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