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1Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
2
3* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
4  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
5  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
6  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
7
8* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
9  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
10  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
11  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
12
13* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
14  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
15  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
16  Eric C. Landgraf.
17
18* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
19  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
20  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
21
22* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
23  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
24  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
25  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
26
27* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
28
29* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
30  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
31  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
32  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
33  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
34
35* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
36
37* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
38
39* Various minor improvements to documentation.
40
41* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
42
43Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
44
45* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
46  overlay.
47
48* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
49  Fixes #110
50
51* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
52  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
53
54* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
55  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
56  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
57
58* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
59  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
60
61* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
62  on x86.
63
64Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
65
66* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
67  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
68  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
69
70* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
71  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
72  in 1.4.13.
73
74* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
75
76* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
77  naming.
78
79* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
80
81* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
82  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
83  candidate stations).
84
85Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
86
87* aven:
88
89  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
90    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
91
92  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
93    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
94    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
95
96  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
97    show.
98
99  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
100    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
101    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
102
103* cavern:
104
105  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
106    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
107    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
108
109  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
110    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
111    by the same amount in these cases.
112
113  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
114    unconnected survey stations.
115
116  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
117
118  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
119    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
120
121  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
122    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
123    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
124    Eric C. Landgraf.
125
126  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
127    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
128    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
129    situation.
130
131  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
132    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
133    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
134
135  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
136    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
137    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
138    network.
139
140  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
141    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
142    which should be faster.
143
144  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
145    more efficient way.
146
147* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
148
149* Documentation:
150
151  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
152    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
153    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
154    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
155    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
156    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
157    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
158
159* Test suite:
160
161  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
162    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
163    excess precision.
164
165* Assorted translation updates.
166
167Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
168
169* aven:
170
171  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
172    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
173    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
174    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
175    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
176    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
177    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
178
179* cavern:
180
181  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
182    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
183    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
184    an error.
185
186  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
187    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
188    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
189    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
190    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
191    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
192    measurable).
193
194  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
195    less memory.
196
197* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
198  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
199  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
200  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
201
202* Testsuite:
203
204  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
205
206  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
207    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
208    precision.
209
210* img library:
211
212  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
213    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
214    from Thomas Holder.
215
216  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
217    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
218
219Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
220
221* aven:
222
223  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
224    C. Landgraf.
225
226* aven/survexport:
227
228  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
229    addresses #60.
230
231  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
232    1:40000).
233
234  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
235    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
236
237  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
238    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
239    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
240    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
241    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
242
243* cavern:
244
245  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
246    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
247
248  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
249    bad reading was quietly ignored).
250
251  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
252    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
253    for example:
254
255     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
256      *end   bar
257             ^~~
258     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
259      *begin      foo
260                  ^~~
261
262  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
263    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
264
265  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
266    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
267    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
268    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
269    an error.
270
271    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
272    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
273
274  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
275    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
276    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
277
278  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
279    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
280    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
281
282  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
283    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
284    handled more consistently.
285
286  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
287    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
288
289  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
290
291  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
292
293    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
294      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
295      use the datum.
296
297    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
298      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
299      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
300
301* Documentation:
302
303  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
304    definition in `*units` docs.
305
306  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
307
308* Assorted translation updates.
309
310* testsuite:
311
312  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
313    comparing with expected output.
314
315* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
316
317  + `*cartesian` added
318
319  + `*data ignore` added
320
321  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
322
323  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
324
325  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
326    lines
327
328  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
329
330  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
331    because there's a comment after the filename
332
333  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
334    whitespace between `*` and `include`
335
336Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
337
338* aven:
339
340  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
341    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
342    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
343    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
344    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
345    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
346    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
347    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
348
349* aven/survexport:
350
351  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
352    1.4.6).
353
354  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
355
356  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
357    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
358    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
359    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
360    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
361    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
362    survey.
363
364  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
365
366* cavern:
367
368  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
369    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
370    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
371    warns about them.
372
373    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
374    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
375    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
376    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
377
378    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
379
380  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
381    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
382    connected to it.
383
384  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
385    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
386    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
387    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
388    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
389    traverse.
390
391  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
392
393  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
394    it actually was:
395
396      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
397
398  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
399
400    - After an anonymous station.
401
402    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
403      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
404      or end of line.
405
406    - In a `*alias` command.
407
408    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
409
410  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
411    `cartesian` style data.
412
413  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
414
415  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
416    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
417    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
418    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
419    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
420
421  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
422    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
423    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
424    example.
425
426  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
427    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
428    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
429    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
430    when viewing the log in aven.
431
432  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
433    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
434    datasets):
435
436    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
437
438    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
439      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
440
441    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
442      `ORDER=ADV`).
443
444    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
445
446    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
447      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
448      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
449      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
450      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
451      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
452      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
453      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
454
455    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
456
457    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
458
459    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
460      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
461      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
462
463    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
464      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
465
466    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
467
468    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
469
470    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
471
472    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
473      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
474      is present in some real-world data.
475
476    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
477      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
478
479    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
480      of it we do handle!
481
482    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
483      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
484      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
485      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
486
487    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
488      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
489
490    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
491      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
492
493    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
494
495    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
496
497    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
498      values are currently ignored.
499
500    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
501      them is currently ignored.
502
503    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
504      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
505      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
506      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
507      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
508
509    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
510
511* documentation:
512
513  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
514    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
515    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
516    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
517
518    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
519    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
520    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
521
522    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
523    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
524    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
525    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
526
527    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
528    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
529    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
530    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
531
532  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
533
534  + Document PLT export.
535
536  + Minor improvements to --help output
537
538  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
539    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
540    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
541    C. Landgraf.
542
543  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
544
545  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
546
547  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
548
549  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
550
551  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
552
553* testsuite:
554
555  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
556
557  + Add expected output for more testcases
558
559  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
560
561  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
562    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
563    instructions.
564
565  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
566
567* translations:
568
569  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
570    more natural word order in a translated message.
571
572Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
573
574* aven:
575
576  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
577    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
578    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
579    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
580    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
581    files - set the filter to "All Files" to chose other formats.
582
583  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
584    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
585    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
586    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
587    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
588    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
589    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
590    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
591    we could add it to the new implementation.
592
593  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
594    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
595    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
596    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
597    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
598    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
599    command line or from some other launcher.
600
601* cavern:
602
603  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
604    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
605    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
606    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
607    encouragement.
608
609  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
610    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
611    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
612
613  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
614    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
615    quietly misinterpreting the data.
616
617  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
618    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
619    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
620    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
621
622  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
623    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
624
625  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
626
627  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
628    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
629    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
630    used to have "info" diagnostics.
631
632  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
633    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
634    "info" category is more appropriate here.
635
636  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
637    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
638    which may be useful to the user.
639
640  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
641    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
642    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
643    happened in a released version.
644
645  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
646    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
647    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
648
649* dump3d:
650
651  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
652    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
653    true on all platforms.
654
655* manual:
656
657  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
658    with/without admin rights.
659
660  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
661    limitations.
662
663  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
664    section.
665
666  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
667    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
668    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
669    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
670
671* img library:
672
673  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
674    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
675    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
676
677  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
678    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
679
680  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
681    stations in loops.
682
683  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
684    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
685
686  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
687    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
688
689  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
690    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
691    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
692    as "unknown date".
693
694* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
695  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
696  environment variable for this.
697
698* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
699  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
700  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
701  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
702  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
703  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
704
705* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
706  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
707  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
708
709* Build system:
710
711  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
712
713  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
714    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
715
716  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
717    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
718
719* testsuite:
720
721  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
722    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
723    problem.
724
725  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
726
727Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
728
729* cavern:
730
731  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
732    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
733    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
734    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
735    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
736
737  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
738    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
739    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
740    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
741
742  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
743    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
744
745  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
746    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
747    failed on some architectures.
748
749* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
750
751* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
752  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
753  rights.
754
755* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
756  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
757  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
758  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
759
760Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
761
762* cavern:
763
764  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
765    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
766    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
767    the second and subsequent locations.
768
769  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
770    containing non-ASCII characters.
771
772  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
773    warnings.
774
775  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
776
777  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
778
779  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
780    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
781    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
782    files.
783
784* img library:
785
786  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
787    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
788
789  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
790    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
791    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
792    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
793    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
794    realloc().
795
796* Portability:
797
798  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
799    versions.
800
801  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
802
803* Build system:
804
805  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
806
807* Manual:
808
809  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
810
811  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
812
813* Minor translation updates.
814
815* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
816  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
817  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
818  managed to reproduce.
819
820Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
821
822* cavern:
823
824  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
825    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
826    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
827    mailing list.
828
829  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
830    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
831    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
832    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
833
834  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
835    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
836    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
837    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
838    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
839    the whole specified filename to upper case.
840
841  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
842    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
843    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
844    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
845    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
846    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
847
848  + Compass DAT files:
849
850    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
851
852    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
853      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
854      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
855      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
856      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
857      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
858
859    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
860      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
861
862    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
863
864    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
865      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
866      being in metres.
867
868    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
869      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
870
871    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
872      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
873      unlikely to occur in real data.
874
875    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
876      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
877      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
878      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
879      itself for DAT files.
880
881  + Compass MAK files:
882
883    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
884      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
885      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
886
887    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
888      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
889      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
890      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
891      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
892      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
893      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
894      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
895      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
896      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
897      supported would be useful to you.
898
899    - Folder commands are now understood.
900
901    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
902      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
903      counts from 0 at these points).
904
905  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
906    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
907    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
908    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
909    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
910
911* aven:
912
913  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
914    Philip Balister.
915
916  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
917    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
918    together.
919
920* aven/survexport:
921
922  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
923
924  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
925    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
926    are enabled.
927
928  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
929
930  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
931    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
932    all of a set of equated stations.
933
934  + .plt:
935
936    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
937      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
938      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
939      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
940
941    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
942      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
943      Compass docs).
944
945* img library:
946
947  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
948    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
949    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
950    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
951    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
952    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
953    default).
954
955  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
956    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
957
958    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
959      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
960      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
961
962    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
963
964    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
965      Entrance" field is present and zero.
966
967    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
968
969    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
970      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
971      format specification says:
972
973          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
974          wall to define the passage shape.
975
976    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
977      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
978      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
979      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
980      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
981      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
982
983    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
984      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
985
986    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
987      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
988      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
989      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
990      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
991      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
992      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
993      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
994      mixed datums would be useful to you.
995
996    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
997      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
998
999    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1000      than one survey in the PLT file.
1001
1002    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1003      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1004
1005    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1006      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1007      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1008      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1009      the comment for that survey as before.
1010
1011    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1012      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1013      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1014      it being omitted too.
1015
1016* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1017
1018* manual:
1019
1020  + Document Compass support in detail.
1021
1022  + Improve NATO mils example.
1023
1024* INSTALL:
1025
1026  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1027    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1028
1029  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1030    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1031
1032* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1033
1034* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1035  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1036
1037* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1038  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1039  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1040
1041* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1042
1043Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1044
1045* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1046
1047* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1048  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1049
1050* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1051
1052* Minor translation updates.
1053
1054Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1055
1056* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1057  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1058
1059* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1060  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1061  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1062  checks that were rejecting this.
1063
1064  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1065  really do that's better than that.
1066
1067  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1068
1069* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1070  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1071  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1072  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1073  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1074
1075* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1076  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1077
1078* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1079  bearing spin control.
1080
1081* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1082  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1083  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1084  currently but please report issues.
1085
1086* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1087  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1088  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1089  position".
1090
1091* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1092  Reported by echarlie
1093
1094* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1095
1096Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1097
1098* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1099
1100* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1101  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1102
1103* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1104  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1105
1106* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1107  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1108
1109* Minor translation updates.
1110
1111* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1112  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1113  works on Wayland).
1114
1115* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1116  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1117
1118* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1119
1120* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1121  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1122  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1123
1124Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1125
1126* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1127
1128* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1129
1130* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1131  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1132
1133* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1134  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1135  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1136  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1137
1138* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1139  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1140  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1141
1142* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1143  string properly.
1144
1145* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1146  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1147  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1148  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1149  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1150  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1151  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1152
1153* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1154  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1155
1156  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1157
1158* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1159  where the included filename is actually specified.
1160
1161* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1162  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1163
1164* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1165  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1166  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1167
1168* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1169  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1170
1171* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1172  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1173  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1174  anyway.
1175
1176* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1177  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1178
1179* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1180
1181* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1182  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1183  inconvenience anyone.
1184
1185Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1186
1187* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1188
1189* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1190  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1191  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1192  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1193
1194* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1195  in 1.4.0.
1196
1197* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1198
1199Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1200
1201* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1202  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1203  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1204  Couwenberg.
1205
1206  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1207  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1208  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1209  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1210
1211  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1212  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1213
1214* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1215  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1216  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1217
1218* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1219  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1220  strings is strongly discouraged.
1221
1222  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1223
1224  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1225
1226  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1227  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1228
1229* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1230  Green.
1231
1232* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1233  echarlie.
1234
1235* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1236  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1237  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1238
1239* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1240
1241* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1242
1243* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1244
1245* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1246
1247* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1248  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1249  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1250
1251Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1252
1253* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1254  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1255  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1256  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1257  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1258
1259* aven:
1260
1261  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1262    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1263    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1264    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1265    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1266    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1267
1268* testsuite:
1269
1270  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1271    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1272    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1273    process exits.
1274
1275* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1276
1277Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1278
1279* aven:
1280
1281  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1282
1283* cavern:
1284
1285  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1286
1287  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1288    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1289    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1290
1291  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1292    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1293    until the next *data command with parameters.
1294
1295  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1296    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1297
1298  * Improve test coverage.
1299
1300* survexport:
1301
1302  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1303    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1304
1305  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1306    Batista.
1307
1308* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1309  Holder.
1310
1311* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1312  from Thomas Holder.
1313
1314* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1315  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1316
1317* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1318
1319* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1320
1321* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1322
1323* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1324
1325* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1326
1327Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1328
1329* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1330  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1331  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1332
1333* aven:
1334
1335  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1336    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1337    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1338
1339  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1340    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1341    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1342    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1343
1344  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1345    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1346    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1347
1348  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1349
1350Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1351
1352* aven:
1353
1354  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1355
1356  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1357    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1358    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1359
1360  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1361    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1362    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1363    orientation.
1364
1365* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1366  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1367  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1368  Richard Knapp.
1369
1370* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1371  might still need to use them for.
1372
1373* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1374
1375* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1376
1377* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1378  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1379  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1380  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1381
1382* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1383  is now the recommended approach.
1384
1385Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1386
1387* aven:
1388
1389  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1390    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1391    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1392    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1393    Brian Clipstone.
1394
1395  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1396    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1397
1398Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1399
1400* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1401  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1402  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1403
1404* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1405  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1406  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1407  with some compilers.
1408
1409* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1410  installed.
1411
1412Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1413
1414* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1415  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1416  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1417
1418* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1419  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1420  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1421
1422* aven:
1423
1424  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1425    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1426    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1427    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1428    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1429    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1430    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1431    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1432    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1433    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1434    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1435
1436  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1437
1438* Documentation:
1439
1440  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1441
1442  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1443    placeholder.
1444
1445  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1446    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1447
1448* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1449  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1450  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1451
1452* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1453  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1454  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1455  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1456  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1457  location to avoid confusion.
1458
1459* Add a few more message translations.
1460
1461* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1462
1463Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1464
1465* cavern:
1466
1467  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1468    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1469    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1470    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1471    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1472
1473  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1474    now reports "file not found" instead.
1475
1476  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1477    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1478    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1479
1480* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1481
1482* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1483  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1484  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1485  removed.
1486
1487* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1488  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1489  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1490  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1491
1492Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1493
1494* aven:
1495
1496  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1497    controllable.
1498
1499  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1500
1501  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1502    Patch from Robert Jones.
1503
1504  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1505    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1506    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1507
1508  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1509    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1510
1511* cavern:
1512
1513  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1514    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1515
1516  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1517    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1518    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1519    go unnoticed.
1520
1521* survexport:
1522
1523  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1524    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1525    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1526
1527  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1528    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1529    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1530    Stephen Crabtree.
1531
1532* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1533
1534* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1535  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1536
1537* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1538  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1539  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1540  therion's team command.
1541
1542Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1543
1544* aven:
1545
1546  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1547
1548  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1549    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1550    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1551    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1552    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1553    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1554    for new entrances.
1555
1556  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1557    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1558    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1559    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1560
1561  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1562
1563  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1564    to show via the right-click menu.
1565
1566  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1567    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1568    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1569    child surveys of the parent.
1570
1571  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1572    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1573    survey.
1574
1575  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1576    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1577
1578  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1579
1580  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1581    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1582
1583  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1584    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1585    filtering this matters more).
1586
1587* survexport:
1588
1589  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1590    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1591
1592  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1593
1594* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1595
1596* Minor translation updates.
1597
1598* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1599
1600* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1601
1602* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1603
1604Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1605
1606* aven:
1607
1608  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
1609    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
1610    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
1611    on screen, printed and exported.
1612
1613  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
1614    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
1615    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
1616    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
1617    survey.
1618
1619  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
1620    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
1621    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
1622    view.  Reported by Wookey.
1623
1624  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
1625    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
1626    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
1627
1628  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
1629    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
1630
1631  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
1632    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
1633
1634  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
1635    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
1636
1637  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
1638    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
1639
1640  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
1641    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
1642
1643* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
1644  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
1645  tools could do, plus much more.
1646
1647* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
1648
1649* Minor updates to various other translations.
1650
1651* img library:
1652
1653  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
1654
1655  + Improve API documentation.
1656
1657* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
1658  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
1659  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
1660
1661* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
1662  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
1663  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
1664  control what gets exported.
1665
1666Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
1667
1668* aven:
1669
1670  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1671    of 1.2.33.
1672
1673  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
1674
1675Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
1676
1677* aven:
1678
1679  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
1680    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
1681    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
1682    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
1683
1684  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
1685    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
1686    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
1687    Erin Lynch.
1688
1689  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
1690    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
1691    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
1692
1693  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
1694    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
1695    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
1696    unnecessarily.
1697
1698  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
1699    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
1700    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
1701    for this control).
1702
1703  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
1704    under GTK3.
1705
1706  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
1707    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
1708    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
1709
1710  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
1711    current development version).
1712
1713  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
1714    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
1715    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
1716
1717* cavern:
1718
1719  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
1720    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
1721    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
1722    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
1723    "19".
1724
1725* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
1726  Evaristo Quiroga.
1727
1728* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
1729
1730* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
1731  milosch.
1732
1733* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
1734  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
1735  translated messages.
1736
1737* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
1738  Indonesian and Polish.
1739
1740* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
1741  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
1742  Reported by Martin Sluka.
1743
1744* Fix a few compiler warnings.
1745
1746* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
1747  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
1748  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
1749
1750* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
1751
1752  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
1753    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
1754    but happens to fail if it isn't.
1755
1756  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
1757
1758  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
1759
1760  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
1761
1762* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
1763  detected at run time on macOS.
1764
1765* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
1766  by the homebrew formula.
1767
1768* buildmacosx.sh:
1769
1770  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
1771    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
1772
1773  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
1774
1775* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
1776  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
1777
1778Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
1779
1780* aven:
1781
1782  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
1783    and Anthony Day.
1784
1785  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
1786    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
1787    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
1788    Erin Lynch in #89.
1789
1790  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
1791    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
1792    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
1793    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
1794    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
1795    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
1796    elevations.
1797
1798  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
1799    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
1800    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
1801
1802  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
1803    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
1804    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
1805    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
1806    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
1807    "on".
1808
1809  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
1810    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
1811
1812  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
1813    the display wouldn't update right away.
1814
1815* Manual:
1816
1817  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
1818
1819  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
1820
1821* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
1822  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
1823  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
1824  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
1825  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
1826
1827Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
1828
1829* aven:
1830
1831  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
1832    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
1833    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
1834
1835  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
1836    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
1837    before by others.
1838
1839  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
1840
1841  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
1842    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
1843    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
1844    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
1845    original change.
1846
1847  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
1848    which extends beyond the end of the line).
1849
1850  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
1851    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
1852
1853  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
1854
1855  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
1856
1857  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
1858    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
1859    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
1860    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
1861    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
1862    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
1863    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
1864
1865  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
1866    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
1867
1868  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
1869    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
1870    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
1871
1872  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
1873    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
1874    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
1875    much vertical range.
1876
1877  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
1878    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
1879    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
1880    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
1881    are drawn in this way.
1882
1883  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
1884    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
1885    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
1886    centre should be a single pixel.
1887
1888* cavern:
1889
1890  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
1891    entering passage data where there are side passages.
1892
1893  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
1894    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
1895
1896  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
1897    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
1898    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
1899    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
1900
1901  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
1902    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
1903    Reported by Erin Lynch.
1904
1905  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
1906    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
1907    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
1908    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
1909
1910  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
1911    other messages.
1912
1913* extend:
1914
1915  + Now runs a bit faster.
1916
1917  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
1918    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
1919    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
1920    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
1921    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
1922    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
1923    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
1924    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
1925    be handled better) most welcome.
1926
1927* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
1928
1929* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
1930
1931* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
1932  translations from therion.
1933
1934* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
1935  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
1936
1937* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
1938  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
1939  Footleg.
1940
1941* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
1942
1943* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
1944
1945Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
1946
1947* aven:
1948
1949  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
1950    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
1951
1952  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
1953    Suggested by detrito.
1954
1955  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
1956    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
1957
1958  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
1959    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
1960
1961* Add man page for dump3d.
1962
1963Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
1964
1965* aven:
1966
1967  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
1968    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
1969
1970  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
1971    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
1972
1973* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
1974  Lynch and "detrito".
1975
1976* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
1977  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
1978
1979Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
1980
1981* cavern:
1982
1983  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
1984    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
1985    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
1986    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
1987    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
1988
1989  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
1990
1991  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
1992
1993  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
1994    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
1995    degrees).
1996
1997* aven:
1998
1999  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2000    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2001    Day.
2002
2003  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2004    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2005
2006  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2007    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2008
2009  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2010    of the line in cavern log window.
2011
2012  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2013
2014  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2015
2016  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2017    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2018    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2019    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2020    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2021
2022  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2023    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2024    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2025
2026  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2027
2028  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2029
2030  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2031    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2032    Atkinson and myself.
2033
2034  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2035
2036  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2037    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2038    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2039    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2040    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2041    survey.
2042
2043  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2044    lines on my netbook.
2045
2046  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2047    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2048    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2049
2050  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2051    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2052    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2053    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2054    glitches.
2055
2056  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2057    we currently list, though slower to write.
2058
2059  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2060    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2061
2062  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2063    warnings when building against a recent version.
2064
2065  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2066    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2067    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2068    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2069
2070  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2071    movie export.
2072
2073  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2074    export.
2075
2076* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2077  James Begley.
2078
2079* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2080  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2081
2082* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2083
2084* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2085  messages get used automatically.
2086
2087* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2088  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2089
2090* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2091
2092* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2093
2094* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2095
2096Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2097
2098* aven:
2099
2100  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2101    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2102    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2103    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2104    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2105    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2106    probably change in the future).
2107
2108  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2109    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2110    the survey tree root.
2111
2112  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2113    the view was recentred).
2114
2115  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2116    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2117    wrong direction).
2118
2119  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2120    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2121    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2122
2123  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2124    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2125    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2126    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2127
2128  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2129    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2130
2131  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2132    addresses #60.
2133
2134  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2135
2136  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2137    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2138    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2139
2140  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2141
2142  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2143    360 or down past 0.
2144
2145  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2146    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2147    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2148    real-valued ones.
2149
2150  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2151    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2152
2153  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2154    Lynch.
2155
2156  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2157
2158  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2159    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2160
2161  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2162    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2163    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2164
2165  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2166    should now work.
2167
2168* cavern:
2169
2170  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2171
2172  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2173    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2174    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2175
2176  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2177    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2178    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2179
2180  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2181    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2182    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2183    issue.
2184
2185  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2186    by patch from Colin Watson.
2187
2188  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2189
2190* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2191
2192* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2193  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2194
2195* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2196  used in the same dataset.
2197
2198* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2199  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2200
2201* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2202  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2203  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2204
2205* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2206
2207Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2208
2209* aven:
2210
2211  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2212    cavern again.
2213
2214* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2215  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2216  location and use the same start menu folder.
2217
2218* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2219  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2220
2221* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2222  by James Begley.
2223
2224Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2225
2226* aven:
2227
2228  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2229    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2230    to address.
2231
2232  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2233    over the survey tree.
2234
2235  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2236
2237  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2238    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2239
2240  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2241    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2242    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2243    encoded.
2244
2245  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2246    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2247    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2248    terminals which do still support this.
2249
2250  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2251    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2252
2253* cavern:
2254
2255  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2256    Edwards (see #78).
2257
2258  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2259    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2260    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2261    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2262
2263  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2264    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2265    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2266
2267  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2268    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2269
2270* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2271  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2272  Black.
2273
2274* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2275
2276* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2277  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2278  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2279  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2280  Black.
2281
2282* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2283  Black.
2284
2285* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2286
2287* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2288
2289* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2290
2291* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2292
2293* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2294
2295* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2296  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2297
2298* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2299  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2300  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2301
2302* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2303  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2304  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2305  privileges or not.
2306
2307Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2308
2309* aven:
2310
2311  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2312    Clipstone.
2313
2314  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2315    Reported by Jenny Black.
2316
2317  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2318    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2319    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2320
2321  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2322    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2323    messages.
2324
2325  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2326    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2327
2328* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2329  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2330
2331* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2332
2333* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2334  by Wookey.
2335
2336Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2337
2338* aven:
2339
2340  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2341    machines.
2342
2343  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2344
2345  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2346    already being processed.
2347
2348  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2349    Reported by Martin Green.
2350
2351  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2352
2353* cavern:
2354
2355  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2356    find the original survey notes).
2357
2358  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2359    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2360    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2361    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2362    progress display to be useful.
2363
2364* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2365
2366* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2367  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2368
2369* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2370  running cavern.
2371
2372* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2373  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2374  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2375
2376Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2377
2378* aven:
2379
2380  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2381    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2382    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2383    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2384    finding this fix.
2385
2386* cavern:
2387
2388  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2389
2390  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2391    station.
2392
2393  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2394    *export.
2395
2396Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2397
2398* aven:
2399
2400  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2401    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2402    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2403
2404  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2405
2406  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2407    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2408    does.
2409
2410  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2411    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2412
2413  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2414    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2415
2416  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2417    as appropriate.
2418
2419  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2420    values on Windows.
2421
2422* cavern:
2423
2424  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2425    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2426    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2427
2428  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2429    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2430
2431  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2432    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2433    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2434    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2435
2436  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2437    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2438    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2439    Atkinson.
2440
2441  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2442    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2443
2444  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2445    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2446    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2447    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2448
2449  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2450    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2451    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2452
2453* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2454  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2455  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2456  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2457
2458* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2459
2460* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2461  "*DECLINATION" command.
2462
2463* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2464  Reported by Jenny Black.
2465
2466* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2467  documentation.
2468
2469* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2470  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2471
2472* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2473
2474* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2475
2476Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2477
2478* aven:
2479
2480  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2481    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2482    the same or very similar by default.
2483
2484  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2485    Maynard.
2486
2487  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2488
2489  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2490
2491  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2492    away.
2493
2494  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2495
2496  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2497    display it.
2498
2499* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2500  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2501  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2502  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2503
2504* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2505
2506* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2507  before 1.2.19.
2508
2509* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2510  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2511
2512* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2513
2514* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2515  disk image.
2516
2517* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2518
2519* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2520  libav features we don't use.
2521
2522* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2523  a load of libav features we don't use.
2524
2525* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2526  message in the installer.
2527
2528Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2529
2530* aven:
2531
2532  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2533    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2534
2535  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2536
2537  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2538    exit full screen mode.
2539
2540  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2541    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2542    using since 1.2.7).
2543
2544  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2545    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2546    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2547    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2548    St. Lawrence.
2549
2550  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2551    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2552
2553  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2554    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2555    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2556
2557  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2558    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2559    case like we do on other platforms.
2560
2561  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2562
2563  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2564    support multi-monitor setups.
2565
2566  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2567    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2568
2569  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2570    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2571
2572  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2573    cases.
2574
2575  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2576    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2577    Erin Lynch)
2578
2579  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2580    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2581    items in in so it uses the full width.
2582
2583  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2584    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2585    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2586    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2587    window.
2588
2589  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2590    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2591    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2592    only relevant on the first ever run.
2593
2594* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2595
2596* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2597  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2598  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2599  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2600  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2601  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2602
2603* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2604  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2605
2606Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
2607
2608* aven:
2609
2610  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
2611    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
2612    rendering it as a transparent surface.
2613
2614  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
2615    sanely want to perform from the menu.
2616
2617  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
2618    colouring options.
2619
2620  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
2621
2622  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
2623    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
2624    pressing "Escape".
2625
2626  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
2627    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
2628
2629  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
2630    exporting.
2631
2632  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
2633
2634  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
2635    is quite likely to change.
2636
2637  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
2638    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
2639
2640  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
2641    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
2642    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
2643
2644  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
2645
2646  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
2647    markers in orange.
2648
2649  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
2650    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
2651
2652  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
2653    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
2654    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
2655    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
2656    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
2657    them would be better.
2658
2659  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
2660    Gee.
2661
2662  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
2663    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
2664    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
2665
2666  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
2667
2668* cavern:
2669
2670  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
2671    susscorfa).
2672
2673  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
2674    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
2675
2676  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
2677
2678  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
2679    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
2680
2681  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
2682    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
2683
2684* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
2685
2686* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
2687  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
2688  in a modern desktop.
2689
2690* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
2691  the filename in the error message.
2692
2693* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
2694  most complete translations.
2695
2696* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
2697
2698* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
2699  lacks them.
2700
2701* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
2702
2703* Manual:
2704
2705  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
2706    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
2707
2708  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
2709
2710  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
2711
2712  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
2713    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
2714    available for download.
2715
2716* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
2717  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
2718  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
2719
2720* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
2721
2722* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
2723
2724Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
2725
2726* MacOS X version:
2727
2728  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
2729
2730  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
2731
2732  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
2733
2734  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
2735
2736  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
2737    currently do this for us.
2738
2739  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
2740
2741  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
2742
2743  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
2744
2745  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
2746    OS X cursor.
2747
2748  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
2749    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
2750    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
2751    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
2752    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
2753    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
2754    with TextEdit.app for example).
2755
2756  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
2757    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
2758
2759  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
2760
2761  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
2762    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
2763
2764  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
2765    Riggs.
2766
2767  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
2768    space.
2769
2770  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
2771
2772  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
2773    10.10.1.
2774
2775  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
2776    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
2777    errors.
2778
2779  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
2780    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
2781    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
2782    wxWidgets build supports by default.
2783
2784  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
2785
2786* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
2787  treat as a single leg.
2788
2789* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
2790
2791* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
2792
2793* aven:
2794
2795  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
2796    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
2797
2798  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
2799    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
2800    1:500).
2801
2802  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
2803    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
2804    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
2805    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
2806
2807  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
2808    there rather than the two animations fighting.
2809
2810  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
2811    fast.
2812
2813  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
2814    when rotating).
2815
2816  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
2817    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
2818
2819* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
2820  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
2821
2822* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
2823
2824* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
2825
2826* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
2827
2828* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
2829
2830* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
2831  we're using git.
2832
2833* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
2834
2835  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
2836    compass.
2837
2838  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
2839
2840  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
2841
2842Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
2843
2844* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
2845
2846* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
2847
2848* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
2849
2850* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
2851  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
2852
2853* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
2854
2855* tests/: Improve test coverage.
2856
2857* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
2858  Greek and Polish.
2859
2860* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
2861  by Martin Sluka.
2862
2863* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
2864  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
2865
2866Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
2867
2868* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
2869  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
2870  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
2871  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
2872  for *cs has also been improved.
2873
2874* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
2875  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
2876  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
2877  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
2878
2879* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
2880  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
2881  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
2882  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
2883  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
2884
2885* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
2886  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
2887  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
2888
2889* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
2890
2891* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
2892
2893* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
2894  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
2895  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
2896
2897* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
2898  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
2899
2900Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
2901
2902* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
2903  system in use in 3d v8 files.
2904
2905* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
2906  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
2907  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
2908  export dialog.
2909
2910* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
2911  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
2912  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
2913  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
2914  rather than having one corner there.
2915
2916* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
2917  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
2918
2919* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
2920  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
2921
2922* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
2923  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
2924  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
2925
2926* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
2927  such as 64-bit Linux.
2928
2929* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
2930  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
2931
2932* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
2933  64-bit platforms.
2934
2935* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
2936  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
2937  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
2938
2939* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
2940  the space available in the aven UI.
2941
2942* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
2943  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
2944  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
2945
2946* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
2947  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
2948
2949* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
2950  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
2951  about unconnected surveys.
2952
2953* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
2954  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
2955
2956* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
2957  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
2958  freed memory.
2959
2960* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
2961
2962* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
2963
2964* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
2965
2966* Fix a compiler warning.
2967
2968* Improve test coverage.
2969
2970Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
2971
2972* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
2973  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
2974  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
2975
2976* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
2977  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
2978  Hugh St Lawrence.
2979
2980* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
2981  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
2982  with using aven on a touch screen device.
2983
2984* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
2985  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
2986
2987* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
2988  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
2989
2990* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
2991  off and back on.
2992
2993* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
2994  up time a little.
2995
2996* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
2997  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
2998
2999* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3000  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3001  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3002  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3003  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3004  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3005  situation too.
3006
3007* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3008  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3009  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3010
3011* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3012
3013* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3014
3015* Minor translation updates to French.
3016
3017* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3018
3019* Testsuite improvements:
3020
3021  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3022
3023  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3024    fail and give an error count.
3025
3026  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3027
3028Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3029
3030* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3031  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3032  Clipstone.
3033
3034* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3035
3036* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3037
3038  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3039    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3040
3041  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3042    clipping the border in print preview.
3043
3044  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3045
3046* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3047  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3048
3049* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3050  available.
3051
3052* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3053
3054* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3055
3056* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3057  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3058
3059* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3060  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3061
3062* Various translation updates.
3063
3064Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3065
3066* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3067  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3068
3069* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3070  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3071  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3072  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3073
3074* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3075  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3076
3077* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3078  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3079
3080* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3081  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3082
3083* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3084  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3085
3086* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3087  box".
3088
3089* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3090
3091* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3092  indicators.
3093
3094* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3095
3096* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3097  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3098  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3099
3100* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3101  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3102  measurably slower.
3103
3104* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3105  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3106
3107* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3108  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3109
3110* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3111  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3112  from Therion and elsewhere.
3113
3114* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3115  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3116  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3117
3118* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3119  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3120
3121* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3122  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3123
3124* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3125  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3126
3127* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3128
3129* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3130  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3131  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3132  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3133  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3134  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3135
3136* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3137
3138Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3139
3140* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3141  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3142  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3143  Clipstone.
3144
3145* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3146  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3147
3148* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3149  exported SVG files.
3150
3151* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3152
3153* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3154  file.
3155
3156* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3157  GPX files.
3158
3159* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3160
3161* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3162  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3163
3164* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3165  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3166  on startup.
3167
3168* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3169
3170* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3171  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3172  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3173  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3174  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3175  other extensions.
3176
3177* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3178  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3179  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3180  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3181  timezone wrong.
3182
3183* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3184
3185* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3186  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3187
3188* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3189
3190* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3191
3192* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3193  enabled.
3194
3195Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3196
3197* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3198
3199* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3200
3201* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3202
3203* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3204  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3205  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3206
3207* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3208  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3209  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3210
3211* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3212  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3213
3214* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3215
3216* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3217
3218* Fix some compiler warnings.
3219
3220Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3221
3222* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3223  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3224  Holder.
3225
3226* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3227  statistics when the value gets large.
3228
3229* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3230  equations.
3231
3232* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3233  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3234  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3235  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3236  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3237
3238* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3239  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3240
3241* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3242  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3243  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3244  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3245  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3246  way is coming soon.
3247
3248* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3249  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3250
3251* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3252  time ago, so update references.
3253
3254* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3255  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3256
3257* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3258  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3259
3260* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3261  Sebastian Ramacher.
3262
3263* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3264
3265* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3266
3267* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3268
3269* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3270
3271* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3272
3273* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3274  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3275  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3276
3277* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3278
3279* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3280
3281* img library:
3282
3283  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3284    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3285    reading).
3286
3287  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3288    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3289
3290  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3291    support these as an extension.
3292
3293  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3294
3295* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3296  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3297  itself has any translations for.
3298
3299* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3300
3301* Minor translation updates.
3302
3303* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3304
3305Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3306
3307* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3308  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3309  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3310  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3311  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3312  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3313  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3314  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3315
3316* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3317
3318  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3319
3320  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3321    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3322
3323  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3324    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3325
3326  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3327
3328  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3329    human-readable string.
3330
3331  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3332    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3333
3334* img library:
3335
3336  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3337
3338  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3339    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3340
3341  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3342    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3343    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3344    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3345    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3346    explicitly in the file.
3347
3348  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3349
3350* aven:
3351
3352  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3353    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3354    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3355    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3356    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3357    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3358
3359  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3360    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3361    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3362    queued up.
3363
3364  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3365    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3366
3367  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3368    them like other legs.
3369
3370  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3371    station names to positions.
3372
3373  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3374    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3375    wrongly.
3376
3377  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3378
3379  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3380    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3381    that's used by the desktop).
3382
3383  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3384
3385  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3386    error from cavern.
3387
3388  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3389
3390  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3391    in the dialog in sync.
3392
3393* cavern:
3394
3395  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3396    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3397    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3398
3399  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3400    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3401
3402  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3403    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3404    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3405    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3406    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3407    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3408    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3409    degrees.
3410
3411  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3412    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3413    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3414
3415  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3416
3417  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3418    warnings.
3419
3420  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3421    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3422
3423  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3424    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3425
3426  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3427    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3428    relevant.
3429
3430  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3431    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3432    the same line.
3433
3434  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3435    "End of line not blank" error.
3436
3437  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3438    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3439
3440  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3441    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3442
3443  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3444    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3445    include that character in the token reported.
3446
3447  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3448    first item.
3449
3450* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3451
3452* dump3d:
3453
3454  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3455    info from 3d files in scripts.
3456
3457  + Add --show-dates option.
3458
3459  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3460
3461  + Report the data style of legs.
3462
3463  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3464
3465  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3466
3467* Test suite:
3468
3469  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3470    expected output so it passes reliably.
3471
3472  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3473    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3474
3475  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3476    for more.
3477
3478* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3479  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3480  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3481
3482* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3483  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3484
3485* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3486  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3487
3488* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3489  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3490  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3491  settings.
3492
3493* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3494  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3495  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3496  set correctly.
3497
3498* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3499  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3500  them to translate.
3501
3502* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3503  close to complete.
3504
3505* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3506
3507* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3508
3509* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3510
3511Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3512
3513* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3514
3515* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3516  package (ticket#35).
3517
3518* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3519  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3520  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3521
3522* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3523  Kahler.
3524
3525* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3526  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3527  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3528  libproj and build survex with:
3529
3530      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3531      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3532
3533* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3534
3535* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3536
3537* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3538  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3539  file".
3540
3541Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3542
3543* aven:
3544
3545  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3546
3547  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3548    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3549
3550  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3551
3552  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3553
3554  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3555    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3556
3557* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3558  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3559  error early on).
3560
3561* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3562  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3563
3564Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3565
3566* aven:
3567
3568  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3569    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3570    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3571    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3572
3573  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
3574    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3575
3576  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3577
3578  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3579
3580  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3581
3582* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3583
3584Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3585
3586* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3587
3588* (Mac OS X version):
3589
3590  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3591
3592  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3593
3594  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3595    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3596
3597  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3598
3599* aven:
3600
3601  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3602
3603  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3604
3605    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
3606      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
3607      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
3608      character.
3609
3610    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
3611      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
3612      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
3613      and two in a few cases.
3614
3615    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
3616      8 pixels.
3617
3618  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
3619    draw crosses.
3620
3621  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
3622    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
3623    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
3624    is the start or end of a tube.
3625
3626  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
3627    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
3628
3629  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
3630    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
3631    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
3632
3633* extend:
3634
3635  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
3636
3637  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
3638    which means "no info").
3639
3640* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
3641  was no longer used - it certainly is!
3642
3643* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
3644  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
3645  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
3646  current character set.
3647
3648* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
3649
3650* Test suite:
3651
3652  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
3653
3654  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
3655
3656Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
3657
3658* aven:
3659
3660  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
3661    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
3662    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
3663    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
3664    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
3665    usable format.
3666
3667  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
3668    files.  (ticket#26)
3669
3670  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
3671    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
3672
3673  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
3674    using lines.
3675
3676  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
3677    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
3678
3679  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
3680    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
3681    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
3682    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
3683
3684  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
3685    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
3686    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
3687
3688  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
3689    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
3690    in 1.2.1.
3691
3692Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
3693
3694* Translation updates for US English.
3695
3696* aven:
3697
3698  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
3699    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
3700
3701  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
3702
3703  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
3704    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
3705    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
3706    visually similar to the survey legs.
3707
3708  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
3709    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
3710
3711  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
3712    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
3713    does still provide some useful information).
3714
3715  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
3716    a depth band boundary.
3717
3718  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
3719    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
3720    full-screen mode).
3721
3722  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
3723    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
3724    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
3725    are a little better, though still not perfect.
3726
3727  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
3728    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
3729
3730  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
3731    that station.
3732
3733  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
3734    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
3735
3736  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
3737    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
3738    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
3739    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
3740    a case as it is a bug).
3741
3742  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
3743    invalidated on window width or height changes.
3744
3745  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
3746    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
3747    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
3748    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
3749
3750  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
3751    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
3752    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
3753    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
3754    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
3755    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
3756    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
3757
3758  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
3759    similarly for other compass points.
3760
3761  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
3762    info in the "About" dialog.
3763
3764  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
3765    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
3766
3767  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
3768    as well as still working with older versions.
3769
3770  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
3771    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
3772
3773  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
3774    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
3775    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
3776    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
3777    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
3778
3779  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
3780    nicer and make better use of the available space.
3781
3782  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
3783    dialog.
3784
3785  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
3786    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
3787
3788  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
3789    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
3790
3791  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
3792
3793  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
3794
3795  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
3796    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
3797    being pressed and toggle full screen.
3798
3799* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
3800  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
3801
3802* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
3803
3804* More messages are now available to be translated.
3805
3806* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
3807  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
3808
3809* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
3810
3811* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
3812  sudo for installing on Unix.
3813
3814* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
3815  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
3816
3817* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
3818  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
3819
3820* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
3821
3822Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
3823
3824* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
3825  English.
3826
3827* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
3828  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
3829  case.
3830
3831* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
3832  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
3833  these into Survex's .msg format.
3834
3835* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
3836  an actual command).
3837
3838* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
3839  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
3840  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
3841  recurrence of that).
3842
3843* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
3844  than /usr/doc/survex.
3845
3846* aven:
3847
3848  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
3849
3850  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
3851    nicer at larger sizes.
3852
3853  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
3854    with GLX >= 1.3.
3855
3856  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
3857
3858  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
3859    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
3860    required libraries set up for building releases.
3861
3862  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
3863
3864  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
3865
3866  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
3867    rendered with icons on some platforms.
3868
3869  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
3870    ISO8859-1).
3871
3872  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
3873    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
3874
3875  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
3876    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
3877
3878* cavern:
3879
3880  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
3881    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
3882    fatal error!
3883
3884  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
3885    format to output.  (ticket#21)
3886
3887* img library:
3888
3889  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
3890    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
3891
3892* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
3893  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
3894
3895Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
3896
3897* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
3898  Portuguese, and US English.
3899
3900* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
3901  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
3902
3903* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
3904  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
3905
3906* img.c:
3907
3908  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
3909
3910  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
3911
3912* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
3913
3914* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
3915  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
3916  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
3917  translated.
3918
3919Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
3920
3921* aven:
3922
3923  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
3924    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
3925
3926  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
3927    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
3928    addresses ticket#12.
3929
3930  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
3931    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
3932    consistent shape.
3933
3934  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
3935    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
3936    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
3937    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
3938
3939  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
3940    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
3941
3942  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
3943
3944  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
3945    more places.
3946
3947  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
3948    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
3949
3950* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
3951
3952* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
3953  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
3954
3955* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
3956
3957* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
3958  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
3959  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
3960  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
3961  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
3962  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
3963
3964* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
3965  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
3966  redirecting to it.
3967
3968* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
3969  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
3970  I/O).
3971
3972* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
3973  headers.
3974
3975* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
3976
3977* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
3978  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
3979
3980* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
3981
3982Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
3983
3984* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
3985
3986* aven:
3987
3988  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
3989    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
3990    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
3991    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
3992
3993  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
3994
3995  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
3996    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
3997    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
3998    a number.
3999
4000  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4001    log window.
4002
4003  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4004    various cases.
4005
4006  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4007    (ticket#9)
4008
4009  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4010    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4011
4012  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4013    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4014
4015  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4016
4017  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4018    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4019
4020* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4021  give them before.
4022
4023* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4024  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4025  point looking for them now.
4026
4027* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4028  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4029  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4030  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4031
4032* manual:
4033
4034  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4035
4036  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4037    (change taken from 1.0).
4038
4039* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4040
4041Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4042
4043* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4044
4045* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4046
4047* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4048
4049* aven:
4050
4051  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4052
4053  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4054    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4055    seem to be Unicode now).
4056
4057  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4058    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4059
4060  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4061    text on the survey pane:
4062
4063    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4064
4065    - Character spacing is improved.
4066
4067    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4068
4069  + "About" dialog:
4070
4071    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4072      bug reporting.
4073
4074    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4075      modern gfx card.
4076
4077    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4078
4079  + Processing .svx files:
4080
4081    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4082
4083    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4084      than opening a separate frame for it.
4085
4086    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4087
4088    - Fix small memory leak.
4089
4090  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4091    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4092    such a name.
4093
4094  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4095
4096  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4097    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4098    invocations.
4099
4100  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4101
4102  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4103
4104  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4105
4106* Documentation:
4107
4108  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4109
4110  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4111    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4112    together isn't very useful.
4113
4114  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4115
4116  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4117    the FSF website.
4118
4119  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4120    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4121    the source code.
4122
4123* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4124  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4125
4126* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4127  package from the source tarball.
4128
4129* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4130  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4131
4132Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4133
4134* aven:
4135
4136  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4137
4138  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4139
4140  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4141    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4142    names/crosses).
4143
4144Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4145
4146* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4147
4148* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4149
4150* aven:
4151
4152  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4153
4154  + Fix character spacing.
4155
4156  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4157    proportional fonts.
4158
4159  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4160    rather than the filename.
4161
4162  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4163
4164  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4165    depth colouring.
4166
4167  + Add "Colour by Error".
4168
4169  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4170
4171  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4172
4173  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4174
4175  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4176
4177  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4178
4179  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4180
4181  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4182
4183  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4184    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4185
4186  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4187
4188  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4189    default.
4190
4191* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4192  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4193
4194* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4195  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4196
4197* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4198
4199* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4200
4201Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4202
4203* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4204  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4205  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4206  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4207  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4208
4209* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4210  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4211  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4212
4213* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4214  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4215  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4216
4217* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4218  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4219  allowed).
4220
4221* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4222
4223* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4224
4225* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4226
4227Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4228
4229* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4230  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4231
4232* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4233  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4234  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4235
4236* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4237  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4238  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4239  the new "*data passage" style.
4240
4241* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4242  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4243
4244* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4245  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4246  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4247  some cases.
4248
4249* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4250  with no survey loaded.
4251
4252* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4253
4254* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4255  loaded a survey.
4256
4257* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4258
4259* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4260
4261* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4262  doesn't exist.
4263
4264* Updated French and Italian translations.
4265
4266* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4267  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4268
4269* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4270  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4271  update their copy).
4272
4273* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4274  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4275  trying to compile).
4276
4277Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4278
4279* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4280  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4281
4282* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4283  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4284  has been disabled.
4285
4286* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4287  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4288  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4289  time.
4290
4291* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4292  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4293  highlighted stations.
4294
4295* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4296
4297* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4298  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4299
4300* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4301  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4302
4303* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4304  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4305  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4306
4307* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4308  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4309
4310* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4311
4312* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4313
4314* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4315
4316* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4317  run by an unprivileged user.
4318
4319* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4320  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4321  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4322
4323* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4324  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4325
4326* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4327
4328* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4329  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4330
4331* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4332  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4333
4334* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4335  if it isn't.
4336
4337* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4338  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4339
4340* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4341  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4342
4343* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4344  reset to default view as well).
4345
4346* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4347  empty.
4348
4349* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4350  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4351
4352* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4353  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4354  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4355
4356* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4357  and non-zero width lines.
4358
4359* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4360  was turned on.
4361
4362* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4363  not always being fully written.
4364
4365Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4366
4367* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4368  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4369  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4370  date near the middle of that period).
4371
4372* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4373  with MS Windows).
4374
4375* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4376  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4377  several surveys in the same directory).
4378
4379* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4380  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4381
4382* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4383
4384* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4385  moved off a station.
4386
4387* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4388  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4389
4390* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4391
4392* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4393  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4394
4395* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4396  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4397  dialogs.
4398
4399* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4400  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4401
4402* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4403  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4404  introduced in 1.1.6).
4405
4406* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4407  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4408  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4409
4410* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4411  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4412
4413* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4414
4415* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4416
4417Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4418
4419* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4420  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4421
4422* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4423  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4424  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4425  3d file.
4426
4427* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4428
4429* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4430
4431* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4432  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4433
4434* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4435
4436* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4437  Martin Green).
4438
4439* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4440  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4441  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4442
4443* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4444
4445* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4446  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4447
4448* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4449  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4450  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4451  of everything else.
4452
4453* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4454  presentation icons.
4455
4456* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4457  keyboard focus there.
4458
4459* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4460
4461* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4462
4463* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4464
4465* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4466
4467* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4468  language to use for messages.
4469
4470* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4471  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4472
4473* Removed old printer drivers.
4474
4475* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4476  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4477
4478Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4479
4480* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4481
4482* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4483
4484* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4485  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4486
4487* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4488  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4489
4490* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4491
4492* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4493  underground legs is toggled.
4494
4495* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4496  attached to the previous data.
4497
4498* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4499  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4500  them.
4501
4502Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4503
4504* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4505
4506* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4507  continental European countries).
4508
4509* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4510  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4511  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4512
4513* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4514
4515* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4516  they're needed.
4517
4518* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4519
4520* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4521
4522* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4523
4524* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4525  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4526  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4527
4528* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4529
4530Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4531
4532* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4533
4534* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4535
4536* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4537
4538* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4539
4540* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4541
4542* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4543
4544* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4545  when there's a presentation loaded.
4546
4547* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4548  in cave view.
4549
4550* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4551
4552* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4553  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4554  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4555
4556* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4557  filename for file history and window title.
4558
4559* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4560  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4561  only needed with GTK1.2.
4562
4563* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4564
4565* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4566
4567* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4568
4569* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4570
4571Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4572
4573* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4574  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4575  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4576
4577* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4578  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4579
4580* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4581  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4582  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4583  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4584
4585* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4586
4587* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4588  with --help and --version.
4589
4590* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4591  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4592  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4593  Fixed all these problems.
4594
4595* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4596  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4597  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4598
4599* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4600  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4601  sources.
4602
4603* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4604
4605* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
4606
4607* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
4608  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
4609
4610* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
4611  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
4612  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
4613  animating.
4614
4615* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
4616
4617* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
4618
4619* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
4620  to this branch.
4621
4622* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
4623
4624  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
4625
4626  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
4627
4628  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
4629
4630* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
4631
4632* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
4633  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
4634
4635* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
4636
4637* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
4638  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
4639
4640* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
4641
4642* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
4643  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
4644  for anyone building from CVS).
4645
4646* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
4647
4648* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
4649
4650* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
4651
4652* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
4653
4654* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
4655  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
4656  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
4657
4658* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
4659  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
4660
4661* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
4662
4663* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
4664  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
4665  loaded).
4666
4667* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
4668
4669Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
4670
4671* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
4672  startup.
4673
4674* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
4675  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
4676
4677Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
4678
4679* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
4680  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
4681  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
4682
4683* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
4684  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
4685  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
4686
4687* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
4688  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
4689  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
4690
4691* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
4692
4693* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
4694  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
4695
4696* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
4697  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
4698
4699* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
4700  better use of screen space.
4701
4702* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
4703
4704* aven: Perspective view.
4705
4706* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
4707
4708* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
4709  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
4710
4711* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
4712  and load/save/run them.
4713
4714* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
4715
4716* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
4717
4718* aven: Depth fogging option.
4719
4720* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
4721
4722* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
4723
4724* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
4725  showing the surface legs.
4726
4727* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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