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