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Remove a signal handler once it has fired - we try to report the error and
exit, but in aven paint event handling can sometimes cause us to loop. It's
probably a wise precaution for the command line programs too.

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