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1Changes in 1.4.21 (2026-05-20):
2
3* cavern:
4
5  + Fix missing reports of unconnected survey stations.  We aim to report at
6    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey.  1.4.10 added code
7    to handle when a piece had been simplified to only anonymous stations, but
8    this was buggy and was only checking the first entry in the removed
9    traverse list.  We now check the full list, and if we somehow fail to find
10    a neighbouring named station, we now report the anonymous station (we give
11    the filename and line number which is enough context by itself).  Reported
12    by Paweł Gogolak.
13
14  + `*entrance` now also suppresses unused fixed point warnings when it appears
15    before the `*fix` (previously this only worked for `*entrance` after
16    `*fix`).
17
18  + `*fix` with SDs now sets the "fixed" flag on the station in the .3d file.
19
20  + Pick better 3d file separator for Walls data (previously cavern would pick
21    `.` for the separator in a pure Walls dataset, even if it was used in
22    station names).  Walls uses `:` as a prefix separator, so now cavern takes
23    into account which characters are allowed in Walls station names when
24    picking the separator to use in the .3d file.  For a pure Walls dataset, it
25    will pick `:`, so Walls station names in the .3d file should match the
26    names as shown in Walls.  If a dataset mixes data in Walls format with
27    Survex and/or Compass data, then it's possible `:` is used in a Survex or
28    Compass station name - if so a different separator will be chosen.
29
30  + The Walls manual says to represent underwater data using the combination of
31    `TAPE=SS` with `ORDER=DA` or `ORDER=AD`, so we now map this to Survex's
32    diving style.  Issue highlighted by a dataset from Darek Lubomski.
33
34  + In Walls data, downgrade the "Unknown command" error to a warning for some
35    invalid directives which Walls quietly accepts.  Issue highlighted by a
36    dataset from Darek Lubomski.
37
38  + In Walls data, `#note` and `#flags` are meant to suppress unused fixed
39    point warnings, but only did if they came after the `#fix`.  Also `#flags`
40    without any flags didn't suppress the warning but now does.
41
42  + In Walls data, the word `fix` in `#flags` no longer sets the "fixed" flag
43    in the .3d file - we now only set it for stations used in `#fix`.  This
44    seems a more logical approach, since `#flags` is just free-form text which
45    Walls itself doesn't ascribe particular semantics to.  (The word `entrance`
46    in `#flags` still sets the "entrance" flag since Walls lacks a way to
47    explicitly mark entrances.)
48
49  + Check value after `TAPE=` in Walls data and give an error if it's not
50    valid.
51
52  + In Walls data, we now reject multi-component readings with a decimal point
53    in anything but the final component.  Some examples of invalid readings
54    which now give an error with cavern are `12.5i3`. `12.5:29`, `12.5:29:30`
55    and `12:29.5:30`.
56
57* aven/survexport:
58
59  + Allow exporting/not exporting anonymous stations.  The default is chosen as
60    most appropriate for each export format.
61
62  + Fix memory leak in PLT export.
63
64  + Fix memory leak and speed up SVG export.
65
66* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to fix the extra blank window which
67  opens under aven's window in recent releases.  Reported by Juan Corrin.
68
69* (Microsoft Windows version): Try to ensure output files are fully written to
70  disk before we close them.  Should fix #147, reported by Philip Schuchardt.
71
72* Documentation:
73
74  + Clarify purpose of `*infer exports`.  Highlighted by Philip Sargent.
75
76  + Clarify `*infer plumbs` works for any angle units, not just degrees.
77
78  + Say "directive" instead of "command" in Walls docs since this is the
79    terminology Walls uses.
80
81  + Document Walls filename case mismatch issue.  Issue highlighted by a
82    dataset from Darek Lubomski.
83
84  + Document that the last official release of Walls uses an old IGRF version.
85
86  + Improve section on submitting documentation changes.
87
88  + Minor improvements to wording.
89
90  + HACKING.htm: autoconf 2.59 is the current minimum.
91
92* Test suite: Add test coverage for Walls compass/clino in mils.
93
94* Minor improvements to French translation.
95
96* Merge updates to Polish translation from Paweł Gogolak.
97
98* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
99
100* (Linux version): survex.spec: We no longer provide this.  It doesn't work
101  with current Fedora because some dependencies have been renamed, which
102  suggests nobody is regularly using it, which isn't a surprise as there's
103  now a Fedora package of Survex.  Reported by Bill Gee.
104
105* Fix warnings about old-style parameter lists in the imported getopt code.
106
107* Require at least automake 1.14 to bootstrap the source tree from git.  This
108  was released in 2013 so should be available everywhere now.
109
110Changes in 1.4.20 (2026-03-04):
111
112* aven: The viewing volume now includes the vertical extent of terrain which
113  fixes problems with the terrain being clipped when there's an extreme
114  vertical difference between the terrain and the cave.  Hopefully fixes #148,
115  reported by Chris Curry.
116
117* aven: Improve handling of the scale when reloading an updated version of the
118  .3d file already being viewed.
119
120* aven: Add missing shortcuts to Orientation menu and "Reverse Direction" menu
121  item.  Reported by echarlie's friend.
122
123* aven: Where possible use L for "Elevation" menu accelerator, which matches
124  the shortcut key.
125
126* cavern: Improve handling of Walls percentage gradient.  Support explicit
127  percentage override ('p' suffix) and fix handling of overriding percentage
128  gradient to specify a plumb.  Reported by echarlie on #survex.
129
130* cavern: Support d:m:s for Walls bearings and gradients.  Reported by echarlie
131  on #survex.
132
133* cavern: Add `gps` as alias for `position` team role.  See:
134  https://github.com/therion/therion/issues/709
135
136* cavern: Warn for no blank after token in *cartesian (another case related to
137  #135).
138
139* manual: Document N, S, E and W shortcut keys for aven.
140
141* manual: Mark up codes and tokens in tables which avoids them getting
142  word-wrapped and hyphenated.  It also means they now get rendered in the
143  tables the same way they are referred to in the text.
144
145* manual: Separate each block of *instrument examples.
146
147* manual: Consistently document versions where features were deprecated.
148
149* Eliminate out-of-date postal address from licensing information.  Direct
150  people who somehow didn't receive the licence text to a copy on the FSF
151  website instead.
152
153Changes in 1.4.19 (2025-12-17):
154
155* aven/survexport: Rework PLT export to use 2 character escapes for spaces
156  and other characters which aren't valid in Compass station names.  We were
157  using 3 character escapes, but that's unhelpful since Compass has a 12
158  character station name limit.
159
160* cavern: The syntax of *instrument commands is now checked and a warning
161  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
162
163* cavern: Improve description of --quiet option.  Reported by Wookey.
164
165* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now always updates DLLs it
166  installs rather than skipping DLLs which declare the same version number.
167  This avoids problems when DLLs change in an upwardly but not downwardly
168  compatible way but keep the same version number.  It also means downgrading
169  now gives an install more like installing the older version from scratch
170  would.  Our DLLs are all private and installed into our own install directory
171  so there are no concerns with breaking other installed software.  Fixes #145.
172  Reported by Footleg and Juan Corrin.
173
174* Fill in some missing Czech translations.
175
176* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
177
178* We now require at least FFmpeg >= 3.2 to build Survex.  This version was
179  released in 2016 so should be easily available everywhere now.
180
181* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop workaround for wx-config --rescomp not
182  working as this has now been fixed in the mingw package of wxWidgets.
183
184* Test suite:
185
186  + Add test coverage for `*data normal` without `clino`.
187
188Changes in 1.4.18 (2025-11-04):
189
190* aven: Fix "Enter" in search control to zoom to results.  This was broken
191  by the switch to wxSearchCtrl in 1.4.17.
192
193* aven: Fix "Find stations" search box width with wxWidgets >= 3.2.7.  Patch
194  https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/15 from Thomas Holder.
195
196* aven: (Microsoft Windows version): Fix sizing of indicators (scalebar,
197  compass, clino, colour key) on HiDPI monitors.  Fixes #144, reported by Juan
198  Corrin.
199
200* aven/survexport: Set UTM zone and datum in exported Compass PLT.
201
202* cavern: Avoid duplicate errors/warnings with unconnected data.  Since 1.4.10,
203  unconnected data is only a warning but that resulted in us running some
204  checks on the survey tree twice, which could result in duplicate
205  errors/warnings.
206
207* cavern: Fix parsing of hex digits in *set.  Hex digits a-f were incorrectly
208  being handled as 0-5, so 0x0a was byte 0 not byte 10.
209
210* cavern: We now track the column as well as file:line where a station or
211  survey name was used, so diagnostics which use these locations now report
212  a column number too.
213
214* cavern: Show context if proj can't convert coords.  We only do this for .svx
215  files currently as it is more complex for Compass and Walls data.
216
217* cavern: Fix reported column for error for `-` for Walls tape field.
218  In this context, Walls requires 2 or more `-` to indicate an omitted field.
219
220* cavern: Compass MAK file parsing improvements:
221
222  + Comments are now skipped.  Previously a commented-out MAK file command
223    would still be interpreted by cavern, which was incorrect.
224
225  + Whitespace handling has been adjusted to more closely match Compass.
226
227  + Unknown commands are now warned about.  Compass seems to quietly ignore
228    unknown commands, but it seems helpful for cavern to report them as it
229    will help identify any bugs in Survex's parsing of MAK files, and any
230    new or undocumented MAK file commands which we don't support.  It can also
231    help detect typos in data entry.
232
233  + We now skip to the closing `;` for unknown commands and commands we
234    ignore as not relevant to us, whereas previously we'd just skip the
235    initial character which gives the type of command and then look for
236    another command.  This doesn't seem to make any difference in practice as
237    none of these commands appear to be able to contain text which could be
238    interpreted as a different valid Compass MAK file command.
239
240* (Microsoft Windows version): The toolchain we use to build this version
241  seems to have changed in an unhelpful way.  We've got the build working
242  again, but when aven is launched a black window opens first, then the
243  aven window opens over the top.  The black window stays around until
244  aven is closed.  This extra window doesn't really get in the way of using
245  aven, but it's not supposed to be there.  It doesn't seem to be due to a
246  change in the Survex code as the 1.2.17 build doesn't do this, but a
247  rebuild of 1.2.17 with just the minimum of build system changes does.
248  If you have suitable skills help fixing this would be much appreciated.
249
250* (Microsoft Windows version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, like we
251  already do for Unix.  Unlocked file I/O can be much faster in some cases (we
252  don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file I/O).
253
254* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix compiler warning in wrapaven.c.
255
256* (Microsoft Windows version): Work around wx-config --rescomp no longer
257  working.  The mingw package of wxWidgets has started to return an empty
258  string here.  We don't support building with MSVC, so hardcoding `windres`
259  here isn't really a problem in practice.
260
261* Manual: Document that *set eol default includes x1A (Ctrl-Z) to provide
262  compatibility with old DOS text files (it always has done but was missing
263  from the documentation).
264
265* Merge updates to Russian translation.
266
267* Add the start of a Czech translation.
268
269* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
270
271* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.2.  It is starting to become hard to keep
272  everything working with 3.0.0 and the time and effort seems better directed
273  to other things.  The last 3.0.x release was 3.0.5.1, released 2020-05-02.
274  3.2.0 was released 2022-07-06 and it seems everywhere with wxWidgets packages
275  upgraded to 3.2.x some time ago.
276
277* Test suite:
278
279  + cavern.tst: Test more mixed line ending cases.
280
281  + Turn off tests involving aven and survexport on mingw, as we can no longer
282    seem to run these programs during the build.  Rebuilding the last commit
283    that worked now fails, so this is not due to a change in the Survex code.
284    There is no error message, but bash shows exit code 127 which means it
285    failed to run the command.
286
287  + Improve handling of VERBOSE in tests.  Previously VERBOSE showed output
288    from all testcases, even ones which passed.  Now we only show output from
289    testcases which fail for VERBOSE=1.  Other non-empty values of VERBOSE
290    continue to show all output for cavern.tst and smoke.tst, but have the same
291    effect as VERBOSE=1 for other tests.
292
293  + compare.tst: Fix to actually work, support --help, and allow comparing
294    cavern runs which fail.  This script is not run as part of the automated
295    tests but assists manually comparing two versions of cavern on the same
296    data which can be helpful for debugging and during development.
297
298Changes in 1.4.17 (2025-03-20):
299
300* aven: Add support for exaggerating Z.  You can now set a Z scale factor
301  from 0.1 to 10.0 via a new widget on the toolbar.  Fixes #49.
302
303* aven: The cavern log window now chooses foreground and background colours
304  based on the desktop's light mode/dark mode setting.  Previously it
305  used the default window background colour but always used black text, which
306  made it hard to read with a dark desktop theme.  (The wxWidgets API to detect
307  dark mode is new in 3.2, so if built with wxWidgets 3.0 then we assume
308  light mode.)
309
310* aven: The station search feature now uses the standard search
311  widget on GTK 3.6 or later and on macOS.  There's now a placeholder
312  text shown when there's no search to make it clearer what this
313  widget is for.
314
315* aven: There's currently a cavern bug where it can fail to identify all
316  traverses which are not involved in loop closure, which results in the .3d
317  file contains error information for them (unfortunately this seems tricky to
318  fully fix).  This error information is always zero, so as a workaround aven
319  attempts to detect these so that "colour by error" shows them as "not in
320  loop".  This workaround previously only checked for E being zero, but now
321  H and V are both also required to be zero.  This should help avoid some very
322  low error traverses being incorrectly treated as "not in loop", although in
323  practice I've not yet found a real world case where this actually makes a
324  difference.
325
326* aven: Fix the output encoding of `aven --help`, `--version`, etc.
327  Previously these were always encoded as UTF-8 which is usually right
328  on a modern system, but the terminal could be using a different
329  encoding.
330
331* aven: Reduce startup overhead a little when the terminal has a UTF-8
332  locale (which is now the default on most Linux distros).
333
334* cavern: Fix an "assertion failed" error in some situations when
335  equating to a fixed point.  This bug was introduced by changes
336  in 1.4.13.  Fixes #143, reported by Juan Corrin.
337
338* cavern: The syntax of *copyright commands is now checked and a warning
339  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
340
341* cavern: The syntax of *team commands is now checked and a warning
342  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
343
344* cavern: Stop reporting node stats.  These are kind of interesting, but
345  with the widespread use of Disto-X and similar devices which can easily
346  shoot multiple splay legs from each station means the number of larger order
347  nodes has increased and this information is now quite verbose and any utility
348  it had has substantially declined.  If these statistics are still wanted then
349  they could make a reappearance in the future in aven, with splays excluded
350  when counting the number of legs at each station.  Fixes #86, reported by
351  Wookey.
352
353* cavern: Fix wrong "unused fixed point" warning with *solve.
354
355* cavern: Fix double counting of stations which are referenced both before and
356  after *solve.
357
358* cavern: Suppress loop and component counts if *solve is used.  Our component
359  count was often wrong in this case but this looks very hard to fix.  These
360  counts are not vital so better to omit than report wrong values.
361
362* cavern: The "Equating two equal fixed points" warning now lists the
363  stations on the same order as they are in the `.svx` file which
364  seems clearer.
365
366* Speed up reading and writing of .3d files.  The time to read a large .3d file
367  and just count the stations and legs was more than halved by this change.
368
369* Simplify handling of errors loading the messages file.  The error
370  messages for this case are now stored as separate ASCII strings in
371  the executables which reduces the startup overhead a little as we
372  no longer need to scan them and potentially reencode them.
373
374* img library: The img struct's filename_opened member was always NULL when
375  used outside of Survex (and set but never actually used inside of Survex)
376  so it has been removed.  If you are referencing it in your code then instead
377  use the filename you passed to img_open_survey() when opening the file.
378
379* Documentation: Add details of warning about future dates in *date.
380
381* Documentation: Added new manual chapter on the img library.
382
383* Documentation: Improve comments document API in img.h.
384
385* Testsuite: Add proper test coverage for `*ref`.
386
387* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
388
389* Portability: Eliminate unintended use of a C++17 feature (static_assert
390  with only one argument).
391
392* Portability: Avoid compiler warnings/errors in getopt code by properly
393  declaring getenv().
394
395Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
396
397* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
398  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
399  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
400  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
401
402* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
403  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
404  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
405  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
406
407* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
408  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
409  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
410  Eric C. Landgraf.
411
412* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
413  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
414  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
415
416* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
417  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
418  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
419  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
420
421* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
422
423* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
424  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
425  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
426  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
427  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
428
429* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
430
431* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
432
433* Various minor improvements to documentation.
434
435* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
436
437Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
438
439* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
440  overlay.
441
442* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
443  Fixes #110
444
445* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
446  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
447
448* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
449  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
450  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
451
452* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
453  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
454
455* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
456  on x86.
457
458Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
459
460* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
461  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
462  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
463
464* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
465  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
466  in 1.4.13.
467
468* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
469
470* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
471  naming.
472
473* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
474
475* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
476  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
477  candidate stations).
478
479Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
480
481* aven:
482
483  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
484    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
485
486  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
487    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
488    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
489
490  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
491    show.
492
493  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
494    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
495    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
496
497* cavern:
498
499  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
500    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
501    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
502
503  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
504    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
505    by the same amount in these cases.
506
507  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
508    unconnected survey stations.
509
510  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
511
512  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
513    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
514
515  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
516    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
517    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
518    Eric C. Landgraf.
519
520  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
521    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
522    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
523    situation.
524
525  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
526    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
527    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
528
529  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
530    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
531    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
532    network.
533
534  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
535    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
536    which should be faster.
537
538  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
539    more efficient way.
540
541* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
542
543* Documentation:
544
545  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
546    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
547    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
548    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
549    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
550    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
551    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
552
553* Test suite:
554
555  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
556    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
557    excess precision.
558
559* Assorted translation updates.
560
561Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
562
563* aven:
564
565  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
566    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
567    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
568    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
569    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
570    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
571    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
572
573* cavern:
574
575  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
576    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
577    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
578    an error.
579
580  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
581    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
582    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
583    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
584    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
585    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
586    measurable).
587
588  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
589    less memory.
590
591* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
592  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
593  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
594  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
595
596* Testsuite:
597
598  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
599
600  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
601    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
602    precision.
603
604* img library:
605
606  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
607    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
608    from Thomas Holder.
609
610  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
611    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
612
613Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
614
615* aven:
616
617  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
618    C. Landgraf.
619
620* aven/survexport:
621
622  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
623    addresses #60.
624
625  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
626    1:40000).
627
628  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
629    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
630
631  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
632    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
633    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
634    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
635    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
636
637* cavern:
638
639  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
640    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
641
642  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
643    bad reading was quietly ignored).
644
645  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
646    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
647    for example:
648
649     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
650      *end   bar
651             ^~~
652     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
653      *begin      foo
654                  ^~~
655
656  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
657    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
658
659  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
660    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
661    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
662    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
663    an error.
664
665    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
666    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
667
668  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
669    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
670    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
671
672  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
673    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
674    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
675
676  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
677    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
678    handled more consistently.
679
680  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
681    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
682
683  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
684
685  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
686
687    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
688      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
689      use the datum.
690
691    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
692      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
693      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
694
695* Documentation:
696
697  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
698    definition in `*units` docs.
699
700  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
701
702* Assorted translation updates.
703
704* testsuite:
705
706  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
707    comparing with expected output.
708
709* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
710
711  + `*cartesian` added
712
713  + `*data ignore` added
714
715  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
716
717  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
718
719  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
720    lines
721
722  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
723
724  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
725    because there's a comment after the filename
726
727  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
728    whitespace between `*` and `include`
729
730Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
731
732* aven:
733
734  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
735    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
736    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
737    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
738    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
739    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
740    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
741    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
742
743* aven/survexport:
744
745  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
746    1.4.6).
747
748  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
749
750  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
751    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
752    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
753    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
754    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
755    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
756    survey.
757
758  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
759
760* cavern:
761
762  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
763    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
764    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
765    warns about them.
766
767    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
768    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
769    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
770    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
771
772    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
773
774  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
775    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
776    connected to it.
777
778  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
779    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
780    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
781    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
782    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
783    traverse.
784
785  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
786
787  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
788    it actually was:
789
790      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
791
792  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
793
794    - After an anonymous station.
795
796    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
797      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
798      or end of line.
799
800    - In a `*alias` command.
801
802    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
803
804  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
805    `cartesian` style data.
806
807  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
808
809  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
810    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
811    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
812    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
813    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
814
815  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
816    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
817    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
818    example.
819
820  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
821    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
822    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
823    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
824    when viewing the log in aven.
825
826  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
827    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
828    datasets):
829
830    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
831
832    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
833      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
834
835    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
836      `ORDER=ADV`).
837
838    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
839
840    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
841      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
842      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
843      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
844      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
845      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
846      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
847      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
848
849    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
850
851    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
852
853    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
854      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
855      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
856
857    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
858      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
859
860    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
861
862    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
863
864    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
865
866    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
867      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
868      is present in some real-world data.
869
870    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
871      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
872
873    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
874      of it we do handle!
875
876    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
877      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
878      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
879      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
880
881    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
882      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
883
884    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
885      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
886
887    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
888
889    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
890
891    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
892      values are currently ignored.
893
894    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
895      them is currently ignored.
896
897    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
898      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
899      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
900      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
901      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
902
903    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
904
905* documentation:
906
907  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
908    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
909    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
910    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
911
912    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
913    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
914    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
915
916    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
917    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
918    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
919    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
920
921    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
922    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
923    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
924    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
925
926  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
927
928  + Document PLT export.
929
930  + Minor improvements to --help output
931
932  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
933    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
934    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
935    C. Landgraf.
936
937  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
938
939  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
940
941  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
942
943  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
944
945  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
946
947* testsuite:
948
949  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
950
951  + Add expected output for more testcases
952
953  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
954
955  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
956    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
957    instructions.
958
959  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
960
961* translations:
962
963  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
964    more natural word order in a translated message.
965
966Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
967
968* aven:
969
970  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
971    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
972    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
973    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
974    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
975    files - set the filter to "All Files" to choose other formats.
976
977  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
978    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
979    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
980    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
981    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
982    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
983    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
984    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
985    we could add it to the new implementation.
986
987  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
988    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
989    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
990    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
991    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
992    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
993    command line or from some other launcher.
994
995* cavern:
996
997  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
998    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
999    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
1000    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
1001    encouragement.
1002
1003  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
1004    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
1005    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
1006
1007  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
1008    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
1009    quietly misinterpreting the data.
1010
1011  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
1012    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
1013    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
1014    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
1015
1016  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
1017    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
1018
1019  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
1020
1021  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
1022    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
1023    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
1024    used to have "info" diagnostics.
1025
1026  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
1027    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
1028    "info" category is more appropriate here.
1029
1030  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
1031    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
1032    which may be useful to the user.
1033
1034  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
1035    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
1036    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
1037    happened in a released version.
1038
1039  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
1040    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
1041    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
1042
1043* dump3d:
1044
1045  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
1046    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
1047    true on all platforms.
1048
1049* manual:
1050
1051  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
1052    with/without admin rights.
1053
1054  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
1055    limitations.
1056
1057  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
1058    section.
1059
1060  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
1061    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
1062    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
1063    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
1064
1065* img library:
1066
1067  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
1068    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
1069    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
1070
1071  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
1072    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
1073
1074  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
1075    stations in loops.
1076
1077  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
1078    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
1079
1080  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
1081    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
1082
1083  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
1084    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
1085    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
1086    as "unknown date".
1087
1088* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
1089  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
1090  environment variable for this.
1091
1092* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
1093  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
1094  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
1095  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
1096  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
1097  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
1098
1099* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
1100  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
1101  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
1102
1103* Build system:
1104
1105  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
1106
1107  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
1108    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
1109
1110  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
1111    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
1112
1113* testsuite:
1114
1115  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
1116    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
1117    problem.
1118
1119  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
1120
1121Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
1122
1123* cavern:
1124
1125  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
1126    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
1127    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
1128    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
1129    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
1130
1131  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
1132    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
1133    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
1134    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
1135
1136  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
1137    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
1138
1139  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
1140    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
1141    failed on some architectures.
1142
1143* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
1144
1145* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
1146  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
1147  rights.
1148
1149* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
1150  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
1151  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
1152  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
1153
1154Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
1155
1156* cavern:
1157
1158  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
1159    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
1160    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
1161    the second and subsequent locations.
1162
1163  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
1164    containing non-ASCII characters.
1165
1166  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
1167    warnings.
1168
1169  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
1170
1171  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
1172
1173  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
1174    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
1175    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
1176    files.
1177
1178* img library:
1179
1180  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
1181    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
1182
1183  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
1184    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
1185    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
1186    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
1187    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
1188    realloc().
1189
1190* Portability:
1191
1192  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
1193    versions.
1194
1195  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
1196
1197* Build system:
1198
1199  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
1200
1201* Manual:
1202
1203  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
1204
1205  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
1206
1207* Minor translation updates.
1208
1209* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
1210  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
1211  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
1212  managed to reproduce.
1213
1214Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
1215
1216* cavern:
1217
1218  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
1219    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
1220    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
1221    mailing list.
1222
1223  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
1224    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
1225    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
1226    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
1227
1228  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
1229    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
1230    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
1231    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
1232    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
1233    the whole specified filename to upper case.
1234
1235  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
1236    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
1237    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
1238    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
1239    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
1240    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
1241
1242  + Compass DAT files:
1243
1244    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
1245
1246    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1247      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1248      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1249      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1250      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1251      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1252
1253    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
1254      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
1255
1256    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
1257
1258    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
1259      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
1260      being in metres.
1261
1262    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
1263      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
1264
1265    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
1266      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
1267      unlikely to occur in real data.
1268
1269    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
1270      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
1271      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
1272      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
1273      itself for DAT files.
1274
1275  + Compass MAK files:
1276
1277    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
1278      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
1279      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
1280
1281    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
1282      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
1283      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
1284      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
1285      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
1286      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
1287      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
1288      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
1289      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
1290      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
1291      supported would be useful to you.
1292
1293    - Folder commands are now understood.
1294
1295    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
1296      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
1297      counts from 0 at these points).
1298
1299  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
1300    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
1301    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
1302    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
1303    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
1304
1305* aven:
1306
1307  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
1308    Philip Balister.
1309
1310  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
1311    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
1312    together.
1313
1314* aven/survexport:
1315
1316  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
1317
1318  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
1319    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
1320    are enabled.
1321
1322  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
1323
1324  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
1325    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
1326    all of a set of equated stations.
1327
1328  + .plt:
1329
1330    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
1331      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
1332      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
1333      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
1334
1335    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
1336      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
1337      Compass docs).
1338
1339* img library:
1340
1341  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
1342    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
1343    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
1344    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
1345    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
1346    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
1347    default).
1348
1349  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
1350    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
1351
1352    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
1353      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
1354      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
1355
1356    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
1357
1358    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
1359      Entrance" field is present and zero.
1360
1361    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
1362
1363    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
1364      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
1365      format specification says:
1366
1367          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
1368          wall to define the passage shape.
1369
1370    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1371      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1372      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1373      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1374      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1375      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1376
1377    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
1378      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
1379
1380    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
1381      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
1382      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
1383      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
1384      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
1385      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
1386      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
1387      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
1388      mixed datums would be useful to you.
1389
1390    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
1391      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
1392
1393    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1394      than one survey in the PLT file.
1395
1396    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1397      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1398
1399    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1400      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1401      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1402      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1403      the comment for that survey as before.
1404
1405    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1406      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1407      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1408      it being omitted too.
1409
1410* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1411
1412* manual:
1413
1414  + Document Compass support in detail.
1415
1416  + Improve NATO mils example.
1417
1418* INSTALL:
1419
1420  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1421    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1422
1423  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1424    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1425
1426* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1427
1428* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1429  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1430
1431* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1432  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1433  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1434
1435* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1436
1437Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1438
1439* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1440
1441* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1442  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1443
1444* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1445
1446* Minor translation updates.
1447
1448Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1449
1450* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1451  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1452
1453* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1454  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1455  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1456  checks that were rejecting this.
1457
1458  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1459  really do that's better than that.
1460
1461  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1462
1463* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1464  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1465  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1466  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1467  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1468
1469* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1470  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1471
1472* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1473  bearing spin control.
1474
1475* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1476  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1477  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1478  currently but please report issues.
1479
1480* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1481  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1482  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1483  position".
1484
1485* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1486  Reported by echarlie
1487
1488* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1489
1490Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1491
1492* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1493
1494* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1495  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1496
1497* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1498  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1499
1500* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1501  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1502
1503* Minor translation updates.
1504
1505* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1506  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1507  works on Wayland).
1508
1509* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1510  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1511
1512* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1513
1514* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1515  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1516  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1517
1518Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1519
1520* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1521
1522* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1523
1524* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1525  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1526
1527* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1528  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1529  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1530  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1531
1532* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1533  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1534  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1535
1536* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1537  string properly.
1538
1539* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1540  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1541  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1542  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1543  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1544  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1545  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1546
1547* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1548  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1549
1550  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1551
1552* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1553  where the included filename is actually specified.
1554
1555* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1556  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1557
1558* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1559  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1560  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1561
1562* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1563  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1564
1565* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1566  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1567  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1568  anyway.
1569
1570* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1571  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1572
1573* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1574
1575* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1576  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1577  inconvenience anyone.
1578
1579Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1580
1581* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1582
1583* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1584  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1585  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1586  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1587
1588* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1589  in 1.4.0.
1590
1591* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1592
1593Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1594
1595* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1596  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1597  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1598  Couwenberg.
1599
1600  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1601  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1602  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1603  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1604
1605  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1606  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1607
1608* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1609  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1610  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1611
1612* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1613  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1614  strings is strongly discouraged.
1615
1616  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1617
1618  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1619
1620  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1621  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1622
1623* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1624  Green.
1625
1626* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1627  echarlie.
1628
1629* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1630  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1631  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1632
1633* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1634
1635* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1636
1637* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1638
1639* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1640
1641* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1642  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1643  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1644
1645Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1646
1647* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1648  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1649  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1650  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1651  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1652
1653* aven:
1654
1655  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1656    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1657    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1658    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1659    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1660    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1661
1662* testsuite:
1663
1664  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1665    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1666    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1667    process exits.
1668
1669* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1670
1671Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1672
1673* aven:
1674
1675  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1676
1677* cavern:
1678
1679  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1680
1681  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1682    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1683    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1684
1685  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1686    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1687    until the next *data command with parameters.
1688
1689  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1690    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1691
1692  * Improve test coverage.
1693
1694* survexport:
1695
1696  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1697    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1698
1699  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1700    Batista.
1701
1702* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1703  Holder.
1704
1705* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1706  from Thomas Holder.
1707
1708* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1709  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1710
1711* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1712
1713* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1714
1715* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1716
1717* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1718
1719* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1720
1721Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1722
1723* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1724  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1725  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1726
1727* aven:
1728
1729  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1730    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1731    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1732
1733  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1734    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1735    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1736    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1737
1738  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1739    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1740    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1741
1742  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1743
1744Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1745
1746* aven:
1747
1748  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1749
1750  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1751    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1752    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1753
1754  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1755    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1756    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1757    orientation.
1758
1759* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1760  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1761  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1762  Richard Knapp.
1763
1764* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1765  might still need to use them for.
1766
1767* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1768
1769* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1770
1771* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1772  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1773  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1774  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1775
1776* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1777  is now the recommended approach.
1778
1779Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1780
1781* aven:
1782
1783  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1784    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1785    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1786    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1787    Brian Clipstone.
1788
1789  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1790    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1791
1792Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1793
1794* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1795  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1796  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1797
1798* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1799  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1800  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1801  with some compilers.
1802
1803* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1804  installed.
1805
1806Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1807
1808* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1809  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1810  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1811
1812* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1813  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1814  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1815
1816* aven:
1817
1818  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1819    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1820    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1821    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1822    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1823    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1824    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1825    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1826    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1827    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1828    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1829
1830  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1831
1832* Documentation:
1833
1834  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1835
1836  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1837    placeholder.
1838
1839  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1840    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1841
1842* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1843  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1844  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1845
1846* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1847  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1848  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1849  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1850  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1851  location to avoid confusion.
1852
1853* Add a few more message translations.
1854
1855* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1856
1857Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1858
1859* cavern:
1860
1861  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1862    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1863    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1864    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1865    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1866
1867  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1868    now reports "file not found" instead.
1869
1870  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1871    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1872    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1873
1874* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1875
1876* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1877  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1878  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1879  removed.
1880
1881* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1882  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1883  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1884  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1885
1886Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1887
1888* aven:
1889
1890  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1891    controllable.
1892
1893  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1894
1895  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1896    Patch from Robert Jones.
1897
1898  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1899    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1900    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1901
1902  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1903    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1904
1905* cavern:
1906
1907  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1908    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1909
1910  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1911    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1912    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1913    go unnoticed.
1914
1915* survexport:
1916
1917  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1918    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1919    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1920
1921  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1922    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1923    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1924    Stephen Crabtree.
1925
1926* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1927
1928* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1929  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1930
1931* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1932  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1933  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1934  therion's team command.
1935
1936Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1937
1938* aven:
1939
1940  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1941
1942  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1943    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1944    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1945    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1946    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1947    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1948    for new entrances.
1949
1950  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1951    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1952    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1953    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1954
1955  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1956
1957  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1958    to show via the right-click menu.
1959
1960  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1961    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1962    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1963    child surveys of the parent.
1964
1965  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1966    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1967    survey.
1968
1969  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1970    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1971
1972  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1973
1974  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1975    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1976
1977  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1978    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1979    filtering this matters more).
1980
1981* survexport:
1982
1983  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1984    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1985
1986  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1987
1988* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1989
1990* Minor translation updates.
1991
1992* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1993
1994* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1995
1996* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1997
1998Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1999
2000* aven:
2001
2002  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
2003    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
2004    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
2005    on screen, printed and exported.
2006
2007  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
2008    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
2009    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
2010    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
2011    survey.
2012
2013  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
2014    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
2015    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
2016    view.  Reported by Wookey.
2017
2018  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
2019    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
2020    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
2021
2022  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
2023    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
2024
2025  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
2026    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
2027
2028  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
2029    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
2030
2031  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
2032    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
2033
2034  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
2035    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
2036
2037* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
2038  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
2039  tools could do, plus much more.
2040
2041* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
2042
2043* Minor updates to various other translations.
2044
2045* img library:
2046
2047  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
2048
2049  + Improve API documentation.
2050
2051* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
2052  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
2053  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
2054
2055* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
2056  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
2057  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
2058  control what gets exported.
2059
2060Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
2061
2062* aven:
2063
2064  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
2065    of 1.2.33.
2066
2067  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
2068
2069Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
2070
2071* aven:
2072
2073  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
2074    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
2075    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
2076    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
2077
2078  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
2079    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
2080    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
2081    Erin Lynch.
2082
2083  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
2084    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
2085    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
2086
2087  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
2088    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
2089    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
2090    unnecessarily.
2091
2092  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
2093    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
2094    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
2095    for this control).
2096
2097  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
2098    under GTK3.
2099
2100  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
2101    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
2102    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
2103
2104  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
2105    current development version).
2106
2107  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
2108    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
2109    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
2110
2111* cavern:
2112
2113  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
2114    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
2115    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
2116    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
2117    "19".
2118
2119* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
2120  Evaristo Quiroga.
2121
2122* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2123
2124* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
2125  milosch.
2126
2127* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
2128  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
2129  translated messages.
2130
2131* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
2132  Indonesian and Polish.
2133
2134* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
2135  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
2136  Reported by Martin Sluka.
2137
2138* Fix a few compiler warnings.
2139
2140* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
2141  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
2142  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
2143
2144* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
2145
2146  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
2147    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
2148    but happens to fail if it isn't.
2149
2150  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
2151
2152  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
2153
2154  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
2155
2156* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
2157  detected at run time on macOS.
2158
2159* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
2160  by the homebrew formula.
2161
2162* buildmacosx.sh:
2163
2164  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
2165    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
2166
2167  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
2168
2169* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
2170  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
2171
2172Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
2173
2174* aven:
2175
2176  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
2177    and Anthony Day.
2178
2179  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
2180    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
2181    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2182    Erin Lynch in #89.
2183
2184  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
2185    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
2186    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
2187    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
2188    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
2189    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
2190    elevations.
2191
2192  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
2193    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
2194    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
2195
2196  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
2197    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
2198    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
2199    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
2200    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
2201    "on".
2202
2203  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
2204    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
2205
2206  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
2207    the display wouldn't update right away.
2208
2209* Manual:
2210
2211  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
2212
2213  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
2214
2215* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
2216  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
2217  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
2218  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
2219  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
2220
2221Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
2222
2223* aven:
2224
2225  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
2226    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
2227    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
2228
2229  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
2230    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
2231    before by others.
2232
2233  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
2234
2235  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
2236    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
2237    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
2238    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
2239    original change.
2240
2241  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
2242    which extends beyond the end of the line).
2243
2244  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
2245    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
2246
2247  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
2248
2249  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
2250
2251  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
2252    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
2253    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
2254    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
2255    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
2256    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
2257    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
2258
2259  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
2260    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
2261
2262  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
2263    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
2264    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
2265
2266  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
2267    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
2268    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
2269    much vertical range.
2270
2271  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
2272    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
2273    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
2274    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
2275    are drawn in this way.
2276
2277  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
2278    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
2279    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
2280    centre should be a single pixel.
2281
2282* cavern:
2283
2284  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
2285    entering passage data where there are side passages.
2286
2287  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
2288    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
2289
2290  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
2291    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
2292    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
2293    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
2294
2295  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
2296    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
2297    Reported by Erin Lynch.
2298
2299  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
2300    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
2301    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
2302    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
2303
2304  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
2305    other messages.
2306
2307* extend:
2308
2309  + Now runs a bit faster.
2310
2311  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
2312    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
2313    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
2314    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
2315    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
2316    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
2317    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
2318    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
2319    be handled better) most welcome.
2320
2321* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
2322
2323* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
2324
2325* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
2326  translations from therion.
2327
2328* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
2329  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
2330
2331* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
2332  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
2333  Footleg.
2334
2335* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
2336
2337* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
2338
2339Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
2340
2341* aven:
2342
2343  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
2344    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2345
2346  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
2347    Suggested by detrito.
2348
2349  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
2350    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
2351
2352  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
2353    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
2354
2355* Add man page for dump3d.
2356
2357Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
2358
2359* aven:
2360
2361  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
2362    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
2363
2364  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
2365    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2366
2367* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
2368  Lynch and "detrito".
2369
2370* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
2371  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
2372
2373Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
2374
2375* cavern:
2376
2377  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
2378    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
2379    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
2380    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
2381    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
2382
2383  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
2384
2385  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
2386
2387  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
2388    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
2389    degrees).
2390
2391* aven:
2392
2393  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2394    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2395    Day.
2396
2397  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2398    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2399
2400  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2401    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2402
2403  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2404    of the line in cavern log window.
2405
2406  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2407
2408  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2409
2410  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2411    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2412    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2413    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2414    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2415
2416  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2417    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2418    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2419
2420  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2421
2422  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2423
2424  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2425    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2426    Atkinson and myself.
2427
2428  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2429
2430  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2431    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2432    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2433    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2434    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2435    survey.
2436
2437  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2438    lines on my netbook.
2439
2440  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2441    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2442    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2443
2444  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2445    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2446    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2447    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2448    glitches.
2449
2450  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2451    we currently list, though slower to write.
2452
2453  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2454    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2455
2456  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2457    warnings when building against a recent version.
2458
2459  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2460    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2461    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2462    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2463
2464  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2465    movie export.
2466
2467  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2468    export.
2469
2470* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2471  James Begley.
2472
2473* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2474  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2475
2476* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2477
2478* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2479  messages get used automatically.
2480
2481* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2482  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2483
2484* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2485
2486* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2487
2488* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2489
2490Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2491
2492* aven:
2493
2494  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2495    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2496    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2497    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2498    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2499    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2500    probably change in the future).
2501
2502  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2503    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2504    the survey tree root.
2505
2506  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2507    the view was recentred).
2508
2509  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2510    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2511    wrong direction).
2512
2513  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2514    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2515    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2516
2517  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2518    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2519    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2520    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2521
2522  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2523    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2524
2525  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2526    addresses #60.
2527
2528  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2529
2530  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2531    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2532    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2533
2534  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2535
2536  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2537    360 or down past 0.
2538
2539  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2540    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2541    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2542    real-valued ones.
2543
2544  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2545    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2546
2547  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2548    Lynch.
2549
2550  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2551
2552  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2553    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2554
2555  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2556    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2557    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2558
2559  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2560    should now work.
2561
2562* cavern:
2563
2564  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2565
2566  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2567    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2568    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2569
2570  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2571    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2572    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2573
2574  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2575    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2576    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2577    issue.
2578
2579  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2580    by patch from Colin Watson.
2581
2582  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2583
2584* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2585
2586* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2587  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2588
2589* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2590  used in the same dataset.
2591
2592* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2593  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2594
2595* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2596  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2597  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2598
2599* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2600
2601Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2602
2603* aven:
2604
2605  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2606    cavern again.
2607
2608* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2609  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2610  location and use the same start menu folder.
2611
2612* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2613  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2614
2615* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2616  by James Begley.
2617
2618Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2619
2620* aven:
2621
2622  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2623    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2624    to address.
2625
2626  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2627    over the survey tree.
2628
2629  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2630
2631  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2632    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2633
2634  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2635    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2636    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2637    encoded.
2638
2639  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2640    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2641    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2642    terminals which do still support this.
2643
2644  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2645    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2646
2647* cavern:
2648
2649  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2650    Edwards (see #78).
2651
2652  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2653    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2654    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2655    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2656
2657  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2658    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2659    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2660
2661  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2662    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2663
2664* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2665  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2666  Black.
2667
2668* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2669
2670* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2671  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2672  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2673  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2674  Black.
2675
2676* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2677  Black.
2678
2679* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2680
2681* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2682
2683* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2684
2685* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2686
2687* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2688
2689* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2690  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2691
2692* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2693  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2694  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2695
2696* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2697  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2698  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2699  privileges or not.
2700
2701Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2702
2703* aven:
2704
2705  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2706    Clipstone.
2707
2708  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2709    Reported by Jenny Black.
2710
2711  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2712    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2713    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2714
2715  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2716    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2717    messages.
2718
2719  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2720    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2721
2722* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2723  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2724
2725* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2726
2727* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2728  by Wookey.
2729
2730Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2731
2732* aven:
2733
2734  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2735    machines.
2736
2737  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2738
2739  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2740    already being processed.
2741
2742  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2743    Reported by Martin Green.
2744
2745  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2746
2747* cavern:
2748
2749  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2750    find the original survey notes).
2751
2752  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2753    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2754    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2755    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2756    progress display to be useful.
2757
2758* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2759
2760* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2761  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2762
2763* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2764  running cavern.
2765
2766* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2767  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2768  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2769
2770Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2771
2772* aven:
2773
2774  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2775    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2776    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2777    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2778    finding this fix.
2779
2780* cavern:
2781
2782  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2783
2784  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2785    station.
2786
2787  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2788    *export.
2789
2790Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2791
2792* aven:
2793
2794  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2795    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2796    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2797
2798  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2799
2800  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2801    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2802    does.
2803
2804  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2805    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2806
2807  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2808    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2809
2810  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2811    as appropriate.
2812
2813  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2814    values on Windows.
2815
2816* cavern:
2817
2818  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2819    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2820    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2821
2822  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2823    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2824
2825  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2826    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2827    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2828    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2829
2830  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2831    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2832    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2833    Atkinson.
2834
2835  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2836    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2837
2838  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2839    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2840    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2841    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2842
2843  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2844    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2845    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2846
2847* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2848  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2849  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2850  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2851
2852* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2853
2854* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2855  "*DECLINATION" command.
2856
2857* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2858  Reported by Jenny Black.
2859
2860* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2861  documentation.
2862
2863* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2864  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2865
2866* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2867
2868* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2869
2870Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2871
2872* aven:
2873
2874  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2875    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2876    the same or very similar by default.
2877
2878  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2879    Maynard.
2880
2881  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2882
2883  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2884
2885  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2886    away.
2887
2888  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2889
2890  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2891    display it.
2892
2893* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2894  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2895  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2896  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2897
2898* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2899
2900* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2901  before 1.2.19.
2902
2903* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2904  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2905
2906* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2907
2908* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2909  disk image.
2910
2911* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2912
2913* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2914  libav features we don't use.
2915
2916* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2917  a load of libav features we don't use.
2918
2919* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2920  message in the installer.
2921
2922Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2923
2924* aven:
2925
2926  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2927    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2928
2929  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2930
2931  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2932    exit full screen mode.
2933
2934  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2935    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2936    using since 1.2.7).
2937
2938  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2939    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2940    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2941    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2942    St. Lawrence.
2943
2944  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2945    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2946
2947  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2948    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2949    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2950
2951  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2952    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2953    case like we do on other platforms.
2954
2955  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2956
2957  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2958    support multi-monitor setups.
2959
2960  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2961    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2962
2963  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2964    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2965
2966  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2967    cases.
2968
2969  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2970    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2971    Erin Lynch)
2972
2973  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2974    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2975    items in in so it uses the full width.
2976
2977  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2978    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2979    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2980    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2981    window.
2982
2983  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2984    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2985    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2986    only relevant on the first ever run.
2987
2988* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2989
2990* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2991  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2992  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2993  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2994  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2995  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2996
2997* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2998  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2999
3000Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
3001
3002* aven:
3003
3004  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
3005    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
3006    rendering it as a transparent surface.
3007
3008  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
3009    sanely want to perform from the menu.
3010
3011  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
3012    colouring options.
3013
3014  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
3015
3016  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
3017    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
3018    pressing "Escape".
3019
3020  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
3021    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
3022
3023  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
3024    exporting.
3025
3026  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
3027
3028  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
3029    is quite likely to change.
3030
3031  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
3032    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
3033
3034  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
3035    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
3036    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
3037
3038  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
3039
3040  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
3041    markers in orange.
3042
3043  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
3044    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
3045
3046  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
3047    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
3048    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
3049    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
3050    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
3051    them would be better.
3052
3053  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
3054    Gee.
3055
3056  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
3057    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
3058    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
3059
3060  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
3061
3062* cavern:
3063
3064  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
3065    susscorfa).
3066
3067  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
3068    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
3069
3070  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
3071
3072  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
3073    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
3074
3075  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
3076    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
3077
3078* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
3079
3080* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
3081  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
3082  in a modern desktop.
3083
3084* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
3085  the filename in the error message.
3086
3087* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
3088  most complete translations.
3089
3090* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
3091
3092* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
3093  lacks them.
3094
3095* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
3096
3097* Manual:
3098
3099  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
3100    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
3101
3102  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
3103
3104  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
3105
3106  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
3107    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
3108    available for download.
3109
3110* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
3111  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
3112  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
3113
3114* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
3115
3116* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
3117
3118Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
3119
3120* MacOS X version:
3121
3122  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
3123
3124  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
3125
3126  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
3127
3128  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
3129
3130  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
3131    currently do this for us.
3132
3133  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
3134
3135  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
3136
3137  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
3138
3139  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
3140    OS X cursor.
3141
3142  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
3143    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
3144    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
3145    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
3146    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
3147    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
3148    with TextEdit.app for example).
3149
3150  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
3151    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
3152
3153  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
3154
3155  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
3156    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
3157
3158  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
3159    Riggs.
3160
3161  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
3162    space.
3163
3164  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
3165
3166  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
3167    10.10.1.
3168
3169  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
3170    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
3171    errors.
3172
3173  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
3174    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
3175    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
3176    wxWidgets build supports by default.
3177
3178  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
3179
3180* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
3181  treat as a single leg.
3182
3183* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
3184
3185* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
3186
3187* aven:
3188
3189  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
3190    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
3191
3192  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
3193    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
3194    1:500).
3195
3196  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
3197    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
3198    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
3199    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
3200
3201  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
3202    there rather than the two animations fighting.
3203
3204  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
3205    fast.
3206
3207  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
3208    when rotating).
3209
3210  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
3211    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
3212
3213* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
3214  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
3215
3216* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
3217
3218* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
3219
3220* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
3221
3222* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
3223
3224* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
3225  we're using git.
3226
3227* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
3228
3229  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
3230    compass.
3231
3232  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
3233
3234  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
3235
3236Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
3237
3238* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
3239
3240* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
3241
3242* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
3243
3244* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
3245  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
3246
3247* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
3248
3249* tests/: Improve test coverage.
3250
3251* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
3252  Greek and Polish.
3253
3254* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
3255  by Martin Sluka.
3256
3257* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
3258  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
3259
3260Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
3261
3262* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
3263  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
3264  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
3265  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
3266  for *cs has also been improved.
3267
3268* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
3269  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
3270  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
3271  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
3272
3273* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
3274  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
3275  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
3276  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
3277  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
3278
3279* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
3280  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
3281  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
3282
3283* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
3284
3285* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
3286
3287* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
3288  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
3289  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
3290
3291* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
3292  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
3293
3294Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
3295
3296* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
3297  system in use in 3d v8 files.
3298
3299* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
3300  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
3301  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
3302  export dialog.
3303
3304* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
3305  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
3306  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
3307  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
3308  rather than having one corner there.
3309
3310* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
3311  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
3312
3313* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
3314  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
3315
3316* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
3317  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
3318  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
3319
3320* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
3321  such as 64-bit Linux.
3322
3323* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
3324  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
3325
3326* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
3327  64-bit platforms.
3328
3329* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
3330  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
3331  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
3332
3333* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
3334  the space available in the aven UI.
3335
3336* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
3337  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
3338  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
3339
3340* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
3341  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
3342
3343* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
3344  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
3345  about unconnected surveys.
3346
3347* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
3348  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
3349
3350* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
3351  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
3352  freed memory.
3353
3354* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
3355
3356* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
3357
3358* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
3359
3360* Fix a compiler warning.
3361
3362* Improve test coverage.
3363
3364Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
3365
3366* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
3367  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
3368  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
3369
3370* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
3371  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
3372  Hugh St Lawrence.
3373
3374* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
3375  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
3376  with using aven on a touch screen device.
3377
3378* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
3379  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
3380
3381* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
3382  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
3383
3384* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
3385  off and back on.
3386
3387* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
3388  up time a little.
3389
3390* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
3391  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
3392
3393* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3394  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3395  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3396  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3397  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3398  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3399  situation too.
3400
3401* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3402  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3403  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3404
3405* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3406
3407* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3408
3409* Minor translation updates to French.
3410
3411* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3412
3413* Testsuite improvements:
3414
3415  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3416
3417  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3418    fail and give an error count.
3419
3420  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3421
3422Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3423
3424* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3425  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3426  Clipstone.
3427
3428* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3429
3430* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3431
3432  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3433    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3434
3435  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3436    clipping the border in print preview.
3437
3438  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3439
3440* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3441  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3442
3443* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3444  available.
3445
3446* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3447
3448* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3449
3450* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3451  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3452
3453* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3454  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3455
3456* Various translation updates.
3457
3458Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3459
3460* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3461  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3462
3463* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3464  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3465  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3466  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3467
3468* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3469  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3470
3471* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3472  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3473
3474* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3475  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3476
3477* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3478  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3479
3480* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3481  box".
3482
3483* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3484
3485* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3486  indicators.
3487
3488* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3489
3490* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3491  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3492  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3493
3494* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3495  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3496  measurably slower.
3497
3498* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3499  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3500
3501* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3502  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3503
3504* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3505  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3506  from Therion and elsewhere.
3507
3508* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3509  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3510  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3511
3512* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3513  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3514
3515* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3516  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3517
3518* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3519  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3520
3521* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3522
3523* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3524  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3525  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3526  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3527  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3528  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3529
3530* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3531
3532Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3533
3534* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3535  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3536  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3537  Clipstone.
3538
3539* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3540  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3541
3542* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3543  exported SVG files.
3544
3545* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3546
3547* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3548  file.
3549
3550* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3551  GPX files.
3552
3553* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3554
3555* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3556  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3557
3558* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3559  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3560  on startup.
3561
3562* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3563
3564* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3565  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3566  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3567  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3568  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3569  other extensions.
3570
3571* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3572  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3573  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3574  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3575  timezone wrong.
3576
3577* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3578
3579* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3580  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3581
3582* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3583
3584* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3585
3586* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3587  enabled.
3588
3589Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3590
3591* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3592
3593* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3594
3595* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3596
3597* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3598  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3599  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3600
3601* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3602  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3603  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3604
3605* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3606  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3607
3608* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3609
3610* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3611
3612* Fix some compiler warnings.
3613
3614Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3615
3616* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3617  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3618  Holder.
3619
3620* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3621  statistics when the value gets large.
3622
3623* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3624  equations.
3625
3626* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3627  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3628  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3629  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3630  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3631
3632* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3633  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3634
3635* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3636  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3637  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3638  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3639  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3640  way is coming soon.
3641
3642* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3643  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3644
3645* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3646  time ago, so update references.
3647
3648* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3649  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3650
3651* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3652  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3653
3654* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3655  Sebastian Ramacher.
3656
3657* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3658
3659* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3660
3661* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3662
3663* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3664
3665* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3666
3667* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3668  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3669  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3670
3671* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3672
3673* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3674
3675* img library:
3676
3677  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3678    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3679    reading).
3680
3681  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3682    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3683
3684  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3685    support these as an extension.
3686
3687  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3688
3689* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3690  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3691  itself has any translations for.
3692
3693* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3694
3695* Minor translation updates.
3696
3697* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3698
3699Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3700
3701* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3702  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3703  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3704  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3705  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3706  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3707  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3708  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3709
3710* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3711
3712  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3713
3714  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3715    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3716
3717  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3718    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3719
3720  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3721
3722  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3723    human-readable string.
3724
3725  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3726    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3727
3728* img library:
3729
3730  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3731
3732  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3733    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3734
3735  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3736    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3737    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3738    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3739    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3740    explicitly in the file.
3741
3742  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3743
3744* aven:
3745
3746  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3747    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3748    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3749    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3750    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3751    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3752
3753  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3754    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3755    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3756    queued up.
3757
3758  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3759    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3760
3761  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3762    them like other legs.
3763
3764  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3765    station names to positions.
3766
3767  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3768    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3769    wrongly.
3770
3771  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3772
3773  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3774    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3775    that's used by the desktop).
3776
3777  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3778
3779  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3780    error from cavern.
3781
3782  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3783
3784  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3785    in the dialog in sync.
3786
3787* cavern:
3788
3789  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3790    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3791    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3792
3793  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3794    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3795
3796  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3797    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3798    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3799    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3800    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3801    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3802    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3803    degrees.
3804
3805  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3806    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3807    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3808
3809  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3810
3811  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3812    warnings.
3813
3814  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3815    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3816
3817  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3818    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3819
3820  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3821    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3822    relevant.
3823
3824  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3825    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3826    the same line.
3827
3828  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3829    "End of line not blank" error.
3830
3831  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3832    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3833
3834  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3835    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3836
3837  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3838    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3839    include that character in the token reported.
3840
3841  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3842    first item.
3843
3844* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3845
3846* dump3d:
3847
3848  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3849    info from 3d files in scripts.
3850
3851  + Add --show-dates option.
3852
3853  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3854
3855  + Report the data style of legs.
3856
3857  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3858
3859  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3860
3861* Test suite:
3862
3863  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3864    expected output so it passes reliably.
3865
3866  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3867    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3868
3869  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3870    for more.
3871
3872* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3873  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3874  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3875
3876* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3877  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3878
3879* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3880  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3881
3882* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3883  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3884  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3885  settings.
3886
3887* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3888  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3889  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3890  set correctly.
3891
3892* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3893  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3894  them to translate.
3895
3896* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3897  close to complete.
3898
3899* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3900
3901* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3902
3903* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3904
3905Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3906
3907* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3908
3909* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3910  package (ticket#35).
3911
3912* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3913  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3914  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3915
3916* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3917  Kahler.
3918
3919* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3920  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3921  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3922  libproj and build survex with:
3923
3924      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3925      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3926
3927* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3928
3929* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3930
3931* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3932  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3933  file".
3934
3935Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3936
3937* aven:
3938
3939  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3940
3941  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3942    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3943
3944  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3945
3946  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3947
3948  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3949    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3950
3951* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3952  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3953  error early on).
3954
3955* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3956  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3957
3958Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3959
3960* aven:
3961
3962  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3963    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3964    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3965    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3966
3967  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and choose a consistent
3968    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3969
3970  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3971
3972  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3973
3974  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3975
3976* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3977
3978Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3979
3980* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3981
3982* (Mac OS X version):
3983
3984  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3985
3986  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3987
3988  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3989    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3990
3991  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3992
3993* aven:
3994
3995  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3996
3997  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3998
3999    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
4000      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
4001      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
4002      character.
4003
4004    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
4005      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
4006      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
4007      and two in a few cases.
4008
4009    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
4010      8 pixels.
4011
4012  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
4013    draw crosses.
4014
4015  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
4016    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
4017    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
4018    is the start or end of a tube.
4019
4020  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
4021    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
4022
4023  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
4024    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
4025    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
4026
4027* extend:
4028
4029  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
4030
4031  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
4032    which means "no info").
4033
4034* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
4035  was no longer used - it certainly is!
4036
4037* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
4038  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
4039  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
4040  current character set.
4041
4042* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
4043
4044* Test suite:
4045
4046  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
4047
4048  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
4049
4050Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
4051
4052* aven:
4053
4054  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
4055    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
4056    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
4057    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
4058    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
4059    usable format.
4060
4061  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
4062    files.  (ticket#26)
4063
4064  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
4065    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
4066
4067  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
4068    using lines.
4069
4070  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
4071    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
4072
4073  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
4074    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
4075    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
4076    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
4077
4078  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
4079    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
4080    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
4081
4082  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
4083    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
4084    in 1.2.1.
4085
4086Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
4087
4088* Translation updates for US English.
4089
4090* aven:
4091
4092  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
4093    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
4094
4095  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
4096
4097  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
4098    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
4099    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
4100    visually similar to the survey legs.
4101
4102  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
4103    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
4104
4105  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
4106    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
4107    does still provide some useful information).
4108
4109  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
4110    a depth band boundary.
4111
4112  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
4113    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
4114    full-screen mode).
4115
4116  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
4117    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
4118    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
4119    are a little better, though still not perfect.
4120
4121  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
4122    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
4123
4124  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
4125    that station.
4126
4127  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
4128    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
4129
4130  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
4131    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
4132    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
4133    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
4134    a case as it is a bug).
4135
4136  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
4137    invalidated on window width or height changes.
4138
4139  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
4140    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
4141    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
4142    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
4143
4144  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
4145    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
4146    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
4147    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
4148    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
4149    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
4150    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
4151
4152  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
4153    similarly for other compass points.
4154
4155  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
4156    info in the "About" dialog.
4157
4158  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
4159    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
4160
4161  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
4162    as well as still working with older versions.
4163
4164  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
4165    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
4166
4167  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
4168    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
4169    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
4170    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
4171    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
4172
4173  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
4174    nicer and make better use of the available space.
4175
4176  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
4177    dialog.
4178
4179  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
4180    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
4181
4182  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
4183    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
4184
4185  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
4186
4187  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
4188
4189  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
4190    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
4191    being pressed and toggle full screen.
4192
4193* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
4194  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
4195
4196* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
4197
4198* More messages are now available to be translated.
4199
4200* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
4201  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
4202
4203* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
4204
4205* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
4206  sudo for installing on Unix.
4207
4208* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
4209  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
4210
4211* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
4212  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
4213
4214* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
4215
4216Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
4217
4218* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
4219  English.
4220
4221* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
4222  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
4223  case.
4224
4225* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
4226  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
4227  these into Survex's .msg format.
4228
4229* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
4230  an actual command).
4231
4232* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
4233  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
4234  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
4235  recurrence of that).
4236
4237* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
4238  than /usr/doc/survex.
4239
4240* aven:
4241
4242  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
4243
4244  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
4245    nicer at larger sizes.
4246
4247  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
4248    with GLX >= 1.3.
4249
4250  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
4251
4252  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
4253    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
4254    required libraries set up for building releases.
4255
4256  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
4257
4258  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
4259
4260  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
4261    rendered with icons on some platforms.
4262
4263  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
4264    ISO8859-1).
4265
4266  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
4267    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
4268
4269  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
4270    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
4271
4272* cavern:
4273
4274  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
4275    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
4276    fatal error!
4277
4278  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
4279    format to output.  (ticket#21)
4280
4281* img library:
4282
4283  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
4284    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
4285
4286* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
4287  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
4288
4289Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
4290
4291* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
4292  Portuguese, and US English.
4293
4294* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
4295  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
4296
4297* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
4298  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
4299
4300* img.c:
4301
4302  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
4303
4304  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
4305
4306* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
4307
4308* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
4309  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
4310  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
4311  translated.
4312
4313Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
4314
4315* aven:
4316
4317  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
4318    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
4319
4320  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
4321    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
4322    addresses ticket#12.
4323
4324  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
4325    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
4326    consistent shape.
4327
4328  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
4329    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
4330    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
4331    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
4332
4333  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
4334    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
4335
4336  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
4337
4338  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
4339    more places.
4340
4341  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
4342    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
4343
4344* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
4345
4346* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
4347  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
4348
4349* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
4350
4351* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
4352  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
4353  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
4354  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
4355  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
4356  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
4357
4358* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
4359  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
4360  redirecting to it.
4361
4362* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
4363  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
4364  I/O).
4365
4366* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
4367  headers.
4368
4369* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
4370
4371* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
4372  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
4373
4374* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
4375
4376Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
4377
4378* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
4379
4380* aven:
4381
4382  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
4383    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
4384    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
4385    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
4386
4387  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
4388
4389  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
4390    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
4391    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
4392    a number.
4393
4394  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4395    log window.
4396
4397  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4398    various cases.
4399
4400  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4401    (ticket#9)
4402
4403  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4404    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4405
4406  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4407    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4408
4409  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4410
4411  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4412    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4413
4414* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4415  give them before.
4416
4417* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4418  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4419  point looking for them now.
4420
4421* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4422  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4423  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4424  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4425
4426* manual:
4427
4428  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4429
4430  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4431    (change taken from 1.0).
4432
4433* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4434
4435Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4436
4437* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4438
4439* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4440
4441* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4442
4443* aven:
4444
4445  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4446
4447  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4448    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4449    seem to be Unicode now).
4450
4451  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4452    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4453
4454  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4455    text on the survey pane:
4456
4457    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4458
4459    - Character spacing is improved.
4460
4461    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4462
4463  + "About" dialog:
4464
4465    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4466      bug reporting.
4467
4468    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4469      modern gfx card.
4470
4471    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4472
4473  + Processing .svx files:
4474
4475    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4476
4477    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4478      than opening a separate frame for it.
4479
4480    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4481
4482    - Fix small memory leak.
4483
4484  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4485    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4486    such a name.
4487
4488  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4489
4490  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4491    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4492    invocations.
4493
4494  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4495
4496  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4497
4498  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4499
4500* Documentation:
4501
4502  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4503
4504  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4505    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4506    together isn't very useful.
4507
4508  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4509
4510  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4511    the FSF website.
4512
4513  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4514    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4515    the source code.
4516
4517* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4518  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4519
4520* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4521  package from the source tarball.
4522
4523* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4524  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4525
4526Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4527
4528* aven:
4529
4530  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4531
4532  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4533
4534  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4535    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4536    names/crosses).
4537
4538Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4539
4540* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4541
4542* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4543
4544* aven:
4545
4546  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4547
4548  + Fix character spacing.
4549
4550  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4551    proportional fonts.
4552
4553  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4554    rather than the filename.
4555
4556  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4557
4558  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4559    depth colouring.
4560
4561  + Add "Colour by Error".
4562
4563  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4564
4565  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4566
4567  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4568
4569  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4570
4571  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4572
4573  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4574
4575  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4576
4577  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4578    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4579
4580  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4581
4582  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4583    default.
4584
4585* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4586  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4587
4588* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4589  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4590
4591* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4592
4593* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4594
4595Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4596
4597* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4598  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4599  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4600  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4601  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4602
4603* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4604  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4605  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4606
4607* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4608  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4609  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4610
4611* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4612  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4613  allowed).
4614
4615* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4616
4617* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4618
4619* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4620
4621Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4622
4623* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4624  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4625
4626* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4627  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4628  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4629
4630* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4631  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4632  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4633  the new "*data passage" style.
4634
4635* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4636  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4637
4638* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4639  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4640  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4641  some cases.
4642
4643* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4644  with no survey loaded.
4645
4646* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4647
4648* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4649  loaded a survey.
4650
4651* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4652
4653* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4654
4655* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4656  doesn't exist.
4657
4658* Updated French and Italian translations.
4659
4660* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4661  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4662
4663* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4664  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4665  update their copy).
4666
4667* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4668  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4669  trying to compile).
4670
4671Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4672
4673* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4674  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4675
4676* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4677  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4678  has been disabled.
4679
4680* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4681  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4682  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4683  time.
4684
4685* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4686  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4687  highlighted stations.
4688
4689* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4690
4691* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4692  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4693
4694* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4695  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4696
4697* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4698  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4699  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4700
4701* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4702  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4703
4704* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4705
4706* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4707
4708* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4709
4710* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4711  run by an unprivileged user.
4712
4713* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4714  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4715  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4716
4717* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4718  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4719
4720* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4721
4722* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4723  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4724
4725* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4726  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4727
4728* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4729  if it isn't.
4730
4731* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4732  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4733
4734* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4735  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4736
4737* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4738  reset to default view as well).
4739
4740* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4741  empty.
4742
4743* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4744  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4745
4746* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4747  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4748  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4749
4750* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4751  and non-zero width lines.
4752
4753* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4754  was turned on.
4755
4756* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4757  not always being fully written.
4758
4759Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4760
4761* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4762  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4763  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4764  date near the middle of that period).
4765
4766* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4767  with MS Windows).
4768
4769* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4770  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4771  several surveys in the same directory).
4772
4773* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4774  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4775
4776* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4777
4778* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4779  moved off a station.
4780
4781* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4782  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4783
4784* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4785
4786* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4787  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4788
4789* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4790  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4791  dialogs.
4792
4793* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4794  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4795
4796* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4797  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4798  introduced in 1.1.6).
4799
4800* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4801  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4802  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4803
4804* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4805  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4806
4807* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4808
4809* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4810
4811Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4812
4813* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4814  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4815
4816* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4817  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4818  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4819  3d file.
4820
4821* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4822
4823* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4824
4825* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4826  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4827
4828* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4829
4830* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4831  Martin Green).
4832
4833* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4834  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4835  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4836
4837* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4838
4839* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4840  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4841
4842* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4843  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4844  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4845  of everything else.
4846
4847* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4848  presentation icons.
4849
4850* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4851  keyboard focus there.
4852
4853* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4854
4855* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4856
4857* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4858
4859* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4860
4861* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4862  language to use for messages.
4863
4864* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4865  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4866
4867* Removed old printer drivers.
4868
4869* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4870  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4871
4872Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4873
4874* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4875
4876* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4877
4878* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4879  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4880
4881* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4882  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4883
4884* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4885
4886* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4887  underground legs is toggled.
4888
4889* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4890  attached to the previous data.
4891
4892* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4893  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4894  them.
4895
4896Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4897
4898* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4899
4900* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4901  continental European countries).
4902
4903* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4904  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4905  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4906
4907* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4908
4909* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4910  they're needed.
4911
4912* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4913
4914* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4915
4916* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4917
4918* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4919  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4920  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4921
4922* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4923
4924Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4925
4926* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4927
4928* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4929
4930* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4931
4932* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4933
4934* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4935
4936* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4937
4938* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4939  when there's a presentation loaded.
4940
4941* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4942  in cave view.
4943
4944* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4945
4946* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4947  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4948  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4949
4950* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4951  filename for file history and window title.
4952
4953* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4954  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4955  only needed with GTK1.2.
4956
4957* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4958
4959* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4960
4961* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4962
4963* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4964
4965Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4966
4967* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4968  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4969  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4970
4971* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4972  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4973
4974* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4975  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4976  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4977  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4978
4979* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4980
4981* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4982  with --help and --version.
4983
4984* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4985  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4986  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4987  Fixed all these problems.
4988
4989* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4990  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4991  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4992
4993* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4994  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4995  sources.
4996
4997* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4998
4999* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
5000
5001* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
5002  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
5003
5004* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
5005  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
5006  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
5007  animating.
5008
5009* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
5010
5011* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
5012
5013* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
5014  to this branch.
5015
5016* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
5017
5018  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
5019
5020  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
5021
5022  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
5023
5024* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
5025
5026* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
5027  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
5028
5029* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
5030
5031* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
5032  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
5033
5034* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
5035
5036* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
5037  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
5038  for anyone building from CVS).
5039
5040* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
5041
5042* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
5043
5044* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
5045
5046* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
5047
5048* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
5049  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
5050  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
5051
5052* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
5053  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
5054
5055* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
5056
5057* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
5058  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
5059  loaded).
5060
5061* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
5062
5063Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
5064
5065* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
5066  startup.
5067
5068* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
5069  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
5070
5071Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
5072
5073* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
5074  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
5075  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
5076
5077* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
5078  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
5079  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
5080
5081* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
5082  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
5083  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
5084
5085* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
5086
5087* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
5088  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
5089
5090* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
5091  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
5092
5093* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
5094  better use of screen space.
5095
5096* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
5097
5098* aven: Perspective view.
5099
5100* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
5101
5102* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
5103  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
5104
5105* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
5106  and load/save/run them.
5107
5108* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
5109
5110* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
5111
5112* aven: Depth fogging option.
5113
5114* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
5115
5116* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
5117
5118* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
5119  showing the surface legs.
5120
5121* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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