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12bf355e5 (Olly Betts 2015-04-11 08:32:14 +1200    1) Fri Apr 10 20:31:56 GMT 2015  Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
2
3Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-04-11):
4
5* aven:
6
7  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
8    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
9    rendering it as a transparent surface.
10
11  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
12    sanely want to perform from the menu.
13
14  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
15    colouring options.
16
17  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
18
19  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
20    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
21    pressing "Escape".
22
23  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
24    exporting.
25
26  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
27    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
28
29  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
30    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
31    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
32
33  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
34
35  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
36    markers in orange.
37
38  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
39    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
40
41  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
42    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
43    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
44    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
45    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
46    them would be better.
47
48  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
49    is quite likely to change.
50
51  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
52    Gee.
53
54  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
55    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
56    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
57
58  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
59
60* cavern:
61
62  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
63    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.
64
65  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
66
67  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
68    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
69
70  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
71    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
72
73* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
74
75* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
76  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
77  in a modern desktop.
78
79* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
80  the filename in the error message.
81
82* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
83  most complete translations.
84
85* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
86
87* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
88  lacks them.
89
90* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
91
92* Manual:
93
94  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
95    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
96
97  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
98
99  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
100
101  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
102    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
103    available for download.
104
105* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
106  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
107  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
108
109* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
110
111Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
112
113* MacOS X version:
114
115  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
116
117  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
118
119  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
120
121  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
122
123  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
124    currently do this for us.
125
126  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
127
128  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
129
130  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
131
132  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
133    OS X cursor.
134
135  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
136    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
137    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
138    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
139    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
140    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
141    with TextEdit.app for example).
142
143  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
144    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
145
146  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
147
148  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
149    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
150
151  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
152    Riggs.
153
154  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
155    space.
156
157  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
158
159  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
160    10.10.1.
161
162  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
163    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
164    errors.
165
166  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
167    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
168    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
169    wxWidgets build supports by default.
170
171  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
172
173* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
174  treat as a single leg.
175
176* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
177
178* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
179
180* aven:
181
182  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
183    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
184
185  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
186    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
187    1:500).
188
189  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
190    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
191    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
192    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
193
194  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
195    there rather than the two animations fighting.
196
197  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
198    fast.
199
200  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
201    when rotating).
202
203  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
204    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
205
206* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
207  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
208
209* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
210
211* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
212
213* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
214
215* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
216
217* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
218  we're using git.
219
220* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
221
222  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
223    compass.
224
225  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
226
227  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
228
229Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
230
231* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
232
233* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
234
235* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
236
237* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
238  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
239
240* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
241
242* tests/: Improve test coverage.
243
244* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
245  Greek and Polish.
246
247* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
248  by Martin Sluka.
249
250* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
251  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
252
253Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
254
255* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
256  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
257  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
258  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
259  for *cs has also been improved.
260
261* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
262  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
263  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
264  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
265
266* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
267  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
268  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
269  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
270  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
271
272* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
273  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
274  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
275
276* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
277
278* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
279
280* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
281  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
282  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
283
284* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
285  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
286
287Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
288
289* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
290  system in use in 3d v8 files.
291
292* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
293  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
294  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
295  export dialog.
296
297* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
298  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
299  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
300  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
301  rather than having one corner there.
302
303* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
304  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
305
306* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
307  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
308
309* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
310  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
311  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
312
313* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
314  such as 64-bit Linux.
315
316* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
317  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
318
319* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
320  64-bit platforms.
321
322* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
323  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
324  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
325
326* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
327  the space available in the aven UI.
328
329* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
330  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
331  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
332
333* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
334  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
335
336* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
337  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
338  about unconnected surveys.
339
340* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
341  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
342
343* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
344  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
345  freed memory.
346
347* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
348
349* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
350
351* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
352
353* Fix a compiler warning.
354
355* Improve test coverage.
356
357Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
358
359* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
360  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
361  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
362
363* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
364  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
365  Hugh St Lawrence.
366
367* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
368  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
369  with using aven on a touch screen device.
370
371* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
372  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
373
374* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
375  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
376
377* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
378  off and back on.
379
380* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
381  up time a little.
382
383* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
384  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
385
386* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
387  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
388  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
389  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
390  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
391  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
392  situation too.
393
394* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
395  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
396  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
397
398* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
399
400* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
401
402* Minor translation updates to French.
403
404* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
405
406* Testsuite improvements:
407
408  + Test that "..." anon station works.
409
410  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
411    fail and give an error count.
412
413  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
414
415Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
416
417* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
418  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
419  Clipstone.
420
421* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
422
423* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
424
425  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
426    overlap the scale bar ticks.
427
428  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
429    clipping the border in print preview.
430
431  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
432
433* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
434  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
435
436* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
437  available.
438
439* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
440
441* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
442
443* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
444  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
445
446* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
447  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
448
449* Various translation updates.
450
451Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
452
453* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
454  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
455
456* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
457  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
458  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
459  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
460
461* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
462  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
463
464* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
465  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
466
467* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
468  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
469
470* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
471  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
472
473* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
474  box".
475
476* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
477
478* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
479  indicators.
480
481* aven: All length units are now translatable.
482
483* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
484  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
485  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
486
487* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
488  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
489  measurably slower.
490
491* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
492  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
493
494* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
495  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
496
497* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
498  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
499  from Therion and elsewhere.
500
501* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
502  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
503  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
504
505* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
506  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
507
508* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
509  A. Riggs for his work on this.
510
511* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
512  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
513
514* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
515
516* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
517  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
518  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
519  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
520  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
521  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
522
523* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
524
525Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
526
527* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
528  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
529  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
530  Clipstone.
531
532* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
533  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
534
535* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
536  exported SVG files.
537
538* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
539
540* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
541  file.
542
543* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
544  GPX files.
545
546* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
547
548* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
549  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
550
551* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
552  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
553  on startup.
554
555* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
556
557* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
558  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
559  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
560  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
561  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
562  other extensions.
563
564* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
565  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
566  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
567  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
568  timezone wrong.
569
570* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
571
572* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
573  'SURVEY DATE:'.
574
575* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
576
577* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
578
579* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
580  enabled.
581
582Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
583
584* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
585
586* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
587
588* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
589
590* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
591  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
592  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
593
594* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
595  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
596  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
597
598* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
599  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
600
601* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
602
603* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
604
605* Fix some compiler warnings.
606
607Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
608
609* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
610  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
611  Holder.
612
613* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
614  statistics when the value gets large.
615
616* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
617  equations.
618
619* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
620  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
621  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
622  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
623  better when the "View" box is hidden.
624
625* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
626  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
627
628* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
629  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
630  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
631  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
632  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
633  way is coming soon.
634
635* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
636  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
637
638* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
639  time ago, so update references.
640
641* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
642  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
643
644* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
645  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
646
647* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
648  Sebastian Ramacher.
649
650* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
651
652* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
653
654* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
655
656* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
657
658* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
659
660* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
661  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
662  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
663
664* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
665
666* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
667
668* img library:
669
670  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
671    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
672    reading).
673
674  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
675    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
676
677  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
678    support these as an extension.
679
680  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
681
682* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
683  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
684  itself has any translations for.
685
686* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
687
688* Minor translation updates.
689
690* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
691
692Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
693
694* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
695  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
696  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
697  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
698  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
699  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
700  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
701  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
702
703* New version 8 of the 3d format:
704
705  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
706
707  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
708    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
709
710  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
711    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
712
713  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
714
715  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
716    human-readable string.
717
718  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
719    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
720
721* img library:
722
723  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
724
725  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
726    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
727
728  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
729    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
730    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
731    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
732    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
733    explicitly in the file.
734
735  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
736
737* aven:
738
739  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
740    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
741    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
742    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
743    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
744    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
745
746  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
747    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
748    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
749    queued up.
750
751  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
752    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
753
754  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
755    them like other legs.
756
757  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
758    station names to positions.
759
760  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
761    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
762    wrongly.
763
764  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
765
766  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
767    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
768    that's used by the desktop).
769
770  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
771
772  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
773    error from cavern.
774
775  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
776
777  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
778    in the dialog in sync.
779
780* cavern:
781
782  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
783    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
784    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
785
786  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
787    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
788
789  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
790    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
791    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
792    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
793    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
794    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
795    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
796    degrees.
797
798  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
799    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
800    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
801
802  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
803
804  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
805    warnings.
806
807  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
808    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
809
810  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
811    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
812
813  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
814    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
815    relevant.
816
817  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
818    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
819    the same line.
820
821  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
822    "End of line not blank" error.
823
824  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
825    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
826
827  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
828    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
829
830  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
831    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
832    include that character in the token reported.
833
834  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
835    first item.
836
837* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
838
839* dump3d:
840
841  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
842    info from 3d files in scripts.
843
844  + Add --show-dates option.
845
846  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
847
848  + Report the data style of legs.
849
850  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
851
852  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
853
854* Test suite:
855
856  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
857    expected output so it passes reliably.
858
859  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
860    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
861
862  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
863    for more.
864
865* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
866  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
867  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
868
869* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
870  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
871
872* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
873  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
874
875* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
876  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
877  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
878  settings.
879
880* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
881  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
882  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
883  set correctly.
884
885* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
886  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
887  them to translate.
888
889* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
890  close to complete.
891
892* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
893
894* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
895
896* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
897
898Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
899
900* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
901
902* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
903  package (ticket#35).
904
905* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
906  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
907  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
908
909* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
910  Kahler.
911
912* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
913  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
914  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
915  libproj and build survex with:
916
917      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
918      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
919
920* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
921
922* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
923
924* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
925  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
926  file".
927
928Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
929
930* aven:
931
932  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
933
934  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
935    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
936
937  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
938
939  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
940
941  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
942    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
943
944* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
945  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
946  error early on).
947
948* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
949  the man page source as well as in the filename.
950
951Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
952
953* aven:
954
955  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
956    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
957    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
958    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
959
960  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
961    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
962
963  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
964
965  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
966
967  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
968
969* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
970
971Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
972
973* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
974
975* (Mac OS X version):
976
977  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
978
979  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
980
981  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
982    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
983
984  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
985
986* aven:
987
988  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
989
990  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
991
992    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
993      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
994      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
995      character.
996
997    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
998      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
999      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
1000      and two in a few cases.
1001
1002    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
1003      8 pixels.
1004
1005  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
1006    draw crosses.
1007
1008  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
1009    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
1010    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
1011    is the start or end of a tube.
1012
1013  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
1014    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
1015
1016  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
1017    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
1018    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
1019
1020* extend:
1021
1022  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
1023
1024  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
1025    which means "no info").
1026
1027* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
1028  was no longer used - it certainly is!
1029
1030* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
1031  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
1032  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
1033  current character set.
1034
1035* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
1036
1037* Test suite:
1038
1039  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
1040
1041  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
1042
1043Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
1044
1045* aven:
1046
1047  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
1048    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
1049    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
1050    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
1051    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
1052    usable format.
1053
1054  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
1055    files.  (ticket#26)
1056
1057  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
1058    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
1059
1060  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
1061    using lines.
1062
1063  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
1064    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
1065
1066  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
1067    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
1068    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
1069    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
1070
1071  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
1072    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
1073    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
1074
1075  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
1076    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
1077    in 1.2.1.
1078
1079Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
1080
1081* Translation updates for US English.
1082
1083* aven:
1084
1085  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
1086    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
1087
1088  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
1089
1090  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
1091    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
1092    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
1093    visually similar to the survey legs.
1094
1095  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
1096    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
1097
1098  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
1099    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
1100    does still provide some useful information).
1101
1102  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
1103    a depth band boundary.
1104
1105  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
1106    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
1107    full-screen mode).
1108
1109  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
1110    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
1111    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
1112    are a little better, though still not perfect.
1113
1114  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
1115    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
1116
1117  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
1118    that station.
1119
1120  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
1121    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
1122
1123  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
1124    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
1125    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
1126    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
1127    a case as it is a bug).
1128
1129  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
1130    invalidated on window width or height changes.
1131
1132  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
1133    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
1134    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
1135    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
1136
1137  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
1138    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
1139    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
1140    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
1141    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
1142    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
1143    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
1144
1145  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
1146    similarly for other compass points.
1147
1148  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
1149    info in the "About" dialog.
1150
1151  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
1152    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
1153
1154  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
1155    as well as still working with older versions.
1156
1157  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
1158    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
1159
1160  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
1161    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
1162    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
1163    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
1164    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
1165
1166  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
1167    nicer and make better use of the available space.
1168
1169  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
1170    dialog.
1171
1172  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
1173    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
1174
1175  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
1176    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
1177
1178  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
1179
1180  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
1181
1182  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
1183    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
1184    being pressed and toggle full screen.
1185
1186* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
1187  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
1188
1189* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
1190
1191* More messages are now available to be translated.
1192
1193* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
1194  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
1195
1196* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
1197
1198* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
1199  sudo for installing on Unix.
1200
1201* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
1202  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
1203
1204* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
1205  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
1206
1207* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1208
1209Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
1210
1211* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
1212  English.
1213
1214* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
1215  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
1216  case.
1217
1218* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
1219  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
1220  these into Survex's .msg format.
1221
1222* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
1223  an actual command).
1224
1225* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
1226  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
1227  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
1228  recurrence of that).
1229
1230* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
1231  than /usr/doc/survex.
1232
1233* aven:
1234
1235  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
1236
1237  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
1238    nicer at larger sizes.
1239
1240  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
1241    with GLX >= 1.3.
1242
1243  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
1244
1245  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
1246    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
1247    required libraries set up for building releases.
1248
1249  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
1250
1251  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
1252
1253  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
1254    rendered with icons on some platforms.
1255
1256  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
1257    ISO8859-1).
1258
1259  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
1260    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
1261
1262  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
1263    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
1264
1265* cavern:
1266
1267  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
1268    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
1269    fatal error!
1270
1271  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
1272    format to output.  (ticket#21)
1273
1274* img library:
1275
1276  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
1277    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
1278
1279* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
1280  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
1281
1282Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
1283
1284* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
1285  Portuguese, and US English.
1286
1287* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
1288  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
1289
1290* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
1291  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
1292
1293* img.c:
1294
1295  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
1296
1297  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
1298
1299* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
1300
1301* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
1302  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
1303  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
1304  translated.
1305
1306Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
1307
1308* aven:
1309
1310  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
1311    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
1312
1313  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
1314    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
1315    addresses ticket#12.
1316
1317  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
1318    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
1319    consistent shape.
1320
1321  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
1322    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
1323    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
1324    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
1325
1326  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
1327    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
1328
1329  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
1330
1331  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
1332    more places.
1333
1334  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
1335    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
1336
1337* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
1338
1339* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
1340  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
1341
1342* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
1343
1344* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
1345  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
1346  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
1347  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
1348  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
1349  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
1350
1351* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
1352  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
1353  redirecting to it.
1354
1355* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
1356  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
1357  I/O).
1358
1359* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
1360  headers.
1361
1362* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
1363
1364* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
1365  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
1366
1367* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
1368
1369Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
1370
1371* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
1372
1373* aven:
1374
1375  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
1376    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
1377    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
1378    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
1379
1380  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
1381
1382  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
1383    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
1384    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
1385    a number.
1386
1387  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
1388    log window.
1389
1390  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
1391    various cases.
1392
1393  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
1394    (ticket#9)
1395
1396  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
1397    namespace with its own "Point" class.
1398
1399  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
1400    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
1401
1402  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
1403
1404  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
1405    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
1406
1407* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
1408  give them before.
1409
1410* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
1411  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
1412  point looking for them now.
1413
1414* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
1415  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
1416  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
1417  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
1418
1419* manual:
1420
1421  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
1422
1423  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
1424    (change taken from 1.0).
1425
1426* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
1427
1428Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
1429
1430* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
1431
1432* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
1433
1434* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
1435
1436* aven:
1437
1438  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
1439
1440  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
1441    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
1442    seem to be Unicode now).
1443
1444  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
1445    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
1446
1447  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
1448    text on the survey pane:
1449
1450    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
1451
1452    - Character spacing is improved.
1453
1454    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
1455
1456  + "About" dialog:
1457
1458    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
1459      bug reporting.
1460
1461    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
1462      modern gfx card.
1463
1464    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
1465
1466  + Processing .svx files:
1467
1468    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
1469
1470    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
1471      than opening a separate frame for it.
1472
1473    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
1474
1475    - Fix small memory leak.
1476
1477  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
1478    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
1479    such a name.
1480
1481  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
1482
1483  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
1484    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
1485    invocations.
1486
1487  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
1488
1489  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
1490
1491  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
1492
1493* Documentation:
1494
1495  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
1496
1497  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
1498    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
1499    together isn't very useful.
1500
1501  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
1502
1503  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
1504    the FSF website.
1505
1506  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
1507    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
1508    the source code.
1509
1510* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
1511  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
1512
1513* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
1514  package from the source tarball.
1515
1516* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
1517  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
1518
1519Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
1520
1521* aven:
1522
1523  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
1524
1525  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
1526
1527  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
1528    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
1529    names/crosses).
1530
1531Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
1532
1533* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
1534
1535* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
1536
1537* aven:
1538
1539  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
1540
1541  + Fix character spacing.
1542
1543  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
1544    proportional fonts.
1545
1546  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
1547    rather than the filename.
1548
1549  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
1550
1551  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
1552    depth colouring.
1553
1554  + Add "Colour by Error".
1555
1556  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
1557
1558  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
1559
1560  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
1561
1562  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
1563
1564  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
1565
1566  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
1567
1568  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
1569
1570  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
1571    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
1572
1573  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
1574
1575  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
1576    default.
1577
1578* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
1579  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
1580
1581* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
1582  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
1583
1584* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
1585
1586* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
1587
1588Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
1589
1590* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
1591  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
1592  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
1593  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
1594  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
1595
1596* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
1597  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
1598  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
1599
1600* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
1601  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
1602  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
1603
1604* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
1605  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
1606  allowed).
1607
1608* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
1609
1610* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1611
1612* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1613
1614Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
1615
1616* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
1617  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
1618
1619* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
1620  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
1621  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
1622
1623* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
1624  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
1625  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
1626  the new "*data passage" style.
1627
1628* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
1629  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
1630
1631* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
1632  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
1633  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
1634  some cases.
1635
1636* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
1637  with no survey loaded.
1638
1639* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
1640
1641* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
1642  loaded a survey.
1643
1644* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
1645
1646* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
1647
1648* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
1649  doesn't exist.
1650
1651* Updated French and Italian translations.
1652
1653* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
1654  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
1655
1656* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
1657  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
1658  update their copy).
1659
1660* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
1661  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
1662  trying to compile).
1663
1664Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
1665
1666* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
1667  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
1668
1669* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
1670  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
1671  has been disabled.
1672
1673* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
1674  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
1675  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
1676  time.
1677
1678* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
1679  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
1680  highlighted stations.
1681
1682* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
1683
1684* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
1685  the tilt from plan to elevation.
1686
1687* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
1688  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
1689
1690* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
1691  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
1692  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
1693
1694* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
1695  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
1696
1697* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
1698
1699* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
1700
1701* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
1702
1703* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
1704  run by an unprivileged user.
1705
1706* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
1707  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
1708  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
1709
1710* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
1711  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
1712
1713* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
1714
1715* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
1716  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
1717
1718* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
1719  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
1720
1721* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
1722  if it isn't.
1723
1724* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
1725  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
1726
1727* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
1728  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
1729
1730* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
1731  reset to default view as well).
1732
1733* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
1734  empty.
1735
1736* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
1737  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
1738
1739* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
1740  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
1741  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
1742
1743* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
1744  and non-zero width lines.
1745
1746* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
1747  was turned on.
1748
1749* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
1750  not always being fully written.
1751
1752Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
1753
1754* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
1755  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
1756  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
1757  date near the middle of that period).
1758
1759* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
1760  with MS Windows).
1761
1762* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
1763  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
1764  several surveys in the same directory).
1765
1766* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
1767  our check for them to include that knowledge.
1768
1769* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
1770
1771* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
1772  moved off a station.
1773
1774* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
1775  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
1776
1777* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
1778
1779* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
1780  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
1781
1782* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
1783  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
1784  dialogs.
1785
1786* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
1787  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
1788
1789* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
1790  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
1791  introduced in 1.1.6).
1792
1793* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
1794  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
1795  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
1796
1797* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
1798  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
1799
1800* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
1801
1802* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
1803
1804Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
1805
1806* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
1807  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
1808
1809* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
1810  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
1811  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
1812  3d file.
1813
1814* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
1815
1816* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
1817
1818* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
1819  Instead turn off depth colouring.
1820
1821* aven: Export as HPGL added.
1822
1823* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
1824  Martin Green).
1825
1826* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
1827  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
1828  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
1829
1830* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
1831
1832* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
1833  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
1834
1835* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
1836  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
1837  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
1838  of everything else.
1839
1840* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
1841  presentation icons.
1842
1843* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
1844  keyboard focus there.
1845
1846* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
1847
1848* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
1849
1850* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
1851
1852* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
1853
1854* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
1855  language to use for messages.
1856
1857* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
1858  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
1859
1860* Removed old printer drivers.
1861
1862* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
1863  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
1864
1865Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
1866
1867* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
1868
1869* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
1870
1871* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
1872  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
1873
1874* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
1875  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
1876
1877* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
1878
1879* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
1880  underground legs is toggled.
1881
1882* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
1883  attached to the previous data.
1884
1885* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
1886  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
1887  them.
1888
1889Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
1890
1891* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
1892
1893* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
1894  continental European countries).
1895
1896* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
1897  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
1898  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
1899
1900* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
1901
1902* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
1903  they're needed.
1904
1905* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
1906
1907* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
1908
1909* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
1910
1911* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
1912  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
1913  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
1914
1915* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
1916
1917Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
1918
1919* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
1920
1921* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
1922
1923* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
1924
1925* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
1926
1927* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1928
1929* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1930
1931* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1932  when there's a presentation loaded.
1933
1934* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1935  in cave view.
1936
1937* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1938
1939* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1940  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1941  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1942
1943* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1944  filename for file history and window title.
1945
1946* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1947  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1948  only needed with GTK1.2.
1949
1950* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1951
1952* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1953
1954* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1955
1956* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1957
1958Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1959
1960* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1961  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1962  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1963
1964* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1965  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1966
1967* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1968  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1969  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1970  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1971
1972* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1973
1974* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1975  with --help and --version.
1976
1977* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1978  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1979  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1980  Fixed all these problems.
1981
1982* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1983  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1984  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1985
1986* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1987  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1988  sources.
1989
1990* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1991
1992* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1993
1994* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1995  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1996
1997* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1998  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1999  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
2000  animating.
2001
2002* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
2003
2004* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
2005
2006* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
2007  to this branch.
2008
2009* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
2010
2011  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
2012
2013  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
2014
2015  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
2016
2017* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
2018
2019* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
2020  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
2021
2022* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
2023
2024* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
2025  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
2026
2027* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
2028
2029* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
2030  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
2031  for anyone building from CVS).
2032
2033* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
2034
2035* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
2036
2037* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
2038
2039* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
2040
2041* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
2042  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
2043  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
2044
2045* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
2046  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
2047
2048* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
2049
2050* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
2051  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
2052  loaded).
2053
2054* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
2055
2056Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
2057
2058* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
2059  startup.
2060
2061* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
2062  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
2063
2064Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
2065
2066* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
2067  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
2068  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
2069
2070* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
2071  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
2072  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
2073
2074* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
2075  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
2076  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
2077
2078* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
2079
2080* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
2081  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
2082
2083* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
2084  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
2085
2086* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
2087  better use of screen space.
2088
2089* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
2090
2091* aven: Perspective view.
2092
2093* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
2094
2095* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
2096  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
2097
2098* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
2099  and load/save/run them.
2100
2101* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
2102
2103* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
2104
2105* aven: Depth fogging option.
2106
2107* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
2108
2109* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
2110
2111* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
2112  showing the surface legs.
2113
2114* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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