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