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