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