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