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