Reported on the rig: Text showed no preview where it would go, its
dialog was pinned over the middle of the window (GNOME attaches a modal
dialog to its parent and it cannot be moved), and once confirmed the
text could not be edited and did not appear in the feature tree. Inside
an open sketch it became loose lines of that sketch.
- Text is always a feature, "Text N" in the tree. A new text goes on the
plane of the open sketch (committed first when it holds anything,
closed when it is empty), else centred on the picked face, else on the
reference plane.
- The dialog is modeless and opens at the top right of the window. The
feature is created at the first character and redrawn on every change,
so the text appears in the view where it will be as it is typed. Enter
inserts it, then the usual move/scale gizmo and Confirm; Esc, Cancel or
closing the dialog takes it out again (undo to the checkpoint taken
when it appeared).
- CadFeature keeps text_string, text_font (the WxFontUtils descriptor)
and text_height, appended at the end of the framed recipe. Editing a
Text feature reopens the dialog with them and redraws the outline in
place, keeping its placement. The outlines are still saved, so the
project opens the same on a machine without that font.
- The MCP control refuses writes while the Text dialog is open.
Tests: the text parameters survive a save and load along with the
outline; the truncated-recipe test accounts for the new tail fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QK4VgguuCAk2hZLWgcjJb9