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1TOBE Changes in 1.1.8:
2
3* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4
5* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
6  run by an unprivileged user.
7
8* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
9  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
10  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
11
12* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
13  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
14
15* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
16
17* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
18  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
19
20* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
21  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
22
23* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
24  if it isn't.
25
26* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
27  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
28
29Changes in 1.1.7:
30
31* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
32  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
33  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
34  date near the middle of that period).
35
36* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
37  with MS Windows).
38
39* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
40  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
41  several surveys in the same directory).
42
43* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
44  our for them to include that knowledge.
45
46* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
47
48* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
49  moved off a station.
50
51* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
52  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
53
54* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
55
56* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
57  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
58
59* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
60  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
61  dialogs.
62
63* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
64  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
65
66* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
67  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
68  introduced in 1.1.6).
69
70* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
71  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
72  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
73
74* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
75  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
76
77* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
78
79* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
80
81Changes in 1.1.6:
82
83* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
84  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
85
86* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
87  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
88  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
89  3d file.
90
91* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
92
93* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
94
95* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
96  Instead turn off depth colouring.
97
98* aven: Export as HPGL added.
99
100* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
101  Martin Green).
102
103* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
104  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
105  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
106
107* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
108
109* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
110  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
111
112* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
113  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
114  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
115  of everything else.
116
117* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
118  presentation icons.
119
120* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
121  keyboard focus there.
122
123* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
124
125* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
126
127* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
128
129* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
130
131* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
132  language to use for messages.
133
134* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
135  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
136
137* Removed old printer drivers.
138
139* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
140  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
141
142Changes in 1.1.5:
143
144* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
145
146* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
147
148* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
149  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
150
151* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
152  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
153 
154* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
155
156* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
157  underground legs is toggled.
158
159* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
160  attached to the previous data.
161
162* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
163  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
164  them.
165
166Changes in 1.1.4:
167
168* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
169
170* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
171  continental European countries).
172
173* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
174  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
175  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
176
177* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
178
179* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
180  they're needed.
181
182* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
183
184* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
185
186* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
187
188* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
189  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
190  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
191
192* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
193
194Changes in 1.1.3:
195
196* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
197
198* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
199
200* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
201
202* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
203
204* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
205
206* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
207
208* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
209  when there's a presentation loaded.
210
211* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
212  in cave view.
213
214* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
215
216* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
217  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
218  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
219
220* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
221  filename for file history and window title.
222
223* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
224  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
225  only needed with GTK1.2.
226
227* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
228
229* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
230
231* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
232
233* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
234
235Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
236
237* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
238  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
239  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
240
241* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
242  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
243
244* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
245  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
246  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
247  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
248
249* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
250
251* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
252  with --help and --version.
253
254* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
255  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
256  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
257  Fixed all these problems.
258
259* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
260  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
261  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
262
263* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
264  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
265  sources.
266
267* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
268
269* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
270
271* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
272  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
273
274* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
275  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
276  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
277  animating.
278
279* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
280
281* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
282
283* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
284  to this branch.
285
286* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
287
288  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
289
290  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
291
292  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
293
294* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
295
296* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
297  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
298
299* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
300
301* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
302  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
303
304* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
305
306* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
307  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
308  for anyone building from CVS).
309
310* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
311
312* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
313
314* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
315
316* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
317
318* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
319  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
320  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
321
322* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
323  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
324
325* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
326
327* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
328  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
329  loaded).
330
331* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
332
333Changes in 1.1.1:
334
335* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
336  startup.
337
338* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
339  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
340
341Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
342
343* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
344  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
345  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
346
347* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
348  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
349  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
350
351* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
352  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
353  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
354
355* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
356
357* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
358  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
359
360* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
361  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
362
363* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
364  better use of screen space.
365
366* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
367
368* aven: Perspective view.
369
370* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
371
372* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
373  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
374
375* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
376  and load/save/run them.
377
378* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
379
380* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
381
382* aven: Depth fogging option.
383
384* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
385
386* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
387
388* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
389  showing the surface legs.
390
391* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
392
393Changes in 1.0.32:
394
395* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
396
397* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
398  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
399
400* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
401  extend elevations.
402
403* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
404
405* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
406  default button.
407
408* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
409  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
410
411* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
412
413* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
414  - previously this was being ignored.
415
416* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
417
418* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
419  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
420  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
421  pixel too small on Windows.
422
423* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
424  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
425  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
426
427* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
428  with pretty much every other application.
429
430* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
431  within aven.
432
433* aven: Updated a few icons.
434
435* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
436
437* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
438
439* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
440  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
441  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
442  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
443  doubt anyone is still using that...
444
445* Updates to German translation.
446
447Changes in 1.0.31:
448
449* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
450  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
451
452* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
453  grid is enabled or not.
454
455* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
456
457* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
458  translations.
459
460* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
461
462Changes in 1.0.30:
463
464* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
465
466* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
467
468* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
469
470* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
471  flagged as surface and underground.
472
473* Romanian translation mostly completed.
474
475* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
476
477Changes in 1.0.29:
478
479* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
480  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
481
482* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
483
484* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
485
486* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
487  from John Pybus).
488
489* Romanian translation started.
490
491* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
492  menu files.
493
494Changes in 1.0.28:
495
496* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
497  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
498
499Changes in 1.0.27:
500
501* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
502  layers.
503
504* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
505
506Changes in 1.0.26:
507
508* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
509  calculated as zero.
510
511* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
512
513* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
514
515* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
516
517* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
518  we must apply resources *after* installing.
519
520* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
521
522* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
523  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
524  of their choice.
525
526* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
527  installed.
528
529* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
530  worked).
531
532* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
533  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
534
535* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
536
537* Documentation updated.
538
539* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
540  documentation!
541
542* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
543
544* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
545
546* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
547  most of them.
548
549* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
550
551Changes in 1.0.25:
552
553* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
554
555* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
556  the box on more Unix platforms.
557
558* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
559
560* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
561  insurmountable technical problems.
562
563Changes in 1.0.24:
564
565* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
566
567* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
568  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
569
570* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
571
572* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
573
574* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
575  (and probably some other Unix versions).
576
577* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
578
579Changes in 1.0.23:
580
581* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
582  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
583  to manual.
584
585* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
586
587* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
588  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
589
590* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
591  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
592  Windows.
593
594* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
595
596* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
597
598Changes in 1.0.22:
599
600* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
601  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
602
603* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
604  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
605  code).
606
607Changes in 1.0.21:
608
609* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
610  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
611  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
612  Compass .MAK files.
613
614* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
615  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
616
617* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
618
619* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
620  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
621  per station.
622
623* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
624  unusual circumstances.
625
626* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
627  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
628  over an previous version.
629
630Changes in 1.0.20:
631
632* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
633
634* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
635  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
636  correction was about 57 times too large!)
637
638* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
639  insert a survey separator character.
640
641* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
642
643Changes in 1.0.19:
644
645* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
646  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
647  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
648
649* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
650  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
651  files are handled).
652
653* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
654  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
655
656* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
657
658* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
659  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
660  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
661
662* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
663
664* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
665  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
666  crash.
667
668* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
669
670* Documentation: minor updates.
671
672Changes in 1.0.18:
673
674* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
675
676* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
677  instead.
678
679* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
680  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
681
682* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
683  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
684  to the aven subpackage.
685
686* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
687
688* Updated TODO list.
689
690Changes in 1.0.17:
691
692* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
693  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
694  its own icon.
695
696* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
697  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
698  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
699  refresh the view.
700
701* Minor update to manual.
702
703Changes in 1.0.16:
704
705* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
706  programs from finding the message files.
707
708* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
709  files.
710
711Changes in 1.0.15:
712
713* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
714  programs from finding the message files.
715
716* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
717  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
718  obtained with the right mouse button.
719
720Changes in 1.0.14:
721
722* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
723  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
724  from Activeware.
725
726* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
727  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
728  separator between survey name and station name.
729
730* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
731  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
732
733* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
734  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
735
736* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
737
738* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
739  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
740
741* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
742
743* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
744  DIRECTION reading.
745
746* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
747
748* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
749  have taken up.
750
751* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
752  once again.  Added regression test for this.
753
754* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
755  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
756
757* Updated documentation.
758
759Changes in 1.0.13:
760
761* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
762  connecting arbitrary stations.
763
764* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
765  join.
766
767* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
768  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
769  and everything should work exactly as before.
770
771* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
772  currently translated.
773
774Changes in 1.0.12:
775
776* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
777
778* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
779
780* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
781  (both cover Eastern European languages).
782
783* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
784  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
785  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
786  permission to include the icon).
787
788* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
789  again.
790
791* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
792  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
793
794* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
795
796* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
797
798Changes in 1.0.11:
799
800* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
801  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
802  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
803  and as intended on 2.3.
804
805* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
806  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
807  '.').
808
809* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
810  autorotation.
811
812* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
813
814* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
815
816* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
817  double-clicking or from the command line.
818
819* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
820
821* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
822
823* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
824
825* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
826
827* Updates to Italian translation.
828
829* Minor documentation updates.
830
831Changes in 1.0.10:
832
833* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
834  names.
835
836* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
837  successfully.
838
839* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
840  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
841  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
842
843* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
844  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
845
846* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
847  factor was being applied backwards!)
848
849* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
850  be opened.
851
852* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
853
854* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
855
856* Updates to German and Italian translations.
857
858Changes in 1.0.9:
859
860* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
861
862* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
863
864* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
865  end of each line).
866
867* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
868  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
869  them).
870
871* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
872
873Changes in 1.0.8:
874
875* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
876
877* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
878  responsiveness.
879
880* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
881  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
882  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
883
884* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
885  the program).
886
887* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
888
889* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
890  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
891
892* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
893  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
894
895* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
896  right mouse button.
897
898* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
899  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
900  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
901
902* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
903  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
904  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
905  approximately 1mm/pixel.
906
907* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
908  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
909
910* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
911  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
912
913* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
914
915* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
916  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
917
918* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
919  pages on rare occasions.
920
921* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
922
923* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
924
925* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
926  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
927  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
928  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
929  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
930
931* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
932  underground surveys.
933
934* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
935
936* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
937  now it gives the correct error message.
938
939* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
940  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
941
942* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
943  of data which was rejected because of an error.
944
945* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
946
947* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
948  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
949
950* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
951  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
952  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
953  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
954  by default).
955
956* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
957  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
958  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
959
960* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
961  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
962  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
963
964* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
965  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
966  been removed.
967
968Changes in 1.0.7:
969
970* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
971
972Changes in 1.0.6:
973
974* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
975
976* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
977  exit with Delete) improved.
978
979* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
980  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
981
982* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
983
984* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
985  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
986
987* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
988  with no clino information).
989
990* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
991  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
992
993* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
994
995* Spell-checked documentation.
996
997Changes in 1.0.5:
998
999* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
1000  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1001
1002* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
1003
1004* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1005  structure for Compass to read them now.
1006
1007* Documentation updates.
1008
1009Changes in 1.0.4:
1010
1011* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1012  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1013
1014* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1015  output format.
1016
1017* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1018
1019* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1020  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1021
1022* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1023  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1024  on Microsoft Windows.
1025
1026* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1027
1028* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1029
1030* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1031  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1032  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1033  special case better.
1034
1035* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1036  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1037  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1038  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1039
1040* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1041  out packaging now...
1042
1043* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1044
1045* Documentation updates.
1046
1047Changes in 1.0.3:
1048
1049* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1050  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1051  of degrees.
1052
1053* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1054
1055* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1056
1057* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1058  written.
1059
1060* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1061  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1062
1063* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1064
1065Changes in 1.0.2:
1066
1067* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1068  print.ini etc.
1069
1070* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1071  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1072
1073* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1074
1075* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1076
1077* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1078
1079* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1080
1081* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1082  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1083
1084* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1085  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1086
1087* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1088  .3d files.
1089
1090Changes in 1.0.1:
1091
1092* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1093  ticks.
1094
1095* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1096
1097Changes in 1.0.0:
1098
1099* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1100
1101* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1102  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1103
1104* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1105  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1106  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1107
1108* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1109
1110* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1111  instead of "survex file.svx".
1112
1113* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1114  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1115  with a lower optimisation level.
1116
1117* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1118  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1119  "in directory" build.
1120
1121* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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