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3    Turn off aven+survexport tests on mingw
4    We can't seem to run these programs during the build now.  This
5    appears to be due to some change in the Github CI images or a
6    dependency, as rebuilding the last good commit now fails.  There
7    is no error message, but bash shows exit code 127 which means it
8    failed to run the command.
9
10    Improve handling of VERBOSE in tests
11    Previously VERBOSE showed output from all testcases, even ones which
12    passed.  Now we only show output from testcases which fail for
13    VERBOSE=1.  Other non-empty values of VERBOSE continue to show all
14    output for cavern.tst and smoke.tst, but have the same effect as
15    VERBOSE=1 for other tests.
16
17    compare.tst: Add --help message
18    compare.tst: Compare cavern runs which fail too
19    compare.tst: Fix missing ` in script
20    This bug was introduced in 2014 so it seems this script isn't used
21    much but it seems useful to keep.
22
23    Work around --rescomp not working
24    wx-config --rescomp seems to now return an empty string with current
25    mingw.  We don't support building with MSVC, so hardcoding `windres`
26    here isn't really a problem in practice.
27
28Changes in 1.4.18 (2025-10-??):
29
30* aven: Fix "Enter" in search control to zoom to results.  This was broken
31  by the switch to wxSearchCtrl in 1.4.17.
32
33* aven: Fix "Find stations" search box width with wxWidgets >= 3.2.7.  Patch
34  https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/15 from Thomas Holder.
35
36* aven: (Microsoft Windows version): Fix sizing of indicators (scalebar,
37  compass, clino, colour key) on HiDPI monitors.  Fixes #144, reported by Juan
38  Corrin.
39
40* cavern: Avoid duplicate errors/warnings with unconnected data.  Since 1.4.10,
41  unconnected data is only a warning but that resulted in us running some
42  checks on the survey tree twice, which could result in duplicate
43  errors/warnings.
44
45* cavern: We now track the column as well as file:line where a station or
46  survey name was used, so diagnostics which use these locations now report
47  a column number too.
48
49* cavern: Show context if proj can't convert coords.  We only do this for .svx
50  files currently as it is more complex for Compass and Walls data.
51
52* cavern: Compass MAK file parsing improvements:
53
54  + Comments are now skipped.  Previously a commented-out MAK file command
55    would still be interpreted by cavern, which was incorrect.
56
57  + Whitespace handling has been adjusted to more closely match Compass.
58
59  + Unknown commands are now warned about.  Compass seems to quietly ignore
60    unknown commands, but it seems helpful for cavern to report them as it
61    will help identify any bugs in Survex's parsing of MAK files, and any
62    new or undocumented MAK file commands which we don't support.  It can also
63    help detect typos in data entry.
64
65  + We now skip to the closing `;` for unknown commands and commands we
66    ignore as not relevant to us, whereas previously we're just skip the
67    initial character which gives the type of command and then look for
68    another command.  This doesn't seem to make any difference in practice as
69    none of these commands appear to be able to contain text which could be
70    interpreted as a different valid Compass MAK file command.
71
72* (Microsoft Windows version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, like we
73  already do for Unix.  Unlocked file I/O can be much faster in some cases (we
74  don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file I/O).
75
76* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix compiler warning in wrapaven.c.
77
78* Merge updates to Russian translation.
79
80* Add the start of a Czech translation.
81
82* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
83
84* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.2.  It is starting to become hard to keep
85  everything working with 3.0.0 and the time and effort seems better directed
86  to other things.  The last 3.0.x release was 3.0.5.1, released 2020-05-02.
87  3.2.0 was released 2022-07-06 and it seems everywhere with wxWidgets packages
88  upgraded to 3.2.x some time ago.
89
90Changes in 1.4.17 (2025-03-20):
91
92* aven: Add support for exaggerating Z.  You can now set a Z scale factor
93  from 0.1 to 10.0 via a new widget on the toolbar.  Fixes #49.
94
95* aven: The cavern log window now chooses foreground and background colours
96  based on the desktop's light mode/dark mode setting.  Previously it
97  used the default window background colour but always used black text, which
98  made it hard to read with a dark desktop theme.  (The wxWidgets API to detect
99  dark mode is new in 3.2, so if built with wxWidgets 3.0 then we assume
100  light mode.)
101
102* aven: The station search feature now uses the standard search
103  widget on GTK 3.6 or later and on macOS.  There's now a placeholder
104  text shown when there's no search to make it clearer what this
105  widget is for.
106
107* aven: There's currently a cavern bug where it can fail to identify all
108  traverses which are not involved in loop closure, which results in the .3d
109  file contains error information for them (unfortunately this seems tricky to
110  fully fix).  This error information is always zero, so as a workaround aven
111  attempts to detect these so that "colour by error" shows them as "not in
112  loop".  This workaround previously only checked for E being zero, but now
113  H and V are both also required to be zero.  This should help avoid some very
114  low error traverses being incorrectly treated as "not in loop", although in
115  practice I've not yet found a real world case where this actually makes a
116  difference.
117
118* aven: Fix the output encoding of `aven --help`, `--version`, etc.
119  Previously these were always encoded as UTF-8 which is usually right
120  on a modern system, but the terminal could be using a different
121  encoding.
122
123* aven: Reduce startup overhead a little when the terminal has a UTF-8
124  locale (which is now the default on most Linux distros).
125
126* cavern: Fix an "assertion failed" error in some situations when
127  equating to a fixed point.  This bug was introduced by changes
128  in 1.4.13.  Fixes #143, reported by Juan Corrin.
129
130* cavern: The syntax of *copyright commands is now checked and a warning
131  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
132
133* cavern: The syntax of *team commands is now checked and a warning
134  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
135
136* cavern: Stop reporting node stats.  These are kind of interesting, but
137  with the widespread use of Disto-X and similar devices which can easily
138  shoot multiple splay legs from each station means the number of larger order
139  nodes has increased and this information is now quite verbose and any utility
140  it had has substantially declined.  If these statistics are still wanted then
141  they could make a reappearance in the future in aven, with splays excluded
142  when counting the number of legs at each station.  Fixes #86, reported by
143  Wookey.
144
145* cavern: Fix wrong "unused fixed point" warning with *solve.
146
147* cavern: Fix double counting of stations which are referenced both before and
148  after *solve.
149
150* cavern: Suppress loop and component counts if *solve is used.  Our component
151  count was often wrong in this case but this looks very hard to fix.  These
152  counts are not vital so better to omit than report wrong values.
153
154* cavern: The "Equating two equal fixed points" warning now lists the
155  stations on the same order as they are in the `.svx` file which
156  seems clearer.
157
158* Speed up reading and writing of .3d files.  The time to read a large .3d file
159  and just count the stations and legs was more than halved by this change.
160
161* Simplify handling of errors loading the messages file.  The error
162  messages for this case are now stored as separate ASCII strings in
163  the executables which reduces the startup overhead a little as we
164  no longer need to scan them and potentially reencode them.
165
166* img library: The img struct's filename_opened member was always NULL when
167  used outside of Survex (and set but never actually used inside of Survex)
168  so it has been removed.  If you are referencing it in your code then instead
169  use the filename you passed to img_open_survey() when opening the file.
170
171* Documentation: Add details of warning about future dates in *date.
172
173* Documentation: Added new manual chapter on the img library.
174
175* Documentation: Improve comments document API in img.h.
176
177* Testsuite: Add proper test coverage for `*ref`.
178
179* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
180
181* Portability: Eliminate unintended use of a C++17 feature (static_assert
182  with only one argument).
183
184* Portability: Avoid compiler warnings/errors in getopt code by properly
185  declaring getenv().
186
187Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
188
189* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
190  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
191  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
192  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
193
194* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
195  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
196  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
197  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
198
199* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
200  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
201  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
202  Eric C. Landgraf.
203
204* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
205  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
206  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
207
208* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
209  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
210  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
211  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
212
213* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
214
215* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
216  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
217  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
218  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
219  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
220
221* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
222
223* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
224
225* Various minor improvements to documentation.
226
227* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
228
229Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
230
231* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
232  overlay.
233
234* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
235  Fixes #110
236
237* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
238  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
239
240* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
241  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
242  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
243
244* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
245  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
246
247* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
248  on x86.
249
250Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
251
252* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
253  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
254  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
255
256* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
257  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
258  in 1.4.13.
259
260* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
261
262* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
263  naming.
264
265* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
266
267* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
268  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
269  candidate stations).
270
271Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
272
273* aven:
274
275  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
276    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
277
278  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
279    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
280    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
281
282  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
283    show.
284
285  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
286    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
287    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
288
289* cavern:
290
291  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
292    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
293    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
294
295  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
296    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
297    by the same amount in these cases.
298
299  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
300    unconnected survey stations.
301
302  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
303
304  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
305    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
306
307  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
308    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
309    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
310    Eric C. Landgraf.
311
312  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
313    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
314    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
315    situation.
316
317  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
318    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
319    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
320
321  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
322    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
323    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
324    network.
325
326  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
327    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
328    which should be faster.
329
330  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
331    more efficient way.
332
333* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
334
335* Documentation:
336
337  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
338    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
339    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
340    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
341    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
342    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
343    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
344
345* Test suite:
346
347  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
348    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
349    excess precision.
350
351* Assorted translation updates.
352
353Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
354
355* aven:
356
357  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
358    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
359    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
360    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
361    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
362    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
363    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
364
365* cavern:
366
367  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
368    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
369    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
370    an error.
371
372  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
373    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
374    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
375    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
376    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
377    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
378    measurable).
379
380  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
381    less memory.
382
383* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
384  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
385  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
386  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
387
388* Testsuite:
389
390  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
391
392  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
393    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
394    precision.
395
396* img library:
397
398  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
399    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
400    from Thomas Holder.
401
402  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
403    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
404
405Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
406
407* aven:
408
409  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
410    C. Landgraf.
411
412* aven/survexport:
413
414  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
415    addresses #60.
416
417  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
418    1:40000).
419
420  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
421    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
422
423  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
424    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
425    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
426    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
427    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
428
429* cavern:
430
431  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
432    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
433
434  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
435    bad reading was quietly ignored).
436
437  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
438    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
439    for example:
440
441     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
442      *end   bar
443             ^~~
444     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
445      *begin      foo
446                  ^~~
447
448  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
449    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
450
451  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
452    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
453    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
454    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
455    an error.
456
457    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
458    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
459
460  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
461    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
462    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
463
464  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
465    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
466    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
467
468  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
469    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
470    handled more consistently.
471
472  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
473    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
474
475  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
476
477  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
478
479    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
480      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
481      use the datum.
482
483    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
484      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
485      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
486
487* Documentation:
488
489  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
490    definition in `*units` docs.
491
492  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
493
494* Assorted translation updates.
495
496* testsuite:
497
498  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
499    comparing with expected output.
500
501* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
502
503  + `*cartesian` added
504
505  + `*data ignore` added
506
507  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
508
509  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
510
511  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
512    lines
513
514  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
515
516  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
517    because there's a comment after the filename
518
519  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
520    whitespace between `*` and `include`
521
522Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
523
524* aven:
525
526  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
527    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
528    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
529    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
530    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
531    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
532    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
533    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
534
535* aven/survexport:
536
537  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
538    1.4.6).
539
540  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
541
542  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
543    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
544    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
545    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
546    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
547    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
548    survey.
549
550  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
551
552* cavern:
553
554  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
555    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
556    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
557    warns about them.
558
559    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
560    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
561    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
562    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
563
564    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
565
566  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
567    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
568    connected to it.
569
570  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
571    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
572    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
573    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
574    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
575    traverse.
576
577  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
578
579  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
580    it actually was:
581
582      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
583
584  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
585
586    - After an anonymous station.
587
588    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
589      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
590      or end of line.
591
592    - In a `*alias` command.
593
594    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
595
596  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
597    `cartesian` style data.
598
599  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
600
601  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
602    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
603    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
604    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
605    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
606
607  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
608    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
609    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
610    example.
611
612  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
613    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
614    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
615    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
616    when viewing the log in aven.
617
618  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
619    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
620    datasets):
621
622    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
623
624    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
625      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
626
627    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
628      `ORDER=ADV`).
629
630    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
631
632    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
633      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
634      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
635      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
636      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
637      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
638      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
639      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
640
641    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
642
643    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
644
645    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
646      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
647      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
648
649    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
650      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
651
652    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
653
654    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
655
656    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
657
658    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
659      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
660      is present in some real-world data.
661
662    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
663      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
664
665    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
666      of it we do handle!
667
668    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
669      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
670      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
671      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
672
673    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
674      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
675
676    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
677      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
678
679    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
680
681    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
682
683    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
684      values are currently ignored.
685
686    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
687      them is currently ignored.
688
689    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
690      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
691      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
692      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
693      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
694
695    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
696
697* documentation:
698
699  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
700    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
701    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
702    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
703
704    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
705    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
706    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
707
708    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
709    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
710    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
711    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
712
713    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
714    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
715    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
716    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
717
718  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
719
720  + Document PLT export.
721
722  + Minor improvements to --help output
723
724  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
725    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
726    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
727    C. Landgraf.
728
729  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
730
731  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
732
733  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
734
735  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
736
737  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
738
739* testsuite:
740
741  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
742
743  + Add expected output for more testcases
744
745  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
746
747  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
748    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
749    instructions.
750
751  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
752
753* translations:
754
755  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
756    more natural word order in a translated message.
757
758Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
759
760* aven:
761
762  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
763    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
764    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
765    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
766    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
767    files - set the filter to "All Files" to choose other formats.
768
769  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
770    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
771    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
772    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
773    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
774    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
775    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
776    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
777    we could add it to the new implementation.
778
779  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
780    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
781    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
782    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
783    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
784    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
785    command line or from some other launcher.
786
787* cavern:
788
789  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
790    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
791    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
792    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
793    encouragement.
794
795  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
796    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
797    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
798
799  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
800    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
801    quietly misinterpreting the data.
802
803  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
804    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
805    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
806    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
807
808  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
809    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
810
811  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
812
813  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
814    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
815    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
816    used to have "info" diagnostics.
817
818  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
819    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
820    "info" category is more appropriate here.
821
822  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
823    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
824    which may be useful to the user.
825
826  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
827    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
828    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
829    happened in a released version.
830
831  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
832    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
833    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
834
835* dump3d:
836
837  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
838    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
839    true on all platforms.
840
841* manual:
842
843  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
844    with/without admin rights.
845
846  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
847    limitations.
848
849  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
850    section.
851
852  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
853    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
854    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
855    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
856
857* img library:
858
859  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
860    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
861    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
862
863  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
864    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
865
866  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
867    stations in loops.
868
869  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
870    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
871
872  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
873    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
874
875  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
876    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
877    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
878    as "unknown date".
879
880* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
881  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
882  environment variable for this.
883
884* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
885  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
886  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
887  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
888  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
889  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
890
891* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
892  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
893  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
894
895* Build system:
896
897  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
898
899  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
900    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
901
902  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
903    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
904
905* testsuite:
906
907  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
908    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
909    problem.
910
911  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
912
913Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
914
915* cavern:
916
917  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
918    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
919    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
920    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
921    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
922
923  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
924    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
925    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
926    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
927
928  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
929    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
930
931  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
932    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
933    failed on some architectures.
934
935* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
936
937* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
938  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
939  rights.
940
941* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
942  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
943  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
944  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
945
946Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
947
948* cavern:
949
950  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
951    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
952    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
953    the second and subsequent locations.
954
955  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
956    containing non-ASCII characters.
957
958  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
959    warnings.
960
961  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
962
963  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
964
965  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
966    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
967    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
968    files.
969
970* img library:
971
972  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
973    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
974
975  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
976    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
977    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
978    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
979    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
980    realloc().
981
982* Portability:
983
984  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
985    versions.
986
987  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
988
989* Build system:
990
991  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
992
993* Manual:
994
995  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
996
997  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
998
999* Minor translation updates.
1000
1001* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
1002  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
1003  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
1004  managed to reproduce.
1005
1006Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
1007
1008* cavern:
1009
1010  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
1011    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
1012    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
1013    mailing list.
1014
1015  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
1016    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
1017    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
1018    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
1019
1020  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
1021    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
1022    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
1023    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
1024    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
1025    the whole specified filename to upper case.
1026
1027  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
1028    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
1029    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
1030    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
1031    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
1032    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
1033
1034  + Compass DAT files:
1035
1036    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
1037
1038    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1039      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1040      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1041      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1042      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1043      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1044
1045    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
1046      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
1047
1048    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
1049
1050    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
1051      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
1052      being in metres.
1053
1054    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
1055      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
1056
1057    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
1058      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
1059      unlikely to occur in real data.
1060
1061    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
1062      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
1063      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
1064      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
1065      itself for DAT files.
1066
1067  + Compass MAK files:
1068
1069    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
1070      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
1071      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
1072
1073    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
1074      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
1075      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
1076      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
1077      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
1078      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
1079      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
1080      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
1081      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
1082      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
1083      supported would be useful to you.
1084
1085    - Folder commands are now understood.
1086
1087    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
1088      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
1089      counts from 0 at these points).
1090
1091  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
1092    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
1093    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
1094    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
1095    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
1096
1097* aven:
1098
1099  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
1100    Philip Balister.
1101
1102  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
1103    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
1104    together.
1105
1106* aven/survexport:
1107
1108  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
1109
1110  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
1111    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
1112    are enabled.
1113
1114  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
1115
1116  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
1117    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
1118    all of a set of equated stations.
1119
1120  + .plt:
1121
1122    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
1123      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
1124      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
1125      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
1126
1127    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
1128      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
1129      Compass docs).
1130
1131* img library:
1132
1133  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
1134    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
1135    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
1136    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
1137    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
1138    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
1139    default).
1140
1141  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
1142    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
1143
1144    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
1145      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
1146      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
1147
1148    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
1149
1150    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
1151      Entrance" field is present and zero.
1152
1153    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
1154
1155    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
1156      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
1157      format specification says:
1158
1159          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
1160          wall to define the passage shape.
1161
1162    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1163      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1164      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1165      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1166      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1167      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1168
1169    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
1170      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
1171
1172    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
1173      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
1174      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
1175      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
1176      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
1177      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
1178      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
1179      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
1180      mixed datums would be useful to you.
1181
1182    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
1183      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
1184
1185    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1186      than one survey in the PLT file.
1187
1188    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1189      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1190
1191    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1192      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1193      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1194      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1195      the comment for that survey as before.
1196
1197    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1198      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1199      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1200      it being omitted too.
1201
1202* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1203
1204* manual:
1205
1206  + Document Compass support in detail.
1207
1208  + Improve NATO mils example.
1209
1210* INSTALL:
1211
1212  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1213    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1214
1215  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1216    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1217
1218* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1219
1220* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1221  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1222
1223* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1224  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1225  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1226
1227* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1228
1229Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1230
1231* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1232
1233* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1234  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1235
1236* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1237
1238* Minor translation updates.
1239
1240Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1241
1242* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1243  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1244
1245* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1246  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1247  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1248  checks that were rejecting this.
1249
1250  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1251  really do that's better than that.
1252
1253  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1254
1255* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1256  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1257  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1258  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1259  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1260
1261* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1262  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1263
1264* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1265  bearing spin control.
1266
1267* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1268  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1269  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1270  currently but please report issues.
1271
1272* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1273  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1274  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1275  position".
1276
1277* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1278  Reported by echarlie
1279
1280* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1281
1282Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1283
1284* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1285
1286* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1287  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1288
1289* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1290  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1291
1292* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1293  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1294
1295* Minor translation updates.
1296
1297* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1298  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1299  works on Wayland).
1300
1301* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1302  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1303
1304* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1305
1306* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1307  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1308  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1309
1310Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1311
1312* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1313
1314* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1315
1316* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1317  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1318
1319* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1320  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1321  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1322  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1323
1324* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1325  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1326  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1327
1328* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1329  string properly.
1330
1331* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1332  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1333  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1334  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1335  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1336  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1337  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1338
1339* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1340  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1341
1342  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1343
1344* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1345  where the included filename is actually specified.
1346
1347* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1348  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1349
1350* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1351  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1352  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1353
1354* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1355  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1356
1357* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1358  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1359  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1360  anyway.
1361
1362* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1363  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1364
1365* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1366
1367* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1368  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1369  inconvenience anyone.
1370
1371Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1372
1373* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1374
1375* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1376  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1377  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1378  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1379
1380* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1381  in 1.4.0.
1382
1383* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1384
1385Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1386
1387* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1388  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1389  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1390  Couwenberg.
1391
1392  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1393  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1394  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1395  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1396
1397  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1398  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1399
1400* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1401  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1402  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1403
1404* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1405  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1406  strings is strongly discouraged.
1407
1408  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1409
1410  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1411
1412  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1413  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1414
1415* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1416  Green.
1417
1418* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1419  echarlie.
1420
1421* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1422  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1423  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1424
1425* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1426
1427* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1428
1429* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1430
1431* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1432
1433* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1434  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1435  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1436
1437Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1438
1439* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1440  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1441  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1442  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1443  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1444
1445* aven:
1446
1447  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1448    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1449    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1450    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1451    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1452    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1453
1454* testsuite:
1455
1456  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1457    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1458    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1459    process exits.
1460
1461* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1462
1463Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1464
1465* aven:
1466
1467  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1468
1469* cavern:
1470
1471  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1472
1473  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1474    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1475    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1476
1477  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1478    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1479    until the next *data command with parameters.
1480
1481  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1482    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1483
1484  * Improve test coverage.
1485
1486* survexport:
1487
1488  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1489    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1490
1491  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1492    Batista.
1493
1494* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1495  Holder.
1496
1497* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1498  from Thomas Holder.
1499
1500* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1501  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1502
1503* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1504
1505* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1506
1507* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1508
1509* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1510
1511* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1512
1513Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1514
1515* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1516  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1517  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1518
1519* aven:
1520
1521  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1522    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1523    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1524
1525  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1526    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1527    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1528    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1529
1530  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1531    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1532    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1533
1534  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1535
1536Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1537
1538* aven:
1539
1540  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1541
1542  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1543    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1544    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1545
1546  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1547    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1548    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1549    orientation.
1550
1551* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1552  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1553  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1554  Richard Knapp.
1555
1556* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1557  might still need to use them for.
1558
1559* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1560
1561* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1562
1563* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1564  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1565  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1566  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1567
1568* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1569  is now the recommended approach.
1570
1571Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1572
1573* aven:
1574
1575  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1576    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1577    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1578    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1579    Brian Clipstone.
1580
1581  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1582    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1583
1584Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1585
1586* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1587  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1588  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1589
1590* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1591  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1592  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1593  with some compilers.
1594
1595* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1596  installed.
1597
1598Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1599
1600* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1601  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1602  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1603
1604* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1605  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1606  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1607
1608* aven:
1609
1610  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1611    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1612    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1613    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1614    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1615    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1616    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1617    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1618    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1619    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1620    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1621
1622  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1623
1624* Documentation:
1625
1626  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1627
1628  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1629    placeholder.
1630
1631  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1632    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1633
1634* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1635  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1636  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1637
1638* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1639  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1640  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1641  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1642  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1643  location to avoid confusion.
1644
1645* Add a few more message translations.
1646
1647* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1648
1649Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1650
1651* cavern:
1652
1653  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1654    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1655    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1656    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1657    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1658
1659  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1660    now reports "file not found" instead.
1661
1662  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1663    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1664    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1665
1666* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1667
1668* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1669  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1670  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1671  removed.
1672
1673* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1674  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1675  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1676  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1677
1678Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1679
1680* aven:
1681
1682  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1683    controllable.
1684
1685  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1686
1687  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1688    Patch from Robert Jones.
1689
1690  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1691    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1692    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1693
1694  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1695    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1696
1697* cavern:
1698
1699  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1700    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1701
1702  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1703    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1704    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1705    go unnoticed.
1706
1707* survexport:
1708
1709  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1710    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1711    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1712
1713  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1714    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1715    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1716    Stephen Crabtree.
1717
1718* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1719
1720* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1721  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1722
1723* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1724  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1725  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1726  therion's team command.
1727
1728Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1729
1730* aven:
1731
1732  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1733
1734  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1735    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1736    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1737    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1738    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1739    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1740    for new entrances.
1741
1742  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1743    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1744    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1745    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1746
1747  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1748
1749  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1750    to show via the right-click menu.
1751
1752  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1753    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1754    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1755    child surveys of the parent.
1756
1757  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1758    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1759    survey.
1760
1761  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1762    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1763
1764  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1765
1766  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1767    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1768
1769  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1770    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1771    filtering this matters more).
1772
1773* survexport:
1774
1775  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1776    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1777
1778  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1779
1780* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1781
1782* Minor translation updates.
1783
1784* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1785
1786* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1787
1788* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1789
1790Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1791
1792* aven:
1793
1794  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
1795    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
1796    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
1797    on screen, printed and exported.
1798
1799  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
1800    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
1801    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
1802    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
1803    survey.
1804
1805  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
1806    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
1807    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
1808    view.  Reported by Wookey.
1809
1810  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
1811    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
1812    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
1813
1814  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
1815    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
1816
1817  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
1818    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
1819
1820  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
1821    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
1822
1823  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
1824    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
1825
1826  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
1827    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
1828
1829* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
1830  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
1831  tools could do, plus much more.
1832
1833* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
1834
1835* Minor updates to various other translations.
1836
1837* img library:
1838
1839  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
1840
1841  + Improve API documentation.
1842
1843* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
1844  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
1845  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
1846
1847* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
1848  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
1849  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
1850  control what gets exported.
1851
1852Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
1853
1854* aven:
1855
1856  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1857    of 1.2.33.
1858
1859  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
1860
1861Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
1862
1863* aven:
1864
1865  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
1866    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
1867    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
1868    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
1869
1870  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
1871    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
1872    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
1873    Erin Lynch.
1874
1875  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
1876    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
1877    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
1878
1879  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
1880    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
1881    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
1882    unnecessarily.
1883
1884  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
1885    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
1886    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
1887    for this control).
1888
1889  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
1890    under GTK3.
1891
1892  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
1893    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
1894    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
1895
1896  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
1897    current development version).
1898
1899  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
1900    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
1901    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
1902
1903* cavern:
1904
1905  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
1906    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
1907    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
1908    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
1909    "19".
1910
1911* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
1912  Evaristo Quiroga.
1913
1914* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
1915
1916* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
1917  milosch.
1918
1919* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
1920  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
1921  translated messages.
1922
1923* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
1924  Indonesian and Polish.
1925
1926* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
1927  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
1928  Reported by Martin Sluka.
1929
1930* Fix a few compiler warnings.
1931
1932* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
1933  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
1934  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
1935
1936* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
1937
1938  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
1939    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
1940    but happens to fail if it isn't.
1941
1942  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
1943
1944  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
1945
1946  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
1947
1948* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
1949  detected at run time on macOS.
1950
1951* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
1952  by the homebrew formula.
1953
1954* buildmacosx.sh:
1955
1956  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
1957    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
1958
1959  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
1960
1961* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
1962  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
1963
1964Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
1965
1966* aven:
1967
1968  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
1969    and Anthony Day.
1970
1971  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
1972    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
1973    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
1974    Erin Lynch in #89.
1975
1976  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
1977    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
1978    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
1979    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
1980    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
1981    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
1982    elevations.
1983
1984  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
1985    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
1986    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
1987
1988  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
1989    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
1990    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
1991    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
1992    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
1993    "on".
1994
1995  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
1996    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
1997
1998  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
1999    the display wouldn't update right away.
2000
2001* Manual:
2002
2003  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
2004
2005  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
2006
2007* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
2008  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
2009  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
2010  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
2011  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
2012
2013Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
2014
2015* aven:
2016
2017  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
2018    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
2019    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
2020
2021  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
2022    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
2023    before by others.
2024
2025  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
2026
2027  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
2028    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
2029    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
2030    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
2031    original change.
2032
2033  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
2034    which extends beyond the end of the line).
2035
2036  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
2037    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
2038
2039  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
2040
2041  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
2042
2043  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
2044    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
2045    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
2046    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
2047    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
2048    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
2049    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
2050
2051  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
2052    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
2053
2054  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
2055    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
2056    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
2057
2058  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
2059    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
2060    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
2061    much vertical range.
2062
2063  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
2064    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
2065    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
2066    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
2067    are drawn in this way.
2068
2069  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
2070    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
2071    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
2072    centre should be a single pixel.
2073
2074* cavern:
2075
2076  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
2077    entering passage data where there are side passages.
2078
2079  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
2080    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
2081
2082  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
2083    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
2084    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
2085    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
2086
2087  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
2088    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
2089    Reported by Erin Lynch.
2090
2091  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
2092    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
2093    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
2094    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
2095
2096  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
2097    other messages.
2098
2099* extend:
2100
2101  + Now runs a bit faster.
2102
2103  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
2104    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
2105    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
2106    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
2107    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
2108    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
2109    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
2110    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
2111    be handled better) most welcome.
2112
2113* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
2114
2115* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
2116
2117* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
2118  translations from therion.
2119
2120* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
2121  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
2122
2123* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
2124  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
2125  Footleg.
2126
2127* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
2128
2129* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
2130
2131Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
2132
2133* aven:
2134
2135  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
2136    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2137
2138  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
2139    Suggested by detrito.
2140
2141  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
2142    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
2143
2144  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
2145    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
2146
2147* Add man page for dump3d.
2148
2149Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
2150
2151* aven:
2152
2153  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
2154    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
2155
2156  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
2157    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2158
2159* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
2160  Lynch and "detrito".
2161
2162* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
2163  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
2164
2165Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
2166
2167* cavern:
2168
2169  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
2170    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
2171    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
2172    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
2173    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
2174
2175  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
2176
2177  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
2178
2179  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
2180    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
2181    degrees).
2182
2183* aven:
2184
2185  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2186    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2187    Day.
2188
2189  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2190    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2191
2192  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2193    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2194
2195  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2196    of the line in cavern log window.
2197
2198  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2199
2200  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2201
2202  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2203    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2204    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2205    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2206    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2207
2208  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2209    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2210    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2211
2212  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2213
2214  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2215
2216  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2217    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2218    Atkinson and myself.
2219
2220  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2221
2222  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2223    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2224    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2225    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2226    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2227    survey.
2228
2229  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2230    lines on my netbook.
2231
2232  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2233    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2234    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2235
2236  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2237    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2238    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2239    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2240    glitches.
2241
2242  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2243    we currently list, though slower to write.
2244
2245  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2246    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2247
2248  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2249    warnings when building against a recent version.
2250
2251  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2252    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2253    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2254    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2255
2256  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2257    movie export.
2258
2259  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2260    export.
2261
2262* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2263  James Begley.
2264
2265* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2266  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2267
2268* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2269
2270* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2271  messages get used automatically.
2272
2273* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2274  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2275
2276* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2277
2278* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2279
2280* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2281
2282Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2283
2284* aven:
2285
2286  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2287    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2288    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2289    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2290    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2291    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2292    probably change in the future).
2293
2294  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2295    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2296    the survey tree root.
2297
2298  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2299    the view was recentred).
2300
2301  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2302    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2303    wrong direction).
2304
2305  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2306    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2307    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2308
2309  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2310    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2311    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2312    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2313
2314  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2315    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2316
2317  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2318    addresses #60.
2319
2320  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2321
2322  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2323    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2324    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2325
2326  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2327
2328  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2329    360 or down past 0.
2330
2331  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2332    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2333    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2334    real-valued ones.
2335
2336  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2337    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2338
2339  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2340    Lynch.
2341
2342  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2343
2344  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2345    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2346
2347  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2348    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2349    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2350
2351  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2352    should now work.
2353
2354* cavern:
2355
2356  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2357
2358  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2359    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2360    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2361
2362  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2363    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2364    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2365
2366  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2367    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2368    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2369    issue.
2370
2371  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2372    by patch from Colin Watson.
2373
2374  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2375
2376* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2377
2378* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2379  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2380
2381* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2382  used in the same dataset.
2383
2384* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2385  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2386
2387* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2388  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2389  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2390
2391* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2392
2393Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2394
2395* aven:
2396
2397  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2398    cavern again.
2399
2400* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2401  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2402  location and use the same start menu folder.
2403
2404* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2405  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2406
2407* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2408  by James Begley.
2409
2410Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2411
2412* aven:
2413
2414  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2415    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2416    to address.
2417
2418  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2419    over the survey tree.
2420
2421  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2422
2423  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2424    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2425
2426  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2427    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2428    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2429    encoded.
2430
2431  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2432    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2433    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2434    terminals which do still support this.
2435
2436  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2437    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2438
2439* cavern:
2440
2441  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2442    Edwards (see #78).
2443
2444  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2445    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2446    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2447    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2448
2449  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2450    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2451    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2452
2453  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2454    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2455
2456* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2457  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2458  Black.
2459
2460* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2461
2462* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2463  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2464  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2465  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2466  Black.
2467
2468* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2469  Black.
2470
2471* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2472
2473* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2474
2475* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2476
2477* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2478
2479* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2480
2481* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2482  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2483
2484* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2485  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2486  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2487
2488* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2489  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2490  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2491  privileges or not.
2492
2493Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2494
2495* aven:
2496
2497  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2498    Clipstone.
2499
2500  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2501    Reported by Jenny Black.
2502
2503  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2504    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2505    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2506
2507  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2508    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2509    messages.
2510
2511  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2512    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2513
2514* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2515  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2516
2517* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2518
2519* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2520  by Wookey.
2521
2522Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2523
2524* aven:
2525
2526  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2527    machines.
2528
2529  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2530
2531  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2532    already being processed.
2533
2534  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2535    Reported by Martin Green.
2536
2537  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2538
2539* cavern:
2540
2541  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2542    find the original survey notes).
2543
2544  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2545    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2546    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2547    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2548    progress display to be useful.
2549
2550* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2551
2552* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2553  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2554
2555* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2556  running cavern.
2557
2558* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2559  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2560  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2561
2562Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2563
2564* aven:
2565
2566  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2567    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2568    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2569    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2570    finding this fix.
2571
2572* cavern:
2573
2574  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2575
2576  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2577    station.
2578
2579  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2580    *export.
2581
2582Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2583
2584* aven:
2585
2586  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2587    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2588    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2589
2590  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2591
2592  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2593    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2594    does.
2595
2596  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2597    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2598
2599  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2600    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2601
2602  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2603    as appropriate.
2604
2605  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2606    values on Windows.
2607
2608* cavern:
2609
2610  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2611    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2612    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2613
2614  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2615    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2616
2617  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2618    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2619    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2620    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2621
2622  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2623    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2624    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2625    Atkinson.
2626
2627  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2628    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2629
2630  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2631    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2632    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2633    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2634
2635  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2636    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2637    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2638
2639* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2640  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2641  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2642  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2643
2644* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2645
2646* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2647  "*DECLINATION" command.
2648
2649* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2650  Reported by Jenny Black.
2651
2652* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2653  documentation.
2654
2655* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2656  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2657
2658* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2659
2660* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2661
2662Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2663
2664* aven:
2665
2666  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2667    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2668    the same or very similar by default.
2669
2670  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2671    Maynard.
2672
2673  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2674
2675  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2676
2677  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2678    away.
2679
2680  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2681
2682  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2683    display it.
2684
2685* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2686  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2687  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2688  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2689
2690* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2691
2692* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2693  before 1.2.19.
2694
2695* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2696  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2697
2698* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2699
2700* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2701  disk image.
2702
2703* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2704
2705* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2706  libav features we don't use.
2707
2708* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2709  a load of libav features we don't use.
2710
2711* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2712  message in the installer.
2713
2714Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2715
2716* aven:
2717
2718  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2719    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2720
2721  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2722
2723  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2724    exit full screen mode.
2725
2726  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2727    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2728    using since 1.2.7).
2729
2730  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2731    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2732    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2733    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2734    St. Lawrence.
2735
2736  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2737    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2738
2739  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2740    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2741    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2742
2743  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2744    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2745    case like we do on other platforms.
2746
2747  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2748
2749  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2750    support multi-monitor setups.
2751
2752  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2753    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2754
2755  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2756    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2757
2758  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2759    cases.
2760
2761  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2762    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2763    Erin Lynch)
2764
2765  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2766    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2767    items in in so it uses the full width.
2768
2769  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2770    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2771    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2772    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2773    window.
2774
2775  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2776    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2777    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2778    only relevant on the first ever run.
2779
2780* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2781
2782* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2783  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2784  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2785  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2786  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2787  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2788
2789* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2790  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2791
2792Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
2793
2794* aven:
2795
2796  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
2797    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
2798    rendering it as a transparent surface.
2799
2800  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
2801    sanely want to perform from the menu.
2802
2803  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
2804    colouring options.
2805
2806  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
2807
2808  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
2809    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
2810    pressing "Escape".
2811
2812  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
2813    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
2814
2815  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
2816    exporting.
2817
2818  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
2819
2820  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
2821    is quite likely to change.
2822
2823  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
2824    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
2825
2826  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
2827    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
2828    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
2829
2830  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
2831
2832  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
2833    markers in orange.
2834
2835  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
2836    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
2837
2838  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
2839    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
2840    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
2841    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
2842    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
2843    them would be better.
2844
2845  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
2846    Gee.
2847
2848  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
2849    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
2850    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
2851
2852  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
2853
2854* cavern:
2855
2856  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
2857    susscorfa).
2858
2859  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
2860    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
2861
2862  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
2863
2864  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
2865    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
2866
2867  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
2868    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
2869
2870* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
2871
2872* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
2873  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
2874  in a modern desktop.
2875
2876* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
2877  the filename in the error message.
2878
2879* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
2880  most complete translations.
2881
2882* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
2883
2884* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
2885  lacks them.
2886
2887* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
2888
2889* Manual:
2890
2891  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
2892    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
2893
2894  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
2895
2896  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
2897
2898  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
2899    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
2900    available for download.
2901
2902* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
2903  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
2904  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
2905
2906* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
2907
2908* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
2909
2910Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
2911
2912* MacOS X version:
2913
2914  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
2915
2916  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
2917
2918  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
2919
2920  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
2921
2922  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
2923    currently do this for us.
2924
2925  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
2926
2927  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
2928
2929  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
2930
2931  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
2932    OS X cursor.
2933
2934  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
2935    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
2936    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
2937    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
2938    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
2939    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
2940    with TextEdit.app for example).
2941
2942  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
2943    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
2944
2945  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
2946
2947  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
2948    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
2949
2950  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
2951    Riggs.
2952
2953  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
2954    space.
2955
2956  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
2957
2958  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
2959    10.10.1.
2960
2961  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
2962    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
2963    errors.
2964
2965  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
2966    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
2967    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
2968    wxWidgets build supports by default.
2969
2970  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
2971
2972* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
2973  treat as a single leg.
2974
2975* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
2976
2977* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
2978
2979* aven:
2980
2981  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
2982    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
2983
2984  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
2985    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
2986    1:500).
2987
2988  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
2989    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
2990    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
2991    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
2992
2993  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
2994    there rather than the two animations fighting.
2995
2996  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
2997    fast.
2998
2999  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
3000    when rotating).
3001
3002  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
3003    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
3004
3005* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
3006  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
3007
3008* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
3009
3010* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
3011
3012* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
3013
3014* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
3015
3016* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
3017  we're using git.
3018
3019* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
3020
3021  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
3022    compass.
3023
3024  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
3025
3026  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
3027
3028Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
3029
3030* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
3031
3032* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
3033
3034* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
3035
3036* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
3037  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
3038
3039* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
3040
3041* tests/: Improve test coverage.
3042
3043* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
3044  Greek and Polish.
3045
3046* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
3047  by Martin Sluka.
3048
3049* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
3050  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
3051
3052Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
3053
3054* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
3055  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
3056  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
3057  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
3058  for *cs has also been improved.
3059
3060* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
3061  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
3062  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
3063  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
3064
3065* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
3066  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
3067  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
3068  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
3069  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
3070
3071* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
3072  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
3073  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
3074
3075* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
3076
3077* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
3078
3079* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
3080  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
3081  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
3082
3083* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
3084  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
3085
3086Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
3087
3088* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
3089  system in use in 3d v8 files.
3090
3091* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
3092  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
3093  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
3094  export dialog.
3095
3096* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
3097  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
3098  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
3099  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
3100  rather than having one corner there.
3101
3102* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
3103  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
3104
3105* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
3106  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
3107
3108* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
3109  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
3110  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
3111
3112* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
3113  such as 64-bit Linux.
3114
3115* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
3116  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
3117
3118* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
3119  64-bit platforms.
3120
3121* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
3122  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
3123  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
3124
3125* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
3126  the space available in the aven UI.
3127
3128* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
3129  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
3130  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
3131
3132* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
3133  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
3134
3135* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
3136  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
3137  about unconnected surveys.
3138
3139* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
3140  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
3141
3142* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
3143  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
3144  freed memory.
3145
3146* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
3147
3148* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
3149
3150* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
3151
3152* Fix a compiler warning.
3153
3154* Improve test coverage.
3155
3156Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
3157
3158* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
3159  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
3160  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
3161
3162* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
3163  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
3164  Hugh St Lawrence.
3165
3166* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
3167  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
3168  with using aven on a touch screen device.
3169
3170* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
3171  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
3172
3173* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
3174  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
3175
3176* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
3177  off and back on.
3178
3179* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
3180  up time a little.
3181
3182* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
3183  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
3184
3185* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3186  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3187  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3188  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3189  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3190  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3191  situation too.
3192
3193* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3194  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3195  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3196
3197* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3198
3199* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3200
3201* Minor translation updates to French.
3202
3203* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3204
3205* Testsuite improvements:
3206
3207  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3208
3209  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3210    fail and give an error count.
3211
3212  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3213
3214Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3215
3216* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3217  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3218  Clipstone.
3219
3220* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3221
3222* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3223
3224  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3225    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3226
3227  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3228    clipping the border in print preview.
3229
3230  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3231
3232* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3233  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3234
3235* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3236  available.
3237
3238* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3239
3240* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3241
3242* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3243  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3244
3245* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3246  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3247
3248* Various translation updates.
3249
3250Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3251
3252* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3253  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3254
3255* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3256  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3257  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3258  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3259
3260* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3261  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3262
3263* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3264  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3265
3266* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3267  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3268
3269* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3270  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3271
3272* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3273  box".
3274
3275* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3276
3277* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3278  indicators.
3279
3280* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3281
3282* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3283  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3284  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3285
3286* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3287  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3288  measurably slower.
3289
3290* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3291  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3292
3293* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3294  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3295
3296* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3297  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3298  from Therion and elsewhere.
3299
3300* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3301  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3302  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3303
3304* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3305  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3306
3307* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3308  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3309
3310* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3311  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3312
3313* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3314
3315* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3316  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3317  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3318  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3319  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3320  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3321
3322* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3323
3324Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3325
3326* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3327  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3328  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3329  Clipstone.
3330
3331* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3332  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3333
3334* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3335  exported SVG files.
3336
3337* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3338
3339* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3340  file.
3341
3342* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3343  GPX files.
3344
3345* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3346
3347* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3348  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3349
3350* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3351  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3352  on startup.
3353
3354* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3355
3356* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3357  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3358  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3359  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3360  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3361  other extensions.
3362
3363* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3364  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3365  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3366  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3367  timezone wrong.
3368
3369* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3370
3371* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3372  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3373
3374* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3375
3376* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3377
3378* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3379  enabled.
3380
3381Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3382
3383* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3384
3385* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3386
3387* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3388
3389* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3390  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3391  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3392
3393* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3394  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3395  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3396
3397* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3398  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3399
3400* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3401
3402* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3403
3404* Fix some compiler warnings.
3405
3406Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3407
3408* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3409  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3410  Holder.
3411
3412* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3413  statistics when the value gets large.
3414
3415* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3416  equations.
3417
3418* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3419  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3420  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3421  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3422  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3423
3424* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3425  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3426
3427* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3428  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3429  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3430  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3431  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3432  way is coming soon.
3433
3434* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3435  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3436
3437* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3438  time ago, so update references.
3439
3440* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3441  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3442
3443* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3444  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3445
3446* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3447  Sebastian Ramacher.
3448
3449* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3450
3451* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3452
3453* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3454
3455* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3456
3457* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3458
3459* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3460  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3461  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3462
3463* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3464
3465* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3466
3467* img library:
3468
3469  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3470    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3471    reading).
3472
3473  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3474    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3475
3476  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3477    support these as an extension.
3478
3479  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3480
3481* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3482  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3483  itself has any translations for.
3484
3485* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3486
3487* Minor translation updates.
3488
3489* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3490
3491Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3492
3493* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3494  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3495  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3496  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3497  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3498  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3499  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3500  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3501
3502* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3503
3504  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3505
3506  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3507    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3508
3509  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3510    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3511
3512  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3513
3514  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3515    human-readable string.
3516
3517  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3518    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3519
3520* img library:
3521
3522  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3523
3524  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3525    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3526
3527  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3528    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3529    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3530    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3531    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3532    explicitly in the file.
3533
3534  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3535
3536* aven:
3537
3538  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3539    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3540    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3541    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3542    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3543    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3544
3545  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3546    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3547    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3548    queued up.
3549
3550  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3551    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3552
3553  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3554    them like other legs.
3555
3556  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3557    station names to positions.
3558
3559  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3560    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3561    wrongly.
3562
3563  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3564
3565  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3566    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3567    that's used by the desktop).
3568
3569  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3570
3571  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3572    error from cavern.
3573
3574  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3575
3576  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3577    in the dialog in sync.
3578
3579* cavern:
3580
3581  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3582    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3583    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3584
3585  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3586    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3587
3588  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3589    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3590    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3591    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3592    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3593    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3594    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3595    degrees.
3596
3597  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3598    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3599    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3600
3601  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3602
3603  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3604    warnings.
3605
3606  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3607    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3608
3609  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3610    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3611
3612  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3613    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3614    relevant.
3615
3616  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3617    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3618    the same line.
3619
3620  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3621    "End of line not blank" error.
3622
3623  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3624    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3625
3626  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3627    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3628
3629  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3630    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3631    include that character in the token reported.
3632
3633  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3634    first item.
3635
3636* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3637
3638* dump3d:
3639
3640  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3641    info from 3d files in scripts.
3642
3643  + Add --show-dates option.
3644
3645  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3646
3647  + Report the data style of legs.
3648
3649  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3650
3651  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3652
3653* Test suite:
3654
3655  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3656    expected output so it passes reliably.
3657
3658  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3659    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3660
3661  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3662    for more.
3663
3664* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3665  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3666  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3667
3668* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3669  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3670
3671* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3672  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3673
3674* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3675  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3676  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3677  settings.
3678
3679* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3680  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3681  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3682  set correctly.
3683
3684* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3685  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3686  them to translate.
3687
3688* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3689  close to complete.
3690
3691* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3692
3693* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3694
3695* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3696
3697Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3698
3699* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3700
3701* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3702  package (ticket#35).
3703
3704* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3705  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3706  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3707
3708* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3709  Kahler.
3710
3711* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3712  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3713  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3714  libproj and build survex with:
3715
3716      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3717      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3718
3719* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3720
3721* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3722
3723* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3724  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3725  file".
3726
3727Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3728
3729* aven:
3730
3731  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3732
3733  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3734    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3735
3736  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3737
3738  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3739
3740  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3741    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3742
3743* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3744  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3745  error early on).
3746
3747* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3748  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3749
3750Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3751
3752* aven:
3753
3754  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3755    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3756    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3757    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3758
3759  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and choose a consistent
3760    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3761
3762  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3763
3764  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3765
3766  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3767
3768* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3769
3770Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3771
3772* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3773
3774* (Mac OS X version):
3775
3776  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3777
3778  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3779
3780  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3781    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3782
3783  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3784
3785* aven:
3786
3787  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3788
3789  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3790
3791    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
3792      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
3793      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
3794      character.
3795
3796    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
3797      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
3798      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
3799      and two in a few cases.
3800
3801    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
3802      8 pixels.
3803
3804  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
3805    draw crosses.
3806
3807  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
3808    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
3809    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
3810    is the start or end of a tube.
3811
3812  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
3813    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
3814
3815  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
3816    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
3817    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
3818
3819* extend:
3820
3821  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
3822
3823  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
3824    which means "no info").
3825
3826* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
3827  was no longer used - it certainly is!
3828
3829* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
3830  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
3831  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
3832  current character set.
3833
3834* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
3835
3836* Test suite:
3837
3838  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
3839
3840  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
3841
3842Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
3843
3844* aven:
3845
3846  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
3847    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
3848    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
3849    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
3850    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
3851    usable format.
3852
3853  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
3854    files.  (ticket#26)
3855
3856  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
3857    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
3858
3859  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
3860    using lines.
3861
3862  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
3863    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
3864
3865  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
3866    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
3867    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
3868    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
3869
3870  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
3871    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
3872    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
3873
3874  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
3875    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
3876    in 1.2.1.
3877
3878Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
3879
3880* Translation updates for US English.
3881
3882* aven:
3883
3884  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
3885    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
3886
3887  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
3888
3889  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
3890    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
3891    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
3892    visually similar to the survey legs.
3893
3894  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
3895    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
3896
3897  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
3898    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
3899    does still provide some useful information).
3900
3901  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
3902    a depth band boundary.
3903
3904  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
3905    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
3906    full-screen mode).
3907
3908  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
3909    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
3910    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
3911    are a little better, though still not perfect.
3912
3913  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
3914    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
3915
3916  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
3917    that station.
3918
3919  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
3920    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
3921
3922  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
3923    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
3924    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
3925    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
3926    a case as it is a bug).
3927
3928  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
3929    invalidated on window width or height changes.
3930
3931  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
3932    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
3933    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
3934    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
3935
3936  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
3937    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
3938    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
3939    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
3940    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
3941    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
3942    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
3943
3944  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
3945    similarly for other compass points.
3946
3947  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
3948    info in the "About" dialog.
3949
3950  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
3951    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
3952
3953  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
3954    as well as still working with older versions.
3955
3956  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
3957    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
3958
3959  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
3960    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
3961    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
3962    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
3963    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
3964
3965  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
3966    nicer and make better use of the available space.
3967
3968  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
3969    dialog.
3970
3971  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
3972    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
3973
3974  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
3975    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
3976
3977  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
3978
3979  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
3980
3981  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
3982    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
3983    being pressed and toggle full screen.
3984
3985* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
3986  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
3987
3988* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
3989
3990* More messages are now available to be translated.
3991
3992* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
3993  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
3994
3995* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
3996
3997* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
3998  sudo for installing on Unix.
3999
4000* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
4001  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
4002
4003* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
4004  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
4005
4006* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
4007
4008Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
4009
4010* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
4011  English.
4012
4013* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
4014  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
4015  case.
4016
4017* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
4018  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
4019  these into Survex's .msg format.
4020
4021* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
4022  an actual command).
4023
4024* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
4025  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
4026  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
4027  recurrence of that).
4028
4029* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
4030  than /usr/doc/survex.
4031
4032* aven:
4033
4034  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
4035
4036  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
4037    nicer at larger sizes.
4038
4039  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
4040    with GLX >= 1.3.
4041
4042  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
4043
4044  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
4045    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
4046    required libraries set up for building releases.
4047
4048  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
4049
4050  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
4051
4052  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
4053    rendered with icons on some platforms.
4054
4055  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
4056    ISO8859-1).
4057
4058  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
4059    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
4060
4061  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
4062    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
4063
4064* cavern:
4065
4066  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
4067    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
4068    fatal error!
4069
4070  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
4071    format to output.  (ticket#21)
4072
4073* img library:
4074
4075  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
4076    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
4077
4078* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
4079  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
4080
4081Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
4082
4083* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
4084  Portuguese, and US English.
4085
4086* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
4087  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
4088
4089* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
4090  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
4091
4092* img.c:
4093
4094  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
4095
4096  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
4097
4098* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
4099
4100* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
4101  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
4102  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
4103  translated.
4104
4105Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
4106
4107* aven:
4108
4109  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
4110    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
4111
4112  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
4113    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
4114    addresses ticket#12.
4115
4116  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
4117    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
4118    consistent shape.
4119
4120  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
4121    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
4122    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
4123    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
4124
4125  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
4126    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
4127
4128  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
4129
4130  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
4131    more places.
4132
4133  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
4134    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
4135
4136* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
4137
4138* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
4139  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
4140
4141* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
4142
4143* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
4144  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
4145  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
4146  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
4147  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
4148  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
4149
4150* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
4151  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
4152  redirecting to it.
4153
4154* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
4155  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
4156  I/O).
4157
4158* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
4159  headers.
4160
4161* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
4162
4163* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
4164  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
4165
4166* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
4167
4168Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
4169
4170* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
4171
4172* aven:
4173
4174  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
4175    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
4176    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
4177    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
4178
4179  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
4180
4181  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
4182    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
4183    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
4184    a number.
4185
4186  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4187    log window.
4188
4189  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4190    various cases.
4191
4192  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4193    (ticket#9)
4194
4195  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4196    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4197
4198  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4199    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4200
4201  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4202
4203  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4204    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4205
4206* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4207  give them before.
4208
4209* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4210  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4211  point looking for them now.
4212
4213* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4214  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4215  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4216  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4217
4218* manual:
4219
4220  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4221
4222  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4223    (change taken from 1.0).
4224
4225* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4226
4227Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4228
4229* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4230
4231* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4232
4233* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4234
4235* aven:
4236
4237  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4238
4239  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4240    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4241    seem to be Unicode now).
4242
4243  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4244    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4245
4246  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4247    text on the survey pane:
4248
4249    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4250
4251    - Character spacing is improved.
4252
4253    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4254
4255  + "About" dialog:
4256
4257    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4258      bug reporting.
4259
4260    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4261      modern gfx card.
4262
4263    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4264
4265  + Processing .svx files:
4266
4267    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4268
4269    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4270      than opening a separate frame for it.
4271
4272    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4273
4274    - Fix small memory leak.
4275
4276  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4277    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4278    such a name.
4279
4280  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4281
4282  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4283    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4284    invocations.
4285
4286  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4287
4288  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4289
4290  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4291
4292* Documentation:
4293
4294  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4295
4296  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4297    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4298    together isn't very useful.
4299
4300  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4301
4302  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4303    the FSF website.
4304
4305  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4306    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4307    the source code.
4308
4309* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4310  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4311
4312* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4313  package from the source tarball.
4314
4315* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4316  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4317
4318Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4319
4320* aven:
4321
4322  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4323
4324  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4325
4326  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4327    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4328    names/crosses).
4329
4330Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4331
4332* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4333
4334* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4335
4336* aven:
4337
4338  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4339
4340  + Fix character spacing.
4341
4342  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4343    proportional fonts.
4344
4345  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4346    rather than the filename.
4347
4348  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4349
4350  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4351    depth colouring.
4352
4353  + Add "Colour by Error".
4354
4355  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4356
4357  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4358
4359  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4360
4361  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4362
4363  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4364
4365  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4366
4367  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4368
4369  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4370    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4371
4372  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4373
4374  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4375    default.
4376
4377* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4378  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4379
4380* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4381  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4382
4383* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4384
4385* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4386
4387Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4388
4389* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4390  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4391  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4392  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4393  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4394
4395* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4396  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4397  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4398
4399* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4400  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4401  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4402
4403* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4404  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4405  allowed).
4406
4407* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4408
4409* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4410
4411* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4412
4413Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4414
4415* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4416  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4417
4418* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4419  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4420  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4421
4422* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4423  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4424  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4425  the new "*data passage" style.
4426
4427* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4428  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4429
4430* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4431  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4432  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4433  some cases.
4434
4435* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4436  with no survey loaded.
4437
4438* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4439
4440* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4441  loaded a survey.
4442
4443* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4444
4445* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4446
4447* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4448  doesn't exist.
4449
4450* Updated French and Italian translations.
4451
4452* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4453  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4454
4455* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4456  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4457  update their copy).
4458
4459* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4460  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4461  trying to compile).
4462
4463Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4464
4465* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4466  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4467
4468* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4469  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4470  has been disabled.
4471
4472* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4473  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4474  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4475  time.
4476
4477* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4478  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4479  highlighted stations.
4480
4481* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4482
4483* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4484  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4485
4486* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4487  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4488
4489* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4490  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4491  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4492
4493* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4494  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4495
4496* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4497
4498* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4499
4500* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4501
4502* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4503  run by an unprivileged user.
4504
4505* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4506  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4507  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4508
4509* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4510  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4511
4512* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4513
4514* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4515  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4516
4517* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4518  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4519
4520* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4521  if it isn't.
4522
4523* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4524  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4525
4526* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4527  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4528
4529* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4530  reset to default view as well).
4531
4532* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4533  empty.
4534
4535* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4536  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4537
4538* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4539  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4540  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4541
4542* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4543  and non-zero width lines.
4544
4545* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4546  was turned on.
4547
4548* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4549  not always being fully written.
4550
4551Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4552
4553* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4554  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4555  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4556  date near the middle of that period).
4557
4558* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4559  with MS Windows).
4560
4561* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4562  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4563  several surveys in the same directory).
4564
4565* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4566  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4567
4568* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4569
4570* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4571  moved off a station.
4572
4573* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4574  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4575
4576* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4577
4578* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4579  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4580
4581* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4582  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4583  dialogs.
4584
4585* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4586  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4587
4588* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4589  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4590  introduced in 1.1.6).
4591
4592* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4593  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4594  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4595
4596* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4597  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4598
4599* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4600
4601* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4602
4603Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4604
4605* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4606  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4607
4608* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4609  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4610  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4611  3d file.
4612
4613* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4614
4615* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4616
4617* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4618  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4619
4620* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4621
4622* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4623  Martin Green).
4624
4625* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4626  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4627  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4628
4629* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4630
4631* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4632  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4633
4634* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4635  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4636  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4637  of everything else.
4638
4639* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4640  presentation icons.
4641
4642* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4643  keyboard focus there.
4644
4645* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4646
4647* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4648
4649* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4650
4651* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4652
4653* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4654  language to use for messages.
4655
4656* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4657  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4658
4659* Removed old printer drivers.
4660
4661* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4662  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4663
4664Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4665
4666* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4667
4668* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4669
4670* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4671  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4672
4673* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4674  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4675
4676* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4677
4678* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4679  underground legs is toggled.
4680
4681* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4682  attached to the previous data.
4683
4684* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4685  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4686  them.
4687
4688Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4689
4690* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4691
4692* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4693  continental European countries).
4694
4695* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4696  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4697  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4698
4699* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4700
4701* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4702  they're needed.
4703
4704* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4705
4706* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4707
4708* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4709
4710* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4711  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4712  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4713
4714* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4715
4716Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4717
4718* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4719
4720* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4721
4722* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4723
4724* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4725
4726* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4727
4728* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4729
4730* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4731  when there's a presentation loaded.
4732
4733* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4734  in cave view.
4735
4736* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4737
4738* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4739  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4740  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4741
4742* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4743  filename for file history and window title.
4744
4745* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4746  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4747  only needed with GTK1.2.
4748
4749* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4750
4751* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4752
4753* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4754
4755* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4756
4757Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4758
4759* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4760  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4761  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4762
4763* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4764  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4765
4766* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4767  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4768  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4769  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4770
4771* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4772
4773* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4774  with --help and --version.
4775
4776* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4777  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4778  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4779  Fixed all these problems.
4780
4781* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4782  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4783  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4784
4785* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4786  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4787  sources.
4788
4789* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4790
4791* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
4792
4793* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
4794  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
4795
4796* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
4797  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
4798  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
4799  animating.
4800
4801* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
4802
4803* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
4804
4805* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
4806  to this branch.
4807
4808* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
4809
4810  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
4811
4812  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
4813
4814  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
4815
4816* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
4817
4818* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
4819  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
4820
4821* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
4822
4823* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
4824  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
4825
4826* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
4827
4828* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
4829  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
4830  for anyone building from CVS).
4831
4832* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
4833
4834* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
4835
4836* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
4837
4838* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
4839
4840* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
4841  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
4842  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
4843
4844* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
4845  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
4846
4847* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
4848
4849* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
4850  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
4851  loaded).
4852
4853* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
4854
4855Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
4856
4857* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
4858  startup.
4859
4860* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
4861  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
4862
4863Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
4864
4865* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
4866  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
4867  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
4868
4869* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
4870  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
4871  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
4872
4873* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
4874  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
4875  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
4876
4877* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
4878
4879* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
4880  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
4881
4882* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
4883  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
4884
4885* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
4886  better use of screen space.
4887
4888* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
4889
4890* aven: Perspective view.
4891
4892* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
4893
4894* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
4895  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
4896
4897* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
4898  and load/save/run them.
4899
4900* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
4901
4902* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
4903
4904* aven: Depth fogging option.
4905
4906* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
4907
4908* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
4909
4910* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
4911  showing the surface legs.
4912
4913* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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