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