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1Changes in 1.1.10:
2
3* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
5  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
6  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
7  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
8
9* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
10  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
11  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
12   
13* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
14  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
15  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
16
17* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
18  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
19  allowed).
20
21* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
22
23* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
24
25* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
26
27Changes in 1.1.9:
28
29* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
30  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
31
32* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
33  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
34  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
35
36* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
37  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
38  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
39  the new "*data passage" style.
40
41* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
42  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
43
44* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
45  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
46  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
47  some cases.
48
49* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
50  with no survey loaded.
51
52* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
53
54* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
55  loaded a survey.
56
57* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
58
59* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
60
61* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
62  doesn't exist.
63
64* Updated French and Italian translations.
65
66* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
67  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
68
69* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
70  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
71  update their copy).
72
73* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
74  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
75  trying to compile).
76
77Changes in 1.1.8:
78
79* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
80  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
81
82* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
83  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
84  has been disabled.
85
86* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
87  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
88  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
89  time.
90
91* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
92  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
93  highlighted stations.
94
95* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
96
97* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
98  the tilt from plan to elevation.
99
100* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
101  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
102
103* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
104  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
105  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
106
107* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
108  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
109
110* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
111
112* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
113
114* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
115
116* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
117  run by an unprivileged user.
118
119* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
120  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
121  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
122
123* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
124  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
125
126* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
127
128* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
129  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
130
131* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
132  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
133
134* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
135  if it isn't.
136
137* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
138  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
139
140* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
141  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
142
143* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
144  reset to default view as well).
145
146* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
147  empty.
148
149* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
150  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
151
152* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
153  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
154  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
155
156* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
157  and non-zero width lines.
158
159* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
160  was turned on.
161
162* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
163  not always being fully written.
164
165Changes in 1.1.7:
166
167* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
168  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
169  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
170  date near the middle of that period).
171
172* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
173  with MS Windows).
174
175* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
176  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
177  several surveys in the same directory).
178
179* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
180  our for them to include that knowledge.
181
182* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
183
184* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
185  moved off a station.
186
187* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
188  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
189
190* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
191
192* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
193  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
194
195* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
196  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
197  dialogs.
198
199* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
200  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
201
202* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
203  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
204  introduced in 1.1.6).
205
206* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
207  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
208  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
209
210* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
211  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
212
213* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
214
215* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
216
217Changes in 1.1.6:
218
219* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
220  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
221
222* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
223  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
224  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
225  3d file.
226
227* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
228
229* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
230
231* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
232  Instead turn off depth colouring.
233
234* aven: Export as HPGL added.
235
236* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
237  Martin Green).
238
239* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
240  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
241  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
242
243* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
244
245* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
246  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
247
248* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
249  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
250  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
251  of everything else.
252
253* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
254  presentation icons.
255
256* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
257  keyboard focus there.
258
259* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
260
261* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
262
263* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
264
265* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
266
267* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
268  language to use for messages.
269
270* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
271  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
272
273* Removed old printer drivers.
274
275* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
276  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
277
278Changes in 1.1.5:
279
280* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
281
282* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
283
284* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
285  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
286
287* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
288  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
289 
290* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
291
292* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
293  underground legs is toggled.
294
295* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
296  attached to the previous data.
297
298* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
299  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
300  them.
301
302Changes in 1.1.4:
303
304* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
305
306* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
307  continental European countries).
308
309* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
310  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
311  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
312
313* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
314
315* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
316  they're needed.
317
318* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
319
320* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
321
322* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
323
324* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
325  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
326  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
327
328* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
329
330Changes in 1.1.3:
331
332* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
333
334* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
335
336* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
337
338* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
339
340* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
341
342* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
343
344* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
345  when there's a presentation loaded.
346
347* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
348  in cave view.
349
350* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
351
352* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
353  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
354  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
355
356* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
357  filename for file history and window title.
358
359* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
360  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
361  only needed with GTK1.2.
362
363* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
364
365* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
366
367* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
368
369* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
370
371Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
372
373* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
374  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
375  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
376
377* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
378  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
379
380* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
381  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
382  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
383  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
384
385* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
386
387* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
388  with --help and --version.
389
390* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
391  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
392  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
393  Fixed all these problems.
394
395* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
396  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
397  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
398
399* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
400  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
401  sources.
402
403* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
404
405* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
406
407* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
408  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
409
410* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
411  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
412  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
413  animating.
414
415* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
416
417* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
418
419* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
420  to this branch.
421
422* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
423
424  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
425
426  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
427
428  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
429
430* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
431
432* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
433  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
434
435* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
436
437* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
438  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
439
440* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
441
442* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
443  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
444  for anyone building from CVS).
445
446* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
447
448* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
449
450* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
451
452* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
453
454* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
455  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
456  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
457
458* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
459  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
460
461* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
462
463* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
464  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
465  loaded).
466
467* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
468
469Changes in 1.1.1:
470
471* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
472  startup.
473
474* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
475  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
476
477Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
478
479* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
480  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
481  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
482
483* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
484  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
485  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
486
487* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
488  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
489  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
490
491* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
492
493* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
494  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
495
496* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
497  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
498
499* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
500  better use of screen space.
501
502* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
503
504* aven: Perspective view.
505
506* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
507
508* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
509  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
510
511* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
512  and load/save/run them.
513
514* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
515
516* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
517
518* aven: Depth fogging option.
519
520* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
521
522* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
523
524* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
525  showing the surface legs.
526
527* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
528
529Changes in 1.0.32:
530
531* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
532
533* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
534  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
535
536* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
537  extend elevations.
538
539* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
540
541* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
542  default button.
543
544* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
545  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
546
547* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
548
549* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
550  - previously this was being ignored.
551
552* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
553
554* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
555  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
556  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
557  pixel too small on Windows.
558
559* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
560  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
561  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
562
563* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
564  with pretty much every other application.
565
566* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
567  within aven.
568
569* aven: Updated a few icons.
570
571* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
572
573* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
574
575* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
576  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
577  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
578  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
579  doubt anyone is still using that...
580
581* Updates to German translation.
582
583Changes in 1.0.31:
584
585* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
586  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
587
588* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
589  grid is enabled or not.
590
591* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
592
593* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
594  translations.
595
596* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
597
598Changes in 1.0.30:
599
600* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
601
602* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
603
604* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
605
606* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
607  flagged as surface and underground.
608
609* Romanian translation mostly completed.
610
611* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
612
613Changes in 1.0.29:
614
615* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
616  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
617
618* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
619
620* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
621
622* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
623  from John Pybus).
624
625* Romanian translation started.
626
627* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
628  menu files.
629
630Changes in 1.0.28:
631
632* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
633  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
634
635Changes in 1.0.27:
636
637* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
638  layers.
639
640* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
641
642Changes in 1.0.26:
643
644* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
645  calculated as zero.
646
647* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
648
649* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
650
651* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
652
653* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
654  we must apply resources *after* installing.
655
656* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
657
658* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
659  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
660  of their choice.
661
662* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
663  installed.
664
665* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
666  worked).
667
668* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
669  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
670
671* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
672
673* Documentation updated.
674
675* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
676  documentation!
677
678* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
679
680* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
681
682* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
683  most of them.
684
685* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
686
687Changes in 1.0.25:
688
689* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
690
691* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
692  the box on more Unix platforms.
693
694* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
695
696* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
697  insurmountable technical problems.
698
699Changes in 1.0.24:
700
701* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
702
703* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
704  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
705
706* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
707
708* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
709
710* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
711  (and probably some other Unix versions).
712
713* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
714
715Changes in 1.0.23:
716
717* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
718  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
719  to manual.
720
721* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
722
723* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
724  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
725
726* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
727  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
728  Windows.
729
730* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
731
732* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
733
734Changes in 1.0.22:
735
736* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
737  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
738
739* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
740  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
741  code).
742
743Changes in 1.0.21:
744
745* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
746  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
747  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
748  Compass .MAK files.
749
750* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
751  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
752
753* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
754
755* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
756  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
757  per station.
758
759* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
760  unusual circumstances.
761
762* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
763  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
764  over an previous version.
765
766Changes in 1.0.20:
767
768* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
769
770* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
771  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
772  correction was about 57 times too large!)
773
774* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
775  insert a survey separator character.
776
777* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
778
779Changes in 1.0.19:
780
781* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
782  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
783  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
784
785* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
786  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
787  files are handled).
788
789* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
790  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
791
792* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
793
794* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
795  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
796  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
797
798* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
799
800* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
801  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
802  crash.
803
804* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
805
806* Documentation: minor updates.
807
808Changes in 1.0.18:
809
810* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
811
812* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
813  instead.
814
815* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
816  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
817
818* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
819  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
820  to the aven subpackage.
821
822* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
823
824* Updated TODO list.
825
826Changes in 1.0.17:
827
828* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
829  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
830  its own icon.
831
832* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
833  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
834  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
835  refresh the view.
836
837* Minor update to manual.
838
839Changes in 1.0.16:
840
841* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
842  programs from finding the message files.
843
844* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
845  files.
846
847Changes in 1.0.15:
848
849* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
850  programs from finding the message files.
851
852* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
853  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
854  obtained with the right mouse button.
855
856Changes in 1.0.14:
857
858* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
859  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
860  from Activeware.
861
862* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
863  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
864  separator between survey name and station name.
865
866* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
867  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
868
869* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
870  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
871
872* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
873
874* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
875  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
876
877* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
878
879* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
880  DIRECTION reading.
881
882* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
883
884* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
885  have taken up.
886
887* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
888  once again.  Added regression test for this.
889
890* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
891  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
892
893* Updated documentation.
894
895Changes in 1.0.13:
896
897* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
898  connecting arbitrary stations.
899
900* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
901  join.
902
903* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
904  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
905  and everything should work exactly as before.
906
907* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
908  currently translated.
909
910Changes in 1.0.12:
911
912* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
913
914* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
915
916* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
917  (both cover Eastern European languages).
918
919* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
920  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
921  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
922  permission to include the icon).
923
924* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
925  again.
926
927* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
928  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
929
930* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
931
932* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
933
934Changes in 1.0.11:
935
936* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
937  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
938  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
939  and as intended on 2.3.
940
941* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
942  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
943  '.').
944
945* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
946  autorotation.
947
948* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
949
950* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
951
952* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
953  double-clicking or from the command line.
954
955* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
956
957* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
958
959* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
960
961* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
962
963* Updates to Italian translation.
964
965* Minor documentation updates.
966
967Changes in 1.0.10:
968
969* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
970  names.
971
972* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
973  successfully.
974
975* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
976  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
977  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
978
979* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
980  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
981
982* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
983  factor was being applied backwards!)
984
985* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
986  be opened.
987
988* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
989
990* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
991
992* Updates to German and Italian translations.
993
994Changes in 1.0.9:
995
996* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
997
998* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
999
1000* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
1001  end of each line).
1002
1003* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
1004  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
1005  them).
1006
1007* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
1008
1009Changes in 1.0.8:
1010
1011* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
1012
1013* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
1014  responsiveness.
1015
1016* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
1017  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
1018  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
1019
1020* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
1021  the program).
1022
1023* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
1024
1025* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
1026  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
1027
1028* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
1029  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
1030
1031* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
1032  right mouse button.
1033
1034* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
1035  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
1036  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
1037
1038* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
1039  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
1040  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
1041  approximately 1mm/pixel.
1042
1043* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
1044  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
1045
1046* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
1047  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
1048
1049* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
1050
1051* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
1052  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
1053
1054* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
1055  pages on rare occasions.
1056
1057* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
1058
1059* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
1060
1061* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
1062  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
1063  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
1064  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
1065  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
1066
1067* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
1068  underground surveys.
1069
1070* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
1071
1072* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
1073  now it gives the correct error message.
1074
1075* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
1076  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
1077
1078* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
1079  of data which was rejected because of an error.
1080
1081* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
1082
1083* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
1084  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
1085
1086* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
1087  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
1088  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
1089  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
1090  by default).
1091
1092* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
1093  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
1094  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
1095
1096* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
1097  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
1098  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1099
1100* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
1101  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
1102  been removed.
1103
1104Changes in 1.0.7:
1105
1106* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1107
1108Changes in 1.0.6:
1109
1110* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
1111
1112* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
1113  exit with Delete) improved.
1114
1115* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
1116  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
1117
1118* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
1119
1120* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
1121  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
1122
1123* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
1124  with no clino information).
1125
1126* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
1127  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
1128
1129* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
1130
1131* Spell-checked documentation.
1132
1133Changes in 1.0.5:
1134
1135* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
1136  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1137
1138* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
1139
1140* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1141  structure for Compass to read them now.
1142
1143* Documentation updates.
1144
1145Changes in 1.0.4:
1146
1147* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1148  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1149
1150* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1151  output format.
1152
1153* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1154
1155* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1156  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1157
1158* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1159  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1160  on Microsoft Windows.
1161
1162* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1163
1164* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1165
1166* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1167  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1168  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1169  special case better.
1170
1171* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1172  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1173  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1174  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1175
1176* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1177  out packaging now...
1178
1179* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1180
1181* Documentation updates.
1182
1183Changes in 1.0.3:
1184
1185* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1186  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1187  of degrees.
1188
1189* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1190
1191* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1192
1193* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1194  written.
1195
1196* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1197  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1198
1199* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1200
1201Changes in 1.0.2:
1202
1203* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1204  print.ini etc.
1205
1206* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1207  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1208
1209* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1210
1211* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1212
1213* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1214
1215* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1216
1217* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1218  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1219
1220* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1221  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1222
1223* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1224  .3d files.
1225
1226Changes in 1.0.1:
1227
1228* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1229  ticks.
1230
1231* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1232
1233Changes in 1.0.0:
1234
1235* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1236
1237* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1238  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1239
1240* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1241  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1242  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1243
1244* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1245
1246* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1247  instead of "survex file.svx".
1248
1249* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1250  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1251  with a lower optimisation level.
1252
1253* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1254  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1255  "in directory" build.
1256
1257* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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