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aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.

aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.

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