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1aa1927c4 (Olly Betts 2012-09-27 17:13:31 +1200    1) Thu Sep 27 05:12:22 GMT 2012  Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
2
3Changes in 1.2.7 (2012-09-27):
4
5* aven: Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine
6  the short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead
7  only actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
8  queued up.
9
10* cavern: If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and
11  report errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks
12  to Kevin Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
13
14* cavern: Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent
15  survey check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be
16  more relevant.
17
18* img library: New leg flag img_FLAG_NOSURVEY, now set by cavern for NOSURVEY
19  legs.
20
21* dump3d: Report new NOSURVEY leg flag.
22
23* dump3d: Add --show-dates option.
24
25* Test suite:
26
27  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
28    expected output so it passes reliably.
29
30* (Microsoft Windows version): Link mingw build statically to avoid needing
31  libgcc DLL.
32
33* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
34  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
35
36* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
37  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
38
39* Merge translation updates for Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, French, German,
40  and US English, mostly from launchpad.
41
42* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
43
44Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
45
46* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
47
48* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
49  package (ticket#35).
50
51* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
52  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
53  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
54
55* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
56  Kahler.
57
58* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
59  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
60  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
61  libproj and build survex with:
62
63      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
64      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
65
66* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
67
68* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
69
70* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
71  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
72  file".
73
74Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
75
76* aven:
77
78  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
79
80  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
81    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
82
83  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
84
85  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
86
87  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
88    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
89
90* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
91  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
92  error early on).
93
94* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
95  the man page source as well as in the filename.
96
97Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
98
99* aven:
100
101  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
102    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
103    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
104    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
105
106  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
107    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
108
109  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
110
111  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
112
113  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
114
115* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
116
117Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
118
119* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
120
121* (Mac OS X version):
122
123  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
124
125  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
126
127  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
128    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
129
130  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
131
132* aven:
133
134  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
135
136  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
137
138    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
139      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
140      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
141      character.
142
143    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
144      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
145      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
146      and two in a few cases.
147
148    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
149      8 pixels.
150
151  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
152    draw crosses.
153
154  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
155    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
156    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
157    is the start or end of a tube.
158
159  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
160    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
161
162  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
163    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
164    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
165
166* extend:
167
168  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
169
170  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
171    which means "no info").
172
173* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
174  was no longer used - it certainly is!
175
176* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
177  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
178  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
179  current character set.
180
181* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
182
183* Test suite:
184
185  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
186
187  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
188
189Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
190
191* aven:
192
193  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
194    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
195    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
196    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
197    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
198    usable format.
199
200  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
201    files.  (ticket#26)
202
203  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
204    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
205
206  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
207    using lines.
208
209  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
210    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
211
212  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
213    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
214    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
215    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
216
217  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
218    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
219    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
220
221  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
222    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
223    in 1.2.1.
224
225Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
226
227* Translation updates for US English.
228
229* aven:
230
231  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
232    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
233
234  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
235
236  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
237    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
238    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
239    visually similar to the survey legs.
240
241  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
242    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
243
244  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
245    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
246    does still provide some useful information).
247
248  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
249    a depth band boundary.
250
251  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
252    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
253    full-screen mode).
254
255  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
256    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
257    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
258    are a little better, though still not perfect.
259
260  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
261    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
262
263  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
264    that station.
265
266  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
267    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
268
269  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
270    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
271    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
272    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
273    a case as it is a bug).
274
275  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
276    invalidated on window width or height changes.
277
278  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
279    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
280    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
281    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
282
283  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
284    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
285    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
286    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
287    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
288    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
289    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
290
291  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
292    similarly for other compass points.
293
294  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
295    info in the "About" dialog.
296
297  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
298    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
299
300  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
301    as well as still working with older versions.
302
303  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
304    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
305
306  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
307    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
308    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
309    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
310    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
311
312  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
313    nicer and make better use of the available space.
314
315  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
316    dialog.
317
318  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
319    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
320
321  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
322    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
323
324  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
325
326  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
327
328  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
329    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
330    being pressed and toggle full screen.
331
332* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
333  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
334
335* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
336
337* More messages are now available to be translated.
338
339* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
340  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
341
342* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
343
344* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
345  sudo for installing on Unix.
346
347* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
348  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
349
350* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
351  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
352
353* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
354
355Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
356
357* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
358  English.
359
360* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
361  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
362  case.
363
364* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
365  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
366  these into Survex's .msg format.
367
368* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
369  an actual command).
370
371* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
372  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
373  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
374  recurrence of that).
375
376* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
377  than /usr/doc/survex.
378
379* aven:
380
381  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
382
383  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
384    nicer at larger sizes.
385
386  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
387    with GLX >= 1.3.
388
389  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
390
391  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
392    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
393    required libraries set up for building releases.
394
395  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
396
397  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
398
399  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
400    rendered with icons on some platforms.
401
402  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
403    ISO8859-1).
404
405  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
406    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
407
408  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
409    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
410
411* cavern:
412
413  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
414    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
415    fatal error!
416
417  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
418    format to output.  (ticket#21)
419
420* img library:
421
422  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
423    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
424
425* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
426  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
427
428Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
429
430* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
431  Portuguese, and US English.
432
433* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
434  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
435
436* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
437  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
438
439* img.c:
440
441  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
442
443  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
444
445* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
446
447* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
448  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
449  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
450  translated.
451
452Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
453
454* aven:
455
456  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
457    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
458
459  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
460    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
461    addresses ticket#12.
462
463  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
464    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
465    consistent shape.
466
467  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
468    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
469    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
470    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
471
472  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
473    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
474
475  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
476
477  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
478    more places.
479
480  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
481    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
482
483* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
484
485* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
486  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
487
488* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
489
490* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
491  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
492  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
493  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
494  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
495  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
496
497* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
498  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
499  redirecting to it.
500
501* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
502  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
503  I/O).
504
505* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
506  headers.
507
508* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
509
510* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
511  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
512
513* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
514
515Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
516
517* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
518
519* aven:
520
521  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
522    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
523    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
524    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
525
526  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
527
528  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
529    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
530    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
531    a number.
532
533  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
534    log window.
535
536  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
537    various cases.
538
539  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
540    (ticket#9)
541
542  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
543    namespace with its own "Point" class.
544
545  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
546    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
547
548  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
549
550  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
551    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
552
553* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
554  give them before.
555
556* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
557  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
558  point looking for them now.
559
560* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
561  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
562  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
563  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
564
565* manual:
566
567  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
568
569  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
570    (change taken from 1.0).
571
572* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
573
574Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
575
576* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
577
578* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
579
580* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
581
582* aven:
583
584  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
585
586  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
587    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
588    seem to be Unicode now).
589
590  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
591    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
592
593  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
594    text on the survey pane:
595
596    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
597
598    - Character spacing is improved.
599
600    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
601
602  + "About" dialog:
603
604    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
605      bug reporting.
606
607    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
608      modern gfx card.
609
610    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
611
612  + Processing .svx files:
613
614    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
615
616    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
617      than opening a separate frame for it.
618
619    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
620
621    - Fix small memory leak.
622
623  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
624    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
625    such a name.
626
627  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
628
629  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
630    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
631    invocations.
632
633  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
634
635  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
636
637  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
638
639* Documentation:
640
641  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
642
643  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
644    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
645    together isn't very useful.
646
647  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
648
649  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
650    the FSF website.
651
652  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
653    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
654    the source code.
655
656* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
657  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
658
659* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
660  package from the source tarball.
661
662* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
663  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
664
665Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
666
667* aven:
668
669  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
670
671  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
672
673  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
674    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
675    names/crosses).
676
677Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
678
679* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
680
681* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
682
683* aven:
684
685  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
686
687  + Fix character spacing.
688
689  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
690    proportional fonts.
691
692  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
693    rather than the filename.
694
695  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
696
697  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
698    depth colouring.
699
700  + Add "Colour by Error".
701
702  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
703
704  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
705
706  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
707
708  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
709
710  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
711
712  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
713
714  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
715
716  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
717    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
718
719  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
720
721  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
722    default.
723
724* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
725  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
726
727* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
728  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
729
730* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
731
732* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
733
734Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
735
736* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
737  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
738  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
739  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
740  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
741
742* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
743  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
744  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
745
746* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
747  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
748  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
749
750* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
751  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
752  allowed).
753
754* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
755
756* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
757
758* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
759
760Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
761
762* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
763  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
764
765* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
766  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
767  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
768
769* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
770  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
771  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
772  the new "*data passage" style.
773
774* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
775  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
776
777* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
778  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
779  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
780  some cases.
781
782* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
783  with no survey loaded.
784
785* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
786
787* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
788  loaded a survey.
789
790* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
791
792* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
793
794* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
795  doesn't exist.
796
797* Updated French and Italian translations.
798
799* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
800  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
801
802* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
803  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
804  update their copy).
805
806* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
807  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
808  trying to compile).
809
810Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
811
812* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
813  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
814
815* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
816  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
817  has been disabled.
818
819* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
820  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
821  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
822  time.
823
824* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
825  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
826  highlighted stations.
827
828* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
829
830* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
831  the tilt from plan to elevation.
832
833* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
834  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
835
836* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
837  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
838  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
839
840* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
841  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
842
843* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
844
845* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
846
847* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
848
849* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
850  run by an unprivileged user.
851
852* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
853  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
854  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
855
856* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
857  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
858
859* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
860
861* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
862  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
863
864* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
865  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
866
867* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
868  if it isn't.
869
870* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
871  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
872
873* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
874  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
875
876* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
877  reset to default view as well).
878
879* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
880  empty.
881
882* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
883  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
884
885* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
886  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
887  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
888
889* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
890  and non-zero width lines.
891
892* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
893  was turned on.
894
895* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
896  not always being fully written.
897
898Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
899
900* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
901  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
902  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
903  date near the middle of that period).
904
905* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
906  with MS Windows).
907
908* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
909  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
910  several surveys in the same directory).
911
912* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
913  our check for them to include that knowledge.
914
915* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
916
917* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
918  moved off a station.
919
920* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
921  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
922
923* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
924
925* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
926  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
927
928* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
929  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
930  dialogs.
931
932* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
933  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
934
935* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
936  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
937  introduced in 1.1.6).
938
939* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
940  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
941  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
942
943* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
944  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
945
946* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
947
948* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
949
950Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
951
952* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
953  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
954
955* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
956  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
957  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
958  3d file.
959
960* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
961
962* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
963
964* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
965  Instead turn off depth colouring.
966
967* aven: Export as HPGL added.
968
969* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
970  Martin Green).
971
972* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
973  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
974  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
975
976* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
977
978* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
979  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
980
981* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
982  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
983  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
984  of everything else.
985
986* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
987  presentation icons.
988
989* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
990  keyboard focus there.
991
992* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
993
994* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
995
996* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
997
998* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
999
1000* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
1001  language to use for messages.
1002
1003* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
1004  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
1005
1006* Removed old printer drivers.
1007
1008* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
1009  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
1010
1011Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
1012
1013* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
1014
1015* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
1016
1017* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
1018  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
1019
1020* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
1021  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
1022
1023* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
1024
1025* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
1026  underground legs is toggled.
1027
1028* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
1029  attached to the previous data.
1030
1031* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
1032  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
1033  them.
1034
1035Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
1036
1037* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
1038
1039* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
1040  continental European countries).
1041
1042* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
1043  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
1044  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
1045
1046* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
1047
1048* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
1049  they're needed.
1050
1051* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
1052
1053* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
1054
1055* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
1056
1057* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
1058  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
1059  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
1060
1061* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
1062
1063Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
1064
1065* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
1066
1067* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
1068
1069* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
1070
1071* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
1072
1073* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1074
1075* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1076
1077* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1078  when there's a presentation loaded.
1079
1080* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1081  in cave view.
1082
1083* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1084
1085* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1086  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1087  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1088
1089* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1090  filename for file history and window title.
1091
1092* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1093  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1094  only needed with GTK1.2.
1095
1096* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1097
1098* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1099
1100* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1101
1102* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1103
1104Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1105
1106* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1107  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1108  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1109
1110* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1111  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1112
1113* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1114  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1115  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1116  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1117
1118* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1119
1120* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1121  with --help and --version.
1122
1123* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1124  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1125  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1126  Fixed all these problems.
1127
1128* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1129  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1130  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1131
1132* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1133  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1134  sources.
1135
1136* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1137
1138* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1139
1140* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1141  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1142
1143* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1144  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1145  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1146  animating.
1147
1148* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1149
1150* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1151
1152* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1153  to this branch.
1154
1155* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1156
1157  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1158
1159  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1160
1161  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1162
1163* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1164
1165* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1166  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1167
1168* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1169
1170* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1171  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1172
1173* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1174
1175* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1176  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1177  for anyone building from CVS).
1178
1179* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1180
1181* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1182
1183* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1184
1185* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1186
1187* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1188  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1189  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1190
1191* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1192  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1193
1194* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1195
1196* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1197  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1198  loaded).
1199
1200* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1201
1202Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1203
1204* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1205  startup.
1206
1207* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1208  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1209
1210Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1211
1212* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1213  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1214  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1215
1216* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1217  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1218  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1219
1220* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1221  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1222  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1223
1224* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1225
1226* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1227  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1228
1229* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1230  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1231
1232* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1233  better use of screen space.
1234
1235* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1236
1237* aven: Perspective view.
1238
1239* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1240
1241* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1242  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1243
1244* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1245  and load/save/run them.
1246
1247* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1248
1249* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1250
1251* aven: Depth fogging option.
1252
1253* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1254
1255* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1256
1257* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1258  showing the surface legs.
1259
1260* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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