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