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