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3Changes in 1.4.18 (2025-06-??):
4
5* aven: Fix "Enter" in search control to zoom to results.  This was broken
6  by the switch to wxSearchCtrl in 1.4.17.
7
8* cavern: Avoid duplicate errors/warnings with unconnected data.  Since 1.4.10,
9  unconnected data is only a warning but that resulted in us running some
10  checks on the survey tree twice, which could result in duplicate
11  errors/warnings.
12
13* cavern: We now track the column as well as file:line where a station or
14  survey name was used, so diagnostics which use these locations now report
15  a column number too.
16
17* cavern: Show context if proj can't convert coords.  We only do this for .svx
18  files currently as it is more complex for Compass and Walls data.
19
20* Merge updates to Russian translation.
21
22* Add the start of a Czech translation.
23
24* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
25
26* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.2.  It is starting to become hard to keep
27  everything working with 3.0.0 and the time and effort seems better directed
28  to other things.  The last 3.0.x release was 3.0.5.1, released 2020-05-02.
29  3.2.0 was released 2022-07-06 and it seems everywhere with wxWidgets packages
30  upgraded to 3.2.x some time ago.
31
32Changes in 1.4.17 (2025-03-20):
33
34* aven: Add support for exaggerating Z.  You can now set a Z scale factor
35  from 0.1 to 10.0 via a new widget on the toolbar.  Fixes #49.
36
37* aven: The cavern log window now choses foreground and background colours
38  based on the desktop's light mode/dark mode setting.  Previously it
39  used the default window background colour but always used black text, which
40  made it hard to read with a dark desktop theme.  (The wxWidgets API to detect
41  dark mode is new in 3.2, so if built with wxWidgets 3.0 then we assume
42  light mode.)
43
44* aven: The station search feature now uses the standard search
45  widget on GTK 3.6 or later and on macOS.  There's now a placeholder
46  text shown when there's no search to make it clearer what this
47  widget is for.
48
49* aven: There's currently a cavern bug where it can fail to identify all
50  traverses which are not involved in loop closure, which results in the .3d
51  file contains error information for them (unfortunately this seems tricky to
52  fully fix).  This error information is always zero, so as a workaround aven
53  attempts to detect these so that "colour by error" shows them as "not in
54  loop".  This workaround previously only checked for E being zero, but now
55  H and V are both also required to be zero.  This should help avoid some very
56  low error traverses being incorrectly treated as "not in loop", although in
57  practice I've not yet found a real world case where this actually makes a
58  difference.
59
60* aven: Fix the output encoding of `aven --help`, `--version`, etc.
61  Previously these were always encoded as UTF-8 which is usually right
62  on a modern system, but the terminal could be using a different
63  encoding.
64
65* aven: Reduce startup overhead a little when the terminal has a UTF-8
66  locale (which is now the default on most Linux distros).
67
68* cavern: Fix an "assertion failed" error in some situations when
69  equating to a fixed point.  This bug was introduced by changes
70  in 1.4.13.  Fixes #143, reported by Juan Corrin.
71
72* cavern: The syntax of *copyright commands is now checked and a warning
73  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
74
75* cavern: The syntax of *team commands is now checked and a warning
76  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
77
78* cavern: Stop reporting node stats.  These are kind of interesting, but
79  with the widespread use of Disto-X and similar devices which can easily
80  shoot multiple splay legs from each station means the number of larger order
81  nodes has increased and this information is now quite verbose and any utility
82  it had has substantially declined.  If these statistics are still wanted then
83  they could make a reappearance in the future in aven, with splays excluded
84  when counting the number of legs at each station.  Fixes #86, reported by
85  Wookey.
86
87* cavern: Fix wrong "unused fixed point" warning with *solve.
88
89* cavern: Fix double counting of stations which are referenced both before and
90  after *solve.
91
92* cavern: Suppress loop and component counts if *solve is used.  Our component
93  count was often wrong in this case but this looks very hard to fix.  These
94  counts are not vital so better to omit than report wrong values.
95
96* cavern: The "Equating two equal fixed points" warning now lists the
97  stations on the same order as they are in the `.svx` file which
98  seems clearer.
99
100* Speed up reading and writing of .3d files.  The time to read a large .3d file
101  and just count the stations and legs was more than halved by this change.
102
103* Simplify handling of errors loading the messages file.  The error
104  messages for this case are now stored as separate ASCII strings in
105  the executables which reduces the startup overhead a little as we
106  no longer need to scan them and potentially reencode them.
107
108* img library: The img struct's filename_opened member was always NULL when
109  used outside of Survex (and set but never actually used inside of Survex)
110  so it has been removed.  If you are referencing it in your code then instead
111  use the filename you passed to img_open_survey() when opening the file.
112
113* Documentation: Add details of warning about future dates in *date.
114
115* Documentation: Added new manual chapter on the img library.
116
117* Documentation: Improve comments document API in img.h.
118
119* Testsuite: Add proper test coverage for `*ref`.
120
121* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
122
123* Portability: Eliminate unintended use of a C++17 feature (static_assert
124  with only one argument).
125
126* Portability: Avoid compiler warnings/errors in getopt code by properly
127  declaring getenv().
128
129Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
130
131* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
132  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
133  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
134  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
135
136* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
137  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
138  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
139  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
140
141* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
142  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
143  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
144  Eric C. Landgraf.
145
146* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
147  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
148  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
149
150* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
151  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
152  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
153  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
154
155* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
156
157* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
158  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
159  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
160  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
161  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
162
163* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
164
165* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
166
167* Various minor improvements to documentation.
168
169* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
170
171Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
172
173* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
174  overlay.
175
176* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
177  Fixes #110
178
179* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
180  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
181
182* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
183  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
184  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
185
186* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
187  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
188
189* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
190  on x86.
191
192Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
193
194* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
195  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
196  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
197
198* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
199  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
200  in 1.4.13.
201
202* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
203
204* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
205  naming.
206
207* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
208
209* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
210  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
211  candidate stations).
212
213Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
214
215* aven:
216
217  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
218    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
219
220  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
221    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
222    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
223
224  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
225    show.
226
227  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
228    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
229    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
230
231* cavern:
232
233  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
234    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
235    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
236
237  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
238    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
239    by the same amount in these cases.
240
241  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
242    unconnected survey stations.
243
244  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
245
246  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
247    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
248
249  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
250    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
251    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
252    Eric C. Landgraf.
253
254  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
255    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
256    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
257    situation.
258
259  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
260    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
261    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
262
263  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
264    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
265    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
266    network.
267
268  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
269    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
270    which should be faster.
271
272  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
273    more efficient way.
274
275* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
276
277* Documentation:
278
279  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
280    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
281    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
282    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
283    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
284    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
285    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
286
287* Test suite:
288
289  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
290    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
291    excess precision.
292
293* Assorted translation updates.
294
295Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
296
297* aven:
298
299  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
300    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
301    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
302    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
303    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
304    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
305    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
306
307* cavern:
308
309  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
310    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
311    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
312    an error.
313
314  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
315    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
316    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
317    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
318    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
319    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
320    measurable).
321
322  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
323    less memory.
324
325* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
326  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
327  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
328  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
329
330* Testsuite:
331
332  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
333
334  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
335    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
336    precision.
337
338* img library:
339
340  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
341    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
342    from Thomas Holder.
343
344  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
345    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
346
347Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
348
349* aven:
350
351  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
352    C. Landgraf.
353
354* aven/survexport:
355
356  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
357    addresses #60.
358
359  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
360    1:40000).
361
362  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
363    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
364
365  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
366    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
367    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
368    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
369    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
370
371* cavern:
372
373  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
374    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
375
376  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
377    bad reading was quietly ignored).
378
379  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
380    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
381    for example:
382
383     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
384      *end   bar
385             ^~~
386     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
387      *begin      foo
388                  ^~~
389
390  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
391    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
392
393  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
394    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
395    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
396    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
397    an error.
398
399    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
400    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
401
402  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
403    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
404    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
405
406  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
407    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
408    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
409
410  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
411    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
412    handled more consistently.
413
414  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
415    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
416
417  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
418
419  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
420
421    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
422      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
423      use the datum.
424
425    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
426      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
427      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
428
429* Documentation:
430
431  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
432    definition in `*units` docs.
433
434  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
435
436* Assorted translation updates.
437
438* testsuite:
439
440  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
441    comparing with expected output.
442
443* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
444
445  + `*cartesian` added
446
447  + `*data ignore` added
448
449  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
450
451  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
452
453  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
454    lines
455
456  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
457
458  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
459    because there's a comment after the filename
460
461  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
462    whitespace between `*` and `include`
463
464Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
465
466* aven:
467
468  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
469    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
470    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
471    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
472    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
473    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
474    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
475    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
476
477* aven/survexport:
478
479  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
480    1.4.6).
481
482  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
483
484  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
485    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
486    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
487    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
488    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
489    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
490    survey.
491
492  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
493
494* cavern:
495
496  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
497    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
498    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
499    warns about them.
500
501    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
502    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
503    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
504    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
505
506    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
507
508  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
509    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
510    connected to it.
511
512  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
513    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
514    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
515    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
516    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
517    traverse.
518
519  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
520
521  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
522    it actually was:
523
524      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
525
526  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
527
528    - After an anonymous station.
529
530    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
531      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
532      or end of line.
533
534    - In a `*alias` command.
535
536    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
537
538  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
539    `cartesian` style data.
540
541  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
542
543  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
544    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
545    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
546    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
547    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
548
549  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
550    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
551    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
552    example.
553
554  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
555    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
556    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
557    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
558    when viewing the log in aven.
559
560  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
561    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
562    datasets):
563
564    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
565
566    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
567      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
568
569    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
570      `ORDER=ADV`).
571
572    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
573
574    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
575      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
576      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
577      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
578      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
579      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
580      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
581      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
582
583    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
584
585    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
586
587    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
588      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
589      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
590
591    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
592      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
593
594    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
595
596    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
597
598    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
599
600    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
601      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
602      is present in some real-world data.
603
604    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
605      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
606
607    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
608      of it we do handle!
609
610    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
611      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
612      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
613      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
614
615    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
616      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
617
618    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
619      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
620
621    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
622
623    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
624
625    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
626      values are currently ignored.
627
628    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
629      them is currently ignored.
630
631    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
632      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
633      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
634      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
635      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
636
637    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
638
639* documentation:
640
641  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
642    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
643    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
644    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
645
646    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
647    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
648    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
649
650    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
651    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
652    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
653    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
654
655    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
656    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
657    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
658    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
659
660  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
661
662  + Document PLT export.
663
664  + Minor improvements to --help output
665
666  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
667    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
668    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
669    C. Landgraf.
670
671  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
672
673  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
674
675  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
676
677  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
678
679  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
680
681* testsuite:
682
683  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
684
685  + Add expected output for more testcases
686
687  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
688
689  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
690    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
691    instructions.
692
693  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
694
695* translations:
696
697  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
698    more natural word order in a translated message.
699
700Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
701
702* aven:
703
704  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
705    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
706    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
707    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
708    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
709    files - set the filter to "All Files" to chose other formats.
710
711  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
712    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
713    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
714    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
715    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
716    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
717    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
718    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
719    we could add it to the new implementation.
720
721  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
722    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
723    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
724    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
725    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
726    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
727    command line or from some other launcher.
728
729* cavern:
730
731  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
732    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
733    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
734    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
735    encouragement.
736
737  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
738    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
739    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
740
741  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
742    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
743    quietly misinterpreting the data.
744
745  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
746    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
747    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
748    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
749
750  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
751    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
752
753  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
754
755  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
756    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
757    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
758    used to have "info" diagnostics.
759
760  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
761    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
762    "info" category is more appropriate here.
763
764  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
765    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
766    which may be useful to the user.
767
768  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
769    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
770    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
771    happened in a released version.
772
773  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
774    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
775    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
776
777* dump3d:
778
779  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
780    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
781    true on all platforms.
782
783* manual:
784
785  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
786    with/without admin rights.
787
788  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
789    limitations.
790
791  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
792    section.
793
794  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
795    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
796    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
797    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
798
799* img library:
800
801  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
802    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
803    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
804
805  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
806    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
807
808  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
809    stations in loops.
810
811  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
812    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
813
814  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
815    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
816
817  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
818    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
819    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
820    as "unknown date".
821
822* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
823  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
824  environment variable for this.
825
826* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
827  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
828  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
829  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
830  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
831  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
832
833* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
834  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
835  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
836
837* Build system:
838
839  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
840
841  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
842    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
843
844  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
845    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
846
847* testsuite:
848
849  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
850    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
851    problem.
852
853  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
854
855Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
856
857* cavern:
858
859  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
860    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
861    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
862    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
863    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
864
865  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
866    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
867    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
868    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
869
870  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
871    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
872
873  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
874    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
875    failed on some architectures.
876
877* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
878
879* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
880  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
881  rights.
882
883* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
884  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
885  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
886  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
887
888Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
889
890* cavern:
891
892  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
893    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
894    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
895    the second and subsequent locations.
896
897  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
898    containing non-ASCII characters.
899
900  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
901    warnings.
902
903  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
904
905  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
906
907  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
908    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
909    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
910    files.
911
912* img library:
913
914  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
915    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
916
917  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
918    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
919    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
920    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
921    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
922    realloc().
923
924* Portability:
925
926  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
927    versions.
928
929  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
930
931* Build system:
932
933  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
934
935* Manual:
936
937  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
938
939  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
940
941* Minor translation updates.
942
943* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
944  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
945  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
946  managed to reproduce.
947
948Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
949
950* cavern:
951
952  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
953    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
954    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
955    mailing list.
956
957  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
958    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
959    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
960    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
961
962  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
963    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
964    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
965    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
966    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
967    the whole specified filename to upper case.
968
969  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
970    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
971    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
972    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
973    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
974    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
975
976  + Compass DAT files:
977
978    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
979
980    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
981      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
982      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
983      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
984      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
985      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
986
987    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
988      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
989
990    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
991
992    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
993      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
994      being in metres.
995
996    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
997      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
998
999    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
1000      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
1001      unlikely to occur in real data.
1002
1003    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
1004      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
1005      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
1006      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
1007      itself for DAT files.
1008
1009  + Compass MAK files:
1010
1011    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
1012      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
1013      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
1014
1015    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
1016      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
1017      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
1018      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
1019      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
1020      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
1021      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
1022      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
1023      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
1024      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
1025      supported would be useful to you.
1026
1027    - Folder commands are now understood.
1028
1029    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
1030      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
1031      counts from 0 at these points).
1032
1033  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
1034    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
1035    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
1036    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
1037    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
1038
1039* aven:
1040
1041  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
1042    Philip Balister.
1043
1044  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
1045    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
1046    together.
1047
1048* aven/survexport:
1049
1050  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
1051
1052  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
1053    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
1054    are enabled.
1055
1056  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
1057
1058  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
1059    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
1060    all of a set of equated stations.
1061
1062  + .plt:
1063
1064    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
1065      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
1066      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
1067      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
1068
1069    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
1070      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
1071      Compass docs).
1072
1073* img library:
1074
1075  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
1076    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
1077    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
1078    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
1079    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
1080    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
1081    default).
1082
1083  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
1084    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
1085
1086    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
1087      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
1088      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
1089
1090    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
1091
1092    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
1093      Entrance" field is present and zero.
1094
1095    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
1096
1097    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
1098      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
1099      format specification says:
1100
1101          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
1102          wall to define the passage shape.
1103
1104    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1105      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1106      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1107      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1108      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1109      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1110
1111    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
1112      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
1113
1114    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
1115      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
1116      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
1117      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
1118      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
1119      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
1120      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
1121      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
1122      mixed datums would be useful to you.
1123
1124    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
1125      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
1126
1127    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1128      than one survey in the PLT file.
1129
1130    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1131      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1132
1133    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1134      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1135      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1136      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1137      the comment for that survey as before.
1138
1139    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1140      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1141      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1142      it being omitted too.
1143
1144* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1145
1146* manual:
1147
1148  + Document Compass support in detail.
1149
1150  + Improve NATO mils example.
1151
1152* INSTALL:
1153
1154  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1155    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1156
1157  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1158    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1159
1160* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1161
1162* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1163  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1164
1165* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1166  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1167  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1168
1169* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1170
1171Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1172
1173* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1174
1175* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1176  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1177
1178* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1179
1180* Minor translation updates.
1181
1182Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1183
1184* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1185  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1186
1187* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1188  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1189  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1190  checks that were rejecting this.
1191
1192  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1193  really do that's better than that.
1194
1195  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1196
1197* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1198  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1199  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1200  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1201  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1202
1203* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1204  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1205
1206* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1207  bearing spin control.
1208
1209* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1210  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1211  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1212  currently but please report issues.
1213
1214* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1215  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1216  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1217  position".
1218
1219* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1220  Reported by echarlie
1221
1222* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1223
1224Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1225
1226* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1227
1228* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1229  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1230
1231* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1232  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1233
1234* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1235  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1236
1237* Minor translation updates.
1238
1239* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1240  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1241  works on Wayland).
1242
1243* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1244  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1245
1246* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1247
1248* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1249  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1250  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1251
1252Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1253
1254* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1255
1256* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1257
1258* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1259  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1260
1261* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1262  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1263  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1264  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1265
1266* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1267  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1268  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1269
1270* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1271  string properly.
1272
1273* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1274  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1275  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1276  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1277  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1278  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1279  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1280
1281* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1282  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1283
1284  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1285
1286* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1287  where the included filename is actually specified.
1288
1289* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1290  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1291
1292* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1293  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1294  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1295
1296* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1297  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1298
1299* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1300  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1301  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1302  anyway.
1303
1304* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1305  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1306
1307* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1308
1309* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1310  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1311  inconvenience anyone.
1312
1313Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1314
1315* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1316
1317* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1318  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1319  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1320  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1321
1322* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1323  in 1.4.0.
1324
1325* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1326
1327Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1328
1329* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1330  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1331  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1332  Couwenberg.
1333
1334  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1335  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1336  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1337  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1338
1339  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1340  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1341
1342* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1343  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1344  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1345
1346* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1347  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1348  strings is strongly discouraged.
1349
1350  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1351
1352  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1353
1354  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1355  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1356
1357* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1358  Green.
1359
1360* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1361  echarlie.
1362
1363* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1364  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1365  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1366
1367* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1368
1369* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1370
1371* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1372
1373* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1374
1375* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1376  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1377  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1378
1379Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1380
1381* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1382  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1383  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1384  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1385  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1386
1387* aven:
1388
1389  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1390    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1391    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1392    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1393    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1394    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1395
1396* testsuite:
1397
1398  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1399    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1400    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1401    process exits.
1402
1403* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1404
1405Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1406
1407* aven:
1408
1409  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1410
1411* cavern:
1412
1413  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1414
1415  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1416    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1417    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1418
1419  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1420    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1421    until the next *data command with parameters.
1422
1423  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1424    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1425
1426  * Improve test coverage.
1427
1428* survexport:
1429
1430  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1431    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1432
1433  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1434    Batista.
1435
1436* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1437  Holder.
1438
1439* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1440  from Thomas Holder.
1441
1442* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1443  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1444
1445* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1446
1447* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1448
1449* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1450
1451* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1452
1453* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1454
1455Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1456
1457* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1458  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1459  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1460
1461* aven:
1462
1463  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1464    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1465    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1466
1467  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1468    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1469    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1470    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1471
1472  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1473    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1474    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1475
1476  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1477
1478Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1479
1480* aven:
1481
1482  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1483
1484  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1485    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1486    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1487
1488  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1489    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1490    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1491    orientation.
1492
1493* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1494  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1495  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1496  Richard Knapp.
1497
1498* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1499  might still need to use them for.
1500
1501* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1502
1503* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1504
1505* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1506  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1507  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1508  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1509
1510* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1511  is now the recommended approach.
1512
1513Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1514
1515* aven:
1516
1517  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1518    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1519    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1520    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1521    Brian Clipstone.
1522
1523  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1524    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1525
1526Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1527
1528* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1529  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1530  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1531
1532* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1533  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1534  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1535  with some compilers.
1536
1537* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1538  installed.
1539
1540Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1541
1542* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1543  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1544  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1545
1546* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1547  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1548  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1549
1550* aven:
1551
1552  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1553    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1554    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1555    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1556    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1557    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1558    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1559    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1560    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1561    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1562    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1563
1564  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1565
1566* Documentation:
1567
1568  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1569
1570  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1571    placeholder.
1572
1573  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1574    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1575
1576* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1577  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1578  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1579
1580* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1581  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1582  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1583  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1584  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1585  location to avoid confusion.
1586
1587* Add a few more message translations.
1588
1589* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1590
1591Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1592
1593* cavern:
1594
1595  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1596    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1597    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1598    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1599    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1600
1601  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1602    now reports "file not found" instead.
1603
1604  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1605    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1606    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1607
1608* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1609
1610* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1611  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1612  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1613  removed.
1614
1615* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1616  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1617  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1618  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1619
1620Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1621
1622* aven:
1623
1624  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1625    controllable.
1626
1627  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1628
1629  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1630    Patch from Robert Jones.
1631
1632  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1633    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1634    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1635
1636  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1637    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1638
1639* cavern:
1640
1641  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1642    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1643
1644  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1645    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1646    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1647    go unnoticed.
1648
1649* survexport:
1650
1651  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1652    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1653    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1654
1655  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1656    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1657    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1658    Stephen Crabtree.
1659
1660* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1661
1662* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1663  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1664
1665* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1666  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1667  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1668  therion's team command.
1669
1670Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1671
1672* aven:
1673
1674  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1675
1676  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1677    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1678    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1679    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1680    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1681    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1682    for new entrances.
1683
1684  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1685    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1686    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1687    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1688
1689  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1690
1691  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1692    to show via the right-click menu.
1693
1694  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1695    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1696    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1697    child surveys of the parent.
1698
1699  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1700    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1701    survey.
1702
1703  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1704    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1705
1706  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1707
1708  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1709    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1710
1711  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1712    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1713    filtering this matters more).
1714
1715* survexport:
1716
1717  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1718    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1719
1720  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1721
1722* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1723
1724* Minor translation updates.
1725
1726* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1727
1728* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1729
1730* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1731
1732Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1733
1734* aven:
1735
1736  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
1737    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
1738    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
1739    on screen, printed and exported.
1740
1741  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
1742    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
1743    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
1744    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
1745    survey.
1746
1747  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
1748    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
1749    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
1750    view.  Reported by Wookey.
1751
1752  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
1753    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
1754    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
1755
1756  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
1757    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
1758
1759  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
1760    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
1761
1762  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
1763    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
1764
1765  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
1766    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
1767
1768  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
1769    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
1770
1771* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
1772  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
1773  tools could do, plus much more.
1774
1775* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
1776
1777* Minor updates to various other translations.
1778
1779* img library:
1780
1781  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
1782
1783  + Improve API documentation.
1784
1785* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
1786  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
1787  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
1788
1789* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
1790  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
1791  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
1792  control what gets exported.
1793
1794Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
1795
1796* aven:
1797
1798  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1799    of 1.2.33.
1800
1801  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
1802
1803Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
1804
1805* aven:
1806
1807  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
1808    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
1809    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
1810    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
1811
1812  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
1813    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
1814    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
1815    Erin Lynch.
1816
1817  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
1818    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
1819    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
1820
1821  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
1822    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
1823    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
1824    unnecessarily.
1825
1826  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
1827    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
1828    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
1829    for this control).
1830
1831  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
1832    under GTK3.
1833
1834  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
1835    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
1836    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
1837
1838  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
1839    current development version).
1840
1841  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
1842    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
1843    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
1844
1845* cavern:
1846
1847  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
1848    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
1849    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
1850    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
1851    "19".
1852
1853* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
1854  Evaristo Quiroga.
1855
1856* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
1857
1858* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
1859  milosch.
1860
1861* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
1862  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
1863  translated messages.
1864
1865* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
1866  Indonesian and Polish.
1867
1868* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
1869  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
1870  Reported by Martin Sluka.
1871
1872* Fix a few compiler warnings.
1873
1874* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
1875  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
1876  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
1877
1878* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
1879
1880  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
1881    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
1882    but happens to fail if it isn't.
1883
1884  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
1885
1886  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
1887
1888  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
1889
1890* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
1891  detected at run time on macOS.
1892
1893* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
1894  by the homebrew formula.
1895
1896* buildmacosx.sh:
1897
1898  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
1899    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
1900
1901  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
1902
1903* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
1904  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
1905
1906Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
1907
1908* aven:
1909
1910  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
1911    and Anthony Day.
1912
1913  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
1914    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
1915    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
1916    Erin Lynch in #89.
1917
1918  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
1919    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
1920    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
1921    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
1922    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
1923    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
1924    elevations.
1925
1926  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
1927    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
1928    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
1929
1930  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
1931    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
1932    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
1933    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
1934    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
1935    "on".
1936
1937  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
1938    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
1939
1940  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
1941    the display wouldn't update right away.
1942
1943* Manual:
1944
1945  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
1946
1947  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
1948
1949* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
1950  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
1951  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
1952  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
1953  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
1954
1955Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
1956
1957* aven:
1958
1959  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
1960    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
1961    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
1962
1963  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
1964    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
1965    before by others.
1966
1967  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
1968
1969  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
1970    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
1971    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
1972    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
1973    original change.
1974
1975  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
1976    which extends beyond the end of the line).
1977
1978  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
1979    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
1980
1981  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
1982
1983  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
1984
1985  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
1986    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
1987    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
1988    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
1989    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
1990    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
1991    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
1992
1993  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
1994    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
1995
1996  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
1997    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
1998    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
1999
2000  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
2001    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
2002    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
2003    much vertical range.
2004
2005  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
2006    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
2007    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
2008    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
2009    are drawn in this way.
2010
2011  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
2012    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
2013    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
2014    centre should be a single pixel.
2015
2016* cavern:
2017
2018  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
2019    entering passage data where there are side passages.
2020
2021  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
2022    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
2023
2024  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
2025    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
2026    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
2027    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
2028
2029  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
2030    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
2031    Reported by Erin Lynch.
2032
2033  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
2034    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
2035    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
2036    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
2037
2038  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
2039    other messages.
2040
2041* extend:
2042
2043  + Now runs a bit faster.
2044
2045  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
2046    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
2047    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
2048    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
2049    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
2050    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
2051    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
2052    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
2053    be handled better) most welcome.
2054
2055* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
2056
2057* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
2058
2059* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
2060  translations from therion.
2061
2062* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
2063  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
2064
2065* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
2066  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
2067  Footleg.
2068
2069* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
2070
2071* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
2072
2073Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
2074
2075* aven:
2076
2077  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
2078    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2079
2080  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
2081    Suggested by detrito.
2082
2083  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
2084    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
2085
2086  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
2087    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
2088
2089* Add man page for dump3d.
2090
2091Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
2092
2093* aven:
2094
2095  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
2096    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
2097
2098  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
2099    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2100
2101* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
2102  Lynch and "detrito".
2103
2104* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
2105  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
2106
2107Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
2108
2109* cavern:
2110
2111  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
2112    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
2113    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
2114    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
2115    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
2116
2117  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
2118
2119  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
2120
2121  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
2122    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
2123    degrees).
2124
2125* aven:
2126
2127  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2128    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2129    Day.
2130
2131  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2132    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2133
2134  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2135    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2136
2137  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2138    of the line in cavern log window.
2139
2140  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2141
2142  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2143
2144  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2145    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2146    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2147    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2148    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2149
2150  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2151    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2152    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2153
2154  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2155
2156  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2157
2158  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2159    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2160    Atkinson and myself.
2161
2162  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2163
2164  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2165    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2166    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2167    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2168    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2169    survey.
2170
2171  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2172    lines on my netbook.
2173
2174  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2175    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2176    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2177
2178  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2179    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2180    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2181    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2182    glitches.
2183
2184  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2185    we currently list, though slower to write.
2186
2187  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2188    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2189
2190  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2191    warnings when building against a recent version.
2192
2193  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2194    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2195    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2196    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2197
2198  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2199    movie export.
2200
2201  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2202    export.
2203
2204* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2205  James Begley.
2206
2207* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2208  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2209
2210* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2211
2212* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2213  messages get used automatically.
2214
2215* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2216  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2217
2218* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2219
2220* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2221
2222* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2223
2224Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2225
2226* aven:
2227
2228  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2229    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2230    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2231    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2232    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2233    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2234    probably change in the future).
2235
2236  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2237    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2238    the survey tree root.
2239
2240  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2241    the view was recentred).
2242
2243  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2244    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2245    wrong direction).
2246
2247  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2248    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2249    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2250
2251  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2252    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2253    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2254    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2255
2256  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2257    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2258
2259  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2260    addresses #60.
2261
2262  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2263
2264  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2265    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2266    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2267
2268  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2269
2270  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2271    360 or down past 0.
2272
2273  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2274    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2275    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2276    real-valued ones.
2277
2278  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2279    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2280
2281  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2282    Lynch.
2283
2284  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2285
2286  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2287    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2288
2289  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2290    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2291    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2292
2293  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2294    should now work.
2295
2296* cavern:
2297
2298  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2299
2300  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2301    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2302    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2303
2304  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2305    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2306    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2307
2308  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2309    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2310    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2311    issue.
2312
2313  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2314    by patch from Colin Watson.
2315
2316  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2317
2318* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2319
2320* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2321  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2322
2323* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2324  used in the same dataset.
2325
2326* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2327  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2328
2329* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2330  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2331  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2332
2333* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2334
2335Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2336
2337* aven:
2338
2339  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2340    cavern again.
2341
2342* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2343  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2344  location and use the same start menu folder.
2345
2346* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2347  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2348
2349* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2350  by James Begley.
2351
2352Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2353
2354* aven:
2355
2356  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2357    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2358    to address.
2359
2360  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2361    over the survey tree.
2362
2363  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2364
2365  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2366    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2367
2368  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2369    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2370    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2371    encoded.
2372
2373  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2374    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2375    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2376    terminals which do still support this.
2377
2378  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2379    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2380
2381* cavern:
2382
2383  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2384    Edwards (see #78).
2385
2386  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2387    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2388    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2389    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2390
2391  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2392    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2393    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2394
2395  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2396    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2397
2398* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2399  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2400  Black.
2401
2402* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2403
2404* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2405  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2406  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2407  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2408  Black.
2409
2410* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2411  Black.
2412
2413* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2414
2415* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2416
2417* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2418
2419* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2420
2421* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2422
2423* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2424  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2425
2426* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2427  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2428  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2429
2430* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2431  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2432  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2433  privileges or not.
2434
2435Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2436
2437* aven:
2438
2439  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2440    Clipstone.
2441
2442  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2443    Reported by Jenny Black.
2444
2445  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2446    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2447    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2448
2449  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2450    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2451    messages.
2452
2453  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2454    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2455
2456* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2457  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2458
2459* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2460
2461* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2462  by Wookey.
2463
2464Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2465
2466* aven:
2467
2468  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2469    machines.
2470
2471  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2472
2473  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2474    already being processed.
2475
2476  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2477    Reported by Martin Green.
2478
2479  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2480
2481* cavern:
2482
2483  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2484    find the original survey notes).
2485
2486  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2487    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2488    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2489    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2490    progress display to be useful.
2491
2492* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2493
2494* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2495  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2496
2497* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2498  running cavern.
2499
2500* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2501  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2502  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2503
2504Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2505
2506* aven:
2507
2508  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2509    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2510    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2511    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2512    finding this fix.
2513
2514* cavern:
2515
2516  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2517
2518  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2519    station.
2520
2521  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2522    *export.
2523
2524Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2525
2526* aven:
2527
2528  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2529    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2530    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2531
2532  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2533
2534  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2535    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2536    does.
2537
2538  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2539    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2540
2541  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2542    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2543
2544  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2545    as appropriate.
2546
2547  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2548    values on Windows.
2549
2550* cavern:
2551
2552  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2553    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2554    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2555
2556  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2557    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2558
2559  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2560    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2561    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2562    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2563
2564  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2565    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2566    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2567    Atkinson.
2568
2569  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2570    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2571
2572  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2573    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2574    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2575    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2576
2577  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2578    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2579    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2580
2581* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2582  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2583  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2584  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2585
2586* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2587
2588* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2589  "*DECLINATION" command.
2590
2591* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2592  Reported by Jenny Black.
2593
2594* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2595  documentation.
2596
2597* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2598  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2599
2600* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2601
2602* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2603
2604Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2605
2606* aven:
2607
2608  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2609    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2610    the same or very similar by default.
2611
2612  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2613    Maynard.
2614
2615  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2616
2617  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2618
2619  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2620    away.
2621
2622  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2623
2624  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2625    display it.
2626
2627* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2628  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2629  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2630  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2631
2632* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2633
2634* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2635  before 1.2.19.
2636
2637* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2638  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2639
2640* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2641
2642* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2643  disk image.
2644
2645* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2646
2647* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2648  libav features we don't use.
2649
2650* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2651  a load of libav features we don't use.
2652
2653* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2654  message in the installer.
2655
2656Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2657
2658* aven:
2659
2660  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2661    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2662
2663  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2664
2665  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2666    exit full screen mode.
2667
2668  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2669    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2670    using since 1.2.7).
2671
2672  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2673    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2674    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2675    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2676    St. Lawrence.
2677
2678  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2679    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2680
2681  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2682    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2683    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2684
2685  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2686    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2687    case like we do on other platforms.
2688
2689  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2690
2691  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2692    support multi-monitor setups.
2693
2694  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2695    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2696
2697  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2698    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2699
2700  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2701    cases.
2702
2703  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2704    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2705    Erin Lynch)
2706
2707  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2708    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2709    items in in so it uses the full width.
2710
2711  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2712    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2713    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2714    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2715    window.
2716
2717  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2718    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2719    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2720    only relevant on the first ever run.
2721
2722* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2723
2724* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2725  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2726  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2727  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2728  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2729  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2730
2731* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2732  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2733
2734Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
2735
2736* aven:
2737
2738  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
2739    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
2740    rendering it as a transparent surface.
2741
2742  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
2743    sanely want to perform from the menu.
2744
2745  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
2746    colouring options.
2747
2748  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
2749
2750  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
2751    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
2752    pressing "Escape".
2753
2754  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
2755    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
2756
2757  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
2758    exporting.
2759
2760  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
2761
2762  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
2763    is quite likely to change.
2764
2765  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
2766    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
2767
2768  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
2769    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
2770    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
2771
2772  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
2773
2774  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
2775    markers in orange.
2776
2777  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
2778    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
2779
2780  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
2781    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
2782    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
2783    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
2784    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
2785    them would be better.
2786
2787  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
2788    Gee.
2789
2790  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
2791    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
2792    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
2793
2794  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
2795
2796* cavern:
2797
2798  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
2799    susscorfa).
2800
2801  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
2802    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
2803
2804  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
2805
2806  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
2807    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
2808
2809  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
2810    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
2811
2812* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
2813
2814* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
2815  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
2816  in a modern desktop.
2817
2818* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
2819  the filename in the error message.
2820
2821* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
2822  most complete translations.
2823
2824* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
2825
2826* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
2827  lacks them.
2828
2829* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
2830
2831* Manual:
2832
2833  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
2834    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
2835
2836  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
2837
2838  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
2839
2840  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
2841    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
2842    available for download.
2843
2844* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
2845  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
2846  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
2847
2848* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
2849
2850* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
2851
2852Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
2853
2854* MacOS X version:
2855
2856  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
2857
2858  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
2859
2860  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
2861
2862  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
2863
2864  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
2865    currently do this for us.
2866
2867  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
2868
2869  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
2870
2871  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
2872
2873  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
2874    OS X cursor.
2875
2876  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
2877    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
2878    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
2879    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
2880    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
2881    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
2882    with TextEdit.app for example).
2883
2884  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
2885    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
2886
2887  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
2888
2889  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
2890    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
2891
2892  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
2893    Riggs.
2894
2895  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
2896    space.
2897
2898  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
2899
2900  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
2901    10.10.1.
2902
2903  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
2904    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
2905    errors.
2906
2907  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
2908    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
2909    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
2910    wxWidgets build supports by default.
2911
2912  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
2913
2914* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
2915  treat as a single leg.
2916
2917* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
2918
2919* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
2920
2921* aven:
2922
2923  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
2924    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
2925
2926  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
2927    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
2928    1:500).
2929
2930  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
2931    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
2932    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
2933    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
2934
2935  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
2936    there rather than the two animations fighting.
2937
2938  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
2939    fast.
2940
2941  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
2942    when rotating).
2943
2944  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
2945    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
2946
2947* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
2948  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
2949
2950* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
2951
2952* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
2953
2954* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
2955
2956* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
2957
2958* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
2959  we're using git.
2960
2961* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
2962
2963  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
2964    compass.
2965
2966  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
2967
2968  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
2969
2970Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
2971
2972* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
2973
2974* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
2975
2976* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
2977
2978* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
2979  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
2980
2981* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
2982
2983* tests/: Improve test coverage.
2984
2985* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
2986  Greek and Polish.
2987
2988* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
2989  by Martin Sluka.
2990
2991* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
2992  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
2993
2994Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
2995
2996* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
2997  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
2998  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
2999  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
3000  for *cs has also been improved.
3001
3002* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
3003  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
3004  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
3005  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
3006
3007* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
3008  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
3009  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
3010  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
3011  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
3012
3013* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
3014  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
3015  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
3016
3017* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
3018
3019* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
3020
3021* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
3022  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
3023  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
3024
3025* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
3026  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
3027
3028Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
3029
3030* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
3031  system in use in 3d v8 files.
3032
3033* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
3034  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
3035  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
3036  export dialog.
3037
3038* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
3039  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
3040  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
3041  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
3042  rather than having one corner there.
3043
3044* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
3045  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
3046
3047* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
3048  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
3049
3050* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
3051  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
3052  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
3053
3054* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
3055  such as 64-bit Linux.
3056
3057* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
3058  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
3059
3060* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
3061  64-bit platforms.
3062
3063* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
3064  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
3065  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
3066
3067* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
3068  the space available in the aven UI.
3069
3070* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
3071  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
3072  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
3073
3074* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
3075  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
3076
3077* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
3078  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
3079  about unconnected surveys.
3080
3081* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
3082  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
3083
3084* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
3085  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
3086  freed memory.
3087
3088* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
3089
3090* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
3091
3092* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
3093
3094* Fix a compiler warning.
3095
3096* Improve test coverage.
3097
3098Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
3099
3100* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
3101  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
3102  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
3103
3104* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
3105  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
3106  Hugh St Lawrence.
3107
3108* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
3109  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
3110  with using aven on a touch screen device.
3111
3112* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
3113  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
3114
3115* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
3116  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
3117
3118* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
3119  off and back on.
3120
3121* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
3122  up time a little.
3123
3124* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
3125  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
3126
3127* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3128  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3129  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3130  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3131  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3132  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3133  situation too.
3134
3135* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3136  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3137  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3138
3139* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3140
3141* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3142
3143* Minor translation updates to French.
3144
3145* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3146
3147* Testsuite improvements:
3148
3149  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3150
3151  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3152    fail and give an error count.
3153
3154  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3155
3156Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3157
3158* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3159  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3160  Clipstone.
3161
3162* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3163
3164* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3165
3166  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3167    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3168
3169  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3170    clipping the border in print preview.
3171
3172  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3173
3174* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3175  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3176
3177* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3178  available.
3179
3180* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3181
3182* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3183
3184* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3185  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3186
3187* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3188  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3189
3190* Various translation updates.
3191
3192Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3193
3194* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3195  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3196
3197* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3198  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3199  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3200  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3201
3202* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3203  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3204
3205* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3206  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3207
3208* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3209  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3210
3211* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3212  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3213
3214* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3215  box".
3216
3217* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3218
3219* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3220  indicators.
3221
3222* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3223
3224* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3225  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3226  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3227
3228* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3229  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3230  measurably slower.
3231
3232* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3233  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3234
3235* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3236  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3237
3238* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3239  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3240  from Therion and elsewhere.
3241
3242* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3243  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3244  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3245
3246* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3247  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3248
3249* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3250  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3251
3252* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3253  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3254
3255* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3256
3257* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3258  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3259  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3260  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3261  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3262  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3263
3264* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3265
3266Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3267
3268* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3269  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3270  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3271  Clipstone.
3272
3273* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3274  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3275
3276* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3277  exported SVG files.
3278
3279* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3280
3281* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3282  file.
3283
3284* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3285  GPX files.
3286
3287* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3288
3289* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3290  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3291
3292* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3293  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3294  on startup.
3295
3296* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3297
3298* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3299  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3300  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3301  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3302  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3303  other extensions.
3304
3305* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3306  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3307  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3308  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3309  timezone wrong.
3310
3311* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3312
3313* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3314  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3315
3316* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3317
3318* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3319
3320* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3321  enabled.
3322
3323Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3324
3325* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3326
3327* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3328
3329* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3330
3331* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3332  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3333  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3334
3335* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3336  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3337  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3338
3339* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3340  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3341
3342* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3343
3344* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3345
3346* Fix some compiler warnings.
3347
3348Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3349
3350* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3351  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3352  Holder.
3353
3354* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3355  statistics when the value gets large.
3356
3357* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3358  equations.
3359
3360* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3361  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3362  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3363  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3364  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3365
3366* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3367  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3368
3369* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3370  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3371  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3372  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3373  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3374  way is coming soon.
3375
3376* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3377  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3378
3379* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3380  time ago, so update references.
3381
3382* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3383  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3384
3385* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3386  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3387
3388* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3389  Sebastian Ramacher.
3390
3391* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3392
3393* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3394
3395* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3396
3397* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3398
3399* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3400
3401* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3402  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3403  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3404
3405* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3406
3407* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3408
3409* img library:
3410
3411  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3412    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3413    reading).
3414
3415  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3416    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3417
3418  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3419    support these as an extension.
3420
3421  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3422
3423* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3424  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3425  itself has any translations for.
3426
3427* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3428
3429* Minor translation updates.
3430
3431* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3432
3433Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3434
3435* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3436  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3437  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3438  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3439  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3440  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3441  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3442  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3443
3444* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3445
3446  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3447
3448  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3449    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3450
3451  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3452    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3453
3454  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3455
3456  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3457    human-readable string.
3458
3459  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3460    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3461
3462* img library:
3463
3464  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3465
3466  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3467    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3468
3469  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3470    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3471    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3472    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3473    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3474    explicitly in the file.
3475
3476  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3477
3478* aven:
3479
3480  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3481    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3482    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3483    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3484    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3485    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3486
3487  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3488    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3489    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3490    queued up.
3491
3492  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3493    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3494
3495  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3496    them like other legs.
3497
3498  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3499    station names to positions.
3500
3501  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3502    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3503    wrongly.
3504
3505  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3506
3507  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3508    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3509    that's used by the desktop).
3510
3511  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3512
3513  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3514    error from cavern.
3515
3516  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3517
3518  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3519    in the dialog in sync.
3520
3521* cavern:
3522
3523  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3524    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3525    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3526
3527  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3528    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3529
3530  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3531    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3532    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3533    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3534    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3535    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3536    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3537    degrees.
3538
3539  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3540    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3541    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3542
3543  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3544
3545  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3546    warnings.
3547
3548  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3549    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3550
3551  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3552    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3553
3554  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3555    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3556    relevant.
3557
3558  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3559    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3560    the same line.
3561
3562  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3563    "End of line not blank" error.
3564
3565  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3566    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3567
3568  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3569    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3570
3571  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3572    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3573    include that character in the token reported.
3574
3575  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3576    first item.
3577
3578* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3579
3580* dump3d:
3581
3582  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3583    info from 3d files in scripts.
3584
3585  + Add --show-dates option.
3586
3587  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3588
3589  + Report the data style of legs.
3590
3591  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3592
3593  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3594
3595* Test suite:
3596
3597  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3598    expected output so it passes reliably.
3599
3600  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3601    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3602
3603  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3604    for more.
3605
3606* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3607  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3608  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3609
3610* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3611  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3612
3613* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3614  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3615
3616* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3617  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3618  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3619  settings.
3620
3621* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3622  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3623  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3624  set correctly.
3625
3626* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3627  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3628  them to translate.
3629
3630* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3631  close to complete.
3632
3633* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3634
3635* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3636
3637* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3638
3639Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3640
3641* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3642
3643* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3644  package (ticket#35).
3645
3646* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3647  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3648  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3649
3650* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3651  Kahler.
3652
3653* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3654  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3655  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3656  libproj and build survex with:
3657
3658      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3659      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3660
3661* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3662
3663* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3664
3665* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3666  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3667  file".
3668
3669Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3670
3671* aven:
3672
3673  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3674
3675  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3676    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3677
3678  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3679
3680  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3681
3682  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3683    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3684
3685* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3686  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3687  error early on).
3688
3689* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3690  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3691
3692Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3693
3694* aven:
3695
3696  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3697    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3698    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3699    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3700
3701  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
3702    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3703
3704  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3705
3706  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3707
3708  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3709
3710* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3711
3712Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3713
3714* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3715
3716* (Mac OS X version):
3717
3718  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3719
3720  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3721
3722  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3723    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3724
3725  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3726
3727* aven:
3728
3729  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3730
3731  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3732
3733    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
3734      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
3735      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
3736      character.
3737
3738    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
3739      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
3740      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
3741      and two in a few cases.
3742
3743    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
3744      8 pixels.
3745
3746  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
3747    draw crosses.
3748
3749  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
3750    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
3751    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
3752    is the start or end of a tube.
3753
3754  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
3755    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
3756
3757  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
3758    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
3759    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
3760
3761* extend:
3762
3763  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
3764
3765  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
3766    which means "no info").
3767
3768* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
3769  was no longer used - it certainly is!
3770
3771* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
3772  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
3773  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
3774  current character set.
3775
3776* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
3777
3778* Test suite:
3779
3780  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
3781
3782  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
3783
3784Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
3785
3786* aven:
3787
3788  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
3789    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
3790    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
3791    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
3792    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
3793    usable format.
3794
3795  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
3796    files.  (ticket#26)
3797
3798  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
3799    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
3800
3801  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
3802    using lines.
3803
3804  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
3805    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
3806
3807  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
3808    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
3809    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
3810    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
3811
3812  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
3813    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
3814    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
3815
3816  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
3817    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
3818    in 1.2.1.
3819
3820Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
3821
3822* Translation updates for US English.
3823
3824* aven:
3825
3826  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
3827    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
3828
3829  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
3830
3831  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
3832    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
3833    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
3834    visually similar to the survey legs.
3835
3836  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
3837    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
3838
3839  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
3840    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
3841    does still provide some useful information).
3842
3843  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
3844    a depth band boundary.
3845
3846  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
3847    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
3848    full-screen mode).
3849
3850  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
3851    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
3852    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
3853    are a little better, though still not perfect.
3854
3855  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
3856    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
3857
3858  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
3859    that station.
3860
3861  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
3862    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
3863
3864  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
3865    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
3866    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
3867    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
3868    a case as it is a bug).
3869
3870  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
3871    invalidated on window width or height changes.
3872
3873  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
3874    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
3875    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
3876    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
3877
3878  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
3879    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
3880    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
3881    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
3882    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
3883    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
3884    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
3885
3886  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
3887    similarly for other compass points.
3888
3889  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
3890    info in the "About" dialog.
3891
3892  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
3893    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
3894
3895  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
3896    as well as still working with older versions.
3897
3898  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
3899    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
3900
3901  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
3902    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
3903    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
3904    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
3905    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
3906
3907  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
3908    nicer and make better use of the available space.
3909
3910  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
3911    dialog.
3912
3913  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
3914    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
3915
3916  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
3917    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
3918
3919  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
3920
3921  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
3922
3923  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
3924    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
3925    being pressed and toggle full screen.
3926
3927* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
3928  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
3929
3930* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
3931
3932* More messages are now available to be translated.
3933
3934* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
3935  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
3936
3937* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
3938
3939* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
3940  sudo for installing on Unix.
3941
3942* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
3943  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
3944
3945* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
3946  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
3947
3948* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
3949
3950Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
3951
3952* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
3953  English.
3954
3955* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
3956  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
3957  case.
3958
3959* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
3960  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
3961  these into Survex's .msg format.
3962
3963* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
3964  an actual command).
3965
3966* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
3967  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
3968  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
3969  recurrence of that).
3970
3971* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
3972  than /usr/doc/survex.
3973
3974* aven:
3975
3976  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
3977
3978  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
3979    nicer at larger sizes.
3980
3981  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
3982    with GLX >= 1.3.
3983
3984  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
3985
3986  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
3987    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
3988    required libraries set up for building releases.
3989
3990  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
3991
3992  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
3993
3994  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
3995    rendered with icons on some platforms.
3996
3997  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
3998    ISO8859-1).
3999
4000  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
4001    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
4002
4003  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
4004    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
4005
4006* cavern:
4007
4008  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
4009    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
4010    fatal error!
4011
4012  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
4013    format to output.  (ticket#21)
4014
4015* img library:
4016
4017  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
4018    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
4019
4020* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
4021  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
4022
4023Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
4024
4025* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
4026  Portuguese, and US English.
4027
4028* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
4029  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
4030
4031* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
4032  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
4033
4034* img.c:
4035
4036  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
4037
4038  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
4039
4040* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
4041
4042* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
4043  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
4044  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
4045  translated.
4046
4047Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
4048
4049* aven:
4050
4051  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
4052    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
4053
4054  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
4055    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
4056    addresses ticket#12.
4057
4058  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
4059    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
4060    consistent shape.
4061
4062  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
4063    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
4064    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
4065    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
4066
4067  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
4068    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
4069
4070  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
4071
4072  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
4073    more places.
4074
4075  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
4076    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
4077
4078* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
4079
4080* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
4081  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
4082
4083* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
4084
4085* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
4086  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
4087  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
4088  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
4089  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
4090  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
4091
4092* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
4093  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
4094  redirecting to it.
4095
4096* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
4097  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
4098  I/O).
4099
4100* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
4101  headers.
4102
4103* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
4104
4105* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
4106  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
4107
4108* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
4109
4110Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
4111
4112* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
4113
4114* aven:
4115
4116  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
4117    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
4118    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
4119    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
4120
4121  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
4122
4123  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
4124    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
4125    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
4126    a number.
4127
4128  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4129    log window.
4130
4131  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4132    various cases.
4133
4134  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4135    (ticket#9)
4136
4137  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4138    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4139
4140  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4141    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4142
4143  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4144
4145  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4146    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4147
4148* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4149  give them before.
4150
4151* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4152  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4153  point looking for them now.
4154
4155* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4156  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4157  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4158  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4159
4160* manual:
4161
4162  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4163
4164  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4165    (change taken from 1.0).
4166
4167* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4168
4169Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4170
4171* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4172
4173* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4174
4175* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4176
4177* aven:
4178
4179  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4180
4181  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4182    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4183    seem to be Unicode now).
4184
4185  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4186    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4187
4188  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4189    text on the survey pane:
4190
4191    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4192
4193    - Character spacing is improved.
4194
4195    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4196
4197  + "About" dialog:
4198
4199    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4200      bug reporting.
4201
4202    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4203      modern gfx card.
4204
4205    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4206
4207  + Processing .svx files:
4208
4209    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4210
4211    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4212      than opening a separate frame for it.
4213
4214    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4215
4216    - Fix small memory leak.
4217
4218  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4219    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4220    such a name.
4221
4222  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4223
4224  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4225    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4226    invocations.
4227
4228  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4229
4230  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4231
4232  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4233
4234* Documentation:
4235
4236  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4237
4238  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4239    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4240    together isn't very useful.
4241
4242  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4243
4244  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4245    the FSF website.
4246
4247  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4248    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4249    the source code.
4250
4251* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4252  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4253
4254* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4255  package from the source tarball.
4256
4257* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4258  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4259
4260Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4261
4262* aven:
4263
4264  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4265
4266  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4267
4268  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4269    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4270    names/crosses).
4271
4272Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4273
4274* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4275
4276* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4277
4278* aven:
4279
4280  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4281
4282  + Fix character spacing.
4283
4284  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4285    proportional fonts.
4286
4287  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4288    rather than the filename.
4289
4290  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4291
4292  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4293    depth colouring.
4294
4295  + Add "Colour by Error".
4296
4297  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4298
4299  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4300
4301  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4302
4303  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4304
4305  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4306
4307  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4308
4309  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4310
4311  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4312    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4313
4314  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4315
4316  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4317    default.
4318
4319* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4320  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4321
4322* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4323  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4324
4325* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4326
4327* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4328
4329Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4330
4331* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4332  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4333  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4334  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4335  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4336
4337* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4338  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4339  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4340
4341* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4342  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4343  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4344
4345* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4346  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4347  allowed).
4348
4349* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4350
4351* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4352
4353* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4354
4355Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4356
4357* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4358  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4359
4360* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4361  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4362  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4363
4364* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4365  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4366  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4367  the new "*data passage" style.
4368
4369* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4370  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4371
4372* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4373  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4374  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4375  some cases.
4376
4377* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4378  with no survey loaded.
4379
4380* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4381
4382* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4383  loaded a survey.
4384
4385* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4386
4387* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4388
4389* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4390  doesn't exist.
4391
4392* Updated French and Italian translations.
4393
4394* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4395  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4396
4397* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4398  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4399  update their copy).
4400
4401* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4402  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4403  trying to compile).
4404
4405Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4406
4407* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4408  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4409
4410* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4411  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4412  has been disabled.
4413
4414* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4415  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4416  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4417  time.
4418
4419* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4420  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4421  highlighted stations.
4422
4423* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4424
4425* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4426  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4427
4428* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4429  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4430
4431* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4432  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4433  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4434
4435* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4436  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4437
4438* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4439
4440* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4441
4442* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4443
4444* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4445  run by an unprivileged user.
4446
4447* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4448  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4449  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4450
4451* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4452  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4453
4454* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4455
4456* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4457  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4458
4459* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4460  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4461
4462* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4463  if it isn't.
4464
4465* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4466  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4467
4468* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4469  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4470
4471* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4472  reset to default view as well).
4473
4474* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4475  empty.
4476
4477* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4478  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4479
4480* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4481  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4482  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4483
4484* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4485  and non-zero width lines.
4486
4487* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4488  was turned on.
4489
4490* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4491  not always being fully written.
4492
4493Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4494
4495* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4496  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4497  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4498  date near the middle of that period).
4499
4500* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4501  with MS Windows).
4502
4503* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4504  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4505  several surveys in the same directory).
4506
4507* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4508  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4509
4510* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4511
4512* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4513  moved off a station.
4514
4515* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4516  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4517
4518* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4519
4520* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4521  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4522
4523* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4524  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4525  dialogs.
4526
4527* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4528  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4529
4530* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4531  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4532  introduced in 1.1.6).
4533
4534* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4535  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4536  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4537
4538* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4539  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4540
4541* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4542
4543* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4544
4545Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4546
4547* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4548  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4549
4550* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4551  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4552  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4553  3d file.
4554
4555* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4556
4557* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4558
4559* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4560  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4561
4562* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4563
4564* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4565  Martin Green).
4566
4567* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4568  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4569  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4570
4571* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4572
4573* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4574  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4575
4576* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4577  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4578  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4579  of everything else.
4580
4581* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4582  presentation icons.
4583
4584* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4585  keyboard focus there.
4586
4587* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4588
4589* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4590
4591* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4592
4593* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4594
4595* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4596  language to use for messages.
4597
4598* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4599  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4600
4601* Removed old printer drivers.
4602
4603* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4604  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4605
4606Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4607
4608* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4609
4610* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4611
4612* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4613  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4614
4615* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4616  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4617
4618* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4619
4620* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4621  underground legs is toggled.
4622
4623* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4624  attached to the previous data.
4625
4626* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4627  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4628  them.
4629
4630Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4631
4632* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4633
4634* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4635  continental European countries).
4636
4637* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4638  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4639  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4640
4641* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4642
4643* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4644  they're needed.
4645
4646* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4647
4648* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4649
4650* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4651
4652* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4653  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4654  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4655
4656* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4657
4658Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4659
4660* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4661
4662* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4663
4664* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4665
4666* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4667
4668* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4669
4670* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4671
4672* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4673  when there's a presentation loaded.
4674
4675* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4676  in cave view.
4677
4678* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4679
4680* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4681  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4682  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4683
4684* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4685  filename for file history and window title.
4686
4687* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4688  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4689  only needed with GTK1.2.
4690
4691* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4692
4693* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4694
4695* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4696
4697* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4698
4699Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4700
4701* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4702  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4703  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4704
4705* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4706  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4707
4708* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4709  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4710  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4711  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4712
4713* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4714
4715* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4716  with --help and --version.
4717
4718* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4719  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4720  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4721  Fixed all these problems.
4722
4723* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4724  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4725  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4726
4727* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4728  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4729  sources.
4730
4731* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4732
4733* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
4734
4735* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
4736  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
4737
4738* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
4739  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
4740  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
4741  animating.
4742
4743* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
4744
4745* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
4746
4747* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
4748  to this branch.
4749
4750* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
4751
4752  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
4753
4754  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
4755
4756  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
4757
4758* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
4759
4760* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
4761  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
4762
4763* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
4764
4765* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
4766  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
4767
4768* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
4769
4770* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
4771  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
4772  for anyone building from CVS).
4773
4774* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
4775
4776* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
4777
4778* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
4779
4780* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
4781
4782* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
4783  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
4784  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
4785
4786* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
4787  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
4788
4789* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
4790
4791* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
4792  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
4793  loaded).
4794
4795* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
4796
4797Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
4798
4799* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
4800  startup.
4801
4802* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
4803  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
4804
4805Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
4806
4807* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
4808  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
4809  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
4810
4811* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
4812  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
4813  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
4814
4815* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
4816  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
4817  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
4818
4819* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
4820
4821* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
4822  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
4823
4824* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
4825  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
4826
4827* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
4828  better use of screen space.
4829
4830* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
4831
4832* aven: Perspective view.
4833
4834* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
4835
4836* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
4837  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
4838
4839* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
4840  and load/save/run them.
4841
4842* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
4843
4844* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
4845
4846* aven: Depth fogging option.
4847
4848* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
4849
4850* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
4851
4852* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
4853  showing the surface legs.
4854
4855* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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