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