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Tommaso Bianchi 8f3f835636 Constrain while you sketch, and stop losing work to Esc and to invisible points
Five defects from ten minutes of real use, and the mode split behind the worst
of them. One commit because the changes overlap in the same functions; the
pieces are separable in the diff, not in the file.

CONSTRAINING NO LONGER NEEDS A COMMITTED SKETCH. A constraint could only be
applied by committing the sketch, selecting it in the feature tree, pressing the
padlock, and only then picking. While drawing, the CONSTRAIN toolbar was not even
on screen (set_ui_mode showed it in UiMode::Constrain alone) and apply_constraint
answered "Press Constrain on a sketch first" -- in a status line nobody looks at.
Draw two lines, press Parallel, get nothing: that is what a user reported as "the
UX is a mess", and they were right.

apply_constraint now takes the live session first, reading the picks from the
selection model the sketch tool already had (click, ctrl-click to extend,
double-click for the loop) and applying through try_add_constraints, which
already did append -> solve -> keep-or-rollback. The committed Constrain path
stays for editing an old sketch; it is no longer the only way in. The twenty
constraint buttons now show in Sketch mode as well.

The discriminator is is_sketching() && !is_constraining() &&
!is_constraining_entities(). Both begin_constrain and begin_constrain_entities
set m_active, so is_sketching() alone is true DURING a constrain session and the
new path would hijack the old one -- compiling perfectly and failing in
behaviour.

ONE PLANNER, NOT TWO. A second caller meant duplicating the logic that decides
whether a constraint is legal, which roles it binds and whether it needs a typed
value. That duplication is how today's Coincident bug survived: fixed in one
branch, alive in the next one down. plan_entity_constraint() now lives in the
kernel -- pure, no wx, no translation -- and both UI paths call it. DesignPanel
loses 304 lines and gains 155.

Being in the kernel makes it TESTABLE. The Parallel defect existed because a
constraint type met an entity type nobody had tried, and the only instrument was
a 13-minute GUI ladder. 19 new kernel cases cover the matrix: 264 -> 283 cases,
7648 -> 7867 assertions.

Parallel, Perpendicular and EqualLength gain the two-line guard they never had.
On non-lines they used to emit a def the solver silently dropped -- the sketch
reported itself constrained when it was not, the same class as Horizontal on a
Point. EqualLength on two rounds still promotes to EqualRadius first.

Symmetric is planned completely, including its axis pick: the plan carries a
VECTOR of defs because Symmetric on two lines is two constraints (P0/P0 and
P1/P1). A single def would have half-applied it -- one end pinned, one free,
looking correct until something moves.

A PLACED POINT SURVIVES THE COMMIT. Type::Point was created correctly and never
drawn once committed: both renderers skip it, correctly, since entity_polyline
gives a point nothing. What was missing is the vertex-marker path the live
session already used. rung_point passed throughout because it asserts the
document, and the point was always in the document -- the pixels lied.

ESC STOPS EATING AN UNSAVED SKETCH. The third press reached cancel_sketch(),
clearing m_entities with no warning and nothing to undo. live_sketch_has_work()
existed and was never consulted. The exit layer refuses once when there is work
and lets a second consecutive Esc through; the refusal re-arms on a button press,
never on mouse motion, or Esc could never exit while the hand moves.

TWO NEW RUNGS. D10 drives Parallel through the committed path -- it passes on
the PRE-fix binary, which is how we know the user's failure was the mode and not
the constraint. D11 is the acceptance for the collapse: draw, pick both, press
Parallel, no commit and no padlock. Ladder 126 -> 135 properties, all holding.

CON_BTN_SKETCH is measured, not derived: in Sketch mode the group renders after
the sketch toolbar, so the first button is at 677, not 449. Pitch 42, twenty
buttons, read off a screenshot. Deriving it by offset is how that table drifted
the last time.

Known limit, commented at the call site: a constraint added to a LIVE sketch is
not on the document undo stack, so Ctrl+Z will not take it back until the sketch
is committed.

snaporca-itp4, snaporca-oyhx, snaporca-l2vm
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