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1Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
2
3* aven:
4
5  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
6    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
7    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
8    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
9
10  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
11    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
12    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
13    Erin Lynch.
14
15  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
16    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
17    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
18
19  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
20    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
21    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
22    unnecessarily.
23
24  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
25    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
26    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
27    for this control).
28
29  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
30    under GTK3.
31
32  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
33    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
34    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
35
36  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
37    current development version).
38
39  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
40    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
41    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
42
43* cavern:
44
45  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
46    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
47    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
48    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
49    "19".
50
51* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
52  Evaristo Quiroga.
53
54* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
55
56* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
57  milosch.
58
59* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
60  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
61  translated messages.
62
63* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
64  Indonesian and Polish.
65
66* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
67  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
68  Reported by Martin Sluka.
69
70* Fix a few compiler warnings.
71
72* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
73  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
74  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
75
76* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
77
78  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
79    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
80    but happens to fail if it isn't.
81
82  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
83
84  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
85
86  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
87
88* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
89  detected at run time on macOS.
90
91* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
92  by the homebrew formula.
93
94* buildmacosx.sh:
95
96  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
97    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
98
99  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
100
101* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
102  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
103
104Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
105
106* aven:
107
108  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
109    and Anthony Day.
110
111  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
112    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
113    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
114    Erin Lynch in #89.
115
116  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
117    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
118    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
119    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
120    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
121    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
122    elevations.
123
124  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
125    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
126    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
127
128  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
129    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
130    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
131    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
132    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
133    "on".
134
135  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
136    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
137
138  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
139    the display wouldn't update right away.
140
141* Manual:
142
143  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
144
145  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
146
147* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
148  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
149  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
150  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
151  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
152
153Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
154
155* aven:
156
157  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
158    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
159    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
160
161  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
162    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
163    before by others.
164
165  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
166
167  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
168    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
169    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
170    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
171    original change.
172
173  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
174    which extends beyond the end of the line).
175
176  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
177    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
178
179  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
180
181  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
182
183  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
184    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
185    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
186    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
187    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
188    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
189    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
190
191  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
192    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
193
194  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
195    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
196    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
197
198  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
199    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
200    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
201    much vertical range.
202
203  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
204    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
205    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
206    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
207    are drawn in this way.
208
209  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
210    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
211    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
212    centre should be a single pixel.
213
214* cavern:
215
216  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
217    entering passage data where there are side passages.
218
219  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
220    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
221
222  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
223    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
224    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
225    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
226
227  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
228    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
229    Reported by Erin Lynch.
230
231  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
232    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
233    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
234    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
235
236  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
237    other messages.
238
239* extend:
240
241  + Now runs a bit faster.
242
243  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
244    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
245    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
246    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
247    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
248    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
249    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
250    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
251    be handled better) most welcome.
252
253* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
254
255* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
256
257* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
258  translations from therion.
259
260* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
261  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
262
263* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
264  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
265  Footleg.
266
267* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
268
269* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
270
271Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
272
273* aven:
274
275  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
276    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
277
278  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
279    Suggested by detrito.
280
281  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
282    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
283
284  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
285    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
286
287* Add man page for dump3d.
288
289Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
290
291* aven:
292
293  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
294    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
295
296  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
297    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
298
299* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
300  Lynch and "detrito".
301
302* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
303  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
304
305Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
306
307* cavern:
308
309  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
310    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
311    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
312    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
313    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
314
315  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
316
317  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
318
319  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
320    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
321    degrees).
322
323* aven:
324
325  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
326    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
327    Day.
328
329  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
330    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
331
332  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
333    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
334
335  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
336    of the line in cavern log window.
337
338  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
339
340  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
341
342  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
343    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
344    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
345    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
346    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
347
348  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
349    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
350    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
351
352  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
353
354  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
355
356  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
357    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
358    Atkinson and myself.
359
360  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
361
362  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
363    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
364    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
365    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
366    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
367    survey.
368
369  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
370    lines on my netbook.
371
372  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
373    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
374    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
375
376  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
377    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
378    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
379    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
380    glitches.
381
382  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
383    we currently list, though slower to write.
384
385  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
386    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
387
388  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
389    warnings when building against a recent version.
390
391  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
392    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
393    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
394    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
395
396  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
397    movie export.
398
399  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
400    export.
401
402* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
403  James Begley.
404
405* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
406  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
407
408* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
409
410* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
411  messages get used automatically.
412
413* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
414  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
415
416* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
417
418* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
419
420* Use https for more URLs which support it.
421
422Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
423
424* aven:
425
426  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
427    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
428    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
429    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
430    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
431    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
432    probably change in the future).
433
434  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
435    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
436    the survey tree root.
437
438  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
439    the view was recentred).
440
441  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
442    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
443    wrong direction).
444
445  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
446    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
447    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
448
449  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
450    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
451    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
452    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
453
454  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
455    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
456
457  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
458    addresses #60.
459
460  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
461
462  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
463    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
464    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
465
466  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
467
468  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
469    360 or down past 0.
470
471  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
472    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
473    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
474    real-valued ones.
475
476  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
477    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
478
479  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
480    Lynch.
481
482  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
483
484  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
485    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
486
487  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
488    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
489    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
490
491  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
492    should now work.
493
494* cavern:
495
496  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
497
498  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
499    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
500    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
501
502  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
503    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
504    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
505
506  + Fix check for end of version number array in *required.   We would check up
507    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
508    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
509    issue.
510
511  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
512    by patch from Colin Watson.
513
514  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
515
516* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
517
518* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
519  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
520
521* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
522  used in the same dataset.
523
524* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
525  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
526
527* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
528  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
529  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
530
531* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
532
533Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
534
535* aven:
536
537  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
538    cavern again.
539
540* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
541  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
542  location and use the same start menu folder.
543
544* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
545  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
546
547* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
548  by James Begley.
549
550Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
551
552* aven:
553
554  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
555    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
556    to address.
557
558  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
559    over the survey tree.
560
561  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
562
563  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
564    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
565
566  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
567    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
568    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
569    encoded.
570
571  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
572    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
573    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
574    terminals which do still support this.
575
576  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
577    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
578
579* cavern:
580
581  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
582    Edwards (see #78).
583
584  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
585    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
586    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
587    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
588
589  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
590    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
591    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
592
593  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
594    from Pete Smart (see #69).
595
596* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
597  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
598  Black.
599
600* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
601
602* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
603  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
604  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
605  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
606  Black.
607
608* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
609  Black.
610
611* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
612
613* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
614
615* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
616
617* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
618
619* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
620
621* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
622  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
623
624* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
625  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
626  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
627
628* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
629  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
630  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
631  privileges or not.
632
633Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
634
635* aven:
636
637  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
638    Clipstone.
639
640  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
641    Reported by Jenny Black.
642
643  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
644    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
645    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
646
647  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
648    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
649    messages.
650
651  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
652    the terminal in 1.2.23.
653
654* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
655  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
656
657* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
658
659* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
660  by Wookey.
661
662Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
663
664* aven:
665
666  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
667    machines.
668
669  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
670
671  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
672    already being processed.
673
674  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
675    Reported by Martin Green.
676
677  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
678
679* cavern:
680
681  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
682    find the original survey notes).
683
684  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
685    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
686    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
687    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
688    progress display to be useful.
689
690* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
691
692* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
693  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
694
695* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
696  running cavern.
697
698* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
699  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
700  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
701
702Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
703
704* aven:
705
706  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
707    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
708    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
709    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
710    finding this fix.
711
712* cavern:
713
714  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
715
716  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
717    station.
718
719  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
720    *export.
721
722Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
723
724* aven:
725
726  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
727    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
728    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
729
730  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
731
732  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
733    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
734    does.
735
736  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
737    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
738
739  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
740    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
741
742  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
743    as appropriate.
744
745  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
746    values on Windows.
747
748* cavern:
749
750  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
751    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
752    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
753
754  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
755    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
756
757  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
758    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
759    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
760    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
761
762  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
763    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
764    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
765    Atkinson.
766
767  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
768    actual error rather than on a separate line.
769
770  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
771    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
772    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
773    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
774
775  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
776    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
777    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
778
779* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
780  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
781  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
782  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
783
784* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
785
786* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
787  "*DECLINATION" command.
788
789* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
790  Reported by Jenny Black.
791
792* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
793  documentation.
794
795* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
796  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
797
798* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
799
800* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
801
802Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
803
804* aven:
805
806  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
807    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
808    the same or very similar by default.
809
810  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
811    Maynard.
812
813  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
814
815  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
816
817  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
818    away.
819
820  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
821
822  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
823    display it.
824
825* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
826  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
827  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
828  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
829
830* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
831
832* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
833  before 1.2.19.
834
835* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
836  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
837
838* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
839
840* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
841  disk image.
842
843* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
844
845* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
846  libav features we don't use.
847
848* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
849  a load of libav features we don't use.
850
851* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
852  message in the installer.
853
854Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
855
856* aven:
857
858  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
859    the exported file in 1.2.18.
860
861  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
862
863  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
864    exit full screen mode.
865
866  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
867    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
868    using since 1.2.7).
869
870  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
871    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
872    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
873    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
874    St. Lawrence.
875
876  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
877    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
878
879  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
880    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
881    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
882
883  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
884    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
885    case like we do on other platforms.
886
887  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
888
889  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
890    support multi-monitor setups.
891
892  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
893    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
894
895  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
896    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
897
898  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
899    cases.
900
901  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
902    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
903    Erin Lynch)
904
905  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
906    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
907    items in in so it uses the full width.
908
909  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
910    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
911    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
912    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
913    window.
914
915  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
916    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
917    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
918    only relevant on the first ever run.
919
920* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
921
922* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
923  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
924  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
925  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
926  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
927  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
928
929* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
930  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
931
932Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
933
934* aven:
935
936  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
937    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
938    rendering it as a transparent surface.
939
940  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
941    sanely want to perform from the menu.
942
943  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
944    colouring options.
945
946  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
947
948  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
949    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
950    pressing "Escape".
951
952  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
953    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
954
955  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
956    exporting.
957
958  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
959
960  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
961    is quite likely to change.
962
963  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
964    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
965
966  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
967    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
968    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
969
970  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
971
972  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
973    markers in orange.
974
975  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
976    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
977
978  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
979    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
980    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
981    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
982    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
983    them would be better.
984
985  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
986    Gee.
987
988  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
989    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
990    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
991
992  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
993
994* cavern:
995
996  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
997    susscorfa).
998
999  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
1000    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
1001
1002  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
1003
1004  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
1005    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
1006
1007  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
1008    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
1009
1010* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
1011
1012* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
1013  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
1014  in a modern desktop.
1015
1016* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
1017  the filename in the error message.
1018
1019* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
1020  most complete translations.
1021
1022* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
1023
1024* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
1025  lacks them.
1026
1027* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
1028
1029* Manual:
1030
1031  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
1032    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
1033
1034  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
1035
1036  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
1037
1038  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
1039    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
1040    available for download.
1041
1042* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
1043  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
1044  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
1045
1046* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1047
1048* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
1049
1050Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
1051
1052* MacOS X version:
1053
1054  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
1055
1056  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
1057
1058  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
1059
1060  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
1061
1062  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
1063    currently do this for us.
1064
1065  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
1066
1067  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
1068
1069  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
1070
1071  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
1072    OS X cursor.
1073
1074  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
1075    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
1076    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
1077    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
1078    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
1079    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
1080    with TextEdit.app for example).
1081
1082  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
1083    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
1084
1085  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
1086
1087  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
1088    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
1089
1090  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
1091    Riggs.
1092
1093  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
1094    space.
1095
1096  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
1097
1098  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
1099    10.10.1.
1100
1101  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
1102    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
1103    errors.
1104
1105  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
1106    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
1107    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
1108    wxWidgets build supports by default.
1109
1110  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
1111
1112* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
1113  treat as a single leg.
1114
1115* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
1116
1117* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
1118
1119* aven:
1120
1121  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
1122    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
1123
1124  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
1125    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
1126    1:500).
1127
1128  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
1129    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
1130    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
1131    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
1132
1133  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
1134    there rather than the two animations fighting.
1135
1136  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
1137    fast.
1138
1139  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
1140    when rotating).
1141
1142  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
1143    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
1144
1145* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
1146  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
1147
1148* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
1149
1150* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
1151
1152* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
1153
1154* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
1155
1156* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
1157  we're using git.
1158
1159* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
1160
1161  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
1162    compass.
1163
1164  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
1165
1166  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
1167
1168Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
1169
1170* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
1171
1172* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
1173
1174* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
1175
1176* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
1177  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
1178
1179* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
1180
1181* tests/: Improve test coverage.
1182
1183* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
1184  Greek and Polish.
1185
1186* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
1187  by Martin Sluka.
1188
1189* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
1190  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
1191
1192Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
1193
1194* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
1195  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
1196  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
1197  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
1198  for *cs has also been improved.
1199
1200* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
1201  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
1202  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
1203  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
1204
1205* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
1206  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
1207  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
1208  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
1209  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
1210
1211* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
1212  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
1213  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
1214
1215* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
1216
1217* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
1218
1219* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
1220  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
1221  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
1222
1223* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
1224  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
1225
1226Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
1227
1228* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
1229  system in use in 3d v8 files.
1230
1231* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
1232  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
1233  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
1234  export dialog.
1235
1236* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
1237  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
1238  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
1239  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
1240  rather than having one corner there.
1241
1242* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
1243  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
1244
1245* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
1246  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
1247
1248* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
1249  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
1250  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
1251
1252* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
1253  such as 64-bit Linux.
1254
1255* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
1256  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
1257
1258* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
1259  64-bit platforms.
1260
1261* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
1262  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
1263  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
1264
1265* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
1266  the space available in the aven UI.
1267
1268* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
1269  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
1270  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
1271
1272* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
1273  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
1274
1275* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
1276  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
1277  about unconnected surveys.
1278
1279* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
1280  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
1281
1282* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
1283  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
1284  freed memory.
1285
1286* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
1287
1288* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
1289
1290* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
1291
1292* Fix a compiler warning.
1293
1294* Improve test coverage.
1295
1296Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
1297
1298* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
1299  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
1300  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
1301
1302* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
1303  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
1304  Hugh St Lawrence.
1305
1306* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
1307  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
1308  with using aven on a touch screen device.
1309
1310* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
1311  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
1312
1313* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
1314  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
1315
1316* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
1317  off and back on.
1318
1319* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
1320  up time a little.
1321
1322* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
1323  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
1324
1325* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
1326  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
1327  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
1328  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
1329  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
1330  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
1331  situation too.
1332
1333* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
1334  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
1335  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
1336
1337* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
1338
1339* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
1340
1341* Minor translation updates to French.
1342
1343* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
1344
1345* Testsuite improvements:
1346
1347  + Test that "..." anon station works.
1348
1349  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
1350    fail and give an error count.
1351
1352  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
1353
1354Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
1355
1356* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
1357  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
1358  Clipstone.
1359
1360* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
1361
1362* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
1363
1364  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
1365    overlap the scale bar ticks.
1366
1367  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
1368    clipping the border in print preview.
1369
1370  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
1371
1372* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
1373  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
1374
1375* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
1376  available.
1377
1378* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
1379
1380* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
1381
1382* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
1383  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
1384
1385* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
1386  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
1387
1388* Various translation updates.
1389
1390Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
1391
1392* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
1393  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
1394
1395* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
1396  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
1397  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
1398  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
1399
1400* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
1401  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
1402
1403* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
1404  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
1405
1406* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
1407  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
1408
1409* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
1410  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
1411
1412* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
1413  box".
1414
1415* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
1416
1417* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
1418  indicators.
1419
1420* aven: All length units are now translatable.
1421
1422* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
1423  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
1424  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
1425
1426* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
1427  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
1428  measurably slower.
1429
1430* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
1431  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
1432
1433* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
1434  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
1435
1436* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
1437  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
1438  from Therion and elsewhere.
1439
1440* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
1441  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
1442  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
1443
1444* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
1445  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
1446
1447* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
1448  A. Riggs for his work on this.
1449
1450* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
1451  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
1452
1453* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
1454
1455* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
1456  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
1457  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
1458  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
1459  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
1460  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
1461
1462* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
1463
1464Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
1465
1466* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
1467  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
1468  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
1469  Clipstone.
1470
1471* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
1472  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
1473
1474* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
1475  exported SVG files.
1476
1477* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
1478
1479* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
1480  file.
1481
1482* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
1483  GPX files.
1484
1485* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
1486
1487* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
1488  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
1489
1490* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
1491  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
1492  on startup.
1493
1494* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
1495
1496* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
1497  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
1498  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
1499  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
1500  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
1501  other extensions.
1502
1503* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
1504  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
1505  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
1506  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
1507  timezone wrong.
1508
1509* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
1510
1511* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
1512  'SURVEY DATE:'.
1513
1514* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
1515
1516* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
1517
1518* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
1519  enabled.
1520
1521Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
1522
1523* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
1524
1525* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
1526
1527* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
1528
1529* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
1530  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
1531  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
1532
1533* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
1534  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
1535  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
1536
1537* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
1538  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
1539
1540* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
1541
1542* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
1543
1544* Fix some compiler warnings.
1545
1546Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
1547
1548* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
1549  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
1550  Holder.
1551
1552* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
1553  statistics when the value gets large.
1554
1555* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
1556  equations.
1557
1558* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
1559  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
1560  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
1561  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
1562  better when the "View" box is hidden.
1563
1564* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
1565  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
1566
1567* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
1568  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
1569  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
1570  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
1571  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
1572  way is coming soon.
1573
1574* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
1575  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
1576
1577* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
1578  time ago, so update references.
1579
1580* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
1581  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
1582
1583* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
1584  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
1585
1586* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
1587  Sebastian Ramacher.
1588
1589* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
1590
1591* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
1592
1593* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
1594
1595* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
1596
1597* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
1598
1599* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
1600  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
1601  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
1602
1603* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
1604
1605* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
1606
1607* img library:
1608
1609  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
1610    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
1611    reading).
1612
1613  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
1614    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
1615
1616  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
1617    support these as an extension.
1618
1619  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
1620
1621* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
1622  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
1623  itself has any translations for.
1624
1625* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
1626
1627* Minor translation updates.
1628
1629* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
1630
1631Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
1632
1633* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
1634  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
1635  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
1636  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
1637  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
1638  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
1639  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
1640  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1641
1642* New version 8 of the 3d format:
1643
1644  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1645
1646  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
1647    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
1648
1649  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
1650    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
1651
1652  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
1653
1654  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
1655    human-readable string.
1656
1657  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
1658    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
1659
1660* img library:
1661
1662  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1663
1664  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
1665    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
1666
1667  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
1668    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
1669    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
1670    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
1671    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
1672    explicitly in the file.
1673
1674  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
1675
1676* aven:
1677
1678  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
1679    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
1680    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
1681    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
1682    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
1683    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
1684
1685  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
1686    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
1687    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
1688    queued up.
1689
1690  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
1691    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
1692
1693  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
1694    them like other legs.
1695
1696  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
1697    station names to positions.
1698
1699  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
1700    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
1701    wrongly.
1702
1703  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
1704
1705  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
1706    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
1707    that's used by the desktop).
1708
1709  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
1710
1711  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
1712    error from cavern.
1713
1714  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
1715
1716  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
1717    in the dialog in sync.
1718
1719* cavern:
1720
1721  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
1722    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
1723    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
1724
1725  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
1726    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1727
1728  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
1729    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
1730    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
1731    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
1732    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
1733    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
1734    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
1735    degrees.
1736
1737  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
1738    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
1739    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
1740
1741  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
1742
1743  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
1744    warnings.
1745
1746  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
1747    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
1748
1749  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
1750    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
1751
1752  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
1753    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
1754    relevant.
1755
1756  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
1757    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
1758    the same line.
1759
1760  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
1761    "End of line not blank" error.
1762
1763  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
1764    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
1765
1766  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
1767    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
1768
1769  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
1770    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
1771    include that character in the token reported.
1772
1773  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
1774    first item.
1775
1776* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
1777
1778* dump3d:
1779
1780  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
1781    info from 3d files in scripts.
1782
1783  + Add --show-dates option.
1784
1785  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
1786
1787  + Report the data style of legs.
1788
1789  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
1790
1791  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
1792
1793* Test suite:
1794
1795  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
1796    expected output so it passes reliably.
1797
1798  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
1799    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
1800
1801  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
1802    for more.
1803
1804* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
1805  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
1806  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
1807
1808* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
1809  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
1810
1811* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
1812  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
1813
1814* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
1815  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
1816  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
1817  settings.
1818
1819* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
1820  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
1821  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
1822  set correctly.
1823
1824* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
1825  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
1826  them to translate.
1827
1828* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
1829  close to complete.
1830
1831* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
1832
1833* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
1834
1835* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
1836
1837Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
1838
1839* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
1840
1841* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
1842  package (ticket#35).
1843
1844* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
1845  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
1846  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
1847
1848* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
1849  Kahler.
1850
1851* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
1852  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
1853  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
1854  libproj and build survex with:
1855
1856      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1857      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1858
1859* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
1860
1861* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
1862
1863* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
1864  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
1865  file".
1866
1867Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
1868
1869* aven:
1870
1871  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
1872
1873  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
1874    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
1875
1876  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
1877
1878  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
1879
1880  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
1881    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
1882
1883* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
1884  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
1885  error early on).
1886
1887* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
1888  the man page source as well as in the filename.
1889
1890Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
1891
1892* aven:
1893
1894  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
1895    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
1896    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
1897    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
1898
1899  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
1900    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
1901
1902  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
1903
1904  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
1905
1906  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
1907
1908* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
1909
1910Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
1911
1912* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
1913
1914* (Mac OS X version):
1915
1916  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
1917
1918  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
1919
1920  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
1921    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
1922
1923  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
1924
1925* aven:
1926
1927  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
1928
1929  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
1930
1931    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
1932      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
1933      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
1934      character.
1935
1936    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
1937      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
1938      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
1939      and two in a few cases.
1940
1941    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
1942      8 pixels.
1943
1944  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
1945    draw crosses.
1946
1947  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
1948    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
1949    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
1950    is the start or end of a tube.
1951
1952  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
1953    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
1954
1955  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
1956    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
1957    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
1958
1959* extend:
1960
1961  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
1962
1963  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
1964    which means "no info").
1965
1966* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
1967  was no longer used - it certainly is!
1968
1969* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
1970  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
1971  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
1972  current character set.
1973
1974* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
1975
1976* Test suite:
1977
1978  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
1979
1980  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
1981
1982Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
1983
1984* aven:
1985
1986  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
1987    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
1988    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
1989    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
1990    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
1991    usable format.
1992
1993  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
1994    files.  (ticket#26)
1995
1996  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
1997    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
1998
1999  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
2000    using lines.
2001
2002  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
2003    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
2004
2005  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
2006    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
2007    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
2008    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
2009
2010  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
2011    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
2012    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
2013
2014  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
2015    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
2016    in 1.2.1.
2017
2018Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
2019
2020* Translation updates for US English.
2021
2022* aven:
2023
2024  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
2025    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
2026
2027  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
2028
2029  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
2030    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
2031    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
2032    visually similar to the survey legs.
2033
2034  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
2035    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
2036
2037  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
2038    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
2039    does still provide some useful information).
2040
2041  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
2042    a depth band boundary.
2043
2044  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
2045    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
2046    full-screen mode).
2047
2048  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
2049    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
2050    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
2051    are a little better, though still not perfect.
2052
2053  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
2054    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
2055
2056  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
2057    that station.
2058
2059  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
2060    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
2061
2062  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
2063    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
2064    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
2065    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
2066    a case as it is a bug).
2067
2068  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
2069    invalidated on window width or height changes.
2070
2071  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
2072    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
2073    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
2074    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
2075
2076  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
2077    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
2078    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
2079    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
2080    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
2081    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
2082    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
2083
2084  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
2085    similarly for other compass points.
2086
2087  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
2088    info in the "About" dialog.
2089
2090  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
2091    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
2092
2093  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
2094    as well as still working with older versions.
2095
2096  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
2097    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
2098
2099  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
2100    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
2101    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
2102    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
2103    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
2104
2105  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
2106    nicer and make better use of the available space.
2107
2108  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
2109    dialog.
2110
2111  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
2112    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
2113
2114  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
2115    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
2116
2117  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
2118
2119  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
2120
2121  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
2122    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
2123    being pressed and toggle full screen.
2124
2125* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
2126  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
2127
2128* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
2129
2130* More messages are now available to be translated.
2131
2132* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
2133  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
2134
2135* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
2136
2137* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
2138  sudo for installing on Unix.
2139
2140* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
2141  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
2142
2143* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
2144  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
2145
2146* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
2147
2148Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
2149
2150* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
2151  English.
2152
2153* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
2154  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
2155  case.
2156
2157* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
2158  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
2159  these into Survex's .msg format.
2160
2161* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
2162  an actual command).
2163
2164* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
2165  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
2166  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
2167  recurrence of that).
2168
2169* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
2170  than /usr/doc/survex.
2171
2172* aven:
2173
2174  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
2175
2176  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
2177    nicer at larger sizes.
2178
2179  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
2180    with GLX >= 1.3.
2181
2182  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
2183
2184  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
2185    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
2186    required libraries set up for building releases.
2187
2188  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
2189
2190  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
2191
2192  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
2193    rendered with icons on some platforms.
2194
2195  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
2196    ISO8859-1).
2197
2198  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
2199    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
2200
2201  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
2202    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
2203
2204* cavern:
2205
2206  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
2207    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
2208    fatal error!
2209
2210  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
2211    format to output.  (ticket#21)
2212
2213* img library:
2214
2215  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
2216    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
2217
2218* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
2219  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
2220
2221Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
2222
2223* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
2224  Portuguese, and US English.
2225
2226* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
2227  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
2228
2229* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
2230  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
2231
2232* img.c:
2233
2234  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
2235
2236  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
2237
2238* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
2239
2240* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
2241  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
2242  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
2243  translated.
2244
2245Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
2246
2247* aven:
2248
2249  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
2250    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
2251
2252  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
2253    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
2254    addresses ticket#12.
2255
2256  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
2257    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
2258    consistent shape.
2259
2260  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
2261    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
2262    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
2263    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
2264
2265  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
2266    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
2267
2268  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
2269
2270  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
2271    more places.
2272
2273  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
2274    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
2275
2276* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
2277
2278* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
2279  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
2280
2281* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
2282
2283* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
2284  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
2285  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
2286  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
2287  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
2288  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
2289
2290* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
2291  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
2292  redirecting to it.
2293
2294* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
2295  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
2296  I/O).
2297
2298* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
2299  headers.
2300
2301* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
2302
2303* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
2304  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
2305
2306* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
2307
2308Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
2309
2310* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
2311
2312* aven:
2313
2314  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
2315    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
2316    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
2317    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
2318
2319  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
2320
2321  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
2322    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
2323    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
2324    a number.
2325
2326  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
2327    log window.
2328
2329  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
2330    various cases.
2331
2332  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
2333    (ticket#9)
2334
2335  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
2336    namespace with its own "Point" class.
2337
2338  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
2339    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
2340
2341  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
2342
2343  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
2344    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
2345
2346* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
2347  give them before.
2348
2349* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
2350  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
2351  point looking for them now.
2352
2353* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
2354  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
2355  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
2356  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
2357
2358* manual:
2359
2360  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
2361
2362  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
2363    (change taken from 1.0).
2364
2365* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
2366
2367Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
2368
2369* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
2370
2371* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
2372
2373* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
2374
2375* aven:
2376
2377  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
2378
2379  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
2380    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
2381    seem to be Unicode now).
2382
2383  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
2384    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
2385
2386  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
2387    text on the survey pane:
2388
2389    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
2390
2391    - Character spacing is improved.
2392
2393    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
2394
2395  + "About" dialog:
2396
2397    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
2398      bug reporting.
2399
2400    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
2401      modern gfx card.
2402
2403    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
2404
2405  + Processing .svx files:
2406
2407    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
2408
2409    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
2410      than opening a separate frame for it.
2411
2412    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
2413
2414    - Fix small memory leak.
2415
2416  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
2417    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
2418    such a name.
2419
2420  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
2421
2422  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
2423    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
2424    invocations.
2425
2426  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
2427
2428  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
2429
2430  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
2431
2432* Documentation:
2433
2434  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
2435
2436  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
2437    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
2438    together isn't very useful.
2439
2440  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
2441
2442  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
2443    the FSF website.
2444
2445  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
2446    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
2447    the source code.
2448
2449* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
2450  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
2451
2452* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
2453  package from the source tarball.
2454
2455* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
2456  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
2457
2458Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
2459
2460* aven:
2461
2462  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
2463
2464  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
2465
2466  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
2467    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
2468    names/crosses).
2469
2470Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
2471
2472* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
2473
2474* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
2475
2476* aven:
2477
2478  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
2479
2480  + Fix character spacing.
2481
2482  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
2483    proportional fonts.
2484
2485  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
2486    rather than the filename.
2487
2488  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
2489
2490  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
2491    depth colouring.
2492
2493  + Add "Colour by Error".
2494
2495  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
2496
2497  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
2498
2499  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
2500
2501  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
2502
2503  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
2504
2505  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
2506
2507  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
2508
2509  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
2510    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
2511
2512  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
2513
2514  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
2515    default.
2516
2517* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
2518  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
2519
2520* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
2521  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
2522
2523* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
2524
2525* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
2526
2527Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
2528
2529* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
2530  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
2531  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
2532  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
2533  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
2534
2535* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
2536  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
2537  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
2538
2539* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
2540  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
2541  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
2542
2543* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
2544  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
2545  allowed).
2546
2547* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
2548
2549* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2550
2551* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2552
2553Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
2554
2555* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
2556  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
2557
2558* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
2559  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
2560  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
2561
2562* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
2563  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
2564  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
2565  the new "*data passage" style.
2566
2567* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
2568  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
2569
2570* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
2571  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
2572  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
2573  some cases.
2574
2575* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
2576  with no survey loaded.
2577
2578* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
2579
2580* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
2581  loaded a survey.
2582
2583* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
2584
2585* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
2586
2587* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
2588  doesn't exist.
2589
2590* Updated French and Italian translations.
2591
2592* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
2593  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
2594
2595* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
2596  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
2597  update their copy).
2598
2599* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
2600  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
2601  trying to compile).
2602
2603Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
2604
2605* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
2606  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
2607
2608* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
2609  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
2610  has been disabled.
2611
2612* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
2613  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
2614  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
2615  time.
2616
2617* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
2618  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
2619  highlighted stations.
2620
2621* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
2622
2623* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
2624  the tilt from plan to elevation.
2625
2626* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
2627  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
2628
2629* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
2630  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
2631  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
2632
2633* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
2634  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
2635
2636* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
2637
2638* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
2639
2640* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
2641
2642* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
2643  run by an unprivileged user.
2644
2645* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
2646  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
2647  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
2648
2649* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
2650  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
2651
2652* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
2653
2654* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
2655  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
2656
2657* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
2658  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
2659
2660* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
2661  if it isn't.
2662
2663* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
2664  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
2665
2666* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
2667  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
2668
2669* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
2670  reset to default view as well).
2671
2672* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
2673  empty.
2674
2675* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
2676  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
2677
2678* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
2679  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
2680  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
2681
2682* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
2683  and non-zero width lines.
2684
2685* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
2686  was turned on.
2687
2688* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
2689  not always being fully written.
2690
2691Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
2692
2693* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
2694  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
2695  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
2696  date near the middle of that period).
2697
2698* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
2699  with MS Windows).
2700
2701* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
2702  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
2703  several surveys in the same directory).
2704
2705* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
2706  our check for them to include that knowledge.
2707
2708* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
2709
2710* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
2711  moved off a station.
2712
2713* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
2714  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
2715
2716* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
2717
2718* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
2719  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
2720
2721* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
2722  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
2723  dialogs.
2724
2725* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
2726  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
2727
2728* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
2729  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
2730  introduced in 1.1.6).
2731
2732* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
2733  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
2734  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
2735
2736* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
2737  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
2738
2739* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
2740
2741* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
2742
2743Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
2744
2745* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
2746  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
2747
2748* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
2749  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
2750  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
2751  3d file.
2752
2753* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
2754
2755* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
2756
2757* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
2758  Instead turn off depth colouring.
2759
2760* aven: Export as HPGL added.
2761
2762* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
2763  Martin Green).
2764
2765* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
2766  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
2767  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
2768
2769* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
2770
2771* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
2772  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
2773
2774* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
2775  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
2776  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
2777  of everything else.
2778
2779* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
2780  presentation icons.
2781
2782* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
2783  keyboard focus there.
2784
2785* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
2786
2787* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
2788
2789* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
2790
2791* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
2792
2793* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
2794  language to use for messages.
2795
2796* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
2797  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
2798
2799* Removed old printer drivers.
2800
2801* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
2802  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
2803
2804Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
2805
2806* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
2807
2808* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
2809
2810* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
2811  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
2812
2813* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
2814  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
2815
2816* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
2817
2818* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
2819  underground legs is toggled.
2820
2821* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
2822  attached to the previous data.
2823
2824* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
2825  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
2826  them.
2827
2828Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
2829
2830* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
2831
2832* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
2833  continental European countries).
2834
2835* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
2836  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
2837  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
2838
2839* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
2840
2841* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
2842  they're needed.
2843
2844* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
2845
2846* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
2847
2848* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
2849
2850* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
2851  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
2852  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
2853
2854* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
2855
2856Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
2857
2858* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
2859
2860* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
2861
2862* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
2863
2864* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
2865
2866* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
2867
2868* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
2869
2870* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
2871  when there's a presentation loaded.
2872
2873* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
2874  in cave view.
2875
2876* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
2877
2878* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
2879  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
2880  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
2881
2882* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
2883  filename for file history and window title.
2884
2885* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
2886  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
2887  only needed with GTK1.2.
2888
2889* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
2890
2891* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
2892
2893* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
2894
2895* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
2896
2897Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
2898
2899* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
2900  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
2901  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
2902
2903* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
2904  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
2905
2906* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
2907  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
2908  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
2909  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
2910
2911* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
2912
2913* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
2914  with --help and --version.
2915
2916* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
2917  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
2918  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
2919  Fixed all these problems.
2920
2921* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
2922  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
2923  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
2924
2925* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
2926  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
2927  sources.
2928
2929* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
2930
2931* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
2932
2933* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
2934  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
2935
2936* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
2937  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
2938  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
2939  animating.
2940
2941* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
2942
2943* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
2944
2945* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
2946  to this branch.
2947
2948* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
2949
2950  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
2951
2952  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
2953
2954  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
2955
2956* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
2957
2958* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
2959  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
2960
2961* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
2962
2963* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
2964  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
2965
2966* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
2967
2968* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
2969  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
2970  for anyone building from CVS).
2971
2972* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
2973
2974* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
2975
2976* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
2977
2978* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
2979
2980* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
2981  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
2982  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
2983
2984* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
2985  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
2986
2987* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
2988
2989* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
2990  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
2991  loaded).
2992
2993* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
2994
2995Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
2996
2997* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
2998  startup.
2999
3000* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
3001  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
3002
3003Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
3004
3005* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
3006  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
3007  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
3008
3009* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
3010  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
3011  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
3012
3013* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
3014  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
3015  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
3016
3017* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
3018
3019* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
3020  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
3021
3022* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
3023  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
3024
3025* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
3026  better use of screen space.
3027
3028* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
3029
3030* aven: Perspective view.
3031
3032* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
3033
3034* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
3035  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
3036
3037* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
3038  and load/save/run them.
3039
3040* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
3041
3042* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
3043
3044* aven: Depth fogging option.
3045
3046* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
3047
3048* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
3049
3050* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
3051  showing the surface legs.
3052
3053* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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