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