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