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1* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
2
3* aven: Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4
5* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
6  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
7
8* aven: Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
9       
10* aven: Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
11
12* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
13  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
14
15* aven: Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels
16
17* aven: Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
18  leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced on 2006-07-12).
19
20* aven: Assume zero error in a traverse means it's an articulating traverse
21  which cavern didn't spot.
22
23* aven: "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
24
25* aven: Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
26  rather than the filename.
27
28* aven: When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
29
30* aven: If reloading the same file, don't change the view
31
32* aven: Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
33
34* aven: Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
35
36* aven: Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
37  proportional fonts.
38
39* aven: Fix character spacing
40
41* aven: Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
42  default.
43
44* aven: Add "Colour by Error".
45
46* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
47
48* aven: Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
49
50* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
51
52* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
53
54Changes in 1.1.10:
55
56* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
57  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
58  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
59  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
60  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
61
62* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
63  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
64  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
65   
66* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
67  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
68  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
69
70* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
71  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
72  allowed).
73
74* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
75
76* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
77
78* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
79
80Changes in 1.1.9:
81
82* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
83  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
84
85* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
86  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
87  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
88
89* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
90  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
91  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
92  the new "*data passage" style.
93
94* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
95  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
96
97* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
98  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
99  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
100  some cases.
101
102* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
103  with no survey loaded.
104
105* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
106
107* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
108  loaded a survey.
109
110* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
111
112* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
113
114* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
115  doesn't exist.
116
117* Updated French and Italian translations.
118
119* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
120  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
121
122* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
123  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
124  update their copy).
125
126* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
127  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
128  trying to compile).
129
130Changes in 1.1.8:
131
132* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
133  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
134
135* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
136  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
137  has been disabled.
138
139* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
140  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
141  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
142  time.
143
144* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
145  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
146  highlighted stations.
147
148* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
149
150* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
151  the tilt from plan to elevation.
152
153* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
154  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
155
156* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
157  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
158  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
159
160* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
161  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
162
163* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
164
165* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
166
167* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
168
169* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
170  run by an unprivileged user.
171
172* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
173  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
174  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
175
176* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
177  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
178
179* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
180
181* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
182  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
183
184* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
185  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
186
187* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
188  if it isn't.
189
190* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
191  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
192
193* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
194  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
195
196* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
197  reset to default view as well).
198
199* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
200  empty.
201
202* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
203  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
204
205* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
206  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
207  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
208
209* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
210  and non-zero width lines.
211
212* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
213  was turned on.
214
215* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
216  not always being fully written.
217
218Changes in 1.1.7:
219
220* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
221  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
222  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
223  date near the middle of that period).
224
225* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
226  with MS Windows).
227
228* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
229  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
230  several surveys in the same directory).
231
232* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
233  our check for them to include that knowledge.
234
235* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
236
237* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
238  moved off a station.
239
240* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
241  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
242
243* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
244
245* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
246  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
247
248* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
249  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
250  dialogs.
251
252* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
253  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
254
255* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
256  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
257  introduced in 1.1.6).
258
259* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
260  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
261  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
262
263* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
264  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
265
266* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
267
268* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
269
270Changes in 1.1.6:
271
272* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
273  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
274
275* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
276  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
277  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
278  3d file.
279
280* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
281
282* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
283
284* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
285  Instead turn off depth colouring.
286
287* aven: Export as HPGL added.
288
289* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
290  Martin Green).
291
292* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
293  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
294  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
295
296* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
297
298* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
299  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
300
301* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
302  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
303  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
304  of everything else.
305
306* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
307  presentation icons.
308
309* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
310  keyboard focus there.
311
312* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
313
314* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
315
316* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
317
318* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
319
320* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
321  language to use for messages.
322
323* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
324  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
325
326* Removed old printer drivers.
327
328* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
329  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
330
331Changes in 1.1.5:
332
333* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
334
335* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
336
337* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
338  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
339
340* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
341  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
342 
343* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
344
345* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
346  underground legs is toggled.
347
348* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
349  attached to the previous data.
350
351* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
352  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
353  them.
354
355Changes in 1.1.4:
356
357* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
358
359* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
360  continental European countries).
361
362* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
363  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
364  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
365
366* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
367
368* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
369  they're needed.
370
371* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
372
373* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
374
375* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
376
377* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
378  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
379  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
380
381* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
382
383Changes in 1.1.3:
384
385* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
386
387* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
388
389* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
390
391* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
392
393* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
394
395* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
396
397* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
398  when there's a presentation loaded.
399
400* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
401  in cave view.
402
403* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
404
405* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
406  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
407  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
408
409* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
410  filename for file history and window title.
411
412* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
413  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
414  only needed with GTK1.2.
415
416* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
417
418* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
419
420* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
421
422* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
423
424Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
425
426* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
427  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
428  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
429
430* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
431  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
432
433* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
434  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
435  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
436  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
437
438* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
439
440* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
441  with --help and --version.
442
443* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
444  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
445  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
446  Fixed all these problems.
447
448* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
449  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
450  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
451
452* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
453  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
454  sources.
455
456* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
457
458* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
459
460* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
461  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
462
463* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
464  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
465  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
466  animating.
467
468* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
469
470* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
471
472* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
473  to this branch.
474
475* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
476
477  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
478
479  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
480
481  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
482
483* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
484
485* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
486  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
487
488* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
489
490* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
491  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
492
493* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
494
495* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
496  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
497  for anyone building from CVS).
498
499* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
500
501* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
502
503* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
504
505* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
506
507* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
508  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
509  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
510
511* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
512  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
513
514* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
515
516* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
517  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
518  loaded).
519
520* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
521
522Changes in 1.1.1:
523
524* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
525  startup.
526
527* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
528  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
529
530Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
531
532* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
533  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
534  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
535
536* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
537  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
538  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
539
540* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
541  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
542  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
543
544* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
545
546* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
547  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
548
549* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
550  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
551
552* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
553  better use of screen space.
554
555* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
556
557* aven: Perspective view.
558
559* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
560
561* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
562  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
563
564* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
565  and load/save/run them.
566
567* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
568
569* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
570
571* aven: Depth fogging option.
572
573* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
574
575* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
576
577* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
578  showing the surface legs.
579
580* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
581
582Changes in 1.0.32:
583
584* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
585
586* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
587  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
588
589* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
590  extend elevations.
591
592* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
593
594* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
595  default button.
596
597* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
598  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
599
600* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
601
602* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
603  - previously this was being ignored.
604
605* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
606
607* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
608  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
609  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
610  pixel too small on Windows.
611
612* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
613  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
614  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
615
616* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
617  with pretty much every other application.
618
619* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
620  within aven.
621
622* aven: Updated a few icons.
623
624* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
625
626* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
627
628* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
629  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
630  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
631  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
632  doubt anyone is still using that...
633
634* Updates to German translation.
635
636Changes in 1.0.31:
637
638* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
639  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
640
641* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
642  grid is enabled or not.
643
644* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
645
646* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
647  translations.
648
649* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
650
651Changes in 1.0.30:
652
653* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
654
655* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
656
657* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
658
659* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
660  flagged as surface and underground.
661
662* Romanian translation mostly completed.
663
664* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
665
666Changes in 1.0.29:
667
668* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
669  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
670
671* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
672
673* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
674
675* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
676  from John Pybus).
677
678* Romanian translation started.
679
680* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
681  menu files.
682
683Changes in 1.0.28:
684
685* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
686  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
687
688Changes in 1.0.27:
689
690* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
691  layers.
692
693* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
694
695Changes in 1.0.26:
696
697* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
698  calculated as zero.
699
700* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
701
702* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
703
704* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
705
706* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
707  we must apply resources *after* installing.
708
709* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
710
711* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
712  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
713  of their choice.
714
715* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
716  installed.
717
718* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
719  worked).
720
721* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
722  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
723
724* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
725
726* Documentation updated.
727
728* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
729  documentation!
730
731* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
732
733* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
734
735* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
736  most of them.
737
738* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
739
740Changes in 1.0.25:
741
742* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
743
744* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
745  the box on more Unix platforms.
746
747* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
748
749* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
750  insurmountable technical problems.
751
752Changes in 1.0.24:
753
754* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
755
756* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
757  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
758
759* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
760
761* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
762
763* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
764  (and probably some other Unix versions).
765
766* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
767
768Changes in 1.0.23:
769
770* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
771  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
772  to manual.
773
774* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
775
776* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
777  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
778
779* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
780  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
781  Windows.
782
783* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
784
785* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
786
787Changes in 1.0.22:
788
789* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
790  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
791
792* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
793  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
794  code).
795
796Changes in 1.0.21:
797
798* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
799  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
800  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
801  Compass .MAK files.
802
803* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
804  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
805
806* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
807
808* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
809  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
810  per station.
811
812* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
813  unusual circumstances.
814
815* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
816  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
817  over an previous version.
818
819Changes in 1.0.20:
820
821* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
822
823* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
824  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
825  correction was about 57 times too large!)
826
827* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
828  insert a survey separator character.
829
830* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
831
832Changes in 1.0.19:
833
834* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
835  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
836  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
837
838* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
839  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
840  files are handled).
841
842* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
843  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
844
845* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
846
847* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
848  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
849  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
850
851* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
852
853* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
854  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
855  crash.
856
857* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
858
859* Documentation: minor updates.
860
861Changes in 1.0.18:
862
863* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
864
865* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
866  instead.
867
868* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
869  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
870
871* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
872  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
873  to the aven subpackage.
874
875* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
876
877* Updated TODO list.
878
879Changes in 1.0.17:
880
881* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
882  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
883  its own icon.
884
885* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
886  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
887  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
888  refresh the view.
889
890* Minor update to manual.
891
892Changes in 1.0.16:
893
894* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
895  programs from finding the message files.
896
897* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
898  files.
899
900Changes in 1.0.15:
901
902* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
903  programs from finding the message files.
904
905* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
906  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
907  obtained with the right mouse button.
908
909Changes in 1.0.14:
910
911* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
912  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
913  from Activeware.
914
915* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
916  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
917  separator between survey name and station name.
918
919* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
920  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
921
922* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
923  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
924
925* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
926
927* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
928  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
929
930* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
931
932* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
933  DIRECTION reading.
934
935* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
936
937* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
938  have taken up.
939
940* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
941  once again.  Added regression test for this.
942
943* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
944  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
945
946* Updated documentation.
947
948Changes in 1.0.13:
949
950* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
951  connecting arbitrary stations.
952
953* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
954  join.
955
956* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
957  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
958  and everything should work exactly as before.
959
960* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
961  currently translated.
962
963Changes in 1.0.12:
964
965* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
966
967* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
968
969* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
970  (both cover Eastern European languages).
971
972* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
973  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
974  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
975  permission to include the icon).
976
977* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
978  again.
979
980* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
981  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
982
983* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
984
985* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
986
987Changes in 1.0.11:
988
989* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
990  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
991  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
992  and as intended on 2.3.
993
994* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
995  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
996  '.').
997
998* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
999  autorotation.
1000
1001* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
1002
1003* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
1004
1005* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
1006  double-clicking or from the command line.
1007
1008* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
1009
1010* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
1011
1012* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
1013
1014* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
1015
1016* Updates to Italian translation.
1017
1018* Minor documentation updates.
1019
1020Changes in 1.0.10:
1021
1022* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
1023  names.
1024
1025* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
1026  successfully.
1027
1028* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
1029  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
1030  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
1031
1032* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
1033  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
1034
1035* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
1036  factor was being applied backwards!)
1037
1038* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
1039  be opened.
1040
1041* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
1042
1043* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
1044
1045* Updates to German and Italian translations.
1046
1047Changes in 1.0.9:
1048
1049* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
1050
1051* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
1052
1053* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
1054  end of each line).
1055
1056* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
1057  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
1058  them).
1059
1060* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
1061
1062Changes in 1.0.8:
1063
1064* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
1065
1066* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
1067  responsiveness.
1068
1069* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
1070  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
1071  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
1072
1073* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
1074  the program).
1075
1076* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
1077
1078* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
1079  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
1080
1081* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
1082  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
1083
1084* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
1085  right mouse button.
1086
1087* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
1088  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
1089  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
1090
1091* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
1092  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
1093  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
1094  approximately 1mm/pixel.
1095
1096* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
1097  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
1098
1099* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
1100  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
1101
1102* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
1103
1104* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
1105  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
1106
1107* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
1108  pages on rare occasions.
1109
1110* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
1111
1112* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
1113
1114* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
1115  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
1116  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
1117  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
1118  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
1119
1120* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
1121  underground surveys.
1122
1123* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
1124
1125* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
1126  now it gives the correct error message.
1127
1128* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
1129  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
1130
1131* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
1132  of data which was rejected because of an error.
1133
1134* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
1135
1136* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
1137  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
1138
1139* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
1140  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
1141  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
1142  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
1143  by default).
1144
1145* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
1146  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
1147  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
1148
1149* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
1150  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
1151  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1152
1153* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
1154  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
1155  been removed.
1156
1157Changes in 1.0.7:
1158
1159* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1160
1161Changes in 1.0.6:
1162
1163* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
1164
1165* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
1166  exit with Delete) improved.
1167
1168* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
1169  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
1170
1171* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
1172
1173* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
1174  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
1175
1176* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
1177  with no clino information).
1178
1179* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
1180  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
1181
1182* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
1183
1184* Spell-checked documentation.
1185
1186Changes in 1.0.5:
1187
1188* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
1189  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1190
1191* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
1192
1193* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1194  structure for Compass to read them now.
1195
1196* Documentation updates.
1197
1198Changes in 1.0.4:
1199
1200* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1201  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1202
1203* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1204  output format.
1205
1206* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1207
1208* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1209  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1210
1211* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1212  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1213  on Microsoft Windows.
1214
1215* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1216
1217* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1218
1219* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1220  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1221  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1222  special case better.
1223
1224* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1225  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1226  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1227  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1228
1229* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1230  out packaging now...
1231
1232* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1233
1234* Documentation updates.
1235
1236Changes in 1.0.3:
1237
1238* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1239  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1240  of degrees.
1241
1242* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1243
1244* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1245
1246* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1247  written.
1248
1249* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1250  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1251
1252* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1253
1254Changes in 1.0.2:
1255
1256* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1257  print.ini etc.
1258
1259* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1260  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1261
1262* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1263
1264* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1265
1266* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1267
1268* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1269
1270* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1271  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1272
1273* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1274  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1275
1276* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1277  .3d files.
1278
1279Changes in 1.0.1:
1280
1281* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1282  ticks.
1283
1284* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1285
1286Changes in 1.0.0:
1287
1288* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1289
1290* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1291  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1292
1293* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1294  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1295  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1296
1297* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1298
1299* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1300  instead of "survex file.svx".
1301
1302* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1303  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1304  with a lower optimisation level.
1305
1306* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1307  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1308  "in directory" build.
1309
1310* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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