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aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
time.

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