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1Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
2
3* aven:
4
5  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
6    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
7    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
8    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
9
10  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
11    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
12
13  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
14
15  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
16
17  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
18
19* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
20
21Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
22
23* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
24
25* (Mac OS X version):
26
27  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
28
29  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
30
31  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
32    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
33
34  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
35
36* aven:
37
38  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
39
40  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
41
42    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
43      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
44      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
45      character.
46
47    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
48      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
49      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
50      and two in a few cases.
51
52    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
53      8 pixels.
54
55  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
56    draw crosses.
57
58  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
59    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
60    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
61    is the start or end of a tube.
62
63  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
64    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
65
66  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
67    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
68    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
69
70* extend:
71
72  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
73
74  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
75    which means "no info").
76
77* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
78  was no longer used - it certainly is!
79
80* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
81  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
82  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
83  current character set.
84
85* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
86
87* Test suite:
88
89  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
90
91  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
92
93Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
94
95* aven:
96
97  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
98    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
99    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
100    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
101    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
102    usable format.
103
104  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
105    files.  (ticket#26)
106
107  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
108    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
109
110  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
111    using lines.
112
113  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
114    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
115
116  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
117    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
118    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
119    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
120
121  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
122    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
123    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
124
125  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
126    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
127    in 1.2.1.
128
129Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
130
131* Translation updates for US English.
132
133* aven:
134
135  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
136    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
137
138  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
139
140  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
141    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
142    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
143    visually similar to the survey legs.
144
145  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
146    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
147
148  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
149    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
150    does still provide some useful information).
151
152  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
153    a depth band boundary.
154
155  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
156    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
157    full-screen mode).
158
159  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
160    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
161    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
162    are a little better, though still not perfect.
163
164  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
165    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
166
167  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
168    that station.
169
170  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
171    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
172
173  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
174    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
175    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
176    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
177    a case as it is a bug).
178
179  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
180    invalidated on window width or height changes.
181
182  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
183    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
184    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
185    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
186
187  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
188    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
189    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
190    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
191    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
192    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
193    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
194
195  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
196    similarly for other compass points.
197
198  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
199    info in the "About" dialog.
200
201  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
202    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
203
204  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
205    as well as still working with older versions.
206
207  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
208    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
209
210  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
211    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
212    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
213    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
214    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
215
216  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
217    nicer and make better use of the available space.
218
219  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
220    dialog.
221
222  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
223    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
224
225  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
226    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
227
228  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
229
230  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
231
232  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
233    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
234    being pressed and toggle full screen.
235
236* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
237  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
238
239* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
240
241* More messages are now available to be translated.
242
243* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
244  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
245
246* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
247
248* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
249  sudo for installing on Unix.
250
251* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
252  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
253
254* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
255  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
256
257* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
258
259Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
260
261* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
262  English.
263
264* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
265  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
266  case.
267
268* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
269  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
270  these into Survex's .msg format.
271
272* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
273  an actual command).
274
275* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
276  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
277  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
278  recurrence of that).
279
280* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
281  than /usr/doc/survex.
282
283* aven:
284
285  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
286
287  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
288    nicer at larger sizes.
289
290  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
291    with GLX >= 1.3.
292
293  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
294
295  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
296    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
297    required libraries set up for building releases.
298
299  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
300
301  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
302
303  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
304    rendered with icons on some platforms.
305
306  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
307    ISO8859-1).
308
309  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
310    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
311
312  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
313    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
314
315* cavern:
316
317  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
318    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
319    fatal error!
320
321  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
322    format to output.  (ticket#21)
323
324* img library:
325
326  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
327    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
328
329* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
330  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
331
332Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
333
334* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
335  Portuguese, and US English.
336
337* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
338  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
339
340* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
341  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
342
343* img.c:
344
345  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
346
347  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
348
349* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
350
351* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
352  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
353  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
354  translated.
355
356Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
357
358* aven:
359
360  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
361    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
362
363  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
364    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
365    addresses ticket#12.
366
367  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
368    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
369    consistent shape.
370
371  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
372    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
373    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
374    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
375
376  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
377    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
378
379  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
380
381  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
382    more places.
383
384  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
385    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
386
387* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
388
389* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
390  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
391
392* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
393
394* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
395  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
396  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
397  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
398  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
399  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
400
401* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
402  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
403  redirecting to it.
404
405* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
406  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
407  I/O).
408
409* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
410  headers.
411
412* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
413
414* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
415  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
416
417* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
418
419Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
420
421* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
422
423* aven:
424
425  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
426    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
427    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
428    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
429
430  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
431
432  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
433    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
434    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
435    a number.
436
437  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
438    log window.
439
440  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
441    various cases.
442
443  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
444    (ticket#9)
445
446  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
447    namespace with its own "Point" class.
448
449  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
450    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
451
452  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
453
454  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
455    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
456
457* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
458  give them before.
459
460* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
461  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
462  point looking for them now.
463
464* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
465  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
466  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
467  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
468
469* manual:
470
471  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
472
473  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
474    (change taken from 1.0).
475
476* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
477
478Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
479
480* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
481
482* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
483
484* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
485
486* aven:
487
488  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
489
490  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
491    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
492    seem to be Unicode now).
493
494  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
495    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
496
497  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
498    text on the survey pane:
499
500    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
501
502    - Character spacing is improved.
503
504    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
505
506  + "About" dialog:
507
508    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
509      bug reporting.
510
511    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
512      modern gfx card.
513
514    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
515
516  + Processing .svx files:
517
518    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
519
520    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
521      than opening a separate frame for it.
522
523    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
524
525    - Fix small memory leak.
526
527  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
528    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
529    such a name.
530
531  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
532
533  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
534    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
535    invocations.
536
537  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
538
539  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
540
541  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
542
543* Documentation:
544
545  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
546
547  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
548    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
549    together isn't very useful.
550
551  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
552
553  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
554    the FSF website.
555
556  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
557    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
558    the source code.
559
560* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
561  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
562
563* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
564  package from the source tarball.
565
566* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
567  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
568
569Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
570
571* aven:
572
573  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
574
575  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
576
577  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
578    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
579    names/crosses).
580
581Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
582
583* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
584
585* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
586
587* aven:
588
589  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
590
591  + Fix character spacing.
592
593  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
594    proportional fonts.
595
596  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
597    rather than the filename.
598
599  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
600
601  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
602    depth colouring.
603
604  + Add "Colour by Error".
605
606  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
607
608  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
609
610  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
611
612  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
613
614  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
615
616  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
617
618  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
619
620  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
621    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
622
623  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
624
625  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
626    default.
627
628* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
629  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
630
631* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
632  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
633
634* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
635
636* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
637
638Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
639
640* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
641  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
642  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
643  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
644  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
645
646* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
647  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
648  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
649
650* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
651  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
652  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
653
654* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
655  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
656  allowed).
657
658* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
659
660* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
661
662* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
663
664Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
665
666* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
667  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
668
669* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
670  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
671  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
672
673* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
674  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
675  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
676  the new "*data passage" style.
677
678* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
679  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
680
681* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
682  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
683  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
684  some cases.
685
686* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
687  with no survey loaded.
688
689* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
690
691* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
692  loaded a survey.
693
694* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
695
696* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
697
698* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
699  doesn't exist.
700
701* Updated French and Italian translations.
702
703* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
704  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
705
706* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
707  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
708  update their copy).
709
710* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
711  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
712  trying to compile).
713
714Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
715
716* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
717  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
718
719* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
720  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
721  has been disabled.
722
723* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
724  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
725  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
726  time.
727
728* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
729  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
730  highlighted stations.
731
732* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
733
734* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
735  the tilt from plan to elevation.
736
737* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
738  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
739
740* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
741  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
742  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
743
744* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
745  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
746
747* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
748
749* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
750
751* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
752
753* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
754  run by an unprivileged user.
755
756* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
757  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
758  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
759
760* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
761  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
762
763* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
764
765* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
766  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
767
768* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
769  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
770
771* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
772  if it isn't.
773
774* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
775  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
776
777* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
778  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
779
780* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
781  reset to default view as well).
782
783* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
784  empty.
785
786* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
787  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
788
789* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
790  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
791  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
792
793* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
794  and non-zero width lines.
795
796* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
797  was turned on.
798
799* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
800  not always being fully written.
801
802Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
803
804* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
805  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
806  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
807  date near the middle of that period).
808
809* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
810  with MS Windows).
811
812* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
813  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
814  several surveys in the same directory).
815
816* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
817  our check for them to include that knowledge.
818
819* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
820
821* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
822  moved off a station.
823
824* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
825  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
826
827* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
828
829* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
830  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
831
832* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
833  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
834  dialogs.
835
836* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
837  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
838
839* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
840  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
841  introduced in 1.1.6).
842
843* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
844  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
845  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
846
847* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
848  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
849
850* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
851
852* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
853
854Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
855
856* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
857  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
858
859* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
860  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
861  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
862  3d file.
863
864* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
865
866* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
867
868* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
869  Instead turn off depth colouring.
870
871* aven: Export as HPGL added.
872
873* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
874  Martin Green).
875
876* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
877  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
878  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
879
880* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
881
882* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
883  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
884
885* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
886  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
887  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
888  of everything else.
889
890* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
891  presentation icons.
892
893* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
894  keyboard focus there.
895
896* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
897
898* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
899
900* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
901
902* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
903
904* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
905  language to use for messages.
906
907* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
908  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
909
910* Removed old printer drivers.
911
912* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
913  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
914
915Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
916
917* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
918
919* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
920
921* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
922  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
923
924* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
925  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
926
927* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
928
929* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
930  underground legs is toggled.
931
932* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
933  attached to the previous data.
934
935* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
936  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
937  them.
938
939Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
940
941* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
942
943* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
944  continental European countries).
945
946* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
947  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
948  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
949
950* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
951
952* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
953  they're needed.
954
955* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
956
957* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
958
959* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
960
961* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
962  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
963  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
964
965* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
966
967Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
968
969* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
970
971* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
972
973* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
974
975* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
976
977* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
978
979* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
980
981* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
982  when there's a presentation loaded.
983
984* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
985  in cave view.
986
987* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
988
989* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
990  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
991  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
992
993* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
994  filename for file history and window title.
995
996* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
997  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
998  only needed with GTK1.2.
999
1000* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1001
1002* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1003
1004* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1005
1006* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1007
1008Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1009
1010* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1011  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1012  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1013
1014* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1015  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1016
1017* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1018  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1019  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1020  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1021
1022* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1023
1024* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1025  with --help and --version.
1026
1027* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1028  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1029  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1030  Fixed all these problems.
1031
1032* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1033  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1034  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1035
1036* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1037  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1038  sources.
1039
1040* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1041
1042* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1043
1044* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1045  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1046
1047* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1048  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1049  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1050  animating.
1051
1052* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1053
1054* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1055
1056* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1057  to this branch.
1058
1059* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1060
1061  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1062
1063  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1064
1065  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1066
1067* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1068
1069* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1070  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1071
1072* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1073
1074* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1075  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1076
1077* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1078
1079* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1080  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1081  for anyone building from CVS).
1082
1083* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1084
1085* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1086
1087* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1088
1089* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1090
1091* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1092  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1093  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1094
1095* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1096  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1097
1098* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1099
1100* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1101  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1102  loaded).
1103
1104* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1105
1106Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1107
1108* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1109  startup.
1110
1111* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1112  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1113
1114Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1115
1116* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1117  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1118  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1119
1120* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1121  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1122  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1123
1124* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1125  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1126  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1127
1128* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1129
1130* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1131  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1132
1133* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1134  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1135
1136* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1137  better use of screen space.
1138
1139* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1140
1141* aven: Perspective view.
1142
1143* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1144
1145* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1146  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1147
1148* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1149  and load/save/run them.
1150
1151* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1152
1153* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1154
1155* aven: Depth fogging option.
1156
1157* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1158
1159* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1160
1161* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1162  showing the surface legs.
1163
1164* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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