was off
SR 14877 - compare section declarations in mnu files case insensitive. (e.g. allow both ***image and ***IMAGE)
Circle should be drawn opaque in kHiddenLine mode.
SR 13510 - Bug in hatch rendering algorithm
TaskDD795 - selection of OdDbWipeout entity.
It was not possible to explode an entity inside a paperspace viewport.
TaskDD810 - Rectangular xclip boundary definition was not being calculated correctly.
Clipped viewport could not be deleted.
Relative path option for xref/image attachment didn't work.
SR 14543 - when double clicking or drag-and-dropping a file onto Bricscad, and the path contained the sequence " (..)", the file could not be opened.
TaskDD788 - VBA - input of text was not possible in any language except English in VbaIde.
DCL fixes
- edit_box: Instead of firing action on each text-change, fire action on losing focus
- allow height/width attributes to be double
- allow numeric attributes to be specified quoted
- code for displaying focus rectangle on an imagebutton
- connect enter with callback for listbox and callback for imagebutton.
- skip focus of Image (as opposed to imagebutton)
- correction to the dcl attribute "value" for lists (listbox or dropdown): the value attribute now works to specify the default list-item, even if the list is populated afterwards through lisp calls (instead of by the list-attribute)
- @include directive now uses search path
- get_attr now works correctly on a numeric attribute
- implemented behaviour of a radiogroup: action_tile, get_tile, set_tile (all unselected allowed)
- multiple selection on a listbox.
- setting the value of a Dialog through set_tile now correctly sets the label (window text) of the dialog
- a dropdown should return empty string "" instead of "-1" and its default selection should be the first item, even if the content is supplied at runtime
- SR 14943 - 1. The escape key and close button did not call the cancel component.
- SR 14943 - 2. Cancel\Skip was displayed as Cancel\kip because \S was treated as an escape sequence.
- SR 14977 - 1. colorcode / colorindex were used incorrectly
- SR 14977 - 2. added color keywords to parser: red, black, etc... Those keywords do no longer need to be quoted: before only color="red" was valid, now color=red also.
LISP
- (textbox) function - if "\\U+nnnn" Unicode references were embedded into dynamic strings
- (vla-CopyObjects) function returned nil.
- (vl-get-resource) malfunctioned.
- SR14506 - support function argument as expression in (apply..) eg
  (setq a (list 'OR T nil)) (apply (car a) (cdr a))
- Decoding problem with Protected Lisp files, generated by CONVERT shareware utility.
- Avoid redundant multiple calls to S::STARTUP.
- TaskDD797 - IMAGEATTACH command did not run from lisp.

Previous versions (< 8.2)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 UTC

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