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