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2
3Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-05-20):
4
5* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
6  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
7
8* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
9  such as 64-bit Linux.
10
11* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
12  64-bit platforms.
13
14* Fix a compiler warning.
15
16* Improve test coverage.
17
18Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
19
20* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
21  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
22  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
23
24* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
25  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
26  Hugh St Lawrence.
27
28* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
29  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
30  with using aven on a touch screen device.
31
32* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
33  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
34
35* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
36  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
37
38* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
39  off and back on.
40
41* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
42  up time a little.
43
44* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
45  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
46
47* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
48  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
49  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
50  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
51  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
52  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
53  situation too.
54
55* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
56  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
57  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
58
59* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
60
61* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
62
63* Minor translation updates to French.
64
65* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
66
67* Testsuite improvements:
68
69  + Test that "..." anon station works.
70
71  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
72    fail and give an error count.
73
74  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
75
76Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
77
78* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
79  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
80  Clipstone.
81
82* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
83
84* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
85
86  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
87    overlap the scale bar ticks.
88
89  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
90    clipping the border in print preview.
91
92  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
93
94* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
95  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
96
97* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
98  available.
99
100* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
101
102* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
103
104* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
105  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
106
107* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
108  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
109
110* Various translation updates.
111
112Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
113
114* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
115  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
116
117* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
118  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
119  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
120  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
121
122* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
123  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
124
125* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
126  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
127
128* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
129  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
130
131* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
132  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
133
134* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
135  box".
136
137* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
138
139* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
140  indicators.
141
142* aven: All length units are now translatable.
143
144* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
145  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
146  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
147
148* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
149  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
150  measurably slower.
151
152* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
153  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
154
155* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
156  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
157
158* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
159  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
160  from Therion and elsewhere.
161
162* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
163  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
164  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
165
166* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
167  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
168
169* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
170  A. Riggs for his work on this.
171
172* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
173  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
174
175* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
176
177* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
178  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
179  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
180  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
181  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
182  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
183
184* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
185
186Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
187
188* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
189  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
190  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
191  Clipstone.
192
193* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
194  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
195
196* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
197  exported SVG files.
198
199* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
200
201* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
202  file.
203
204* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
205  GPX files.
206
207* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
208
209* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
210  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
211
212* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
213  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
214  on startup.
215
216* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
217
218* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
219  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
220  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
221  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
222  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
223  other extensions.
224
225* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
226  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
227  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
228  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
229  timezone wrong.
230
231* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
232
233* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
234  'SURVEY DATE:'.
235
236* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
237
238* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
239
240* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
241  enabled.
242
243Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
244
245* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
246
247* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
248
249* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
250
251* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
252  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
253  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
254
255* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
256  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
257  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
258
259* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
260  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
261
262* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
263
264* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
265
266* Fix some compiler warnings.
267
268Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
269
270* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
271  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
272  Holder.
273
274* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
275  statistics when the value gets large.
276
277* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
278  equations.
279
280* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
281  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
282  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
283  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
284  better when the "View" box is hidden.
285
286* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
287  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
288
289* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
290  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
291  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
292  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
293  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
294  way is coming soon.
295
296* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
297  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
298
299* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
300  time ago, so update references.
301
302* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
303  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
304
305* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
306  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
307
308* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
309  Sebastian Ramacher.
310
311* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
312
313* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
314
315* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
316
317* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
318
319* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
320
321* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
322  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
323  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
324
325* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
326
327* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
328
329* img library:
330
331  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
332    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
333    reading).
334
335  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
336    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
337
338  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
339    support these as an extension.
340
341  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
342
343* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
344  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
345  itself has any translations for.
346
347* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
348
349* Minor translation updates.
350
351* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
352
353Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
354
355* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
356  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
357  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
358  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
359  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
360  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
361  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
362  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
363
364* New version 8 of the 3d format:
365
366  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
367
368  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
369    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
370
371  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
372    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
373
374  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
375
376  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
377    human-readable string.
378
379  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
380    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
381
382* img library:
383
384  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
385
386  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
387    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
388
389  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
390    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
391    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
392    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
393    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
394    explicitly in the file.
395
396  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
397
398* aven:
399
400  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
401    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
402    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
403    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
404    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
405    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
406
407  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
408    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
409    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
410    queued up.
411
412  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
413    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
414
415  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
416    them like other legs.
417
418  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
419    station names to positions.
420
421  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
422    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
423    wrongly.
424
425  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
426
427  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
428    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
429    that's used by the desktop).
430
431  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
432
433  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
434    error from cavern.
435
436  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
437
438  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
439    in the dialog in sync.
440
441* cavern:
442
443  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
444    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
445    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
446
447  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
448    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
449
450  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
451    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
452    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
453    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
454    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
455    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
456    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
457    degrees.
458
459  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
460    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
461    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
462
463  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
464
465  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
466    warnings.
467
468  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
469    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
470
471  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
472    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
473
474  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
475    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
476    relevant.
477
478  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
479    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
480    the same line.
481
482  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
483    "End of line not blank" error.
484
485  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
486    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
487
488  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
489    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
490
491  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
492    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
493    include that character in the token reported.
494
495  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
496    first item.
497
498* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
499
500* dump3d:
501
502  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
503    info from 3d files in scripts.
504
505  + Add --show-dates option.
506
507  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
508
509  + Report the data style of legs.
510
511  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
512
513  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
514
515* Test suite:
516
517  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
518    expected output so it passes reliably.
519
520  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
521    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
522
523  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
524    for more.
525
526* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
527  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
528  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
529
530* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
531  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
532
533* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
534  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
535
536* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
537  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
538  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
539  settings.
540
541* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
542  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
543  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
544  set correctly.
545
546* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
547  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
548  them to translate.
549
550* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
551  close to complete.
552
553* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
554
555* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
556
557* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
558
559Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
560
561* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
562
563* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
564  package (ticket#35).
565
566* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
567  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
568  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
569
570* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
571  Kahler.
572
573* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
574  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
575  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
576  libproj and build survex with:
577
578      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
579      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
580
581* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
582
583* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
584
585* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
586  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
587  file".
588
589Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
590
591* aven:
592
593  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
594
595  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
596    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
597
598  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
599
600  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
601
602  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
603    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
604
605* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
606  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
607  error early on).
608
609* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
610  the man page source as well as in the filename.
611
612Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
613
614* aven:
615
616  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
617    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
618    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
619    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
620
621  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
622    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
623
624  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
625
626  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
627
628  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
629
630* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
631
632Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
633
634* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
635
636* (Mac OS X version):
637
638  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
639
640  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
641
642  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
643    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
644
645  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
646
647* aven:
648
649  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
650
651  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
652
653    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
654      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
655      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
656      character.
657
658    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
659      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
660      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
661      and two in a few cases.
662
663    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
664      8 pixels.
665
666  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
667    draw crosses.
668
669  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
670    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
671    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
672    is the start or end of a tube.
673
674  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
675    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
676
677  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
678    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
679    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
680
681* extend:
682
683  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
684
685  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
686    which means "no info").
687
688* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
689  was no longer used - it certainly is!
690
691* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
692  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
693  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
694  current character set.
695
696* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
697
698* Test suite:
699
700  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
701
702  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
703
704Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
705
706* aven:
707
708  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
709    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
710    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
711    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
712    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
713    usable format.
714
715  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
716    files.  (ticket#26)
717
718  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
719    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
720
721  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
722    using lines.
723
724  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
725    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
726
727  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
728    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
729    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
730    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
731
732  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
733    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
734    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
735
736  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
737    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
738    in 1.2.1.
739
740Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
741
742* Translation updates for US English.
743
744* aven:
745
746  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
747    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
748
749  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
750
751  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
752    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
753    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
754    visually similar to the survey legs.
755
756  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
757    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
758
759  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
760    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
761    does still provide some useful information).
762
763  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
764    a depth band boundary.
765
766  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
767    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
768    full-screen mode).
769
770  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
771    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
772    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
773    are a little better, though still not perfect.
774
775  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
776    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
777
778  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
779    that station.
780
781  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
782    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
783
784  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
785    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
786    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
787    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
788    a case as it is a bug).
789
790  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
791    invalidated on window width or height changes.
792
793  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
794    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
795    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
796    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
797
798  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
799    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
800    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
801    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
802    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
803    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
804    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
805
806  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
807    similarly for other compass points.
808
809  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
810    info in the "About" dialog.
811
812  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
813    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
814
815  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
816    as well as still working with older versions.
817
818  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
819    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
820
821  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
822    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
823    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
824    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
825    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
826
827  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
828    nicer and make better use of the available space.
829
830  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
831    dialog.
832
833  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
834    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
835
836  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
837    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
838
839  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
840
841  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
842
843  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
844    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
845    being pressed and toggle full screen.
846
847* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
848  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
849
850* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
851
852* More messages are now available to be translated.
853
854* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
855  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
856
857* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
858
859* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
860  sudo for installing on Unix.
861
862* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
863  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
864
865* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
866  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
867
868* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
869
870Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
871
872* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
873  English.
874
875* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
876  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
877  case.
878
879* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
880  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
881  these into Survex's .msg format.
882
883* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
884  an actual command).
885
886* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
887  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
888  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
889  recurrence of that).
890
891* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
892  than /usr/doc/survex.
893
894* aven:
895
896  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
897
898  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
899    nicer at larger sizes.
900
901  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
902    with GLX >= 1.3.
903
904  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
905
906  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
907    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
908    required libraries set up for building releases.
909
910  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
911
912  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
913
914  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
915    rendered with icons on some platforms.
916
917  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
918    ISO8859-1).
919
920  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
921    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
922
923  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
924    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
925
926* cavern:
927
928  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
929    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
930    fatal error!
931
932  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
933    format to output.  (ticket#21)
934
935* img library:
936
937  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
938    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
939
940* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
941  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
942
943Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
944
945* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
946  Portuguese, and US English.
947
948* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
949  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
950
951* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
952  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
953
954* img.c:
955
956  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
957
958  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
959
960* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
961
962* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
963  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
964  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
965  translated.
966
967Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
968
969* aven:
970
971  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
972    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
973
974  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
975    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
976    addresses ticket#12.
977
978  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
979    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
980    consistent shape.
981
982  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
983    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
984    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
985    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
986
987  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
988    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
989
990  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
991
992  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
993    more places.
994
995  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
996    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
997
998* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
999
1000* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
1001  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
1002
1003* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
1004
1005* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
1006  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
1007  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
1008  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
1009  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
1010  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
1011
1012* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
1013  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
1014  redirecting to it.
1015
1016* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
1017  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
1018  I/O).
1019
1020* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
1021  headers.
1022
1023* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
1024
1025* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
1026  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
1027
1028* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
1029
1030Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
1031
1032* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
1033
1034* aven:
1035
1036  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
1037    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
1038    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
1039    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
1040
1041  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
1042
1043  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
1044    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
1045    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
1046    a number.
1047
1048  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
1049    log window.
1050
1051  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
1052    various cases.
1053
1054  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
1055    (ticket#9)
1056
1057  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
1058    namespace with its own "Point" class.
1059
1060  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
1061    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
1062
1063  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
1064
1065  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
1066    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
1067
1068* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
1069  give them before.
1070
1071* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
1072  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
1073  point looking for them now.
1074
1075* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
1076  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
1077  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
1078  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
1079
1080* manual:
1081
1082  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
1083
1084  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
1085    (change taken from 1.0).
1086
1087* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
1088
1089Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
1090
1091* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
1092
1093* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
1094
1095* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
1096
1097* aven:
1098
1099  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
1100
1101  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
1102    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
1103    seem to be Unicode now).
1104
1105  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
1106    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
1107
1108  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
1109    text on the survey pane:
1110
1111    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
1112
1113    - Character spacing is improved.
1114
1115    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
1116
1117  + "About" dialog:
1118
1119    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
1120      bug reporting.
1121
1122    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
1123      modern gfx card.
1124
1125    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
1126
1127  + Processing .svx files:
1128
1129    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
1130
1131    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
1132      than opening a separate frame for it.
1133
1134    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
1135
1136    - Fix small memory leak.
1137
1138  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
1139    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
1140    such a name.
1141
1142  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
1143
1144  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
1145    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
1146    invocations.
1147
1148  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
1149
1150  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
1151
1152  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
1153
1154* Documentation:
1155
1156  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
1157
1158  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
1159    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
1160    together isn't very useful.
1161
1162  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
1163
1164  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
1165    the FSF website.
1166
1167  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
1168    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
1169    the source code.
1170
1171* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
1172  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
1173
1174* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
1175  package from the source tarball.
1176
1177* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
1178  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
1179
1180Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
1181
1182* aven:
1183
1184  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
1185
1186  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
1187
1188  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
1189    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
1190    names/crosses).
1191
1192Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
1193
1194* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
1195
1196* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
1197
1198* aven:
1199
1200  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
1201
1202  + Fix character spacing.
1203
1204  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
1205    proportional fonts.
1206
1207  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
1208    rather than the filename.
1209
1210  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
1211
1212  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
1213    depth colouring.
1214
1215  + Add "Colour by Error".
1216
1217  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
1218
1219  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
1220
1221  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
1222
1223  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
1224
1225  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
1226
1227  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
1228
1229  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
1230
1231  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
1232    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
1233
1234  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
1235
1236  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
1237    default.
1238
1239* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
1240  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
1241
1242* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
1243  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
1244
1245* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
1246
1247* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
1248
1249Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
1250
1251* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
1252  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
1253  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
1254  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
1255  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
1256
1257* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
1258  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
1259  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
1260
1261* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
1262  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
1263  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
1264
1265* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
1266  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
1267  allowed).
1268
1269* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
1270
1271* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1272
1273* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1274
1275Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
1276
1277* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
1278  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
1279
1280* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
1281  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
1282  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
1283
1284* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
1285  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
1286  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
1287  the new "*data passage" style.
1288
1289* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
1290  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
1291
1292* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
1293  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
1294  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
1295  some cases.
1296
1297* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
1298  with no survey loaded.
1299
1300* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
1301
1302* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
1303  loaded a survey.
1304
1305* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
1306
1307* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
1308
1309* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
1310  doesn't exist.
1311
1312* Updated French and Italian translations.
1313
1314* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
1315  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
1316
1317* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
1318  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
1319  update their copy).
1320
1321* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
1322  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
1323  trying to compile).
1324
1325Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
1326
1327* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
1328  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
1329
1330* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
1331  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
1332  has been disabled.
1333
1334* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
1335  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
1336  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
1337  time.
1338
1339* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
1340  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
1341  highlighted stations.
1342
1343* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
1344
1345* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
1346  the tilt from plan to elevation.
1347
1348* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
1349  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
1350
1351* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
1352  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
1353  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
1354
1355* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
1356  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
1357
1358* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
1359
1360* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
1361
1362* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
1363
1364* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
1365  run by an unprivileged user.
1366
1367* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
1368  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
1369  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
1370
1371* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
1372  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
1373
1374* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
1375
1376* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
1377  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
1378
1379* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
1380  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
1381
1382* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
1383  if it isn't.
1384
1385* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
1386  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
1387
1388* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
1389  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
1390
1391* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
1392  reset to default view as well).
1393
1394* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
1395  empty.
1396
1397* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
1398  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
1399
1400* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
1401  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
1402  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
1403
1404* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
1405  and non-zero width lines.
1406
1407* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
1408  was turned on.
1409
1410* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
1411  not always being fully written.
1412
1413Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
1414
1415* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
1416  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
1417  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
1418  date near the middle of that period).
1419
1420* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
1421  with MS Windows).
1422
1423* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
1424  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
1425  several surveys in the same directory).
1426
1427* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
1428  our check for them to include that knowledge.
1429
1430* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
1431
1432* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
1433  moved off a station.
1434
1435* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
1436  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
1437
1438* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
1439
1440* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
1441  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
1442
1443* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
1444  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
1445  dialogs.
1446
1447* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
1448  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
1449
1450* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
1451  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
1452  introduced in 1.1.6).
1453
1454* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
1455  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
1456  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
1457
1458* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
1459  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
1460
1461* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
1462
1463* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
1464
1465Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
1466
1467* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
1468  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
1469
1470* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
1471  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
1472  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
1473  3d file.
1474
1475* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
1476
1477* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
1478
1479* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
1480  Instead turn off depth colouring.
1481
1482* aven: Export as HPGL added.
1483
1484* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
1485  Martin Green).
1486
1487* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
1488  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
1489  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
1490
1491* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
1492
1493* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
1494  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
1495
1496* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
1497  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
1498  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
1499  of everything else.
1500
1501* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
1502  presentation icons.
1503
1504* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
1505  keyboard focus there.
1506
1507* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
1508
1509* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
1510
1511* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
1512
1513* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
1514
1515* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
1516  language to use for messages.
1517
1518* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
1519  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
1520
1521* Removed old printer drivers.
1522
1523* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
1524  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
1525
1526Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
1527
1528* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
1529
1530* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
1531
1532* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
1533  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
1534
1535* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
1536  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
1537
1538* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
1539
1540* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
1541  underground legs is toggled.
1542
1543* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
1544  attached to the previous data.
1545
1546* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
1547  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
1548  them.
1549
1550Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
1551
1552* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
1553
1554* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
1555  continental European countries).
1556
1557* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
1558  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
1559  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
1560
1561* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
1562
1563* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
1564  they're needed.
1565
1566* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
1567
1568* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
1569
1570* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
1571
1572* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
1573  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
1574  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
1575
1576* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
1577
1578Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
1579
1580* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
1581
1582* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
1583
1584* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
1585
1586* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
1587
1588* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
1589
1590* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
1591
1592* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
1593  when there's a presentation loaded.
1594
1595* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
1596  in cave view.
1597
1598* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
1599
1600* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
1601  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
1602  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
1603
1604* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
1605  filename for file history and window title.
1606
1607* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
1608  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
1609  only needed with GTK1.2.
1610
1611* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
1612
1613* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
1614
1615* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
1616
1617* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
1618
1619Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
1620
1621* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
1622  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
1623  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
1624
1625* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
1626  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
1627
1628* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
1629  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
1630  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1631  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1632
1633* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1634
1635* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1636  with --help and --version.
1637
1638* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1639  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1640  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1641  Fixed all these problems.
1642
1643* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1644  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1645  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1646
1647* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1648  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1649  sources.
1650
1651* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1652
1653* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1654
1655* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1656  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1657
1658* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1659  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1660  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1661  animating.
1662
1663* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1664
1665* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1666
1667* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1668  to this branch.
1669
1670* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1671
1672  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1673
1674  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1675
1676  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1677
1678* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1679
1680* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1681  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1682
1683* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1684
1685* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1686  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1687
1688* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1689
1690* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1691  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1692  for anyone building from CVS).
1693
1694* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1695
1696* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1697
1698* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1699
1700* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1701
1702* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1703  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1704  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1705
1706* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1707  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1708
1709* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1710
1711* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1712  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1713  loaded).
1714
1715* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1716
1717Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1718
1719* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1720  startup.
1721
1722* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1723  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1724
1725Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1726
1727* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1728  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1729  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1730
1731* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1732  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1733  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1734
1735* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1736  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1737  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1738
1739* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1740
1741* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1742  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1743
1744* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1745  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1746
1747* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1748  better use of screen space.
1749
1750* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1751
1752* aven: Perspective view.
1753
1754* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1755
1756* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1757  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1758
1759* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1760  and load/save/run them.
1761
1762* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1763
1764* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1765
1766* aven: Depth fogging option.
1767
1768* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1769
1770* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1771
1772* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1773  showing the surface legs.
1774
1775* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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