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[581624b]1* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.
2
[38a192d]3* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
5
[6662d02]6Changes in 1.1.7:
7
8* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
9  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
10  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
11  date near the middle of that period).
[e0c7cd1]12
[8add4c9]13* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
14  with MS Windows).
15
[9f524ee]16* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
17  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
18  several surveys in the same directory).
19
[185d793]20* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
21  our for them to include that knowledge.
22
[3515947]23* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
24
[1235f9b]25* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
26  moved off a station.
27
[4299674]28* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
[d74279d]29  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
[4299674]30
[60dbe70]31* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
32
[125c9ea]33* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
34  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
35
[ec58e3d3]36* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
37  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
38  dialogs.
39
[8add4c9]40* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
41  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
42
[6662d02]43* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
44  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
[d74279d]45  introduced in 1.1.6).
[6662d02]46
[b65c13f]47* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
48  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
49  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
50
[17cce5f]51* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
52  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
53
[affaeee]54* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
55
[618b01f]56* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
57
[7e01c87]58Changes in 1.1.6:
59
60* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
61  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
62
[b88b171]63* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
64  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
65  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
66  3d file.
67
[7e01c87]68* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
69
70* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
71
72* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
73  Instead turn off depth colouring.
74
[8ea82aa]75* aven: Export as HPGL added.
76
[887c26e]77* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
78  Martin Green).
79
[7c29c976]80* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
81  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
82  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
83
[7e01c87]84* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
[bd21214]85
[7e01c87]86* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
87  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
88
89* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
90  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
91  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
92  of everything else.
93
94* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
95  presentation icons.
96
97* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
98  keyboard focus there.
[bd21214]99
[b46bf92]100* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
101
[796d7bf]102* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
103
[7e01c87]104* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
105
106* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
107
[b88b171]108* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
109  language to use for messages.
110
[7c29c976]111* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
112  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
113
[8ea82aa]114* Removed old printer drivers.
115
[7e01c87]116* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
117  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
[8ea82aa]118
[106cfdf]119Changes in 1.1.5:
120
121* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
122
[4ba80e0]123* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
124
125* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
126  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
127
[95ce35f]128* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
129  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
130 
131* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
132
[cd78148]133* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
134  underground legs is toggled.
135
[f5627353]136* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
137  attached to the previous data.
138
[dfe4a520]139* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
140  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
141  them.
142
[4855072]143Changes in 1.1.4:
144
145* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
146
147* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
148  continental European countries).
149
150* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
151  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
152  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
153
154* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
155
156* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
157  they're needed.
158
159* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
160
161* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
162
163* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
164
165* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
166  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
167  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
168
169* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
170
[0e558e5]171Changes in 1.1.3:
172
173* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
174
175* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
176
177* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
178
179* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
180
181* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
182
183* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
184
185* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
186  when there's a presentation loaded.
187
188* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
189  in cave view.
190
191* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
192
193* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
194  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
195  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
196
197* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
198  filename for file history and window title.
199
200* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
201  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
202  only needed with GTK1.2.
203
204* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
205
206* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
207
208* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
209
210* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
211
212Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
[8faa5d8]213
214* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
215  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
216  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
217
218* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
219  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
220
221* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
222  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
223  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
224  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
[1a09e2c]225
[0e558e5]226* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
[8faa5d8]227
228* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
229  with --help and --version.
230
231* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
232  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
[6225339]233  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
[8faa5d8]234  Fixed all these problems.
235
236* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
237  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
238  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
239
240* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
[0e558e5]241  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
242  sources.
[8faa5d8]243
[0e558e5]244* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
[8faa5d8]245
246* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
247
248* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
249  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
250
251* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
252  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
253  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
254  animating.
255
256* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
257
258* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
259
260* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
261  to this branch.
262
263* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
264
265  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
266
267  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
268
269  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
270
271* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
[1a09e2c]272
[8faa5d8]273* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
274  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
275
276* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
277
278* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
[0e558e5]279  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
[8faa5d8]280
281* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
282
283* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
284  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
285  for anyone building from CVS).
286
287* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
288
[4855072]289* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
[8faa5d8]290
291* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
292
293* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
294
[0e558e5]295* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
296  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
[8faa5d8]297  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
298
299* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
300  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
301
302* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
303
304* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
[0130bc4]305  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
306  loaded).
[8faa5d8]307
308* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
309
[a7aa27d9]310Changes in 1.1.1:
311
312* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
[1a09e2c]313  startup.
[a7aa27d9]314
315* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
316  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
317
[0580c6a]318Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
[edb6576]319
[91e416e]320* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
321  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
322  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
[edb6576]323
[91e416e]324* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
325  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
326  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
[edb6576]327
[91e416e]328* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
329  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
330  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
[edb6576]331
[91e416e]332* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
[edb6576]333
[0580c6a]334* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
335  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
336
[4261983]337* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
338  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
339
340* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
341  better use of screen space.
[edb6576]342
[f80077a]343* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
[edb6576]344
[6abab84]345* aven: Perspective view.
346
[91e416e]347* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
[edb6576]348
[91e416e]349* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
350  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
[edb6576]351
[1690fa9]352* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
353  and load/save/run them.
354
[0580c6a]355* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
356
[045e2af]357* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
358
[c60062d]359* aven: Depth fogging option.
360
[0580c6a]361* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
362
363* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
364
[f433fda]365* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
366  showing the surface legs.
367
[0580c6a]368* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
[da6c802]369
[0580c6a]370Changes in 1.0.32:
[db452ae]371
[0580c6a]372* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
[a517825]373
[0580c6a]374* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
375  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
376
377* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
378  extend elevations.
379
380* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
381
382* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
383  default button.
384
385* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
386  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
387
388* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
389
390* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
391  - previously this was being ignored.
392
393* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
394
395* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
396  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
397  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
398  pixel too small on Windows.
399
400* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
401  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
402  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
403
404* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
405  with pretty much every other application.
406
407* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
408  within aven.
409
410* aven: Updated a few icons.
411
412* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
413
414* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
415
416* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
417  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
418  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
419  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
420  doubt anyone is still using that...
421
422* Updates to German translation.
423
424Changes in 1.0.31:
425
426* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
427  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
428
429* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
430  grid is enabled or not.
431
432* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
433
434* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
435  translations.
436
437* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
438
439Changes in 1.0.30:
440
441* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
442
443* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
444
445* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
446
447* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
448  flagged as surface and underground.
449
450* Romanian translation mostly completed.
451
452* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
453
454Changes in 1.0.29:
455
456* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
457  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
458
459* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
460
461* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
462
463* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
464  from John Pybus).
465
466* Romanian translation started.
467
468* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
469  menu files.
470
471Changes in 1.0.28:
472
473* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
474  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
475
476Changes in 1.0.27:
477
478* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
479  layers.
480
481* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
[b462168]482
[1809849]483Changes in 1.0.26:
[b462168]484
[b4fe9fb]485* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
486  calculated as zero.
[b462168]487
488* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
489
[b4fe9fb]490* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
491
492* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
493
494* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
495  we must apply resources *after* installing.
496
497* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
498
499* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
500  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
501  of their choice.
502
503* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
504  installed.
505
[63dc4eb]506* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
507  worked).
508
509* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
510  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
[b4fe9fb]511
[2934e83]512* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
513
[b4fe9fb]514* Documentation updated.
515
[63dc4eb]516* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
[b4fe9fb]517  documentation!
518
519* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
520
[63dc4eb]521* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
[b4fe9fb]522
523* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
524  most of them.
[b5a3219]525
[63dc4eb]526* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
527
[b462168]528Changes in 1.0.25:
529
530* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
531
532* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
533  the box on more Unix platforms.
534
535* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
536
537* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
538  insurmountable technical problems.
[1a09e2c]539
[b462168]540Changes in 1.0.24:
541
542* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
543
544* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
545  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
546
547* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
548
549* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
550
551* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
552  (and probably some other Unix versions).
553
554* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
555
556Changes in 1.0.23:
557
558* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
559  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
560  to manual.
561
562* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
563
564* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
565  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
566
567* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
568  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
569  Windows.
570
571* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
572
573* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
574
575Changes in 1.0.22:
576
577* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
578  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
579
580* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
581  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
582  code).
583
584Changes in 1.0.21:
585
586* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
587  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
588  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
589  Compass .MAK files.
590
591* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
592  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
593
594* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
595
596* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
597  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
598  per station.
599
600* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
601  unusual circumstances.
602
603* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
604  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
605  over an previous version.
606
607Changes in 1.0.20:
608
609* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
610
611* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
612  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
613  correction was about 57 times too large!)
614
615* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
616  insert a survey separator character.
617
618* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
619
620Changes in 1.0.19:
621
622* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
623  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
624  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
625
626* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
627  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
628  files are handled).
629
630* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
631  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
632
633* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
634
635* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
636  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
637  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
638
639* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
640
641* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
642  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
643  crash.
644
[89a6a1e]645* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
646
[b462168]647* Documentation: minor updates.
648
[27b8b59]649Changes in 1.0.18:
650
[b462168]651* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
[27b8b59]652
[b462168]653* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
654  instead.
[27b8b59]655
[b462168]656* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
[27b8b59]657  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
658
[b462168]659* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
[27b8b59]660  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
661  to the aven subpackage.
662
663* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
664
665* Updated TODO list.
666
667Changes in 1.0.17:
668
[b462168]669* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
[27b8b59]670  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
671  its own icon.
672
[b462168]673* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
[27b8b59]674  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
675  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
676  refresh the view.
677
678* Minor update to manual.
679
680Changes in 1.0.16:
681
[b462168]682* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[27b8b59]683  programs from finding the message files.
684
[b462168]685* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
[27b8b59]686  files.
687
688Changes in 1.0.15:
689
[b462168]690* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[27b8b59]691  programs from finding the message files.
692
[b462168]693* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
[27b8b59]694  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
695  obtained with the right mouse button.
696
697Changes in 1.0.14:
698
699* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
700  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
701  from Activeware.
702
[ee1ec59]703* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
704  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
705  separator between survey name and station name.
[27b8b59]706
707* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
708  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
709
710* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
711  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
712
713* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
[ee1ec59]714
715* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
[21c226e]716  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
717
[e7576f6]718* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
[21c226e]719
[ee1ec59]720* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
721  DIRECTION reading.
722
[42d23c5]723* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
724
[27b8b59]725* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
726  have taken up.
727
728* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
729  once again.  Added regression test for this.
730
[b462168]731* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
[27b8b59]732  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
733
[21c226e]734* Updated documentation.
735
736Changes in 1.0.13:
737
738* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
739  connecting arbitrary stations.
[27b8b59]740
[21c226e]741* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
742  join.
743
744* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
745  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
746  and everything should work exactly as before.
747
748* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
749  currently translated.
750
[50b0c7f]751Changes in 1.0.12:
752
[950e261]753* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
754
[dd5a89c]755* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
756
[abd126e]757* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
758  (both cover Eastern European languages).
[27b8b59]759
[b462168]760* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
[f3d5b20]761  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
762  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
763  permission to include the icon).
764
765* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
766  again.
767
768* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
[15d7cc1]769  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
[f3d5b20]770
771* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
772
[50b0c7f]773* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
774
[b8c4913]775Changes in 1.0.11:
776
[496a208]777* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
778  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
779  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
780  and as intended on 2.3.
781
[52634cc]782* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
783  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
784  '.').
785
[7757a4ed]786* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
787  autorotation.
788
[cc9150c]789* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
790
791* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
792
793* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
794  double-clicking or from the command line.
795
[a3326288]796* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
797
[ca4058d]798* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
799
[a3326288]800* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
801
802* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
[388ad50]803
[d275723]804* Updates to Italian translation.
805
[0f125da]806* Minor documentation updates.
807
[5215b99]808Changes in 1.0.10:
809
[6097cd2]810* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
811  names.
812
[c01c332]813* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
814  successfully.
815
[d16db18]816* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
817  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
818  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
819
[cfcfd28]820* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
821  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
822
[a9ab65a]823* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
824  factor was being applied backwards!)
825
[47e4a2e]826* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
827  be opened.
828
[5215b99]829* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
830
[ef59f5e]831* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
832
[c01c332]833* Updates to German and Italian translations.
[3bf737e]834
[f4276af]835Changes in 1.0.9:
836
[e3dfce4]837* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
838
839* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
[f4276af]840
[6317ee2]841* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
842  end of each line).
843
[161e268]844* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
845  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
846  them).
847
[06e94a8]848* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
[b10788f]849
[732b9b0]850Changes in 1.0.8:
851
[b6de07d]852* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
853
[fa42426]854* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
855  responsiveness.
[cd6ea75]856
[a8e9fde]857* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
858  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
859  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
860
[75993b9]861* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
862  the program).
[6804731]863
864* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
[732b9b0]865
[8ac4406]866* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
867  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
868
[c8c116c]869* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
870  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
871
[6df24ee]872* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
873  right mouse button.
874
[fa42426]875* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
876  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
877  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
[2173dbd]878
[b6de07d]879* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
880  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
881  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
882  approximately 1mm/pixel.
883
884* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
885  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
886
[5fa68cc5]887* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
888  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
[1a09e2c]889
[5b7c1b7]890* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
[3fb572e]891
[2001db9]892* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
893  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
894
[fa42426]895* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
896  pages on rare occasions.
897
[11e919a]898* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
[5b7c1b7]899
[fa42426]900* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
[c9eb197]901
[0580c6a]902* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
[c00c74a9]903  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
904  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
905  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
906  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
907
[fa42426]908* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
909  underground surveys.
910
[0b71cfc]911* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
912
[c00c74a9]913* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
914  now it gives the correct error message.
915
[fa42426]916* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
917  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
918
[b14f44f]919* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
920  of data which was rejected because of an error.
921
[fa42426]922* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
923
[b14f44f]924* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
925  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
926
[770157e]927* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
928  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
929  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
930  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
931  by default).
932
[a20b208]933* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
[9cc3854]934  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
[b14f44f]935  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
[9cc3854]936
[b6de07d]937* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
938  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
939  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
[a20b208]940
[fa42426]941* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
942  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
943  been removed.
944
[7c41b21]945Changes in 1.0.7:
946
947* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
948
[cd8d79a]949Changes in 1.0.6:
950
951* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
952
953* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
954  exit with Delete) improved.
955
[30987bd]956* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
957  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
958
[e98af57]959* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
960
[0edb0d0]961* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
962  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
963
[303a525]964* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
965  with no clino information).
966
[12d0d1b]967* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
968  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
969
[2c30188]970* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
971
[3d5fb53]972* Spell-checked documentation.
973
[c637fad]974Changes in 1.0.5:
975
976* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
[88c780d]977  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
978
979* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
[c637fad]980
[5173649]981* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
982  structure for Compass to read them now.
983
[f9dc4a0]984* Documentation updates.
985
[ea1c342]986Changes in 1.0.4:
987
[64511c0]988* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
989  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
990
[b387524]991* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
992  output format.
993
[ba2c5b1]994* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
995
[f3ed07f]996* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
997  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
[80f17e0]998
[189f179]999* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1000  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1001  on Microsoft Windows.
1002
1003* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
[9f3e5df]1004
1005* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1006
[f1c7c9c7]1007* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1008  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1009  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1010  special case better.
1011
1012* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1013  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1014  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1015  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
[4ebc557]1016
[80f17e0]1017* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
[64511c0]1018  out packaging now...
[ea1c342]1019
[be48ac6]1020* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1021
[fe16ba3]1022* Documentation updates.
[a7e3295]1023
[febe041]1024Changes in 1.0.3:
1025
[7a89dc2]1026* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1027  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1028  of degrees.
1029
1030* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1031
[febe041]1032* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1033
[3857e321]1034* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1035  written.
1036
[a8fa00a]1037* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1038  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
[e3a14ae]1039
[43db339]1040* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1041
[745433f]1042Changes in 1.0.2:
1043
[4783405]1044* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1045  print.ini etc.
1046
[107b8bd]1047* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1048  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1049
1050* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1051
[c2211a5]1052* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1053
[f73bb48]1054* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
[745433f]1055
[7fc1465]1056* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1057
[4783405]1058* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1059  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1060
[e1b99fc]1061* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1062  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1063
[ad4eaf3f]1064* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1065  .3d files.
1066
[3217572]1067Changes in 1.0.1:
1068
[7fc1465]1069* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
[de5f18d]1070  ticks.
[7be0ba8]1071
[5d38036]1072* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1073
[c51c50a]1074Changes in 1.0.0:
[4b4bd47]1075
[4d3dfdf]1076* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1077
[c51c50a]1078* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1079  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1080
[de5f18d]1081* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
[35001ee]1082  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1083  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1084
[1cc6cc5]1085* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1086
[c51c50a]1087* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1088  instead of "survex file.svx".
1089
[fe282c2]1090* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1091  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1092  with a lower optimisation level.
1093
[8f2c870]1094* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1095  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1096  "in directory" build.
1097
[c51c50a]1098* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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