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NEWS,src/Makefile.am: Disable building findentrances by default
so I can get 1.2.6 out without further delays as it fixes processing
.svx files from aven under Mac OS X.

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1Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
2
3* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
4
5* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
6  package (ticket#35).
7
8* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
9  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
10  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
11
12* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
13  Kahler.
14
15* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
16  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
17  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
18  libproj and build survex with:
19
20      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
21      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
22
23* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
24
25* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
26
27* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
28  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
29  file".
30
31Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
32
33* aven:
34
35  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
36
37  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
38    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
39
40  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
41
42  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
43
44  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
45    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
46
47* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
48  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
49  error early on).
50
51* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
52  the man page source as well as in the filename.
53
54Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
55
56* aven:
57
58  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
59    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
60    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
61    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
62
63  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
64    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
65
66  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
67
68  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
69
70  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
71
72* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
73
74Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
75
76* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
77
78* (Mac OS X version):
79
80  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
81
82  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
83
84  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
85    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
86
87  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
88
89* aven:
90
91  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
92
93  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
94
95    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
96      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
97      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
98      character.
99
100    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
101      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
102      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
103      and two in a few cases.
104
105    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
106      8 pixels.
107
108  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
109    draw crosses.
110
111  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
112    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
113    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
114    is the start or end of a tube.
115
116  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
117    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
118
119  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
120    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
121    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
122
123* extend:
124
125  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
126
127  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
128    which means "no info").
129
130* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
131  was no longer used - it certainly is!
132
133* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
134  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
135  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
136  current character set.
137
138* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
139
140* Test suite:
141
142  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
143
144  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
145
146Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
147
148* aven:
149
150  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
151    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
152    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
153    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
154    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
155    usable format.
156
157  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
158    files.  (ticket#26)
159
160  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
161    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
162
163  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
164    using lines.
165
166  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
167    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
168
169  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
170    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
171    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
172    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
173
174  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
175    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
176    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
177
178  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
179    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
180    in 1.2.1.
181
182Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
183
184* Translation updates for US English.
185
186* aven:
187
188  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
189    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
190
191  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
192
193  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
194    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
195    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
196    visually similar to the survey legs.
197
198  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
199    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
200
201  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
202    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
203    does still provide some useful information).
204
205  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
206    a depth band boundary.
207
208  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
209    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
210    full-screen mode).
211
212  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
213    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
214    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
215    are a little better, though still not perfect.
216
217  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
218    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
219
220  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
221    that station.
222
223  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
224    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
225
226  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
227    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
228    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
229    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
230    a case as it is a bug).
231
232  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
233    invalidated on window width or height changes.
234
235  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
236    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
237    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
238    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
239
240  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
241    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
242    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
243    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
244    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
245    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
246    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
247
248  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
249    similarly for other compass points.
250
251  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
252    info in the "About" dialog.
253
254  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
255    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
256
257  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
258    as well as still working with older versions.
259
260  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
261    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
262
263  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
264    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
265    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
266    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
267    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
268
269  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
270    nicer and make better use of the available space.
271
272  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
273    dialog.
274
275  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
276    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
277
278  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
279    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
280
281  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
282
283  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
284
285  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
286    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
287    being pressed and toggle full screen.
288
289* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
290  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
291
292* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
293
294* More messages are now available to be translated.
295
296* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
297  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
298
299* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
300
301* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
302  sudo for installing on Unix.
303
304* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
305  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
306
307* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
308  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
309
310* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
311
312Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
313
314* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
315  English.
316
317* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
318  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
319  case.
320
321* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
322  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
323  these into Survex's .msg format.
324
325* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
326  an actual command).
327
328* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
329  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
330  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
331  recurrence of that).
332
333* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
334  than /usr/doc/survex.
335
336* aven:
337
338  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
339
340  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
341    nicer at larger sizes.
342
343  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
344    with GLX >= 1.3.
345
346  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
347
348  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
349    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
350    required libraries set up for building releases.
351
352  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
353
354  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
355
356  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
357    rendered with icons on some platforms.
358
359  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
360    ISO8859-1).
361
362  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
363    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
364
365  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
366    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
367
368* cavern:
369
370  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
371    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
372    fatal error!
373
374  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
375    format to output.  (ticket#21)
376
377* img library:
378
379  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
380    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
381
382* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
383  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
384
385Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
386
387* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
388  Portuguese, and US English.
389
390* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
391  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
392
393* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
394  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
395
396* img.c:
397
398  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
399
400  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
401
402* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
403
404* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
405  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
406  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
407  translated.
408
409Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
410
411* aven:
412
413  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
414    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
415
416  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
417    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
418    addresses ticket#12.
419
420  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
421    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
422    consistent shape.
423
424  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
425    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
426    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
427    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
428
429  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
430    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
431
432  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
433
434  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
435    more places.
436
437  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
438    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
439
440* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
441
442* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
443  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
444
445* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
446
447* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
448  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
449  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
450  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
451  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
452  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
453
454* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
455  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
456  redirecting to it.
457
458* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
459  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
460  I/O).
461
462* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
463  headers.
464
465* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
466
467* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
468  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
469
470* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
471
472Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
473
474* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
475
476* aven:
477
478  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
479    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
480    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
481    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
482
483  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
484
485  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
486    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
487    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
488    a number.
489
490  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
491    log window.
492
493  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
494    various cases.
495
496  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
497    (ticket#9)
498
499  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
500    namespace with its own "Point" class.
501
502  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
503    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
504
505  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
506
507  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
508    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
509
510* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
511  give them before.
512
513* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
514  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
515  point looking for them now.
516
517* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
518  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
519  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
520  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
521
522* manual:
523
524  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
525
526  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
527    (change taken from 1.0).
528
529* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
530
531Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
532
533* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
534
535* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
536
537* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
538
539* aven:
540
541  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
542
543  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
544    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
545    seem to be Unicode now).
546
547  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
548    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
549
550  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
551    text on the survey pane:
552
553    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
554
555    - Character spacing is improved.
556
557    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
558
559  + "About" dialog:
560
561    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
562      bug reporting.
563
564    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
565      modern gfx card.
566
567    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
568
569  + Processing .svx files:
570
571    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
572
573    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
574      than opening a separate frame for it.
575
576    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
577
578    - Fix small memory leak.
579
580  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
581    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
582    such a name.
583
584  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
585
586  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
587    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
588    invocations.
589
590  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
591
592  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
593
594  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
595
596* Documentation:
597
598  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
599
600  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
601    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
602    together isn't very useful.
603
604  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
605
606  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
607    the FSF website.
608
609  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
610    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
611    the source code.
612
613* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
614  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
615
616* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
617  package from the source tarball.
618
619* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
620  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
621
622Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
623
624* aven:
625
626  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
627
628  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
629
630  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
631    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
632    names/crosses).
633
634Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
635
636* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
637
638* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
639
640* aven:
641
642  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
643
644  + Fix character spacing.
645
646  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
647    proportional fonts.
648
649  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
650    rather than the filename.
651
652  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
653
654  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
655    depth colouring.
656
657  + Add "Colour by Error".
658
659  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
660
661  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
662
663  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
664
665  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
666
667  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
668
669  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
670
671  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
672
673  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
674    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
675
676  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
677
678  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
679    default.
680
681* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
682  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
683
684* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
685  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
686
687* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
688
689* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
690
691Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
692
693* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
694  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
695  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
696  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
697  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
698
699* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
700  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
701  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
702
703* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
704  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
705  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
706
707* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
708  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
709  allowed).
710
711* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
712
713* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
714
715* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
716
717Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
718
719* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
720  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
721
722* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
723  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
724  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
725
726* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
727  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
728  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
729  the new "*data passage" style.
730
731* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
732  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
733
734* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
735  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
736  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
737  some cases.
738
739* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
740  with no survey loaded.
741
742* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
743
744* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
745  loaded a survey.
746
747* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
748
749* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
750
751* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
752  doesn't exist.
753
754* Updated French and Italian translations.
755
756* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
757  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
758
759* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
760  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
761  update their copy).
762
763* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
764  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
765  trying to compile).
766
767Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
768
769* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
770  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
771
772* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
773  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
774  has been disabled.
775
776* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
777  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
778  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
779  time.
780
781* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
782  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
783  highlighted stations.
784
785* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
786
787* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
788  the tilt from plan to elevation.
789
790* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
791  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
792
793* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
794  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
795  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
796
797* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
798  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
799
800* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
801
802* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
803
804* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
805
806* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
807  run by an unprivileged user.
808
809* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
810  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
811  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
812
813* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
814  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
815
816* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
817
818* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
819  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
820
821* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
822  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
823
824* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
825  if it isn't.
826
827* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
828  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
829
830* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
831  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
832
833* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
834  reset to default view as well).
835
836* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
837  empty.
838
839* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
840  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
841
842* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
843  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
844  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
845
846* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
847  and non-zero width lines.
848
849* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
850  was turned on.
851
852* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
853  not always being fully written.
854
855Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
856
857* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
858  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
859  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
860  date near the middle of that period).
861
862* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
863  with MS Windows).
864
865* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
866  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
867  several surveys in the same directory).
868
869* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
870  our check for them to include that knowledge.
871
872* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
873
874* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
875  moved off a station.
876
877* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
878  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
879
880* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
881
882* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
883  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
884
885* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
886  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
887  dialogs.
888
889* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
890  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
891
892* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
893  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
894  introduced in 1.1.6).
895
896* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
897  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
898  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
899
900* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
901  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
902
903* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
904
905* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
906
907Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
908
909* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
910  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
911
912* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
913  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
914  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
915  3d file.
916
917* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
918
919* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
920
921* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
922  Instead turn off depth colouring.
923
924* aven: Export as HPGL added.
925
926* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
927  Martin Green).
928
929* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
930  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
931  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
932
933* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
934
935* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
936  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
937
938* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
939  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
940  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
941  of everything else.
942
943* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
944  presentation icons.
945
946* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
947  keyboard focus there.
948
949* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
950
951* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
952
953* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
954
955* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
956
957* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
958  language to use for messages.
959
960* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
961  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
962
963* Removed old printer drivers.
964
965* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
966  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
967
968Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
969
970* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
971
972* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
973
974* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
975  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
976
977* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
978  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
979
980* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
981
982* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
983  underground legs is toggled.
984
985* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
986  attached to the previous data.
987
988* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
989  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
990  them.
991
992Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
993
994* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
995
996* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
997  continental European countries).
998
999* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
1000  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
1001  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
1002
1003* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
1004
1005* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
1006  they're needed.
1007
1008* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
1009
1010* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
1011
1012* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
1013
1014* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
1015  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
1016  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
1017
1018* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
1019
1020Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
1021
1022* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
1023
1024* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
1025
1026* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
1027
1028* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
1029
1030* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1031
1032* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1033
1034* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1035  when there's a presentation loaded.
1036
1037* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1038  in cave view.
1039
1040* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1041
1042* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1043  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1044  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1045
1046* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1047  filename for file history and window title.
1048
1049* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1050  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1051  only needed with GTK1.2.
1052
1053* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1054
1055* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1056
1057* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1058
1059* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1060
1061Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1062
1063* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1064  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1065  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1066
1067* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1068  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1069
1070* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1071  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1072  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1073  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1074
1075* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1076
1077* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1078  with --help and --version.
1079
1080* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1081  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1082  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1083  Fixed all these problems.
1084
1085* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1086  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1087  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1088
1089* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1090  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1091  sources.
1092
1093* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1094
1095* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1096
1097* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1098  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1099
1100* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1101  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1102  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1103  animating.
1104
1105* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1106
1107* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1108
1109* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1110  to this branch.
1111
1112* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1113
1114  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1115
1116  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1117
1118  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1119
1120* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1121
1122* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1123  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1124
1125* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1126
1127* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1128  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1129
1130* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1131
1132* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1133  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1134  for anyone building from CVS).
1135
1136* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1137
1138* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1139
1140* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1141
1142* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1143
1144* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1145  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1146  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1147
1148* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1149  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1150
1151* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1152
1153* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1154  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1155  loaded).
1156
1157* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1158
1159Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1160
1161* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1162  startup.
1163
1164* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1165  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1166
1167Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1168
1169* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1170  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1171  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1172
1173* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1174  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1175  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1176
1177* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1178  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1179  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1180
1181* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1182
1183* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1184  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1185
1186* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1187  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1188
1189* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1190  better use of screen space.
1191
1192* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1193
1194* aven: Perspective view.
1195
1196* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1197
1198* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1199  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1200
1201* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1202  and load/save/run them.
1203
1204* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1205
1206* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1207
1208* aven: Depth fogging option.
1209
1210* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1211
1212* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1213
1214* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1215  showing the surface legs.
1216
1217* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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