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3Changes in 1.4.21 (2026-0?-??):
4
5* cavern:
6
7  + Fix missing reports of unconnected survey stations.  We aim to report at
8    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey.  1.4.10 added code
9    to handle when a piece had been simplified to only anonymous stations, but
10    this was buggy and was only checking the first entry in the removed
11    traverse list.  We now check the full list, and if we somehow fail to find
12    an neighbouring named station, we report the anonymous station (we give the
13    filename and line number which is enough context by itself).  Reported by
14    Paweł Gogolak.
15
16  + `*entrance` now also suppresses unused fixed point warnings when it appears
17    before the `*fix` (previously this only worked for `*entrance` after
18    `*fix`.
19
20  + `*fix` with SDs now sets the "fixed" flag on the station in the .3d file.
21
22  + Pick better 3d file separator for Walls data (previously cavern would pick
23    `.` for the separator in a pure Walls dataset, even if it was used in
24    station names).  Walls uses `:` as a prefix separator, so now cavern takes
25    into account which characters are allowed in Walls station names when
26    picking the separator to use in the .3d file.  For a pure Walls dataset, it
27    will pick `:`, so Walls station names in the .3d file should match the
28    names as shown in Walls.  If a dataset mixes data in Walls format with
29    Survex and/or Compass data, then it's possible `:` is used in a Survex or
30    Compass station name and if so a different separator will be chosen.
31
32  + The Walls manual says to represent underwater data using the combination of
33    `TAPE=SS` with `ORDER=DA` or `ORDER=AD`, so we now map this to Survex's
34    diving style.  Issue highlighted by a dataset from Darek Lubomski.
35
36  + In Walls data, downgrade the "Unknown command" error to a warning for some
37    invalid directives which Walls quietly accepts.  Issue highlighted by a
38    dataset from Darek Lubomski.
39
40  + In Walls data, `#note` and `#flags` are meant to suppress unused fixed
41    point warnings, but only did if they came after the `#fix`.  Also `#flags`
42    without any flags didn't suppress the warning but now does.
43
44  + In Walls data, the word `fix` in `#flags` no longer sets the "fixed" flag
45    in the .3d file - we now only set it for stations used in `#fix`.  This
46    seems a more logical approach, since `#flags` is just free-form text which
47    Walls itself doesn't ascribe particular semantics to.  (The word `entrance`
48    in `#flags` still sets the "entrance" flag since Walls lacks a way to
49    properly mark entrances.)
50
51  + Check value after `TAPE=` in Walls data and give an error if it's not
52    valid.
53
54  + In Walls data, we now reject multi-component readings with a decimal point
55    in anything but the final component.  Some examples of invalid readings
56    which now give an error with cavern are `12.5i3`. `12.5:29`, `12.5:29:30`
57    and `12:29.5:30`.
58
59* aven/survexport:
60
61  + Allow exporting/not exporting anonymous stations.  The default is chosen as
62    most appropriate for each format.
63
64  + Fix memory leak in PLT export.
65
66  + Fix memory leak and speed up SVG export.
67
68* Documentation:
69
70  + Say "directive" instead of "command" in Walls docs since this is the
71    terminology Walls uses.
72
73  + Document Walls filename case mismatch issue.  Issue highlighted by a
74    dataset from Darek Lubomski.
75
76  + Document that the last official release of Walls uses an old IGRF version.
77
78  + Improve section on submitting documentation changes.
79
80  + Minor improvements to wording.
81
82  + HACKING.htm: autoconf 2.59 is the current minimum.
83
84* Test suite: Add test coverage for Walls compass/clino in mils.
85
86* Merge updates to Russian translation.
87
88* (Linux version): survex.spec: We no longer provide this.  It doesn't work
89  with current Fedora because some dependencies have been renamed, which
90  suggests nobody is regularly using it, which isn't a surprise as there's
91  now a Fedora package of Survex.  Reported by Bill Gee.
92
93Changes in 1.4.20 (2026-03-04):
94
95* aven: The viewing volume now includes the vertical extent of terrain which
96  fixes problems with the terrain being clipped when there's an extreme
97  vertical difference between the terrain and the cave.  Hopefully fixes #148,
98  reported by Chris Curry.
99
100* aven: Improve handling of the scale when reloading an updated version of the
101  .3d file already being viewed.
102
103* aven: Add missing shortcuts to Orientation menu and "Reverse Direction" menu
104  item.  Reported by echarlie's friend.
105
106* aven: Where possible use L for "Elevation" menu accelerator, which matches
107  the shortcut key.
108
109* cavern: Improve handling of Walls percentage gradient.  Support explicit
110  percentage override ('p' suffix) and fix handling of overriding percentage
111  gradient to specify a plumb.  Reported by echarlie on #survex.
112
113* cavern: Support d:m:s for Walls bearings and gradients.  Reported by echarlie
114  on #survex.
115
116* cavern: Add `gps` as alias for `position` team role.  See:
117  https://github.com/therion/therion/issues/709
118
119* cavern: Warn for no blank after token in *cartesian (another case related to
120  #135).
121
122* manual: Document N, S, E and W shortcut keys for aven.
123
124* manual: Mark up codes and tokens in tables which avoids them getting
125  word-wrapped and hyphenated.  It also means they now get rendered in the
126  tables the same way they are referred to in the text.
127
128* manual: Separate each block of *instrument examples.
129
130* manual: Consistently document versions where features were deprecated.
131
132* Eliminate out-of-date postal address from licensing information.  Direct
133  people who somehow didn't receive the licence text to a copy on the FSF
134  website instead.
135
136Changes in 1.4.19 (2025-12-17):
137
138* aven/survexport: Rework PLT export to use 2 character escapes for spaces
139  and other characters which aren't valid in Compass station names.  We were
140  using 3 character escapes, but that's unhelpful since Compass has a 12
141  character station name limit.
142
143* cavern: The syntax of *instrument commands is now checked and a warning
144  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
145
146* cavern: Improve description of --quiet option.  Reported by Wookey.
147
148* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now always updates DLLs it
149  installs rather than skipping DLLs which declare the same version number.
150  This avoids problems when DLLs change in an upwardly but not downwardly
151  compatible way but keep the same version number.  It also means downgrading
152  now gives an install more like installing the older version from scratch
153  would.  Our DLLs are all private and installed into our own install directory
154  so there are no concerns with breaking other installed software.  Fixes #145.
155  Reported by Footleg and Juan Corrin.
156
157* Fill in some missing Czech translations.
158
159* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
160
161* We now require at least FFmpeg >= 3.2 to build Survex.  This version was
162  released in 2016 so should be easily available everywhere now.
163
164* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop workaround for wx-config --rescomp not
165  working as this has now been fixed in the mingw package of wxWidgets.
166
167* Test suite:
168
169  + Add test coverage for `*data normal` without `clino`.
170
171Changes in 1.4.18 (2025-11-04):
172
173* aven: Fix "Enter" in search control to zoom to results.  This was broken
174  by the switch to wxSearchCtrl in 1.4.17.
175
176* aven: Fix "Find stations" search box width with wxWidgets >= 3.2.7.  Patch
177  https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/15 from Thomas Holder.
178
179* aven: (Microsoft Windows version): Fix sizing of indicators (scalebar,
180  compass, clino, colour key) on HiDPI monitors.  Fixes #144, reported by Juan
181  Corrin.
182
183* aven/survexport: Set UTM zone and datum in exported Compass PLT.
184
185* cavern: Avoid duplicate errors/warnings with unconnected data.  Since 1.4.10,
186  unconnected data is only a warning but that resulted in us running some
187  checks on the survey tree twice, which could result in duplicate
188  errors/warnings.
189
190* cavern: Fix parsing of hex digits in *set.  Hex digits a-f were incorrectly
191  being handled as 0-5, so 0x0a was byte 0 not byte 10.
192
193* cavern: We now track the column as well as file:line where a station or
194  survey name was used, so diagnostics which use these locations now report
195  a column number too.
196
197* cavern: Show context if proj can't convert coords.  We only do this for .svx
198  files currently as it is more complex for Compass and Walls data.
199
200* cavern: Fix reported column for error for `-` for Walls tape field.
201  In this context, Walls requires 2 or more `-` to indicate an omitted field.
202
203* cavern: Compass MAK file parsing improvements:
204
205  + Comments are now skipped.  Previously a commented-out MAK file command
206    would still be interpreted by cavern, which was incorrect.
207
208  + Whitespace handling has been adjusted to more closely match Compass.
209
210  + Unknown commands are now warned about.  Compass seems to quietly ignore
211    unknown commands, but it seems helpful for cavern to report them as it
212    will help identify any bugs in Survex's parsing of MAK files, and any
213    new or undocumented MAK file commands which we don't support.  It can also
214    help detect typos in data entry.
215
216  + We now skip to the closing `;` for unknown commands and commands we
217    ignore as not relevant to us, whereas previously we're just skip the
218    initial character which gives the type of command and then look for
219    another command.  This doesn't seem to make any difference in practice as
220    none of these commands appear to be able to contain text which could be
221    interpreted as a different valid Compass MAK file command.
222
223* (Microsoft Windows version): The toolchain we use to build this version
224  seems to have changed in an unhelpful way.  We've got the build working
225  again, but when aven is launched a black window opens first, then the
226  aven window opens over the top.  The black window stays around until
227  aven is closed.  This extra window doesn't really get in the way of using
228  aven, but it's not supposed to be there.  It doesn't seem to be due to a
229  change in the Survex code as the 1.2.17 build doesn't do this, but a
230  rebuild of 1.2.17 with just the minimum of build system changes does.
231  If you have suitable skills help fixing this would be much appreciated.
232
233* (Microsoft Windows version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, like we
234  already do for Unix.  Unlocked file I/O can be much faster in some cases (we
235  don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file I/O).
236
237* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix compiler warning in wrapaven.c.
238
239* (Microsoft Windows version): Work around wx-config --rescomp no longer
240  working.  The mingw package of wxWidgets has started to return an empty
241  string here.  We don't support building with MSVC, so hardcoding `windres`
242  here isn't really a problem in practice.
243
244* Manual: Document that *set eol default includes x1A (Ctrl-Z) to provide
245  compatibility with old DOS text files (it always has done but was missing
246  from the documentation).
247
248* Merge updates to Russian translation.
249
250* Add the start of a Czech translation.
251
252* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
253
254* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.2.  It is starting to become hard to keep
255  everything working with 3.0.0 and the time and effort seems better directed
256  to other things.  The last 3.0.x release was 3.0.5.1, released 2020-05-02.
257  3.2.0 was released 2022-07-06 and it seems everywhere with wxWidgets packages
258  upgraded to 3.2.x some time ago.
259
260* Test suite:
261
262  + cavern.tst: Test more mixed line ending cases.
263
264  + Turn off tests involving aven and survexport on mingw, as we can no longer
265    seem to run these programs during the build.  Rebuilding the last commit
266    that worked now fails, so this is not due to a change in the Survex code.
267    There is no error message, but bash shows exit code 127 which means it
268    failed to run the command.
269
270  + Improve handling of VERBOSE in tests.  Previously VERBOSE showed output
271    from all testcases, even ones which passed.  Now we only show output from
272    testcases which fail for VERBOSE=1.  Other non-empty values of VERBOSE
273    continue to show all output for cavern.tst and smoke.tst, but have the same
274    effect as VERBOSE=1 for other tests.
275
276  + compare.tst: Fix to actually work, support --help, and allow comparing
277    cavern runs which fail.  This script is not run as part of the automated
278    tests but assists manually comparing two versions of cavern on the same
279    data which can be helpful for debugging and during development.
280
281Changes in 1.4.17 (2025-03-20):
282
283* aven: Add support for exaggerating Z.  You can now set a Z scale factor
284  from 0.1 to 10.0 via a new widget on the toolbar.  Fixes #49.
285
286* aven: The cavern log window now chooses foreground and background colours
287  based on the desktop's light mode/dark mode setting.  Previously it
288  used the default window background colour but always used black text, which
289  made it hard to read with a dark desktop theme.  (The wxWidgets API to detect
290  dark mode is new in 3.2, so if built with wxWidgets 3.0 then we assume
291  light mode.)
292
293* aven: The station search feature now uses the standard search
294  widget on GTK 3.6 or later and on macOS.  There's now a placeholder
295  text shown when there's no search to make it clearer what this
296  widget is for.
297
298* aven: There's currently a cavern bug where it can fail to identify all
299  traverses which are not involved in loop closure, which results in the .3d
300  file contains error information for them (unfortunately this seems tricky to
301  fully fix).  This error information is always zero, so as a workaround aven
302  attempts to detect these so that "colour by error" shows them as "not in
303  loop".  This workaround previously only checked for E being zero, but now
304  H and V are both also required to be zero.  This should help avoid some very
305  low error traverses being incorrectly treated as "not in loop", although in
306  practice I've not yet found a real world case where this actually makes a
307  difference.
308
309* aven: Fix the output encoding of `aven --help`, `--version`, etc.
310  Previously these were always encoded as UTF-8 which is usually right
311  on a modern system, but the terminal could be using a different
312  encoding.
313
314* aven: Reduce startup overhead a little when the terminal has a UTF-8
315  locale (which is now the default on most Linux distros).
316
317* cavern: Fix an "assertion failed" error in some situations when
318  equating to a fixed point.  This bug was introduced by changes
319  in 1.4.13.  Fixes #143, reported by Juan Corrin.
320
321* cavern: The syntax of *copyright commands is now checked and a warning
322  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
323
324* cavern: The syntax of *team commands is now checked and a warning
325  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
326
327* cavern: Stop reporting node stats.  These are kind of interesting, but
328  with the widespread use of Disto-X and similar devices which can easily
329  shoot multiple splay legs from each station means the number of larger order
330  nodes has increased and this information is now quite verbose and any utility
331  it had has substantially declined.  If these statistics are still wanted then
332  they could make a reappearance in the future in aven, with splays excluded
333  when counting the number of legs at each station.  Fixes #86, reported by
334  Wookey.
335
336* cavern: Fix wrong "unused fixed point" warning with *solve.
337
338* cavern: Fix double counting of stations which are referenced both before and
339  after *solve.
340
341* cavern: Suppress loop and component counts if *solve is used.  Our component
342  count was often wrong in this case but this looks very hard to fix.  These
343  counts are not vital so better to omit than report wrong values.
344
345* cavern: The "Equating two equal fixed points" warning now lists the
346  stations on the same order as they are in the `.svx` file which
347  seems clearer.
348
349* Speed up reading and writing of .3d files.  The time to read a large .3d file
350  and just count the stations and legs was more than halved by this change.
351
352* Simplify handling of errors loading the messages file.  The error
353  messages for this case are now stored as separate ASCII strings in
354  the executables which reduces the startup overhead a little as we
355  no longer need to scan them and potentially reencode them.
356
357* img library: The img struct's filename_opened member was always NULL when
358  used outside of Survex (and set but never actually used inside of Survex)
359  so it has been removed.  If you are referencing it in your code then instead
360  use the filename you passed to img_open_survey() when opening the file.
361
362* Documentation: Add details of warning about future dates in *date.
363
364* Documentation: Added new manual chapter on the img library.
365
366* Documentation: Improve comments document API in img.h.
367
368* Testsuite: Add proper test coverage for `*ref`.
369
370* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
371
372* Portability: Eliminate unintended use of a C++17 feature (static_assert
373  with only one argument).
374
375* Portability: Avoid compiler warnings/errors in getopt code by properly
376  declaring getenv().
377
378Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
379
380* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
381  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
382  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
383  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
384
385* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
386  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
387  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
388  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
389
390* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
391  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
392  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
393  Eric C. Landgraf.
394
395* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
396  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
397  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
398
399* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
400  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
401  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
402  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
403
404* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
405
406* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
407  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
408  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
409  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
410  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
411
412* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
413
414* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
415
416* Various minor improvements to documentation.
417
418* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
419
420Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
421
422* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
423  overlay.
424
425* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
426  Fixes #110
427
428* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
429  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
430
431* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
432  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
433  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
434
435* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
436  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
437
438* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
439  on x86.
440
441Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
442
443* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
444  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
445  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
446
447* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
448  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
449  in 1.4.13.
450
451* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
452
453* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
454  naming.
455
456* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
457
458* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
459  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
460  candidate stations).
461
462Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
463
464* aven:
465
466  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
467    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
468
469  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
470    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
471    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
472
473  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
474    show.
475
476  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
477    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
478    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
479
480* cavern:
481
482  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
483    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
484    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
485
486  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
487    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
488    by the same amount in these cases.
489
490  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
491    unconnected survey stations.
492
493  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
494
495  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
496    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
497
498  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
499    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
500    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
501    Eric C. Landgraf.
502
503  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
504    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
505    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
506    situation.
507
508  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
509    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
510    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
511
512  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
513    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
514    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
515    network.
516
517  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
518    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
519    which should be faster.
520
521  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
522    more efficient way.
523
524* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
525
526* Documentation:
527
528  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
529    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
530    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
531    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
532    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
533    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
534    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
535
536* Test suite:
537
538  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
539    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
540    excess precision.
541
542* Assorted translation updates.
543
544Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
545
546* aven:
547
548  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
549    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
550    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
551    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
552    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
553    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
554    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
555
556* cavern:
557
558  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
559    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
560    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
561    an error.
562
563  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
564    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
565    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
566    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
567    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
568    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
569    measurable).
570
571  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
572    less memory.
573
574* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
575  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
576  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
577  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
578
579* Testsuite:
580
581  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
582
583  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
584    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
585    precision.
586
587* img library:
588
589  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
590    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
591    from Thomas Holder.
592
593  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
594    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
595
596Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
597
598* aven:
599
600  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
601    C. Landgraf.
602
603* aven/survexport:
604
605  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
606    addresses #60.
607
608  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
609    1:40000).
610
611  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
612    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
613
614  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
615    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
616    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
617    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
618    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
619
620* cavern:
621
622  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
623    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
624
625  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
626    bad reading was quietly ignored).
627
628  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
629    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
630    for example:
631
632     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
633      *end   bar
634             ^~~
635     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
636      *begin      foo
637                  ^~~
638
639  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
640    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
641
642  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
643    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
644    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
645    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
646    an error.
647
648    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
649    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
650
651  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
652    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
653    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
654
655  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
656    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
657    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
658
659  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
660    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
661    handled more consistently.
662
663  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
664    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
665
666  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
667
668  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
669
670    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
671      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
672      use the datum.
673
674    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
675      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
676      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
677
678* Documentation:
679
680  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
681    definition in `*units` docs.
682
683  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
684
685* Assorted translation updates.
686
687* testsuite:
688
689  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
690    comparing with expected output.
691
692* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
693
694  + `*cartesian` added
695
696  + `*data ignore` added
697
698  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
699
700  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
701
702  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
703    lines
704
705  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
706
707  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
708    because there's a comment after the filename
709
710  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
711    whitespace between `*` and `include`
712
713Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
714
715* aven:
716
717  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
718    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
719    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
720    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
721    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
722    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
723    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
724    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
725
726* aven/survexport:
727
728  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
729    1.4.6).
730
731  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
732
733  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
734    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
735    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
736    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
737    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
738    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
739    survey.
740
741  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
742
743* cavern:
744
745  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
746    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
747    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
748    warns about them.
749
750    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
751    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
752    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
753    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
754
755    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
756
757  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
758    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
759    connected to it.
760
761  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
762    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
763    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
764    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
765    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
766    traverse.
767
768  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
769
770  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
771    it actually was:
772
773      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
774
775  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
776
777    - After an anonymous station.
778
779    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
780      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
781      or end of line.
782
783    - In a `*alias` command.
784
785    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
786
787  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
788    `cartesian` style data.
789
790  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
791
792  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
793    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
794    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
795    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
796    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
797
798  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
799    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
800    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
801    example.
802
803  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
804    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
805    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
806    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
807    when viewing the log in aven.
808
809  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
810    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
811    datasets):
812
813    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
814
815    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
816      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
817
818    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
819      `ORDER=ADV`).
820
821    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
822
823    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
824      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
825      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
826      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
827      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
828      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
829      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
830      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
831
832    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
833
834    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
835
836    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
837      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
838      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
839
840    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
841      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
842
843    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
844
845    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
846
847    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
848
849    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
850      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
851      is present in some real-world data.
852
853    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
854      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
855
856    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
857      of it we do handle!
858
859    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
860      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
861      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
862      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
863
864    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
865      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
866
867    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
868      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
869
870    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
871
872    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
873
874    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
875      values are currently ignored.
876
877    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
878      them is currently ignored.
879
880    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
881      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
882      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
883      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
884      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
885
886    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
887
888* documentation:
889
890  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
891    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
892    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
893    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
894
895    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
896    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
897    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
898
899    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
900    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
901    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
902    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
903
904    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
905    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
906    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
907    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
908
909  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
910
911  + Document PLT export.
912
913  + Minor improvements to --help output
914
915  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
916    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
917    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
918    C. Landgraf.
919
920  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
921
922  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
923
924  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
925
926  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
927
928  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
929
930* testsuite:
931
932  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
933
934  + Add expected output for more testcases
935
936  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
937
938  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
939    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
940    instructions.
941
942  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
943
944* translations:
945
946  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
947    more natural word order in a translated message.
948
949Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
950
951* aven:
952
953  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
954    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
955    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
956    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
957    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
958    files - set the filter to "All Files" to choose other formats.
959
960  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
961    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
962    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
963    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
964    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
965    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
966    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
967    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
968    we could add it to the new implementation.
969
970  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
971    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
972    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
973    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
974    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
975    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
976    command line or from some other launcher.
977
978* cavern:
979
980  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
981    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
982    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
983    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
984    encouragement.
985
986  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
987    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
988    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
989
990  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
991    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
992    quietly misinterpreting the data.
993
994  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
995    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
996    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
997    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
998
999  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
1000    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
1001
1002  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
1003
1004  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
1005    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
1006    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
1007    used to have "info" diagnostics.
1008
1009  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
1010    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
1011    "info" category is more appropriate here.
1012
1013  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
1014    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
1015    which may be useful to the user.
1016
1017  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
1018    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
1019    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
1020    happened in a released version.
1021
1022  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
1023    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
1024    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
1025
1026* dump3d:
1027
1028  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
1029    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
1030    true on all platforms.
1031
1032* manual:
1033
1034  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
1035    with/without admin rights.
1036
1037  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
1038    limitations.
1039
1040  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
1041    section.
1042
1043  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
1044    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
1045    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
1046    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
1047
1048* img library:
1049
1050  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
1051    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
1052    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
1053
1054  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
1055    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
1056
1057  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
1058    stations in loops.
1059
1060  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
1061    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
1062
1063  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
1064    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
1065
1066  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
1067    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
1068    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
1069    as "unknown date".
1070
1071* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
1072  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
1073  environment variable for this.
1074
1075* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
1076  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
1077  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
1078  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
1079  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
1080  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
1081
1082* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
1083  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
1084  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
1085
1086* Build system:
1087
1088  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
1089
1090  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
1091    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
1092
1093  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
1094    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
1095
1096* testsuite:
1097
1098  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
1099    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
1100    problem.
1101
1102  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
1103
1104Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
1105
1106* cavern:
1107
1108  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
1109    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
1110    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
1111    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
1112    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
1113
1114  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
1115    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
1116    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
1117    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
1118
1119  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
1120    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
1121
1122  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
1123    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
1124    failed on some architectures.
1125
1126* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
1127
1128* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
1129  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
1130  rights.
1131
1132* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
1133  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
1134  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
1135  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
1136
1137Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
1138
1139* cavern:
1140
1141  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
1142    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
1143    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
1144    the second and subsequent locations.
1145
1146  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
1147    containing non-ASCII characters.
1148
1149  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
1150    warnings.
1151
1152  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
1153
1154  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
1155
1156  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
1157    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
1158    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
1159    files.
1160
1161* img library:
1162
1163  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
1164    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
1165
1166  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
1167    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
1168    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
1169    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
1170    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
1171    realloc().
1172
1173* Portability:
1174
1175  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
1176    versions.
1177
1178  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
1179
1180* Build system:
1181
1182  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
1183
1184* Manual:
1185
1186  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
1187
1188  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
1189
1190* Minor translation updates.
1191
1192* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
1193  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
1194  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
1195  managed to reproduce.
1196
1197Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
1198
1199* cavern:
1200
1201  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
1202    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
1203    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
1204    mailing list.
1205
1206  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
1207    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
1208    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
1209    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
1210
1211  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
1212    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
1213    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
1214    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
1215    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
1216    the whole specified filename to upper case.
1217
1218  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
1219    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
1220    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
1221    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
1222    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
1223    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
1224
1225  + Compass DAT files:
1226
1227    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
1228
1229    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1230      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1231      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1232      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1233      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1234      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1235
1236    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
1237      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
1238
1239    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
1240
1241    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
1242      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
1243      being in metres.
1244
1245    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
1246      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
1247
1248    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
1249      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
1250      unlikely to occur in real data.
1251
1252    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
1253      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
1254      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
1255      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
1256      itself for DAT files.
1257
1258  + Compass MAK files:
1259
1260    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
1261      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
1262      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
1263
1264    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
1265      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
1266      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
1267      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
1268      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
1269      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
1270      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
1271      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
1272      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
1273      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
1274      supported would be useful to you.
1275
1276    - Folder commands are now understood.
1277
1278    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
1279      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
1280      counts from 0 at these points).
1281
1282  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
1283    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
1284    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
1285    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
1286    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
1287
1288* aven:
1289
1290  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
1291    Philip Balister.
1292
1293  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
1294    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
1295    together.
1296
1297* aven/survexport:
1298
1299  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
1300
1301  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
1302    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
1303    are enabled.
1304
1305  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
1306
1307  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
1308    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
1309    all of a set of equated stations.
1310
1311  + .plt:
1312
1313    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
1314      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
1315      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
1316      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
1317
1318    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
1319      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
1320      Compass docs).
1321
1322* img library:
1323
1324  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
1325    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
1326    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
1327    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
1328    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
1329    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
1330    default).
1331
1332  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
1333    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
1334
1335    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
1336      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
1337      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
1338
1339    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
1340
1341    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
1342      Entrance" field is present and zero.
1343
1344    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
1345
1346    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
1347      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
1348      format specification says:
1349
1350          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
1351          wall to define the passage shape.
1352
1353    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1354      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1355      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1356      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1357      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1358      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1359
1360    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
1361      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
1362
1363    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
1364      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
1365      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
1366      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
1367      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
1368      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
1369      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
1370      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
1371      mixed datums would be useful to you.
1372
1373    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
1374      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
1375
1376    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1377      than one survey in the PLT file.
1378
1379    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1380      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1381
1382    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1383      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1384      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1385      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1386      the comment for that survey as before.
1387
1388    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1389      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1390      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1391      it being omitted too.
1392
1393* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1394
1395* manual:
1396
1397  + Document Compass support in detail.
1398
1399  + Improve NATO mils example.
1400
1401* INSTALL:
1402
1403  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1404    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1405
1406  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1407    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1408
1409* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1410
1411* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1412  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1413
1414* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1415  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1416  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1417
1418* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1419
1420Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1421
1422* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1423
1424* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1425  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1426
1427* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1428
1429* Minor translation updates.
1430
1431Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1432
1433* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1434  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1435
1436* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1437  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1438  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1439  checks that were rejecting this.
1440
1441  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1442  really do that's better than that.
1443
1444  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1445
1446* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1447  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1448  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1449  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1450  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1451
1452* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1453  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1454
1455* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1456  bearing spin control.
1457
1458* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1459  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1460  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1461  currently but please report issues.
1462
1463* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1464  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1465  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1466  position".
1467
1468* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1469  Reported by echarlie
1470
1471* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1472
1473Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1474
1475* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1476
1477* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1478  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1479
1480* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1481  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1482
1483* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1484  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1485
1486* Minor translation updates.
1487
1488* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1489  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1490  works on Wayland).
1491
1492* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1493  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1494
1495* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1496
1497* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1498  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1499  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1500
1501Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1502
1503* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1504
1505* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1506
1507* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1508  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1509
1510* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1511  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1512  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1513  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1514
1515* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1516  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1517  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1518
1519* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1520  string properly.
1521
1522* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1523  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1524  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1525  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1526  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1527  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1528  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1529
1530* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1531  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1532
1533  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1534
1535* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1536  where the included filename is actually specified.
1537
1538* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1539  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1540
1541* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1542  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1543  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1544
1545* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1546  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1547
1548* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1549  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1550  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1551  anyway.
1552
1553* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1554  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1555
1556* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1557
1558* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1559  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1560  inconvenience anyone.
1561
1562Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1563
1564* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1565
1566* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1567  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1568  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1569  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1570
1571* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1572  in 1.4.0.
1573
1574* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1575
1576Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1577
1578* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1579  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1580  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1581  Couwenberg.
1582
1583  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1584  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1585  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1586  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1587
1588  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1589  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1590
1591* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1592  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1593  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1594
1595* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1596  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1597  strings is strongly discouraged.
1598
1599  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1600
1601  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1602
1603  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1604  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1605
1606* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1607  Green.
1608
1609* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1610  echarlie.
1611
1612* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1613  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1614  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1615
1616* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1617
1618* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1619
1620* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1621
1622* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1623
1624* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1625  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1626  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1627
1628Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1629
1630* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1631  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1632  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1633  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1634  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1635
1636* aven:
1637
1638  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1639    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1640    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1641    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1642    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1643    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1644
1645* testsuite:
1646
1647  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1648    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1649    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1650    process exits.
1651
1652* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1653
1654Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1655
1656* aven:
1657
1658  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1659
1660* cavern:
1661
1662  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1663
1664  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1665    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1666    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1667
1668  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1669    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1670    until the next *data command with parameters.
1671
1672  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1673    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1674
1675  * Improve test coverage.
1676
1677* survexport:
1678
1679  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1680    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1681
1682  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1683    Batista.
1684
1685* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1686  Holder.
1687
1688* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1689  from Thomas Holder.
1690
1691* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1692  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1693
1694* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1695
1696* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1697
1698* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1699
1700* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1701
1702* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1703
1704Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1705
1706* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1707  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1708  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1709
1710* aven:
1711
1712  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1713    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1714    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1715
1716  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1717    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1718    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1719    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1720
1721  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1722    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1723    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1724
1725  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1726
1727Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1728
1729* aven:
1730
1731  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1732
1733  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1734    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1735    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1736
1737  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1738    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1739    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1740    orientation.
1741
1742* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1743  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1744  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1745  Richard Knapp.
1746
1747* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1748  might still need to use them for.
1749
1750* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1751
1752* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1753
1754* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1755  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1756  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1757  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1758
1759* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1760  is now the recommended approach.
1761
1762Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1763
1764* aven:
1765
1766  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1767    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1768    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1769    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1770    Brian Clipstone.
1771
1772  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1773    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1774
1775Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1776
1777* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1778  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1779  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1780
1781* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1782  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1783  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1784  with some compilers.
1785
1786* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1787  installed.
1788
1789Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1790
1791* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1792  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1793  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1794
1795* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1796  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1797  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1798
1799* aven:
1800
1801  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1802    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1803    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1804    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1805    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1806    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1807    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1808    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1809    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1810    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1811    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1812
1813  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1814
1815* Documentation:
1816
1817  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1818
1819  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1820    placeholder.
1821
1822  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1823    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1824
1825* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1826  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1827  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1828
1829* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1830  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1831  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1832  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1833  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1834  location to avoid confusion.
1835
1836* Add a few more message translations.
1837
1838* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1839
1840Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1841
1842* cavern:
1843
1844  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1845    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1846    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1847    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1848    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1849
1850  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1851    now reports "file not found" instead.
1852
1853  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1854    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1855    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1856
1857* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1858
1859* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1860  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1861  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1862  removed.
1863
1864* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1865  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1866  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1867  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1868
1869Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1870
1871* aven:
1872
1873  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1874    controllable.
1875
1876  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1877
1878  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1879    Patch from Robert Jones.
1880
1881  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1882    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1883    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1884
1885  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1886    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1887
1888* cavern:
1889
1890  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1891    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1892
1893  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1894    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1895    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1896    go unnoticed.
1897
1898* survexport:
1899
1900  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1901    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1902    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1903
1904  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1905    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1906    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1907    Stephen Crabtree.
1908
1909* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1910
1911* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1912  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1913
1914* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1915  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1916  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1917  therion's team command.
1918
1919Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1920
1921* aven:
1922
1923  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1924
1925  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1926    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1927    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1928    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1929    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1930    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1931    for new entrances.
1932
1933  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1934    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1935    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1936    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1937
1938  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1939
1940  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1941    to show via the right-click menu.
1942
1943  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1944    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1945    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1946    child surveys of the parent.
1947
1948  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1949    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1950    survey.
1951
1952  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1953    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1954
1955  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1956
1957  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1958    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1959
1960  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1961    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1962    filtering this matters more).
1963
1964* survexport:
1965
1966  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1967    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1968
1969  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1970
1971* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1972
1973* Minor translation updates.
1974
1975* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1976
1977* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1978
1979* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1980
1981Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1982
1983* aven:
1984
1985  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
1986    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
1987    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
1988    on screen, printed and exported.
1989
1990  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
1991    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
1992    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
1993    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
1994    survey.
1995
1996  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
1997    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
1998    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
1999    view.  Reported by Wookey.
2000
2001  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
2002    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
2003    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
2004
2005  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
2006    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
2007
2008  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
2009    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
2010
2011  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
2012    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
2013
2014  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
2015    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
2016
2017  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
2018    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
2019
2020* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
2021  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
2022  tools could do, plus much more.
2023
2024* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
2025
2026* Minor updates to various other translations.
2027
2028* img library:
2029
2030  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
2031
2032  + Improve API documentation.
2033
2034* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
2035  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
2036  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
2037
2038* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
2039  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
2040  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
2041  control what gets exported.
2042
2043Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
2044
2045* aven:
2046
2047  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
2048    of 1.2.33.
2049
2050  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
2051
2052Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
2053
2054* aven:
2055
2056  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
2057    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
2058    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
2059    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
2060
2061  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
2062    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
2063    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
2064    Erin Lynch.
2065
2066  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
2067    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
2068    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
2069
2070  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
2071    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
2072    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
2073    unnecessarily.
2074
2075  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
2076    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
2077    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
2078    for this control).
2079
2080  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
2081    under GTK3.
2082
2083  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
2084    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
2085    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
2086
2087  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
2088    current development version).
2089
2090  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
2091    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
2092    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
2093
2094* cavern:
2095
2096  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
2097    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
2098    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
2099    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
2100    "19".
2101
2102* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
2103  Evaristo Quiroga.
2104
2105* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2106
2107* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
2108  milosch.
2109
2110* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
2111  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
2112  translated messages.
2113
2114* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
2115  Indonesian and Polish.
2116
2117* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
2118  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
2119  Reported by Martin Sluka.
2120
2121* Fix a few compiler warnings.
2122
2123* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
2124  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
2125  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
2126
2127* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
2128
2129  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
2130    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
2131    but happens to fail if it isn't.
2132
2133  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
2134
2135  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
2136
2137  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
2138
2139* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
2140  detected at run time on macOS.
2141
2142* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
2143  by the homebrew formula.
2144
2145* buildmacosx.sh:
2146
2147  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
2148    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
2149
2150  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
2151
2152* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
2153  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
2154
2155Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
2156
2157* aven:
2158
2159  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
2160    and Anthony Day.
2161
2162  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
2163    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
2164    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2165    Erin Lynch in #89.
2166
2167  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
2168    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
2169    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
2170    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
2171    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
2172    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
2173    elevations.
2174
2175  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
2176    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
2177    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
2178
2179  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
2180    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
2181    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
2182    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
2183    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
2184    "on".
2185
2186  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
2187    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
2188
2189  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
2190    the display wouldn't update right away.
2191
2192* Manual:
2193
2194  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
2195
2196  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
2197
2198* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
2199  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
2200  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
2201  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
2202  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
2203
2204Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
2205
2206* aven:
2207
2208  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
2209    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
2210    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
2211
2212  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
2213    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
2214    before by others.
2215
2216  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
2217
2218  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
2219    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
2220    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
2221    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
2222    original change.
2223
2224  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
2225    which extends beyond the end of the line).
2226
2227  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
2228    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
2229
2230  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
2231
2232  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
2233
2234  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
2235    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
2236    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
2237    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
2238    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
2239    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
2240    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
2241
2242  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
2243    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
2244
2245  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
2246    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
2247    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
2248
2249  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
2250    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
2251    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
2252    much vertical range.
2253
2254  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
2255    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
2256    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
2257    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
2258    are drawn in this way.
2259
2260  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
2261    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
2262    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
2263    centre should be a single pixel.
2264
2265* cavern:
2266
2267  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
2268    entering passage data where there are side passages.
2269
2270  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
2271    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
2272
2273  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
2274    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
2275    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
2276    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
2277
2278  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
2279    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
2280    Reported by Erin Lynch.
2281
2282  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
2283    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
2284    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
2285    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
2286
2287  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
2288    other messages.
2289
2290* extend:
2291
2292  + Now runs a bit faster.
2293
2294  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
2295    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
2296    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
2297    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
2298    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
2299    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
2300    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
2301    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
2302    be handled better) most welcome.
2303
2304* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
2305
2306* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
2307
2308* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
2309  translations from therion.
2310
2311* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
2312  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
2313
2314* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
2315  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
2316  Footleg.
2317
2318* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
2319
2320* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
2321
2322Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
2323
2324* aven:
2325
2326  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
2327    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2328
2329  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
2330    Suggested by detrito.
2331
2332  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
2333    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
2334
2335  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
2336    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
2337
2338* Add man page for dump3d.
2339
2340Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
2341
2342* aven:
2343
2344  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
2345    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
2346
2347  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
2348    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2349
2350* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
2351  Lynch and "detrito".
2352
2353* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
2354  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
2355
2356Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
2357
2358* cavern:
2359
2360  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
2361    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
2362    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
2363    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
2364    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
2365
2366  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
2367
2368  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
2369
2370  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
2371    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
2372    degrees).
2373
2374* aven:
2375
2376  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2377    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2378    Day.
2379
2380  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2381    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2382
2383  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2384    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2385
2386  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2387    of the line in cavern log window.
2388
2389  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2390
2391  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2392
2393  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2394    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2395    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2396    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2397    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2398
2399  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2400    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2401    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2402
2403  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2404
2405  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2406
2407  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2408    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2409    Atkinson and myself.
2410
2411  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2412
2413  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2414    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2415    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2416    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2417    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2418    survey.
2419
2420  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2421    lines on my netbook.
2422
2423  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2424    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2425    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2426
2427  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2428    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2429    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2430    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2431    glitches.
2432
2433  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2434    we currently list, though slower to write.
2435
2436  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2437    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2438
2439  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2440    warnings when building against a recent version.
2441
2442  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2443    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2444    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2445    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2446
2447  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2448    movie export.
2449
2450  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2451    export.
2452
2453* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2454  James Begley.
2455
2456* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2457  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2458
2459* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2460
2461* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2462  messages get used automatically.
2463
2464* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2465  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2466
2467* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2468
2469* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2470
2471* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2472
2473Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2474
2475* aven:
2476
2477  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2478    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2479    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2480    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2481    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2482    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2483    probably change in the future).
2484
2485  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2486    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2487    the survey tree root.
2488
2489  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2490    the view was recentred).
2491
2492  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2493    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2494    wrong direction).
2495
2496  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2497    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2498    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2499
2500  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2501    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2502    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2503    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2504
2505  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2506    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2507
2508  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2509    addresses #60.
2510
2511  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2512
2513  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2514    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2515    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2516
2517  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2518
2519  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2520    360 or down past 0.
2521
2522  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2523    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2524    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2525    real-valued ones.
2526
2527  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2528    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2529
2530  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2531    Lynch.
2532
2533  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2534
2535  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2536    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2537
2538  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2539    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2540    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2541
2542  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2543    should now work.
2544
2545* cavern:
2546
2547  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2548
2549  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2550    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2551    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2552
2553  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2554    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2555    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2556
2557  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2558    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2559    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2560    issue.
2561
2562  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2563    by patch from Colin Watson.
2564
2565  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2566
2567* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2568
2569* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2570  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2571
2572* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2573  used in the same dataset.
2574
2575* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2576  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2577
2578* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2579  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2580  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2581
2582* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2583
2584Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2585
2586* aven:
2587
2588  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2589    cavern again.
2590
2591* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2592  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2593  location and use the same start menu folder.
2594
2595* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2596  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2597
2598* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2599  by James Begley.
2600
2601Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2602
2603* aven:
2604
2605  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2606    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2607    to address.
2608
2609  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2610    over the survey tree.
2611
2612  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2613
2614  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2615    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2616
2617  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2618    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2619    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2620    encoded.
2621
2622  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2623    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2624    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2625    terminals which do still support this.
2626
2627  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2628    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2629
2630* cavern:
2631
2632  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2633    Edwards (see #78).
2634
2635  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2636    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2637    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2638    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2639
2640  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2641    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2642    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2643
2644  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2645    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2646
2647* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2648  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2649  Black.
2650
2651* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2652
2653* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2654  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2655  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2656  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2657  Black.
2658
2659* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2660  Black.
2661
2662* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2663
2664* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2665
2666* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2667
2668* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2669
2670* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2671
2672* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2673  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2674
2675* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2676  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2677  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2678
2679* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2680  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2681  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2682  privileges or not.
2683
2684Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2685
2686* aven:
2687
2688  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2689    Clipstone.
2690
2691  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2692    Reported by Jenny Black.
2693
2694  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2695    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2696    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2697
2698  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2699    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2700    messages.
2701
2702  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2703    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2704
2705* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2706  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2707
2708* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2709
2710* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2711  by Wookey.
2712
2713Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2714
2715* aven:
2716
2717  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2718    machines.
2719
2720  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2721
2722  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2723    already being processed.
2724
2725  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2726    Reported by Martin Green.
2727
2728  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2729
2730* cavern:
2731
2732  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2733    find the original survey notes).
2734
2735  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2736    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2737    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2738    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2739    progress display to be useful.
2740
2741* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2742
2743* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2744  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2745
2746* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2747  running cavern.
2748
2749* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2750  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2751  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2752
2753Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2754
2755* aven:
2756
2757  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2758    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2759    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2760    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2761    finding this fix.
2762
2763* cavern:
2764
2765  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2766
2767  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2768    station.
2769
2770  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2771    *export.
2772
2773Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2774
2775* aven:
2776
2777  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2778    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2779    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2780
2781  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2782
2783  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2784    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2785    does.
2786
2787  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2788    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2789
2790  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2791    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2792
2793  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2794    as appropriate.
2795
2796  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2797    values on Windows.
2798
2799* cavern:
2800
2801  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2802    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2803    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2804
2805  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2806    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2807
2808  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2809    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2810    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2811    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2812
2813  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2814    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2815    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2816    Atkinson.
2817
2818  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2819    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2820
2821  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2822    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2823    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2824    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2825
2826  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2827    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2828    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2829
2830* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2831  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2832  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2833  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2834
2835* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2836
2837* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2838  "*DECLINATION" command.
2839
2840* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2841  Reported by Jenny Black.
2842
2843* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2844  documentation.
2845
2846* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2847  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2848
2849* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2850
2851* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2852
2853Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2854
2855* aven:
2856
2857  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2858    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2859    the same or very similar by default.
2860
2861  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2862    Maynard.
2863
2864  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2865
2866  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2867
2868  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2869    away.
2870
2871  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2872
2873  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2874    display it.
2875
2876* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2877  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2878  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2879  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2880
2881* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2882
2883* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2884  before 1.2.19.
2885
2886* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2887  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2888
2889* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2890
2891* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2892  disk image.
2893
2894* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2895
2896* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2897  libav features we don't use.
2898
2899* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2900  a load of libav features we don't use.
2901
2902* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2903  message in the installer.
2904
2905Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2906
2907* aven:
2908
2909  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2910    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2911
2912  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2913
2914  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2915    exit full screen mode.
2916
2917  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2918    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2919    using since 1.2.7).
2920
2921  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2922    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2923    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2924    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2925    St. Lawrence.
2926
2927  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2928    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2929
2930  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2931    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2932    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2933
2934  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2935    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2936    case like we do on other platforms.
2937
2938  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2939
2940  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2941    support multi-monitor setups.
2942
2943  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2944    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2945
2946  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2947    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2948
2949  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2950    cases.
2951
2952  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2953    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2954    Erin Lynch)
2955
2956  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2957    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2958    items in in so it uses the full width.
2959
2960  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2961    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2962    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2963    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2964    window.
2965
2966  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2967    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2968    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2969    only relevant on the first ever run.
2970
2971* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2972
2973* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2974  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2975  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2976  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2977  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2978  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2979
2980* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2981  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2982
2983Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
2984
2985* aven:
2986
2987  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
2988    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
2989    rendering it as a transparent surface.
2990
2991  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
2992    sanely want to perform from the menu.
2993
2994  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
2995    colouring options.
2996
2997  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
2998
2999  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
3000    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
3001    pressing "Escape".
3002
3003  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
3004    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
3005
3006  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
3007    exporting.
3008
3009  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
3010
3011  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
3012    is quite likely to change.
3013
3014  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
3015    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
3016
3017  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
3018    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
3019    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
3020
3021  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
3022
3023  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
3024    markers in orange.
3025
3026  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
3027    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
3028
3029  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
3030    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
3031    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
3032    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
3033    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
3034    them would be better.
3035
3036  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
3037    Gee.
3038
3039  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
3040    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
3041    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
3042
3043  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
3044
3045* cavern:
3046
3047  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
3048    susscorfa).
3049
3050  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
3051    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
3052
3053  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
3054
3055  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
3056    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
3057
3058  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
3059    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
3060
3061* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
3062
3063* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
3064  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
3065  in a modern desktop.
3066
3067* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
3068  the filename in the error message.
3069
3070* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
3071  most complete translations.
3072
3073* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
3074
3075* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
3076  lacks them.
3077
3078* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
3079
3080* Manual:
3081
3082  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
3083    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
3084
3085  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
3086
3087  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
3088
3089  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
3090    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
3091    available for download.
3092
3093* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
3094  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
3095  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
3096
3097* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
3098
3099* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
3100
3101Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
3102
3103* MacOS X version:
3104
3105  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
3106
3107  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
3108
3109  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
3110
3111  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
3112
3113  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
3114    currently do this for us.
3115
3116  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
3117
3118  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
3119
3120  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
3121
3122  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
3123    OS X cursor.
3124
3125  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
3126    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
3127    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
3128    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
3129    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
3130    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
3131    with TextEdit.app for example).
3132
3133  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
3134    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
3135
3136  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
3137
3138  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
3139    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
3140
3141  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
3142    Riggs.
3143
3144  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
3145    space.
3146
3147  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
3148
3149  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
3150    10.10.1.
3151
3152  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
3153    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
3154    errors.
3155
3156  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
3157    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
3158    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
3159    wxWidgets build supports by default.
3160
3161  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
3162
3163* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
3164  treat as a single leg.
3165
3166* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
3167
3168* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
3169
3170* aven:
3171
3172  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
3173    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
3174
3175  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
3176    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
3177    1:500).
3178
3179  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
3180    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
3181    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
3182    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
3183
3184  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
3185    there rather than the two animations fighting.
3186
3187  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
3188    fast.
3189
3190  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
3191    when rotating).
3192
3193  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
3194    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
3195
3196* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
3197  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
3198
3199* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
3200
3201* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
3202
3203* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
3204
3205* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
3206
3207* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
3208  we're using git.
3209
3210* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
3211
3212  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
3213    compass.
3214
3215  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
3216
3217  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
3218
3219Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
3220
3221* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
3222
3223* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
3224
3225* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
3226
3227* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
3228  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
3229
3230* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
3231
3232* tests/: Improve test coverage.
3233
3234* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
3235  Greek and Polish.
3236
3237* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
3238  by Martin Sluka.
3239
3240* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
3241  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
3242
3243Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
3244
3245* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
3246  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
3247  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
3248  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
3249  for *cs has also been improved.
3250
3251* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
3252  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
3253  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
3254  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
3255
3256* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
3257  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
3258  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
3259  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
3260  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
3261
3262* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
3263  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
3264  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
3265
3266* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
3267
3268* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
3269
3270* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
3271  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
3272  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
3273
3274* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
3275  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
3276
3277Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
3278
3279* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
3280  system in use in 3d v8 files.
3281
3282* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
3283  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
3284  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
3285  export dialog.
3286
3287* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
3288  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
3289  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
3290  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
3291  rather than having one corner there.
3292
3293* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
3294  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
3295
3296* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
3297  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
3298
3299* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
3300  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
3301  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
3302
3303* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
3304  such as 64-bit Linux.
3305
3306* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
3307  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
3308
3309* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
3310  64-bit platforms.
3311
3312* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
3313  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
3314  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
3315
3316* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
3317  the space available in the aven UI.
3318
3319* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
3320  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
3321  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
3322
3323* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
3324  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
3325
3326* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
3327  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
3328  about unconnected surveys.
3329
3330* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
3331  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
3332
3333* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
3334  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
3335  freed memory.
3336
3337* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
3338
3339* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
3340
3341* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
3342
3343* Fix a compiler warning.
3344
3345* Improve test coverage.
3346
3347Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
3348
3349* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
3350  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
3351  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
3352
3353* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
3354  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
3355  Hugh St Lawrence.
3356
3357* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
3358  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
3359  with using aven on a touch screen device.
3360
3361* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
3362  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
3363
3364* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
3365  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
3366
3367* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
3368  off and back on.
3369
3370* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
3371  up time a little.
3372
3373* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
3374  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
3375
3376* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3377  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3378  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3379  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3380  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3381  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3382  situation too.
3383
3384* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3385  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3386  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3387
3388* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3389
3390* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3391
3392* Minor translation updates to French.
3393
3394* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3395
3396* Testsuite improvements:
3397
3398  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3399
3400  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3401    fail and give an error count.
3402
3403  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3404
3405Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3406
3407* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3408  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3409  Clipstone.
3410
3411* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3412
3413* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3414
3415  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3416    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3417
3418  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3419    clipping the border in print preview.
3420
3421  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3422
3423* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3424  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3425
3426* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3427  available.
3428
3429* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3430
3431* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3432
3433* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3434  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3435
3436* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3437  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3438
3439* Various translation updates.
3440
3441Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3442
3443* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3444  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3445
3446* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3447  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3448  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3449  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3450
3451* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3452  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3453
3454* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3455  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3456
3457* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3458  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3459
3460* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3461  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3462
3463* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3464  box".
3465
3466* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3467
3468* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3469  indicators.
3470
3471* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3472
3473* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3474  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3475  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3476
3477* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3478  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3479  measurably slower.
3480
3481* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3482  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3483
3484* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3485  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3486
3487* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3488  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3489  from Therion and elsewhere.
3490
3491* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3492  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3493  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3494
3495* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3496  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3497
3498* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3499  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3500
3501* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3502  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3503
3504* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3505
3506* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3507  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3508  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3509  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3510  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3511  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3512
3513* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3514
3515Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3516
3517* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3518  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3519  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3520  Clipstone.
3521
3522* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3523  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3524
3525* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3526  exported SVG files.
3527
3528* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3529
3530* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3531  file.
3532
3533* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3534  GPX files.
3535
3536* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3537
3538* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3539  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3540
3541* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3542  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3543  on startup.
3544
3545* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3546
3547* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3548  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3549  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3550  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3551  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3552  other extensions.
3553
3554* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3555  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3556  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3557  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3558  timezone wrong.
3559
3560* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3561
3562* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3563  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3564
3565* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3566
3567* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3568
3569* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3570  enabled.
3571
3572Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3573
3574* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3575
3576* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3577
3578* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3579
3580* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3581  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3582  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3583
3584* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3585  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3586  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3587
3588* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3589  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3590
3591* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3592
3593* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3594
3595* Fix some compiler warnings.
3596
3597Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3598
3599* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3600  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3601  Holder.
3602
3603* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3604  statistics when the value gets large.
3605
3606* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3607  equations.
3608
3609* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3610  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3611  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3612  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3613  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3614
3615* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3616  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3617
3618* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3619  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3620  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3621  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3622  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3623  way is coming soon.
3624
3625* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3626  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3627
3628* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3629  time ago, so update references.
3630
3631* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3632  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3633
3634* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3635  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3636
3637* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3638  Sebastian Ramacher.
3639
3640* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3641
3642* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3643
3644* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3645
3646* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3647
3648* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3649
3650* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3651  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3652  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3653
3654* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3655
3656* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3657
3658* img library:
3659
3660  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3661    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3662    reading).
3663
3664  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3665    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3666
3667  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3668    support these as an extension.
3669
3670  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3671
3672* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3673  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3674  itself has any translations for.
3675
3676* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3677
3678* Minor translation updates.
3679
3680* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3681
3682Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3683
3684* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3685  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3686  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3687  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3688  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3689  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3690  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3691  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3692
3693* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3694
3695  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3696
3697  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3698    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3699
3700  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3701    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3702
3703  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3704
3705  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3706    human-readable string.
3707
3708  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3709    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3710
3711* img library:
3712
3713  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3714
3715  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3716    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3717
3718  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3719    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3720    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3721    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3722    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3723    explicitly in the file.
3724
3725  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3726
3727* aven:
3728
3729  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3730    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3731    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3732    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3733    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3734    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3735
3736  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3737    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3738    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3739    queued up.
3740
3741  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3742    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3743
3744  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3745    them like other legs.
3746
3747  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3748    station names to positions.
3749
3750  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3751    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3752    wrongly.
3753
3754  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3755
3756  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3757    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3758    that's used by the desktop).
3759
3760  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3761
3762  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3763    error from cavern.
3764
3765  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3766
3767  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3768    in the dialog in sync.
3769
3770* cavern:
3771
3772  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3773    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3774    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3775
3776  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3777    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3778
3779  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3780    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3781    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3782    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3783    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3784    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3785    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3786    degrees.
3787
3788  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3789    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3790    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3791
3792  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3793
3794  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3795    warnings.
3796
3797  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3798    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3799
3800  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3801    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3802
3803  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3804    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3805    relevant.
3806
3807  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3808    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3809    the same line.
3810
3811  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3812    "End of line not blank" error.
3813
3814  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3815    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3816
3817  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3818    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3819
3820  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3821    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3822    include that character in the token reported.
3823
3824  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3825    first item.
3826
3827* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3828
3829* dump3d:
3830
3831  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3832    info from 3d files in scripts.
3833
3834  + Add --show-dates option.
3835
3836  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3837
3838  + Report the data style of legs.
3839
3840  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3841
3842  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3843
3844* Test suite:
3845
3846  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3847    expected output so it passes reliably.
3848
3849  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3850    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3851
3852  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3853    for more.
3854
3855* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3856  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3857  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3858
3859* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3860  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3861
3862* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3863  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3864
3865* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3866  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3867  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3868  settings.
3869
3870* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3871  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3872  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3873  set correctly.
3874
3875* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3876  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3877  them to translate.
3878
3879* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3880  close to complete.
3881
3882* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3883
3884* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3885
3886* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3887
3888Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3889
3890* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3891
3892* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3893  package (ticket#35).
3894
3895* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3896  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3897  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3898
3899* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3900  Kahler.
3901
3902* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3903  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3904  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3905  libproj and build survex with:
3906
3907      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3908      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3909
3910* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3911
3912* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3913
3914* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3915  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3916  file".
3917
3918Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3919
3920* aven:
3921
3922  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3923
3924  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3925    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3926
3927  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3928
3929  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3930
3931  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3932    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3933
3934* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3935  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3936  error early on).
3937
3938* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3939  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3940
3941Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3942
3943* aven:
3944
3945  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3946    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3947    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3948    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3949
3950  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and choose a consistent
3951    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3952
3953  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3954
3955  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3956
3957  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3958
3959* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3960
3961Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3962
3963* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3964
3965* (Mac OS X version):
3966
3967  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3968
3969  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3970
3971  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3972    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3973
3974  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3975
3976* aven:
3977
3978  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3979
3980  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3981
3982    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
3983      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
3984      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
3985      character.
3986
3987    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
3988      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
3989      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
3990      and two in a few cases.
3991
3992    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
3993      8 pixels.
3994
3995  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
3996    draw crosses.
3997
3998  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
3999    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
4000    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
4001    is the start or end of a tube.
4002
4003  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
4004    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
4005
4006  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
4007    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
4008    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
4009
4010* extend:
4011
4012  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
4013
4014  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
4015    which means "no info").
4016
4017* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
4018  was no longer used - it certainly is!
4019
4020* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
4021  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
4022  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
4023  current character set.
4024
4025* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
4026
4027* Test suite:
4028
4029  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
4030
4031  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
4032
4033Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
4034
4035* aven:
4036
4037  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
4038    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
4039    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
4040    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
4041    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
4042    usable format.
4043
4044  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
4045    files.  (ticket#26)
4046
4047  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
4048    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
4049
4050  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
4051    using lines.
4052
4053  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
4054    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
4055
4056  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
4057    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
4058    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
4059    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
4060
4061  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
4062    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
4063    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
4064
4065  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
4066    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
4067    in 1.2.1.
4068
4069Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
4070
4071* Translation updates for US English.
4072
4073* aven:
4074
4075  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
4076    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
4077
4078  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
4079
4080  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
4081    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
4082    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
4083    visually similar to the survey legs.
4084
4085  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
4086    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
4087
4088  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
4089    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
4090    does still provide some useful information).
4091
4092  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
4093    a depth band boundary.
4094
4095  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
4096    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
4097    full-screen mode).
4098
4099  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
4100    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
4101    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
4102    are a little better, though still not perfect.
4103
4104  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
4105    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
4106
4107  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
4108    that station.
4109
4110  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
4111    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
4112
4113  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
4114    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
4115    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
4116    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
4117    a case as it is a bug).
4118
4119  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
4120    invalidated on window width or height changes.
4121
4122  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
4123    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
4124    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
4125    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
4126
4127  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
4128    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
4129    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
4130    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
4131    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
4132    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
4133    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
4134
4135  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
4136    similarly for other compass points.
4137
4138  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
4139    info in the "About" dialog.
4140
4141  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
4142    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
4143
4144  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
4145    as well as still working with older versions.
4146
4147  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
4148    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
4149
4150  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
4151    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
4152    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
4153    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
4154    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
4155
4156  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
4157    nicer and make better use of the available space.
4158
4159  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
4160    dialog.
4161
4162  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
4163    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
4164
4165  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
4166    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
4167
4168  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
4169
4170  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
4171
4172  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
4173    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
4174    being pressed and toggle full screen.
4175
4176* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
4177  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
4178
4179* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
4180
4181* More messages are now available to be translated.
4182
4183* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
4184  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
4185
4186* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
4187
4188* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
4189  sudo for installing on Unix.
4190
4191* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
4192  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
4193
4194* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
4195  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
4196
4197* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
4198
4199Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
4200
4201* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
4202  English.
4203
4204* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
4205  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
4206  case.
4207
4208* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
4209  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
4210  these into Survex's .msg format.
4211
4212* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
4213  an actual command).
4214
4215* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
4216  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
4217  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
4218  recurrence of that).
4219
4220* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
4221  than /usr/doc/survex.
4222
4223* aven:
4224
4225  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
4226
4227  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
4228    nicer at larger sizes.
4229
4230  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
4231    with GLX >= 1.3.
4232
4233  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
4234
4235  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
4236    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
4237    required libraries set up for building releases.
4238
4239  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
4240
4241  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
4242
4243  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
4244    rendered with icons on some platforms.
4245
4246  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
4247    ISO8859-1).
4248
4249  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
4250    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
4251
4252  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
4253    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
4254
4255* cavern:
4256
4257  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
4258    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
4259    fatal error!
4260
4261  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
4262    format to output.  (ticket#21)
4263
4264* img library:
4265
4266  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
4267    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
4268
4269* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
4270  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
4271
4272Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
4273
4274* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
4275  Portuguese, and US English.
4276
4277* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
4278  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
4279
4280* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
4281  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
4282
4283* img.c:
4284
4285  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
4286
4287  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
4288
4289* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
4290
4291* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
4292  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
4293  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
4294  translated.
4295
4296Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
4297
4298* aven:
4299
4300  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
4301    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
4302
4303  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
4304    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
4305    addresses ticket#12.
4306
4307  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
4308    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
4309    consistent shape.
4310
4311  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
4312    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
4313    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
4314    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
4315
4316  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
4317    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
4318
4319  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
4320
4321  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
4322    more places.
4323
4324  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
4325    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
4326
4327* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
4328
4329* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
4330  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
4331
4332* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
4333
4334* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
4335  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
4336  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
4337  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
4338  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
4339  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
4340
4341* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
4342  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
4343  redirecting to it.
4344
4345* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
4346  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
4347  I/O).
4348
4349* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
4350  headers.
4351
4352* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
4353
4354* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
4355  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
4356
4357* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
4358
4359Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
4360
4361* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
4362
4363* aven:
4364
4365  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
4366    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
4367    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
4368    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
4369
4370  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
4371
4372  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
4373    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
4374    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
4375    a number.
4376
4377  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4378    log window.
4379
4380  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4381    various cases.
4382
4383  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4384    (ticket#9)
4385
4386  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4387    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4388
4389  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4390    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4391
4392  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4393
4394  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4395    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4396
4397* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4398  give them before.
4399
4400* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4401  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4402  point looking for them now.
4403
4404* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4405  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4406  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4407  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4408
4409* manual:
4410
4411  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4412
4413  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4414    (change taken from 1.0).
4415
4416* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4417
4418Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4419
4420* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4421
4422* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4423
4424* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4425
4426* aven:
4427
4428  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4429
4430  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4431    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4432    seem to be Unicode now).
4433
4434  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4435    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4436
4437  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4438    text on the survey pane:
4439
4440    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4441
4442    - Character spacing is improved.
4443
4444    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4445
4446  + "About" dialog:
4447
4448    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4449      bug reporting.
4450
4451    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4452      modern gfx card.
4453
4454    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4455
4456  + Processing .svx files:
4457
4458    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4459
4460    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4461      than opening a separate frame for it.
4462
4463    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4464
4465    - Fix small memory leak.
4466
4467  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4468    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4469    such a name.
4470
4471  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4472
4473  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4474    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4475    invocations.
4476
4477  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4478
4479  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4480
4481  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4482
4483* Documentation:
4484
4485  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4486
4487  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4488    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4489    together isn't very useful.
4490
4491  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4492
4493  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4494    the FSF website.
4495
4496  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4497    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4498    the source code.
4499
4500* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4501  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4502
4503* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4504  package from the source tarball.
4505
4506* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4507  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4508
4509Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4510
4511* aven:
4512
4513  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4514
4515  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4516
4517  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4518    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4519    names/crosses).
4520
4521Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4522
4523* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4524
4525* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4526
4527* aven:
4528
4529  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4530
4531  + Fix character spacing.
4532
4533  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4534    proportional fonts.
4535
4536  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4537    rather than the filename.
4538
4539  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4540
4541  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4542    depth colouring.
4543
4544  + Add "Colour by Error".
4545
4546  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4547
4548  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4549
4550  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4551
4552  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4553
4554  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4555
4556  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4557
4558  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4559
4560  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4561    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4562
4563  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4564
4565  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4566    default.
4567
4568* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4569  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4570
4571* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4572  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4573
4574* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4575
4576* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4577
4578Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4579
4580* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4581  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4582  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4583  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4584  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4585
4586* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4587  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4588  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4589
4590* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4591  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4592  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4593
4594* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4595  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4596  allowed).
4597
4598* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4599
4600* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4601
4602* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4603
4604Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4605
4606* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4607  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4608
4609* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4610  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4611  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4612
4613* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4614  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4615  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4616  the new "*data passage" style.
4617
4618* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4619  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4620
4621* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4622  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4623  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4624  some cases.
4625
4626* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4627  with no survey loaded.
4628
4629* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4630
4631* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4632  loaded a survey.
4633
4634* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4635
4636* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4637
4638* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4639  doesn't exist.
4640
4641* Updated French and Italian translations.
4642
4643* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4644  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4645
4646* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4647  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4648  update their copy).
4649
4650* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4651  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4652  trying to compile).
4653
4654Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4655
4656* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4657  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4658
4659* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4660  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4661  has been disabled.
4662
4663* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4664  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4665  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4666  time.
4667
4668* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4669  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4670  highlighted stations.
4671
4672* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4673
4674* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4675  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4676
4677* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4678  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4679
4680* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4681  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4682  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4683
4684* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4685  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4686
4687* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4688
4689* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4690
4691* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4692
4693* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4694  run by an unprivileged user.
4695
4696* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4697  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4698  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4699
4700* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4701  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4702
4703* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4704
4705* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4706  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4707
4708* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4709  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4710
4711* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4712  if it isn't.
4713
4714* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4715  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4716
4717* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4718  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4719
4720* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4721  reset to default view as well).
4722
4723* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4724  empty.
4725
4726* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4727  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4728
4729* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4730  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4731  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4732
4733* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4734  and non-zero width lines.
4735
4736* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4737  was turned on.
4738
4739* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4740  not always being fully written.
4741
4742Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4743
4744* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4745  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4746  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4747  date near the middle of that period).
4748
4749* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4750  with MS Windows).
4751
4752* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4753  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4754  several surveys in the same directory).
4755
4756* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4757  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4758
4759* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4760
4761* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4762  moved off a station.
4763
4764* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4765  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4766
4767* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4768
4769* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4770  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4771
4772* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4773  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4774  dialogs.
4775
4776* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4777  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4778
4779* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4780  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4781  introduced in 1.1.6).
4782
4783* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4784  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4785  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4786
4787* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4788  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4789
4790* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4791
4792* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4793
4794Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4795
4796* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4797  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4798
4799* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4800  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4801  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4802  3d file.
4803
4804* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4805
4806* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4807
4808* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4809  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4810
4811* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4812
4813* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4814  Martin Green).
4815
4816* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4817  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4818  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4819
4820* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4821
4822* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4823  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4824
4825* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4826  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4827  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4828  of everything else.
4829
4830* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4831  presentation icons.
4832
4833* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4834  keyboard focus there.
4835
4836* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4837
4838* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4839
4840* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4841
4842* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4843
4844* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4845  language to use for messages.
4846
4847* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4848  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4849
4850* Removed old printer drivers.
4851
4852* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4853  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4854
4855Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4856
4857* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4858
4859* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4860
4861* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4862  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4863
4864* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4865  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4866
4867* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4868
4869* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4870  underground legs is toggled.
4871
4872* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4873  attached to the previous data.
4874
4875* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4876  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4877  them.
4878
4879Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4880
4881* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4882
4883* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4884  continental European countries).
4885
4886* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4887  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4888  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4889
4890* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4891
4892* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4893  they're needed.
4894
4895* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4896
4897* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4898
4899* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4900
4901* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4902  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4903  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4904
4905* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4906
4907Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4908
4909* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4910
4911* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4912
4913* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4914
4915* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4916
4917* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4918
4919* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4920
4921* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4922  when there's a presentation loaded.
4923
4924* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4925  in cave view.
4926
4927* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4928
4929* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4930  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4931  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4932
4933* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4934  filename for file history and window title.
4935
4936* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4937  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4938  only needed with GTK1.2.
4939
4940* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4941
4942* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4943
4944* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4945
4946* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4947
4948Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4949
4950* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4951  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4952  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4953
4954* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4955  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4956
4957* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4958  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4959  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4960  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4961
4962* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4963
4964* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4965  with --help and --version.
4966
4967* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4968  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4969  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4970  Fixed all these problems.
4971
4972* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4973  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4974  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4975
4976* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4977  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4978  sources.
4979
4980* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4981
4982* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
4983
4984* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
4985  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
4986
4987* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
4988  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
4989  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
4990  animating.
4991
4992* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
4993
4994* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
4995
4996* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
4997  to this branch.
4998
4999* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
5000
5001  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
5002
5003  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
5004
5005  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
5006
5007* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
5008
5009* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
5010  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
5011
5012* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
5013
5014* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
5015  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
5016
5017* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
5018
5019* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
5020  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
5021  for anyone building from CVS).
5022
5023* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
5024
5025* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
5026
5027* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
5028
5029* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
5030
5031* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
5032  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
5033  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
5034
5035* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
5036  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
5037
5038* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
5039
5040* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
5041  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
5042  loaded).
5043
5044* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
5045
5046Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
5047
5048* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
5049  startup.
5050
5051* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
5052  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
5053
5054Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
5055
5056* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
5057  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
5058  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
5059
5060* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
5061  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
5062  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
5063
5064* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
5065  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
5066  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
5067
5068* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
5069
5070* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
5071  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
5072
5073* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
5074  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
5075
5076* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
5077  better use of screen space.
5078
5079* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
5080
5081* aven: Perspective view.
5082
5083* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
5084
5085* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
5086  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
5087
5088* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
5089  and load/save/run them.
5090
5091* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
5092
5093* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
5094
5095* aven: Depth fogging option.
5096
5097* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
5098
5099* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
5100
5101* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
5102  showing the surface legs.
5103
5104* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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