Measured 2026-09-22 by scripts/smoke_settings_com.py --build-dwt against the
running AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s), each on a scratch Documents.Add() document:
1. RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED (-2147418111) on Documents.Count straight after
Documents.Open, after Close(False) inside document_close, and in
_ensure_document_state: AutoCAD's own message filter refuses incoming
calls while it is still switching documents. pywin32 exposes no
CoRegisterMessageFilter, so _wait_out_rejected_call waits the window out
for read-only callables (0.25 s -> 1 s pauses, 20 s budget, inside
COM_CALL_TIMEOUT) at those sites and after Documents.Add/Open; any other
com_error is not retried.
2. layer_list raised "'IAcadLayer' object has no attribute 'Color'. Did you
mean: 'color'?": acax25enu.tlb spells IAcadEntity/IAcadLayer `color` and
`Lineweight`. Late-bound dispatch resolved .Color/.LineWeight
case-insensitively; with a makepy cache present (this machine's gen_py was
regenerated on 2026-09-17, and every object a method returns is then a
generated wrapper) the lookup is exact. All 17 sites now use the typelib
spelling, which works on both wrappers; the fakes model the measured names.
3. layer_state_restore raised "'IAcadObject' object has no attribute
'Count'": Dictionaries.Item and IAcadDictionary.Item are declared
IAcadObject* (the narrowing _com_unnarrow already handles for MLEADER
styles). The save path went through the typed Dictionaries.Add, so only
the reopen paths failed. Both now un-narrow; the fakes narrow like pywin32.
4. The Freeze put on layer 0 raises 'Invalid layer' whatever the value, even
False while thawed (color/Linetype/Lineweight/Plottable/LayerOn/Lock/
ActiveLayer all fine on it), so a state saved with 0 current restored with
two warnings and 0 unapplied. Freeze is written only when it changes the
layer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
f7528b2 moved the five unit reads of apply_standard ahead of the style
stage so a refused read is a refusal with nothing written -- and then
decided the writes on those reads. Making a dimension style current
restores every DIM* variable from the style (ezdxf: _sync_header_to_dimstyle
on dimstyle_set_current; AutoCAD: ActiveDimStyle), so on a drawing whose
ISO-25/ANSI already carried another scale the gate read (1.0) equalled
the target, the DIMSCALE write was skipped and the drawing ended at the
style's scale while the report said `changed: {}` -- against the spec's
"LTSCALE 1, DIMSCALE 1" and the tool docstring. The pre-f7528b2 loop ran
after the switch and got this right; this is a regression of f7528b2.
The gate read stays (readable before anything is written); each variable
is read again after the style stage and the write is decided on that
value, so `changed` says what the write moved.
Measured on the running AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s, 2026-09-22, scratch
Documents.Add(), Close(False), real ComBackend after connect()):
ISO-25 modified to DIMSCALE 2.0 (dimstyle_modify -> {'DIMSCALE': [1.0, 2.0]}),
Annotative current, doc.GetVariable('DIMSCALE') -> 1.0
before: apply_standard(iso, layers=False)
-> {'changed': {}, 'applied': True}; ActiveDimStyle ISO-25;
doc.GetVariable('DIMSCALE') -> 2.0
after: -> {'changed': {'DIMSCALE': [2.0, 1.0]}, 'applied': True};
ActiveDimStyle ISO-25; doc.GetVariable('DIMSCALE') -> 1.0
ezdxf, same setup (dimstyle_create ISO-25 {DIMSCALE: 2.0}, Standard
current): before `{'INSUNITS': [6, 4]}` and DIMSCALE 2.0 afterwards;
after `{'INSUNITS': [6, 4], 'DIMSCALE': [2.0, 1.0]}` and DIMSCALE 1.0.
Tests: one regression per engine (both fail on the f7528b2 apply.py);
test_com_apply_standard_creates_both_styles_and_sets_units now pins the
gate reads first *and* the re-read-then-write sequence after CopyFrom,
instead of enshrining the stale-read order.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
AcadApplication has no GetVariable/SetVariable members; they live on
AcadDocument. Measured on the running AutoCAD 2026 (25.1s, 2026-09-22,
scratch Documents.Add(), Close(False)):
hasattr(app, 'GetVariable') -> False
hasattr(app, 'SetVariable') -> False
app.GetVariable('INSUNITS') -> AttributeError: ... IAcadApplication
instance ... has no attribute 'GetVariable'
doc.GetVariable('INSUNITS') -> 4
doc.GetVariable('MEASUREMENT') -> 1
doc.GetVariable('FILEDIA') -> 1; doc.SetVariable('FILEDIA', 0) -> None,
reads back 0, restored to 1
doc.GetVariable('AUDITCTL') -> 0, 'CMDACTIVE' -> 0, 'USERS1' -> ''
Fifteen call sites in backends/com_backend.py still went through the
Application inside `try/except ... log.debug`, so on a live seat they
silently degraded: MEASUREMENT defaulted every seat to metric,
drawing_info reported units from a failed INSUNITS read, drawing_audit
never set AUDITCTL, the CMDACTIVE guards of system_run_command /
system_run_lisp never fired and run_lisp never read USERS1 back. All are
rerouted through `_acad_doc()`; the try/except stays only where an
optional read is defaulted (INSUNITS -> "Unknown", AUDITCTL absent on a
host that lacks it, USERS1 after the expression ran) and the log line
says so.
Linetype loading, measured the same way: `SendCommand("_-LINETYPE _LOAD
CENTER acadiso.lin\n\n")` loads nothing with FILEDIA=0 and leaves the
command at `Enter an option [?/Create/Load/Set]:` (LASTPROMPT), which
makes the whole seat answer RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED to every client until
ESC is pressed; with FILEDIA=1 it opens the modal "Select Linetype File"
dialog. `doc.Linetypes.Load("CENTER", "acadiso.lin")` returns None and
the table grows 3 -> 4; a repeat raises 'Duplicate record name', an
unknown name 'Undefined linetype', a missing file 'File system error'.
`_ensure_linetype_loaded` and `linetype_load` now call `Linetypes.Load`
(MEASUREMENT still read on the document to pick the .lin), touch no
FILEDIA, and report a failure with the English excepinfo description.
`apply_standard` reads every variable it will write before the first
style is created, so a read the engine refuses is a refusal with nothing
written (it used to fail after ISO-25 / ISOCP were created and current).
Fakes: every application fake refuses GetVariable/SetVariable
(tests/test_styles.py's COM fixture carried them on the Application,
enshrining the wrong shape); the members exist on document fakes only.
Regression tests per rerouted site: linetype load via Linetypes.Load with
MEASUREMENT on the document, drawing_info units from the document,
AUDITCTL set/restored on the document, CMDACTIVE/USERS1 on the document,
apply_standard refusing before any write.
Live end-to-end with the real ComBackend on a scratch document:
apply_standard('iso') -> INSUNITS 4, ISO-25 (already in acadiso.dwt,
created: false) and ISOCP (created: true) current, second call created:
false / changed: {}; linetype_load('CENTER') -> Linetypes 3 -> 4, FILEDIA
stays 1, repeat already_loaded, 'NOSUCHLT' refused by name;
_ensure_linetype_loaded('HIDDEN') -> 3 -> 4; drawing_info units 'mm';
drawing_audit AUDITCTL 0 -> 0; system_run_command ok;
system_run_lisp('(+ 40 2)') -> '42'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Five tuning cases for the styles surface (DDIM, the ISO-25 set-current
paraphrase, the one-call drafting-standard paraphrase, the isocp text
style, and the dimstyle counting question) — measured against the live
catalog every one ranks top-1, so no alias vocabulary changed. The
docstring count moves to seventy-one (56 tuning + 15 holdout); the
holdout set is untouched.
Lean decision (spec §8.2): dimstyle_set_current, textstyle_set_current
and drawing_apply_standard join LEAN_TOOL_NAMES (50 -> 53); the seven
authoring/list tools stay full-only and all ten stay in core (no pack
claims them). Pinned by the new profile test in tests/test_styles.py,
written async like the rest of that module (its module-wide asyncio
mark warns on a sync test).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
_com_dimensions_using walked every entity of every layout and, since the
un-narrowing fix, re-dispatched each one through a dynamic proxy before
reading ObjectName (~8-10 ms per entity), which put dimstyle_modify past
the 60 s COM_CALL_TIMEOUT on a ~6k-entity drawing after its SetVariable +
CopyFrom had already landed. It is now a single
SelectionSet.Select(acSelectionSetAll, (0 . "DIMENSION") (3 . <style>)),
which answers from AutoCAD's own index whatever the drawing size.
Measured live (AutoCAD 2026, scratch doc, 1000 LINEs + 14 dimensions across
model and paper space): walk 12.7-15.8 s, selection 0.02-0.09 s, identical
handle sets; the whole dimstyle_modify tool now returns in 0.07 s.
The group-3 filter value is a wcmatch pattern, so the style name is
backtick-escaped (_wcmatch_literal): unescaped, "A.B" also selected the
dimensions of "A_B", "N#1" those of "N21", "P[1]" those of "P1", "S@X"
those of "SAX" (measured). Handles are returned in ascending handle order,
Select failures propagate, and the selection set is deleted either way.
tests/test_styles.py: the fake document carries a SelectionSets that
emulates ssget "X" over every layout with wcmatch-literal semantics and
narrowed IAcadEntity items, refusing an unescaped wildcard; three tests
cover no-per-entity-read, escaping, and cleanup-on-failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Four review findings against the COM styles block, all measured on AutoCAD 2026
(scratch documents from Documents.Add, closed without saving):
1. textstyle_create: `TextStyle.fontFile = "arial.ttf"` raises 'Filer error' for
every bare TrueType name (bundled presets included) after TextStyles.Add has
run, leaving a stub with an empty font that a retry meets as "already exists";
a full path is accepted but the STYLE record then carries the machine path.
`SetFont("Arial", bold, italic, 0, 0)` — the STYLE dialog's own route — stores
the clean `arial.ttf`. The font is now located before Add (`_com_locate_font`:
support path, then the Windows font folders), a TrueType is written by the
family/subfamily read from its `name` table (`_truetype_face`), an SHX by the
name given, an unlocatable file is refused with nothing written, and a write
ActiveX still refuses after Add deletes the entry it added.
2. _ensure_com_textstyle goes through the same helper, so DIMTXSTY / text_style
ARIAL and ISOCPEUR are created on the first call with a real font instead of
failing once and then silently binding a fontless style.
3. dimstyle_create / dimstyle_modify check a user DIMBLK/DIMBLK1/DIMBLK2 against
doc.Blocks before any write (`_com_require_arrowhead_blocks`, the headless
`_require_arrowhead_blocks` twin, same message and table-spelling rewrite);
a write that fails after DimStyles.Add restores the previous ActiveDimStyle
(discarding the unsaved overrides) and deletes the half-made style and any
preset text style the call created.
4. _com_dimensions_using un-narrows each `Layouts.Item(i).Block.Item(p)` —
declared IAcadEntity*, so `.StyleName` raised AttributeError under a makepy
cache and the blanket except reported `[]` — and swallows nothing.
The fake in tests/test_styles.py now models the measured ActiveX rules (bare
TrueType fontFile refused, SetFont by installed typeface, SetVariable refusing an
unknown arrowhead, IAcadEntity narrowing on block items, Delete) so the old code
cannot pass; nine tests cover the four findings. SECTION 18 docstrings state the
live engine's refusal rule for fonts and the pre-write arrowhead check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
acax25enu.tlb declares IAcadDictionaries.Item, IAcadDictionary.Item and
IAcadDictionary.AddObject as returning IAcadObject*. With a makepy cache for
the AutoCAD type library present (it is, on any machine where gencache ever
ran against AutoCAD), pywin32 wraps each result in the gen_py class of the
declared type, which exposes only IAcadObject members: .Count/.Item/.GetName
on the dictionary and .ArrowSize/.LandingGap/.TextHeight/.TextStyle on a
style all raised AttributeError, so the previous round's removal of the
@capability refusal turned a typed UnsupportedCapabilityError into a raw
AttributeError on AutoCAD 2026.
`_com_unnarrow` re-dispatches an object on its raw IDispatch through
win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch (no gencache side effect, unlike CastTo),
and the dictionary route applies it to the dictionary, to every Item(i) and
to the AddObject result. Verified live on AutoCAD 2026 (scratch document,
closed afterwards): list reads Standard = 0.18/0.09/0.18/Standard, create
writes ISO-LDR = 2.5/1.0/2.5/ISOCP, the duplicate is refused, and an
independent late-bound read of the dictionary agrees.
The fake in tests/test_styles.py now models the narrowing: Dictionaries.Item,
Dictionary.Item and Dictionary.AddObject hand back a wrapper that answers only
IAcadObject members and raises on everything else (reads and writes alike)
until unwrapped through _oleobj_. Five COM tests fail against the previous
backend and pass now; a new test pins the missing-dictionary path
(Dictionaries.Add before AddObject).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Two review findings, both root causes.
1. `_sync_header_to_dimstyle` copied the DIMSTYLE entry's ezdxf-internal
arrowhead spelling (OBLIQUE) into the DXF-facing $DIMBLK/$DIMBLK1/$DIMBLK2
header, so the saved file named a block it did not hold (the blocks are
_OBLIQUE / _DOT) and `system_get_variable("DIMBLK")` answered "OBLIQUE"
headlessly against "_OBLIQUE" on COM and in the same engine's own
`dimstyle_list` row. The header write now goes through
`reported_arrowhead` — the same read-side rule `_dimstyle_value` applies.
Pinned by header, `system_get_variable`, save/reopen (`ezdxf.readfile`
header equals the block the file holds) and the Restore-to-Standard
empty-string case in `test_builtin_arrowheads_render_save_and_report_one_spelling`.
2. The `mleaderstyle` capability refusal rested on a false engine boundary.
acax25enu.tlb (AutoCAD 2026) exposes IAcadMLeaderStyle with Name,
ArrowSize, LandingGap, TextHeight, TextStyle, ... — exactly what
`Dictionaries.Item("ACAD_MLEADERSTYLE").Item(i)` returns — and
IAcadDictionary.AddObject(keyword, "AcDbMLeaderStyle") creates one.
COM `mleaderstyle_list` now reads the four values off those objects
(`values_available: True`); COM `mleaderstyle_create` validates every value
(`validate_mleaderstyle`, shared with ezdxf), checks the clash and the text
style before AddObject, then writes the four properties. The contract
method is `@abstractmethod` again, the key is gone from both capability
maps, the fake ActiveX surface models the real call shape, and the spec
(§4.2, §8.1, §9) states the ActiveX route.
Live AutoCAD was not running on this machine (GetActiveObject: operation
unavailable; no acad.exe), so the COM route is type-library-verified and
fake-tested, not executed live — scripts/smoke_settings_com.py (Task 24)
owns that.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
check_dim_value's char branch only checked len == 1, so '\n', '\t', '\x00'
and non-BMP characters passed and the headless writer stored ord(value)
unguarded: '\n' split the dimension text over two lines, NUL read back as a
comma, and U+1F600 reached $DIMDSEP / group 278 as 128512, outside the 16-bit
range and refused by AutoCAD as "not a single character". ezdxf's audit
caught none of it. The same hole 827719f closed for names and fonts, left
open for the one variable stored as a character code.
The gate now refuses code < 32, DEL, and code > DIMDSEP_MAX_CODE (0x7FFF,
the signed short DWG stores) with a ValueError naming DIMDSEP, so nothing
reaches a backend. Pinned by a parametrized refusal test (newline, tab, NUL,
DEL, U+1F600, U+8000, U+FFFF), a positive test that the middle dot, the
Arabic decimal separator and U+7FFF still pass, and the ezdxf refusal test
now proves dimstyle_create / dimstyle_modify write nothing for these.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
Three headless defects in the styles block, each measured before the fix:
* `_normalise_dimstyle_rounding` cleaned `Standard` only, while ezdxf's
exporter writes DIMRND 0.0 for every DIMSTYLE. A user style (ISO-25 / ANSI)
came back from save/open, transaction_rollback and drawing_undo rounding
every dimension to a whole unit ("33" for 33.333, "R6" for R6.35) with
dimstyle_list still reporting DIMDEC 2. It now walks the whole table.
* `drawing_purge` followed only entity `.dxf.style`, so it deleted the text
style a DIMSTYLE (DIMTXSTY), an MLEADERSTYLE (text_style_handle) or the
header ($TEXTSTYLE / $DIMTXSTY) referenced; the next dimension silently
rendered in Standard and drawing_save_as raised DXFTableEntryError after
leaving a truncated file. `_style_table_references` now counts those, plus
the arrowhead blocks a DIMSTYLE / MLEADERSTYLE / MULTILEADER references,
compared case-insensitively.
* `_sync_header_to_dimstyle` wrote only the attributes the target style
stores, leaving the previous style's $DIM* in the header — folded onto the
next dimension by `_with_header_dimvars` (ISO-25 DIMZIN 0 / DIMSCALE 2.0
then Restore Standard rendered 5.0 mm "33.30") and written to the file as
current-style overrides; $DIMRND 0.5 outlived the style's own discard. It
now writes the schema default for every whitelist variable the style omits
(`Standard` for DIMTXSTY), which reproduces a fresh header exactly.
tests/test_styles.py: the reopen test now renders a dimension after the
reopen, plus one test per defect; all four fail on the previous backend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd
