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Assorted installer updates.

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