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Last change on this file since 07af45a was c988ae4, checked in by Olly Betts <olly@…>, 19 years ago

Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
(which was released on 2003-01-07).

aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".

(Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).

(Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)

aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.

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1TOBE Changes in 1.1.8:
2
3* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
5
6* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
7  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
8  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
9  time.
10
11* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
12  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
13
14* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
15  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
16  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
17
18* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
19  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
20
21* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
22
23* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
24
25* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
26  run by an unprivileged user.
27
28* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
29  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
30  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
31
32* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
33  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
34
35* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
36
37* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
38  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
39
40* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
41  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
42
43* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
44  if it isn't.
45
46* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
47  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
48
49* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
50  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
51
52* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
53  reset to default view as well).
54
55* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
56  empty.
57
58* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
59  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
60
61* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
62  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
63  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
64
65* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
66  and non-zero width lines.
67
68* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
69  was turned on.
70
71* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
72  not always being fully written.
73
74Changes in 1.1.7:
75
76* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
77  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
78  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
79  date near the middle of that period).
80
81* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
82  with MS Windows).
83
84* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
85  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
86  several surveys in the same directory).
87
88* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
89  our for them to include that knowledge.
90
91* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
92
93* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
94  moved off a station.
95
96* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
97  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
98
99* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
100
101* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
102  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
103
104* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
105  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
106  dialogs.
107
108* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
109  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
110
111* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
112  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
113  introduced in 1.1.6).
114
115* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
116  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
117  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
118
119* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
120  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
121
122* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
123
124* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
125
126Changes in 1.1.6:
127
128* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
129  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
130
131* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
132  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
133  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
134  3d file.
135
136* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
137
138* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
139
140* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
141  Instead turn off depth colouring.
142
143* aven: Export as HPGL added.
144
145* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
146  Martin Green).
147
148* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
149  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
150  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
151
152* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
153
154* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
155  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
156
157* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
158  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
159  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
160  of everything else.
161
162* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
163  presentation icons.
164
165* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
166  keyboard focus there.
167
168* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
169
170* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
171
172* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
173
174* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
175
176* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
177  language to use for messages.
178
179* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
180  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
181
182* Removed old printer drivers.
183
184* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
185  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
186
187Changes in 1.1.5:
188
189* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
190
191* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
192
193* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
194  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
195
196* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
197  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
198 
199* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
200
201* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
202  underground legs is toggled.
203
204* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
205  attached to the previous data.
206
207* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
208  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
209  them.
210
211Changes in 1.1.4:
212
213* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
214
215* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
216  continental European countries).
217
218* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
219  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
220  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
221
222* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
223
224* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
225  they're needed.
226
227* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
228
229* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
230
231* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
232
233* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
234  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
235  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
236
237* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
238
239Changes in 1.1.3:
240
241* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
242
243* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
244
245* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
246
247* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
248
249* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
250
251* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
252
253* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
254  when there's a presentation loaded.
255
256* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
257  in cave view.
258
259* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
260
261* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
262  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
263  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
264
265* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
266  filename for file history and window title.
267
268* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
269  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
270  only needed with GTK1.2.
271
272* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
273
274* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
275
276* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
277
278* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
279
280Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
281
282* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
283  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
284  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
285
286* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
287  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
288
289* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
290  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
291  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
292  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
293
294* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
295
296* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
297  with --help and --version.
298
299* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
300  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
301  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
302  Fixed all these problems.
303
304* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
305  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
306  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
307
308* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
309  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
310  sources.
311
312* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
313
314* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
315
316* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
317  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
318
319* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
320  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
321  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
322  animating.
323
324* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
325
326* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
327
328* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
329  to this branch.
330
331* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
332
333  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
334
335  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
336
337  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
338
339* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
340
341* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
342  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
343
344* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
345
346* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
347  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
348
349* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
350
351* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
352  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
353  for anyone building from CVS).
354
355* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
356
357* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
358
359* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
360
361* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
362
363* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
364  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
365  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
366
367* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
368  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
369
370* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
371
372* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
373  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
374  loaded).
375
376* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
377
378Changes in 1.1.1:
379
380* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
381  startup.
382
383* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
384  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
385
386Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
387
388* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
389  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
390  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
391
392* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
393  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
394  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
395
396* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
397  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
398  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
399
400* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
401
402* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
403  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
404
405* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
406  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
407
408* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
409  better use of screen space.
410
411* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
412
413* aven: Perspective view.
414
415* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
416
417* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
418  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
419
420* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
421  and load/save/run them.
422
423* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
424
425* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
426
427* aven: Depth fogging option.
428
429* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
430
431* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
432
433* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
434  showing the surface legs.
435
436* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
437
438Changes in 1.0.32:
439
440* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
441
442* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
443  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
444
445* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
446  extend elevations.
447
448* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
449
450* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
451  default button.
452
453* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
454  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
455
456* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
457
458* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
459  - previously this was being ignored.
460
461* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
462
463* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
464  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
465  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
466  pixel too small on Windows.
467
468* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
469  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
470  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
471
472* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
473  with pretty much every other application.
474
475* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
476  within aven.
477
478* aven: Updated a few icons.
479
480* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
481
482* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
483
484* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
485  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
486  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
487  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
488  doubt anyone is still using that...
489
490* Updates to German translation.
491
492Changes in 1.0.31:
493
494* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
495  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
496
497* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
498  grid is enabled or not.
499
500* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
501
502* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
503  translations.
504
505* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
506
507Changes in 1.0.30:
508
509* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
510
511* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
512
513* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
514
515* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
516  flagged as surface and underground.
517
518* Romanian translation mostly completed.
519
520* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
521
522Changes in 1.0.29:
523
524* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
525  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
526
527* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
528
529* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
530
531* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
532  from John Pybus).
533
534* Romanian translation started.
535
536* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
537  menu files.
538
539Changes in 1.0.28:
540
541* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
542  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
543
544Changes in 1.0.27:
545
546* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
547  layers.
548
549* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
550
551Changes in 1.0.26:
552
553* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
554  calculated as zero.
555
556* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
557
558* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
559
560* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
561
562* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
563  we must apply resources *after* installing.
564
565* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
566
567* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
568  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
569  of their choice.
570
571* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
572  installed.
573
574* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
575  worked).
576
577* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
578  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
579
580* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
581
582* Documentation updated.
583
584* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
585  documentation!
586
587* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
588
589* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
590
591* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
592  most of them.
593
594* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
595
596Changes in 1.0.25:
597
598* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
599
600* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
601  the box on more Unix platforms.
602
603* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
604
605* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
606  insurmountable technical problems.
607
608Changes in 1.0.24:
609
610* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
611
612* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
613  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
614
615* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
616
617* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
618
619* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
620  (and probably some other Unix versions).
621
622* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
623
624Changes in 1.0.23:
625
626* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
627  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
628  to manual.
629
630* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
631
632* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
633  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
634
635* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
636  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
637  Windows.
638
639* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
640
641* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
642
643Changes in 1.0.22:
644
645* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
646  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
647
648* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
649  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
650  code).
651
652Changes in 1.0.21:
653
654* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
655  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
656  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
657  Compass .MAK files.
658
659* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
660  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
661
662* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
663
664* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
665  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
666  per station.
667
668* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
669  unusual circumstances.
670
671* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
672  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
673  over an previous version.
674
675Changes in 1.0.20:
676
677* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
678
679* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
680  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
681  correction was about 57 times too large!)
682
683* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
684  insert a survey separator character.
685
686* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
687
688Changes in 1.0.19:
689
690* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
691  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
692  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
693
694* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
695  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
696  files are handled).
697
698* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
699  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
700
701* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
702
703* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
704  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
705  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
706
707* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
708
709* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
710  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
711  crash.
712
713* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
714
715* Documentation: minor updates.
716
717Changes in 1.0.18:
718
719* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
720
721* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
722  instead.
723
724* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
725  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
726
727* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
728  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
729  to the aven subpackage.
730
731* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
732
733* Updated TODO list.
734
735Changes in 1.0.17:
736
737* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
738  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
739  its own icon.
740
741* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
742  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
743  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
744  refresh the view.
745
746* Minor update to manual.
747
748Changes in 1.0.16:
749
750* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
751  programs from finding the message files.
752
753* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
754  files.
755
756Changes in 1.0.15:
757
758* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
759  programs from finding the message files.
760
761* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
762  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
763  obtained with the right mouse button.
764
765Changes in 1.0.14:
766
767* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
768  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
769  from Activeware.
770
771* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
772  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
773  separator between survey name and station name.
774
775* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
776  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
777
778* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
779  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
780
781* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
782
783* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
784  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
785
786* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
787
788* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
789  DIRECTION reading.
790
791* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
792
793* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
794  have taken up.
795
796* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
797  once again.  Added regression test for this.
798
799* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
800  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
801
802* Updated documentation.
803
804Changes in 1.0.13:
805
806* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
807  connecting arbitrary stations.
808
809* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
810  join.
811
812* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
813  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
814  and everything should work exactly as before.
815
816* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
817  currently translated.
818
819Changes in 1.0.12:
820
821* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
822
823* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
824
825* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
826  (both cover Eastern European languages).
827
828* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
829  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
830  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
831  permission to include the icon).
832
833* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
834  again.
835
836* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
837  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
838
839* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
840
841* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
842
843Changes in 1.0.11:
844
845* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
846  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
847  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
848  and as intended on 2.3.
849
850* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
851  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
852  '.').
853
854* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
855  autorotation.
856
857* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
858
859* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
860
861* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
862  double-clicking or from the command line.
863
864* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
865
866* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
867
868* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
869
870* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
871
872* Updates to Italian translation.
873
874* Minor documentation updates.
875
876Changes in 1.0.10:
877
878* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
879  names.
880
881* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
882  successfully.
883
884* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
885  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
886  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
887
888* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
889  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
890
891* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
892  factor was being applied backwards!)
893
894* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
895  be opened.
896
897* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
898
899* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
900
901* Updates to German and Italian translations.
902
903Changes in 1.0.9:
904
905* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
906
907* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
908
909* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
910  end of each line).
911
912* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
913  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
914  them).
915
916* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
917
918Changes in 1.0.8:
919
920* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
921
922* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
923  responsiveness.
924
925* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
926  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
927  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
928
929* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
930  the program).
931
932* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
933
934* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
935  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
936
937* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
938  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
939
940* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
941  right mouse button.
942
943* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
944  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
945  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
946
947* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
948  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
949  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
950  approximately 1mm/pixel.
951
952* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
953  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
954
955* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
956  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
957
958* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
959
960* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
961  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
962
963* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
964  pages on rare occasions.
965
966* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
967
968* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
969
970* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
971  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
972  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
973  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
974  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
975
976* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
977  underground surveys.
978
979* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
980
981* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
982  now it gives the correct error message.
983
984* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
985  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
986
987* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
988  of data which was rejected because of an error.
989
990* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
991
992* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
993  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
994
995* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
996  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
997  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
998  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
999  by default).
1000
1001* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
1002  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
1003  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
1004
1005* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
1006  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
1007  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1008
1009* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
1010  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
1011  been removed.
1012
1013Changes in 1.0.7:
1014
1015* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1016
1017Changes in 1.0.6:
1018
1019* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
1020
1021* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
1022  exit with Delete) improved.
1023
1024* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
1025  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
1026
1027* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
1028
1029* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
1030  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
1031
1032* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
1033  with no clino information).
1034
1035* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
1036  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
1037
1038* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
1039
1040* Spell-checked documentation.
1041
1042Changes in 1.0.5:
1043
1044* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
1045  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1046
1047* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
1048
1049* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1050  structure for Compass to read them now.
1051
1052* Documentation updates.
1053
1054Changes in 1.0.4:
1055
1056* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1057  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1058
1059* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1060  output format.
1061
1062* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1063
1064* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1065  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1066
1067* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1068  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1069  on Microsoft Windows.
1070
1071* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1072
1073* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1074
1075* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1076  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1077  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1078  special case better.
1079
1080* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1081  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1082  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1083  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1084
1085* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1086  out packaging now...
1087
1088* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1089
1090* Documentation updates.
1091
1092Changes in 1.0.3:
1093
1094* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1095  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1096  of degrees.
1097
1098* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1099
1100* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1101
1102* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1103  written.
1104
1105* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1106  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1107
1108* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1109
1110Changes in 1.0.2:
1111
1112* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1113  print.ini etc.
1114
1115* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1116  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1117
1118* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1119
1120* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1121
1122* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1123
1124* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1125
1126* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1127  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1128
1129* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1130  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1131
1132* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1133  .3d files.
1134
1135Changes in 1.0.1:
1136
1137* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1138  ticks.
1139
1140* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1141
1142Changes in 1.0.0:
1143
1144* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1145
1146* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1147  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1148
1149* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1150  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1151  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1152
1153* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1154
1155* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1156  instead of "survex file.svx".
1157
1158* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1159  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1160  with a lower optimisation level.
1161
1162* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1163  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1164  "in directory" build.
1165
1166* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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