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1Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2
3* aven:
4
5  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
6    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
7    to address.
8
9  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
10    over the survey tree.
11
12  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
13
14  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
15    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
16
17  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
18    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
19    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
20    encoded.
21
22  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
23    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
24    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
25    terminals which do still support this.
26
27  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
28    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
29
30* cavern:
31
32  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
33    Edwards (see #78).
34
35  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
36    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
37    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
38    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
39
40  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
41    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
42    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
43
44  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
45    from Pete Smart (see #69).
46
47* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
48  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
49  Black.
50
51* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
52
53* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
54  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
55  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
56  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
57  Black.
58
59* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
60  Black.
61
62* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
63
64* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
65
66* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
67
68* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
69
70* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
71
72* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
73  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
74
75* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
76  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
77  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
78
79* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
80  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
81  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
82  privileges or not.
83
84Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
85
86* aven:
87
88  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
89    Clipstone.
90
91  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
92    Reported by Jenny Black.
93
94  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
95    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
96    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
97
98  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
99    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
100    messages.
101
102  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
103    the terminal in 1.2.23.
104
105* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
106  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
107
108* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
109
110* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
111  by Wookey.
112
113Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
114
115* aven:
116
117  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
118    machines.
119
120  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
121
122  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
123    already being processed.
124
125  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
126    Reported by Martin Green.
127
128  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
129
130* cavern:
131
132  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
133    find the original survey notes).
134
135  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
136    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
137    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
138    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
139    progress display to be useful.
140
141* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
142
143* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
144  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
145
146* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
147  running cavern.
148
149* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
150  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
151  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
152
153Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
154
155* aven:
156
157  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
158    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
159    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
160    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
161    finding this fix.
162
163* cavern:
164
165  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
166
167  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
168    station.
169
170  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
171    *export.
172
173Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
174
175* aven:
176
177  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
178    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
179    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
180
181  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
182
183  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
184    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
185    does.
186
187  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
188    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
189
190  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
191    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
192
193  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
194    as appropriate.
195
196  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
197    values on Windows.
198
199* cavern:
200
201  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
202    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
203    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
204
205  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
206    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
207
208  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
209    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
210    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
211    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
212
213  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
214    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
215    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
216    Atkinson.
217
218  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
219    actual error rather than on a separate line.
220
221  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
222    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
223    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
224    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
225
226  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
227    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
228    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
229
230* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
231  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
232  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
233  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
234
235* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
236
237* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
238  "*DECLINATION" command.
239
240* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
241  Reported by Jenny Black.
242
243* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
244  documentation.
245
246* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
247  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
248
249* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
250
251* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
252
253Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
254
255* aven:
256
257  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
258    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
259    the same or very similar by default.
260
261  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
262    Maynard.
263
264  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
265
266  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
267
268  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
269    away.
270
271  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
272
273  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
274    display it.
275
276* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
277  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
278  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
279  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
280
281* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
282
283* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
284  before 1.2.19.
285
286* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
287  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
288
289* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
290
291* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
292  disk image.
293
294* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
295
296* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
297  libav features we don't use.
298
299* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
300  a load of libav features we don't use.
301
302* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
303  message in the installer.
304
305Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
306
307* aven:
308
309  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
310    the exported file in 1.2.18.
311
312  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
313
314  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
315    exit full screen mode.
316
317  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
318    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
319    using since 1.2.7).
320
321  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
322    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
323    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
324    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
325    St. Lawrence.
326
327  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
328    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
329
330  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
331    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
332    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
333
334  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
335    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
336    case like we do on other platforms.
337
338  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
339
340  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
341    support multi-monitor setups.
342
343  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
344    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
345
346  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
347    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
348
349  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
350    cases.
351
352  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
353    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
354    Erin Lynch)
355
356  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
357    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
358    items in in so it uses the full width.
359
360  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
361    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
362    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
363    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
364    window.
365
366  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
367    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
368    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
369    only relevant on the first ever run.
370
371* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
372
373* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
374  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
375  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
376  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
377  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
378  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
379
380* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
381  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
382
383Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
384
385* aven:
386
387  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
388    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
389    rendering it as a transparent surface.
390
391  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
392    sanely want to perform from the menu.
393
394  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
395    colouring options.
396
397  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
398
399  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
400    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
401    pressing "Escape".
402
403  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
404    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
405
406  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
407    exporting.
408
409  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
410
411  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
412    is quite likely to change.
413
414  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
415    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
416
417  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
418    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
419    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
420
421  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
422
423  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
424    markers in orange.
425
426  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
427    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
428
429  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
430    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
431    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
432    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
433    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
434    them would be better.
435
436  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
437    Gee.
438
439  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
440    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
441    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
442
443  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
444
445* cavern:
446
447  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
448    susscorfa).
449
450  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
451    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
452
453  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
454
455  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
456    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
457
458  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
459    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
460
461* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
462
463* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
464  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
465  in a modern desktop.
466
467* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
468  the filename in the error message.
469
470* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
471  most complete translations.
472
473* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
474
475* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
476  lacks them.
477
478* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
479
480* Manual:
481
482  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
483    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
484
485  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
486
487  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
488
489  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
490    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
491    available for download.
492
493* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
494  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
495  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
496
497* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
498
499* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
500
501Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
502
503* MacOS X version:
504
505  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
506
507  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
508
509  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
510
511  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
512
513  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
514    currently do this for us.
515
516  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
517
518  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
519
520  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
521
522  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
523    OS X cursor.
524
525  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
526    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
527    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
528    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
529    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
530    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
531    with TextEdit.app for example).
532
533  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
534    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
535
536  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
537
538  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
539    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
540
541  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
542    Riggs.
543
544  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
545    space.
546
547  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
548
549  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
550    10.10.1.
551
552  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
553    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
554    errors.
555
556  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
557    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
558    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
559    wxWidgets build supports by default.
560
561  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
562
563* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
564  treat as a single leg.
565
566* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
567
568* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
569
570* aven:
571
572  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
573    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
574
575  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
576    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
577    1:500).
578
579  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
580    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
581    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
582    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
583
584  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
585    there rather than the two animations fighting.
586
587  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
588    fast.
589
590  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
591    when rotating).
592
593  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
594    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
595
596* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
597  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
598
599* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
600
601* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
602
603* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
604
605* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
606
607* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
608  we're using git.
609
610* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
611
612  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
613    compass.
614
615  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
616
617  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
618
619Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
620
621* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
622
623* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
624
625* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
626
627* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
628  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
629
630* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
631
632* tests/: Improve test coverage.
633
634* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
635  Greek and Polish.
636
637* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
638  by Martin Sluka.
639
640* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
641  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
642
643Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
644
645* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
646  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
647  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
648  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
649  for *cs has also been improved.
650
651* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
652  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
653  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
654  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
655
656* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
657  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
658  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
659  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
660  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
661
662* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
663  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
664  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
665
666* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
667
668* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
669
670* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
671  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
672  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
673
674* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
675  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
676
677Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
678
679* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
680  system in use in 3d v8 files.
681
682* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
683  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
684  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
685  export dialog.
686
687* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
688  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
689  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
690  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
691  rather than having one corner there.
692
693* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
694  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
695
696* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
697  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
698
699* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
700  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
701  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
702
703* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
704  such as 64-bit Linux.
705
706* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
707  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
708
709* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
710  64-bit platforms.
711
712* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
713  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
714  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
715
716* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
717  the space available in the aven UI.
718
719* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
720  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
721  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
722
723* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
724  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
725
726* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
727  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
728  about unconnected surveys.
729
730* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
731  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
732
733* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
734  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
735  freed memory.
736
737* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
738
739* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
740
741* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
742
743* Fix a compiler warning.
744
745* Improve test coverage.
746
747Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
748
749* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
750  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
751  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
752
753* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
754  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
755  Hugh St Lawrence.
756
757* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
758  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
759  with using aven on a touch screen device.
760
761* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
762  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
763
764* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
765  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
766
767* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
768  off and back on.
769
770* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
771  up time a little.
772
773* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
774  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
775
776* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
777  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
778  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
779  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
780  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
781  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
782  situation too.
783
784* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
785  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
786  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
787
788* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
789
790* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
791
792* Minor translation updates to French.
793
794* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
795
796* Testsuite improvements:
797
798  + Test that "..." anon station works.
799
800  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
801    fail and give an error count.
802
803  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
804
805Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
806
807* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
808  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
809  Clipstone.
810
811* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
812
813* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
814
815  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
816    overlap the scale bar ticks.
817
818  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
819    clipping the border in print preview.
820
821  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
822
823* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
824  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
825
826* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
827  available.
828
829* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
830
831* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
832
833* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
834  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
835
836* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
837  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
838
839* Various translation updates.
840
841Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
842
843* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
844  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
845
846* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
847  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
848  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
849  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
850
851* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
852  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
853
854* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
855  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
856
857* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
858  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
859
860* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
861  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
862
863* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
864  box".
865
866* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
867
868* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
869  indicators.
870
871* aven: All length units are now translatable.
872
873* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
874  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
875  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
876
877* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
878  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
879  measurably slower.
880
881* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
882  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
883
884* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
885  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
886
887* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
888  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
889  from Therion and elsewhere.
890
891* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
892  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
893  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
894
895* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
896  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
897
898* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
899  A. Riggs for his work on this.
900
901* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
902  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
903
904* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
905
906* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
907  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
908  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
909  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
910  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
911  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
912
913* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
914
915Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
916
917* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
918  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
919  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
920  Clipstone.
921
922* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
923  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
924
925* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
926  exported SVG files.
927
928* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
929
930* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
931  file.
932
933* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
934  GPX files.
935
936* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
937
938* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
939  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
940
941* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
942  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
943  on startup.
944
945* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
946
947* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
948  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
949  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
950  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
951  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
952  other extensions.
953
954* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
955  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
956  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
957  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
958  timezone wrong.
959
960* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
961
962* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
963  'SURVEY DATE:'.
964
965* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
966
967* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
968
969* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
970  enabled.
971
972Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
973
974* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
975
976* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
977
978* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
979
980* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
981  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
982  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
983
984* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
985  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
986  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
987
988* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
989  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
990
991* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
992
993* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
994
995* Fix some compiler warnings.
996
997Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
998
999* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
1000  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
1001  Holder.
1002
1003* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
1004  statistics when the value gets large.
1005
1006* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
1007  equations.
1008
1009* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
1010  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
1011  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
1012  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
1013  better when the "View" box is hidden.
1014
1015* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
1016  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
1017
1018* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
1019  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
1020  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
1021  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
1022  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
1023  way is coming soon.
1024
1025* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
1026  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
1027
1028* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
1029  time ago, so update references.
1030
1031* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
1032  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
1033
1034* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
1035  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
1036
1037* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
1038  Sebastian Ramacher.
1039
1040* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
1041
1042* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
1043
1044* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
1045
1046* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
1047
1048* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
1049
1050* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
1051  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
1052  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
1053
1054* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
1055
1056* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
1057
1058* img library:
1059
1060  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
1061    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
1062    reading).
1063
1064  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
1065    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
1066
1067  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
1068    support these as an extension.
1069
1070  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
1071
1072* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
1073  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
1074  itself has any translations for.
1075
1076* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
1077
1078* Minor translation updates.
1079
1080* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
1081
1082Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
1083
1084* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
1085  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
1086  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
1087  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
1088  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
1089  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
1090  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
1091  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1092
1093* New version 8 of the 3d format:
1094
1095  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1096
1097  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
1098    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
1099
1100  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
1101    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
1102
1103  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
1104
1105  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
1106    human-readable string.
1107
1108  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
1109    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
1110
1111* img library:
1112
1113  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1114
1115  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
1116    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
1117
1118  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
1119    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
1120    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
1121    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
1122    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
1123    explicitly in the file.
1124
1125  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
1126
1127* aven:
1128
1129  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
1130    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
1131    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
1132    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
1133    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
1134    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
1135
1136  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
1137    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
1138    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
1139    queued up.
1140
1141  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
1142    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
1143
1144  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
1145    them like other legs.
1146
1147  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
1148    station names to positions.
1149
1150  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
1151    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
1152    wrongly.
1153
1154  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
1155
1156  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
1157    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
1158    that's used by the desktop).
1159
1160  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
1161
1162  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
1163    error from cavern.
1164
1165  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
1166
1167  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
1168    in the dialog in sync.
1169
1170* cavern:
1171
1172  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
1173    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
1174    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
1175
1176  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
1177    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1178
1179  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
1180    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
1181    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
1182    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
1183    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
1184    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
1185    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
1186    degrees.
1187
1188  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
1189    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
1190    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
1191
1192  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
1193
1194  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
1195    warnings.
1196
1197  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
1198    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
1199
1200  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
1201    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
1202
1203  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
1204    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
1205    relevant.
1206
1207  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
1208    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
1209    the same line.
1210
1211  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
1212    "End of line not blank" error.
1213
1214  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
1215    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
1216
1217  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
1218    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
1219
1220  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
1221    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
1222    include that character in the token reported.
1223
1224  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
1225    first item.
1226
1227* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
1228
1229* dump3d:
1230
1231  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
1232    info from 3d files in scripts.
1233
1234  + Add --show-dates option.
1235
1236  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
1237
1238  + Report the data style of legs.
1239
1240  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
1241
1242  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
1243
1244* Test suite:
1245
1246  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
1247    expected output so it passes reliably.
1248
1249  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
1250    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
1251
1252  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
1253    for more.
1254
1255* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
1256  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
1257  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
1258
1259* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
1260  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
1261
1262* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
1263  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
1264
1265* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
1266  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
1267  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
1268  settings.
1269
1270* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
1271  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
1272  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
1273  set correctly.
1274
1275* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
1276  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
1277  them to translate.
1278
1279* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
1280  close to complete.
1281
1282* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
1283
1284* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
1285
1286* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
1287
1288Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
1289
1290* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
1291
1292* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
1293  package (ticket#35).
1294
1295* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
1296  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
1297  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
1298
1299* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
1300  Kahler.
1301
1302* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
1303  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
1304  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
1305  libproj and build survex with:
1306
1307      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1308      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1309
1310* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
1311
1312* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
1313
1314* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
1315  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
1316  file".
1317
1318Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
1319
1320* aven:
1321
1322  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
1323
1324  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
1325    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
1326
1327  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
1328
1329  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
1330
1331  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
1332    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
1333
1334* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
1335  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
1336  error early on).
1337
1338* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
1339  the man page source as well as in the filename.
1340
1341Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
1342
1343* aven:
1344
1345  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
1346    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
1347    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
1348    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
1349
1350  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
1351    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
1352
1353  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
1354
1355  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
1356
1357  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
1358
1359* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
1360
1361Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
1362
1363* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
1364
1365* (Mac OS X version):
1366
1367  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
1368
1369  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
1370
1371  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
1372    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
1373
1374  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
1375
1376* aven:
1377
1378  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
1379
1380  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
1381
1382    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
1383      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
1384      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
1385      character.
1386
1387    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
1388      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
1389      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
1390      and two in a few cases.
1391
1392    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
1393      8 pixels.
1394
1395  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
1396    draw crosses.
1397
1398  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
1399    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
1400    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
1401    is the start or end of a tube.
1402
1403  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
1404    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
1405
1406  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
1407    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
1408    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
1409
1410* extend:
1411
1412  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
1413
1414  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
1415    which means "no info").
1416
1417* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
1418  was no longer used - it certainly is!
1419
1420* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
1421  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
1422  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
1423  current character set.
1424
1425* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
1426
1427* Test suite:
1428
1429  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
1430
1431  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
1432
1433Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
1434
1435* aven:
1436
1437  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
1438    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
1439    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
1440    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
1441    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
1442    usable format.
1443
1444  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
1445    files.  (ticket#26)
1446
1447  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
1448    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
1449
1450  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
1451    using lines.
1452
1453  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
1454    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
1455
1456  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
1457    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
1458    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
1459    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
1460
1461  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
1462    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
1463    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
1464
1465  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
1466    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
1467    in 1.2.1.
1468
1469Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
1470
1471* Translation updates for US English.
1472
1473* aven:
1474
1475  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
1476    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
1477
1478  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
1479
1480  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
1481    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
1482    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
1483    visually similar to the survey legs.
1484
1485  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
1486    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
1487
1488  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
1489    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
1490    does still provide some useful information).
1491
1492  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
1493    a depth band boundary.
1494
1495  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
1496    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
1497    full-screen mode).
1498
1499  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
1500    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
1501    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
1502    are a little better, though still not perfect.
1503
1504  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
1505    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
1506
1507  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
1508    that station.
1509
1510  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
1511    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
1512
1513  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
1514    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
1515    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
1516    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
1517    a case as it is a bug).
1518
1519  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
1520    invalidated on window width or height changes.
1521
1522  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
1523    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
1524    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
1525    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
1526
1527  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
1528    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
1529    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
1530    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
1531    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
1532    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
1533    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
1534
1535  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
1536    similarly for other compass points.
1537
1538  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
1539    info in the "About" dialog.
1540
1541  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
1542    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
1543
1544  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
1545    as well as still working with older versions.
1546
1547  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
1548    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
1549
1550  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
1551    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
1552    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
1553    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
1554    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
1555
1556  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
1557    nicer and make better use of the available space.
1558
1559  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
1560    dialog.
1561
1562  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
1563    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
1564
1565  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
1566    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
1567
1568  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
1569
1570  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
1571
1572  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
1573    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
1574    being pressed and toggle full screen.
1575
1576* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
1577  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
1578
1579* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
1580
1581* More messages are now available to be translated.
1582
1583* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
1584  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
1585
1586* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
1587
1588* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
1589  sudo for installing on Unix.
1590
1591* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
1592  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
1593
1594* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
1595  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
1596
1597* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1598
1599Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
1600
1601* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
1602  English.
1603
1604* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
1605  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
1606  case.
1607
1608* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
1609  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
1610  these into Survex's .msg format.
1611
1612* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
1613  an actual command).
1614
1615* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
1616  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
1617  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
1618  recurrence of that).
1619
1620* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
1621  than /usr/doc/survex.
1622
1623* aven:
1624
1625  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
1626
1627  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
1628    nicer at larger sizes.
1629
1630  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
1631    with GLX >= 1.3.
1632
1633  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
1634
1635  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
1636    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
1637    required libraries set up for building releases.
1638
1639  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
1640
1641  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
1642
1643  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
1644    rendered with icons on some platforms.
1645
1646  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
1647    ISO8859-1).
1648
1649  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
1650    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
1651
1652  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
1653    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
1654
1655* cavern:
1656
1657  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
1658    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
1659    fatal error!
1660
1661  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
1662    format to output.  (ticket#21)
1663
1664* img library:
1665
1666  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
1667    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
1668
1669* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
1670  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
1671
1672Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
1673
1674* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
1675  Portuguese, and US English.
1676
1677* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
1678  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
1679
1680* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
1681  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
1682
1683* img.c:
1684
1685  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
1686
1687  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
1688
1689* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
1690
1691* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
1692  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
1693  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
1694  translated.
1695
1696Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
1697
1698* aven:
1699
1700  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
1701    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
1702
1703  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
1704    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
1705    addresses ticket#12.
1706
1707  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
1708    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
1709    consistent shape.
1710
1711  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
1712    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
1713    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
1714    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
1715
1716  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
1717    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
1718
1719  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
1720
1721  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
1722    more places.
1723
1724  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
1725    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
1726
1727* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
1728
1729* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
1730  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
1731
1732* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
1733
1734* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
1735  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
1736  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
1737  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
1738  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
1739  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
1740
1741* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
1742  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
1743  redirecting to it.
1744
1745* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
1746  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
1747  I/O).
1748
1749* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
1750  headers.
1751
1752* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
1753
1754* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
1755  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
1756
1757* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
1758
1759Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
1760
1761* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
1762
1763* aven:
1764
1765  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
1766    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
1767    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
1768    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
1769
1770  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
1771
1772  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
1773    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
1774    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
1775    a number.
1776
1777  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
1778    log window.
1779
1780  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
1781    various cases.
1782
1783  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
1784    (ticket#9)
1785
1786  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
1787    namespace with its own "Point" class.
1788
1789  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
1790    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
1791
1792  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
1793
1794  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
1795    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
1796
1797* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
1798  give them before.
1799
1800* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
1801  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
1802  point looking for them now.
1803
1804* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
1805  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
1806  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
1807  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
1808
1809* manual:
1810
1811  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
1812
1813  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
1814    (change taken from 1.0).
1815
1816* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
1817
1818Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
1819
1820* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
1821
1822* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
1823
1824* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
1825
1826* aven:
1827
1828  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
1829
1830  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
1831    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
1832    seem to be Unicode now).
1833
1834  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
1835    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
1836
1837  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
1838    text on the survey pane:
1839
1840    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
1841
1842    - Character spacing is improved.
1843
1844    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
1845
1846  + "About" dialog:
1847
1848    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
1849      bug reporting.
1850
1851    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
1852      modern gfx card.
1853
1854    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
1855
1856  + Processing .svx files:
1857
1858    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
1859
1860    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
1861      than opening a separate frame for it.
1862
1863    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
1864
1865    - Fix small memory leak.
1866
1867  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
1868    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
1869    such a name.
1870
1871  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
1872
1873  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
1874    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
1875    invocations.
1876
1877  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
1878
1879  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
1880
1881  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
1882
1883* Documentation:
1884
1885  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
1886
1887  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
1888    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
1889    together isn't very useful.
1890
1891  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
1892
1893  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
1894    the FSF website.
1895
1896  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
1897    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
1898    the source code.
1899
1900* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
1901  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
1902
1903* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
1904  package from the source tarball.
1905
1906* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
1907  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
1908
1909Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
1910
1911* aven:
1912
1913  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
1914
1915  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
1916
1917  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
1918    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
1919    names/crosses).
1920
1921Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
1922
1923* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
1924
1925* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
1926
1927* aven:
1928
1929  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
1930
1931  + Fix character spacing.
1932
1933  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
1934    proportional fonts.
1935
1936  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
1937    rather than the filename.
1938
1939  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
1940
1941  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
1942    depth colouring.
1943
1944  + Add "Colour by Error".
1945
1946  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
1947
1948  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
1949
1950  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
1951
1952  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
1953
1954  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
1955
1956  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
1957
1958  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
1959
1960  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
1961    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
1962
1963  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
1964
1965  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
1966    default.
1967
1968* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
1969  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
1970
1971* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
1972  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
1973
1974* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
1975
1976* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
1977
1978Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
1979
1980* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
1981  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
1982  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
1983  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
1984  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
1985
1986* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
1987  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
1988  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
1989
1990* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
1991  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
1992  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
1993
1994* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
1995  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
1996  allowed).
1997
1998* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
1999
2000* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2001
2002* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
2003
2004Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
2005
2006* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
2007  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
2008
2009* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
2010  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
2011  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
2012
2013* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
2014  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
2015  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
2016  the new "*data passage" style.
2017
2018* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
2019  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
2020
2021* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
2022  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
2023  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
2024  some cases.
2025
2026* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
2027  with no survey loaded.
2028
2029* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
2030
2031* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
2032  loaded a survey.
2033
2034* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
2035
2036* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
2037
2038* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
2039  doesn't exist.
2040
2041* Updated French and Italian translations.
2042
2043* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
2044  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
2045
2046* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
2047  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
2048  update their copy).
2049
2050* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
2051  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
2052  trying to compile).
2053
2054Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
2055
2056* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
2057  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
2058
2059* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
2060  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
2061  has been disabled.
2062
2063* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
2064  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
2065  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
2066  time.
2067
2068* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
2069  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
2070  highlighted stations.
2071
2072* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
2073
2074* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
2075  the tilt from plan to elevation.
2076
2077* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
2078  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
2079
2080* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
2081  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
2082  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
2083
2084* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
2085  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
2086
2087* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
2088
2089* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
2090
2091* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
2092
2093* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
2094  run by an unprivileged user.
2095
2096* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
2097  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
2098  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
2099
2100* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
2101  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
2102
2103* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
2104
2105* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
2106  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
2107
2108* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
2109  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
2110
2111* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
2112  if it isn't.
2113
2114* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
2115  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
2116
2117* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
2118  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
2119
2120* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
2121  reset to default view as well).
2122
2123* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
2124  empty.
2125
2126* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
2127  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
2128
2129* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
2130  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
2131  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
2132
2133* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
2134  and non-zero width lines.
2135
2136* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
2137  was turned on.
2138
2139* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
2140  not always being fully written.
2141
2142Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
2143
2144* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
2145  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
2146  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
2147  date near the middle of that period).
2148
2149* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
2150  with MS Windows).
2151
2152* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
2153  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
2154  several surveys in the same directory).
2155
2156* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
2157  our check for them to include that knowledge.
2158
2159* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
2160
2161* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
2162  moved off a station.
2163
2164* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
2165  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
2166
2167* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
2168
2169* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
2170  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
2171
2172* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
2173  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
2174  dialogs.
2175
2176* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
2177  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
2178
2179* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
2180  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
2181  introduced in 1.1.6).
2182
2183* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
2184  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
2185  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
2186
2187* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
2188  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
2189
2190* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
2191
2192* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
2193
2194Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
2195
2196* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
2197  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
2198
2199* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
2200  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
2201  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
2202  3d file.
2203
2204* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
2205
2206* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
2207
2208* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
2209  Instead turn off depth colouring.
2210
2211* aven: Export as HPGL added.
2212
2213* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
2214  Martin Green).
2215
2216* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
2217  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
2218  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
2219
2220* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
2221
2222* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
2223  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
2224
2225* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
2226  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
2227  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
2228  of everything else.
2229
2230* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
2231  presentation icons.
2232
2233* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
2234  keyboard focus there.
2235
2236* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
2237
2238* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
2239
2240* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
2241
2242* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
2243
2244* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
2245  language to use for messages.
2246
2247* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
2248  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
2249
2250* Removed old printer drivers.
2251
2252* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
2253  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
2254
2255Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
2256
2257* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
2258
2259* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
2260
2261* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
2262  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
2263
2264* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
2265  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
2266
2267* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
2268
2269* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
2270  underground legs is toggled.
2271
2272* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
2273  attached to the previous data.
2274
2275* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
2276  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
2277  them.
2278
2279Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
2280
2281* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
2282
2283* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
2284  continental European countries).
2285
2286* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
2287  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
2288  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
2289
2290* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
2291
2292* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
2293  they're needed.
2294
2295* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
2296
2297* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
2298
2299* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
2300
2301* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
2302  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
2303  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
2304
2305* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
2306
2307Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
2308
2309* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
2310
2311* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
2312
2313* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
2314
2315* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
2316
2317* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
2318
2319* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
2320
2321* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
2322  when there's a presentation loaded.
2323
2324* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
2325  in cave view.
2326
2327* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
2328
2329* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
2330  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
2331  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
2332
2333* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
2334  filename for file history and window title.
2335
2336* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
2337  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
2338  only needed with GTK1.2.
2339
2340* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
2341
2342* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
2343
2344* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
2345
2346* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
2347
2348Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
2349
2350* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
2351  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
2352  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
2353
2354* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
2355  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
2356
2357* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
2358  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
2359  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
2360  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
2361
2362* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
2363
2364* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
2365  with --help and --version.
2366
2367* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
2368  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
2369  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
2370  Fixed all these problems.
2371
2372* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
2373  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
2374  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
2375
2376* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
2377  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
2378  sources.
2379
2380* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
2381
2382* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
2383
2384* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
2385  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
2386
2387* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
2388  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
2389  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
2390  animating.
2391
2392* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
2393
2394* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
2395
2396* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
2397  to this branch.
2398
2399* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
2400
2401  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
2402
2403  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
2404
2405  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
2406
2407* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
2408
2409* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
2410  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
2411
2412* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
2413
2414* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
2415  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
2416
2417* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
2418
2419* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
2420  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
2421  for anyone building from CVS).
2422
2423* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
2424
2425* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
2426
2427* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
2428
2429* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
2430
2431* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
2432  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
2433  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
2434
2435* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
2436  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
2437
2438* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
2439
2440* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
2441  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
2442  loaded).
2443
2444* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
2445
2446Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
2447
2448* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
2449  startup.
2450
2451* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
2452  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
2453
2454Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
2455
2456* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
2457  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
2458  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
2459
2460* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
2461  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
2462  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
2463
2464* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
2465  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
2466  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
2467
2468* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
2469
2470* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
2471  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
2472
2473* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
2474  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
2475
2476* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
2477  better use of screen space.
2478
2479* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
2480
2481* aven: Perspective view.
2482
2483* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
2484
2485* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
2486  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
2487
2488* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
2489  and load/save/run them.
2490
2491* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
2492
2493* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
2494
2495* aven: Depth fogging option.
2496
2497* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
2498
2499* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
2500
2501* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
2502  showing the surface legs.
2503
2504* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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