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