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aven: Improve SVG output compatibility. Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
with Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp, Gqview, and Opera 8.5.

aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
and non-zero width lines.

aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
was turned on.

aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
not always being fully written.

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1TOBE Changes in 1.1.8:
2
3* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4
5* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
6  run by an unprivileged user.
7
8* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
9  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
10  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
11
12* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
13  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
14
15* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
16
17* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
18  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
19
20* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
21  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
22
23* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
24  if it isn't.
25
26* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
27  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
28
29* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
30  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
31
32* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
33  reset to default view as well).
34
35* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
36  empty.
37
38* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
39  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
40
41* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
42  with Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp, Gqview, and Opera 8.5.
43
44* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
45  and non-zero width lines.
46
47* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
48  was turned on.
49
50* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
51  not always being fully written.
52
53Changes in 1.1.7:
54
55* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
56  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
57  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
58  date near the middle of that period).
59
60* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
61  with MS Windows).
62
63* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
64  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
65  several surveys in the same directory).
66
67* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
68  our for them to include that knowledge.
69
70* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
71
72* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
73  moved off a station.
74
75* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
76  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
77
78* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
79
80* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
81  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
82
83* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
84  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
85  dialogs.
86
87* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
88  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
89
90* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
91  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
92  introduced in 1.1.6).
93
94* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
95  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
96  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
97
98* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
99  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
100
101* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
102
103* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
104
105Changes in 1.1.6:
106
107* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
108  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
109
110* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
111  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
112  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
113  3d file.
114
115* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
116
117* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
118
119* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
120  Instead turn off depth colouring.
121
122* aven: Export as HPGL added.
123
124* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
125  Martin Green).
126
127* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
128  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
129  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
130
131* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
132
133* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
134  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
135
136* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
137  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
138  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
139  of everything else.
140
141* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
142  presentation icons.
143
144* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
145  keyboard focus there.
146
147* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
148
149* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
150
151* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
152
153* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
154
155* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
156  language to use for messages.
157
158* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
159  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
160
161* Removed old printer drivers.
162
163* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
164  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
165
166Changes in 1.1.5:
167
168* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
169
170* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
171
172* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
173  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
174
175* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
176  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
177 
178* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
179
180* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
181  underground legs is toggled.
182
183* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
184  attached to the previous data.
185
186* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
187  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
188  them.
189
190Changes in 1.1.4:
191
192* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
193
194* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
195  continental European countries).
196
197* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
198  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
199  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
200
201* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
202
203* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
204  they're needed.
205
206* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
207
208* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
209
210* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
211
212* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
213  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
214  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
215
216* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
217
218Changes in 1.1.3:
219
220* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
221
222* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
223
224* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
225
226* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
227
228* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
229
230* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
231
232* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
233  when there's a presentation loaded.
234
235* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
236  in cave view.
237
238* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
239
240* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
241  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
242  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
243
244* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
245  filename for file history and window title.
246
247* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
248  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
249  only needed with GTK1.2.
250
251* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
252
253* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
254
255* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
256
257* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
258
259Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
260
261* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
262  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
263  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
264
265* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
266  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
267
268* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
269  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
270  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
271  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
272
273* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
274
275* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
276  with --help and --version.
277
278* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
279  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
280  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
281  Fixed all these problems.
282
283* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
284  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
285  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
286
287* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
288  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
289  sources.
290
291* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
292
293* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
294
295* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
296  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
297
298* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
299  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
300  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
301  animating.
302
303* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
304
305* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
306
307* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
308  to this branch.
309
310* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
311
312  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
313
314  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
315
316  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
317
318* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
319
320* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
321  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
322
323* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
324
325* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
326  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
327
328* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
329
330* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
331  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
332  for anyone building from CVS).
333
334* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
335
336* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
337
338* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
339
340* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
341
342* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
343  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
344  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
345
346* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
347  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
348
349* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
350
351* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
352  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
353  loaded).
354
355* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
356
357Changes in 1.1.1:
358
359* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
360  startup.
361
362* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
363  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
364
365Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
366
367* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
368  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
369  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
370
371* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
372  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
373  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
374
375* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
376  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
377  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
378
379* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
380
381* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
382  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
383
384* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
385  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
386
387* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
388  better use of screen space.
389
390* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
391
392* aven: Perspective view.
393
394* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
395
396* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
397  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
398
399* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
400  and load/save/run them.
401
402* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
403
404* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
405
406* aven: Depth fogging option.
407
408* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
409
410* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
411
412* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
413  showing the surface legs.
414
415* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
416
417Changes in 1.0.32:
418
419* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
420
421* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
422  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
423
424* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
425  extend elevations.
426
427* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
428
429* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
430  default button.
431
432* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
433  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
434
435* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
436
437* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
438  - previously this was being ignored.
439
440* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
441
442* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
443  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
444  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
445  pixel too small on Windows.
446
447* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
448  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
449  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
450
451* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
452  with pretty much every other application.
453
454* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
455  within aven.
456
457* aven: Updated a few icons.
458
459* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
460
461* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
462
463* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
464  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
465  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
466  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
467  doubt anyone is still using that...
468
469* Updates to German translation.
470
471Changes in 1.0.31:
472
473* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
474  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
475
476* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
477  grid is enabled or not.
478
479* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
480
481* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
482  translations.
483
484* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
485
486Changes in 1.0.30:
487
488* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
489
490* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
491
492* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
493
494* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
495  flagged as surface and underground.
496
497* Romanian translation mostly completed.
498
499* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
500
501Changes in 1.0.29:
502
503* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
504  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
505
506* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
507
508* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
509
510* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
511  from John Pybus).
512
513* Romanian translation started.
514
515* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
516  menu files.
517
518Changes in 1.0.28:
519
520* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
521  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
522
523Changes in 1.0.27:
524
525* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
526  layers.
527
528* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
529
530Changes in 1.0.26:
531
532* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
533  calculated as zero.
534
535* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
536
537* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
538
539* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
540
541* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
542  we must apply resources *after* installing.
543
544* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
545
546* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
547  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
548  of their choice.
549
550* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
551  installed.
552
553* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
554  worked).
555
556* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
557  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
558
559* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
560
561* Documentation updated.
562
563* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
564  documentation!
565
566* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
567
568* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
569
570* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
571  most of them.
572
573* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
574
575Changes in 1.0.25:
576
577* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
578
579* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
580  the box on more Unix platforms.
581
582* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
583
584* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
585  insurmountable technical problems.
586
587Changes in 1.0.24:
588
589* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
590
591* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
592  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
593
594* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
595
596* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
597
598* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
599  (and probably some other Unix versions).
600
601* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
602
603Changes in 1.0.23:
604
605* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
606  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
607  to manual.
608
609* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
610
611* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
612  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
613
614* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
615  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
616  Windows.
617
618* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
619
620* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
621
622Changes in 1.0.22:
623
624* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
625  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
626
627* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
628  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
629  code).
630
631Changes in 1.0.21:
632
633* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
634  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
635  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
636  Compass .MAK files.
637
638* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
639  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
640
641* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
642
643* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
644  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
645  per station.
646
647* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
648  unusual circumstances.
649
650* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
651  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
652  over an previous version.
653
654Changes in 1.0.20:
655
656* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
657
658* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
659  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
660  correction was about 57 times too large!)
661
662* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
663  insert a survey separator character.
664
665* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
666
667Changes in 1.0.19:
668
669* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
670  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
671  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
672
673* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
674  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
675  files are handled).
676
677* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
678  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
679
680* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
681
682* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
683  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
684  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
685
686* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
687
688* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
689  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
690  crash.
691
692* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
693
694* Documentation: minor updates.
695
696Changes in 1.0.18:
697
698* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
699
700* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
701  instead.
702
703* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
704  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
705
706* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
707  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
708  to the aven subpackage.
709
710* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
711
712* Updated TODO list.
713
714Changes in 1.0.17:
715
716* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
717  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
718  its own icon.
719
720* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
721  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
722  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
723  refresh the view.
724
725* Minor update to manual.
726
727Changes in 1.0.16:
728
729* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
730  programs from finding the message files.
731
732* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
733  files.
734
735Changes in 1.0.15:
736
737* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
738  programs from finding the message files.
739
740* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
741  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
742  obtained with the right mouse button.
743
744Changes in 1.0.14:
745
746* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
747  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
748  from Activeware.
749
750* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
751  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
752  separator between survey name and station name.
753
754* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
755  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
756
757* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
758  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
759
760* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
761
762* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
763  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
764
765* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
766
767* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
768  DIRECTION reading.
769
770* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
771
772* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
773  have taken up.
774
775* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
776  once again.  Added regression test for this.
777
778* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
779  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
780
781* Updated documentation.
782
783Changes in 1.0.13:
784
785* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
786  connecting arbitrary stations.
787
788* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
789  join.
790
791* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
792  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
793  and everything should work exactly as before.
794
795* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
796  currently translated.
797
798Changes in 1.0.12:
799
800* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
801
802* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
803
804* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
805  (both cover Eastern European languages).
806
807* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
808  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
809  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
810  permission to include the icon).
811
812* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
813  again.
814
815* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
816  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
817
818* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
819
820* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
821
822Changes in 1.0.11:
823
824* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
825  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
826  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
827  and as intended on 2.3.
828
829* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
830  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
831  '.').
832
833* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
834  autorotation.
835
836* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
837
838* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
839
840* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
841  double-clicking or from the command line.
842
843* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
844
845* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
846
847* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
848
849* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
850
851* Updates to Italian translation.
852
853* Minor documentation updates.
854
855Changes in 1.0.10:
856
857* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
858  names.
859
860* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
861  successfully.
862
863* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
864  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
865  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
866
867* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
868  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
869
870* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
871  factor was being applied backwards!)
872
873* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
874  be opened.
875
876* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
877
878* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
879
880* Updates to German and Italian translations.
881
882Changes in 1.0.9:
883
884* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
885
886* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
887
888* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
889  end of each line).
890
891* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
892  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
893  them).
894
895* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
896
897Changes in 1.0.8:
898
899* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
900
901* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
902  responsiveness.
903
904* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
905  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
906  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
907
908* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
909  the program).
910
911* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
912
913* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
914  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
915
916* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
917  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
918
919* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
920  right mouse button.
921
922* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
923  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
924  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
925
926* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
927  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
928  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
929  approximately 1mm/pixel.
930
931* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
932  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
933
934* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
935  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
936
937* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
938
939* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
940  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
941
942* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
943  pages on rare occasions.
944
945* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
946
947* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
948
949* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
950  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
951  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
952  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
953  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
954
955* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
956  underground surveys.
957
958* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
959
960* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
961  now it gives the correct error message.
962
963* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
964  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
965
966* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
967  of data which was rejected because of an error.
968
969* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
970
971* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
972  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
973
974* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
975  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
976  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
977  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
978  by default).
979
980* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
981  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
982  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
983
984* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
985  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
986  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
987
988* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
989  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
990  been removed.
991
992Changes in 1.0.7:
993
994* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
995
996Changes in 1.0.6:
997
998* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
999
1000* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
1001  exit with Delete) improved.
1002
1003* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
1004  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
1005
1006* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
1007
1008* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
1009  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
1010
1011* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
1012  with no clino information).
1013
1014* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
1015  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
1016
1017* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
1018
1019* Spell-checked documentation.
1020
1021Changes in 1.0.5:
1022
1023* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
1024  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1025
1026* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
1027
1028* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1029  structure for Compass to read them now.
1030
1031* Documentation updates.
1032
1033Changes in 1.0.4:
1034
1035* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1036  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1037
1038* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1039  output format.
1040
1041* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1042
1043* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1044  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1045
1046* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1047  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1048  on Microsoft Windows.
1049
1050* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1051
1052* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1053
1054* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1055  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1056  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1057  special case better.
1058
1059* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1060  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1061  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1062  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1063
1064* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1065  out packaging now...
1066
1067* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1068
1069* Documentation updates.
1070
1071Changes in 1.0.3:
1072
1073* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1074  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1075  of degrees.
1076
1077* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1078
1079* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1080
1081* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1082  written.
1083
1084* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1085  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1086
1087* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1088
1089Changes in 1.0.2:
1090
1091* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1092  print.ini etc.
1093
1094* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1095  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1096
1097* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1098
1099* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1100
1101* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1102
1103* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1104
1105* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1106  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1107
1108* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1109  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1110
1111* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1112  .3d files.
1113
1114Changes in 1.0.1:
1115
1116* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1117  ticks.
1118
1119* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1120
1121Changes in 1.0.0:
1122
1123* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1124
1125* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1126  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1127
1128* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1129  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1130  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1131
1132* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1133
1134* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1135  instead of "survex file.svx".
1136
1137* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1138  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1139  with a lower optimisation level.
1140
1141* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1142  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1143  "in directory" build.
1144
1145* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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