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1Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
2
3* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
4  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
5  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
6
7* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
8  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
9  Hugh St Lawrence.
10
11* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
12  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
13  with using aven on a touch screen device.
14
15* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
16  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
17
18* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
19  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
20
21* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
22  off and back on.
23
24* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
25  up time a little.
26
27* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
28  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
29
30* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
31  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
32  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
33  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
34  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
35  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
36  situation too.
37
38* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
39  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
40  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
41
42* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
43
44* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
45
46* Minor translation updates to French.
47
48* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
49
50* Testsuite improvements:
51
52  + Test that "..." anon station works.
53
54  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
55    fail and give an error count.
56
57  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
58
59Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
60
61* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
62  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
63  Clipstone.
64
65* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
66
67* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
68
69  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
70    overlap the scale bar ticks.
71
72  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
73    clipping the border in print preview.
74
75  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
76
77* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
78  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
79
80* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
81  available.
82
83* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
84
85* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
86
87* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
88  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
89
90* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
91  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
92
93* Various translation updates.
94
95Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
96
97* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
98  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
99
100* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
101  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
102  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
103  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
104
105* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
106  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
107
108* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
109  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
110
111* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
112  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
113
114* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
115  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
116
117* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
118  box".
119
120* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
121
122* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
123  indicators.
124
125* aven: All length units are now translatable.
126
127* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
128  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
129  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
130
131* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
132  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
133  measurably slower.
134
135* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
136  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
137
138* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
139  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
140
141* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
142  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
143  from Therion and elsewhere.
144
145* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
146  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
147  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
148
149* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
150  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
151
152* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
153  A. Riggs for his work on this.
154
155* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
156  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
157
158* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
159
160* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
161  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
162  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
163  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
164  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
165  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
166
167* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
168
169Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
170
171* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
172  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
173  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
174  Clipstone.
175
176* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
177  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
178
179* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
180  exported SVG files.
181
182* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
183
184* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
185  file.
186
187* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
188  GPX files.
189
190* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
191
192* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
193  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
194
195* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
196  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
197  on startup.
198
199* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
200
201* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
202  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
203  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
204  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
205  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
206  other extensions.
207
208* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
209  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
210  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
211  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
212  timezone wrong.
213
214* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
215
216* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
217  'SURVEY DATE:'.
218
219* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
220
221* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
222
223* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
224  enabled.
225
226Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
227
228* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
229
230* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
231
232* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
233
234* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
235  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
236  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
237
238* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
239  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
240  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
241
242* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
243  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
244
245* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
246
247* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
248
249* Fix some compiler warnings.
250
251Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
252
253* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
254  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
255  Holder.
256
257* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
258  statistics when the value gets large.
259
260* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
261  equations.
262
263* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
264  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
265  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
266  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
267  better when the "View" box is hidden.
268
269* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
270  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
271
272* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
273  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
274  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
275  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
276  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
277  way is coming soon.
278
279* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
280  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
281
282* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
283  time ago, so update references.
284
285* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
286  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
287
288* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
289  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
290
291* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
292  Sebastian Ramacher.
293
294* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
295
296* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
297
298* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
299
300* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
301
302* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
303
304* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
305  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
306  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
307
308* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
309
310* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
311
312* img library:
313
314  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
315    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
316    reading).
317
318  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
319    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
320
321  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
322    support these as an extension.
323
324  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
325
326* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
327  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
328  itself has any translations for.
329
330* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
331
332* Minor translation updates.
333
334* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
335
336Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
337
338* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
339  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
340  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
341  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
342  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
343  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
344  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
345  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
346
347* New version 8 of the 3d format:
348
349  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
350
351  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
352    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
353
354  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
355    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
356
357  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
358
359  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
360    human-readable string.
361
362  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
363    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
364
365* img library:
366
367  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
368
369  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
370    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
371
372  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
373    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
374    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
375    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
376    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
377    explicitly in the file.
378
379  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
380
381* aven:
382
383  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
384    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
385    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
386    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
387    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
388    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
389
390  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
391    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
392    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
393    queued up.
394
395  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
396    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
397
398  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
399    them like other legs.
400
401  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
402    station names to positions.
403
404  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
405    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
406    wrongly.
407
408  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
409
410  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
411    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
412    that's used by the desktop).
413
414  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
415
416  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
417    error from cavern.
418
419  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
420
421  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
422    in the dialog in sync.
423
424* cavern:
425
426  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
427    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
428    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
429
430  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
431    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
432
433  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
434    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
435    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
436    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
437    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
438    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
439    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
440    degrees.
441
442  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
443    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
444    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
445
446  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
447
448  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
449    warnings.
450
451  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
452    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
453
454  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
455    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
456
457  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
458    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
459    relevant.
460
461  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
462    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
463    the same line.
464
465  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
466    "End of line not blank" error.
467
468  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
469    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
470
471  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
472    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
473
474  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
475    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
476    include that character in the token reported.
477
478  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
479    first item.
480
481* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
482
483* dump3d:
484
485  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
486    info from 3d files in scripts.
487
488  + Add --show-dates option.
489
490  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
491
492  + Report the data style of legs.
493
494  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
495
496  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
497
498* Test suite:
499
500  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
501    expected output so it passes reliably.
502
503  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
504    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
505
506  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
507    for more.
508
509* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
510  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
511  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
512
513* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
514  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
515
516* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
517  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
518
519* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
520  with SURVEX_LANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
521  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
522  settings.
523
524* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
525  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
526  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
527  set correctly.
528
529* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
530  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
531  them to translate.
532
533* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
534  close to complete.
535
536* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
537
538* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
539
540* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
541
542Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
543
544* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
545
546* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
547  package (ticket#35).
548
549* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
550  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
551  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
552
553* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
554  Kahler.
555
556* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
557  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
558  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
559  libproj and build survex with:
560
561      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
562      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
563
564* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
565
566* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
567
568* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
569  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
570  file".
571
572Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
573
574* aven:
575
576  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
577
578  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
579    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
580
581  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
582
583  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
584
585  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
586    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
587
588* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
589  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
590  error early on).
591
592* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
593  the man page source as well as in the filename.
594
595Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
596
597* aven:
598
599  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
600    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
601    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
602    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
603
604  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
605    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
606
607  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
608
609  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
610
611  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
612
613* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
614
615Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
616
617* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
618
619* (Mac OS X version):
620
621  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
622
623  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
624
625  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
626    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
627
628  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
629
630* aven:
631
632  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
633
634  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
635
636    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
637      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
638      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
639      character.
640
641    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
642      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
643      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
644      and two in a few cases.
645
646    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
647      8 pixels.
648
649  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
650    draw crosses.
651
652  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
653    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
654    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
655    is the start or end of a tube.
656
657  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
658    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
659
660  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
661    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
662    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
663
664* extend:
665
666  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
667
668  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
669    which means "no info").
670
671* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
672  was no longer used - it certainly is!
673
674* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
675  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
676  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
677  current character set.
678
679* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
680
681* Test suite:
682
683  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
684
685  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
686
687Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
688
689* aven:
690
691  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
692    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
693    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
694    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
695    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
696    usable format.
697
698  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
699    files.  (ticket#26)
700
701  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
702    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
703
704  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
705    using lines.
706
707  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
708    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
709
710  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
711    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
712    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
713    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
714
715  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
716    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
717    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
718
719  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
720    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
721    in 1.2.1.
722
723Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
724
725* Translation updates for US English.
726
727* aven:
728
729  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
730    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
731
732  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
733
734  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
735    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
736    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
737    visually similar to the survey legs.
738
739  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
740    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
741
742  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
743    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
744    does still provide some useful information).
745
746  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
747    a depth band boundary.
748
749  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
750    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
751    full-screen mode).
752
753  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
754    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
755    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
756    are a little better, though still not perfect.
757
758  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
759    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
760
761  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
762    that station.
763
764  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
765    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
766
767  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
768    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
769    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
770    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
771    a case as it is a bug).
772
773  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
774    invalidated on window width or height changes.
775
776  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
777    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
778    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
779    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
780
781  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
782    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
783    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
784    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
785    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
786    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
787    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
788
789  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
790    similarly for other compass points.
791
792  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
793    info in the "About" dialog.
794
795  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
796    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
797
798  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
799    as well as still working with older versions.
800
801  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
802    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
803
804  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
805    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
806    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
807    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
808    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
809
810  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
811    nicer and make better use of the available space.
812
813  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
814    dialog.
815
816  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
817    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
818
819  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
820    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
821
822  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
823
824  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
825
826  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
827    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
828    being pressed and toggle full screen.
829
830* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
831  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
832
833* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
834
835* More messages are now available to be translated.
836
837* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
838  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
839
840* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
841
842* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
843  sudo for installing on Unix.
844
845* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
846  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
847
848* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
849  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
850
851* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
852
853Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
854
855* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
856  English.
857
858* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
859  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
860  case.
861
862* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
863  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
864  these into Survex's .msg format.
865
866* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
867  an actual command).
868
869* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
870  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
871  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
872  recurrence of that).
873
874* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
875  than /usr/doc/survex.
876
877* aven:
878
879  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
880
881  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
882    nicer at larger sizes.
883
884  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
885    with GLX >= 1.3.
886
887  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
888
889  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
890    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
891    required libraries set up for building releases.
892
893  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
894
895  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
896
897  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
898    rendered with icons on some platforms.
899
900  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
901    ISO8859-1).
902
903  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
904    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
905
906  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
907    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
908
909* cavern:
910
911  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
912    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
913    fatal error!
914
915  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
916    format to output.  (ticket#21)
917
918* img library:
919
920  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
921    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
922
923* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
924  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
925
926Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
927
928* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
929  Portuguese, and US English.
930
931* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
932  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
933
934* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
935  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
936
937* img.c:
938
939  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
940
941  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
942
943* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
944
945* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
946  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
947  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
948  translated.
949
950Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
951
952* aven:
953
954  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
955    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
956
957  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
958    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
959    addresses ticket#12.
960
961  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
962    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
963    consistent shape.
964
965  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
966    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
967    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
968    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
969
970  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
971    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
972
973  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
974
975  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
976    more places.
977
978  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
979    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
980
981* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
982
983* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
984  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
985
986* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
987
988* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
989  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
990  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
991  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
992  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
993  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
994
995* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
996  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
997  redirecting to it.
998
999* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
1000  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
1001  I/O).
1002
1003* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
1004  headers.
1005
1006* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
1007
1008* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
1009  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
1010
1011* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
1012
1013Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
1014
1015* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
1016
1017* aven:
1018
1019  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
1020    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
1021    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
1022    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
1023
1024  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
1025
1026  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
1027    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
1028    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
1029    a number.
1030
1031  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
1032    log window.
1033
1034  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
1035    various cases.
1036
1037  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
1038    (ticket#9)
1039
1040  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
1041    namespace with its own "Point" class.
1042
1043  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
1044    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
1045
1046  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
1047
1048  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
1049    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
1050
1051* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
1052  give them before.
1053
1054* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
1055  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
1056  point looking for them now.
1057
1058* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
1059  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
1060  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
1061  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
1062
1063* manual:
1064
1065  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
1066
1067  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
1068    (change taken from 1.0).
1069
1070* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
1071
1072Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
1073
1074* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
1075
1076* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
1077
1078* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
1079
1080* aven:
1081
1082  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
1083
1084  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
1085    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
1086    seem to be Unicode now).
1087
1088  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
1089    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
1090
1091  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
1092    text on the survey pane:
1093
1094    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
1095
1096    - Character spacing is improved.
1097
1098    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
1099
1100  + "About" dialog:
1101
1102    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
1103      bug reporting.
1104
1105    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
1106      modern gfx card.
1107
1108    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
1109
1110  + Processing .svx files:
1111
1112    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
1113
1114    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
1115      than opening a separate frame for it.
1116
1117    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
1118
1119    - Fix small memory leak.
1120
1121  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
1122    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
1123    such a name.
1124
1125  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
1126
1127  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
1128    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
1129    invocations.
1130
1131  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
1132
1133  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
1134
1135  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
1136
1137* Documentation:
1138
1139  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
1140
1141  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
1142    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
1143    together isn't very useful.
1144
1145  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
1146
1147  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
1148    the FSF website.
1149
1150  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
1151    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
1152    the source code.
1153
1154* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
1155  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
1156
1157* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
1158  package from the source tarball.
1159
1160* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
1161  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
1162
1163Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
1164
1165* aven:
1166
1167  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
1168
1169  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
1170
1171  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
1172    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
1173    names/crosses).
1174
1175Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
1176
1177* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
1178
1179* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
1180
1181* aven:
1182
1183  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
1184
1185  + Fix character spacing.
1186
1187  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
1188    proportional fonts.
1189
1190  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
1191    rather than the filename.
1192
1193  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
1194
1195  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
1196    depth colouring.
1197
1198  + Add "Colour by Error".
1199
1200  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
1201
1202  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
1203
1204  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
1205
1206  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
1207
1208  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
1209
1210  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
1211
1212  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
1213
1214  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
1215    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
1216
1217  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
1218
1219  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
1220    default.
1221
1222* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
1223  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
1224
1225* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
1226  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
1227
1228* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
1229
1230* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
1231
1232Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
1233
1234* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
1235  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
1236  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
1237  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
1238  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
1239
1240* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
1241  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
1242  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
1243
1244* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
1245  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
1246  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
1247
1248* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
1249  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
1250  allowed).
1251
1252* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
1253
1254* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1255
1256* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1257
1258Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
1259
1260* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
1261  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
1262
1263* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
1264  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
1265  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
1266
1267* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
1268  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
1269  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
1270  the new "*data passage" style.
1271
1272* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
1273  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
1274
1275* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
1276  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
1277  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
1278  some cases.
1279
1280* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
1281  with no survey loaded.
1282
1283* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
1284
1285* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
1286  loaded a survey.
1287
1288* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
1289
1290* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
1291
1292* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
1293  doesn't exist.
1294
1295* Updated French and Italian translations.
1296
1297* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
1298  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
1299
1300* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
1301  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
1302  update their copy).
1303
1304* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
1305  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
1306  trying to compile).
1307
1308Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
1309
1310* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
1311  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
1312
1313* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
1314  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
1315  has been disabled.
1316
1317* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
1318  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
1319  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
1320  time.
1321
1322* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
1323  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
1324  highlighted stations.
1325
1326* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
1327
1328* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
1329  the tilt from plan to elevation.
1330
1331* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
1332  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
1333
1334* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
1335  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
1336  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
1337
1338* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
1339  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
1340
1341* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
1342
1343* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
1344
1345* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
1346
1347* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
1348  run by an unprivileged user.
1349
1350* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
1351  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
1352  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
1353
1354* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
1355  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
1356
1357* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
1358
1359* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
1360  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
1361
1362* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
1363  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
1364
1365* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
1366  if it isn't.
1367
1368* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
1369  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
1370
1371* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
1372  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
1373
1374* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
1375  reset to default view as well).
1376
1377* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
1378  empty.
1379
1380* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
1381  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
1382
1383* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
1384  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
1385  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
1386
1387* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
1388  and non-zero width lines.
1389
1390* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
1391  was turned on.
1392
1393* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
1394  not always being fully written.
1395
1396Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
1397
1398* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
1399  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
1400  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
1401  date near the middle of that period).
1402
1403* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
1404  with MS Windows).
1405
1406* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
1407  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
1408  several surveys in the same directory).
1409
1410* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
1411  our check for them to include that knowledge.
1412
1413* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
1414
1415* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
1416  moved off a station.
1417
1418* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
1419  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
1420
1421* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
1422
1423* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
1424  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
1425
1426* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
1427  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
1428  dialogs.
1429
1430* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
1431  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
1432
1433* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
1434  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
1435  introduced in 1.1.6).
1436
1437* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
1438  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
1439  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
1440
1441* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
1442  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
1443
1444* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
1445
1446* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
1447
1448Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
1449
1450* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
1451  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
1452
1453* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
1454  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
1455  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
1456  3d file.
1457
1458* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
1459
1460* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
1461
1462* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
1463  Instead turn off depth colouring.
1464
1465* aven: Export as HPGL added.
1466
1467* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
1468  Martin Green).
1469
1470* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
1471  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
1472  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
1473
1474* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
1475
1476* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
1477  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
1478
1479* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
1480  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
1481  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
1482  of everything else.
1483
1484* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
1485  presentation icons.
1486
1487* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
1488  keyboard focus there.
1489
1490* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
1491
1492* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
1493
1494* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
1495
1496* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
1497
1498* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
1499  language to use for messages.
1500
1501* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
1502  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
1503
1504* Removed old printer drivers.
1505
1506* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
1507  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
1508
1509Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
1510
1511* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
1512
1513* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
1514
1515* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
1516  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
1517
1518* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
1519  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
1520
1521* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
1522
1523* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
1524  underground legs is toggled.
1525
1526* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
1527  attached to the previous data.
1528
1529* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
1530  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
1531  them.
1532
1533Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
1534
1535* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
1536
1537* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
1538  continental European countries).
1539
1540* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
1541  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
1542  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
1543
1544* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
1545
1546* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
1547  they're needed.
1548
1549* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
1550
1551* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
1552
1553* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
1554
1555* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
1556  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
1557  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
1558
1559* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
1560
1561Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
1562
1563* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
1564
1565* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
1566
1567* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
1568
1569* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
1570
1571* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1572
1573* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1574
1575* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1576  when there's a presentation loaded.
1577
1578* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1579  in cave view.
1580
1581* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1582
1583* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1584  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1585  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1586
1587* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1588  filename for file history and window title.
1589
1590* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1591  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1592  only needed with GTK1.2.
1593
1594* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1595
1596* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1597
1598* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1599
1600* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1601
1602Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1603
1604* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1605  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1606  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1607
1608* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1609  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1610
1611* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1612  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1613  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1614  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1615
1616* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1617
1618* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1619  with --help and --version.
1620
1621* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1622  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1623  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1624  Fixed all these problems.
1625
1626* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1627  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1628  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1629
1630* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1631  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1632  sources.
1633
1634* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1635
1636* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1637
1638* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1639  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1640
1641* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1642  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1643  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1644  animating.
1645
1646* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1647
1648* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1649
1650* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1651  to this branch.
1652
1653* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1654
1655  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1656
1657  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1658
1659  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1660
1661* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1662
1663* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1664  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1665
1666* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1667
1668* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1669  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1670
1671* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1672
1673* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1674  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1675  for anyone building from CVS).
1676
1677* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1678
1679* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1680
1681* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1682
1683* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1684
1685* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1686  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1687  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1688
1689* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1690  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1691
1692* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1693
1694* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1695  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1696  loaded).
1697
1698* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1699
1700Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1701
1702* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1703  startup.
1704
1705* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1706  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1707
1708Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1709
1710* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1711  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1712  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1713
1714* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1715  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1716  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1717
1718* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1719  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1720  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1721
1722* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1723
1724* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1725  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1726
1727* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1728  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1729
1730* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1731  better use of screen space.
1732
1733* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1734
1735* aven: Perspective view.
1736
1737* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1738
1739* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1740  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1741
1742* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1743  and load/save/run them.
1744
1745* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1746
1747* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1748
1749* aven: Depth fogging option.
1750
1751* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1752
1753* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1754
1755* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1756  showing the surface legs.
1757
1758* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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