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(MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey (the answer which
had been eluding me for so long was to add the window flag wxWANTS_CHARS).

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1TOBE Changes in 1.1.8:
2
3* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4
5* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
6
7* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.
8
9* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
10  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
11
12Changes in 1.1.7:
13
14* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
15  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
16  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
17  date near the middle of that period).
18
19* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
20  with MS Windows).
21
22* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
23  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
24  several surveys in the same directory).
25
26* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
27  our for them to include that knowledge.
28
29* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
30
31* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
32  moved off a station.
33
34* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
35  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
36
37* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
38
39* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
40  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
41
42* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
43  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
44  dialogs.
45
46* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
47  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
48
49* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
50  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
51  introduced in 1.1.6).
52
53* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
54  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
55  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
56
57* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
58  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
59
60* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
61
62* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
63
64Changes in 1.1.6:
65
66* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
67  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
68
69* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
70  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
71  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
72  3d file.
73
74* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
75
76* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
77
78* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
79  Instead turn off depth colouring.
80
81* aven: Export as HPGL added.
82
83* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
84  Martin Green).
85
86* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
87  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
88  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
89
90* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
91
92* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
93  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
94
95* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
96  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
97  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
98  of everything else.
99
100* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
101  presentation icons.
102
103* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
104  keyboard focus there.
105
106* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
107
108* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
109
110* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
111
112* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
113
114* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
115  language to use for messages.
116
117* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
118  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
119
120* Removed old printer drivers.
121
122* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
123  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
124
125Changes in 1.1.5:
126
127* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
128
129* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
130
131* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
132  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
133
134* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
135  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
136 
137* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
138
139* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
140  underground legs is toggled.
141
142* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
143  attached to the previous data.
144
145* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
146  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
147  them.
148
149Changes in 1.1.4:
150
151* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
152
153* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
154  continental European countries).
155
156* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
157  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
158  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
159
160* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
161
162* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
163  they're needed.
164
165* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
166
167* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
168
169* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
170
171* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
172  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
173  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
174
175* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
176
177Changes in 1.1.3:
178
179* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
180
181* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
182
183* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
184
185* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
186
187* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
188
189* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
190
191* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
192  when there's a presentation loaded.
193
194* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
195  in cave view.
196
197* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
198
199* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
200  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
201  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
202
203* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
204  filename for file history and window title.
205
206* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
207  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
208  only needed with GTK1.2.
209
210* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
211
212* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
213
214* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
215
216* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
217
218Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
219
220* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
221  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
222  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
223
224* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
225  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
226
227* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
228  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
229  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
230  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
231
232* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
233
234* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
235  with --help and --version.
236
237* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
238  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
239  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
240  Fixed all these problems.
241
242* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
243  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
244  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
245
246* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
247  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
248  sources.
249
250* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
251
252* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
253
254* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
255  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
256
257* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
258  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
259  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
260  animating.
261
262* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
263
264* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
265
266* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
267  to this branch.
268
269* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
270
271  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
272
273  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
274
275  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
276
277* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
278
279* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
280  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
281
282* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
283
284* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
285  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
286
287* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
288
289* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
290  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
291  for anyone building from CVS).
292
293* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
294
295* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
296
297* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
298
299* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
300
301* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
302  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
303  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
304
305* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
306  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
307
308* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
309
310* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
311  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
312  loaded).
313
314* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
315
316Changes in 1.1.1:
317
318* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
319  startup.
320
321* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
322  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
323
324Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
325
326* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
327  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
328  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
329
330* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
331  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
332  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
333
334* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
335  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
336  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
337
338* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
339
340* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
341  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
342
343* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
344  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
345
346* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
347  better use of screen space.
348
349* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
350
351* aven: Perspective view.
352
353* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
354
355* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
356  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
357
358* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
359  and load/save/run them.
360
361* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
362
363* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
364
365* aven: Depth fogging option.
366
367* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
368
369* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
370
371* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
372  showing the surface legs.
373
374* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
375
376Changes in 1.0.32:
377
378* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
379
380* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
381  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
382
383* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
384  extend elevations.
385
386* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
387
388* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
389  default button.
390
391* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
392  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
393
394* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
395
396* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
397  - previously this was being ignored.
398
399* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
400
401* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
402  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
403  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
404  pixel too small on Windows.
405
406* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
407  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
408  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
409
410* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
411  with pretty much every other application.
412
413* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
414  within aven.
415
416* aven: Updated a few icons.
417
418* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
419
420* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
421
422* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
423  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
424  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
425  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
426  doubt anyone is still using that...
427
428* Updates to German translation.
429
430Changes in 1.0.31:
431
432* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
433  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
434
435* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
436  grid is enabled or not.
437
438* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
439
440* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
441  translations.
442
443* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
444
445Changes in 1.0.30:
446
447* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
448
449* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
450
451* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
452
453* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
454  flagged as surface and underground.
455
456* Romanian translation mostly completed.
457
458* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
459
460Changes in 1.0.29:
461
462* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
463  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
464
465* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
466
467* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
468
469* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
470  from John Pybus).
471
472* Romanian translation started.
473
474* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
475  menu files.
476
477Changes in 1.0.28:
478
479* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
480  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
481
482Changes in 1.0.27:
483
484* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
485  layers.
486
487* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
488
489Changes in 1.0.26:
490
491* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
492  calculated as zero.
493
494* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
495
496* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
497
498* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
499
500* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
501  we must apply resources *after* installing.
502
503* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
504
505* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
506  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
507  of their choice.
508
509* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
510  installed.
511
512* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
513  worked).
514
515* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
516  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
517
518* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
519
520* Documentation updated.
521
522* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
523  documentation!
524
525* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
526
527* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
528
529* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
530  most of them.
531
532* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
533
534Changes in 1.0.25:
535
536* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
537
538* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
539  the box on more Unix platforms.
540
541* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
542
543* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
544  insurmountable technical problems.
545
546Changes in 1.0.24:
547
548* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
549
550* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
551  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
552
553* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
554
555* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
556
557* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
558  (and probably some other Unix versions).
559
560* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
561
562Changes in 1.0.23:
563
564* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
565  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
566  to manual.
567
568* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
569
570* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
571  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
572
573* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
574  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
575  Windows.
576
577* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
578
579* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
580
581Changes in 1.0.22:
582
583* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
584  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
585
586* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
587  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
588  code).
589
590Changes in 1.0.21:
591
592* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
593  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
594  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
595  Compass .MAK files.
596
597* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
598  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
599
600* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
601
602* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
603  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
604  per station.
605
606* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
607  unusual circumstances.
608
609* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
610  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
611  over an previous version.
612
613Changes in 1.0.20:
614
615* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
616
617* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
618  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
619  correction was about 57 times too large!)
620
621* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
622  insert a survey separator character.
623
624* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
625
626Changes in 1.0.19:
627
628* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
629  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
630  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
631
632* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
633  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
634  files are handled).
635
636* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
637  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
638
639* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
640
641* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
642  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
643  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
644
645* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
646
647* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
648  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
649  crash.
650
651* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
652
653* Documentation: minor updates.
654
655Changes in 1.0.18:
656
657* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
658
659* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
660  instead.
661
662* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
663  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
664
665* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
666  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
667  to the aven subpackage.
668
669* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
670
671* Updated TODO list.
672
673Changes in 1.0.17:
674
675* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
676  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
677  its own icon.
678
679* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
680  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
681  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
682  refresh the view.
683
684* Minor update to manual.
685
686Changes in 1.0.16:
687
688* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
689  programs from finding the message files.
690
691* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
692  files.
693
694Changes in 1.0.15:
695
696* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
697  programs from finding the message files.
698
699* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
700  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
701  obtained with the right mouse button.
702
703Changes in 1.0.14:
704
705* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
706  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
707  from Activeware.
708
709* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
710  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
711  separator between survey name and station name.
712
713* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
714  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
715
716* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
717  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
718
719* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
720
721* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
722  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
723
724* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
725
726* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
727  DIRECTION reading.
728
729* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
730
731* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
732  have taken up.
733
734* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
735  once again.  Added regression test for this.
736
737* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
738  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
739
740* Updated documentation.
741
742Changes in 1.0.13:
743
744* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
745  connecting arbitrary stations.
746
747* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
748  join.
749
750* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
751  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
752  and everything should work exactly as before.
753
754* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
755  currently translated.
756
757Changes in 1.0.12:
758
759* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
760
761* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
762
763* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
764  (both cover Eastern European languages).
765
766* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
767  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
768  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
769  permission to include the icon).
770
771* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
772  again.
773
774* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
775  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
776
777* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
778
779* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
780
781Changes in 1.0.11:
782
783* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
784  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
785  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
786  and as intended on 2.3.
787
788* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
789  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
790  '.').
791
792* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
793  autorotation.
794
795* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
796
797* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
798
799* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
800  double-clicking or from the command line.
801
802* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
803
804* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
805
806* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
807
808* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
809
810* Updates to Italian translation.
811
812* Minor documentation updates.
813
814Changes in 1.0.10:
815
816* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
817  names.
818
819* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
820  successfully.
821
822* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
823  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
824  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
825
826* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
827  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
828
829* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
830  factor was being applied backwards!)
831
832* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
833  be opened.
834
835* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
836
837* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
838
839* Updates to German and Italian translations.
840
841Changes in 1.0.9:
842
843* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
844
845* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
846
847* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
848  end of each line).
849
850* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
851  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
852  them).
853
854* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
855
856Changes in 1.0.8:
857
858* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
859
860* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
861  responsiveness.
862
863* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
864  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
865  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
866
867* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
868  the program).
869
870* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
871
872* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
873  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
874
875* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
876  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
877
878* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
879  right mouse button.
880
881* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
882  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
883  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
884
885* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
886  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
887  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
888  approximately 1mm/pixel.
889
890* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
891  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
892
893* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
894  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
895
896* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
897
898* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
899  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
900
901* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
902  pages on rare occasions.
903
904* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
905
906* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
907
908* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
909  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
910  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
911  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
912  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
913
914* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
915  underground surveys.
916
917* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
918
919* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
920  now it gives the correct error message.
921
922* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
923  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
924
925* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
926  of data which was rejected because of an error.
927
928* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
929
930* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
931  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
932
933* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
934  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
935  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
936  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
937  by default).
938
939* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
940  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
941  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
942
943* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
944  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
945  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
946
947* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
948  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
949  been removed.
950
951Changes in 1.0.7:
952
953* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
954
955Changes in 1.0.6:
956
957* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
958
959* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
960  exit with Delete) improved.
961
962* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
963  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
964
965* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
966
967* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
968  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
969
970* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
971  with no clino information).
972
973* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
974  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
975
976* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
977
978* Spell-checked documentation.
979
980Changes in 1.0.5:
981
982* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
983  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
984
985* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
986
987* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
988  structure for Compass to read them now.
989
990* Documentation updates.
991
992Changes in 1.0.4:
993
994* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
995  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
996
997* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
998  output format.
999
1000* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1001
1002* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1003  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1004
1005* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1006  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1007  on Microsoft Windows.
1008
1009* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1010
1011* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1012
1013* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1014  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1015  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1016  special case better.
1017
1018* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1019  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1020  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1021  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1022
1023* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1024  out packaging now...
1025
1026* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1027
1028* Documentation updates.
1029
1030Changes in 1.0.3:
1031
1032* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1033  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1034  of degrees.
1035
1036* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1037
1038* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1039
1040* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1041  written.
1042
1043* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1044  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1045
1046* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1047
1048Changes in 1.0.2:
1049
1050* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1051  print.ini etc.
1052
1053* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1054  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1055
1056* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1057
1058* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1059
1060* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1061
1062* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1063
1064* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1065  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1066
1067* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1068  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1069
1070* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1071  .3d files.
1072
1073Changes in 1.0.1:
1074
1075* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1076  ticks.
1077
1078* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1079
1080Changes in 1.0.0:
1081
1082* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1083
1084* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1085  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1086
1087* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1088  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1089  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1090
1091* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1092
1093* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1094  instead of "survex file.svx".
1095
1096* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1097  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1098  with a lower optimisation level.
1099
1100* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1101  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1102  "in directory" build.
1103
1104* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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