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1Changes in 1.1.8:
2
3* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
5
6* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
7  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
8  has been disabled.
9
10* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
11  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
12  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
13  time.
14
15* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
16  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
17  highlighted stations.
18
19* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
20
21* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
22  the tilt from plan to elevation.
23
24* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
25  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
26
27* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
28  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
29  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
30
31* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
32  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
33
34* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
35
36* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
37
38* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
39
40* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
41  run by an unprivileged user.
42
43* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
44  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
45  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
46
47* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
48  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
49
50* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
51
52* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
53  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
54
55* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
56  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
57
58* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
59  if it isn't.
60
61* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
62  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
63
64* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
65  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
66
67* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
68  reset to default view as well).
69
70* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
71  empty.
72
73* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
74  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
75
76* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
77  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
78  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
79
80* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
81  and non-zero width lines.
82
83* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
84  was turned on.
85
86* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
87  not always being fully written.
88
89Changes in 1.1.7:
90
91* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
92  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
93  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
94  date near the middle of that period).
95
96* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
97  with MS Windows).
98
99* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
100  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
101  several surveys in the same directory).
102
103* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
104  our for them to include that knowledge.
105
106* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
107
108* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
109  moved off a station.
110
111* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
112  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
113
114* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
115
116* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
117  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
118
119* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
120  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
121  dialogs.
122
123* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
124  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
125
126* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
127  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
128  introduced in 1.1.6).
129
130* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
131  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
132  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
133
134* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
135  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
136
137* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
138
139* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
140
141Changes in 1.1.6:
142
143* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
144  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
145
146* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
147  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
148  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
149  3d file.
150
151* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
152
153* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
154
155* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
156  Instead turn off depth colouring.
157
158* aven: Export as HPGL added.
159
160* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
161  Martin Green).
162
163* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
164  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
165  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
166
167* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
168
169* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
170  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
171
172* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
173  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
174  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
175  of everything else.
176
177* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
178  presentation icons.
179
180* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
181  keyboard focus there.
182
183* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
184
185* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
186
187* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
188
189* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
190
191* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
192  language to use for messages.
193
194* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
195  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
196
197* Removed old printer drivers.
198
199* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
200  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
201
202Changes in 1.1.5:
203
204* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
205
206* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
207
208* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
209  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
210
211* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
212  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
213 
214* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
215
216* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
217  underground legs is toggled.
218
219* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
220  attached to the previous data.
221
222* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
223  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
224  them.
225
226Changes in 1.1.4:
227
228* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
229
230* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
231  continental European countries).
232
233* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
234  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
235  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
236
237* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
238
239* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
240  they're needed.
241
242* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
243
244* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
245
246* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
247
248* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
249  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
250  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
251
252* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
253
254Changes in 1.1.3:
255
256* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
257
258* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
259
260* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
261
262* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
263
264* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
265
266* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
267
268* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
269  when there's a presentation loaded.
270
271* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
272  in cave view.
273
274* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
275
276* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
277  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
278  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
279
280* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
281  filename for file history and window title.
282
283* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
284  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
285  only needed with GTK1.2.
286
287* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
288
289* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
290
291* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
292
293* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
294
295Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
296
297* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
298  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
299  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
300
301* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
302  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
303
304* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
305  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
306  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
307  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
308
309* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
310
311* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
312  with --help and --version.
313
314* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
315  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
316  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
317  Fixed all these problems.
318
319* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
320  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
321  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
322
323* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
324  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
325  sources.
326
327* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
328
329* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
330
331* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
332  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
333
334* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
335  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
336  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
337  animating.
338
339* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
340
341* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
342
343* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
344  to this branch.
345
346* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
347
348  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
349
350  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
351
352  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
353
354* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
355
356* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
357  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
358
359* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
360
361* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
362  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
363
364* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
365
366* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
367  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
368  for anyone building from CVS).
369
370* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
371
372* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
373
374* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
375
376* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
377
378* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
379  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
380  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
381
382* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
383  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
384
385* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
386
387* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
388  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
389  loaded).
390
391* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
392
393Changes in 1.1.1:
394
395* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
396  startup.
397
398* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
399  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
400
401Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
402
403* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
404  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
405  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
406
407* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
408  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
409  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
410
411* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
412  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
413  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
414
415* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
416
417* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
418  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
419
420* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
421  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
422
423* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
424  better use of screen space.
425
426* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
427
428* aven: Perspective view.
429
430* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
431
432* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
433  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
434
435* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
436  and load/save/run them.
437
438* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
439
440* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
441
442* aven: Depth fogging option.
443
444* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
445
446* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
447
448* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
449  showing the surface legs.
450
451* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
452
453Changes in 1.0.32:
454
455* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
456
457* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
458  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
459
460* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
461  extend elevations.
462
463* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
464
465* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
466  default button.
467
468* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
469  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
470
471* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
472
473* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
474  - previously this was being ignored.
475
476* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
477
478* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
479  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
480  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
481  pixel too small on Windows.
482
483* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
484  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
485  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
486
487* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
488  with pretty much every other application.
489
490* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
491  within aven.
492
493* aven: Updated a few icons.
494
495* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
496
497* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
498
499* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
500  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
501  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
502  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
503  doubt anyone is still using that...
504
505* Updates to German translation.
506
507Changes in 1.0.31:
508
509* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
510  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
511
512* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
513  grid is enabled or not.
514
515* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
516
517* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
518  translations.
519
520* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
521
522Changes in 1.0.30:
523
524* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
525
526* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
527
528* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
529
530* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
531  flagged as surface and underground.
532
533* Romanian translation mostly completed.
534
535* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
536
537Changes in 1.0.29:
538
539* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
540  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
541
542* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
543
544* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
545
546* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
547  from John Pybus).
548
549* Romanian translation started.
550
551* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
552  menu files.
553
554Changes in 1.0.28:
555
556* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
557  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
558
559Changes in 1.0.27:
560
561* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
562  layers.
563
564* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
565
566Changes in 1.0.26:
567
568* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
569  calculated as zero.
570
571* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
572
573* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
574
575* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
576
577* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
578  we must apply resources *after* installing.
579
580* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
581
582* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
583  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
584  of their choice.
585
586* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
587  installed.
588
589* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
590  worked).
591
592* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
593  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
594
595* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
596
597* Documentation updated.
598
599* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
600  documentation!
601
602* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
603
604* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
605
606* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
607  most of them.
608
609* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
610
611Changes in 1.0.25:
612
613* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
614
615* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
616  the box on more Unix platforms.
617
618* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
619
620* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
621  insurmountable technical problems.
622
623Changes in 1.0.24:
624
625* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
626
627* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
628  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
629
630* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
631
632* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
633
634* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
635  (and probably some other Unix versions).
636
637* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
638
639Changes in 1.0.23:
640
641* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
642  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
643  to manual.
644
645* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
646
647* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
648  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
649
650* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
651  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
652  Windows.
653
654* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
655
656* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
657
658Changes in 1.0.22:
659
660* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
661  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
662
663* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
664  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
665  code).
666
667Changes in 1.0.21:
668
669* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
670  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
671  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
672  Compass .MAK files.
673
674* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
675  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
676
677* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
678
679* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
680  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
681  per station.
682
683* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
684  unusual circumstances.
685
686* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
687  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
688  over an previous version.
689
690Changes in 1.0.20:
691
692* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
693
694* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
695  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
696  correction was about 57 times too large!)
697
698* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
699  insert a survey separator character.
700
701* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
702
703Changes in 1.0.19:
704
705* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
706  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
707  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
708
709* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
710  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
711  files are handled).
712
713* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
714  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
715
716* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
717
718* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
719  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
720  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
721
722* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
723
724* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
725  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
726  crash.
727
728* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
729
730* Documentation: minor updates.
731
732Changes in 1.0.18:
733
734* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
735
736* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
737  instead.
738
739* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
740  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
741
742* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
743  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
744  to the aven subpackage.
745
746* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
747
748* Updated TODO list.
749
750Changes in 1.0.17:
751
752* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
753  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
754  its own icon.
755
756* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
757  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
758  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
759  refresh the view.
760
761* Minor update to manual.
762
763Changes in 1.0.16:
764
765* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
766  programs from finding the message files.
767
768* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
769  files.
770
771Changes in 1.0.15:
772
773* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
774  programs from finding the message files.
775
776* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
777  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
778  obtained with the right mouse button.
779
780Changes in 1.0.14:
781
782* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
783  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
784  from Activeware.
785
786* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
787  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
788  separator between survey name and station name.
789
790* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
791  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
792
793* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
794  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
795
796* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
797
798* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
799  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
800
801* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
802
803* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
804  DIRECTION reading.
805
806* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
807
808* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
809  have taken up.
810
811* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
812  once again.  Added regression test for this.
813
814* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
815  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
816
817* Updated documentation.
818
819Changes in 1.0.13:
820
821* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
822  connecting arbitrary stations.
823
824* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
825  join.
826
827* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
828  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
829  and everything should work exactly as before.
830
831* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
832  currently translated.
833
834Changes in 1.0.12:
835
836* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
837
838* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
839
840* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
841  (both cover Eastern European languages).
842
843* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
844  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
845  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
846  permission to include the icon).
847
848* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
849  again.
850
851* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
852  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
853
854* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
855
856* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
857
858Changes in 1.0.11:
859
860* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
861  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
862  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
863  and as intended on 2.3.
864
865* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
866  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
867  '.').
868
869* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
870  autorotation.
871
872* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
873
874* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
875
876* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
877  double-clicking or from the command line.
878
879* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
880
881* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
882
883* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
884
885* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
886
887* Updates to Italian translation.
888
889* Minor documentation updates.
890
891Changes in 1.0.10:
892
893* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
894  names.
895
896* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
897  successfully.
898
899* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
900  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
901  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
902
903* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
904  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
905
906* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
907  factor was being applied backwards!)
908
909* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
910  be opened.
911
912* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
913
914* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
915
916* Updates to German and Italian translations.
917
918Changes in 1.0.9:
919
920* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
921
922* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
923
924* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
925  end of each line).
926
927* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
928  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
929  them).
930
931* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
932
933Changes in 1.0.8:
934
935* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
936
937* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
938  responsiveness.
939
940* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
941  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
942  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
943
944* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
945  the program).
946
947* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
948
949* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
950  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
951
952* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
953  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
954
955* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
956  right mouse button.
957
958* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
959  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
960  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
961
962* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
963  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
964  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
965  approximately 1mm/pixel.
966
967* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
968  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
969
970* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
971  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
972
973* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
974
975* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
976  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
977
978* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
979  pages on rare occasions.
980
981* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
982
983* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
984
985* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
986  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
987  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
988  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
989  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
990
991* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
992  underground surveys.
993
994* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
995
996* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
997  now it gives the correct error message.
998
999* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
1000  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
1001
1002* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
1003  of data which was rejected because of an error.
1004
1005* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
1006
1007* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
1008  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
1009
1010* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
1011  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
1012  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
1013  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
1014  by default).
1015
1016* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
1017  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
1018  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
1019
1020* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
1021  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
1022  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1023
1024* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
1025  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
1026  been removed.
1027
1028Changes in 1.0.7:
1029
1030* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1031
1032Changes in 1.0.6:
1033
1034* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
1035
1036* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
1037  exit with Delete) improved.
1038
1039* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
1040  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
1041
1042* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
1043
1044* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
1045  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
1046
1047* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
1048  with no clino information).
1049
1050* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
1051  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
1052
1053* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
1054
1055* Spell-checked documentation.
1056
1057Changes in 1.0.5:
1058
1059* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
1060  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1061
1062* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
1063
1064* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1065  structure for Compass to read them now.
1066
1067* Documentation updates.
1068
1069Changes in 1.0.4:
1070
1071* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1072  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1073
1074* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1075  output format.
1076
1077* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1078
1079* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1080  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1081
1082* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1083  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1084  on Microsoft Windows.
1085
1086* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1087
1088* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1089
1090* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1091  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1092  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1093  special case better.
1094
1095* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1096  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1097  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1098  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1099
1100* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1101  out packaging now...
1102
1103* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1104
1105* Documentation updates.
1106
1107Changes in 1.0.3:
1108
1109* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1110  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1111  of degrees.
1112
1113* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1114
1115* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1116
1117* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1118  written.
1119
1120* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1121  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1122
1123* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1124
1125Changes in 1.0.2:
1126
1127* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1128  print.ini etc.
1129
1130* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1131  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1132
1133* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1134
1135* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1136
1137* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1138
1139* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1140
1141* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1142  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1143
1144* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1145  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1146
1147* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1148  .3d files.
1149
1150Changes in 1.0.1:
1151
1152* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1153  ticks.
1154
1155* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1156
1157Changes in 1.0.0:
1158
1159* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1160
1161* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1162  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1163
1164* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1165  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1166  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1167
1168* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1169
1170* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1171  instead of "survex file.svx".
1172
1173* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1174  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1175  with a lower optimisation level.
1176
1177* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1178  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1179  "in directory" build.
1180
1181* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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