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