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NEWS: Update for 1.0.40.

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[ea9d04e]1Changes in 1.0.40 (2011-09-21):
2
3(Almost all backported from 1.1.13-1.2.0)
4
5* Translation updates for most languages.
[e53ec10]6
7* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
8
[ea9d04e]9* Recognise .3d file format versions 6 and 7 so you can load .3d files
10  processed by 1.1.12 and later.
11
12* Documentation:
13
14  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe) and v7 format.
15
16  + Tilt up in aven, xcaverot, and caverot is apostrophe, not comma!
17
18  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
19
20  + Update INSTALL.
21
22  + doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
23
24  + (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't
25    documenting an actual command).
26
27  + (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex
28    rather than /usr/doc/survex.
29
30  + (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
31    atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
32    docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
33    recurrence of that).
34
35  + (Unix version): Fix \ to appear correctly in 'man print.ini'.
36
37* aven:
38
39  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
40    (ticket#9)
41
42  + Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it has fired
43    to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error dialogs.
[e53ec10]44
[ea9d04e]45  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
46    rather than the filename.
[0333b3b]47
[ea9d04e]48  + Improve SVG output compatibility.
[0333b3b]49
[ea9d04e]50  + Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers and
51    non-zero width lines.
[0333b3b]52
[ea9d04e]53  + Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data was
54    turned on.
[0333b3b]55
[ea9d04e]56  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
57    rendered with icons on some platforms.
58
59  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
60
61* cavern:
62
63  + Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't give
64    them before.
65
66  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
67    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
68    fatal error!
69
70  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
71    format to output.  (ticket#21)
[0333b3b]72
[b95ba56]73* cad3d: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
74
[ea9d04e]75* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
76  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
77
78* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
79
80* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
81  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
82
83* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
84  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
85  redirecting to it.
86
87* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
88  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
89
90* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
91  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
92  I/O).
[362f3fa]93
[0333b3b]94* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
95  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
[be2ad0b]96
[0333b3b]97* (MS Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
[9faed96]98  version of InnoSetup, which gives a smaller download.
99
100* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
101  run by an unprivileged user.
102
103* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
[ea9d04e]104  installer builder we use) and include installer translations for all
105  languages which InnoSetup officially supports, plus UK English and Romanian.
106
107* (MS Windows version): aven: Include all supported translations of messages
108  for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
109
110* (Mac OS X version): Backport buildmacosx.sh improvements from 1.2.0.
[9faed96]111
[ea9d04e]112* (Mac OS X version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS
113  X headers.
114
115* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
116  package from the source tarball.
[9faed96]117
[a3abbf1]118Changes in 1.0.39:
[de3a7e2]119
120* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
121
[cbb0e89]122* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
123  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
[14410eb]124
[7f5fba3]125* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
126  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).  Bug introduced in 1.0.38.
127
[189b89e]128* (Unix version): Debian: Updated "Build-Depends:" for the new X library
[5ec105c]129  packaging; Upgrade to debhelper >= 4.
[189b89e]130
[168df28]131Changes in 1.0.38 (all backported from 1.1.7):
132
133* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
134  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
135
136* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
137  language to use for messages.
138
139* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
140  Martin Green).
141
142* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
143
[ad83822]144* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
145
[168df28]146* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
147  continental European countries).
148
149* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
150  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
151  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
152
153* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
154
155* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
156  in cave view.
157
158* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
159
160* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
161  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
162  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
163
164* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
165  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this backported in 1.0.36 failed because
166  __WXGTK12__ is set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so it is true for
167  GTK+ 2.0 too!
168
169* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
170  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
171
172* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
173  keyboard focus there.
174
175* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
176  with MS Windows).
177
178* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
179  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
180  several surveys in the same directory).
181
182* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
183  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
184  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
185
186* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
187  attached to the previous data.
188
189* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
190  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
191  them.
192
193* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
194
[ea4b2d5]195Changes in 1.0.37:
196
197* cavern: Also ignore any arguments after "*data passage" which makes this
198  feature actually useful as intended.
199
200* aven: Recognise .3d file format versions 4 and 5 so you can load .3d files
201  processed by 1.1.x test builds.
202
203* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
204  filename for file history and window title.
205
[a7267a7]206Changes in 1.0.36:
207
208* cavern: Ignore "*data passage" data style so you can process files containing
209  LRUD data for Survex 1.1.3 and later.
210
211* cavern: Fix assertion failure when handling a survey with a station only
212  attached by a nosurvey leg.
213
[ea4b2d5]214* aven: The bearing used for a printout now defaults to the current view.
215  (This feature was accidentally broken between 1.0.31 and 1.0.32).
216
[a7267a7]217* Changes backported from 1.1.3:
218
219  + aven: Improve initial window sizing and placement on multimonitor
220    displays when using wx2.4 or earlier.
221
222  + testsuite: Fix cavern.tst to report misspelled test names and
223    make badnewline test case actually run and actually pass.
224
225  + (Unix version): aven: Only add toolbar margins for gtk1.2
226
227  + (Unix version): configure: Updated check for wx version.
228
[9a959e5]229Changes in 1.0.35:
230
231* aven: Fix printing which was deciding how many pages to spread the plot over
232  by looking at the whole paper size, not the printable area.
233
234* aven: When exporting, omit surface data if it's not being shown at the
235  moment.  Also omit unnecessary MOVE ops from generated files (which saves
236  quite a lot of space when surface data is turned off).
237
238* (Unix Version): Set Aven's icon on non-Windows platforms too.
239
240* extend: Added documentation and test cases for the new extend features.
241
[53e9dd0]242* manual: Fix example of setting decimal separator.
[9a959e5]243
244* printxbm: Fixed test program printxbm to compile.
245
[53e9dd0]246* Include syntax colouring mode for .svx files for the vim editor, written
247  by David Loeffler.
248
[c94999e]249Changes in 1.0.34:
250
[863401f]251* extend: Added changes from John Pybus which allow you to specify a
252  configuration file to control how the centreline is extended - e.g.
253  where to fold and where to break loops.
254
[c94999e]255* (MS Windows version): Fixed detection of codepage 1250 (used for Slovak and
256  Romanian) - this should fix problems with missing accents.
257
[1d702fa]258Changes in 1.0.33:
259
260* aven,printwin: Fixed bug which would sometimes pick one too few pages
261  vertically resulting in the survey escaping off the top of the topmost
262  pages.
[a7267a7]263
[48f25f5]264* aven: Changed the toner-wasting, hard-to-measure-exactly alternately filled
265  scale bar to a simple line with ticks.
[1d702fa]266
267* aven: SVG export fixes: second and subsequent exports had bogus extra "</g>";
268  Fixed to invert all Y coordinates, not just some; Fixed tags for layers.
269
[301bbc1]270* aven: Added EPS export option.
271
[cb0fbf1]272* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed inverted icons.
[1d702fa]273
274* aven: Initial window size and position will not straddle monitors if you have
275  multiple monitors connected to one machine (needs wxWidgets 2.5 to work on
276  Unix).
277
278* (Unix version): aven: Fixed initial sizing problems when building with gtk2.
279
280* Minor documentation updates.
281
[5f7c674]282Changes in 1.0.32:
283
284* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
285
286* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
287  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
288
289* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
290  extend elevations.
291
292* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
293
294* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
295  default button.
296
297* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
298  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
299
300* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
301
302* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
303  - previously this was being ignored.
304
305* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
306
307* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
308  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
309  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
310  pixel too small on Windows.
311
312* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
313  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
314  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
315
316* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
317  with pretty much every other application.
318
319* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
320  within aven.
321
322* aven: Updated a few icons.
323
324* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
325
326* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
327
328* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
329  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
330  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
331  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
332  doubt anyone is still using that...
333
334* Updates to German translation.
335
[2f0e50b]336Changes in 1.0.31:
337
338* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
339  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
340
[bd17d3f2]341* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
342  grid is enabled or not.
343
[0569373]344* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
[2f0e50b]345
346* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
347  translations.
[acf84e45]348
[2f0e50b]349* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
[acf84e45]350
[9746d17]351Changes in 1.0.30:
352
[09d50cc]353* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
[ce22892]354
[de3de7b]355* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
356
[a822f1b]357* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
358
[09d50cc]359* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
360  flagged as surface and underground.
361
[1c0df96]362* Romanian translation mostly completed.
363
[9746d17]364* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
365
[76d6c16]366Changes in 1.0.29:
367
368* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
369  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
370
[ec63aac]371* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
372
373* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
374
375* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
376  from John Pybus).
377
[0818de5]378* Romanian translation started.
379
[1adc3d0]380* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
381  menu files.
[cb38b4f]382
[bac1c46]383Changes in 1.0.28:
384
[c46952f]385* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
386  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
387
[2b12f6f]388Changes in 1.0.27:
389
[99ed515]390* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
391  layers.
392
[13367e9]393* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
394
[dd379cb]395Changes in 1.0.26:
[ef03ec7]396
[5a0f9cc]397* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
398  calculated as zero.
399
[d8fcdf9]400* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
401
[2977340]402* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
403
[5e2710c]404* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
405
[8262132]406* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
407  we must apply resources *after* installing.
408
[3f9efe8]409* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
410
[9584382]411* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
412  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
413  of their choice.
414
[fad11a6]415* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
416  installed.
417
[a7aab75a]418* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
419  worked).
[c45edc8c]420
[a03f5d1]421* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
422  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
423
[c45edc8c]424* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
425
426* Documentation updated.
427
[a7aab75a]428* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
[c45edc8c]429  documentation!
430
[b91bdce]431* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
432
[a7aab75a]433* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
[c45edc8c]434
[2dfd768]435* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
436  most of them.
437
[3d43425]438* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
439
[b0e298e]440Changes in 1.0.25:
441
442* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
443
444* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
445  the box on more Unix platforms.
446
[b98055b]447* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
448
449* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
450  insurmountable technical problems.
[ea9d04e]451
[9322708]452Changes in 1.0.24:
453
[34afc2d]454* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
455
[d8fcdf9]456* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
457  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
[c4456f5]458
[6209cd3]459* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
460
[46ceabd]461* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
462
[60ca666]463* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
464  (and probably some other Unix versions).
465
[0b7ec6f]466* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
467
[c0174c1]468Changes in 1.0.23:
469
[bb3a530]470* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
[343ffd6]471  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
472  to manual.
[bb3a530]473
[24a8011]474* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
475
[7de388f]476* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
477  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
[24a8011]478
[b011a3e]479* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
480  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
481  Windows.
482
[609320e]483* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
484
[64a7e11]485* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
486
[5d77e43]487Changes in 1.0.22:
488
489* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
490  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
491
492* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
493  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
494  code).
495
[26085f5]496Changes in 1.0.21:
497
[bd1eb1a]498* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
499  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
[26085f5]500  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
501  Compass .MAK files.
[8a40902]502
[ae3f2ff]503* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
504  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
505
[b60659c]506* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
507
[ef3c9e2]508* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
509  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
510  per station.
511
[a49b4493]512* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
513  unusual circumstances.
514
[24a8011]515* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
[41d3795]516  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
517  over an previous version.
518
[8f33d2b6]519Changes in 1.0.20:
520
521* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
[7b86ec9]522
[9df78d0]523* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
524  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
525  correction was about 57 times too large!)
526
527* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
528  insert a survey separator character.
529
[befff52]530* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
531
[4b3b917]532Changes in 1.0.19:
533
[a903c03]534* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
[fee123d]535  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
536  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
537
[4b3b917]538* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
539  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
540  files are handled).
[1cbf5a1]541
[8cc41db]542* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
543  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
544
[a903c03]545* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
[804e539]546
[b6746ee]547* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
548  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
549  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
550
[0ae1f1a]551* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
552
[fee123d]553* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
[4b3b917]554  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
555  crash.
[22b85ce6]556
[a903c03]557* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
558
[e24af91]559* Documentation: minor updates.
560
[ea3ff04]561Changes in 1.0.18:
562
[24a8011]563* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
[ea3ff04]564
[24a8011]565* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
[be518f3]566  instead.
[ea3ff04]567
[24a8011]568* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
[ea3ff04]569  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
570
[24a8011]571* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
[ea3ff04]572  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
573  to the aven subpackage.
574
[0ab9f44]575* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
576
[ea3ff04]577* Updated TODO list.
578
[d8f76a8]579Changes in 1.0.17:
580
[24a8011]581* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
[b2aa99b]582  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
583  its own icon.
584
[24a8011]585* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
[d8006b6]586  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
587  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
588  refresh the view.
[a243fc5]589
[b2aa99b]590* Minor update to manual.
[d8f76a8]591
[d4ed5e6]592Changes in 1.0.16:
593
[24a8011]594* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[d4ed5e6]595  programs from finding the message files.
596
[24a8011]597* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
[8f7eee6]598  files.
599
[0e3ccf6]600Changes in 1.0.15:
601
[24a8011]602* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
[0e3ccf6]603  programs from finding the message files.
604
[24a8011]605* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
[76abbdc]606  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
607  obtained with the right mouse button.
608
[0810c70]609Changes in 1.0.14:
610
[750a2dd]611* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
612  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
613  from Activeware.
614
[9f9c05e]615* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
616  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
617  separator between survey name and station name.
618
[b451f1c]619* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
620  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
621
[f3ddc29]622* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
623  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
624
[949c90b]625* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
626
[f3ddc29]627* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
[4b8cab4]628  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
[0aa72ab]629
[defb715]630* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
[fbafe28]631
[31f7c7d]632* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
633  DIRECTION reading.
634
[cc6857f]635* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
636
[c5850207]637* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
638  have taken up.
639
640* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
641  once again.  Added regression test for this.
642
[24a8011]643* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
[a6847f71]644  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
[949c90b]645
[57063af]646* Updated documentation.
647
[88db994]648Changes in 1.0.13:
649
[97d3ab9]650* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
651  connecting arbitrary stations.
[cc6857f]652
[b39c5f6]653* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
654  join.
655
[5bcd880]656* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
657  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
658  and everything should work exactly as before.
659
[fe1f251]660* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
661  currently translated.
662
[50b0c7f]663Changes in 1.0.12:
664
[950e261]665* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
666
[dd5a89c]667* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
668
[abd126e]669* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
670  (both cover Eastern European languages).
[cc6857f]671
[24a8011]672* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
[f3d5b20]673  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
674  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
675  permission to include the icon).
676
677* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
678  again.
679
680* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
[15d7cc1]681  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
[f3d5b20]682
683* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
684
[50b0c7f]685* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
686
[b8c4913]687Changes in 1.0.11:
688
[496a208]689* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
690  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
691  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
692  and as intended on 2.3.
693
[52634cc]694* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
695  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
696  '.').
697
[7757a4ed]698* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
699  autorotation.
700
[cc9150c]701* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
702
703* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
704
705* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
706  double-clicking or from the command line.
707
[a3326288]708* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
709
[ca4058d]710* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
711
[a3326288]712* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
713
714* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
[388ad50]715
[d275723]716* Updates to Italian translation.
717
[0f125da]718* Minor documentation updates.
719
[5215b99]720Changes in 1.0.10:
721
[6097cd2]722* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
723  names.
724
[c01c332]725* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
726  successfully.
727
[d16db18]728* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
729  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
730  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
731
[cfcfd28]732* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
733  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
734
[a9ab65a]735* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
736  factor was being applied backwards!)
737
[47e4a2e]738* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
739  be opened.
740
[5215b99]741* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
742
[ef59f5e]743* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
744
[c01c332]745* Updates to German and Italian translations.
[3bf737e]746
[f4276af]747Changes in 1.0.9:
748
[e3dfce4]749* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
750
751* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
[f4276af]752
[6317ee2]753* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
754  end of each line).
755
[161e268]756* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
757  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
758  them).
759
[06e94a8]760* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
[b10788f]761
[732b9b0]762Changes in 1.0.8:
763
[b6de07d]764* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
765
[fa42426]766* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
767  responsiveness.
[cd6ea75]768
[a8e9fde]769* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
770  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
771  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
772
[75993b9]773* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
774  the program).
[6804731]775
776* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
[732b9b0]777
[8ac4406]778* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
779  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
780
[c8c116c]781* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
782  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
783
[6df24ee]784* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
785  right mouse button.
786
[fa42426]787* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
788  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
789  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
[2173dbd]790
[b6de07d]791* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
792  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
793  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
794  approximately 1mm/pixel.
795
796* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
797  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
798
[5fa68cc5]799* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
800  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
[ea9d04e]801
[5b7c1b7]802* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
[3fb572e]803
[2001db9]804* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
805  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
806
[fa42426]807* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
808  pages on rare occasions.
809
[11e919a]810* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
[5b7c1b7]811
[fa42426]812* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
[c9eb197]813
[6770637]814* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
[c00c74a9]815  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
816  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
817  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
818  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
819
[fa42426]820* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
821  underground surveys.
822
[0b71cfc]823* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
824
[c00c74a9]825* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
826  now it gives the correct error message.
827
[fa42426]828* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
829  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
830
[b14f44f]831* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
832  of data which was rejected because of an error.
833
[fa42426]834* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
835
[b14f44f]836* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
837  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
838
[770157e]839* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
840  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
841  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
842  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
843  by default).
844
[a20b208]845* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
[9cc3854]846  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
[b14f44f]847  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
[9cc3854]848
[b6de07d]849* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
850  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
851  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
[a20b208]852
[fa42426]853* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
854  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
855  been removed.
856
[7c41b21]857Changes in 1.0.7:
858
859* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
860
[cd8d79a]861Changes in 1.0.6:
862
863* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
864
865* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
866  exit with Delete) improved.
867
[30987bd]868* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
869  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
870
[e98af57]871* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
872
[0edb0d0]873* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
874  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
875
[303a525]876* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
877  with no clino information).
878
[12d0d1b]879* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
880  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
881
[2c30188]882* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
883
[3d5fb53]884* Spell-checked documentation.
885
[c637fad]886Changes in 1.0.5:
887
888* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
[88c780d]889  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
890
891* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
[c637fad]892
[5173649]893* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
894  structure for Compass to read them now.
895
[f9dc4a0]896* Documentation updates.
897
[ea1c342]898Changes in 1.0.4:
899
[64511c0]900* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
901  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
902
[b387524]903* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
904  output format.
905
[ba2c5b1]906* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
907
[f3ed07f]908* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
909  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
[80f17e0]910
[189f179]911* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
912  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
913  on Microsoft Windows.
914
915* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
[9f3e5df]916
917* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
918
[f1c7c9c7]919* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
920  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
921  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
922  special case better.
923
924* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
925  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
926  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
927  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
[4ebc557]928
[80f17e0]929* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
[64511c0]930  out packaging now...
[ea1c342]931
[be48ac6]932* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
933
[fe16ba3]934* Documentation updates.
[a7e3295]935
[febe041]936Changes in 1.0.3:
937
[7a89dc2]938* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
939  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
940  of degrees.
941
942* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
943
[febe041]944* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
945
[3857e321]946* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
947  written.
948
[a8fa00a]949* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
950  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
[e3a14ae]951
[43db339]952* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
953
[745433f]954Changes in 1.0.2:
955
[4783405]956* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
957  print.ini etc.
958
[107b8bd]959* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
960  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
961
962* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
963
[c2211a5]964* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
965
[f73bb48]966* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
[745433f]967
[7fc1465]968* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
969
[4783405]970* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
971  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
972
[e1b99fc]973* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
974  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
975
[ad4eaf3f]976* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
977  .3d files.
978
[3217572]979Changes in 1.0.1:
980
[7fc1465]981* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
[de5f18d]982  ticks.
[7be0ba8]983
[5d38036]984* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
985
[c51c50a]986Changes in 1.0.0:
[4b4bd47]987
[4d3dfdf]988* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
989
[c51c50a]990* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
991  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
992
[de5f18d]993* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
[35001ee]994  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
995  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
996
[1cc6cc5]997* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
998
[c51c50a]999* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1000  instead of "survex file.svx".
1001
[fe282c2]1002* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1003  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1004  with a lower optimisation level.
1005
[8f2c870]1006* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1007  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1008  "in directory" build.
1009
[c51c50a]1010* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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