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[a884696]1Changes in 1.1.8:
[cd39f67]2
[c988ae4]3* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
5
[ecf2d23]6* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
7  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
8  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
9  time.
10
[d1628e8e]11* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
12  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
13  highlighted stations.
14
[e67ed1b]15* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
16
[c988ae4]17* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
18  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
19
20* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
21  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
22  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
23
24* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
25  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
26
27* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
28
[84f1ed1]29* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
30
[a884696]31* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
32
[9fe7af4f]33* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
34  run by an unprivileged user.
35
36* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
37  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
38  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
39
40* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
41  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
42
[cd39f67]43* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
44
[afffec4]45* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
[5e74c26]46  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
[581624b]47
[38a192d]48* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
49  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
50
[5892e08]51* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
52  if it isn't.
53
[879e9c3]54* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
55  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
56
[c8f929b]57* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
58  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
59
60* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
61  reset to default view as well).
62
63* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
64  empty.
65
66* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
67  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
68
[9ad92cc]69* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
[ecf2d23]70  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
71  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
[9ad92cc]72
73* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
74  and non-zero width lines.
75
76* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
77  was turned on.
78
79* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
80  not always being fully written.
81
[6662d02]82Changes in 1.1.7:
83
84* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
85  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
86  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
87  date near the middle of that period).
[e0c7cd1]88
[8add4c9]89* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
90  with MS Windows).
91
[9f524ee]92* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
93  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
94  several surveys in the same directory).
95
[185d793]96* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
97  our for them to include that knowledge.
98
[3515947]99* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
100
[1235f9b]101* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
102  moved off a station.
103
[4299674]104* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
[d74279d]105  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
[4299674]106
[60dbe70]107* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
108
[125c9ea]109* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
110  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
111
[ec58e3d3]112* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
113  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
114  dialogs.
115
[8add4c9]116* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
117  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
118
[6662d02]119* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
120  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
[d74279d]121  introduced in 1.1.6).
[6662d02]122
[b65c13f]123* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
124  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
125  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
126
[17cce5f]127* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
128  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
129
[affaeee]130* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
131
[618b01f]132* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
133
[7e01c87]134Changes in 1.1.6:
135
136* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
137  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
138
[b88b171]139* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
140  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
141  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
142  3d file.
143
[7e01c87]144* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
145
146* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
147
148* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
149  Instead turn off depth colouring.
150
[8ea82aa]151* aven: Export as HPGL added.
152
[887c26e]153* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
154  Martin Green).
155
[7c29c976]156* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
157  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
158  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
159
[7e01c87]160* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
[bd21214]161
[7e01c87]162* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
163  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
164
165* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
166  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
167  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
168  of everything else.
169
170* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
171  presentation icons.
172
173* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
174  keyboard focus there.
[bd21214]175
[b46bf92]176* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
177
[796d7bf]178* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
179
[7e01c87]180* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
181
182* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
183
[b88b171]184* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
185  language to use for messages.
186
[7c29c976]187* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
188  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
189
[8ea82aa]190* Removed old printer drivers.
191
[7e01c87]192* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
193  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
[8ea82aa]194
[106cfdf]195Changes in 1.1.5:
196
197* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
198
[4ba80e0]199* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
200
201* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
202  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
203
[95ce35f]204* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
205  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
206 
207* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
208
[cd78148]209* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
210  underground legs is toggled.
211
[f5627353]212* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
213  attached to the previous data.
214
[dfe4a520]215* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
216  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
217  them.
218
[4855072]219Changes in 1.1.4:
220
221* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
222
223* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
224  continental European countries).
225
226* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
227  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
228  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
229
230* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
231
232* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
233  they're needed.
234
235* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
236
237* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
238
239* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
240
241* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
242  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
243  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
244
245* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
246
[0e558e5]247Changes in 1.1.3:
248
249* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
250
251* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
252
253* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
254
255* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
256
257* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
258
259* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
260
261* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
262  when there's a presentation loaded.
263
264* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
265  in cave view.
266
267* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
268
269* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
270  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
271  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
272
273* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
274  filename for file history and window title.
275
276* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
277  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
278  only needed with GTK1.2.
279
280* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
281
282* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
283
284* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
285
286* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
287
288Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
[8faa5d8]289
290* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
291  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
292  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
293
294* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
295  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
296
297* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
298  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
299  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
300  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
[1a09e2c]301
[0e558e5]302* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
[8faa5d8]303
304* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
305  with --help and --version.
306
307* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
308  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
[6225339]309  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
[8faa5d8]310  Fixed all these problems.
311
312* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
313  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
314  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
315
316* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
[0e558e5]317  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
318  sources.
[8faa5d8]319
[0e558e5]320* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
[8faa5d8]321
322* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
323
324* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
325  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
326
327* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
328  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
329  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
330  animating.
331
332* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
333
334* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
335
336* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
337  to this branch.
338
339* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
340
341  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
342
343  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
344
345  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
346
347* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
[1a09e2c]348
[8faa5d8]349* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
350  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
351
352* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
353
354* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
[0e558e5]355  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
[8faa5d8]356
357* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
358
359* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
360  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
361  for anyone building from CVS).
362
363* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
364
[4855072]365* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
[8faa5d8]366
367* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
368
369* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
370
[0e558e5]371* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
372  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
[8faa5d8]373  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
374
375* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
376  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
377
378* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
379
380* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
[0130bc4]381  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
382  loaded).
[8faa5d8]383
384* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
385
[a7aa27d9]386Changes in 1.1.1:
387
388* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
[1a09e2c]389  startup.
[a7aa27d9]390
391* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
392  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
393
[0580c6a]394Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
[edb6576]395
[91e416e]396* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
397  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
398  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
[edb6576]399
[91e416e]400* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
401  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
402  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
[edb6576]403
[91e416e]404* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
405  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
406  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
[edb6576]407
[91e416e]408* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
[edb6576]409
[0580c6a]410* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
411  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
412
[4261983]413* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
414  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
415
416* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
417  better use of screen space.
[edb6576]418
[f80077a]419* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
[edb6576]420
[6abab84]421* aven: Perspective view.
422
[91e416e]423* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
[edb6576]424
[91e416e]425* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
426  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
[edb6576]427
[1690fa9]428* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
429  and load/save/run them.
430
[0580c6a]431* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
432
[045e2af]433* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
434
[c60062d]435* aven: Depth fogging option.
436
[0580c6a]437* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
438
439* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
440
[f433fda]441* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
442  showing the surface legs.
443
[0580c6a]444* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
[da6c802]445
[0580c6a]446Changes in 1.0.32:
[db452ae]447
[0580c6a]448* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
[a517825]449
[0580c6a]450* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
451  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
452
453* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
454  extend elevations.
455
456* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
457
458* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
459  default button.
460
461* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
462  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
463
464* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
465
466* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
467  - previously this was being ignored.
468
469* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
470
471* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
472  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
473  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
474  pixel too small on Windows.
475
476* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
477  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
478  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
479
480* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
481  with pretty much every other application.
482
483* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
484  within aven.
485
486* aven: Updated a few icons.
487
488* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
489
490* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
491
492* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
493  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
494  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
495  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
496  doubt anyone is still using that...
497
498* Updates to German translation.
499
500Changes in 1.0.31:
501
502* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
503  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
504
505* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
506  grid is enabled or not.
507
508* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
509
510* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
511  translations.
512
513* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
514
515Changes in 1.0.30:
516
517* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
518
519* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
520
521* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
522
523* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
524  flagged as surface and underground.
525
526* Romanian translation mostly completed.
527
528* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
529
530Changes in 1.0.29:
531
532* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
533  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
534
535* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
536
537* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
538
539* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
540  from John Pybus).
541
542* Romanian translation started.
543
544* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
545  menu files.
546
547Changes in 1.0.28:
548
549* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
550  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
551
552Changes in 1.0.27:
553
554* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
555  layers.
556
557* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
[b462168]558
[1809849]559Changes in 1.0.26:
[b462168]560
[b4fe9fb]561* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
562  calculated as zero.
[b462168]563
564* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
565
[b4fe9fb]566* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
567
568* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
569
570* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
571  we must apply resources *after* installing.
572
573* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
574
575* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
576  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
577  of their choice.
578
579* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
580  installed.
581
[63dc4eb]582* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
583  worked).
584
585* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
586  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
[b4fe9fb]587
[2934e83]588* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
589
[b4fe9fb]590* Documentation updated.
591
[63dc4eb]592* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
[b4fe9fb]593  documentation!
594
595* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
596
[63dc4eb]597* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
[b4fe9fb]598
599* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
600  most of them.
[b5a3219]601
[63dc4eb]602* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
603
[b462168]604Changes in 1.0.25:
605
606* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
607
608* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
609  the box on more Unix platforms.
610
611* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
612
613* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
614  insurmountable technical problems.
[1a09e2c]615
[b462168]616Changes in 1.0.24:
617
618* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
619
620* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
621  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
622
623* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
624
625* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
626
627* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
628  (and probably some other Unix versions).
629
630* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
631
632Changes in 1.0.23:
633
634* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
635  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
636  to manual.
637
638* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
639
640* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
641  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
642
643* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
644  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
645  Windows.
646
647* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
648
649* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
650
651Changes in 1.0.22:
652
653* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
654  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
655
656* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
657  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
658  code).
659
660Changes in 1.0.21:
661
662* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
663  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
664  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
665  Compass .MAK files.
666
667* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
668  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
669
670* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
671
672* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
673  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
674  per station.
675
676* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
677  unusual circumstances.
678
679* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
680  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
681  over an previous version.
682
683Changes in 1.0.20:
684
685* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
686
687* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
688  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
689  correction was about 57 times too large!)
690
691* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
692  insert a survey separator character.
693
694* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
695
696Changes in 1.0.19:
697
698* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
699  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
700  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
701
702* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
703  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
704  files are handled).
705
706* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
707  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
708
709* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
710
711* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
712  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
713  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
714
715* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
716
717* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
718  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
719  crash.
720
[89a6a1e]721* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
722
[b462168]723* Documentation: minor updates.
724
[27b8b59]725Changes in 1.0.18:
726
[b462168]727* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
[27b8b59]728
[b462168]729* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
730  instead.
[27b8b59]731
[b462168]732* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
[27b8b59]733  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
734
[b462168]735* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
[27b8b59]736  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
737  to the aven subpackage.
738
739* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
740
741* Updated TODO list.
742
743Changes in 1.0.17:
744
[b462168]745* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
[27b8b59]746  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
747  its own icon.
748
[b462168]749* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
[27b8b59]750  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
751  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
752  refresh the view.
753
754* Minor update to manual.
755
756Changes in 1.0.16:
757
[b462168]758* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[27b8b59]759  programs from finding the message files.
760
[b462168]761* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
[27b8b59]762  files.
763
764Changes in 1.0.15:
765
[b462168]766* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[27b8b59]767  programs from finding the message files.
768
[b462168]769* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
[27b8b59]770  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
771  obtained with the right mouse button.
772
773Changes in 1.0.14:
774
775* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
776  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
777  from Activeware.
778
[ee1ec59]779* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
780  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
781  separator between survey name and station name.
[27b8b59]782
783* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
784  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
785
786* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
787  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
788
789* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
[ee1ec59]790
791* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
[21c226e]792  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
793
[e7576f6]794* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
[21c226e]795
[ee1ec59]796* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
797  DIRECTION reading.
798
[42d23c5]799* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
800
[27b8b59]801* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
802  have taken up.
803
804* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
805  once again.  Added regression test for this.
806
[b462168]807* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
[27b8b59]808  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
809
[21c226e]810* Updated documentation.
811
812Changes in 1.0.13:
813
814* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
815  connecting arbitrary stations.
[27b8b59]816
[21c226e]817* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
818  join.
819
820* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
821  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
822  and everything should work exactly as before.
823
824* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
825  currently translated.
826
[50b0c7f]827Changes in 1.0.12:
828
[950e261]829* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
830
[dd5a89c]831* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
832
[abd126e]833* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
834  (both cover Eastern European languages).
[27b8b59]835
[b462168]836* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
[f3d5b20]837  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
838  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
839  permission to include the icon).
840
841* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
842  again.
843
844* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
[15d7cc1]845  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
[f3d5b20]846
847* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
848
[50b0c7f]849* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
850
[b8c4913]851Changes in 1.0.11:
852
[496a208]853* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
854  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
855  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
856  and as intended on 2.3.
857
[52634cc]858* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
859  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
860  '.').
861
[7757a4ed]862* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
863  autorotation.
864
[cc9150c]865* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
866
867* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
868
869* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
870  double-clicking or from the command line.
871
[a3326288]872* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
873
[ca4058d]874* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
875
[a3326288]876* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
877
878* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
[388ad50]879
[d275723]880* Updates to Italian translation.
881
[0f125da]882* Minor documentation updates.
883
[5215b99]884Changes in 1.0.10:
885
[6097cd2]886* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
887  names.
888
[c01c332]889* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
890  successfully.
891
[d16db18]892* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
893  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
894  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
895
[cfcfd28]896* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
897  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
898
[a9ab65a]899* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
900  factor was being applied backwards!)
901
[47e4a2e]902* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
903  be opened.
904
[5215b99]905* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
906
[ef59f5e]907* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
908
[c01c332]909* Updates to German and Italian translations.
[3bf737e]910
[f4276af]911Changes in 1.0.9:
912
[e3dfce4]913* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
914
915* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
[f4276af]916
[6317ee2]917* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
918  end of each line).
919
[161e268]920* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
921  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
922  them).
923
[06e94a8]924* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
[b10788f]925
[732b9b0]926Changes in 1.0.8:
927
[b6de07d]928* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
929
[fa42426]930* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
931  responsiveness.
[cd6ea75]932
[a8e9fde]933* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
934  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
935  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
936
[75993b9]937* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
938  the program).
[6804731]939
940* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
[732b9b0]941
[8ac4406]942* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
943  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
944
[c8c116c]945* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
946  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
947
[6df24ee]948* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
949  right mouse button.
950
[fa42426]951* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
952  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
953  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
[2173dbd]954
[b6de07d]955* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
956  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
957  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
958  approximately 1mm/pixel.
959
960* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
961  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
962
[5fa68cc5]963* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
964  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
[1a09e2c]965
[5b7c1b7]966* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
[3fb572e]967
[2001db9]968* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
969  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
970
[fa42426]971* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
972  pages on rare occasions.
973
[11e919a]974* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
[5b7c1b7]975
[fa42426]976* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
[c9eb197]977
[0580c6a]978* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
[c00c74a9]979  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
980  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
981  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
982  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
983
[fa42426]984* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
985  underground surveys.
986
[0b71cfc]987* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
988
[c00c74a9]989* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
990  now it gives the correct error message.
991
[fa42426]992* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
993  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
994
[b14f44f]995* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
996  of data which was rejected because of an error.
997
[fa42426]998* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
999
[b14f44f]1000* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
1001  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
1002
[770157e]1003* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
1004  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
1005  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
1006  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
1007  by default).
1008
[a20b208]1009* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
[9cc3854]1010  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
[b14f44f]1011  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
[9cc3854]1012
[b6de07d]1013* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
1014  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
1015  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
[a20b208]1016
[fa42426]1017* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
1018  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
1019  been removed.
1020
[7c41b21]1021Changes in 1.0.7:
1022
1023* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1024
[cd8d79a]1025Changes in 1.0.6:
1026
1027* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
1028
1029* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
1030  exit with Delete) improved.
1031
[30987bd]1032* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
1033  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
1034
[e98af57]1035* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
1036
[0edb0d0]1037* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
1038  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
1039
[303a525]1040* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
1041  with no clino information).
1042
[12d0d1b]1043* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
1044  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
1045
[2c30188]1046* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
1047
[3d5fb53]1048* Spell-checked documentation.
1049
[c637fad]1050Changes in 1.0.5:
1051
1052* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
[88c780d]1053  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1054
1055* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
[c637fad]1056
[5173649]1057* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1058  structure for Compass to read them now.
1059
[f9dc4a0]1060* Documentation updates.
1061
[ea1c342]1062Changes in 1.0.4:
1063
[64511c0]1064* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1065  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1066
[b387524]1067* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1068  output format.
1069
[ba2c5b1]1070* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1071
[f3ed07f]1072* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1073  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
[80f17e0]1074
[189f179]1075* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1076  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1077  on Microsoft Windows.
1078
1079* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
[9f3e5df]1080
1081* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1082
[f1c7c9c7]1083* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1084  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1085  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1086  special case better.
1087
1088* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1089  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1090  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1091  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
[4ebc557]1092
[80f17e0]1093* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
[64511c0]1094  out packaging now...
[ea1c342]1095
[be48ac6]1096* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1097
[fe16ba3]1098* Documentation updates.
[a7e3295]1099
[febe041]1100Changes in 1.0.3:
1101
[7a89dc2]1102* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1103  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1104  of degrees.
1105
1106* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1107
[febe041]1108* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1109
[3857e321]1110* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1111  written.
1112
[a8fa00a]1113* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1114  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
[e3a14ae]1115
[43db339]1116* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1117
[745433f]1118Changes in 1.0.2:
1119
[4783405]1120* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1121  print.ini etc.
1122
[107b8bd]1123* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1124  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1125
1126* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1127
[c2211a5]1128* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1129
[f73bb48]1130* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
[745433f]1131
[7fc1465]1132* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1133
[4783405]1134* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1135  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1136
[e1b99fc]1137* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1138  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1139
[ad4eaf3f]1140* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1141  .3d files.
1142
[3217572]1143Changes in 1.0.1:
1144
[7fc1465]1145* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
[de5f18d]1146  ticks.
[7be0ba8]1147
[5d38036]1148* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1149
[c51c50a]1150Changes in 1.0.0:
[4b4bd47]1151
[4d3dfdf]1152* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1153
[c51c50a]1154* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1155  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1156
[de5f18d]1157* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
[35001ee]1158  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1159  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1160
[1cc6cc5]1161* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1162
[c51c50a]1163* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1164  instead of "survex file.svx".
1165
[fe282c2]1166* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1167  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1168  with a lower optimisation level.
1169
[8f2c870]1170* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1171  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1172  "in directory" build.
1173
[c51c50a]1174* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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