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Fix cavern log window for wx 3.0

The wx API to detect dark mode wasn't in 3.0, so just assume light
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3Changes in 1.4.17 (2025-03-??):
4
5* aven: Add support for exaggerating Z.  You can now set a Z scale factor
6  from 0.1 to 10.0 via a new widget on the toolbar.  Fixes #49.
7
8* aven: The cavern log window now choses foreground and background colours
9  based on the desktop's light mode/dark mode setting.  Previously it
10  used the default window colour but always used black text, which made it
11  hard to read with a dark desktop theme.  (The wxWidgets API to detect
12  dark mode is new in 3.2, so if built with wxWidgets 3.0 then we assume
13  light mode.)
14
15* aven: The station search feature now uses the standard search
16  widget on GTK 3.6 or later and on macOS.  There's now a placeholder
17  text shown when there's no search to make it clearer what this
18  widget is for.
19
20* aven: There's currently a cavern bug where it can fail to identify all
21  traverses which are not involved in loop closure, which results in the .3d
22  file contains error information for them (unfortunately this seems tricky to
23  fully fix).  This error information is always zero, so as a workaround aven
24  attempts to detect these so that "colour by error" shows them as "not in
25  loop".  This workaround previously only checked for E being zero, but now
26  H and V are both also required to be zero.  This should help avoid some very
27  low error traverses being incorrectly treated as "not in loop", although in
28  practice I've not yet found a real world case where this actually makes a
29  difference.
30
31* aven: Fix the output encoding of `aven --help`, `--version`, etc.
32  Previously these were always encoded as UTF-8 which is usually right
33  on a modern system, but the terminal could be using a different
34  encoding.
35
36* aven: Reduce startup overhead a little when the terminal has a UTF-8
37  locale (which is now the default on most Linux distros).
38
39* cavern: Fix an "assertion failed" error in some situations when
40  equating to a fixed point.  This bug was introduced by changes
41  in 1.4.13.  Fixes #143, reported by Juan Corrin.
42
43* cavern: The syntax of *copyright commands is now checked and a warning
44  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
45
46* cavern: The syntax of *team commands is now checked and a warning
47  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
48
49* cavern: Stop reporting node stats.  These are kind of interesting, but
50  with the widespread use of Disto-X and similar devices which can easily
51  shoot multiple splay legs from each station means the number of larger order
52  nodes has increased and this information is now quite verbose and any utility
53  it had has substantially declined.  If these statistics are still wanted then
54  they could make a reappearance in the future in aven, with splays excluded
55  when counting the number of legs at each station.  Fixes #86, reported by
56  Wookey.
57
58* cavern: Fix wrong "unused fixed point" warning with *solve.
59
60* cavern: Fix double counting of stations which are referenced both before and
61  after *solve.
62
63* cavern: Suppress loop and component counts if *solve is used.  Our component
64  count was often wrong in this case but this looks very hard to fix.  These
65  counts are not vital so better to omit than report wrong values.
66
67* cavern: The "Equating two equal fixed points" warning now lists the
68  stations on the same order as they are in the `.svx` file which
69  seems clearer.
70
71* Speed up reading and writing of .3d files.  The time to read a large .3d file
72  and just count the stations and legs was more than halved by this change.
73
74* Simplify handling of errors loading the messages file.  The error
75  messages for this case are now stored as separate ASCII strings in
76  the executables which reduces the startup overhead a little as we
77  no longer need to scan them and potentially reencode them.
78
79* img library: The img struct's filename_opened member was always NULL when
80  used outside of Survex (and set but never actually used inside of Survex)
81  so it has been removed.  If you are referencing it in your code then instead
82  use the filename you passed to img_open_survey() when opening the file.
83
84* Documentation: Add details of warning about future dates in *date.
85
86* Documentation: Added new manual chapter on the img library.
87
88* Documentation: Improve comments document API in img.h.
89
90* Testsuite: Add proper test coverage for `*ref`.
91
92* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
93
94* Portability: Eliminate unintended use of a C++17 feature (static_assert
95  with only one argument).
96
97* Portability: Avoid compiler warnings/errors in getopt code by properly
98  declaring getenv().
99
100Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
101
102* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
103  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
104  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
105  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
106
107* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
108  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
109  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
110  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
111
112* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
113  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
114  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
115  Eric C. Landgraf.
116
117* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
118  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
119  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
120
121* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
122  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
123  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
124  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
125
126* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
127
128* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
129  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
130  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
131  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
132  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
133
134* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
135
136* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
137
138* Various minor improvements to documentation.
139
140* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
141
142Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
143
144* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
145  overlay.
146
147* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
148  Fixes #110
149
150* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
151  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
152
153* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
154  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
155  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
156
157* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
158  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
159
160* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
161  on x86.
162
163Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
164
165* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
166  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
167  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
168
169* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
170  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
171  in 1.4.13.
172
173* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
174
175* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
176  naming.
177
178* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
179
180* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
181  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
182  candidate stations).
183
184Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
185
186* aven:
187
188  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
189    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
190
191  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
192    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
193    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
194
195  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
196    show.
197
198  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
199    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
200    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
201
202* cavern:
203
204  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
205    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
206    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
207
208  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
209    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
210    by the same amount in these cases.
211
212  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
213    unconnected survey stations.
214
215  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
216
217  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
218    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
219
220  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
221    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
222    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
223    Eric C. Landgraf.
224
225  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
226    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
227    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
228    situation.
229
230  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
231    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
232    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
233
234  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
235    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
236    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
237    network.
238
239  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
240    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
241    which should be faster.
242
243  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
244    more efficient way.
245
246* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
247
248* Documentation:
249
250  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
251    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
252    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
253    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
254    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
255    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
256    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
257
258* Test suite:
259
260  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
261    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
262    excess precision.
263
264* Assorted translation updates.
265
266Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
267
268* aven:
269
270  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
271    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
272    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
273    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
274    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
275    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
276    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
277
278* cavern:
279
280  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
281    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
282    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
283    an error.
284
285  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
286    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
287    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
288    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
289    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
290    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
291    measurable).
292
293  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
294    less memory.
295
296* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
297  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
298  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
299  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
300
301* Testsuite:
302
303  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
304
305  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
306    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
307    precision.
308
309* img library:
310
311  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
312    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
313    from Thomas Holder.
314
315  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
316    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
317
318Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
319
320* aven:
321
322  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
323    C. Landgraf.
324
325* aven/survexport:
326
327  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
328    addresses #60.
329
330  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
331    1:40000).
332
333  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
334    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
335
336  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
337    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
338    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
339    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
340    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
341
342* cavern:
343
344  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
345    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
346
347  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
348    bad reading was quietly ignored).
349
350  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
351    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
352    for example:
353
354     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
355      *end   bar
356             ^~~
357     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
358      *begin      foo
359                  ^~~
360
361  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
362    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
363
364  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
365    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
366    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
367    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
368    an error.
369
370    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
371    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
372
373  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
374    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
375    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
376
377  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
378    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
379    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
380
381  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
382    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
383    handled more consistently.
384
385  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
386    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
387
388  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
389
390  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
391
392    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
393      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
394      use the datum.
395
396    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
397      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
398      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
399
400* Documentation:
401
402  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
403    definition in `*units` docs.
404
405  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
406
407* Assorted translation updates.
408
409* testsuite:
410
411  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
412    comparing with expected output.
413
414* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
415
416  + `*cartesian` added
417
418  + `*data ignore` added
419
420  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
421
422  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
423
424  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
425    lines
426
427  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
428
429  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
430    because there's a comment after the filename
431
432  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
433    whitespace between `*` and `include`
434
435Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
436
437* aven:
438
439  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
440    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
441    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
442    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
443    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
444    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
445    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
446    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
447
448* aven/survexport:
449
450  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
451    1.4.6).
452
453  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
454
455  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
456    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
457    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
458    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
459    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
460    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
461    survey.
462
463  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
464
465* cavern:
466
467  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
468    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
469    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
470    warns about them.
471
472    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
473    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
474    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
475    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
476
477    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
478
479  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
480    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
481    connected to it.
482
483  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
484    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
485    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
486    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
487    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
488    traverse.
489
490  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
491
492  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
493    it actually was:
494
495      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
496
497  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
498
499    - After an anonymous station.
500
501    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
502      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
503      or end of line.
504
505    - In a `*alias` command.
506
507    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
508
509  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
510    `cartesian` style data.
511
512  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
513
514  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
515    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
516    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
517    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
518    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
519
520  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
521    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
522    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
523    example.
524
525  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
526    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
527    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
528    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
529    when viewing the log in aven.
530
531  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
532    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
533    datasets):
534
535    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
536
537    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
538      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
539
540    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
541      `ORDER=ADV`).
542
543    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
544
545    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
546      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
547      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
548      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
549      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
550      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
551      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
552      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
553
554    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
555
556    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
557
558    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
559      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
560      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
561
562    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
563      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
564
565    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
566
567    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
568
569    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
570
571    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
572      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
573      is present in some real-world data.
574
575    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
576      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
577
578    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
579      of it we do handle!
580
581    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
582      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
583      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
584      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
585
586    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
587      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
588
589    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
590      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
591
592    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
593
594    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
595
596    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
597      values are currently ignored.
598
599    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
600      them is currently ignored.
601
602    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
603      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
604      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
605      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
606      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
607
608    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
609
610* documentation:
611
612  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
613    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
614    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
615    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
616
617    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
618    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
619    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
620
621    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
622    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
623    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
624    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
625
626    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
627    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
628    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
629    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
630
631  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
632
633  + Document PLT export.
634
635  + Minor improvements to --help output
636
637  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
638    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
639    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
640    C. Landgraf.
641
642  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
643
644  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
645
646  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
647
648  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
649
650  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
651
652* testsuite:
653
654  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
655
656  + Add expected output for more testcases
657
658  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
659
660  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
661    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
662    instructions.
663
664  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
665
666* translations:
667
668  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
669    more natural word order in a translated message.
670
671Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
672
673* aven:
674
675  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
676    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
677    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
678    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
679    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
680    files - set the filter to "All Files" to chose other formats.
681
682  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
683    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
684    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
685    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
686    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
687    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
688    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
689    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
690    we could add it to the new implementation.
691
692  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
693    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
694    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
695    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
696    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
697    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
698    command line or from some other launcher.
699
700* cavern:
701
702  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
703    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
704    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
705    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
706    encouragement.
707
708  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
709    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
710    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
711
712  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
713    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
714    quietly misinterpreting the data.
715
716  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
717    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
718    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
719    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
720
721  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
722    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
723
724  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
725
726  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
727    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
728    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
729    used to have "info" diagnostics.
730
731  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
732    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
733    "info" category is more appropriate here.
734
735  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
736    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
737    which may be useful to the user.
738
739  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
740    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
741    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
742    happened in a released version.
743
744  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
745    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
746    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
747
748* dump3d:
749
750  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
751    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
752    true on all platforms.
753
754* manual:
755
756  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
757    with/without admin rights.
758
759  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
760    limitations.
761
762  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
763    section.
764
765  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
766    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
767    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
768    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
769
770* img library:
771
772  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
773    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
774    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
775
776  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
777    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
778
779  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
780    stations in loops.
781
782  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
783    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
784
785  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
786    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
787
788  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
789    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
790    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
791    as "unknown date".
792
793* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
794  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
795  environment variable for this.
796
797* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
798  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
799  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
800  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
801  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
802  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
803
804* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
805  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
806  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
807
808* Build system:
809
810  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
811
812  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
813    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
814
815  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
816    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
817
818* testsuite:
819
820  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
821    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
822    problem.
823
824  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
825
826Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
827
828* cavern:
829
830  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
831    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
832    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
833    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
834    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
835
836  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
837    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
838    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
839    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
840
841  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
842    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
843
844  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
845    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
846    failed on some architectures.
847
848* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
849
850* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
851  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
852  rights.
853
854* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
855  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
856  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
857  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
858
859Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
860
861* cavern:
862
863  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
864    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
865    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
866    the second and subsequent locations.
867
868  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
869    containing non-ASCII characters.
870
871  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
872    warnings.
873
874  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
875
876  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
877
878  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
879    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
880    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
881    files.
882
883* img library:
884
885  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
886    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
887
888  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
889    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
890    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
891    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
892    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
893    realloc().
894
895* Portability:
896
897  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
898    versions.
899
900  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
901
902* Build system:
903
904  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
905
906* Manual:
907
908  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
909
910  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
911
912* Minor translation updates.
913
914* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
915  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
916  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
917  managed to reproduce.
918
919Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
920
921* cavern:
922
923  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
924    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
925    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
926    mailing list.
927
928  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
929    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
930    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
931    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
932
933  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
934    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
935    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
936    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
937    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
938    the whole specified filename to upper case.
939
940  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
941    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
942    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
943    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
944    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
945    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
946
947  + Compass DAT files:
948
949    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
950
951    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
952      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
953      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
954      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
955      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
956      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
957
958    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
959      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
960
961    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
962
963    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
964      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
965      being in metres.
966
967    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
968      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
969
970    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
971      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
972      unlikely to occur in real data.
973
974    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
975      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
976      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
977      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
978      itself for DAT files.
979
980  + Compass MAK files:
981
982    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
983      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
984      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
985
986    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
987      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
988      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
989      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
990      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
991      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
992      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
993      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
994      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
995      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
996      supported would be useful to you.
997
998    - Folder commands are now understood.
999
1000    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
1001      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
1002      counts from 0 at these points).
1003
1004  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
1005    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
1006    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
1007    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
1008    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
1009
1010* aven:
1011
1012  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
1013    Philip Balister.
1014
1015  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
1016    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
1017    together.
1018
1019* aven/survexport:
1020
1021  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
1022
1023  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
1024    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
1025    are enabled.
1026
1027  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
1028
1029  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
1030    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
1031    all of a set of equated stations.
1032
1033  + .plt:
1034
1035    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
1036      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
1037      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
1038      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
1039
1040    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
1041      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
1042      Compass docs).
1043
1044* img library:
1045
1046  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
1047    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
1048    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
1049    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
1050    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
1051    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
1052    default).
1053
1054  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
1055    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
1056
1057    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
1058      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
1059      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
1060
1061    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
1062
1063    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
1064      Entrance" field is present and zero.
1065
1066    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
1067
1068    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
1069      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
1070      format specification says:
1071
1072          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
1073          wall to define the passage shape.
1074
1075    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1076      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1077      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1078      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1079      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1080      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1081
1082    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
1083      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
1084
1085    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
1086      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
1087      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
1088      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
1089      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
1090      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
1091      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
1092      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
1093      mixed datums would be useful to you.
1094
1095    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
1096      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
1097
1098    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1099      than one survey in the PLT file.
1100
1101    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1102      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1103
1104    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1105      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1106      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1107      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1108      the comment for that survey as before.
1109
1110    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1111      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1112      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1113      it being omitted too.
1114
1115* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1116
1117* manual:
1118
1119  + Document Compass support in detail.
1120
1121  + Improve NATO mils example.
1122
1123* INSTALL:
1124
1125  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1126    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1127
1128  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1129    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1130
1131* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1132
1133* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1134  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1135
1136* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1137  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1138  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1139
1140* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1141
1142Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1143
1144* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1145
1146* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1147  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1148
1149* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1150
1151* Minor translation updates.
1152
1153Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1154
1155* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1156  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1157
1158* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1159  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1160  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1161  checks that were rejecting this.
1162
1163  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1164  really do that's better than that.
1165
1166  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1167
1168* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1169  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1170  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1171  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1172  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1173
1174* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1175  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1176
1177* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1178  bearing spin control.
1179
1180* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1181  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1182  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1183  currently but please report issues.
1184
1185* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1186  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1187  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1188  position".
1189
1190* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1191  Reported by echarlie
1192
1193* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1194
1195Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1196
1197* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1198
1199* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1200  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1201
1202* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1203  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1204
1205* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1206  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1207
1208* Minor translation updates.
1209
1210* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1211  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1212  works on Wayland).
1213
1214* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1215  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1216
1217* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1218
1219* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1220  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1221  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1222
1223Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1224
1225* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1226
1227* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1228
1229* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1230  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1231
1232* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1233  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1234  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1235  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1236
1237* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1238  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1239  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1240
1241* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1242  string properly.
1243
1244* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1245  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1246  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1247  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1248  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1249  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1250  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1251
1252* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1253  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1254
1255  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1256
1257* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1258  where the included filename is actually specified.
1259
1260* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1261  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1262
1263* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1264  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1265  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1266
1267* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1268  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1269
1270* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1271  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1272  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1273  anyway.
1274
1275* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1276  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1277
1278* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1279
1280* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1281  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1282  inconvenience anyone.
1283
1284Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1285
1286* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1287
1288* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1289  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1290  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1291  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1292
1293* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1294  in 1.4.0.
1295
1296* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1297
1298Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1299
1300* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1301  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1302  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1303  Couwenberg.
1304
1305  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1306  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1307  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1308  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1309
1310  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1311  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1312
1313* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1314  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1315  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1316
1317* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1318  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1319  strings is strongly discouraged.
1320
1321  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1322
1323  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1324
1325  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1326  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1327
1328* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1329  Green.
1330
1331* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1332  echarlie.
1333
1334* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1335  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1336  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1337
1338* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1339
1340* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1341
1342* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1343
1344* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1345
1346* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1347  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1348  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1349
1350Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1351
1352* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1353  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1354  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1355  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1356  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1357
1358* aven:
1359
1360  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1361    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1362    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1363    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1364    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1365    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1366
1367* testsuite:
1368
1369  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1370    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1371    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1372    process exits.
1373
1374* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1375
1376Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1377
1378* aven:
1379
1380  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1381
1382* cavern:
1383
1384  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1385
1386  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1387    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1388    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1389
1390  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1391    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1392    until the next *data command with parameters.
1393
1394  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1395    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1396
1397  * Improve test coverage.
1398
1399* survexport:
1400
1401  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1402    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1403
1404  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1405    Batista.
1406
1407* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1408  Holder.
1409
1410* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1411  from Thomas Holder.
1412
1413* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1414  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1415
1416* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1417
1418* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1419
1420* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1421
1422* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1423
1424* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1425
1426Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1427
1428* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1429  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1430  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1431
1432* aven:
1433
1434  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1435    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1436    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1437
1438  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1439    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1440    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1441    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1442
1443  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1444    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1445    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1446
1447  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1448
1449Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1450
1451* aven:
1452
1453  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1454
1455  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1456    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1457    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1458
1459  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1460    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1461    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1462    orientation.
1463
1464* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1465  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1466  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1467  Richard Knapp.
1468
1469* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1470  might still need to use them for.
1471
1472* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1473
1474* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1475
1476* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1477  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1478  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1479  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1480
1481* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1482  is now the recommended approach.
1483
1484Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1485
1486* aven:
1487
1488  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1489    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1490    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1491    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1492    Brian Clipstone.
1493
1494  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1495    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1496
1497Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1498
1499* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1500  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1501  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1502
1503* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1504  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1505  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1506  with some compilers.
1507
1508* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1509  installed.
1510
1511Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1512
1513* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1514  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1515  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1516
1517* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1518  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1519  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1520
1521* aven:
1522
1523  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1524    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1525    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1526    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1527    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1528    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1529    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1530    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1531    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1532    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1533    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1534
1535  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1536
1537* Documentation:
1538
1539  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1540
1541  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1542    placeholder.
1543
1544  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1545    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1546
1547* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1548  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1549  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1550
1551* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1552  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1553  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1554  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1555  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1556  location to avoid confusion.
1557
1558* Add a few more message translations.
1559
1560* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1561
1562Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1563
1564* cavern:
1565
1566  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1567    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1568    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1569    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1570    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1571
1572  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1573    now reports "file not found" instead.
1574
1575  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1576    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1577    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1578
1579* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1580
1581* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1582  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1583  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1584  removed.
1585
1586* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1587  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1588  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1589  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1590
1591Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1592
1593* aven:
1594
1595  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1596    controllable.
1597
1598  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1599
1600  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1601    Patch from Robert Jones.
1602
1603  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1604    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1605    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1606
1607  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1608    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1609
1610* cavern:
1611
1612  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1613    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1614
1615  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1616    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1617    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1618    go unnoticed.
1619
1620* survexport:
1621
1622  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1623    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1624    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1625
1626  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1627    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1628    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1629    Stephen Crabtree.
1630
1631* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1632
1633* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1634  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1635
1636* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1637  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1638  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1639  therion's team command.
1640
1641Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1642
1643* aven:
1644
1645  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1646
1647  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1648    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1649    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1650    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1651    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1652    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1653    for new entrances.
1654
1655  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1656    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1657    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1658    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1659
1660  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1661
1662  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1663    to show via the right-click menu.
1664
1665  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1666    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1667    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1668    child surveys of the parent.
1669
1670  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1671    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1672    survey.
1673
1674  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1675    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1676
1677  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1678
1679  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1680    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1681
1682  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1683    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1684    filtering this matters more).
1685
1686* survexport:
1687
1688  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1689    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1690
1691  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1692
1693* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1694
1695* Minor translation updates.
1696
1697* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1698
1699* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1700
1701* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1702
1703Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1704
1705* aven:
1706
1707  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
1708    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
1709    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
1710    on screen, printed and exported.
1711
1712  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
1713    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
1714    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
1715    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
1716    survey.
1717
1718  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
1719    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
1720    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
1721    view.  Reported by Wookey.
1722
1723  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
1724    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
1725    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
1726
1727  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
1728    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
1729
1730  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
1731    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
1732
1733  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
1734    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
1735
1736  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
1737    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
1738
1739  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
1740    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
1741
1742* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
1743  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
1744  tools could do, plus much more.
1745
1746* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
1747
1748* Minor updates to various other translations.
1749
1750* img library:
1751
1752  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
1753
1754  + Improve API documentation.
1755
1756* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
1757  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
1758  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
1759
1760* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
1761  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
1762  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
1763  control what gets exported.
1764
1765Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
1766
1767* aven:
1768
1769  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1770    of 1.2.33.
1771
1772  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
1773
1774Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
1775
1776* aven:
1777
1778  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
1779    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
1780    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
1781    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
1782
1783  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
1784    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
1785    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
1786    Erin Lynch.
1787
1788  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
1789    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
1790    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
1791
1792  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
1793    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
1794    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
1795    unnecessarily.
1796
1797  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
1798    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
1799    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
1800    for this control).
1801
1802  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
1803    under GTK3.
1804
1805  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
1806    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
1807    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
1808
1809  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
1810    current development version).
1811
1812  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
1813    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
1814    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
1815
1816* cavern:
1817
1818  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
1819    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
1820    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
1821    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
1822    "19".
1823
1824* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
1825  Evaristo Quiroga.
1826
1827* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
1828
1829* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
1830  milosch.
1831
1832* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
1833  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
1834  translated messages.
1835
1836* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
1837  Indonesian and Polish.
1838
1839* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
1840  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
1841  Reported by Martin Sluka.
1842
1843* Fix a few compiler warnings.
1844
1845* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
1846  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
1847  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
1848
1849* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
1850
1851  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
1852    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
1853    but happens to fail if it isn't.
1854
1855  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
1856
1857  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
1858
1859  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
1860
1861* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
1862  detected at run time on macOS.
1863
1864* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
1865  by the homebrew formula.
1866
1867* buildmacosx.sh:
1868
1869  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
1870    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
1871
1872  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
1873
1874* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
1875  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
1876
1877Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
1878
1879* aven:
1880
1881  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
1882    and Anthony Day.
1883
1884  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
1885    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
1886    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
1887    Erin Lynch in #89.
1888
1889  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
1890    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
1891    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
1892    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
1893    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
1894    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
1895    elevations.
1896
1897  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
1898    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
1899    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
1900
1901  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
1902    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
1903    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
1904    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
1905    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
1906    "on".
1907
1908  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
1909    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
1910
1911  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
1912    the display wouldn't update right away.
1913
1914* Manual:
1915
1916  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
1917
1918  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
1919
1920* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
1921  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
1922  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
1923  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
1924  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
1925
1926Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
1927
1928* aven:
1929
1930  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
1931    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
1932    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
1933
1934  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
1935    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
1936    before by others.
1937
1938  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
1939
1940  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
1941    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
1942    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
1943    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
1944    original change.
1945
1946  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
1947    which extends beyond the end of the line).
1948
1949  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
1950    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
1951
1952  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
1953
1954  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
1955
1956  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
1957    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
1958    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
1959    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
1960    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
1961    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
1962    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
1963
1964  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
1965    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
1966
1967  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
1968    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
1969    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
1970
1971  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
1972    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
1973    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
1974    much vertical range.
1975
1976  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
1977    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
1978    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
1979    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
1980    are drawn in this way.
1981
1982  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
1983    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
1984    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
1985    centre should be a single pixel.
1986
1987* cavern:
1988
1989  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
1990    entering passage data where there are side passages.
1991
1992  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
1993    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
1994
1995  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
1996    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
1997    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
1998    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
1999
2000  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
2001    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
2002    Reported by Erin Lynch.
2003
2004  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
2005    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
2006    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
2007    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
2008
2009  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
2010    other messages.
2011
2012* extend:
2013
2014  + Now runs a bit faster.
2015
2016  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
2017    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
2018    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
2019    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
2020    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
2021    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
2022    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
2023    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
2024    be handled better) most welcome.
2025
2026* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
2027
2028* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
2029
2030* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
2031  translations from therion.
2032
2033* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
2034  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
2035
2036* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
2037  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
2038  Footleg.
2039
2040* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
2041
2042* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
2043
2044Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
2045
2046* aven:
2047
2048  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
2049    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2050
2051  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
2052    Suggested by detrito.
2053
2054  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
2055    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
2056
2057  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
2058    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
2059
2060* Add man page for dump3d.
2061
2062Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
2063
2064* aven:
2065
2066  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
2067    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
2068
2069  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
2070    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2071
2072* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
2073  Lynch and "detrito".
2074
2075* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
2076  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
2077
2078Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
2079
2080* cavern:
2081
2082  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
2083    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
2084    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
2085    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
2086    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
2087
2088  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
2089
2090  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
2091
2092  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
2093    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
2094    degrees).
2095
2096* aven:
2097
2098  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2099    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2100    Day.
2101
2102  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2103    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2104
2105  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2106    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2107
2108  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2109    of the line in cavern log window.
2110
2111  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2112
2113  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2114
2115  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2116    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2117    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2118    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2119    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2120
2121  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2122    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2123    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2124
2125  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2126
2127  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2128
2129  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2130    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2131    Atkinson and myself.
2132
2133  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2134
2135  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2136    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2137    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2138    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2139    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2140    survey.
2141
2142  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2143    lines on my netbook.
2144
2145  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2146    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2147    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2148
2149  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2150    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2151    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2152    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2153    glitches.
2154
2155  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2156    we currently list, though slower to write.
2157
2158  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2159    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2160
2161  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2162    warnings when building against a recent version.
2163
2164  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2165    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2166    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2167    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2168
2169  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2170    movie export.
2171
2172  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2173    export.
2174
2175* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2176  James Begley.
2177
2178* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2179  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2180
2181* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2182
2183* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2184  messages get used automatically.
2185
2186* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2187  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2188
2189* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2190
2191* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2192
2193* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2194
2195Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2196
2197* aven:
2198
2199  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2200    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2201    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2202    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2203    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2204    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2205    probably change in the future).
2206
2207  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2208    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2209    the survey tree root.
2210
2211  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2212    the view was recentred).
2213
2214  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2215    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2216    wrong direction).
2217
2218  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2219    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2220    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2221
2222  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2223    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2224    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2225    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2226
2227  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2228    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2229
2230  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2231    addresses #60.
2232
2233  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2234
2235  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2236    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2237    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2238
2239  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2240
2241  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2242    360 or down past 0.
2243
2244  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2245    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2246    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2247    real-valued ones.
2248
2249  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2250    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2251
2252  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2253    Lynch.
2254
2255  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2256
2257  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2258    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2259
2260  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2261    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2262    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2263
2264  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2265    should now work.
2266
2267* cavern:
2268
2269  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2270
2271  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2272    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2273    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2274
2275  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2276    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2277    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2278
2279  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2280    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2281    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2282    issue.
2283
2284  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2285    by patch from Colin Watson.
2286
2287  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2288
2289* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2290
2291* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2292  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2293
2294* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2295  used in the same dataset.
2296
2297* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2298  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2299
2300* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2301  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2302  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2303
2304* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2305
2306Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2307
2308* aven:
2309
2310  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2311    cavern again.
2312
2313* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2314  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2315  location and use the same start menu folder.
2316
2317* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2318  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2319
2320* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2321  by James Begley.
2322
2323Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2324
2325* aven:
2326
2327  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2328    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2329    to address.
2330
2331  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2332    over the survey tree.
2333
2334  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2335
2336  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2337    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2338
2339  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2340    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2341    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2342    encoded.
2343
2344  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2345    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2346    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2347    terminals which do still support this.
2348
2349  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2350    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2351
2352* cavern:
2353
2354  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2355    Edwards (see #78).
2356
2357  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2358    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2359    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2360    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2361
2362  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2363    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2364    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2365
2366  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2367    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2368
2369* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2370  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2371  Black.
2372
2373* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2374
2375* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2376  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2377  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2378  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2379  Black.
2380
2381* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2382  Black.
2383
2384* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2385
2386* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2387
2388* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2389
2390* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2391
2392* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2393
2394* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2395  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2396
2397* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2398  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2399  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2400
2401* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2402  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2403  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2404  privileges or not.
2405
2406Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2407
2408* aven:
2409
2410  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2411    Clipstone.
2412
2413  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2414    Reported by Jenny Black.
2415
2416  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2417    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2418    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2419
2420  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2421    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2422    messages.
2423
2424  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2425    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2426
2427* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2428  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2429
2430* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2431
2432* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2433  by Wookey.
2434
2435Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2436
2437* aven:
2438
2439  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2440    machines.
2441
2442  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2443
2444  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2445    already being processed.
2446
2447  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2448    Reported by Martin Green.
2449
2450  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2451
2452* cavern:
2453
2454  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2455    find the original survey notes).
2456
2457  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2458    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2459    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2460    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2461    progress display to be useful.
2462
2463* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2464
2465* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2466  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2467
2468* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2469  running cavern.
2470
2471* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2472  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2473  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2474
2475Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2476
2477* aven:
2478
2479  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2480    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2481    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2482    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2483    finding this fix.
2484
2485* cavern:
2486
2487  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2488
2489  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2490    station.
2491
2492  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2493    *export.
2494
2495Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2496
2497* aven:
2498
2499  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2500    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2501    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2502
2503  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2504
2505  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2506    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2507    does.
2508
2509  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2510    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2511
2512  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2513    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2514
2515  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2516    as appropriate.
2517
2518  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2519    values on Windows.
2520
2521* cavern:
2522
2523  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2524    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2525    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2526
2527  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2528    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2529
2530  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2531    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2532    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2533    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2534
2535  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2536    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2537    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2538    Atkinson.
2539
2540  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2541    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2542
2543  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2544    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2545    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2546    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2547
2548  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2549    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2550    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2551
2552* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2553  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2554  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2555  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2556
2557* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2558
2559* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2560  "*DECLINATION" command.
2561
2562* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2563  Reported by Jenny Black.
2564
2565* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2566  documentation.
2567
2568* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2569  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2570
2571* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2572
2573* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2574
2575Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2576
2577* aven:
2578
2579  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2580    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2581    the same or very similar by default.
2582
2583  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2584    Maynard.
2585
2586  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2587
2588  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2589
2590  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2591    away.
2592
2593  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2594
2595  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2596    display it.
2597
2598* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2599  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2600  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2601  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2602
2603* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2604
2605* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2606  before 1.2.19.
2607
2608* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2609  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2610
2611* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2612
2613* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2614  disk image.
2615
2616* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2617
2618* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2619  libav features we don't use.
2620
2621* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2622  a load of libav features we don't use.
2623
2624* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2625  message in the installer.
2626
2627Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2628
2629* aven:
2630
2631  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2632    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2633
2634  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2635
2636  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2637    exit full screen mode.
2638
2639  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2640    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2641    using since 1.2.7).
2642
2643  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2644    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2645    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2646    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2647    St. Lawrence.
2648
2649  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2650    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2651
2652  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2653    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2654    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2655
2656  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2657    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2658    case like we do on other platforms.
2659
2660  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2661
2662  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2663    support multi-monitor setups.
2664
2665  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2666    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2667
2668  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2669    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2670
2671  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2672    cases.
2673
2674  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2675    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2676    Erin Lynch)
2677
2678  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2679    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2680    items in in so it uses the full width.
2681
2682  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2683    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2684    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2685    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2686    window.
2687
2688  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2689    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2690    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2691    only relevant on the first ever run.
2692
2693* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2694
2695* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2696  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2697  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2698  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2699  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2700  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2701
2702* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2703  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2704
2705Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
2706
2707* aven:
2708
2709  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
2710    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
2711    rendering it as a transparent surface.
2712
2713  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
2714    sanely want to perform from the menu.
2715
2716  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
2717    colouring options.
2718
2719  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
2720
2721  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
2722    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
2723    pressing "Escape".
2724
2725  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
2726    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
2727
2728  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
2729    exporting.
2730
2731  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
2732
2733  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
2734    is quite likely to change.
2735
2736  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
2737    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
2738
2739  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
2740    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
2741    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
2742
2743  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
2744
2745  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
2746    markers in orange.
2747
2748  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
2749    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
2750
2751  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
2752    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
2753    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
2754    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
2755    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
2756    them would be better.
2757
2758  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
2759    Gee.
2760
2761  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
2762    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
2763    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
2764
2765  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
2766
2767* cavern:
2768
2769  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
2770    susscorfa).
2771
2772  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
2773    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
2774
2775  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
2776
2777  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
2778    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
2779
2780  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
2781    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
2782
2783* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
2784
2785* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
2786  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
2787  in a modern desktop.
2788
2789* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
2790  the filename in the error message.
2791
2792* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
2793  most complete translations.
2794
2795* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
2796
2797* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
2798  lacks them.
2799
2800* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
2801
2802* Manual:
2803
2804  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
2805    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
2806
2807  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
2808
2809  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
2810
2811  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
2812    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
2813    available for download.
2814
2815* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
2816  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
2817  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
2818
2819* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
2820
2821* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
2822
2823Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
2824
2825* MacOS X version:
2826
2827  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
2828
2829  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
2830
2831  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
2832
2833  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
2834
2835  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
2836    currently do this for us.
2837
2838  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
2839
2840  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
2841
2842  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
2843
2844  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
2845    OS X cursor.
2846
2847  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
2848    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
2849    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
2850    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
2851    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
2852    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
2853    with TextEdit.app for example).
2854
2855  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
2856    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
2857
2858  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
2859
2860  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
2861    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
2862
2863  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
2864    Riggs.
2865
2866  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
2867    space.
2868
2869  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
2870
2871  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
2872    10.10.1.
2873
2874  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
2875    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
2876    errors.
2877
2878  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
2879    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
2880    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
2881    wxWidgets build supports by default.
2882
2883  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
2884
2885* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
2886  treat as a single leg.
2887
2888* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
2889
2890* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
2891
2892* aven:
2893
2894  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
2895    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
2896
2897  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
2898    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
2899    1:500).
2900
2901  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
2902    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
2903    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
2904    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
2905
2906  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
2907    there rather than the two animations fighting.
2908
2909  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
2910    fast.
2911
2912  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
2913    when rotating).
2914
2915  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
2916    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
2917
2918* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
2919  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
2920
2921* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
2922
2923* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
2924
2925* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
2926
2927* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
2928
2929* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
2930  we're using git.
2931
2932* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
2933
2934  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
2935    compass.
2936
2937  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
2938
2939  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
2940
2941Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
2942
2943* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
2944
2945* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
2946
2947* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
2948
2949* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
2950  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
2951
2952* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
2953
2954* tests/: Improve test coverage.
2955
2956* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
2957  Greek and Polish.
2958
2959* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
2960  by Martin Sluka.
2961
2962* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
2963  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
2964
2965Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
2966
2967* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
2968  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
2969  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
2970  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
2971  for *cs has also been improved.
2972
2973* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
2974  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
2975  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
2976  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
2977
2978* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
2979  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
2980  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
2981  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
2982  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
2983
2984* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
2985  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
2986  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
2987
2988* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
2989
2990* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
2991
2992* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
2993  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
2994  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
2995
2996* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
2997  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
2998
2999Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
3000
3001* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
3002  system in use in 3d v8 files.
3003
3004* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
3005  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
3006  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
3007  export dialog.
3008
3009* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
3010  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
3011  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
3012  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
3013  rather than having one corner there.
3014
3015* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
3016  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
3017
3018* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
3019  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
3020
3021* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
3022  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
3023  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
3024
3025* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
3026  such as 64-bit Linux.
3027
3028* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
3029  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
3030
3031* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
3032  64-bit platforms.
3033
3034* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
3035  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
3036  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
3037
3038* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
3039  the space available in the aven UI.
3040
3041* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
3042  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
3043  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
3044
3045* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
3046  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
3047
3048* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
3049  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
3050  about unconnected surveys.
3051
3052* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
3053  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
3054
3055* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
3056  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
3057  freed memory.
3058
3059* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
3060
3061* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
3062
3063* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
3064
3065* Fix a compiler warning.
3066
3067* Improve test coverage.
3068
3069Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
3070
3071* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
3072  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
3073  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
3074
3075* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
3076  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
3077  Hugh St Lawrence.
3078
3079* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
3080  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
3081  with using aven on a touch screen device.
3082
3083* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
3084  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
3085
3086* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
3087  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
3088
3089* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
3090  off and back on.
3091
3092* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
3093  up time a little.
3094
3095* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
3096  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
3097
3098* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3099  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3100  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3101  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3102  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3103  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3104  situation too.
3105
3106* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3107  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3108  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3109
3110* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3111
3112* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3113
3114* Minor translation updates to French.
3115
3116* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3117
3118* Testsuite improvements:
3119
3120  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3121
3122  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3123    fail and give an error count.
3124
3125  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3126
3127Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3128
3129* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3130  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3131  Clipstone.
3132
3133* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3134
3135* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3136
3137  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3138    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3139
3140  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3141    clipping the border in print preview.
3142
3143  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3144
3145* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3146  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3147
3148* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3149  available.
3150
3151* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3152
3153* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3154
3155* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3156  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3157
3158* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3159  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3160
3161* Various translation updates.
3162
3163Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3164
3165* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3166  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3167
3168* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3169  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3170  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3171  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3172
3173* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3174  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3175
3176* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3177  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3178
3179* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3180  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3181
3182* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3183  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3184
3185* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3186  box".
3187
3188* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3189
3190* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3191  indicators.
3192
3193* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3194
3195* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3196  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3197  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3198
3199* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3200  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3201  measurably slower.
3202
3203* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3204  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3205
3206* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3207  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3208
3209* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3210  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3211  from Therion and elsewhere.
3212
3213* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3214  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3215  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3216
3217* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3218  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3219
3220* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3221  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3222
3223* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3224  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3225
3226* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3227
3228* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3229  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3230  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3231  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3232  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3233  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3234
3235* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3236
3237Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3238
3239* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3240  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3241  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3242  Clipstone.
3243
3244* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3245  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3246
3247* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3248  exported SVG files.
3249
3250* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3251
3252* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3253  file.
3254
3255* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3256  GPX files.
3257
3258* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3259
3260* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3261  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3262
3263* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3264  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3265  on startup.
3266
3267* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3268
3269* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3270  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3271  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3272  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3273  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3274  other extensions.
3275
3276* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3277  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3278  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3279  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3280  timezone wrong.
3281
3282* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3283
3284* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3285  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3286
3287* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3288
3289* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3290
3291* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3292  enabled.
3293
3294Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3295
3296* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3297
3298* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3299
3300* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3301
3302* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3303  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3304  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3305
3306* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3307  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3308  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3309
3310* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3311  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3312
3313* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3314
3315* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3316
3317* Fix some compiler warnings.
3318
3319Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3320
3321* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3322  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3323  Holder.
3324
3325* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3326  statistics when the value gets large.
3327
3328* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3329  equations.
3330
3331* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3332  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3333  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3334  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3335  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3336
3337* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3338  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3339
3340* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3341  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3342  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3343  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3344  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3345  way is coming soon.
3346
3347* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3348  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3349
3350* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3351  time ago, so update references.
3352
3353* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3354  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3355
3356* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3357  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3358
3359* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3360  Sebastian Ramacher.
3361
3362* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3363
3364* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3365
3366* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3367
3368* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3369
3370* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3371
3372* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3373  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3374  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3375
3376* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3377
3378* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3379
3380* img library:
3381
3382  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3383    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3384    reading).
3385
3386  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3387    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3388
3389  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3390    support these as an extension.
3391
3392  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3393
3394* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3395  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3396  itself has any translations for.
3397
3398* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3399
3400* Minor translation updates.
3401
3402* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3403
3404Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3405
3406* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3407  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3408  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3409  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3410  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3411  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3412  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3413  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3414
3415* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3416
3417  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3418
3419  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3420    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3421
3422  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3423    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3424
3425  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3426
3427  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3428    human-readable string.
3429
3430  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3431    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3432
3433* img library:
3434
3435  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3436
3437  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3438    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3439
3440  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3441    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3442    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3443    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3444    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3445    explicitly in the file.
3446
3447  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3448
3449* aven:
3450
3451  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3452    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3453    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3454    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3455    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3456    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3457
3458  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3459    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3460    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3461    queued up.
3462
3463  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3464    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3465
3466  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3467    them like other legs.
3468
3469  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3470    station names to positions.
3471
3472  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3473    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3474    wrongly.
3475
3476  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3477
3478  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3479    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3480    that's used by the desktop).
3481
3482  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3483
3484  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3485    error from cavern.
3486
3487  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3488
3489  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3490    in the dialog in sync.
3491
3492* cavern:
3493
3494  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3495    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3496    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3497
3498  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3499    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3500
3501  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3502    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3503    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3504    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3505    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3506    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3507    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3508    degrees.
3509
3510  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3511    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3512    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3513
3514  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3515
3516  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3517    warnings.
3518
3519  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3520    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3521
3522  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3523    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3524
3525  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3526    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3527    relevant.
3528
3529  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3530    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3531    the same line.
3532
3533  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3534    "End of line not blank" error.
3535
3536  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3537    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3538
3539  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3540    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3541
3542  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3543    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3544    include that character in the token reported.
3545
3546  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3547    first item.
3548
3549* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3550
3551* dump3d:
3552
3553  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3554    info from 3d files in scripts.
3555
3556  + Add --show-dates option.
3557
3558  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3559
3560  + Report the data style of legs.
3561
3562  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3563
3564  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3565
3566* Test suite:
3567
3568  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3569    expected output so it passes reliably.
3570
3571  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3572    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3573
3574  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3575    for more.
3576
3577* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3578  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3579  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3580
3581* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3582  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3583
3584* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3585  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3586
3587* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3588  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3589  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3590  settings.
3591
3592* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3593  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3594  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3595  set correctly.
3596
3597* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3598  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3599  them to translate.
3600
3601* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3602  close to complete.
3603
3604* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3605
3606* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3607
3608* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3609
3610Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3611
3612* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3613
3614* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3615  package (ticket#35).
3616
3617* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3618  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3619  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3620
3621* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3622  Kahler.
3623
3624* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3625  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3626  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3627  libproj and build survex with:
3628
3629      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3630      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3631
3632* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3633
3634* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3635
3636* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3637  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3638  file".
3639
3640Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3641
3642* aven:
3643
3644  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3645
3646  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3647    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3648
3649  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3650
3651  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3652
3653  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3654    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3655
3656* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3657  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3658  error early on).
3659
3660* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3661  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3662
3663Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3664
3665* aven:
3666
3667  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3668    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3669    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3670    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3671
3672  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
3673    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3674
3675  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3676
3677  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3678
3679  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3680
3681* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3682
3683Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3684
3685* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3686
3687* (Mac OS X version):
3688
3689  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3690
3691  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3692
3693  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3694    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3695
3696  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3697
3698* aven:
3699
3700  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3701
3702  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3703
3704    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
3705      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
3706      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
3707      character.
3708
3709    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
3710      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
3711      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
3712      and two in a few cases.
3713
3714    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
3715      8 pixels.
3716
3717  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
3718    draw crosses.
3719
3720  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
3721    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
3722    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
3723    is the start or end of a tube.
3724
3725  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
3726    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
3727
3728  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
3729    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
3730    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
3731
3732* extend:
3733
3734  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
3735
3736  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
3737    which means "no info").
3738
3739* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
3740  was no longer used - it certainly is!
3741
3742* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
3743  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
3744  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
3745  current character set.
3746
3747* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
3748
3749* Test suite:
3750
3751  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
3752
3753  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
3754
3755Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
3756
3757* aven:
3758
3759  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
3760    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
3761    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
3762    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
3763    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
3764    usable format.
3765
3766  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
3767    files.  (ticket#26)
3768
3769  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
3770    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
3771
3772  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
3773    using lines.
3774
3775  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
3776    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
3777
3778  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
3779    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
3780    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
3781    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
3782
3783  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
3784    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
3785    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
3786
3787  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
3788    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
3789    in 1.2.1.
3790
3791Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
3792
3793* Translation updates for US English.
3794
3795* aven:
3796
3797  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
3798    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
3799
3800  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
3801
3802  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
3803    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
3804    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
3805    visually similar to the survey legs.
3806
3807  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
3808    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
3809
3810  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
3811    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
3812    does still provide some useful information).
3813
3814  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
3815    a depth band boundary.
3816
3817  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
3818    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
3819    full-screen mode).
3820
3821  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
3822    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
3823    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
3824    are a little better, though still not perfect.
3825
3826  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
3827    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
3828
3829  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
3830    that station.
3831
3832  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
3833    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
3834
3835  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
3836    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
3837    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
3838    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
3839    a case as it is a bug).
3840
3841  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
3842    invalidated on window width or height changes.
3843
3844  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
3845    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
3846    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
3847    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
3848
3849  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
3850    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
3851    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
3852    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
3853    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
3854    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
3855    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
3856
3857  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
3858    similarly for other compass points.
3859
3860  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
3861    info in the "About" dialog.
3862
3863  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
3864    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
3865
3866  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
3867    as well as still working with older versions.
3868
3869  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
3870    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
3871
3872  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
3873    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
3874    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
3875    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
3876    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
3877
3878  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
3879    nicer and make better use of the available space.
3880
3881  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
3882    dialog.
3883
3884  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
3885    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
3886
3887  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
3888    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
3889
3890  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
3891
3892  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
3893
3894  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
3895    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
3896    being pressed and toggle full screen.
3897
3898* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
3899  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
3900
3901* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
3902
3903* More messages are now available to be translated.
3904
3905* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
3906  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
3907
3908* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
3909
3910* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
3911  sudo for installing on Unix.
3912
3913* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
3914  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
3915
3916* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
3917  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
3918
3919* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
3920
3921Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
3922
3923* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
3924  English.
3925
3926* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
3927  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
3928  case.
3929
3930* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
3931  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
3932  these into Survex's .msg format.
3933
3934* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
3935  an actual command).
3936
3937* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
3938  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
3939  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
3940  recurrence of that).
3941
3942* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
3943  than /usr/doc/survex.
3944
3945* aven:
3946
3947  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
3948
3949  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
3950    nicer at larger sizes.
3951
3952  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
3953    with GLX >= 1.3.
3954
3955  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
3956
3957  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
3958    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
3959    required libraries set up for building releases.
3960
3961  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
3962
3963  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
3964
3965  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
3966    rendered with icons on some platforms.
3967
3968  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
3969    ISO8859-1).
3970
3971  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
3972    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
3973
3974  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
3975    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
3976
3977* cavern:
3978
3979  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
3980    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
3981    fatal error!
3982
3983  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
3984    format to output.  (ticket#21)
3985
3986* img library:
3987
3988  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
3989    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
3990
3991* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
3992  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
3993
3994Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
3995
3996* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
3997  Portuguese, and US English.
3998
3999* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
4000  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
4001
4002* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
4003  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
4004
4005* img.c:
4006
4007  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
4008
4009  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
4010
4011* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
4012
4013* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
4014  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
4015  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
4016  translated.
4017
4018Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
4019
4020* aven:
4021
4022  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
4023    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
4024
4025  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
4026    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
4027    addresses ticket#12.
4028
4029  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
4030    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
4031    consistent shape.
4032
4033  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
4034    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
4035    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
4036    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
4037
4038  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
4039    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
4040
4041  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
4042
4043  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
4044    more places.
4045
4046  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
4047    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
4048
4049* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
4050
4051* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
4052  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
4053
4054* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
4055
4056* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
4057  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
4058  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
4059  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
4060  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
4061  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
4062
4063* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
4064  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
4065  redirecting to it.
4066
4067* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
4068  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
4069  I/O).
4070
4071* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
4072  headers.
4073
4074* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
4075
4076* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
4077  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
4078
4079* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
4080
4081Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
4082
4083* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
4084
4085* aven:
4086
4087  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
4088    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
4089    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
4090    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
4091
4092  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
4093
4094  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
4095    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
4096    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
4097    a number.
4098
4099  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4100    log window.
4101
4102  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4103    various cases.
4104
4105  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4106    (ticket#9)
4107
4108  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4109    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4110
4111  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4112    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4113
4114  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4115
4116  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4117    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4118
4119* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4120  give them before.
4121
4122* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4123  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4124  point looking for them now.
4125
4126* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4127  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4128  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4129  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4130
4131* manual:
4132
4133  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4134
4135  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4136    (change taken from 1.0).
4137
4138* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4139
4140Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4141
4142* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4143
4144* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4145
4146* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4147
4148* aven:
4149
4150  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4151
4152  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4153    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4154    seem to be Unicode now).
4155
4156  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4157    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4158
4159  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4160    text on the survey pane:
4161
4162    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4163
4164    - Character spacing is improved.
4165
4166    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4167
4168  + "About" dialog:
4169
4170    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4171      bug reporting.
4172
4173    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4174      modern gfx card.
4175
4176    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4177
4178  + Processing .svx files:
4179
4180    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4181
4182    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4183      than opening a separate frame for it.
4184
4185    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4186
4187    - Fix small memory leak.
4188
4189  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4190    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4191    such a name.
4192
4193  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4194
4195  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4196    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4197    invocations.
4198
4199  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4200
4201  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4202
4203  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4204
4205* Documentation:
4206
4207  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4208
4209  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4210    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4211    together isn't very useful.
4212
4213  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4214
4215  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4216    the FSF website.
4217
4218  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4219    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4220    the source code.
4221
4222* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4223  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4224
4225* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4226  package from the source tarball.
4227
4228* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4229  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4230
4231Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4232
4233* aven:
4234
4235  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4236
4237  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4238
4239  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4240    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4241    names/crosses).
4242
4243Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4244
4245* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4246
4247* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4248
4249* aven:
4250
4251  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4252
4253  + Fix character spacing.
4254
4255  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4256    proportional fonts.
4257
4258  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4259    rather than the filename.
4260
4261  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4262
4263  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4264    depth colouring.
4265
4266  + Add "Colour by Error".
4267
4268  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4269
4270  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4271
4272  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4273
4274  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4275
4276  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4277
4278  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4279
4280  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4281
4282  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4283    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4284
4285  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4286
4287  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4288    default.
4289
4290* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4291  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4292
4293* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4294  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4295
4296* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4297
4298* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4299
4300Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4301
4302* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4303  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4304  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4305  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4306  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4307
4308* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4309  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4310  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4311
4312* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4313  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4314  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4315
4316* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4317  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4318  allowed).
4319
4320* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4321
4322* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4323
4324* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4325
4326Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4327
4328* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4329  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4330
4331* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4332  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4333  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4334
4335* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4336  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4337  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4338  the new "*data passage" style.
4339
4340* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4341  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4342
4343* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4344  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4345  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4346  some cases.
4347
4348* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4349  with no survey loaded.
4350
4351* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4352
4353* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4354  loaded a survey.
4355
4356* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4357
4358* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4359
4360* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4361  doesn't exist.
4362
4363* Updated French and Italian translations.
4364
4365* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4366  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4367
4368* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4369  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4370  update their copy).
4371
4372* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4373  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4374  trying to compile).
4375
4376Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4377
4378* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4379  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4380
4381* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4382  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4383  has been disabled.
4384
4385* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4386  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4387  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4388  time.
4389
4390* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4391  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4392  highlighted stations.
4393
4394* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4395
4396* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4397  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4398
4399* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4400  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4401
4402* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4403  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4404  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4405
4406* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4407  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4408
4409* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4410
4411* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4412
4413* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4414
4415* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4416  run by an unprivileged user.
4417
4418* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4419  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4420  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4421
4422* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4423  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4424
4425* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4426
4427* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4428  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4429
4430* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4431  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4432
4433* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4434  if it isn't.
4435
4436* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4437  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4438
4439* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4440  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4441
4442* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4443  reset to default view as well).
4444
4445* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4446  empty.
4447
4448* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4449  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4450
4451* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4452  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4453  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4454
4455* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4456  and non-zero width lines.
4457
4458* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4459  was turned on.
4460
4461* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4462  not always being fully written.
4463
4464Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4465
4466* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4467  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4468  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4469  date near the middle of that period).
4470
4471* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4472  with MS Windows).
4473
4474* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4475  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4476  several surveys in the same directory).
4477
4478* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4479  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4480
4481* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4482
4483* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4484  moved off a station.
4485
4486* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4487  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4488
4489* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4490
4491* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4492  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4493
4494* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4495  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4496  dialogs.
4497
4498* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4499  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4500
4501* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4502  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4503  introduced in 1.1.6).
4504
4505* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4506  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4507  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4508
4509* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4510  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4511
4512* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4513
4514* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4515
4516Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4517
4518* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4519  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4520
4521* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4522  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4523  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4524  3d file.
4525
4526* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4527
4528* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4529
4530* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4531  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4532
4533* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4534
4535* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4536  Martin Green).
4537
4538* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4539  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4540  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4541
4542* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4543
4544* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4545  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4546
4547* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4548  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4549  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4550  of everything else.
4551
4552* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4553  presentation icons.
4554
4555* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4556  keyboard focus there.
4557
4558* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4559
4560* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4561
4562* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4563
4564* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4565
4566* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4567  language to use for messages.
4568
4569* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4570  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4571
4572* Removed old printer drivers.
4573
4574* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4575  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4576
4577Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4578
4579* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4580
4581* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4582
4583* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4584  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4585
4586* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4587  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4588
4589* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4590
4591* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4592  underground legs is toggled.
4593
4594* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4595  attached to the previous data.
4596
4597* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4598  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4599  them.
4600
4601Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4602
4603* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4604
4605* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4606  continental European countries).
4607
4608* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4609  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4610  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4611
4612* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4613
4614* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4615  they're needed.
4616
4617* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4618
4619* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4620
4621* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4622
4623* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4624  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4625  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4626
4627* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4628
4629Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4630
4631* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4632
4633* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4634
4635* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4636
4637* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4638
4639* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4640
4641* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4642
4643* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4644  when there's a presentation loaded.
4645
4646* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4647  in cave view.
4648
4649* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4650
4651* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4652  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4653  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4654
4655* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4656  filename for file history and window title.
4657
4658* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4659  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4660  only needed with GTK1.2.
4661
4662* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4663
4664* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4665
4666* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4667
4668* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4669
4670Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4671
4672* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4673  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4674  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4675
4676* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4677  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4678
4679* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4680  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4681  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4682  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4683
4684* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4685
4686* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4687  with --help and --version.
4688
4689* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4690  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4691  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4692  Fixed all these problems.
4693
4694* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4695  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4696  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4697
4698* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4699  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4700  sources.
4701
4702* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4703
4704* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
4705
4706* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
4707  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
4708
4709* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
4710  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
4711  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
4712  animating.
4713
4714* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
4715
4716* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
4717
4718* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
4719  to this branch.
4720
4721* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
4722
4723  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
4724
4725  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
4726
4727  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
4728
4729* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
4730
4731* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
4732  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
4733
4734* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
4735
4736* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
4737  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
4738
4739* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
4740
4741* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
4742  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
4743  for anyone building from CVS).
4744
4745* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
4746
4747* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
4748
4749* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
4750
4751* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
4752
4753* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
4754  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
4755  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
4756
4757* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
4758  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
4759
4760* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
4761
4762* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
4763  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
4764  loaded).
4765
4766* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
4767
4768Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
4769
4770* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
4771  startup.
4772
4773* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
4774  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
4775
4776Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
4777
4778* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
4779  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
4780  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
4781
4782* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
4783  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
4784  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
4785
4786* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
4787  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
4788  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
4789
4790* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
4791
4792* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
4793  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
4794
4795* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
4796  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
4797
4798* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
4799  better use of screen space.
4800
4801* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
4802
4803* aven: Perspective view.
4804
4805* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
4806
4807* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
4808  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
4809
4810* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
4811  and load/save/run them.
4812
4813* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
4814
4815* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
4816
4817* aven: Depth fogging option.
4818
4819* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
4820
4821* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
4822
4823* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
4824  showing the surface legs.
4825
4826* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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