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[cd39f67]1TOBE Changes in 1.1.8:
2
[84f1ed1]3* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4
[9fe7af4f]5* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
6  run by an unprivileged user.
7
8* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
9  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
10  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
11
12* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
13  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
14
[cd39f67]15* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
16
[afffec4]17* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
[5e74c26]18  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
[581624b]19
[38a192d]20* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
21  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
22
[5892e08]23* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
24  if it isn't.
25
[6662d02]26Changes in 1.1.7:
27
28* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
29  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
30  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
31  date near the middle of that period).
[e0c7cd1]32
[8add4c9]33* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
34  with MS Windows).
35
[9f524ee]36* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
37  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
38  several surveys in the same directory).
39
[185d793]40* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
41  our for them to include that knowledge.
42
[3515947]43* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
44
[1235f9b]45* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
46  moved off a station.
47
[4299674]48* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
[d74279d]49  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
[4299674]50
[60dbe70]51* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
52
[125c9ea]53* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
54  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
55
[ec58e3d3]56* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
57  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
58  dialogs.
59
[8add4c9]60* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
61  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
62
[6662d02]63* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
64  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
[d74279d]65  introduced in 1.1.6).
[6662d02]66
[b65c13f]67* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
68  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
69  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
70
[17cce5f]71* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
72  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
73
[affaeee]74* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
75
[618b01f]76* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
77
[7e01c87]78Changes in 1.1.6:
79
80* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
81  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
82
[b88b171]83* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
84  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
85  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
86  3d file.
87
[7e01c87]88* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
89
90* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
91
92* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
93  Instead turn off depth colouring.
94
[8ea82aa]95* aven: Export as HPGL added.
96
[887c26e]97* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
98  Martin Green).
99
[7c29c976]100* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
101  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
102  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
103
[7e01c87]104* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
[bd21214]105
[7e01c87]106* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
107  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
108
109* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
110  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
111  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
112  of everything else.
113
114* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
115  presentation icons.
116
117* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
118  keyboard focus there.
[bd21214]119
[b46bf92]120* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
121
[796d7bf]122* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
123
[7e01c87]124* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
125
126* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
127
[b88b171]128* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
129  language to use for messages.
130
[7c29c976]131* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
132  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
133
[8ea82aa]134* Removed old printer drivers.
135
[7e01c87]136* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
137  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
[8ea82aa]138
[106cfdf]139Changes in 1.1.5:
140
141* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
142
[4ba80e0]143* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
144
145* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
146  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
147
[95ce35f]148* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
149  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
150 
151* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
152
[cd78148]153* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
154  underground legs is toggled.
155
[f5627353]156* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
157  attached to the previous data.
158
[dfe4a520]159* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
160  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
161  them.
162
[4855072]163Changes in 1.1.4:
164
165* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
166
167* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
168  continental European countries).
169
170* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
171  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
172  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
173
174* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
175
176* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
177  they're needed.
178
179* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
180
181* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
182
183* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
184
185* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
186  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
187  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
188
189* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
190
[0e558e5]191Changes in 1.1.3:
192
193* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
194
195* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
196
197* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
198
199* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
200
201* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
202
203* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
204
205* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
206  when there's a presentation loaded.
207
208* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
209  in cave view.
210
211* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
212
213* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
214  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
215  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
216
217* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
218  filename for file history and window title.
219
220* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
221  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
222  only needed with GTK1.2.
223
224* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
225
226* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
227
228* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
229
230* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
231
232Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
[8faa5d8]233
234* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
235  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
236  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
237
238* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
239  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
240
241* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
242  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
243  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
244  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
[1a09e2c]245
[0e558e5]246* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
[8faa5d8]247
248* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
249  with --help and --version.
250
251* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
252  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
[6225339]253  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
[8faa5d8]254  Fixed all these problems.
255
256* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
257  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
258  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
259
260* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
[0e558e5]261  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
262  sources.
[8faa5d8]263
[0e558e5]264* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
[8faa5d8]265
266* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
267
268* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
269  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
270
271* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
272  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
273  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
274  animating.
275
276* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
277
278* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
279
280* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
281  to this branch.
282
283* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
284
285  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
286
287  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
288
289  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
290
291* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
[1a09e2c]292
[8faa5d8]293* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
294  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
295
296* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
297
298* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
[0e558e5]299  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
[8faa5d8]300
301* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
302
303* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
304  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
305  for anyone building from CVS).
306
307* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
308
[4855072]309* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
[8faa5d8]310
311* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
312
313* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
314
[0e558e5]315* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
316  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
[8faa5d8]317  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
318
319* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
320  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
321
322* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
323
324* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
[0130bc4]325  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
326  loaded).
[8faa5d8]327
328* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
329
[a7aa27d9]330Changes in 1.1.1:
331
332* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
[1a09e2c]333  startup.
[a7aa27d9]334
335* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
336  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
337
[0580c6a]338Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
[edb6576]339
[91e416e]340* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
341  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
342  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
[edb6576]343
[91e416e]344* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
345  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
346  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
[edb6576]347
[91e416e]348* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
349  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
350  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
[edb6576]351
[91e416e]352* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
[edb6576]353
[0580c6a]354* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
355  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
356
[4261983]357* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
358  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
359
360* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
361  better use of screen space.
[edb6576]362
[f80077a]363* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
[edb6576]364
[6abab84]365* aven: Perspective view.
366
[91e416e]367* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
[edb6576]368
[91e416e]369* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
370  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
[edb6576]371
[1690fa9]372* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
373  and load/save/run them.
374
[0580c6a]375* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
376
[045e2af]377* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
378
[c60062d]379* aven: Depth fogging option.
380
[0580c6a]381* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
382
383* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
384
[f433fda]385* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
386  showing the surface legs.
387
[0580c6a]388* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
[da6c802]389
[0580c6a]390Changes in 1.0.32:
[db452ae]391
[0580c6a]392* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
[a517825]393
[0580c6a]394* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
395  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
396
397* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
398  extend elevations.
399
400* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
401
402* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
403  default button.
404
405* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
406  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
407
408* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
409
410* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
411  - previously this was being ignored.
412
413* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
414
415* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
416  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
417  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
418  pixel too small on Windows.
419
420* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
421  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
422  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
423
424* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
425  with pretty much every other application.
426
427* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
428  within aven.
429
430* aven: Updated a few icons.
431
432* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
433
434* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
435
436* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
437  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
438  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
439  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
440  doubt anyone is still using that...
441
442* Updates to German translation.
443
444Changes in 1.0.31:
445
446* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
447  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
448
449* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
450  grid is enabled or not.
451
452* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
453
454* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
455  translations.
456
457* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
458
459Changes in 1.0.30:
460
461* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
462
463* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
464
465* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
466
467* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
468  flagged as surface and underground.
469
470* Romanian translation mostly completed.
471
472* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
473
474Changes in 1.0.29:
475
476* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
477  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
478
479* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
480
481* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
482
483* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
484  from John Pybus).
485
486* Romanian translation started.
487
488* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
489  menu files.
490
491Changes in 1.0.28:
492
493* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
494  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
495
496Changes in 1.0.27:
497
498* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
499  layers.
500
501* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
[b462168]502
[1809849]503Changes in 1.0.26:
[b462168]504
[b4fe9fb]505* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
506  calculated as zero.
[b462168]507
508* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
509
[b4fe9fb]510* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
511
512* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
513
514* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
515  we must apply resources *after* installing.
516
517* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
518
519* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
520  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
521  of their choice.
522
523* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
524  installed.
525
[63dc4eb]526* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
527  worked).
528
529* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
530  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
[b4fe9fb]531
[2934e83]532* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
533
[b4fe9fb]534* Documentation updated.
535
[63dc4eb]536* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
[b4fe9fb]537  documentation!
538
539* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
540
[63dc4eb]541* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
[b4fe9fb]542
543* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
544  most of them.
[b5a3219]545
[63dc4eb]546* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
547
[b462168]548Changes in 1.0.25:
549
550* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
551
552* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
553  the box on more Unix platforms.
554
555* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
556
557* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
558  insurmountable technical problems.
[1a09e2c]559
[b462168]560Changes in 1.0.24:
561
562* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
563
564* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
565  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
566
567* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
568
569* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
570
571* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
572  (and probably some other Unix versions).
573
574* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
575
576Changes in 1.0.23:
577
578* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
579  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
580  to manual.
581
582* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
583
584* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
585  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
586
587* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
588  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
589  Windows.
590
591* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
592
593* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
594
595Changes in 1.0.22:
596
597* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
598  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
599
600* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
601  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
602  code).
603
604Changes in 1.0.21:
605
606* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
607  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
608  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
609  Compass .MAK files.
610
611* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
612  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
613
614* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
615
616* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
617  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
618  per station.
619
620* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
621  unusual circumstances.
622
623* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
624  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
625  over an previous version.
626
627Changes in 1.0.20:
628
629* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
630
631* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
632  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
633  correction was about 57 times too large!)
634
635* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
636  insert a survey separator character.
637
638* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
639
640Changes in 1.0.19:
641
642* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
643  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
644  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
645
646* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
647  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
648  files are handled).
649
650* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
651  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
652
653* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
654
655* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
656  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
657  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
658
659* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
660
661* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
662  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
663  crash.
664
[89a6a1e]665* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
666
[b462168]667* Documentation: minor updates.
668
[27b8b59]669Changes in 1.0.18:
670
[b462168]671* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
[27b8b59]672
[b462168]673* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
674  instead.
[27b8b59]675
[b462168]676* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
[27b8b59]677  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
678
[b462168]679* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
[27b8b59]680  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
681  to the aven subpackage.
682
683* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
684
685* Updated TODO list.
686
687Changes in 1.0.17:
688
[b462168]689* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
[27b8b59]690  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
691  its own icon.
692
[b462168]693* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
[27b8b59]694  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
695  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
696  refresh the view.
697
698* Minor update to manual.
699
700Changes in 1.0.16:
701
[b462168]702* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[27b8b59]703  programs from finding the message files.
704
[b462168]705* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
[27b8b59]706  files.
707
708Changes in 1.0.15:
709
[b462168]710* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[27b8b59]711  programs from finding the message files.
712
[b462168]713* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
[27b8b59]714  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
715  obtained with the right mouse button.
716
717Changes in 1.0.14:
718
719* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
720  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
721  from Activeware.
722
[ee1ec59]723* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
724  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
725  separator between survey name and station name.
[27b8b59]726
727* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
728  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
729
730* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
731  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
732
733* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
[ee1ec59]734
735* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
[21c226e]736  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
737
[e7576f6]738* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
[21c226e]739
[ee1ec59]740* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
741  DIRECTION reading.
742
[42d23c5]743* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
744
[27b8b59]745* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
746  have taken up.
747
748* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
749  once again.  Added regression test for this.
750
[b462168]751* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
[27b8b59]752  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
753
[21c226e]754* Updated documentation.
755
756Changes in 1.0.13:
757
758* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
759  connecting arbitrary stations.
[27b8b59]760
[21c226e]761* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
762  join.
763
764* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
765  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
766  and everything should work exactly as before.
767
768* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
769  currently translated.
770
[50b0c7f]771Changes in 1.0.12:
772
[950e261]773* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
774
[dd5a89c]775* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
776
[abd126e]777* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
778  (both cover Eastern European languages).
[27b8b59]779
[b462168]780* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
[f3d5b20]781  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
782  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
783  permission to include the icon).
784
785* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
786  again.
787
788* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
[15d7cc1]789  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
[f3d5b20]790
791* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
792
[50b0c7f]793* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
794
[b8c4913]795Changes in 1.0.11:
796
[496a208]797* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
798  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
799  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
800  and as intended on 2.3.
801
[52634cc]802* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
803  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
804  '.').
805
[7757a4ed]806* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
807  autorotation.
808
[cc9150c]809* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
810
811* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
812
813* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
814  double-clicking or from the command line.
815
[a3326288]816* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
817
[ca4058d]818* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
819
[a3326288]820* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
821
822* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
[388ad50]823
[d275723]824* Updates to Italian translation.
825
[0f125da]826* Minor documentation updates.
827
[5215b99]828Changes in 1.0.10:
829
[6097cd2]830* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
831  names.
832
[c01c332]833* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
834  successfully.
835
[d16db18]836* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
837  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
838  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
839
[cfcfd28]840* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
841  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
842
[a9ab65a]843* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
844  factor was being applied backwards!)
845
[47e4a2e]846* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
847  be opened.
848
[5215b99]849* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
850
[ef59f5e]851* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
852
[c01c332]853* Updates to German and Italian translations.
[3bf737e]854
[f4276af]855Changes in 1.0.9:
856
[e3dfce4]857* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
858
859* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
[f4276af]860
[6317ee2]861* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
862  end of each line).
863
[161e268]864* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
865  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
866  them).
867
[06e94a8]868* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
[b10788f]869
[732b9b0]870Changes in 1.0.8:
871
[b6de07d]872* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
873
[fa42426]874* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
875  responsiveness.
[cd6ea75]876
[a8e9fde]877* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
878  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
879  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
880
[75993b9]881* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
882  the program).
[6804731]883
884* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
[732b9b0]885
[8ac4406]886* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
887  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
888
[c8c116c]889* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
890  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
891
[6df24ee]892* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
893  right mouse button.
894
[fa42426]895* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
896  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
897  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
[2173dbd]898
[b6de07d]899* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
900  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
901  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
902  approximately 1mm/pixel.
903
904* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
905  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
906
[5fa68cc5]907* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
908  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
[1a09e2c]909
[5b7c1b7]910* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
[3fb572e]911
[2001db9]912* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
913  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
914
[fa42426]915* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
916  pages on rare occasions.
917
[11e919a]918* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
[5b7c1b7]919
[fa42426]920* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
[c9eb197]921
[0580c6a]922* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
[c00c74a9]923  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
924  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
925  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
926  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
927
[fa42426]928* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
929  underground surveys.
930
[0b71cfc]931* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
932
[c00c74a9]933* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
934  now it gives the correct error message.
935
[fa42426]936* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
937  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
938
[b14f44f]939* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
940  of data which was rejected because of an error.
941
[fa42426]942* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
943
[b14f44f]944* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
945  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
946
[770157e]947* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
948  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
949  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
950  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
951  by default).
952
[a20b208]953* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
[9cc3854]954  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
[b14f44f]955  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
[9cc3854]956
[b6de07d]957* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
958  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
959  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
[a20b208]960
[fa42426]961* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
962  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
963  been removed.
964
[7c41b21]965Changes in 1.0.7:
966
967* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
968
[cd8d79a]969Changes in 1.0.6:
970
971* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
972
973* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
974  exit with Delete) improved.
975
[30987bd]976* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
977  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
978
[e98af57]979* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
980
[0edb0d0]981* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
982  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
983
[303a525]984* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
985  with no clino information).
986
[12d0d1b]987* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
988  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
989
[2c30188]990* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
991
[3d5fb53]992* Spell-checked documentation.
993
[c637fad]994Changes in 1.0.5:
995
996* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
[88c780d]997  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
998
999* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
[c637fad]1000
[5173649]1001* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1002  structure for Compass to read them now.
1003
[f9dc4a0]1004* Documentation updates.
1005
[ea1c342]1006Changes in 1.0.4:
1007
[64511c0]1008* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1009  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1010
[b387524]1011* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1012  output format.
1013
[ba2c5b1]1014* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1015
[f3ed07f]1016* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1017  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
[80f17e0]1018
[189f179]1019* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1020  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1021  on Microsoft Windows.
1022
1023* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
[9f3e5df]1024
1025* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1026
[f1c7c9c7]1027* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1028  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1029  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1030  special case better.
1031
1032* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1033  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1034  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1035  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
[4ebc557]1036
[80f17e0]1037* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
[64511c0]1038  out packaging now...
[ea1c342]1039
[be48ac6]1040* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1041
[fe16ba3]1042* Documentation updates.
[a7e3295]1043
[febe041]1044Changes in 1.0.3:
1045
[7a89dc2]1046* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1047  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1048  of degrees.
1049
1050* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1051
[febe041]1052* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1053
[3857e321]1054* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1055  written.
1056
[a8fa00a]1057* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1058  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
[e3a14ae]1059
[43db339]1060* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1061
[745433f]1062Changes in 1.0.2:
1063
[4783405]1064* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1065  print.ini etc.
1066
[107b8bd]1067* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1068  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1069
1070* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1071
[c2211a5]1072* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1073
[f73bb48]1074* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
[745433f]1075
[7fc1465]1076* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1077
[4783405]1078* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1079  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1080
[e1b99fc]1081* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1082  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1083
[ad4eaf3f]1084* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1085  .3d files.
1086
[3217572]1087Changes in 1.0.1:
1088
[7fc1465]1089* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
[de5f18d]1090  ticks.
[7be0ba8]1091
[5d38036]1092* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1093
[c51c50a]1094Changes in 1.0.0:
[4b4bd47]1095
[4d3dfdf]1096* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1097
[c51c50a]1098* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1099  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1100
[de5f18d]1101* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
[35001ee]1102  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1103  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1104
[1cc6cc5]1105* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1106
[c51c50a]1107* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1108  instead of "survex file.svx".
1109
[fe282c2]1110* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1111  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1112  with a lower optimisation level.
1113
[8f2c870]1114* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1115  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1116  "in directory" build.
1117
[c51c50a]1118* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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