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aven: The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
names/crosses).

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2* aven:
3
4  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
5
6  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
7    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
8    names/crosses).
9
10Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
11
12* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
13
14* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
15
16* aven:
17
18  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
19
20  + Fix character spacing.
21
22  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
23    proportional fonts.
24
25  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
26    rather than the filename.
27
28  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
29
30  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
31    depth colouring.
32
33  + Add "Colour by Error".
34
35  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
36
37  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
38
39  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
40
41  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
42
43  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
44
45  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
46
47  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
48
49  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
50    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
51
52  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
53
54  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
55    default.
56
57* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
58  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
59
60* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
61  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
62
63* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
64
65* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
66
67Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
68
69* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
70  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
71  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
72  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
73  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
74
75* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
76  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
77  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
78   
79* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
80  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
81  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
82
83* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
84  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
85  allowed).
86
87* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
88
89* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
90
91* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
92
93Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
94
95* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
96  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
97
98* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
99  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
100  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
101
102* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
103  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
104  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
105  the new "*data passage" style.
106
107* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
108  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
109
110* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
111  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
112  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
113  some cases.
114
115* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
116  with no survey loaded.
117
118* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
119
120* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
121  loaded a survey.
122
123* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
124
125* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
126
127* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
128  doesn't exist.
129
130* Updated French and Italian translations.
131
132* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
133  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
134
135* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
136  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
137  update their copy).
138
139* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
140  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
141  trying to compile).
142
143Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
144
145* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
146  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
147
148* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
149  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
150  has been disabled.
151
152* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
153  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
154  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
155  time.
156
157* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
158  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
159  highlighted stations.
160
161* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
162
163* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
164  the tilt from plan to elevation.
165
166* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
167  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
168
169* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
170  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
171  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
172
173* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
174  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
175
176* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
177
178* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
179
180* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
181
182* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
183  run by an unprivileged user.
184
185* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
186  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
187  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
188
189* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
190  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
191
192* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
193
194* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
195  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
196
197* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
198  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
199
200* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
201  if it isn't.
202
203* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
204  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
205
206* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
207  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
208
209* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
210  reset to default view as well).
211
212* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
213  empty.
214
215* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
216  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
217
218* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
219  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
220  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
221
222* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
223  and non-zero width lines.
224
225* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
226  was turned on.
227
228* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
229  not always being fully written.
230
231Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
232
233* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
234  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
235  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
236  date near the middle of that period).
237
238* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
239  with MS Windows).
240
241* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
242  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
243  several surveys in the same directory).
244
245* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
246  our check for them to include that knowledge.
247
248* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
249
250* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
251  moved off a station.
252
253* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
254  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
255
256* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
257
258* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
259  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
260
261* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
262  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
263  dialogs.
264
265* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
266  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
267
268* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
269  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
270  introduced in 1.1.6).
271
272* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
273  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
274  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
275
276* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
277  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
278
279* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
280
281* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
282
283Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
284
285* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
286  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
287
288* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
289  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
290  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
291  3d file.
292
293* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
294
295* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
296
297* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
298  Instead turn off depth colouring.
299
300* aven: Export as HPGL added.
301
302* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
303  Martin Green).
304
305* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
306  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
307  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
308
309* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
310
311* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
312  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
313
314* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
315  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
316  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
317  of everything else.
318
319* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
320  presentation icons.
321
322* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
323  keyboard focus there.
324
325* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
326
327* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
328
329* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
330
331* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
332
333* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
334  language to use for messages.
335
336* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
337  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
338
339* Removed old printer drivers.
340
341* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
342  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
343
344Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
345
346* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
347
348* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
349
350* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
351  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
352
353* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
354  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
355 
356* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
357
358* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
359  underground legs is toggled.
360
361* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
362  attached to the previous data.
363
364* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
365  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
366  them.
367
368Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
369
370* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
371
372* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
373  continental European countries).
374
375* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
376  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
377  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
378
379* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
380
381* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
382  they're needed.
383
384* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
385
386* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
387
388* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
389
390* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
391  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
392  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
393
394* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
395
396Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
397
398* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
399
400* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
401
402* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
403
404* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
405
406* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
407
408* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
409
410* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
411  when there's a presentation loaded.
412
413* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
414  in cave view.
415
416* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
417
418* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
419  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
420  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
421
422* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
423  filename for file history and window title.
424
425* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
426  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
427  only needed with GTK1.2.
428
429* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
430
431* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
432
433* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
434
435* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
436
437Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
438
439* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
440  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
441  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
442
443* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
444  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
445
446* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
447  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
448  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
449  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
450
451* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
452
453* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
454  with --help and --version.
455
456* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
457  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
458  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
459  Fixed all these problems.
460
461* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
462  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
463  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
464
465* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
466  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
467  sources.
468
469* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
470
471* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
472
473* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
474  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
475
476* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
477  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
478  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
479  animating.
480
481* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
482
483* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
484
485* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
486  to this branch.
487
488* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
489
490  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
491
492  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
493
494  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
495
496* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
497
498* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
499  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
500
501* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
502
503* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
504  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
505
506* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
507
508* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
509  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
510  for anyone building from CVS).
511
512* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
513
514* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
515
516* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
517
518* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
519
520* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
521  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
522  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
523
524* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
525  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
526
527* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
528
529* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
530  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
531  loaded).
532
533* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
534
535Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
536
537* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
538  startup.
539
540* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
541  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
542
543Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
544
545* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
546  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
547  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
548
549* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
550  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
551  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
552
553* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
554  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
555  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
556
557* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
558
559* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
560  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
561
562* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
563  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
564
565* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
566  better use of screen space.
567
568* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
569
570* aven: Perspective view.
571
572* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
573
574* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
575  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
576
577* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
578  and load/save/run them.
579
580* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
581
582* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
583
584* aven: Depth fogging option.
585
586* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
587
588* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
589
590* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
591  showing the surface legs.
592
593* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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