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