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1Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
2
3* aven:
4
5  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
6
7  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
8    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
9
10  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
11
12  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
13
14  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
15    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
16
17* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
18  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
19  error early on).
20
21* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
22  the man page source as well as in the filename.
23
24Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
25
26* aven:
27
28  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
29    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
30    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
31    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
32
33  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
34    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
35
36  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
37
38  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
39
40  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
41
42* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
43
44Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
45
46* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
47
48* (Mac OS X version):
49
50  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
51
52  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
53
54  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
55    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
56
57  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
58
59* aven:
60
61  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
62
63  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
64
65    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
66      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
67      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
68      character.
69
70    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
71      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
72      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
73      and two in a few cases.
74
75    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
76      8 pixels.
77
78  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
79    draw crosses.
80
81  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
82    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
83    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
84    is the start or end of a tube.
85
86  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
87    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
88
89  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
90    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
91    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
92
93* extend:
94
95  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
96
97  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
98    which means "no info").
99
100* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
101  was no longer used - it certainly is!
102
103* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
104  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
105  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
106  current character set.
107
108* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
109
110* Test suite:
111
112  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
113
114  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
115
116Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
117
118* aven:
119
120  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
121    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
122    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
123    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
124    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
125    usable format.
126
127  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
128    files.  (ticket#26)
129
130  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
131    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
132
133  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
134    using lines.
135
136  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
137    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
138
139  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
140    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
141    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
142    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
143
144  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
145    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
146    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
147
148  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
149    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
150    in 1.2.1.
151
152Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
153
154* Translation updates for US English.
155
156* aven:
157
158  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
159    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
160
161  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
162
163  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
164    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
165    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
166    visually similar to the survey legs.
167
168  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
169    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
170
171  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
172    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
173    does still provide some useful information).
174
175  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
176    a depth band boundary.
177
178  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
179    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
180    full-screen mode).
181
182  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
183    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
184    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
185    are a little better, though still not perfect.
186
187  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
188    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
189
190  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
191    that station.
192
193  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
194    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
195
196  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
197    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
198    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
199    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
200    a case as it is a bug).
201
202  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
203    invalidated on window width or height changes.
204
205  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
206    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
207    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
208    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
209
210  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
211    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
212    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
213    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
214    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
215    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
216    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
217
218  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
219    similarly for other compass points.
220
221  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
222    info in the "About" dialog.
223
224  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
225    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
226
227  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
228    as well as still working with older versions.
229
230  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
231    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
232
233  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
234    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
235    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
236    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
237    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
238
239  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
240    nicer and make better use of the available space.
241
242  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
243    dialog.
244
245  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
246    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
247
248  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
249    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
250
251  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
252
253  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
254
255  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
256    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
257    being pressed and toggle full screen.
258
259* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
260  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
261
262* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
263
264* More messages are now available to be translated.
265
266* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
267  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
268
269* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
270
271* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
272  sudo for installing on Unix.
273
274* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
275  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
276
277* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
278  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
279
280* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
281
282Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
283
284* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
285  English.
286
287* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
288  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
289  case.
290
291* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
292  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
293  these into Survex's .msg format.
294
295* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
296  an actual command).
297
298* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
299  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
300  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
301  recurrence of that).
302
303* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
304  than /usr/doc/survex.
305
306* aven:
307
308  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
309
310  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
311    nicer at larger sizes.
312
313  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
314    with GLX >= 1.3.
315
316  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
317
318  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
319    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
320    required libraries set up for building releases.
321
322  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
323
324  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
325
326  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
327    rendered with icons on some platforms.
328
329  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
330    ISO8859-1).
331
332  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
333    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
334
335  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
336    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
337
338* cavern:
339
340  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
341    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
342    fatal error!
343
344  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
345    format to output.  (ticket#21)
346
347* img library:
348
349  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
350    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
351
352* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
353  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
354
355Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
356
357* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
358  Portuguese, and US English.
359
360* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
361  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
362
363* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
364  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
365
366* img.c:
367
368  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
369
370  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
371
372* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
373
374* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
375  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
376  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
377  translated.
378
379Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
380
381* aven:
382
383  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
384    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
385
386  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
387    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
388    addresses ticket#12.
389
390  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
391    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
392    consistent shape.
393
394  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
395    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
396    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
397    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
398
399  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
400    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
401
402  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
403
404  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
405    more places.
406
407  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
408    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
409
410* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
411
412* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
413  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
414
415* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
416
417* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
418  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
419  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
420  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
421  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
422  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
423
424* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
425  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
426  redirecting to it.
427
428* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
429  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
430  I/O).
431
432* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
433  headers.
434
435* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
436
437* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
438  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
439
440* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
441
442Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
443
444* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
445
446* aven:
447
448  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
449    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
450    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
451    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
452
453  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
454
455  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
456    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
457    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
458    a number.
459
460  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
461    log window.
462
463  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
464    various cases.
465
466  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
467    (ticket#9)
468
469  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
470    namespace with its own "Point" class.
471
472  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
473    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
474
475  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
476
477  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
478    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
479
480* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
481  give them before.
482
483* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
484  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
485  point looking for them now.
486
487* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
488  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
489  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
490  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
491
492* manual:
493
494  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
495
496  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
497    (change taken from 1.0).
498
499* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
500
501Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
502
503* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
504
505* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
506
507* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
508
509* aven:
510
511  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
512
513  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
514    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
515    seem to be Unicode now).
516
517  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
518    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
519
520  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
521    text on the survey pane:
522
523    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
524
525    - Character spacing is improved.
526
527    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
528
529  + "About" dialog:
530
531    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
532      bug reporting.
533
534    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
535      modern gfx card.
536
537    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
538
539  + Processing .svx files:
540
541    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
542
543    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
544      than opening a separate frame for it.
545
546    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
547
548    - Fix small memory leak.
549
550  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
551    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
552    such a name.
553
554  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
555
556  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
557    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
558    invocations.
559
560  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
561
562  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
563
564  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
565
566* Documentation:
567
568  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
569
570  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
571    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
572    together isn't very useful.
573
574  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
575
576  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
577    the FSF website.
578
579  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
580    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
581    the source code.
582
583* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
584  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
585
586* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
587  package from the source tarball.
588
589* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
590  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
591
592Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
593
594* aven:
595
596  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
597
598  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
599
600  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
601    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
602    names/crosses).
603
604Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
605
606* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
607
608* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
609
610* aven:
611
612  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
613
614  + Fix character spacing.
615
616  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
617    proportional fonts.
618
619  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
620    rather than the filename.
621
622  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
623
624  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
625    depth colouring.
626
627  + Add "Colour by Error".
628
629  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
630
631  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
632
633  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
634
635  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
636
637  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
638
639  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
640
641  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
642
643  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
644    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
645
646  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
647
648  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
649    default.
650
651* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
652  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
653
654* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
655  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
656
657* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
658
659* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
660
661Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
662
663* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
664  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
665  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
666  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
667  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
668
669* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
670  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
671  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
672
673* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
674  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
675  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
676
677* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
678  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
679  allowed).
680
681* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
682
683* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
684
685* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
686
687Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
688
689* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
690  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
691
692* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
693  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
694  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
695
696* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
697  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
698  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
699  the new "*data passage" style.
700
701* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
702  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
703
704* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
705  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
706  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
707  some cases.
708
709* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
710  with no survey loaded.
711
712* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
713
714* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
715  loaded a survey.
716
717* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
718
719* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
720
721* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
722  doesn't exist.
723
724* Updated French and Italian translations.
725
726* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
727  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
728
729* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
730  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
731  update their copy).
732
733* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
734  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
735  trying to compile).
736
737Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
738
739* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
740  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
741
742* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
743  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
744  has been disabled.
745
746* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
747  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
748  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
749  time.
750
751* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
752  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
753  highlighted stations.
754
755* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
756
757* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
758  the tilt from plan to elevation.
759
760* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
761  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
762
763* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
764  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
765  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
766
767* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
768  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
769
770* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
771
772* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
773
774* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
775
776* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
777  run by an unprivileged user.
778
779* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
780  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
781  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
782
783* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
784  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
785
786* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
787
788* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
789  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
790
791* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
792  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
793
794* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
795  if it isn't.
796
797* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
798  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
799
800* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
801  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
802
803* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
804  reset to default view as well).
805
806* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
807  empty.
808
809* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
810  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
811
812* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
813  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
814  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
815
816* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
817  and non-zero width lines.
818
819* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
820  was turned on.
821
822* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
823  not always being fully written.
824
825Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
826
827* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
828  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
829  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
830  date near the middle of that period).
831
832* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
833  with MS Windows).
834
835* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
836  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
837  several surveys in the same directory).
838
839* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
840  our check for them to include that knowledge.
841
842* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
843
844* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
845  moved off a station.
846
847* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
848  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
849
850* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
851
852* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
853  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
854
855* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
856  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
857  dialogs.
858
859* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
860  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
861
862* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
863  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
864  introduced in 1.1.6).
865
866* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
867  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
868  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
869
870* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
871  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
872
873* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
874
875* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
876
877Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
878
879* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
880  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
881
882* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
883  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
884  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
885  3d file.
886
887* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
888
889* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
890
891* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
892  Instead turn off depth colouring.
893
894* aven: Export as HPGL added.
895
896* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
897  Martin Green).
898
899* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
900  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
901  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
902
903* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
904
905* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
906  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
907
908* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
909  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
910  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
911  of everything else.
912
913* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
914  presentation icons.
915
916* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
917  keyboard focus there.
918
919* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
920
921* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
922
923* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
924
925* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
926
927* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
928  language to use for messages.
929
930* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
931  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
932
933* Removed old printer drivers.
934
935* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
936  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
937
938Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
939
940* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
941
942* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
943
944* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
945  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
946
947* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
948  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
949
950* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
951
952* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
953  underground legs is toggled.
954
955* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
956  attached to the previous data.
957
958* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
959  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
960  them.
961
962Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
963
964* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
965
966* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
967  continental European countries).
968
969* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
970  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
971  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
972
973* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
974
975* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
976  they're needed.
977
978* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
979
980* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
981
982* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
983
984* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
985  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
986  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
987
988* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
989
990Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
991
992* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
993
994* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
995
996* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
997
998* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
999
1000* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1001
1002* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1003
1004* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1005  when there's a presentation loaded.
1006
1007* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1008  in cave view.
1009
1010* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1011
1012* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1013  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1014  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1015
1016* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1017  filename for file history and window title.
1018
1019* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1020  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1021  only needed with GTK1.2.
1022
1023* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1024
1025* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1026
1027* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1028
1029* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1030
1031Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1032
1033* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1034  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1035  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1036
1037* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1038  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1039
1040* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1041  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1042  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1043  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1044
1045* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1046
1047* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1048  with --help and --version.
1049
1050* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1051  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1052  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1053  Fixed all these problems.
1054
1055* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1056  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1057  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1058
1059* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1060  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1061  sources.
1062
1063* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1064
1065* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1066
1067* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1068  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1069
1070* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1071  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1072  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1073  animating.
1074
1075* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1076
1077* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1078
1079* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1080  to this branch.
1081
1082* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1083
1084  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1085
1086  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1087
1088  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1089
1090* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1091
1092* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1093  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1094
1095* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1096
1097* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1098  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1099
1100* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1101
1102* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1103  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1104  for anyone building from CVS).
1105
1106* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1107
1108* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1109
1110* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1111
1112* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1113
1114* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1115  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1116  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1117
1118* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1119  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1120
1121* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1122
1123* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1124  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1125  loaded).
1126
1127* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1128
1129Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1130
1131* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1132  startup.
1133
1134* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1135  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1136
1137Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1138
1139* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1140  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1141  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1142
1143* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1144  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1145  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1146
1147* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1148  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1149  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1150
1151* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1152
1153* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1154  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1155
1156* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1157  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1158
1159* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1160  better use of screen space.
1161
1162* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1163
1164* aven: Perspective view.
1165
1166* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1167
1168* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1169  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1170
1171* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1172  and load/save/run them.
1173
1174* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1175
1176* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1177
1178* aven: Depth fogging option.
1179
1180* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1181
1182* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1183
1184* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1185  showing the surface legs.
1186
1187* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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