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aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
time.

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