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1Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
2
3* aven:
4
5  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
6    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
7    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
8
9  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
10    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
11    before by others.
12
13  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
14
15  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
16    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
17    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
18    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
19    original change.
20
21  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
22    which extends beyond the end of the line).
23
24  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
25    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
26
27  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
28
29  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
30
31  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
32    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
33    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
34    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
35    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
36    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
37    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
38
39  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
40    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
41
42  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
43    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
44    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
45
46  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
47    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
48    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
49    much vertical range.
50
51  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
52    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
53    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
54    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
55    are drawn in this way.
56
57  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
58    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
59    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
60    centre should be a single pixel.
61
62* cavern:
63
64  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
65    entering passage data where there are side passages.
66
67  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
68    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
69
70  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
71    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
72    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
73    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
74
75  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
76    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
77    Reported by Erin Lynch.
78
79  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
80    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
81    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
82    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
83
84  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
85    other messages.
86
87* extend:
88
89  + Now runs a bit faster.
90
91  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
92    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
93    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
94    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
95    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
96    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
97    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
98    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
99    be handled better) most welcome.
100
101* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
102
103* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
104
105* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
106  translations from therion.
107
108* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
109  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
110
111* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
112  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
113  Footleg.
114
115* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
116
117* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
118
119Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
120
121* aven:
122
123  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
124    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
125
126  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
127    Suggested by detrito.
128
129  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
130    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
131
132  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
133    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
134
135* Add man page for dump3d.
136
137Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
138
139* aven:
140
141  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
142    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
143
144  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
145    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
146
147* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
148  Lynch and "detrito".
149
150* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
151  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
152
153Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
154
155* cavern:
156
157  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
158    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
159    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
160    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
161    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
162
163  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
164
165  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
166
167  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
168    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
169    degrees).
170
171* aven:
172
173  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
174    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
175    Day.
176
177  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
178    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
179
180  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
181    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
182
183  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
184    of the line in cavern log window.
185
186  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
187
188  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
189
190  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
191    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
192    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
193    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
194    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
195
196  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
197    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
198    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
199
200  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
201
202  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
203
204  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
205    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
206    Atkinson and myself.
207
208  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
209
210  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
211    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
212    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
213    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
214    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
215    survey.
216
217  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
218    lines on my netbook.
219
220  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
221    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
222    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
223
224  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
225    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
226    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
227    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
228    glitches.
229
230  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
231    we currently list, though slower to write.
232
233  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
234    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
235
236  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
237    warnings when building against a recent version.
238
239  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
240    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
241    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
242    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
243
244  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
245    movie export.
246
247  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
248    export.
249
250* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
251  James Begley.
252
253* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
254  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
255
256* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
257
258* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
259  messages get used automatically.
260
261* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
262  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
263
264* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
265
266* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
267
268* Use https for more URLs which support it.
269
270Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
271
272* aven:
273
274  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
275    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
276    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
277    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
278    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
279    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
280    probably change in the future).
281
282  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
283    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
284    the survey tree root.
285
286  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
287    the view was recentred).
288
289  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
290    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
291    wrong direction).
292
293  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
294    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
295    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
296
297  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
298    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
299    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
300    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
301
302  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
303    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
304
305  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
306    addresses #60.
307
308  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
309
310  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
311    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
312    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
313
314  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
315
316  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
317    360 or down past 0.
318
319  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
320    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
321    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
322    real-valued ones.
323
324  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
325    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
326
327  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
328    Lynch.
329
330  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
331
332  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
333    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
334
335  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
336    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
337    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
338
339  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
340    should now work.
341
342* cavern:
343
344  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
345
346  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
347    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
348    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
349
350  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
351    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
352    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
353
354  + Fix check for end of version number array in *required.   We would check up
355    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
356    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
357    issue.
358
359  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
360    by patch from Colin Watson.
361
362  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
363
364* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
365
366* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
367  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
368
369* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
370  used in the same dataset.
371
372* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
373  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
374
375* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
376  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
377  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
378
379* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
380
381Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
382
383* aven:
384
385  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
386    cavern again.
387
388* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
389  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
390  location and use the same start menu folder.
391
392* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
393  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
394
395* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
396  by James Begley.
397
398Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
399
400* aven:
401
402  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
403    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
404    to address.
405
406  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
407    over the survey tree.
408
409  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
410
411  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
412    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
413
414  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
415    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
416    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
417    encoded.
418
419  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
420    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
421    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
422    terminals which do still support this.
423
424  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
425    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
426
427* cavern:
428
429  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
430    Edwards (see #78).
431
432  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
433    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
434    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
435    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
436
437  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
438    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
439    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
440
441  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
442    from Pete Smart (see #69).
443
444* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
445  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
446  Black.
447
448* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
449
450* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
451  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
452  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
453  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
454  Black.
455
456* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
457  Black.
458
459* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
460
461* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
462
463* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
464
465* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
466
467* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
468
469* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
470  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
471
472* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
473  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
474  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
475
476* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
477  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
478  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
479  privileges or not.
480
481Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
482
483* aven:
484
485  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
486    Clipstone.
487
488  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
489    Reported by Jenny Black.
490
491  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
492    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
493    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
494
495  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
496    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
497    messages.
498
499  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
500    the terminal in 1.2.23.
501
502* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
503  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
504
505* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
506
507* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
508  by Wookey.
509
510Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
511
512* aven:
513
514  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
515    machines.
516
517  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
518
519  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
520    already being processed.
521
522  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
523    Reported by Martin Green.
524
525  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
526
527* cavern:
528
529  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
530    find the original survey notes).
531
532  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
533    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
534    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
535    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
536    progress display to be useful.
537
538* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
539
540* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
541  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
542
543* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
544  running cavern.
545
546* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
547  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
548  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
549
550Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
551
552* aven:
553
554  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
555    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
556    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
557    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
558    finding this fix.
559
560* cavern:
561
562  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
563
564  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
565    station.
566
567  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
568    *export.
569
570Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
571
572* aven:
573
574  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
575    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
576    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
577
578  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
579
580  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
581    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
582    does.
583
584  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
585    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
586
587  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
588    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
589
590  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
591    as appropriate.
592
593  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
594    values on Windows.
595
596* cavern:
597
598  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
599    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
600    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
601
602  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
603    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
604
605  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
606    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
607    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
608    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
609
610  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
611    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
612    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
613    Atkinson.
614
615  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
616    actual error rather than on a separate line.
617
618  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
619    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
620    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
621    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
622
623  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
624    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
625    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
626
627* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
628  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
629  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
630  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
631
632* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
633
634* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
635  "*DECLINATION" command.
636
637* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
638  Reported by Jenny Black.
639
640* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
641  documentation.
642
643* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
644  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
645
646* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
647
648* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
649
650Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
651
652* aven:
653
654  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
655    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
656    the same or very similar by default.
657
658  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
659    Maynard.
660
661  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
662
663  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
664
665  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
666    away.
667
668  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
669
670  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
671    display it.
672
673* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
674  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
675  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
676  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
677
678* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
679
680* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
681  before 1.2.19.
682
683* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
684  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
685
686* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
687
688* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
689  disk image.
690
691* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
692
693* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
694  libav features we don't use.
695
696* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
697  a load of libav features we don't use.
698
699* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
700  message in the installer.
701
702Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
703
704* aven:
705
706  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
707    the exported file in 1.2.18.
708
709  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
710
711  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
712    exit full screen mode.
713
714  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
715    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
716    using since 1.2.7).
717
718  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
719    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
720    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
721    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
722    St. Lawrence.
723
724  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
725    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
726
727  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
728    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
729    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
730
731  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
732    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
733    case like we do on other platforms.
734
735  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
736
737  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
738    support multi-monitor setups.
739
740  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
741    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
742
743  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
744    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
745
746  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
747    cases.
748
749  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
750    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
751    Erin Lynch)
752
753  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
754    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
755    items in in so it uses the full width.
756
757  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
758    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
759    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
760    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
761    window.
762
763  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
764    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
765    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
766    only relevant on the first ever run.
767
768* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
769
770* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
771  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
772  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
773  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
774  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
775  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
776
777* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
778  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
779
780Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
781
782* aven:
783
784  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
785    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
786    rendering it as a transparent surface.
787
788  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
789    sanely want to perform from the menu.
790
791  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
792    colouring options.
793
794  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
795
796  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
797    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
798    pressing "Escape".
799
800  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
801    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
802
803  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
804    exporting.
805
806  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
807
808  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
809    is quite likely to change.
810
811  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
812    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
813
814  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
815    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
816    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
817
818  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
819
820  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
821    markers in orange.
822
823  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
824    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
825
826  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
827    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
828    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
829    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
830    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
831    them would be better.
832
833  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
834    Gee.
835
836  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
837    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
838    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
839
840  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
841
842* cavern:
843
844  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
845    susscorfa).
846
847  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
848    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
849
850  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
851
852  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
853    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
854
855  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
856    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
857
858* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
859
860* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
861  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
862  in a modern desktop.
863
864* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
865  the filename in the error message.
866
867* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
868  most complete translations.
869
870* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
871
872* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
873  lacks them.
874
875* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
876
877* Manual:
878
879  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
880    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
881
882  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
883
884  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
885
886  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
887    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
888    available for download.
889
890* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
891  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
892  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
893
894* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
895
896* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
897
898Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
899
900* MacOS X version:
901
902  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
903
904  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
905
906  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
907
908  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
909
910  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
911    currently do this for us.
912
913  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
914
915  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
916
917  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
918
919  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
920    OS X cursor.
921
922  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
923    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
924    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
925    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
926    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
927    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
928    with TextEdit.app for example).
929
930  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
931    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
932
933  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
934
935  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
936    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
937
938  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
939    Riggs.
940
941  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
942    space.
943
944  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
945
946  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
947    10.10.1.
948
949  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
950    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
951    errors.
952
953  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
954    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
955    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
956    wxWidgets build supports by default.
957
958  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
959
960* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
961  treat as a single leg.
962
963* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
964
965* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
966
967* aven:
968
969  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
970    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
971
972  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
973    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
974    1:500).
975
976  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
977    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
978    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
979    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
980
981  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
982    there rather than the two animations fighting.
983
984  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
985    fast.
986
987  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
988    when rotating).
989
990  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
991    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
992
993* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
994  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
995
996* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
997
998* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
999
1000* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
1001
1002* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
1003
1004* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
1005  we're using git.
1006
1007* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
1008
1009  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
1010    compass.
1011
1012  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
1013
1014  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
1015
1016Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
1017
1018* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
1019
1020* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
1021
1022* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
1023
1024* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
1025  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
1026
1027* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
1028
1029* tests/: Improve test coverage.
1030
1031* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
1032  Greek and Polish.
1033
1034* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
1035  by Martin Sluka.
1036
1037* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
1038  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
1039
1040Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
1041
1042* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
1043  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
1044  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
1045  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
1046  for *cs has also been improved.
1047
1048* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
1049  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
1050  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
1051  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
1052
1053* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
1054  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
1055  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
1056  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
1057  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
1058
1059* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
1060  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
1061  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
1062
1063* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
1064
1065* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
1066
1067* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
1068  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
1069  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
1070
1071* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
1072  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
1073
1074Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
1075
1076* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
1077  system in use in 3d v8 files.
1078
1079* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
1080  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
1081  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
1082  export dialog.
1083
1084* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
1085  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
1086  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
1087  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
1088  rather than having one corner there.
1089
1090* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
1091  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
1092
1093* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
1094  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
1095
1096* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
1097  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
1098  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
1099
1100* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
1101  such as 64-bit Linux.
1102
1103* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
1104  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
1105
1106* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
1107  64-bit platforms.
1108
1109* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
1110  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
1111  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
1112
1113* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
1114  the space available in the aven UI.
1115
1116* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
1117  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
1118  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
1119
1120* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
1121  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
1122
1123* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
1124  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
1125  about unconnected surveys.
1126
1127* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
1128  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
1129
1130* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
1131  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
1132  freed memory.
1133
1134* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
1135
1136* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
1137
1138* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
1139
1140* Fix a compiler warning.
1141
1142* Improve test coverage.
1143
1144Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
1145
1146* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
1147  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
1148  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
1149
1150* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
1151  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
1152  Hugh St Lawrence.
1153
1154* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
1155  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
1156  with using aven on a touch screen device.
1157
1158* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
1159  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
1160
1161* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
1162  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
1163
1164* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
1165  off and back on.
1166
1167* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
1168  up time a little.
1169
1170* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
1171  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
1172
1173* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
1174  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
1175  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
1176  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
1177  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
1178  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
1179  situation too.
1180
1181* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
1182  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
1183  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
1184
1185* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
1186
1187* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
1188
1189* Minor translation updates to French.
1190
1191* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
1192
1193* Testsuite improvements:
1194
1195  + Test that "..." anon station works.
1196
1197  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
1198    fail and give an error count.
1199
1200  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
1201
1202Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
1203
1204* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
1205  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
1206  Clipstone.
1207
1208* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
1209
1210* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
1211
1212  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
1213    overlap the scale bar ticks.
1214
1215  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
1216    clipping the border in print preview.
1217
1218  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
1219
1220* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
1221  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
1222
1223* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
1224  available.
1225
1226* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
1227
1228* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
1229
1230* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
1231  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
1232
1233* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
1234  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
1235
1236* Various translation updates.
1237
1238Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
1239
1240* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
1241  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
1242
1243* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
1244  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
1245  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
1246  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
1247
1248* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
1249  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
1250
1251* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
1252  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
1253
1254* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
1255  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
1256
1257* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
1258  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
1259
1260* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
1261  box".
1262
1263* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
1264
1265* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
1266  indicators.
1267
1268* aven: All length units are now translatable.
1269
1270* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
1271  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
1272  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
1273
1274* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
1275  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
1276  measurably slower.
1277
1278* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
1279  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
1280
1281* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
1282  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
1283
1284* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
1285  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
1286  from Therion and elsewhere.
1287
1288* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
1289  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
1290  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
1291
1292* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
1293  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
1294
1295* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
1296  A. Riggs for his work on this.
1297
1298* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
1299  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
1300
1301* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
1302
1303* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
1304  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
1305  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
1306  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
1307  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
1308  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
1309
1310* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
1311
1312Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
1313
1314* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
1315  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
1316  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
1317  Clipstone.
1318
1319* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
1320  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
1321
1322* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
1323  exported SVG files.
1324
1325* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
1326
1327* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
1328  file.
1329
1330* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
1331  GPX files.
1332
1333* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
1334
1335* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
1336  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
1337
1338* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
1339  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
1340  on startup.
1341
1342* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
1343
1344* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
1345  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
1346  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
1347  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
1348  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
1349  other extensions.
1350
1351* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
1352  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
1353  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
1354  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
1355  timezone wrong.
1356
1357* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
1358
1359* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
1360  'SURVEY DATE:'.
1361
1362* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
1363
1364* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
1365
1366* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
1367  enabled.
1368
1369Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
1370
1371* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
1372
1373* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
1374
1375* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
1376
1377* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
1378  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
1379  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
1380
1381* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
1382  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
1383  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
1384
1385* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
1386  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
1387
1388* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
1389
1390* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
1391
1392* Fix some compiler warnings.
1393
1394Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
1395
1396* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
1397  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
1398  Holder.
1399
1400* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
1401  statistics when the value gets large.
1402
1403* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
1404  equations.
1405
1406* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
1407  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
1408  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
1409  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
1410  better when the "View" box is hidden.
1411
1412* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
1413  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
1414
1415* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
1416  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
1417  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
1418  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
1419  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
1420  way is coming soon.
1421
1422* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
1423  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
1424
1425* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
1426  time ago, so update references.
1427
1428* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
1429  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
1430
1431* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
1432  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
1433
1434* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
1435  Sebastian Ramacher.
1436
1437* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
1438
1439* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
1440
1441* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
1442
1443* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
1444
1445* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
1446
1447* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
1448  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
1449  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
1450
1451* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
1452
1453* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
1454
1455* img library:
1456
1457  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
1458    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
1459    reading).
1460
1461  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
1462    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
1463
1464  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
1465    support these as an extension.
1466
1467  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
1468
1469* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
1470  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
1471  itself has any translations for.
1472
1473* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
1474
1475* Minor translation updates.
1476
1477* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
1478
1479Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
1480
1481* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
1482  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
1483  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
1484  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
1485  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
1486  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
1487  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
1488  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1489
1490* New version 8 of the 3d format:
1491
1492  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1493
1494  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
1495    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
1496
1497  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
1498    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
1499
1500  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
1501
1502  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
1503    human-readable string.
1504
1505  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
1506    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
1507
1508* img library:
1509
1510  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1511
1512  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
1513    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
1514
1515  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
1516    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
1517    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
1518    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
1519    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
1520    explicitly in the file.
1521
1522  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
1523
1524* aven:
1525
1526  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
1527    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
1528    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
1529    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
1530    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
1531    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
1532
1533  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
1534    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
1535    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
1536    queued up.
1537
1538  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
1539    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
1540
1541  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
1542    them like other legs.
1543
1544  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
1545    station names to positions.
1546
1547  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
1548    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
1549    wrongly.
1550
1551  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
1552
1553  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
1554    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
1555    that's used by the desktop).
1556
1557  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
1558
1559  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
1560    error from cavern.
1561
1562  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
1563
1564  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
1565    in the dialog in sync.
1566
1567* cavern:
1568
1569  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
1570    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
1571    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
1572
1573  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
1574    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1575
1576  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
1577    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
1578    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
1579    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
1580    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
1581    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
1582    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
1583    degrees.
1584
1585  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
1586    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
1587    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
1588
1589  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
1590
1591  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
1592    warnings.
1593
1594  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
1595    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
1596
1597  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
1598    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
1599
1600  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
1601    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
1602    relevant.
1603
1604  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
1605    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
1606    the same line.
1607
1608  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
1609    "End of line not blank" error.
1610
1611  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
1612    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
1613
1614  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
1615    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
1616
1617  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
1618    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
1619    include that character in the token reported.
1620
1621  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
1622    first item.
1623
1624* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
1625
1626* dump3d:
1627
1628  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
1629    info from 3d files in scripts.
1630
1631  + Add --show-dates option.
1632
1633  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
1634
1635  + Report the data style of legs.
1636
1637  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
1638
1639  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
1640
1641* Test suite:
1642
1643  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
1644    expected output so it passes reliably.
1645
1646  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
1647    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
1648
1649  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
1650    for more.
1651
1652* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
1653  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
1654  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
1655
1656* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
1657  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
1658
1659* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
1660  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
1661
1662* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
1663  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
1664  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
1665  settings.
1666
1667* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
1668  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
1669  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
1670  set correctly.
1671
1672* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
1673  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
1674  them to translate.
1675
1676* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
1677  close to complete.
1678
1679* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
1680
1681* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
1682
1683* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
1684
1685Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
1686
1687* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
1688
1689* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
1690  package (ticket#35).
1691
1692* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
1693  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
1694  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
1695
1696* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
1697  Kahler.
1698
1699* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
1700  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
1701  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
1702  libproj and build survex with:
1703
1704      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1705      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1706
1707* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
1708
1709* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
1710
1711* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
1712  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
1713  file".
1714
1715Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
1716
1717* aven:
1718
1719  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
1720
1721  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
1722    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
1723
1724  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
1725
1726  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
1727
1728  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
1729    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
1730
1731* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
1732  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
1733  error early on).
1734
1735* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
1736  the man page source as well as in the filename.
1737
1738Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
1739
1740* aven:
1741
1742  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
1743    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
1744    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
1745    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
1746
1747  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
1748    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
1749
1750  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
1751
1752  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
1753
1754  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
1755
1756* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
1757
1758Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
1759
1760* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
1761
1762* (Mac OS X version):
1763
1764  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
1765
1766  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
1767
1768  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
1769    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
1770
1771  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
1772
1773* aven:
1774
1775  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
1776
1777  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
1778
1779    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
1780      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
1781      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
1782      character.
1783
1784    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
1785      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
1786      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
1787      and two in a few cases.
1788
1789    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
1790      8 pixels.
1791
1792  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
1793    draw crosses.
1794
1795  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
1796    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
1797    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
1798    is the start or end of a tube.
1799
1800  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
1801    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
1802
1803  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
1804    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
1805    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
1806
1807* extend:
1808
1809  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
1810
1811  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
1812    which means "no info").
1813
1814* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
1815  was no longer used - it certainly is!
1816
1817* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
1818  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
1819  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
1820  current character set.
1821
1822* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
1823
1824* Test suite:
1825
1826  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
1827
1828  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
1829
1830Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
1831
1832* aven:
1833
1834  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
1835    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
1836    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
1837    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
1838    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
1839    usable format.
1840
1841  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
1842    files.  (ticket#26)
1843
1844  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
1845    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
1846
1847  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
1848    using lines.
1849
1850  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
1851    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
1852
1853  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
1854    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
1855    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
1856    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
1857
1858  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
1859    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
1860    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
1861
1862  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
1863    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
1864    in 1.2.1.
1865
1866Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
1867
1868* Translation updates for US English.
1869
1870* aven:
1871
1872  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
1873    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
1874
1875  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
1876
1877  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
1878    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
1879    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
1880    visually similar to the survey legs.
1881
1882  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
1883    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
1884
1885  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
1886    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
1887    does still provide some useful information).
1888
1889  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
1890    a depth band boundary.
1891
1892  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
1893    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
1894    full-screen mode).
1895
1896  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
1897    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
1898    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
1899    are a little better, though still not perfect.
1900
1901  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
1902    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
1903
1904  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
1905    that station.
1906
1907  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
1908    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
1909
1910  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
1911    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
1912    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
1913    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
1914    a case as it is a bug).
1915
1916  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
1917    invalidated on window width or height changes.
1918
1919  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
1920    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
1921    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
1922    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
1923
1924  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
1925    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
1926    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
1927    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
1928    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
1929    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
1930    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
1931
1932  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
1933    similarly for other compass points.
1934
1935  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
1936    info in the "About" dialog.
1937
1938  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
1939    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
1940
1941  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
1942    as well as still working with older versions.
1943
1944  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
1945    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
1946
1947  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
1948    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
1949    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
1950    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
1951    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
1952
1953  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
1954    nicer and make better use of the available space.
1955
1956  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
1957    dialog.
1958
1959  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
1960    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
1961
1962  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
1963    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
1964
1965  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
1966
1967  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
1968
1969  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
1970    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
1971    being pressed and toggle full screen.
1972
1973* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
1974  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
1975
1976* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
1977
1978* More messages are now available to be translated.
1979
1980* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
1981  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
1982
1983* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
1984
1985* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
1986  sudo for installing on Unix.
1987
1988* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
1989  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
1990
1991* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
1992  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
1993
1994* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1995
1996Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
1997
1998* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
1999  English.
2000
2001* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
2002  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
2003  case.
2004
2005* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
2006  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
2007  these into Survex's .msg format.
2008
2009* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
2010  an actual command).
2011
2012* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
2013  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
2014  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
2015  recurrence of that).
2016
2017* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
2018  than /usr/doc/survex.
2019
2020* aven:
2021
2022  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
2023
2024  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
2025    nicer at larger sizes.
2026
2027  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
2028    with GLX >= 1.3.
2029
2030  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
2031
2032  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
2033    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
2034    required libraries set up for building releases.
2035
2036  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
2037
2038  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
2039
2040  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
2041    rendered with icons on some platforms.
2042
2043  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
2044    ISO8859-1).
2045
2046  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
2047    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
2048
2049  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
2050    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
2051
2052* cavern:
2053
2054  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
2055    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
2056    fatal error!
2057
2058  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
2059    format to output.  (ticket#21)
2060
2061* img library:
2062
2063  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
2064    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
2065
2066* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
2067  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
2068
2069Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
2070
2071* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
2072  Portuguese, and US English.
2073
2074* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
2075  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
2076
2077* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
2078  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
2079
2080* img.c:
2081
2082  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
2083
2084  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
2085
2086* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
2087
2088* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
2089  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
2090  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
2091  translated.
2092
2093Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
2094
2095* aven:
2096
2097  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
2098    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
2099
2100  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
2101    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
2102    addresses ticket#12.
2103
2104  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
2105    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
2106    consistent shape.
2107
2108  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
2109    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
2110    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
2111    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
2112
2113  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
2114    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
2115
2116  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
2117
2118  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
2119    more places.
2120
2121  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
2122    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
2123
2124* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
2125
2126* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
2127  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
2128
2129* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
2130
2131* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
2132  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
2133  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
2134  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
2135  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
2136  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
2137
2138* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
2139  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
2140  redirecting to it.
2141
2142* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
2143  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
2144  I/O).
2145
2146* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
2147  headers.
2148
2149* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
2150
2151* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
2152  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
2153
2154* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
2155
2156Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
2157
2158* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
2159
2160* aven:
2161
2162  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
2163    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
2164    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
2165    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
2166
2167  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
2168
2169  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
2170    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
2171    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
2172    a number.
2173
2174  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
2175    log window.
2176
2177  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
2178    various cases.
2179
2180  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
2181    (ticket#9)
2182
2183  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
2184    namespace with its own "Point" class.
2185
2186  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
2187    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
2188
2189  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
2190
2191  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
2192    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
2193
2194* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
2195  give them before.
2196
2197* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
2198  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
2199  point looking for them now.
2200
2201* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
2202  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
2203  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
2204  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
2205
2206* manual:
2207
2208  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
2209
2210  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
2211    (change taken from 1.0).
2212
2213* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
2214
2215Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
2216
2217* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
2218
2219* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
2220
2221* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
2222
2223* aven:
2224
2225  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
2226
2227  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
2228    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
2229    seem to be Unicode now).
2230
2231  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
2232    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
2233
2234  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
2235    text on the survey pane:
2236
2237    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
2238
2239    - Character spacing is improved.
2240
2241    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
2242
2243  + "About" dialog:
2244
2245    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
2246      bug reporting.
2247
2248    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
2249      modern gfx card.
2250
2251    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
2252
2253  + Processing .svx files:
2254
2255    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
2256
2257    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
2258      than opening a separate frame for it.
2259
2260    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
2261
2262    - Fix small memory leak.
2263
2264  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
2265    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
2266    such a name.
2267
2268  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
2269
2270  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
2271    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
2272    invocations.
2273
2274  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
2275
2276  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
2277
2278  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
2279
2280* Documentation:
2281
2282  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
2283
2284  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
2285    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
2286    together isn't very useful.
2287
2288  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
2289
2290  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
2291    the FSF website.
2292
2293  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
2294    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
2295    the source code.
2296
2297* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
2298  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
2299
2300* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
2301  package from the source tarball.
2302
2303* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
2304  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
2305
2306Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
2307
2308* aven:
2309
2310  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
2311
2312  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
2313
2314  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
2315    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
2316    names/crosses).
2317
2318Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
2319
2320* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
2321
2322* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
2323
2324* aven:
2325
2326  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
2327
2328  + Fix character spacing.
2329
2330  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
2331    proportional fonts.
2332
2333  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
2334    rather than the filename.
2335
2336  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
2337
2338  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
2339    depth colouring.
2340
2341  + Add "Colour by Error".
2342
2343  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
2344
2345  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
2346
2347  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
2348
2349  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
2350
2351  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
2352
2353  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
2354
2355  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
2356
2357  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
2358    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
2359
2360  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
2361
2362  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
2363    default.
2364
2365* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
2366  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
2367
2368* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
2369  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
2370
2371* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
2372
2373* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
2374
2375Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
2376
2377* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
2378  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
2379  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
2380  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
2381  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
2382
2383* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
2384  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
2385  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
2386
2387* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
2388  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
2389  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
2390
2391* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
2392  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
2393  allowed).
2394
2395* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
2396
2397* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2398
2399* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2400
2401Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
2402
2403* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
2404  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
2405
2406* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
2407  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
2408  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
2409
2410* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
2411  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
2412  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
2413  the new "*data passage" style.
2414
2415* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
2416  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
2417
2418* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
2419  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
2420  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
2421  some cases.
2422
2423* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
2424  with no survey loaded.
2425
2426* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
2427
2428* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
2429  loaded a survey.
2430
2431* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
2432
2433* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
2434
2435* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
2436  doesn't exist.
2437
2438* Updated French and Italian translations.
2439
2440* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
2441  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
2442
2443* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
2444  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
2445  update their copy).
2446
2447* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
2448  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
2449  trying to compile).
2450
2451Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
2452
2453* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
2454  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
2455
2456* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
2457  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
2458  has been disabled.
2459
2460* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
2461  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
2462  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
2463  time.
2464
2465* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
2466  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
2467  highlighted stations.
2468
2469* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
2470
2471* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
2472  the tilt from plan to elevation.
2473
2474* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
2475  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
2476
2477* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
2478  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
2479  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
2480
2481* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
2482  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
2483
2484* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
2485
2486* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
2487
2488* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
2489
2490* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
2491  run by an unprivileged user.
2492
2493* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
2494  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
2495  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
2496
2497* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
2498  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
2499
2500* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
2501
2502* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
2503  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
2504
2505* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
2506  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
2507
2508* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
2509  if it isn't.
2510
2511* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
2512  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
2513
2514* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
2515  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
2516
2517* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
2518  reset to default view as well).
2519
2520* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
2521  empty.
2522
2523* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
2524  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
2525
2526* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
2527  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
2528  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
2529
2530* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
2531  and non-zero width lines.
2532
2533* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
2534  was turned on.
2535
2536* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
2537  not always being fully written.
2538
2539Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
2540
2541* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
2542  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
2543  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
2544  date near the middle of that period).
2545
2546* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
2547  with MS Windows).
2548
2549* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
2550  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
2551  several surveys in the same directory).
2552
2553* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
2554  our check for them to include that knowledge.
2555
2556* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
2557
2558* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
2559  moved off a station.
2560
2561* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
2562  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
2563
2564* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
2565
2566* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
2567  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
2568
2569* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
2570  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
2571  dialogs.
2572
2573* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
2574  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
2575
2576* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
2577  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
2578  introduced in 1.1.6).
2579
2580* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
2581  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
2582  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
2583
2584* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
2585  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
2586
2587* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
2588
2589* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
2590
2591Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
2592
2593* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
2594  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
2595
2596* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
2597  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
2598  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
2599  3d file.
2600
2601* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
2602
2603* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
2604
2605* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
2606  Instead turn off depth colouring.
2607
2608* aven: Export as HPGL added.
2609
2610* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
2611  Martin Green).
2612
2613* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
2614  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
2615  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
2616
2617* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
2618
2619* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
2620  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
2621
2622* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
2623  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
2624  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
2625  of everything else.
2626
2627* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
2628  presentation icons.
2629
2630* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
2631  keyboard focus there.
2632
2633* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
2634
2635* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
2636
2637* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
2638
2639* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
2640
2641* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
2642  language to use for messages.
2643
2644* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
2645  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
2646
2647* Removed old printer drivers.
2648
2649* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
2650  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
2651
2652Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
2653
2654* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
2655
2656* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
2657
2658* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
2659  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
2660
2661* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
2662  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
2663
2664* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
2665
2666* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
2667  underground legs is toggled.
2668
2669* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
2670  attached to the previous data.
2671
2672* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
2673  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
2674  them.
2675
2676Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
2677
2678* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
2679
2680* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
2681  continental European countries).
2682
2683* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
2684  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
2685  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
2686
2687* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
2688
2689* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
2690  they're needed.
2691
2692* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
2693
2694* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
2695
2696* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
2697
2698* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
2699  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
2700  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
2701
2702* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
2703
2704Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
2705
2706* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
2707
2708* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
2709
2710* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
2711
2712* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
2713
2714* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
2715
2716* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
2717
2718* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
2719  when there's a presentation loaded.
2720
2721* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
2722  in cave view.
2723
2724* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
2725
2726* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
2727  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
2728  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
2729
2730* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
2731  filename for file history and window title.
2732
2733* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
2734  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
2735  only needed with GTK1.2.
2736
2737* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
2738
2739* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
2740
2741* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
2742
2743* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
2744
2745Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
2746
2747* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
2748  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
2749  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
2750
2751* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
2752  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
2753
2754* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
2755  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
2756  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
2757  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
2758
2759* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
2760
2761* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
2762  with --help and --version.
2763
2764* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
2765  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
2766  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
2767  Fixed all these problems.
2768
2769* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
2770  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
2771  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
2772
2773* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
2774  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
2775  sources.
2776
2777* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
2778
2779* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
2780
2781* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
2782  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
2783
2784* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
2785  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
2786  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
2787  animating.
2788
2789* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
2790
2791* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
2792
2793* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
2794  to this branch.
2795
2796* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
2797
2798  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
2799
2800  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
2801
2802  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
2803
2804* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
2805
2806* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
2807  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
2808
2809* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
2810
2811* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
2812  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
2813
2814* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
2815
2816* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
2817  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
2818  for anyone building from CVS).
2819
2820* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
2821
2822* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
2823
2824* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
2825
2826* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
2827
2828* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
2829  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
2830  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
2831
2832* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
2833  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
2834
2835* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
2836
2837* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
2838  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
2839  loaded).
2840
2841* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
2842
2843Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
2844
2845* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
2846  startup.
2847
2848* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
2849  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
2850
2851Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
2852
2853* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
2854  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
2855  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
2856
2857* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
2858  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
2859  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
2860
2861* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
2862  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
2863  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
2864
2865* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
2866
2867* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
2868  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
2869
2870* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
2871  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
2872
2873* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
2874  better use of screen space.
2875
2876* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
2877
2878* aven: Perspective view.
2879
2880* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
2881
2882* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
2883  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
2884
2885* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
2886  and load/save/run them.
2887
2888* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
2889
2890* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
2891
2892* aven: Depth fogging option.
2893
2894* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
2895
2896* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
2897
2898* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
2899  showing the surface legs.
2900
2901* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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