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109e4d5f1 (Olly Betts 2014-05-11 20:24:52 +1200    1) Sun May 11 08:24:23 GMT 2014  Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
2
3Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-??):
4
5* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
6  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
7  Hugh St Lawrence.
8
9* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
10  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
11
12* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
13  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
14
15* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
16  off and back on.
17
18* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
19  up time a little.
20
21* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
22  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
23
24* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
25  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
26  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
27  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
28  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
29  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
30  situation too.
31
32* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
33  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
34  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
35
36* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
37
38* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
39
40* Minor translation updates to French.
41
42* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
43
44* Testsuite improvements:
45
46  + Test that "..." anon station works.
47
48  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
49    fail and give an error count.
50
51  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
52
53Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
54
55* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
56  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
57  Clipstone.
58
59* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
60
61* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
62
63  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
64    overlap the scale bar ticks.
65
66  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
67    clipping the border in print preview.
68
69  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
70
71* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
72  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
73
74* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
75  available.
76
77* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
78
79* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
80
81* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
82  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
83
84* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
85  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
86
87* Various translation updates.
88
89Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
90
91* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
92  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
93
94* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
95  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
96  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
97  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
98
99* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
100  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
101
102* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
103  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
104
105* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
106  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
107
108* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
109  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
110
111* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
112  box".
113
114* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
115
116* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
117  indicators.
118
119* aven: All length units are now translatable.
120
121* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
122  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
123  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
124
125* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
126  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
127  measurably slower.
128
129* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
130  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
131
132* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
133  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
134
135* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
136  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
137  from Therion and elsewhere.
138
139* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
140  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
141  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
142
143* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
144  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
145
146* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
147  A. Riggs for his work on this.
148
149* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
150  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
151
152* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
153
154* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
155  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
156  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
157  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
158  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
159  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
160
161* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
162
163Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
164
165* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
166  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
167  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
168  Clipstone.
169
170* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
171  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
172
173* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
174  exported SVG files.
175
176* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
177
178* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
179  file.
180
181* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
182  GPX files.
183
184* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
185
186* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
187  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
188
189* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
190  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
191  on startup.
192
193* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
194
195* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
196  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
197  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
198  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
199  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
200  other extensions.
201
202* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
203  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
204  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
205  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
206  timezone wrong.
207
208* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
209
210* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
211  'SURVEY DATE:'.
212
213* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
214
215* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
216
217* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
218  enabled.
219
220Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
221
222* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
223
224* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
225
226* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
227
228* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
229  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
230  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
231
232* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
233  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
234  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
235
236* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
237  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
238
239* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
240
241* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
242
243* Fix some compiler warnings.
244
245Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
246
247* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
248  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
249  Holder.
250
251* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
252  statistics when the value gets large.
253
254* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
255  equations.
256
257* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
258  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
259  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
260  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
261  better when the "View" box is hidden.
262
263* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
264  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
265
266* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
267  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
268  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
269  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
270  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
271  way is coming soon.
272
273* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
274  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
275
276* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
277  time ago, so update references.
278
279* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
280  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
281
282* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
283  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
284
285* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
286  Sebastian Ramacher.
287
288* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
289
290* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
291
292* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
293
294* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
295
296* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
297
298* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
299  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
300  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
301
302* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
303
304* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
305
306* img library:
307
308  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
309    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
310    reading).
311
312  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
313    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
314
315  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
316    support these as an extension.
317
318  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
319
320* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
321  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
322  itself has any translations for.
323
324* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
325
326* Minor translation updates.
327
328* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
329
330Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
331
332* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
333  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
334  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
335  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
336  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
337  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
338  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
339  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
340
341* New version 8 of the 3d format:
342
343  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
344
345  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
346    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
347
348  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
349    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
350
351  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
352
353  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
354    human-readable string.
355
356  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
357    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
358
359* img library:
360
361  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
362
363  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
364    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
365
366  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
367    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
368    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
369    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
370    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
371    explicitly in the file.
372
373  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
374
375* aven:
376
377  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
378    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
379    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
380    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
381    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
382    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
383
384  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
385    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
386    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
387    queued up.
388
389  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
390    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
391
392  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
393    them like other legs.
394
395  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
396    station names to positions.
397
398  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
399    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
400    wrongly.
401
402  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
403
404  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
405    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
406    that's used by the desktop).
407
408  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
409
410  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
411    error from cavern.
412
413  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
414
415  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
416    in the dialog in sync.
417
418* cavern:
419
420  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
421    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
422    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
423
424  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
425    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
426
427  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
428    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
429    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
430    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
431    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
432    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
433    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
434    degrees.
435
436  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
437    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
438    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
439
440  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
441
442  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
443    warnings.
444
445  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
446    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
447
448  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
449    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
450
451  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
452    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
453    relevant.
454
455  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
456    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
457    the same line.
458
459  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
460    "End of line not blank" error.
461
462  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
463    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
464
465  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
466    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
467
468  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
469    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
470    include that character in the token reported.
471
472  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
473    first item.
474
475* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
476
477* dump3d:
478
479  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
480    info from 3d files in scripts.
481
482  + Add --show-dates option.
483
484  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
485
486  + Report the data style of legs.
487
488  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
489
490  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
491
492* Test suite:
493
494  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
495    expected output so it passes reliably.
496
497  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
498    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
499
500  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
501    for more.
502
503* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
504  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
505  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
506
507* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
508  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
509
510* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
511  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
512
513* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
514  with SURVEX_LANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
515  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
516  settings.
517
518* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
519  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
520  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
521  set correctly.
522
523* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
524  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
525  them to translate.
526
527* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
528  close to complete.
529
530* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
531
532* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
533
534* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
535
536Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
537
538* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
539
540* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
541  package (ticket#35).
542
543* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
544  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
545  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
546
547* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
548  Kahler.
549
550* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
551  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
552  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
553  libproj and build survex with:
554
555      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
556      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
557
558* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
559
560* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
561
562* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
563  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
564  file".
565
566Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
567
568* aven:
569
570  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
571
572  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
573    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
574
575  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
576
577  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
578
579  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
580    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
581
582* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
583  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
584  error early on).
585
586* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
587  the man page source as well as in the filename.
588
589Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
590
591* aven:
592
593  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
594    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
595    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
596    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
597
598  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
599    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
600
601  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
602
603  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
604
605  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
606
607* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
608
609Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
610
611* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
612
613* (Mac OS X version):
614
615  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
616
617  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
618
619  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
620    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
621
622  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
623
624* aven:
625
626  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
627
628  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
629
630    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
631      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
632      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
633      character.
634
635    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
636      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
637      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
638      and two in a few cases.
639
640    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
641      8 pixels.
642
643  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
644    draw crosses.
645
646  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
647    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
648    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
649    is the start or end of a tube.
650
651  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
652    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
653
654  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
655    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
656    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
657
658* extend:
659
660  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
661
662  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
663    which means "no info").
664
665* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
666  was no longer used - it certainly is!
667
668* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
669  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
670  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
671  current character set.
672
673* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
674
675* Test suite:
676
677  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
678
679  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
680
681Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
682
683* aven:
684
685  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
686    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
687    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
688    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
689    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
690    usable format.
691
692  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
693    files.  (ticket#26)
694
695  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
696    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
697
698  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
699    using lines.
700
701  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
702    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
703
704  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
705    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
706    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
707    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
708
709  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
710    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
711    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
712
713  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
714    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
715    in 1.2.1.
716
717Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
718
719* Translation updates for US English.
720
721* aven:
722
723  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
724    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
725
726  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
727
728  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
729    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
730    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
731    visually similar to the survey legs.
732
733  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
734    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
735
736  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
737    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
738    does still provide some useful information).
739
740  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
741    a depth band boundary.
742
743  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
744    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
745    full-screen mode).
746
747  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
748    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
749    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
750    are a little better, though still not perfect.
751
752  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
753    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
754
755  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
756    that station.
757
758  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
759    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
760
761  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
762    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
763    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
764    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
765    a case as it is a bug).
766
767  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
768    invalidated on window width or height changes.
769
770  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
771    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
772    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
773    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
774
775  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
776    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
777    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
778    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
779    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
780    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
781    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
782
783  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
784    similarly for other compass points.
785
786  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
787    info in the "About" dialog.
788
789  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
790    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
791
792  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
793    as well as still working with older versions.
794
795  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
796    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
797
798  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
799    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
800    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
801    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
802    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
803
804  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
805    nicer and make better use of the available space.
806
807  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
808    dialog.
809
810  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
811    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
812
813  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
814    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
815
816  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
817
818  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
819
820  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
821    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
822    being pressed and toggle full screen.
823
824* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
825  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
826
827* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
828
829* More messages are now available to be translated.
830
831* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
832  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
833
834* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
835
836* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
837  sudo for installing on Unix.
838
839* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
840  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
841
842* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
843  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
844
845* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
846
847Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
848
849* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
850  English.
851
852* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
853  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
854  case.
855
856* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
857  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
858  these into Survex's .msg format.
859
860* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
861  an actual command).
862
863* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
864  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
865  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
866  recurrence of that).
867
868* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
869  than /usr/doc/survex.
870
871* aven:
872
873  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
874
875  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
876    nicer at larger sizes.
877
878  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
879    with GLX >= 1.3.
880
881  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
882
883  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
884    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
885    required libraries set up for building releases.
886
887  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
888
889  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
890
891  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
892    rendered with icons on some platforms.
893
894  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
895    ISO8859-1).
896
897  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
898    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
899
900  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
901    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
902
903* cavern:
904
905  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
906    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
907    fatal error!
908
909  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
910    format to output.  (ticket#21)
911
912* img library:
913
914  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
915    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
916
917* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
918  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
919
920Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
921
922* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
923  Portuguese, and US English.
924
925* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
926  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
927
928* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
929  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
930
931* img.c:
932
933  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
934
935  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
936
937* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
938
939* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
940  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
941  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
942  translated.
943
944Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
945
946* aven:
947
948  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
949    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
950
951  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
952    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
953    addresses ticket#12.
954
955  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
956    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
957    consistent shape.
958
959  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
960    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
961    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
962    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
963
964  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
965    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
966
967  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
968
969  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
970    more places.
971
972  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
973    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
974
975* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
976
977* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
978  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
979
980* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
981
982* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
983  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
984  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
985  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
986  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
987  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
988
989* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
990  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
991  redirecting to it.
992
993* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
994  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
995  I/O).
996
997* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
998  headers.
999
1000* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
1001
1002* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
1003  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
1004
1005* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
1006
1007Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
1008
1009* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
1010
1011* aven:
1012
1013  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
1014    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
1015    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
1016    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
1017
1018  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
1019
1020  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
1021    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
1022    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
1023    a number.
1024
1025  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
1026    log window.
1027
1028  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
1029    various cases.
1030
1031  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
1032    (ticket#9)
1033
1034  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
1035    namespace with its own "Point" class.
1036
1037  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
1038    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
1039
1040  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
1041
1042  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
1043    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
1044
1045* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
1046  give them before.
1047
1048* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
1049  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
1050  point looking for them now.
1051
1052* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
1053  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
1054  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
1055  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
1056
1057* manual:
1058
1059  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
1060
1061  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
1062    (change taken from 1.0).
1063
1064* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
1065
1066Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
1067
1068* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
1069
1070* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
1071
1072* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
1073
1074* aven:
1075
1076  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
1077
1078  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
1079    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
1080    seem to be Unicode now).
1081
1082  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
1083    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
1084
1085  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
1086    text on the survey pane:
1087
1088    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
1089
1090    - Character spacing is improved.
1091
1092    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
1093
1094  + "About" dialog:
1095
1096    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
1097      bug reporting.
1098
1099    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
1100      modern gfx card.
1101
1102    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
1103
1104  + Processing .svx files:
1105
1106    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
1107
1108    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
1109      than opening a separate frame for it.
1110
1111    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
1112
1113    - Fix small memory leak.
1114
1115  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
1116    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
1117    such a name.
1118
1119  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
1120
1121  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
1122    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
1123    invocations.
1124
1125  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
1126
1127  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
1128
1129  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
1130
1131* Documentation:
1132
1133  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
1134
1135  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
1136    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
1137    together isn't very useful.
1138
1139  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
1140
1141  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
1142    the FSF website.
1143
1144  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
1145    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
1146    the source code.
1147
1148* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
1149  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
1150
1151* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
1152  package from the source tarball.
1153
1154* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
1155  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
1156
1157Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
1158
1159* aven:
1160
1161  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
1162
1163  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
1164
1165  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
1166    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
1167    names/crosses).
1168
1169Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
1170
1171* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
1172
1173* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
1174
1175* aven:
1176
1177  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
1178
1179  + Fix character spacing.
1180
1181  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
1182    proportional fonts.
1183
1184  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
1185    rather than the filename.
1186
1187  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
1188
1189  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
1190    depth colouring.
1191
1192  + Add "Colour by Error".
1193
1194  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
1195
1196  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
1197
1198  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
1199
1200  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
1201
1202  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
1203
1204  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
1205
1206  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
1207
1208  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
1209    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
1210
1211  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
1212
1213  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
1214    default.
1215
1216* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
1217  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
1218
1219* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
1220  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
1221
1222* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
1223
1224* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
1225
1226Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
1227
1228* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
1229  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
1230  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
1231  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
1232  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
1233
1234* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
1235  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
1236  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
1237
1238* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
1239  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
1240  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
1241
1242* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
1243  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
1244  allowed).
1245
1246* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
1247
1248* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1249
1250* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1251
1252Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
1253
1254* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
1255  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
1256
1257* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
1258  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
1259  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
1260
1261* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
1262  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
1263  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
1264  the new "*data passage" style.
1265
1266* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
1267  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
1268
1269* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
1270  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
1271  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
1272  some cases.
1273
1274* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
1275  with no survey loaded.
1276
1277* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
1278
1279* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
1280  loaded a survey.
1281
1282* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
1283
1284* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
1285
1286* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
1287  doesn't exist.
1288
1289* Updated French and Italian translations.
1290
1291* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
1292  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
1293
1294* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
1295  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
1296  update their copy).
1297
1298* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
1299  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
1300  trying to compile).
1301
1302Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
1303
1304* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
1305  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
1306
1307* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
1308  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
1309  has been disabled.
1310
1311* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
1312  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
1313  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
1314  time.
1315
1316* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
1317  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
1318  highlighted stations.
1319
1320* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
1321
1322* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
1323  the tilt from plan to elevation.
1324
1325* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
1326  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
1327
1328* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
1329  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
1330  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
1331
1332* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
1333  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
1334
1335* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
1336
1337* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
1338
1339* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
1340
1341* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
1342  run by an unprivileged user.
1343
1344* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
1345  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
1346  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
1347
1348* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
1349  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
1350
1351* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
1352
1353* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
1354  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
1355
1356* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
1357  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
1358
1359* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
1360  if it isn't.
1361
1362* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
1363  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
1364
1365* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
1366  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
1367
1368* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
1369  reset to default view as well).
1370
1371* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
1372  empty.
1373
1374* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
1375  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
1376
1377* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
1378  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
1379  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
1380
1381* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
1382  and non-zero width lines.
1383
1384* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
1385  was turned on.
1386
1387* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
1388  not always being fully written.
1389
1390Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
1391
1392* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
1393  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
1394  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
1395  date near the middle of that period).
1396
1397* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
1398  with MS Windows).
1399
1400* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
1401  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
1402  several surveys in the same directory).
1403
1404* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
1405  our check for them to include that knowledge.
1406
1407* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
1408
1409* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
1410  moved off a station.
1411
1412* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
1413  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
1414
1415* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
1416
1417* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
1418  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
1419
1420* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
1421  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
1422  dialogs.
1423
1424* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
1425  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
1426
1427* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
1428  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
1429  introduced in 1.1.6).
1430
1431* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
1432  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
1433  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
1434
1435* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
1436  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
1437
1438* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
1439
1440* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
1441
1442Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
1443
1444* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
1445  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
1446
1447* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
1448  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
1449  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
1450  3d file.
1451
1452* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
1453
1454* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
1455
1456* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
1457  Instead turn off depth colouring.
1458
1459* aven: Export as HPGL added.
1460
1461* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
1462  Martin Green).
1463
1464* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
1465  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
1466  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
1467
1468* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
1469
1470* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
1471  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
1472
1473* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
1474  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
1475  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
1476  of everything else.
1477
1478* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
1479  presentation icons.
1480
1481* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
1482  keyboard focus there.
1483
1484* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
1485
1486* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
1487
1488* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
1489
1490* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
1491
1492* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
1493  language to use for messages.
1494
1495* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
1496  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
1497
1498* Removed old printer drivers.
1499
1500* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
1501  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
1502
1503Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
1504
1505* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
1506
1507* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
1508
1509* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
1510  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
1511
1512* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
1513  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
1514
1515* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
1516
1517* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
1518  underground legs is toggled.
1519
1520* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
1521  attached to the previous data.
1522
1523* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
1524  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
1525  them.
1526
1527Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
1528
1529* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
1530
1531* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
1532  continental European countries).
1533
1534* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
1535  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
1536  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
1537
1538* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
1539
1540* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
1541  they're needed.
1542
1543* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
1544
1545* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
1546
1547* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
1548
1549* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
1550  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
1551  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
1552
1553* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
1554
1555Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
1556
1557* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
1558
1559* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
1560
1561* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
1562
1563* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
1564
1565* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1566
1567* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1568
1569* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1570  when there's a presentation loaded.
1571
1572* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1573  in cave view.
1574
1575* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1576
1577* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1578  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1579  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1580
1581* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1582  filename for file history and window title.
1583
1584* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1585  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1586  only needed with GTK1.2.
1587
1588* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1589
1590* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1591
1592* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1593
1594* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1595
1596Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1597
1598* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1599  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1600  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1601
1602* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1603  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1604
1605* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1606  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1607  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1608  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1609
1610* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1611
1612* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1613  with --help and --version.
1614
1615* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1616  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1617  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1618  Fixed all these problems.
1619
1620* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1621  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1622  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1623
1624* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1625  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1626  sources.
1627
1628* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1629
1630* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1631
1632* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1633  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1634
1635* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1636  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1637  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1638  animating.
1639
1640* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1641
1642* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1643
1644* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1645  to this branch.
1646
1647* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1648
1649  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1650
1651  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1652
1653  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1654
1655* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1656
1657* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1658  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1659
1660* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1661
1662* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1663  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1664
1665* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1666
1667* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1668  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1669  for anyone building from CVS).
1670
1671* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1672
1673* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1674
1675* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1676
1677* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1678
1679* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1680  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1681  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1682
1683* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1684  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1685
1686* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1687
1688* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1689  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1690  loaded).
1691
1692* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1693
1694Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1695
1696* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1697  startup.
1698
1699* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1700  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1701
1702Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1703
1704* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1705  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1706  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1707
1708* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1709  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1710  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1711
1712* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1713  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1714  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1715
1716* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1717
1718* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1719  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1720
1721* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1722  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1723
1724* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1725  better use of screen space.
1726
1727* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1728
1729* aven: Perspective view.
1730
1731* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1732
1733* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1734  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1735
1736* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1737  and load/save/run them.
1738
1739* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1740
1741* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1742
1743* aven: Depth fogging option.
1744
1745* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1746
1747* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1748
1749* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1750  showing the surface legs.
1751
1752* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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