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aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.

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