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(Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.

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1* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
2  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
3
4* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
5
6Changes in 1.1.6:
7
8* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
9  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
10
11* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
12  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
13  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
14  3d file.
15
16* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
17
18* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
19
20* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
21  Instead turn off depth colouring.
22
23* aven: Export as HPGL added.
24
25* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
26  Martin Green).
27
28* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
29  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
30  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
31
32* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
33
34* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
35  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
36
37* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
38  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
39  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
40  of everything else.
41
42* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
43  presentation icons.
44
45* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
46  keyboard focus there.
47
48* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
49
50* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
51
52* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
53
54* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
55
56* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
57  language to use for messages.
58
59* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
60  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
61
62* Removed old printer drivers.
63
64* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
65  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
66
67Changes in 1.1.5:
68
69* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
70
71* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
72
73* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
74  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
75
76* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
77  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
78 
79* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
80
81* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
82  underground legs is toggled.
83
84* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
85  attached to the previous data.
86
87* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
88  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
89  them.
90
91Changes in 1.1.4:
92
93* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
94
95* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
96  continental European countries).
97
98* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
99  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
100  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
101
102* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
103
104* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
105  they're needed.
106
107* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
108
109* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
110
111* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
112
113* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
114  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
115  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
116
117* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
118
119Changes in 1.1.3:
120
121* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
122
123* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
124
125* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
126
127* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
128
129* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
130
131* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
132
133* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
134  when there's a presentation loaded.
135
136* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
137  in cave view.
138
139* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
140
141* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
142  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
143  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
144
145* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
146  filename for file history and window title.
147
148* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
149  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
150  only needed with GTK1.2.
151
152* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
153
154* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
155
156* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
157
158* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
159
160Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
161
162* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
163  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
164  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
165
166* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
167  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
168
169* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
170  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
171  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
172  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
173
174* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
175
176* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
177  with --help and --version.
178
179* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
180  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
181  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
182  Fixed all these problems.
183
184* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
185  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
186  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
187
188* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
189  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
190  sources.
191
192* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
193
194* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
195
196* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
197  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
198
199* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
200  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
201  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
202  animating.
203
204* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
205
206* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
207
208* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
209  to this branch.
210
211* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
212
213  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
214
215  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
216
217  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
218
219* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
220
221* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
222  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
223
224* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
225
226* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
227  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
228
229* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
230
231* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
232  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
233  for anyone building from CVS).
234
235* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
236
237* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
238
239* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
240
241* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
242
243* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
244  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
245  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
246
247* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
248  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
249
250* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
251
252* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
253  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
254  loaded).
255
256* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
257
258Changes in 1.1.1:
259
260* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
261  startup.
262
263* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
264  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
265
266Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
267
268* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
269  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
270  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
271
272* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
273  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
274  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
275
276* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
277  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
278  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
279
280* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
281
282* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
283  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
284
285* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
286  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
287
288* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
289  better use of screen space.
290
291* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
292
293* aven: Perspective view.
294
295* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
296
297* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
298  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
299
300* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
301  and load/save/run them.
302
303* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
304
305* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
306
307* aven: Depth fogging option.
308
309* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
310
311* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
312
313* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
314  showing the surface legs.
315
316* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
317
318Changes in 1.0.32:
319
320* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
321
322* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
323  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
324
325* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
326  extend elevations.
327
328* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
329
330* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
331  default button.
332
333* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
334  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
335
336* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
337
338* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
339  - previously this was being ignored.
340
341* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
342
343* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
344  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
345  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
346  pixel too small on Windows.
347
348* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
349  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
350  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
351
352* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
353  with pretty much every other application.
354
355* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
356  within aven.
357
358* aven: Updated a few icons.
359
360* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
361
362* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
363
364* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
365  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
366  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
367  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
368  doubt anyone is still using that...
369
370* Updates to German translation.
371
372Changes in 1.0.31:
373
374* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
375  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
376
377* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
378  grid is enabled or not.
379
380* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
381
382* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
383  translations.
384
385* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
386
387Changes in 1.0.30:
388
389* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
390
391* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
392
393* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
394
395* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
396  flagged as surface and underground.
397
398* Romanian translation mostly completed.
399
400* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
401
402Changes in 1.0.29:
403
404* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
405  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
406
407* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
408
409* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
410
411* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
412  from John Pybus).
413
414* Romanian translation started.
415
416* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
417  menu files.
418
419Changes in 1.0.28:
420
421* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
422  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
423
424Changes in 1.0.27:
425
426* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
427  layers.
428
429* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
430
431Changes in 1.0.26:
432
433* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
434  calculated as zero.
435
436* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
437
438* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
439
440* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
441
442* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
443  we must apply resources *after* installing.
444
445* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
446
447* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
448  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
449  of their choice.
450
451* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
452  installed.
453
454* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
455  worked).
456
457* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
458  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
459
460* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
461
462* Documentation updated.
463
464* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
465  documentation!
466
467* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
468
469* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
470
471* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
472  most of them.
473
474* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
475
476Changes in 1.0.25:
477
478* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
479
480* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
481  the box on more Unix platforms.
482
483* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
484
485* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
486  insurmountable technical problems.
487
488Changes in 1.0.24:
489
490* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
491
492* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
493  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
494
495* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
496
497* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
498
499* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
500  (and probably some other Unix versions).
501
502* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
503
504Changes in 1.0.23:
505
506* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
507  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
508  to manual.
509
510* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
511
512* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
513  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
514
515* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
516  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
517  Windows.
518
519* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
520
521* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
522
523Changes in 1.0.22:
524
525* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
526  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
527
528* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
529  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
530  code).
531
532Changes in 1.0.21:
533
534* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
535  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
536  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
537  Compass .MAK files.
538
539* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
540  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
541
542* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
543
544* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
545  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
546  per station.
547
548* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
549  unusual circumstances.
550
551* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
552  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
553  over an previous version.
554
555Changes in 1.0.20:
556
557* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
558
559* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
560  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
561  correction was about 57 times too large!)
562
563* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
564  insert a survey separator character.
565
566* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
567
568Changes in 1.0.19:
569
570* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
571  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
572  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
573
574* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
575  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
576  files are handled).
577
578* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
579  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
580
581* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
582
583* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
584  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
585  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
586
587* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
588
589* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
590  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
591  crash.
592
593* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
594
595* Documentation: minor updates.
596
597Changes in 1.0.18:
598
599* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
600
601* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
602  instead.
603
604* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
605  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
606
607* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
608  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
609  to the aven subpackage.
610
611* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
612
613* Updated TODO list.
614
615Changes in 1.0.17:
616
617* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
618  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
619  its own icon.
620
621* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
622  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
623  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
624  refresh the view.
625
626* Minor update to manual.
627
628Changes in 1.0.16:
629
630* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
631  programs from finding the message files.
632
633* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
634  files.
635
636Changes in 1.0.15:
637
638* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
639  programs from finding the message files.
640
641* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
642  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
643  obtained with the right mouse button.
644
645Changes in 1.0.14:
646
647* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
648  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
649  from Activeware.
650
651* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
652  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
653  separator between survey name and station name.
654
655* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
656  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
657
658* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
659  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
660
661* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
662
663* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
664  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
665
666* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
667
668* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
669  DIRECTION reading.
670
671* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
672
673* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
674  have taken up.
675
676* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
677  once again.  Added regression test for this.
678
679* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
680  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
681
682* Updated documentation.
683
684Changes in 1.0.13:
685
686* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
687  connecting arbitrary stations.
688
689* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
690  join.
691
692* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
693  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
694  and everything should work exactly as before.
695
696* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
697  currently translated.
698
699Changes in 1.0.12:
700
701* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
702
703* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
704
705* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
706  (both cover Eastern European languages).
707
708* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
709  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
710  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
711  permission to include the icon).
712
713* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
714  again.
715
716* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
717  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
718
719* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
720
721* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
722
723Changes in 1.0.11:
724
725* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
726  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
727  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
728  and as intended on 2.3.
729
730* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
731  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
732  '.').
733
734* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
735  autorotation.
736
737* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
738
739* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
740
741* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
742  double-clicking or from the command line.
743
744* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
745
746* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
747
748* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
749
750* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
751
752* Updates to Italian translation.
753
754* Minor documentation updates.
755
756Changes in 1.0.10:
757
758* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
759  names.
760
761* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
762  successfully.
763
764* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
765  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
766  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
767
768* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
769  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
770
771* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
772  factor was being applied backwards!)
773
774* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
775  be opened.
776
777* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
778
779* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
780
781* Updates to German and Italian translations.
782
783Changes in 1.0.9:
784
785* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
786
787* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
788
789* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
790  end of each line).
791
792* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
793  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
794  them).
795
796* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
797
798Changes in 1.0.8:
799
800* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
801
802* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
803  responsiveness.
804
805* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
806  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
807  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
808
809* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
810  the program).
811
812* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
813
814* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
815  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
816
817* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
818  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
819
820* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
821  right mouse button.
822
823* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
824  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
825  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
826
827* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
828  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
829  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
830  approximately 1mm/pixel.
831
832* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
833  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
834
835* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
836  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
837
838* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
839
840* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
841  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
842
843* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
844  pages on rare occasions.
845
846* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
847
848* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
849
850* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
851  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
852  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
853  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
854  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
855
856* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
857  underground surveys.
858
859* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
860
861* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
862  now it gives the correct error message.
863
864* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
865  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
866
867* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
868  of data which was rejected because of an error.
869
870* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
871
872* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
873  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
874
875* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
876  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
877  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
878  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
879  by default).
880
881* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
882  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
883  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
884
885* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
886  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
887  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
888
889* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
890  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
891  been removed.
892
893Changes in 1.0.7:
894
895* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
896
897Changes in 1.0.6:
898
899* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
900
901* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
902  exit with Delete) improved.
903
904* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
905  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
906
907* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
908
909* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
910  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
911
912* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
913  with no clino information).
914
915* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
916  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
917
918* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
919
920* Spell-checked documentation.
921
922Changes in 1.0.5:
923
924* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
925  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
926
927* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
928
929* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
930  structure for Compass to read them now.
931
932* Documentation updates.
933
934Changes in 1.0.4:
935
936* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
937  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
938
939* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
940  output format.
941
942* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
943
944* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
945  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
946
947* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
948  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
949  on Microsoft Windows.
950
951* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
952
953* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
954
955* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
956  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
957  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
958  special case better.
959
960* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
961  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
962  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
963  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
964
965* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
966  out packaging now...
967
968* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
969
970* Documentation updates.
971
972Changes in 1.0.3:
973
974* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
975  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
976  of degrees.
977
978* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
979
980* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
981
982* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
983  written.
984
985* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
986  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
987
988* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
989
990Changes in 1.0.2:
991
992* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
993  print.ini etc.
994
995* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
996  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
997
998* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
999
1000* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1001
1002* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1003
1004* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1005
1006* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1007  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1008
1009* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1010  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1011
1012* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1013  .3d files.
1014
1015Changes in 1.0.1:
1016
1017* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1018  ticks.
1019
1020* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1021
1022Changes in 1.0.0:
1023
1024* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1025
1026* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1027  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1028
1029* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1030  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1031  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1032
1033* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1034
1035* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1036  instead of "survex file.svx".
1037
1038* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1039  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1040  with a lower optimisation level.
1041
1042* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1043  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1044  "in directory" build.
1045
1046* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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