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NEWS,doc/cad3d.sgml,lib/,src/: The "Sketch" vector drawing program
got renamed to "Skencil" some time ago, so update all references in
code and documentation. cad3d has a new --skencil option to specify
this output format, but --sketch is still recognised for
compatibility.

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1Changes in 1.2.8 (unreleased):
2
3* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
4  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
5  Holder.
6
7* cavern: Tweak .err file output to not lose the space in front of certain
8  statistics when the value gets large.
9
10* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
11  equations.
12
13* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
14  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
15
16* aven,cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil"
17  some time ago, so update all references in code and documentation.  cad3d
18  has a new --skencil option to specify this output format, but --sketch is
19  still recognised for compatibility.
20
21* img library:
22
23  + Add missing definition of max() macro when built for use outside of Survex.
24
25  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
26
27Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
28
29* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
30  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
31  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
32  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
33  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
34  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
35  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
36  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
37
38* New version 8 of the 3d format:
39
40  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
41
42  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
43    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
44
45  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
46    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
47
48  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
49
50  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
51    human-readable string.
52
53  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
54    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
55
56* img library:
57
58  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
59
60  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
61    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
62
63  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
64    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
65    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
66    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
67    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
68    explicitly in the file.
69
70  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
71
72* aven:
73
74  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
75    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
76    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
77    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
78    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
79    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
80
81  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
82    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
83    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
84    queued up.
85
86  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
87    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
88
89  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
90    them like other legs.
91
92  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
93    station names to positions.
94
95  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
96    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
97    wrongly.
98
99  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
100
101  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
102    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
103    that's used by the desktop).
104
105  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
106
107  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
108    error from cavern.
109
110  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
111
112  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
113    in the dialog in sync.
114
115* cavern:
116
117  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
118    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
119    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
120
121  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
122    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
123
124  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
125    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
126    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
127    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
128    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
129    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
130    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
131    degrees.
132
133  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
134    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
135    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
136
137  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
138
139  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
140    warnings.
141
142  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
143    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
144
145  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
146    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
147
148  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
149    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
150    relevant.
151
152  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
153    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
154    the same line.
155
156  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
157    "End of line not blank" error.
158
159  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
160    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
161
162  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
163    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
164
165  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
166    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
167    include that character in the token reported.
168
169  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
170    first item.
171
172* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
173
174* dump3d:
175
176  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
177    info from 3d files in scripts.
178
179  + Add --show-dates option.
180
181  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
182
183  + Report the data style of legs.
184
185  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
186
187  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
188
189* Test suite:
190
191  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
192    expected output so it passes reliably.
193
194  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
195    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
196
197  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
198    for more.
199
200* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
201  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
202  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
203
204* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
205  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
206
207* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
208  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
209
210* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
211  with SURVEX_LANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
212  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
213  settings.
214
215* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
216  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
217  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
218  set correctly.
219
220* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
221  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
222  them to translate.
223
224* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
225  close to complete.
226
227* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
228
229* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
230
231* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
232
233Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
234
235* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
236
237* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
238  package (ticket#35).
239
240* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
241  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
242  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
243
244* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
245  Kahler.
246
247* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
248  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
249  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
250  libproj and build survex with:
251
252      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
253      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
254
255* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
256
257* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
258
259* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
260  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
261  file".
262
263Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
264
265* aven:
266
267  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
268
269  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
270    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
271
272  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
273
274  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
275
276  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
277    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
278
279* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
280  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
281  error early on).
282
283* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
284  the man page source as well as in the filename.
285
286Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
287
288* aven:
289
290  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
291    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
292    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
293    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
294
295  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
296    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
297
298  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
299
300  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
301
302  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
303
304* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
305
306Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
307
308* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
309
310* (Mac OS X version):
311
312  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
313
314  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
315
316  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
317    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
318
319  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
320
321* aven:
322
323  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
324
325  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
326
327    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
328      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
329      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
330      character.
331
332    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
333      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
334      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
335      and two in a few cases.
336
337    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
338      8 pixels.
339
340  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
341    draw crosses.
342
343  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
344    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
345    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
346    is the start or end of a tube.
347
348  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
349    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
350
351  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
352    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
353    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
354
355* extend:
356
357  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
358
359  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
360    which means "no info").
361
362* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
363  was no longer used - it certainly is!
364
365* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
366  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
367  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
368  current character set.
369
370* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
371
372* Test suite:
373
374  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
375
376  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
377
378Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
379
380* aven:
381
382  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
383    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
384    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
385    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
386    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
387    usable format.
388
389  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
390    files.  (ticket#26)
391
392  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
393    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
394
395  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
396    using lines.
397
398  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
399    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
400
401  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
402    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
403    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
404    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
405
406  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
407    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
408    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
409
410  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
411    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
412    in 1.2.1.
413
414Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
415
416* Translation updates for US English.
417
418* aven:
419
420  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
421    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
422
423  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
424
425  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
426    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
427    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
428    visually similar to the survey legs.
429
430  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
431    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
432
433  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
434    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
435    does still provide some useful information).
436
437  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
438    a depth band boundary.
439
440  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
441    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
442    full-screen mode).
443
444  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
445    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
446    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
447    are a little better, though still not perfect.
448
449  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
450    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
451
452  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
453    that station.
454
455  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
456    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
457
458  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
459    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
460    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
461    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
462    a case as it is a bug).
463
464  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
465    invalidated on window width or height changes.
466
467  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
468    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
469    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
470    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
471
472  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
473    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
474    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
475    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
476    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
477    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
478    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
479
480  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
481    similarly for other compass points.
482
483  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
484    info in the "About" dialog.
485
486  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
487    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
488
489  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
490    as well as still working with older versions.
491
492  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
493    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
494
495  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
496    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
497    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
498    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
499    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
500
501  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
502    nicer and make better use of the available space.
503
504  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
505    dialog.
506
507  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
508    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
509
510  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
511    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
512
513  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
514
515  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
516
517  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
518    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
519    being pressed and toggle full screen.
520
521* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
522  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
523
524* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
525
526* More messages are now available to be translated.
527
528* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
529  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
530
531* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
532
533* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
534  sudo for installing on Unix.
535
536* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
537  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
538
539* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
540  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
541
542* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
543
544Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
545
546* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
547  English.
548
549* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
550  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
551  case.
552
553* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
554  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
555  these into Survex's .msg format.
556
557* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
558  an actual command).
559
560* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
561  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
562  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
563  recurrence of that).
564
565* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
566  than /usr/doc/survex.
567
568* aven:
569
570  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
571
572  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
573    nicer at larger sizes.
574
575  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
576    with GLX >= 1.3.
577
578  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
579
580  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
581    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
582    required libraries set up for building releases.
583
584  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
585
586  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
587
588  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
589    rendered with icons on some platforms.
590
591  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
592    ISO8859-1).
593
594  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
595    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
596
597  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
598    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
599
600* cavern:
601
602  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
603    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
604    fatal error!
605
606  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
607    format to output.  (ticket#21)
608
609* img library:
610
611  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
612    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
613
614* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
615  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
616
617Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
618
619* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
620  Portuguese, and US English.
621
622* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
623  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
624
625* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
626  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
627
628* img.c:
629
630  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
631
632  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
633
634* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
635
636* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
637  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
638  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
639  translated.
640
641Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
642
643* aven:
644
645  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
646    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
647
648  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
649    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
650    addresses ticket#12.
651
652  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
653    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
654    consistent shape.
655
656  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
657    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
658    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
659    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
660
661  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
662    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
663
664  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
665
666  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
667    more places.
668
669  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
670    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
671
672* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
673
674* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
675  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
676
677* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
678
679* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
680  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
681  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
682  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
683  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
684  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
685
686* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
687  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
688  redirecting to it.
689
690* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
691  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
692  I/O).
693
694* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
695  headers.
696
697* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
698
699* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
700  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
701
702* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
703
704Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
705
706* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
707
708* aven:
709
710  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
711    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
712    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
713    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
714
715  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
716
717  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
718    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
719    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
720    a number.
721
722  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
723    log window.
724
725  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
726    various cases.
727
728  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
729    (ticket#9)
730
731  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
732    namespace with its own "Point" class.
733
734  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
735    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
736
737  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
738
739  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
740    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
741
742* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
743  give them before.
744
745* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
746  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
747  point looking for them now.
748
749* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
750  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
751  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
752  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
753
754* manual:
755
756  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
757
758  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
759    (change taken from 1.0).
760
761* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
762
763Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
764
765* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
766
767* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
768
769* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
770
771* aven:
772
773  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
774
775  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
776    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
777    seem to be Unicode now).
778
779  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
780    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
781
782  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
783    text on the survey pane:
784
785    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
786
787    - Character spacing is improved.
788
789    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
790
791  + "About" dialog:
792
793    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
794      bug reporting.
795
796    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
797      modern gfx card.
798
799    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
800
801  + Processing .svx files:
802
803    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
804
805    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
806      than opening a separate frame for it.
807
808    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
809
810    - Fix small memory leak.
811
812  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
813    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
814    such a name.
815
816  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
817
818  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
819    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
820    invocations.
821
822  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
823
824  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
825
826  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
827
828* Documentation:
829
830  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
831
832  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
833    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
834    together isn't very useful.
835
836  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
837
838  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
839    the FSF website.
840
841  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
842    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
843    the source code.
844
845* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
846  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
847
848* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
849  package from the source tarball.
850
851* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
852  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
853
854Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
855
856* aven:
857
858  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
859
860  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
861
862  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
863    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
864    names/crosses).
865
866Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
867
868* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
869
870* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
871
872* aven:
873
874  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
875
876  + Fix character spacing.
877
878  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
879    proportional fonts.
880
881  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
882    rather than the filename.
883
884  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
885
886  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
887    depth colouring.
888
889  + Add "Colour by Error".
890
891  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
892
893  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
894
895  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
896
897  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
898
899  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
900
901  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
902
903  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
904
905  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
906    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
907
908  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
909
910  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
911    default.
912
913* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
914  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
915
916* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
917  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
918
919* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
920
921* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
922
923Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
924
925* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
926  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
927  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
928  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
929  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
930
931* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
932  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
933  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
934
935* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
936  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
937  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
938
939* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
940  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
941  allowed).
942
943* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
944
945* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
946
947* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
948
949Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
950
951* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
952  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
953
954* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
955  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
956  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
957
958* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
959  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
960  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
961  the new "*data passage" style.
962
963* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
964  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
965
966* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
967  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
968  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
969  some cases.
970
971* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
972  with no survey loaded.
973
974* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
975
976* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
977  loaded a survey.
978
979* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
980
981* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
982
983* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
984  doesn't exist.
985
986* Updated French and Italian translations.
987
988* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
989  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
990
991* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
992  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
993  update their copy).
994
995* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
996  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
997  trying to compile).
998
999Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
1000
1001* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
1002  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
1003
1004* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
1005  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
1006  has been disabled.
1007
1008* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
1009  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
1010  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
1011  time.
1012
1013* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
1014  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
1015  highlighted stations.
1016
1017* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
1018
1019* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
1020  the tilt from plan to elevation.
1021
1022* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
1023  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
1024
1025* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
1026  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
1027  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
1028
1029* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
1030  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
1031
1032* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
1033
1034* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
1035
1036* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
1037
1038* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
1039  run by an unprivileged user.
1040
1041* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
1042  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
1043  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
1044
1045* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
1046  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
1047
1048* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
1049
1050* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
1051  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
1052
1053* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
1054  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
1055
1056* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
1057  if it isn't.
1058
1059* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
1060  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
1061
1062* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
1063  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
1064
1065* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
1066  reset to default view as well).
1067
1068* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
1069  empty.
1070
1071* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
1072  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
1073
1074* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
1075  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
1076  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
1077
1078* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
1079  and non-zero width lines.
1080
1081* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
1082  was turned on.
1083
1084* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
1085  not always being fully written.
1086
1087Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
1088
1089* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
1090  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
1091  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
1092  date near the middle of that period).
1093
1094* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
1095  with MS Windows).
1096
1097* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
1098  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
1099  several surveys in the same directory).
1100
1101* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
1102  our check for them to include that knowledge.
1103
1104* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
1105
1106* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
1107  moved off a station.
1108
1109* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
1110  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
1111
1112* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
1113
1114* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
1115  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
1116
1117* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
1118  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
1119  dialogs.
1120
1121* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
1122  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
1123
1124* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
1125  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
1126  introduced in 1.1.6).
1127
1128* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
1129  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
1130  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
1131
1132* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
1133  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
1134
1135* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
1136
1137* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
1138
1139Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
1140
1141* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
1142  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
1143
1144* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
1145  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
1146  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
1147  3d file.
1148
1149* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
1150
1151* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
1152
1153* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
1154  Instead turn off depth colouring.
1155
1156* aven: Export as HPGL added.
1157
1158* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
1159  Martin Green).
1160
1161* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
1162  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
1163  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
1164
1165* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
1166
1167* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
1168  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
1169
1170* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
1171  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
1172  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
1173  of everything else.
1174
1175* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
1176  presentation icons.
1177
1178* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
1179  keyboard focus there.
1180
1181* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
1182
1183* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
1184
1185* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
1186
1187* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
1188
1189* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
1190  language to use for messages.
1191
1192* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
1193  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
1194
1195* Removed old printer drivers.
1196
1197* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
1198  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
1199
1200Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
1201
1202* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
1203
1204* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
1205
1206* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
1207  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
1208
1209* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
1210  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
1211
1212* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
1213
1214* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
1215  underground legs is toggled.
1216
1217* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
1218  attached to the previous data.
1219
1220* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
1221  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
1222  them.
1223
1224Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
1225
1226* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
1227
1228* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
1229  continental European countries).
1230
1231* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
1232  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
1233  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
1234
1235* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
1236
1237* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
1238  they're needed.
1239
1240* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
1241
1242* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
1243
1244* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
1245
1246* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
1247  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
1248  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
1249
1250* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
1251
1252Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
1253
1254* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
1255
1256* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
1257
1258* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
1259
1260* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
1261
1262* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1263
1264* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1265
1266* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1267  when there's a presentation loaded.
1268
1269* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1270  in cave view.
1271
1272* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1273
1274* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1275  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1276  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1277
1278* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1279  filename for file history and window title.
1280
1281* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1282  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1283  only needed with GTK1.2.
1284
1285* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1286
1287* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1288
1289* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1290
1291* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1292
1293Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1294
1295* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1296  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1297  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1298
1299* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1300  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1301
1302* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1303  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1304  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1305  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1306
1307* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1308
1309* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1310  with --help and --version.
1311
1312* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1313  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1314  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1315  Fixed all these problems.
1316
1317* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1318  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1319  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1320
1321* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1322  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1323  sources.
1324
1325* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1326
1327* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1328
1329* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1330  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1331
1332* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1333  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1334  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1335  animating.
1336
1337* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1338
1339* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1340
1341* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1342  to this branch.
1343
1344* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1345
1346  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1347
1348  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1349
1350  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1351
1352* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1353
1354* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1355  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1356
1357* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1358
1359* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1360  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1361
1362* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1363
1364* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1365  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1366  for anyone building from CVS).
1367
1368* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1369
1370* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1371
1372* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1373
1374* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1375
1376* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1377  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1378  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1379
1380* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1381  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1382
1383* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1384
1385* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1386  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1387  loaded).
1388
1389* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1390
1391Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1392
1393* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1394  startup.
1395
1396* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1397  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1398
1399Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1400
1401* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1402  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1403  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1404
1405* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1406  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1407  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1408
1409* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1410  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1411  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1412
1413* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1414
1415* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1416  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1417
1418* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1419  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1420
1421* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1422  better use of screen space.
1423
1424* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1425
1426* aven: Perspective view.
1427
1428* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1429
1430* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1431  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1432
1433* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1434  and load/save/run them.
1435
1436* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1437
1438* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1439
1440* aven: Depth fogging option.
1441
1442* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1443
1444* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1445
1446* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1447  showing the surface legs.
1448
1449* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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