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3Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-04):
4
5* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
6
7* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
8
9* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
10
11* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
12
13* extend:
14
15  + New --show-breaks options which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
16    between each point at which a loop has been broken.
17
18  + Document --specfile in extend --help.
19
20  + Clearer option synopsis in extend man page.
21
22  + Document --survey in extend man page
23
24* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
25  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
26
27* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
28
29* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
30  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
31  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
32
33* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
34
35* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
36  and later, and older OS versions are past end of life, so drop code which
37  tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin privileges
38  or not.
39
40* aven:
41
42  + Rework CavernLogWindow to use wxProcess
43    Hopefully this should fix random misbehaviour under WXMSW.
44
45  + Report bad UTF-8 sequences in cavern output.
46
47  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches
48Fixes #73, reported by Erin Lynch.
49    I've opened #76 for the issue the removed code was trying (but failing) to
50    address.
51
52  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths
53with spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
54
55  + If we're animating, don't try to
56    update station info based on mouse movement over the survey tree.
57
58    Use wxTHREAD_WAIT_BLOCK if available
59    As recommended by the wx documentation
60
61    Fix incorrect reporting of errors from img library
62    Since 1.2.8, the errors corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT, IMG_BADFORMAT and
63    IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect external programs using
64    the img library, only Survex).
65    Reported by Jenny Black.
66
67    Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons
68    If an error only had a line number (but no column), and the filename
69    contained a colon (most do on MS Windows, as a full path usually has
70    a drive letter), we'd split at that colon, truncating the filename,
71    getting a bogus line number, and using the line number as the column
72    number.
73    Now fixed so we always include a second colon even if there's no
74    column number, so we can unambiguously split it up again.
75    Bug noted by Jenny Black.
76
77* cavern:
78
79  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
80    Edwards (see #78).
81
82  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass
83    We were using zero instead, the most obvious effect of which was that the
84    threshold for warning about differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about
85    71% of what it should have been.
86
87  + Implement support for tape on backsights.
88    If you're using something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the
89    backsight too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
90
91Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
92
93* aven:
94
95  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
96    Clipstone.
97
98  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
99    Reported by Jenny Black.
100
101  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
102    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
103    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
104
105  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
106    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
107    messages.
108
109  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
110    the terminal in 1.2.23.
111
112* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
113  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
114
115* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
116
117* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
118  by Wookey.
119
120Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
121
122* aven:
123
124  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
125    machines.
126
127  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
128
129  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
130    already being processed.
131
132  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
133    Reported by Martin Green.
134
135  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
136
137* cavern:
138
139  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
140    find the original survey notes).
141
142  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
143    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
144    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
145    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
146    progress display to be useful.
147
148* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
149
150* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
151  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
152
153* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
154  running cavern.
155
156* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
157  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
158  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
159
160Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
161
162* aven:
163
164  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
165    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
166    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
167    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
168    finding this fix.
169
170* cavern:
171
172  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
173
174  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
175    station.
176
177  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
178    *export.
179
180Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
181
182* aven:
183
184  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
185    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
186    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
187
188  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
189
190  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
191    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
192    does.
193
194  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
195    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
196
197  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
198    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
199
200  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
201    as appropriate.
202
203  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
204    values on Windows.
205
206* cavern:
207
208  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
209    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
210    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
211
212  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
213    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
214
215  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
216    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
217    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
218    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
219
220  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
221    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
222    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
223    Atkinson.
224
225  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
226    actual error rather than on a separate line.
227
228  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
229    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
230    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
231    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
232
233  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
234    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
235    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
236
237* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
238  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
239  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
240  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
241
242* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
243
244* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
245  "*DECLINATION" command.
246
247* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
248  Reported by Jenny Black.
249
250* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
251  documentation.
252
253* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
254  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
255
256* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
257
258* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
259
260Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
261
262* aven:
263
264  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
265    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
266    the same or very similar by default.
267
268  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
269    Maynard.
270
271  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
272
273  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
274
275  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
276    away.
277
278  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
279
280  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
281    display it.
282
283* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
284  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
285  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
286  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
287
288* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
289
290* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
291  before 1.2.19.
292
293* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
294  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
295
296* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
297
298* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
299  disk image.
300
301* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
302
303* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
304  libav features we don't use.
305
306* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
307  a load of libav features we don't use.
308
309* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
310  message in the installer.
311
312Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
313
314* aven:
315
316  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
317    the exported file in 1.2.18.
318
319  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
320
321  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
322    exit full screen mode.
323
324  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
325    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
326    using since 1.2.7).
327
328  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
329    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
330    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
331    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
332    St. Lawrence.
333
334  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
335    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
336
337  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
338    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
339    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
340
341  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
342    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
343    case like we do on other platforms.
344
345  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
346
347  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
348    support multi-monitor setups.
349
350  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
351    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
352
353  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
354    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
355
356  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
357    cases.
358
359  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
360    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
361    Erin Lynch)
362
363  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
364    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
365    items in in so it uses the full width.
366
367  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
368    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
369    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
370    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
371    window.
372
373  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
374    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
375    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
376    only relevant on the first ever run.
377
378* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
379
380* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
381  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
382  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
383  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
384  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
385  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
386
387* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
388  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
389
390Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
391
392* aven:
393
394  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
395    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
396    rendering it as a transparent surface.
397
398  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
399    sanely want to perform from the menu.
400
401  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
402    colouring options.
403
404  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
405
406  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
407    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
408    pressing "Escape".
409
410  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
411    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
412
413  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
414    exporting.
415
416  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
417
418  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
419    is quite likely to change.
420
421  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
422    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
423
424  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
425    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
426    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
427
428  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
429
430  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
431    markers in orange.
432
433  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
434    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
435
436  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
437    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
438    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
439    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
440    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
441    them would be better.
442
443  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
444    Gee.
445
446  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
447    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
448    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
449
450  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
451
452* cavern:
453
454  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
455    susscorfa).
456
457  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
458    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
459
460  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
461
462  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
463    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
464
465  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
466    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
467
468* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
469
470* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
471  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
472  in a modern desktop.
473
474* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
475  the filename in the error message.
476
477* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
478  most complete translations.
479
480* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
481
482* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
483  lacks them.
484
485* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
486
487* Manual:
488
489  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
490    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
491
492  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
493
494  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
495
496  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
497    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
498    available for download.
499
500* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
501  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
502  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
503
504* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
505
506* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
507
508Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
509
510* MacOS X version:
511
512  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
513
514  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
515
516  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
517
518  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
519
520  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
521    currently do this for us.
522
523  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
524
525  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
526
527  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
528
529  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
530    OS X cursor.
531
532  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
533    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
534    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
535    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
536    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
537    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
538    with TextEdit.app for example).
539
540  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
541    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
542
543  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
544
545  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
546    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
547
548  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
549    Riggs.
550
551  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
552    space.
553
554  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
555
556  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
557    10.10.1.
558
559  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
560    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
561    errors.
562
563  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
564    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
565    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
566    wxWidgets build supports by default.
567
568  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
569
570* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
571  treat as a single leg.
572
573* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
574
575* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
576
577* aven:
578
579  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
580    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
581
582  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
583    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
584    1:500).
585
586  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
587    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
588    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
589    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
590
591  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
592    there rather than the two animations fighting.
593
594  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
595    fast.
596
597  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
598    when rotating).
599
600  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
601    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
602
603* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
604  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
605
606* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
607
608* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
609
610* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
611
612* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
613
614* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
615  we're using git.
616
617* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
618
619  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
620    compass.
621
622  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
623
624  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
625
626Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
627
628* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
629
630* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
631
632* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
633
634* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
635  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
636
637* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
638
639* tests/: Improve test coverage.
640
641* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
642  Greek and Polish.
643
644* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
645  by Martin Sluka.
646
647* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
648  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
649
650Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
651
652* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
653  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
654  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
655  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
656  for *cs has also been improved.
657
658* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
659  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
660  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
661  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
662
663* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
664  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
665  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
666  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
667  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
668
669* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
670  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
671  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
672
673* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
674
675* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
676
677* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
678  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
679  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
680
681* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
682  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
683
684Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
685
686* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
687  system in use in 3d v8 files.
688
689* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
690  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
691  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
692  export dialog.
693
694* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
695  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
696  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
697  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
698  rather than having one corner there.
699
700* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
701  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
702
703* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
704  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
705
706* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
707  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
708  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
709
710* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
711  such as 64-bit Linux.
712
713* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
714  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
715
716* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
717  64-bit platforms.
718
719* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
720  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
721  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
722
723* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
724  the space available in the aven UI.
725
726* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
727  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
728  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
729
730* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
731  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
732
733* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
734  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
735  about unconnected surveys.
736
737* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
738  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
739
740* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
741  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
742  freed memory.
743
744* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
745
746* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
747
748* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
749
750* Fix a compiler warning.
751
752* Improve test coverage.
753
754Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
755
756* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
757  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
758  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
759
760* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
761  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
762  Hugh St Lawrence.
763
764* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
765  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
766  with using aven on a touch screen device.
767
768* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
769  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
770
771* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
772  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
773
774* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
775  off and back on.
776
777* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
778  up time a little.
779
780* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
781  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
782
783* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
784  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
785  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
786  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
787  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
788  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
789  situation too.
790
791* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
792  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
793  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
794
795* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
796
797* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
798
799* Minor translation updates to French.
800
801* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
802
803* Testsuite improvements:
804
805  + Test that "..." anon station works.
806
807  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
808    fail and give an error count.
809
810  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
811
812Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
813
814* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
815  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
816  Clipstone.
817
818* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
819
820* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
821
822  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
823    overlap the scale bar ticks.
824
825  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
826    clipping the border in print preview.
827
828  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
829
830* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
831  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
832
833* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
834  available.
835
836* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
837
838* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
839
840* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
841  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
842
843* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
844  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
845
846* Various translation updates.
847
848Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
849
850* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
851  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
852
853* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
854  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
855  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
856  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
857
858* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
859  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
860
861* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
862  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
863
864* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
865  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
866
867* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
868  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
869
870* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
871  box".
872
873* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
874
875* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
876  indicators.
877
878* aven: All length units are now translatable.
879
880* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
881  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
882  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
883
884* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
885  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
886  measurably slower.
887
888* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
889  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
890
891* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
892  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
893
894* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
895  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
896  from Therion and elsewhere.
897
898* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
899  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
900  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
901
902* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
903  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
904
905* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
906  A. Riggs for his work on this.
907
908* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
909  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
910
911* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
912
913* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
914  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
915  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
916  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
917  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
918  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
919
920* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
921
922Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
923
924* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
925  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
926  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
927  Clipstone.
928
929* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
930  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
931
932* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
933  exported SVG files.
934
935* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
936
937* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
938  file.
939
940* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
941  GPX files.
942
943* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
944
945* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
946  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
947
948* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
949  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
950  on startup.
951
952* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
953
954* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
955  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
956  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
957  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
958  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
959  other extensions.
960
961* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
962  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
963  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
964  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
965  timezone wrong.
966
967* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
968
969* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
970  'SURVEY DATE:'.
971
972* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
973
974* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
975
976* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
977  enabled.
978
979Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
980
981* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
982
983* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
984
985* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
986
987* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
988  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
989  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
990
991* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
992  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
993  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
994
995* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
996  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
997
998* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
999
1000* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
1001
1002* Fix some compiler warnings.
1003
1004Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
1005
1006* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
1007  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
1008  Holder.
1009
1010* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
1011  statistics when the value gets large.
1012
1013* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
1014  equations.
1015
1016* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
1017  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
1018  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
1019  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
1020  better when the "View" box is hidden.
1021
1022* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
1023  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
1024
1025* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
1026  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
1027  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
1028  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
1029  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
1030  way is coming soon.
1031
1032* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
1033  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
1034
1035* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
1036  time ago, so update references.
1037
1038* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
1039  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
1040
1041* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
1042  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
1043
1044* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
1045  Sebastian Ramacher.
1046
1047* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
1048
1049* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
1050
1051* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
1052
1053* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
1054
1055* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
1056
1057* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
1058  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
1059  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
1060
1061* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
1062
1063* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
1064
1065* img library:
1066
1067  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
1068    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
1069    reading).
1070
1071  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
1072    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
1073
1074  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
1075    support these as an extension.
1076
1077  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
1078
1079* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
1080  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
1081  itself has any translations for.
1082
1083* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
1084
1085* Minor translation updates.
1086
1087* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
1088
1089Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
1090
1091* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
1092  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
1093  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
1094  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
1095  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
1096  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
1097  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
1098  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1099
1100* New version 8 of the 3d format:
1101
1102  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1103
1104  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
1105    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
1106
1107  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
1108    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
1109
1110  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
1111
1112  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
1113    human-readable string.
1114
1115  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
1116    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
1117
1118* img library:
1119
1120  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1121
1122  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
1123    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
1124
1125  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
1126    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
1127    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
1128    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
1129    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
1130    explicitly in the file.
1131
1132  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
1133
1134* aven:
1135
1136  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
1137    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
1138    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
1139    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
1140    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
1141    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
1142
1143  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
1144    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
1145    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
1146    queued up.
1147
1148  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
1149    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
1150
1151  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
1152    them like other legs.
1153
1154  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
1155    station names to positions.
1156
1157  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
1158    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
1159    wrongly.
1160
1161  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
1162
1163  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
1164    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
1165    that's used by the desktop).
1166
1167  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
1168
1169  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
1170    error from cavern.
1171
1172  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
1173
1174  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
1175    in the dialog in sync.
1176
1177* cavern:
1178
1179  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
1180    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
1181    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
1182
1183  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
1184    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1185
1186  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
1187    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
1188    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
1189    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
1190    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
1191    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
1192    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
1193    degrees.
1194
1195  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
1196    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
1197    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
1198
1199  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
1200
1201  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
1202    warnings.
1203
1204  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
1205    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
1206
1207  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
1208    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
1209
1210  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
1211    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
1212    relevant.
1213
1214  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
1215    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
1216    the same line.
1217
1218  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
1219    "End of line not blank" error.
1220
1221  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
1222    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
1223
1224  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
1225    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
1226
1227  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
1228    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
1229    include that character in the token reported.
1230
1231  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
1232    first item.
1233
1234* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
1235
1236* dump3d:
1237
1238  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
1239    info from 3d files in scripts.
1240
1241  + Add --show-dates option.
1242
1243  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
1244
1245  + Report the data style of legs.
1246
1247  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
1248
1249  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
1250
1251* Test suite:
1252
1253  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
1254    expected output so it passes reliably.
1255
1256  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
1257    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
1258
1259  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
1260    for more.
1261
1262* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
1263  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
1264  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
1265
1266* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
1267  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
1268
1269* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
1270  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
1271
1272* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
1273  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
1274  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
1275  settings.
1276
1277* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
1278  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
1279  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
1280  set correctly.
1281
1282* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
1283  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
1284  them to translate.
1285
1286* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
1287  close to complete.
1288
1289* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
1290
1291* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
1292
1293* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
1294
1295Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
1296
1297* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
1298
1299* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
1300  package (ticket#35).
1301
1302* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
1303  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
1304  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
1305
1306* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
1307  Kahler.
1308
1309* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
1310  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
1311  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
1312  libproj and build survex with:
1313
1314      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1315      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1316
1317* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
1318
1319* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
1320
1321* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
1322  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
1323  file".
1324
1325Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
1326
1327* aven:
1328
1329  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
1330
1331  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
1332    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
1333
1334  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
1335
1336  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
1337
1338  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
1339    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
1340
1341* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
1342  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
1343  error early on).
1344
1345* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
1346  the man page source as well as in the filename.
1347
1348Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
1349
1350* aven:
1351
1352  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
1353    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
1354    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
1355    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
1356
1357  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
1358    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
1359
1360  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
1361
1362  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
1363
1364  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
1365
1366* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
1367
1368Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
1369
1370* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
1371
1372* (Mac OS X version):
1373
1374  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
1375
1376  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
1377
1378  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
1379    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
1380
1381  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
1382
1383* aven:
1384
1385  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
1386
1387  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
1388
1389    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
1390      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
1391      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
1392      character.
1393
1394    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
1395      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
1396      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
1397      and two in a few cases.
1398
1399    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
1400      8 pixels.
1401
1402  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
1403    draw crosses.
1404
1405  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
1406    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
1407    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
1408    is the start or end of a tube.
1409
1410  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
1411    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
1412
1413  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
1414    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
1415    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
1416
1417* extend:
1418
1419  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
1420
1421  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
1422    which means "no info").
1423
1424* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
1425  was no longer used - it certainly is!
1426
1427* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
1428  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
1429  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
1430  current character set.
1431
1432* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
1433
1434* Test suite:
1435
1436  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
1437
1438  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
1439
1440Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
1441
1442* aven:
1443
1444  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
1445    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
1446    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
1447    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
1448    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
1449    usable format.
1450
1451  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
1452    files.  (ticket#26)
1453
1454  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
1455    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
1456
1457  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
1458    using lines.
1459
1460  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
1461    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
1462
1463  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
1464    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
1465    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
1466    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
1467
1468  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
1469    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
1470    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
1471
1472  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
1473    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
1474    in 1.2.1.
1475
1476Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
1477
1478* Translation updates for US English.
1479
1480* aven:
1481
1482  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
1483    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
1484
1485  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
1486
1487  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
1488    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
1489    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
1490    visually similar to the survey legs.
1491
1492  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
1493    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
1494
1495  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
1496    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
1497    does still provide some useful information).
1498
1499  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
1500    a depth band boundary.
1501
1502  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
1503    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
1504    full-screen mode).
1505
1506  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
1507    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
1508    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
1509    are a little better, though still not perfect.
1510
1511  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
1512    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
1513
1514  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
1515    that station.
1516
1517  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
1518    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
1519
1520  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
1521    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
1522    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
1523    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
1524    a case as it is a bug).
1525
1526  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
1527    invalidated on window width or height changes.
1528
1529  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
1530    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
1531    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
1532    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
1533
1534  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
1535    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
1536    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
1537    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
1538    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
1539    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
1540    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
1541
1542  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
1543    similarly for other compass points.
1544
1545  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
1546    info in the "About" dialog.
1547
1548  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
1549    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
1550
1551  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
1552    as well as still working with older versions.
1553
1554  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
1555    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
1556
1557  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
1558    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
1559    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
1560    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
1561    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
1562
1563  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
1564    nicer and make better use of the available space.
1565
1566  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
1567    dialog.
1568
1569  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
1570    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
1571
1572  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
1573    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
1574
1575  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
1576
1577  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
1578
1579  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
1580    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
1581    being pressed and toggle full screen.
1582
1583* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
1584  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
1585
1586* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
1587
1588* More messages are now available to be translated.
1589
1590* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
1591  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
1592
1593* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
1594
1595* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
1596  sudo for installing on Unix.
1597
1598* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
1599  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
1600
1601* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
1602  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
1603
1604* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1605
1606Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
1607
1608* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
1609  English.
1610
1611* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
1612  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
1613  case.
1614
1615* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
1616  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
1617  these into Survex's .msg format.
1618
1619* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
1620  an actual command).
1621
1622* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
1623  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
1624  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
1625  recurrence of that).
1626
1627* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
1628  than /usr/doc/survex.
1629
1630* aven:
1631
1632  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
1633
1634  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
1635    nicer at larger sizes.
1636
1637  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
1638    with GLX >= 1.3.
1639
1640  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
1641
1642  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
1643    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
1644    required libraries set up for building releases.
1645
1646  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
1647
1648  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
1649
1650  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
1651    rendered with icons on some platforms.
1652
1653  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
1654    ISO8859-1).
1655
1656  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
1657    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
1658
1659  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
1660    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
1661
1662* cavern:
1663
1664  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
1665    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
1666    fatal error!
1667
1668  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
1669    format to output.  (ticket#21)
1670
1671* img library:
1672
1673  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
1674    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
1675
1676* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
1677  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
1678
1679Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
1680
1681* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
1682  Portuguese, and US English.
1683
1684* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
1685  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
1686
1687* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
1688  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
1689
1690* img.c:
1691
1692  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
1693
1694  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
1695
1696* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
1697
1698* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
1699  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
1700  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
1701  translated.
1702
1703Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
1704
1705* aven:
1706
1707  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
1708    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
1709
1710  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
1711    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
1712    addresses ticket#12.
1713
1714  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
1715    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
1716    consistent shape.
1717
1718  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
1719    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
1720    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
1721    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
1722
1723  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
1724    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
1725
1726  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
1727
1728  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
1729    more places.
1730
1731  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
1732    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
1733
1734* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
1735
1736* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
1737  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
1738
1739* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
1740
1741* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
1742  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
1743  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
1744  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
1745  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
1746  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
1747
1748* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
1749  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
1750  redirecting to it.
1751
1752* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
1753  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
1754  I/O).
1755
1756* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
1757  headers.
1758
1759* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
1760
1761* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
1762  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
1763
1764* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
1765
1766Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
1767
1768* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
1769
1770* aven:
1771
1772  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
1773    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
1774    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
1775    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
1776
1777  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
1778
1779  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
1780    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
1781    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
1782    a number.
1783
1784  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
1785    log window.
1786
1787  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
1788    various cases.
1789
1790  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
1791    (ticket#9)
1792
1793  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
1794    namespace with its own "Point" class.
1795
1796  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
1797    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
1798
1799  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
1800
1801  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
1802    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
1803
1804* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
1805  give them before.
1806
1807* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
1808  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
1809  point looking for them now.
1810
1811* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
1812  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
1813  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
1814  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
1815
1816* manual:
1817
1818  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
1819
1820  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
1821    (change taken from 1.0).
1822
1823* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
1824
1825Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
1826
1827* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
1828
1829* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
1830
1831* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
1832
1833* aven:
1834
1835  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
1836
1837  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
1838    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
1839    seem to be Unicode now).
1840
1841  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
1842    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
1843
1844  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
1845    text on the survey pane:
1846
1847    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
1848
1849    - Character spacing is improved.
1850
1851    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
1852
1853  + "About" dialog:
1854
1855    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
1856      bug reporting.
1857
1858    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
1859      modern gfx card.
1860
1861    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
1862
1863  + Processing .svx files:
1864
1865    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
1866
1867    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
1868      than opening a separate frame for it.
1869
1870    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
1871
1872    - Fix small memory leak.
1873
1874  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
1875    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
1876    such a name.
1877
1878  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
1879
1880  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
1881    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
1882    invocations.
1883
1884  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
1885
1886  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
1887
1888  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
1889
1890* Documentation:
1891
1892  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
1893
1894  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
1895    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
1896    together isn't very useful.
1897
1898  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
1899
1900  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
1901    the FSF website.
1902
1903  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
1904    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
1905    the source code.
1906
1907* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
1908  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
1909
1910* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
1911  package from the source tarball.
1912
1913* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
1914  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
1915
1916Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
1917
1918* aven:
1919
1920  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
1921
1922  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
1923
1924  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
1925    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
1926    names/crosses).
1927
1928Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
1929
1930* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
1931
1932* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
1933
1934* aven:
1935
1936  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
1937
1938  + Fix character spacing.
1939
1940  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
1941    proportional fonts.
1942
1943  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
1944    rather than the filename.
1945
1946  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
1947
1948  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
1949    depth colouring.
1950
1951  + Add "Colour by Error".
1952
1953  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
1954
1955  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
1956
1957  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
1958
1959  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
1960
1961  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
1962
1963  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
1964
1965  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
1966
1967  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
1968    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
1969
1970  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
1971
1972  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
1973    default.
1974
1975* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
1976  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
1977
1978* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
1979  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
1980
1981* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
1982
1983* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
1984
1985Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
1986
1987* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
1988  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
1989  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
1990  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
1991  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
1992
1993* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
1994  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
1995  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
1996
1997* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
1998  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
1999  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
2000
2001* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
2002  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
2003  allowed).
2004
2005* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
2006
2007* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2008
2009* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2010
2011Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
2012
2013* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
2014  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
2015
2016* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
2017  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
2018  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
2019
2020* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
2021  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
2022  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
2023  the new "*data passage" style.
2024
2025* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
2026  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
2027
2028* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
2029  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
2030  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
2031  some cases.
2032
2033* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
2034  with no survey loaded.
2035
2036* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
2037
2038* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
2039  loaded a survey.
2040
2041* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
2042
2043* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
2044
2045* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
2046  doesn't exist.
2047
2048* Updated French and Italian translations.
2049
2050* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
2051  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
2052
2053* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
2054  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
2055  update their copy).
2056
2057* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
2058  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
2059  trying to compile).
2060
2061Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
2062
2063* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
2064  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
2065
2066* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
2067  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
2068  has been disabled.
2069
2070* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
2071  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
2072  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
2073  time.
2074
2075* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
2076  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
2077  highlighted stations.
2078
2079* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
2080
2081* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
2082  the tilt from plan to elevation.
2083
2084* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
2085  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
2086
2087* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
2088  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
2089  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
2090
2091* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
2092  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
2093
2094* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
2095
2096* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
2097
2098* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
2099
2100* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
2101  run by an unprivileged user.
2102
2103* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
2104  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
2105  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
2106
2107* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
2108  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
2109
2110* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
2111
2112* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
2113  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
2114
2115* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
2116  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
2117
2118* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
2119  if it isn't.
2120
2121* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
2122  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
2123
2124* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
2125  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
2126
2127* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
2128  reset to default view as well).
2129
2130* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
2131  empty.
2132
2133* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
2134  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
2135
2136* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
2137  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
2138  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
2139
2140* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
2141  and non-zero width lines.
2142
2143* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
2144  was turned on.
2145
2146* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
2147  not always being fully written.
2148
2149Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
2150
2151* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
2152  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
2153  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
2154  date near the middle of that period).
2155
2156* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
2157  with MS Windows).
2158
2159* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
2160  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
2161  several surveys in the same directory).
2162
2163* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
2164  our check for them to include that knowledge.
2165
2166* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
2167
2168* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
2169  moved off a station.
2170
2171* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
2172  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
2173
2174* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
2175
2176* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
2177  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
2178
2179* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
2180  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
2181  dialogs.
2182
2183* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
2184  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
2185
2186* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
2187  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
2188  introduced in 1.1.6).
2189
2190* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
2191  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
2192  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
2193
2194* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
2195  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
2196
2197* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
2198
2199* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
2200
2201Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
2202
2203* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
2204  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
2205
2206* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
2207  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
2208  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
2209  3d file.
2210
2211* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
2212
2213* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
2214
2215* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
2216  Instead turn off depth colouring.
2217
2218* aven: Export as HPGL added.
2219
2220* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
2221  Martin Green).
2222
2223* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
2224  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
2225  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
2226
2227* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
2228
2229* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
2230  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
2231
2232* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
2233  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
2234  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
2235  of everything else.
2236
2237* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
2238  presentation icons.
2239
2240* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
2241  keyboard focus there.
2242
2243* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
2244
2245* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
2246
2247* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
2248
2249* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
2250
2251* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
2252  language to use for messages.
2253
2254* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
2255  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
2256
2257* Removed old printer drivers.
2258
2259* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
2260  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
2261
2262Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
2263
2264* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
2265
2266* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
2267
2268* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
2269  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
2270
2271* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
2272  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
2273
2274* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
2275
2276* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
2277  underground legs is toggled.
2278
2279* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
2280  attached to the previous data.
2281
2282* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
2283  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
2284  them.
2285
2286Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
2287
2288* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
2289
2290* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
2291  continental European countries).
2292
2293* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
2294  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
2295  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
2296
2297* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
2298
2299* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
2300  they're needed.
2301
2302* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
2303
2304* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
2305
2306* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
2307
2308* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
2309  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
2310  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
2311
2312* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
2313
2314Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
2315
2316* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
2317
2318* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
2319
2320* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
2321
2322* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
2323
2324* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
2325
2326* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
2327
2328* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
2329  when there's a presentation loaded.
2330
2331* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
2332  in cave view.
2333
2334* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
2335
2336* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
2337  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
2338  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
2339
2340* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
2341  filename for file history and window title.
2342
2343* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
2344  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
2345  only needed with GTK1.2.
2346
2347* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
2348
2349* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
2350
2351* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
2352
2353* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
2354
2355Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
2356
2357* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
2358  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
2359  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
2360
2361* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
2362  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
2363
2364* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
2365  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
2366  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
2367  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
2368
2369* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
2370
2371* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
2372  with --help and --version.
2373
2374* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
2375  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
2376  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
2377  Fixed all these problems.
2378
2379* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
2380  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
2381  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
2382
2383* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
2384  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
2385  sources.
2386
2387* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
2388
2389* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
2390
2391* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
2392  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
2393
2394* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
2395  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
2396  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
2397  animating.
2398
2399* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
2400
2401* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
2402
2403* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
2404  to this branch.
2405
2406* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
2407
2408  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
2409
2410  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
2411
2412  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
2413
2414* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
2415
2416* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
2417  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
2418
2419* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
2420
2421* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
2422  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
2423
2424* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
2425
2426* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
2427  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
2428  for anyone building from CVS).
2429
2430* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
2431
2432* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
2433
2434* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
2435
2436* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
2437
2438* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
2439  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
2440  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
2441
2442* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
2443  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
2444
2445* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
2446
2447* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
2448  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
2449  loaded).
2450
2451* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
2452
2453Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
2454
2455* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
2456  startup.
2457
2458* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
2459  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
2460
2461Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
2462
2463* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
2464  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
2465  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
2466
2467* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
2468  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
2469  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
2470
2471* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
2472  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
2473  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
2474
2475* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
2476
2477* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
2478  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
2479
2480* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
2481  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
2482
2483* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
2484  better use of screen space.
2485
2486* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
2487
2488* aven: Perspective view.
2489
2490* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
2491
2492* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
2493  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
2494
2495* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
2496  and load/save/run them.
2497
2498* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
2499
2500* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
2501
2502* aven: Depth fogging option.
2503
2504* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
2505
2506* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
2507
2508* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
2509  showing the surface legs.
2510
2511* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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