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aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.

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