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