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aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
Instead turn off depth colouring.

aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.

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