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