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aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
"Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
highlighted stations.

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