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3Changes in 1.4.17 (2025-03-??):
4
5* aven: Add support for exaggerating Z.  You can now set a Z scale factor
6  from 0.1 to 10.0 via a new widget on the toolbar.  Fixes #49.
7
8* aven: The cavern log window now choses foreground and background colours
9  based on the desktop's light mode/dark mode setting.  Previously it
10  used the default window colour but always used black text, which made it
11  hard to read with a dark desktop theme.
12
13* aven: The station search feature now uses the standard search
14  widget on GTK 3.6 or later and on macOS.  There's now a placeholder
15  text shown when there's no search to make it clearer what this
16  widget is for.
17
18* aven: There's currently a cavern bug where it can fail to identify all
19  traverses which are not involved in loop closure, which results in the .3d
20  file contains error information for them (unfortunately this seems tricky to
21  fully fix).  This error information is always zero, so as a workaround aven
22  attempts to detect these so that "colour by error" shows them as "not in
23  loop".  This workaround previously only checked for E being zero, but now
24  H and V are both also required to be zero.  This should help avoid some very
25  low error traverses being incorrectly treated as "not in loop", although in
26  practice I've not yet found a real world case where this actually makes a
27  difference.
28
29* aven: Fix the output encoding of `aven --help`, `--version`, etc.
30  Previously these were always encoded as UTF-8 which is usually right
31  on a modern system, but the terminal could be using a different
32  encoding.
33
34* aven: Reduce startup overhead a little when the terminal has a UTF-8
35  locale (which is now the default on most Linux distros).
36
37* cavern: Fix an "assertion failed" error in some situations when
38  equating to a fixed point.  This bug was introduced by changes
39  in 1.4.13.  Fixes #143, reported by Juan Corrin.
40
41* cavern: The syntax of *copyright commands is now checked and a warning
42  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
43
44* cavern: The syntax of *team commands is now checked and a warning
45  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
46
47* cavern: Stop reporting node stats.  These are kind of interesting, but
48  with the widespread use of Disto-X and similar devices which can easily
49  shoot multiple splay legs from each station means the number of larger order
50  nodes has increased and this information is now quite verbose and any utility
51  it had has substantially declined.  If these statistics are still wanted then
52  they could make a reappearance in the future in aven, with splays excluded
53  when counting the number of legs at each station.  Fixes #86, reported by
54  Wookey.
55
56* cavern: Fix wrong "unused fixed point" warning with *solve.
57
58* cavern: Fix double counting of stations which are referenced both before and
59  after *solve.
60
61* cavern: Suppress loop and component counts if *solve is used.  Our component
62  count was often wrong in this case but this looks very hard to fix.  These
63  counts are not vital so better to omit than report wrong values.
64
65* cavern: The "Equating two equal fixed points" warning now lists the
66  stations on the same order as they are in the `.svx` file which
67  seems clearer.
68
69* Speed up reading and writing of .3d files.  The time to read a large .3d file
70  and just count the stations and legs was more than halved by this change.
71
72* Simplify handling of errors loading the messages file.  The error
73  messages for this case are now stored as separate ASCII strings in
74  the executables which reduces the startup overhead a little as we
75  no longer need to scan them and potentially reencode them.
76
77* img library: The img struct's filename_opened member was always NULL when
78  used outside of Survex (and set but never actually used inside of Survex)
79  so it has been removed.  If you are referencing it in your code then instead
80  use the filename you passed to img_open_survey() when opening the file.
81
82* Documentation: Add details of warning about future dates in *date.
83
84* Documentation: Added new manual chapter on the img library.
85
86* Documentation: Improve comments document API in img.h.
87
88* Testsuite: Add proper test coverage for `*ref`.
89
90* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
91
92* Portability: Eliminate unintended use of a C++17 feature (static_assert
93  with only one argument).
94
95* Portability: Avoid compiler warnings/errors in getopt code by properly
96  declaring getenv().
97
98Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
99
100* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
101  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
102  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
103  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
104
105* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
106  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
107  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
108  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
109
110* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
111  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
112  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
113  Eric C. Landgraf.
114
115* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
116  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
117  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
118
119* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
120  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
121  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
122  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
123
124* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
125
126* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
127  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
128  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
129  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
130  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
131
132* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
133
134* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
135
136* Various minor improvements to documentation.
137
138* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
139
140Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
141
142* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
143  overlay.
144
145* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
146  Fixes #110
147
148* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
149  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
150
151* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
152  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
153  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
154
155* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
156  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
157
158* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
159  on x86.
160
161Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
162
163* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
164  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
165  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
166
167* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
168  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
169  in 1.4.13.
170
171* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
172
173* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
174  naming.
175
176* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
177
178* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
179  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
180  candidate stations).
181
182Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
183
184* aven:
185
186  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
187    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
188
189  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
190    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
191    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
192
193  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
194    show.
195
196  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
197    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
198    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
199
200* cavern:
201
202  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
203    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
204    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
205
206  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
207    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
208    by the same amount in these cases.
209
210  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
211    unconnected survey stations.
212
213  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
214
215  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
216    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
217
218  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
219    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
220    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
221    Eric C. Landgraf.
222
223  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
224    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
225    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
226    situation.
227
228  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
229    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
230    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
231
232  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
233    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
234    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
235    network.
236
237  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
238    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
239    which should be faster.
240
241  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
242    more efficient way.
243
244* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
245
246* Documentation:
247
248  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
249    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
250    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
251    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
252    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
253    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
254    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
255
256* Test suite:
257
258  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
259    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
260    excess precision.
261
262* Assorted translation updates.
263
264Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
265
266* aven:
267
268  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
269    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
270    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
271    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
272    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
273    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
274    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
275
276* cavern:
277
278  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
279    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
280    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
281    an error.
282
283  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
284    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
285    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
286    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
287    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
288    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
289    measurable).
290
291  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
292    less memory.
293
294* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
295  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
296  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
297  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
298
299* Testsuite:
300
301  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
302
303  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
304    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
305    precision.
306
307* img library:
308
309  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
310    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
311    from Thomas Holder.
312
313  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
314    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
315
316Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
317
318* aven:
319
320  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
321    C. Landgraf.
322
323* aven/survexport:
324
325  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
326    addresses #60.
327
328  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
329    1:40000).
330
331  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
332    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
333
334  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
335    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
336    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
337    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
338    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
339
340* cavern:
341
342  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
343    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
344
345  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
346    bad reading was quietly ignored).
347
348  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
349    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
350    for example:
351
352     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
353      *end   bar
354             ^~~
355     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
356      *begin      foo
357                  ^~~
358
359  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
360    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
361
362  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
363    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
364    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
365    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
366    an error.
367
368    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
369    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
370
371  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
372    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
373    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
374
375  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
376    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
377    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
378
379  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
380    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
381    handled more consistently.
382
383  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
384    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
385
386  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
387
388  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
389
390    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
391      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
392      use the datum.
393
394    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
395      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
396      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
397
398* Documentation:
399
400  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
401    definition in `*units` docs.
402
403  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
404
405* Assorted translation updates.
406
407* testsuite:
408
409  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
410    comparing with expected output.
411
412* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
413
414  + `*cartesian` added
415
416  + `*data ignore` added
417
418  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
419
420  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
421
422  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
423    lines
424
425  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
426
427  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
428    because there's a comment after the filename
429
430  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
431    whitespace between `*` and `include`
432
433Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
434
435* aven:
436
437  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
438    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
439    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
440    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
441    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
442    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
443    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
444    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
445
446* aven/survexport:
447
448  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
449    1.4.6).
450
451  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
452
453  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
454    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
455    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
456    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
457    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
458    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
459    survey.
460
461  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
462
463* cavern:
464
465  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
466    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
467    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
468    warns about them.
469
470    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
471    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
472    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
473    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
474
475    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
476
477  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
478    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
479    connected to it.
480
481  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
482    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
483    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
484    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
485    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
486    traverse.
487
488  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
489
490  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
491    it actually was:
492
493      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
494
495  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
496
497    - After an anonymous station.
498
499    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
500      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
501      or end of line.
502
503    - In a `*alias` command.
504
505    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
506
507  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
508    `cartesian` style data.
509
510  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
511
512  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
513    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
514    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
515    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
516    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
517
518  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
519    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
520    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
521    example.
522
523  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
524    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
525    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
526    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
527    when viewing the log in aven.
528
529  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
530    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
531    datasets):
532
533    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
534
535    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
536      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
537
538    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
539      `ORDER=ADV`).
540
541    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
542
543    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
544      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
545      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
546      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
547      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
548      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
549      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
550      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
551
552    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
553
554    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
555
556    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
557      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
558      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
559
560    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
561      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
562
563    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
564
565    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
566
567    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
568
569    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
570      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
571      is present in some real-world data.
572
573    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
574      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
575
576    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
577      of it we do handle!
578
579    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
580      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
581      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
582      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
583
584    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
585      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
586
587    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
588      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
589
590    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
591
592    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
593
594    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
595      values are currently ignored.
596
597    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
598      them is currently ignored.
599
600    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
601      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
602      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
603      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
604      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
605
606    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
607
608* documentation:
609
610  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
611    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
612    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
613    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
614
615    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
616    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
617    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
618
619    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
620    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
621    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
622    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
623
624    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
625    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
626    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
627    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
628
629  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
630
631  + Document PLT export.
632
633  + Minor improvements to --help output
634
635  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
636    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
637    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
638    C. Landgraf.
639
640  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
641
642  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
643
644  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
645
646  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
647
648  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
649
650* testsuite:
651
652  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
653
654  + Add expected output for more testcases
655
656  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
657
658  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
659    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
660    instructions.
661
662  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
663
664* translations:
665
666  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
667    more natural word order in a translated message.
668
669Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
670
671* aven:
672
673  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
674    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
675    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
676    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
677    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
678    files - set the filter to "All Files" to chose other formats.
679
680  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
681    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
682    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
683    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
684    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
685    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
686    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
687    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
688    we could add it to the new implementation.
689
690  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
691    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
692    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
693    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
694    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
695    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
696    command line or from some other launcher.
697
698* cavern:
699
700  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
701    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
702    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
703    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
704    encouragement.
705
706  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
707    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
708    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
709
710  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
711    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
712    quietly misinterpreting the data.
713
714  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
715    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
716    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
717    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
718
719  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
720    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
721
722  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
723
724  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
725    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
726    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
727    used to have "info" diagnostics.
728
729  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
730    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
731    "info" category is more appropriate here.
732
733  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
734    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
735    which may be useful to the user.
736
737  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
738    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
739    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
740    happened in a released version.
741
742  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
743    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
744    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
745
746* dump3d:
747
748  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
749    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
750    true on all platforms.
751
752* manual:
753
754  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
755    with/without admin rights.
756
757  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
758    limitations.
759
760  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
761    section.
762
763  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
764    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
765    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
766    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
767
768* img library:
769
770  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
771    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
772    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
773
774  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
775    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
776
777  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
778    stations in loops.
779
780  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
781    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
782
783  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
784    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
785
786  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
787    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
788    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
789    as "unknown date".
790
791* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
792  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
793  environment variable for this.
794
795* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
796  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
797  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
798  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
799  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
800  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
801
802* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
803  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
804  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
805
806* Build system:
807
808  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
809
810  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
811    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
812
813  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
814    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
815
816* testsuite:
817
818  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
819    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
820    problem.
821
822  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
823
824Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
825
826* cavern:
827
828  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
829    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
830    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
831    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
832    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
833
834  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
835    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
836    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
837    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
838
839  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
840    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
841
842  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
843    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
844    failed on some architectures.
845
846* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
847
848* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
849  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
850  rights.
851
852* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
853  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
854  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
855  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
856
857Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
858
859* cavern:
860
861  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
862    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
863    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
864    the second and subsequent locations.
865
866  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
867    containing non-ASCII characters.
868
869  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
870    warnings.
871
872  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
873
874  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
875
876  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
877    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
878    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
879    files.
880
881* img library:
882
883  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
884    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
885
886  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
887    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
888    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
889    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
890    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
891    realloc().
892
893* Portability:
894
895  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
896    versions.
897
898  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
899
900* Build system:
901
902  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
903
904* Manual:
905
906  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
907
908  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
909
910* Minor translation updates.
911
912* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
913  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
914  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
915  managed to reproduce.
916
917Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
918
919* cavern:
920
921  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
922    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
923    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
924    mailing list.
925
926  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
927    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
928    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
929    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
930
931  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
932    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
933    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
934    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
935    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
936    the whole specified filename to upper case.
937
938  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
939    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
940    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
941    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
942    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
943    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
944
945  + Compass DAT files:
946
947    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
948
949    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
950      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
951      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
952      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
953      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
954      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
955
956    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
957      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
958
959    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
960
961    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
962      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
963      being in metres.
964
965    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
966      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
967
968    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
969      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
970      unlikely to occur in real data.
971
972    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
973      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
974      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
975      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
976      itself for DAT files.
977
978  + Compass MAK files:
979
980    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
981      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
982      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
983
984    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
985      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
986      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
987      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
988      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
989      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
990      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
991      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
992      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
993      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
994      supported would be useful to you.
995
996    - Folder commands are now understood.
997
998    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
999      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
1000      counts from 0 at these points).
1001
1002  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
1003    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
1004    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
1005    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
1006    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
1007
1008* aven:
1009
1010  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
1011    Philip Balister.
1012
1013  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
1014    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
1015    together.
1016
1017* aven/survexport:
1018
1019  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
1020
1021  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
1022    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
1023    are enabled.
1024
1025  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
1026
1027  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
1028    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
1029    all of a set of equated stations.
1030
1031  + .plt:
1032
1033    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
1034      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
1035      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
1036      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
1037
1038    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
1039      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
1040      Compass docs).
1041
1042* img library:
1043
1044  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
1045    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
1046    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
1047    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
1048    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
1049    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
1050    default).
1051
1052  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
1053    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
1054
1055    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
1056      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
1057      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
1058
1059    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
1060
1061    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
1062      Entrance" field is present and zero.
1063
1064    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
1065
1066    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
1067      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
1068      format specification says:
1069
1070          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
1071          wall to define the passage shape.
1072
1073    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1074      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1075      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1076      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1077      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1078      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1079
1080    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
1081      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
1082
1083    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
1084      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
1085      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
1086      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
1087      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
1088      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
1089      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
1090      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
1091      mixed datums would be useful to you.
1092
1093    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
1094      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
1095
1096    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1097      than one survey in the PLT file.
1098
1099    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1100      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1101
1102    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1103      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1104      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1105      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1106      the comment for that survey as before.
1107
1108    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1109      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1110      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1111      it being omitted too.
1112
1113* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1114
1115* manual:
1116
1117  + Document Compass support in detail.
1118
1119  + Improve NATO mils example.
1120
1121* INSTALL:
1122
1123  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1124    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1125
1126  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1127    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1128
1129* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1130
1131* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1132  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1133
1134* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1135  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1136  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1137
1138* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1139
1140Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1141
1142* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1143
1144* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1145  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1146
1147* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1148
1149* Minor translation updates.
1150
1151Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1152
1153* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1154  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1155
1156* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1157  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1158  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1159  checks that were rejecting this.
1160
1161  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1162  really do that's better than that.
1163
1164  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1165
1166* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1167  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1168  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1169  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1170  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1171
1172* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1173  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1174
1175* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1176  bearing spin control.
1177
1178* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1179  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1180  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1181  currently but please report issues.
1182
1183* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1184  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1185  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1186  position".
1187
1188* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1189  Reported by echarlie
1190
1191* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1192
1193Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1194
1195* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1196
1197* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1198  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1199
1200* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1201  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1202
1203* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1204  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1205
1206* Minor translation updates.
1207
1208* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1209  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1210  works on Wayland).
1211
1212* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1213  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1214
1215* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1216
1217* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1218  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1219  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1220
1221Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1222
1223* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1224
1225* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1226
1227* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1228  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1229
1230* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1231  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1232  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1233  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1234
1235* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1236  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1237  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1238
1239* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1240  string properly.
1241
1242* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1243  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1244  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1245  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1246  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1247  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1248  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1249
1250* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1251  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1252
1253  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1254
1255* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1256  where the included filename is actually specified.
1257
1258* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1259  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1260
1261* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1262  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1263  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1264
1265* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1266  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1267
1268* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1269  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1270  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1271  anyway.
1272
1273* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1274  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1275
1276* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1277
1278* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1279  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1280  inconvenience anyone.
1281
1282Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1283
1284* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1285
1286* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1287  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1288  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1289  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1290
1291* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1292  in 1.4.0.
1293
1294* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1295
1296Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1297
1298* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1299  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1300  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1301  Couwenberg.
1302
1303  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1304  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1305  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1306  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1307
1308  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1309  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1310
1311* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1312  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1313  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1314
1315* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1316  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1317  strings is strongly discouraged.
1318
1319  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1320
1321  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1322
1323  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1324  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1325
1326* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1327  Green.
1328
1329* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1330  echarlie.
1331
1332* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1333  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1334  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1335
1336* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1337
1338* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1339
1340* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1341
1342* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1343
1344* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1345  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1346  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1347
1348Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1349
1350* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1351  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1352  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1353  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1354  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1355
1356* aven:
1357
1358  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1359    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1360    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1361    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1362    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1363    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1364
1365* testsuite:
1366
1367  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1368    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1369    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1370    process exits.
1371
1372* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1373
1374Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1375
1376* aven:
1377
1378  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1379
1380* cavern:
1381
1382  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1383
1384  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1385    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1386    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1387
1388  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1389    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1390    until the next *data command with parameters.
1391
1392  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1393    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1394
1395  * Improve test coverage.
1396
1397* survexport:
1398
1399  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1400    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1401
1402  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1403    Batista.
1404
1405* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1406  Holder.
1407
1408* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1409  from Thomas Holder.
1410
1411* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1412  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1413
1414* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1415
1416* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1417
1418* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1419
1420* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1421
1422* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1423
1424Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1425
1426* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1427  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1428  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1429
1430* aven:
1431
1432  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1433    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1434    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1435
1436  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1437    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1438    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1439    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1440
1441  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1442    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1443    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1444
1445  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1446
1447Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1448
1449* aven:
1450
1451  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1452
1453  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1454    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1455    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1456
1457  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1458    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1459    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1460    orientation.
1461
1462* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1463  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1464  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1465  Richard Knapp.
1466
1467* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1468  might still need to use them for.
1469
1470* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1471
1472* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1473
1474* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1475  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1476  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1477  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1478
1479* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1480  is now the recommended approach.
1481
1482Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1483
1484* aven:
1485
1486  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1487    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1488    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1489    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1490    Brian Clipstone.
1491
1492  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1493    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1494
1495Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1496
1497* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1498  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1499  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1500
1501* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1502  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1503  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1504  with some compilers.
1505
1506* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1507  installed.
1508
1509Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1510
1511* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1512  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1513  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1514
1515* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1516  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1517  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1518
1519* aven:
1520
1521  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1522    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1523    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1524    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1525    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1526    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1527    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1528    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1529    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1530    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1531    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1532
1533  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1534
1535* Documentation:
1536
1537  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1538
1539  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1540    placeholder.
1541
1542  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1543    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1544
1545* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1546  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1547  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1548
1549* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1550  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1551  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1552  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1553  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1554  location to avoid confusion.
1555
1556* Add a few more message translations.
1557
1558* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1559
1560Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1561
1562* cavern:
1563
1564  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1565    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1566    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1567    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1568    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1569
1570  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1571    now reports "file not found" instead.
1572
1573  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1574    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1575    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1576
1577* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1578
1579* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1580  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1581  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1582  removed.
1583
1584* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1585  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1586  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1587  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1588
1589Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1590
1591* aven:
1592
1593  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1594    controllable.
1595
1596  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1597
1598  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1599    Patch from Robert Jones.
1600
1601  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1602    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1603    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1604
1605  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1606    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1607
1608* cavern:
1609
1610  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1611    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1612
1613  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1614    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1615    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1616    go unnoticed.
1617
1618* survexport:
1619
1620  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1621    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1622    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1623
1624  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1625    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1626    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1627    Stephen Crabtree.
1628
1629* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1630
1631* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1632  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1633
1634* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1635  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1636  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1637  therion's team command.
1638
1639Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1640
1641* aven:
1642
1643  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1644
1645  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1646    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1647    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1648    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1649    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1650    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1651    for new entrances.
1652
1653  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1654    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1655    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1656    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1657
1658  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1659
1660  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1661    to show via the right-click menu.
1662
1663  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1664    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1665    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1666    child surveys of the parent.
1667
1668  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1669    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1670    survey.
1671
1672  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1673    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1674
1675  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1676
1677  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1678    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1679
1680  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1681    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1682    filtering this matters more).
1683
1684* survexport:
1685
1686  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1687    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1688
1689  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1690
1691* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1692
1693* Minor translation updates.
1694
1695* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1696
1697* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1698
1699* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1700
1701Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1702
1703* aven:
1704
1705  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
1706    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
1707    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
1708    on screen, printed and exported.
1709
1710  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
1711    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
1712    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
1713    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
1714    survey.
1715
1716  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
1717    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
1718    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
1719    view.  Reported by Wookey.
1720
1721  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
1722    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
1723    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
1724
1725  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
1726    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
1727
1728  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
1729    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
1730
1731  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
1732    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
1733
1734  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
1735    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
1736
1737  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
1738    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
1739
1740* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
1741  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
1742  tools could do, plus much more.
1743
1744* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
1745
1746* Minor updates to various other translations.
1747
1748* img library:
1749
1750  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
1751
1752  + Improve API documentation.
1753
1754* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
1755  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
1756  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
1757
1758* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
1759  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
1760  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
1761  control what gets exported.
1762
1763Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
1764
1765* aven:
1766
1767  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1768    of 1.2.33.
1769
1770  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
1771
1772Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
1773
1774* aven:
1775
1776  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
1777    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
1778    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
1779    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
1780
1781  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
1782    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
1783    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
1784    Erin Lynch.
1785
1786  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
1787    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
1788    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
1789
1790  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
1791    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
1792    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
1793    unnecessarily.
1794
1795  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
1796    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
1797    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
1798    for this control).
1799
1800  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
1801    under GTK3.
1802
1803  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
1804    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
1805    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
1806
1807  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
1808    current development version).
1809
1810  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
1811    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
1812    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
1813
1814* cavern:
1815
1816  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
1817    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
1818    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
1819    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
1820    "19".
1821
1822* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
1823  Evaristo Quiroga.
1824
1825* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
1826
1827* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
1828  milosch.
1829
1830* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
1831  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
1832  translated messages.
1833
1834* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
1835  Indonesian and Polish.
1836
1837* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
1838  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
1839  Reported by Martin Sluka.
1840
1841* Fix a few compiler warnings.
1842
1843* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
1844  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
1845  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
1846
1847* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
1848
1849  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
1850    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
1851    but happens to fail if it isn't.
1852
1853  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
1854
1855  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
1856
1857  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
1858
1859* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
1860  detected at run time on macOS.
1861
1862* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
1863  by the homebrew formula.
1864
1865* buildmacosx.sh:
1866
1867  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
1868    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
1869
1870  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
1871
1872* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
1873  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
1874
1875Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
1876
1877* aven:
1878
1879  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
1880    and Anthony Day.
1881
1882  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
1883    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
1884    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
1885    Erin Lynch in #89.
1886
1887  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
1888    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
1889    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
1890    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
1891    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
1892    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
1893    elevations.
1894
1895  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
1896    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
1897    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
1898
1899  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
1900    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
1901    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
1902    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
1903    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
1904    "on".
1905
1906  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
1907    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
1908
1909  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
1910    the display wouldn't update right away.
1911
1912* Manual:
1913
1914  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
1915
1916  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
1917
1918* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
1919  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
1920  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
1921  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
1922  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
1923
1924Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
1925
1926* aven:
1927
1928  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
1929    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
1930    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
1931
1932  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
1933    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
1934    before by others.
1935
1936  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
1937
1938  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
1939    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
1940    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
1941    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
1942    original change.
1943
1944  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
1945    which extends beyond the end of the line).
1946
1947  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
1948    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
1949
1950  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
1951
1952  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
1953
1954  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
1955    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
1956    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
1957    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
1958    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
1959    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
1960    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
1961
1962  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
1963    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
1964
1965  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
1966    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
1967    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
1968
1969  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
1970    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
1971    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
1972    much vertical range.
1973
1974  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
1975    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
1976    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
1977    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
1978    are drawn in this way.
1979
1980  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
1981    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
1982    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
1983    centre should be a single pixel.
1984
1985* cavern:
1986
1987  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
1988    entering passage data where there are side passages.
1989
1990  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
1991    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
1992
1993  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
1994    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
1995    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
1996    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
1997
1998  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
1999    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
2000    Reported by Erin Lynch.
2001
2002  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
2003    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
2004    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
2005    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
2006
2007  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
2008    other messages.
2009
2010* extend:
2011
2012  + Now runs a bit faster.
2013
2014  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
2015    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
2016    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
2017    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
2018    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
2019    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
2020    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
2021    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
2022    be handled better) most welcome.
2023
2024* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
2025
2026* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
2027
2028* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
2029  translations from therion.
2030
2031* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
2032  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
2033
2034* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
2035  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
2036  Footleg.
2037
2038* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
2039
2040* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
2041
2042Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
2043
2044* aven:
2045
2046  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
2047    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2048
2049  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
2050    Suggested by detrito.
2051
2052  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
2053    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
2054
2055  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
2056    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
2057
2058* Add man page for dump3d.
2059
2060Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
2061
2062* aven:
2063
2064  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
2065    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
2066
2067  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
2068    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2069
2070* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
2071  Lynch and "detrito".
2072
2073* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
2074  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
2075
2076Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
2077
2078* cavern:
2079
2080  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
2081    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
2082    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
2083    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
2084    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
2085
2086  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
2087
2088  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
2089
2090  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
2091    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
2092    degrees).
2093
2094* aven:
2095
2096  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2097    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2098    Day.
2099
2100  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2101    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2102
2103  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2104    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2105
2106  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2107    of the line in cavern log window.
2108
2109  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2110
2111  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2112
2113  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2114    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2115    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2116    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2117    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2118
2119  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2120    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2121    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2122
2123  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2124
2125  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2126
2127  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2128    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2129    Atkinson and myself.
2130
2131  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2132
2133  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2134    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2135    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2136    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2137    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2138    survey.
2139
2140  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2141    lines on my netbook.
2142
2143  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2144    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2145    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2146
2147  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2148    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2149    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2150    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2151    glitches.
2152
2153  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2154    we currently list, though slower to write.
2155
2156  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2157    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2158
2159  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2160    warnings when building against a recent version.
2161
2162  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2163    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2164    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2165    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2166
2167  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2168    movie export.
2169
2170  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2171    export.
2172
2173* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2174  James Begley.
2175
2176* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2177  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2178
2179* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2180
2181* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2182  messages get used automatically.
2183
2184* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2185  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2186
2187* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2188
2189* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2190
2191* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2192
2193Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2194
2195* aven:
2196
2197  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2198    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2199    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2200    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2201    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2202    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2203    probably change in the future).
2204
2205  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2206    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2207    the survey tree root.
2208
2209  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2210    the view was recentred).
2211
2212  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2213    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2214    wrong direction).
2215
2216  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2217    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2218    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2219
2220  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2221    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2222    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2223    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2224
2225  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2226    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2227
2228  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2229    addresses #60.
2230
2231  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2232
2233  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2234    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2235    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2236
2237  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2238
2239  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2240    360 or down past 0.
2241
2242  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2243    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2244    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2245    real-valued ones.
2246
2247  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2248    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2249
2250  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2251    Lynch.
2252
2253  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2254
2255  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2256    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2257
2258  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2259    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2260    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2261
2262  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2263    should now work.
2264
2265* cavern:
2266
2267  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2268
2269  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2270    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2271    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2272
2273  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2274    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2275    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2276
2277  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2278    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2279    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2280    issue.
2281
2282  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2283    by patch from Colin Watson.
2284
2285  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2286
2287* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2288
2289* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2290  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2291
2292* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2293  used in the same dataset.
2294
2295* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2296  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2297
2298* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2299  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2300  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2301
2302* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2303
2304Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2305
2306* aven:
2307
2308  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2309    cavern again.
2310
2311* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2312  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2313  location and use the same start menu folder.
2314
2315* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2316  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2317
2318* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2319  by James Begley.
2320
2321Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2322
2323* aven:
2324
2325  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2326    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2327    to address.
2328
2329  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2330    over the survey tree.
2331
2332  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2333
2334  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2335    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2336
2337  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2338    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2339    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2340    encoded.
2341
2342  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2343    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2344    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2345    terminals which do still support this.
2346
2347  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2348    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2349
2350* cavern:
2351
2352  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2353    Edwards (see #78).
2354
2355  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2356    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2357    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2358    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2359
2360  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2361    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2362    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2363
2364  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2365    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2366
2367* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2368  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2369  Black.
2370
2371* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2372
2373* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2374  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2375  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2376  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2377  Black.
2378
2379* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2380  Black.
2381
2382* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2383
2384* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2385
2386* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2387
2388* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2389
2390* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2391
2392* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2393  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2394
2395* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2396  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2397  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2398
2399* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2400  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2401  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2402  privileges or not.
2403
2404Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2405
2406* aven:
2407
2408  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2409    Clipstone.
2410
2411  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2412    Reported by Jenny Black.
2413
2414  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2415    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2416    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2417
2418  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2419    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2420    messages.
2421
2422  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2423    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2424
2425* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2426  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2427
2428* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2429
2430* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2431  by Wookey.
2432
2433Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2434
2435* aven:
2436
2437  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2438    machines.
2439
2440  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2441
2442  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2443    already being processed.
2444
2445  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2446    Reported by Martin Green.
2447
2448  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2449
2450* cavern:
2451
2452  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2453    find the original survey notes).
2454
2455  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2456    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2457    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2458    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2459    progress display to be useful.
2460
2461* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2462
2463* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2464  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2465
2466* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2467  running cavern.
2468
2469* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2470  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2471  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2472
2473Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2474
2475* aven:
2476
2477  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2478    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2479    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2480    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2481    finding this fix.
2482
2483* cavern:
2484
2485  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2486
2487  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2488    station.
2489
2490  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2491    *export.
2492
2493Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2494
2495* aven:
2496
2497  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2498    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2499    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2500
2501  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2502
2503  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2504    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2505    does.
2506
2507  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2508    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2509
2510  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2511    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2512
2513  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2514    as appropriate.
2515
2516  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2517    values on Windows.
2518
2519* cavern:
2520
2521  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2522    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2523    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2524
2525  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2526    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2527
2528  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2529    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2530    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2531    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2532
2533  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2534    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2535    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2536    Atkinson.
2537
2538  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2539    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2540
2541  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2542    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2543    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2544    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2545
2546  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2547    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2548    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2549
2550* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2551  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2552  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2553  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2554
2555* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2556
2557* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2558  "*DECLINATION" command.
2559
2560* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2561  Reported by Jenny Black.
2562
2563* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2564  documentation.
2565
2566* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2567  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2568
2569* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2570
2571* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2572
2573Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2574
2575* aven:
2576
2577  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2578    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2579    the same or very similar by default.
2580
2581  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2582    Maynard.
2583
2584  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2585
2586  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2587
2588  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2589    away.
2590
2591  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2592
2593  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2594    display it.
2595
2596* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2597  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2598  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2599  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2600
2601* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2602
2603* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2604  before 1.2.19.
2605
2606* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2607  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2608
2609* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2610
2611* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2612  disk image.
2613
2614* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2615
2616* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2617  libav features we don't use.
2618
2619* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2620  a load of libav features we don't use.
2621
2622* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2623  message in the installer.
2624
2625Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2626
2627* aven:
2628
2629  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2630    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2631
2632  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2633
2634  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2635    exit full screen mode.
2636
2637  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2638    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2639    using since 1.2.7).
2640
2641  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2642    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2643    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2644    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2645    St. Lawrence.
2646
2647  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2648    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2649
2650  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2651    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2652    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2653
2654  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2655    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2656    case like we do on other platforms.
2657
2658  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2659
2660  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2661    support multi-monitor setups.
2662
2663  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2664    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2665
2666  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2667    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2668
2669  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2670    cases.
2671
2672  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2673    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2674    Erin Lynch)
2675
2676  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2677    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2678    items in in so it uses the full width.
2679
2680  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2681    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2682    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2683    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2684    window.
2685
2686  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2687    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2688    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2689    only relevant on the first ever run.
2690
2691* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2692
2693* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2694  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2695  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2696  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2697  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2698  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2699
2700* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2701  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2702
2703Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
2704
2705* aven:
2706
2707  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
2708    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
2709    rendering it as a transparent surface.
2710
2711  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
2712    sanely want to perform from the menu.
2713
2714  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
2715    colouring options.
2716
2717  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
2718
2719  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
2720    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
2721    pressing "Escape".
2722
2723  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
2724    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
2725
2726  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
2727    exporting.
2728
2729  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
2730
2731  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
2732    is quite likely to change.
2733
2734  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
2735    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
2736
2737  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
2738    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
2739    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
2740
2741  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
2742
2743  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
2744    markers in orange.
2745
2746  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
2747    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
2748
2749  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
2750    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
2751    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
2752    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
2753    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
2754    them would be better.
2755
2756  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
2757    Gee.
2758
2759  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
2760    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
2761    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
2762
2763  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
2764
2765* cavern:
2766
2767  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
2768    susscorfa).
2769
2770  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
2771    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
2772
2773  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
2774
2775  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
2776    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
2777
2778  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
2779    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
2780
2781* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
2782
2783* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
2784  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
2785  in a modern desktop.
2786
2787* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
2788  the filename in the error message.
2789
2790* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
2791  most complete translations.
2792
2793* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
2794
2795* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
2796  lacks them.
2797
2798* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
2799
2800* Manual:
2801
2802  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
2803    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
2804
2805  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
2806
2807  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
2808
2809  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
2810    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
2811    available for download.
2812
2813* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
2814  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
2815  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
2816
2817* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
2818
2819* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
2820
2821Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
2822
2823* MacOS X version:
2824
2825  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
2826
2827  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
2828
2829  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
2830
2831  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
2832
2833  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
2834    currently do this for us.
2835
2836  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
2837
2838  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
2839
2840  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
2841
2842  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
2843    OS X cursor.
2844
2845  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
2846    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
2847    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
2848    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
2849    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
2850    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
2851    with TextEdit.app for example).
2852
2853  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
2854    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
2855
2856  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
2857
2858  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
2859    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
2860
2861  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
2862    Riggs.
2863
2864  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
2865    space.
2866
2867  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
2868
2869  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
2870    10.10.1.
2871
2872  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
2873    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
2874    errors.
2875
2876  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
2877    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
2878    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
2879    wxWidgets build supports by default.
2880
2881  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
2882
2883* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
2884  treat as a single leg.
2885
2886* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
2887
2888* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
2889
2890* aven:
2891
2892  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
2893    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
2894
2895  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
2896    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
2897    1:500).
2898
2899  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
2900    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
2901    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
2902    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
2903
2904  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
2905    there rather than the two animations fighting.
2906
2907  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
2908    fast.
2909
2910  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
2911    when rotating).
2912
2913  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
2914    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
2915
2916* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
2917  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
2918
2919* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
2920
2921* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
2922
2923* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
2924
2925* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
2926
2927* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
2928  we're using git.
2929
2930* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
2931
2932  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
2933    compass.
2934
2935  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
2936
2937  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
2938
2939Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
2940
2941* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
2942
2943* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
2944
2945* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
2946
2947* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
2948  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
2949
2950* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
2951
2952* tests/: Improve test coverage.
2953
2954* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
2955  Greek and Polish.
2956
2957* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
2958  by Martin Sluka.
2959
2960* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
2961  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
2962
2963Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
2964
2965* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
2966  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
2967  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
2968  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
2969  for *cs has also been improved.
2970
2971* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
2972  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
2973  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
2974  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
2975
2976* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
2977  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
2978  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
2979  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
2980  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
2981
2982* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
2983  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
2984  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
2985
2986* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
2987
2988* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
2989
2990* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
2991  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
2992  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
2993
2994* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
2995  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
2996
2997Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
2998
2999* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
3000  system in use in 3d v8 files.
3001
3002* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
3003  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
3004  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
3005  export dialog.
3006
3007* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
3008  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
3009  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
3010  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
3011  rather than having one corner there.
3012
3013* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
3014  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
3015
3016* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
3017  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
3018
3019* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
3020  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
3021  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
3022
3023* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
3024  such as 64-bit Linux.
3025
3026* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
3027  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
3028
3029* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
3030  64-bit platforms.
3031
3032* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
3033  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
3034  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
3035
3036* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
3037  the space available in the aven UI.
3038
3039* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
3040  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
3041  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
3042
3043* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
3044  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
3045
3046* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
3047  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
3048  about unconnected surveys.
3049
3050* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
3051  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
3052
3053* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
3054  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
3055  freed memory.
3056
3057* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
3058
3059* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
3060
3061* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
3062
3063* Fix a compiler warning.
3064
3065* Improve test coverage.
3066
3067Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
3068
3069* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
3070  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
3071  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
3072
3073* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
3074  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
3075  Hugh St Lawrence.
3076
3077* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
3078  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
3079  with using aven on a touch screen device.
3080
3081* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
3082  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
3083
3084* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
3085  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
3086
3087* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
3088  off and back on.
3089
3090* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
3091  up time a little.
3092
3093* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
3094  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
3095
3096* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3097  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3098  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3099  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3100  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3101  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3102  situation too.
3103
3104* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3105  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3106  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3107
3108* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3109
3110* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3111
3112* Minor translation updates to French.
3113
3114* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3115
3116* Testsuite improvements:
3117
3118  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3119
3120  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3121    fail and give an error count.
3122
3123  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3124
3125Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3126
3127* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3128  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3129  Clipstone.
3130
3131* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3132
3133* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3134
3135  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3136    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3137
3138  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3139    clipping the border in print preview.
3140
3141  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3142
3143* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3144  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3145
3146* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3147  available.
3148
3149* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3150
3151* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3152
3153* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3154  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3155
3156* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3157  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3158
3159* Various translation updates.
3160
3161Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3162
3163* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3164  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3165
3166* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3167  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3168  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3169  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3170
3171* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3172  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3173
3174* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3175  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3176
3177* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3178  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3179
3180* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3181  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3182
3183* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3184  box".
3185
3186* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3187
3188* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3189  indicators.
3190
3191* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3192
3193* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3194  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3195  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3196
3197* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3198  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3199  measurably slower.
3200
3201* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3202  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3203
3204* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3205  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3206
3207* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3208  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3209  from Therion and elsewhere.
3210
3211* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3212  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3213  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3214
3215* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3216  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3217
3218* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3219  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3220
3221* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3222  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3223
3224* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3225
3226* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3227  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3228  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3229  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3230  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3231  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3232
3233* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3234
3235Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3236
3237* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3238  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3239  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3240  Clipstone.
3241
3242* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3243  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3244
3245* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3246  exported SVG files.
3247
3248* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3249
3250* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3251  file.
3252
3253* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3254  GPX files.
3255
3256* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3257
3258* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3259  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3260
3261* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3262  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3263  on startup.
3264
3265* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3266
3267* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3268  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3269  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3270  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3271  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3272  other extensions.
3273
3274* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3275  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3276  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3277  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3278  timezone wrong.
3279
3280* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3281
3282* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3283  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3284
3285* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3286
3287* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3288
3289* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3290  enabled.
3291
3292Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3293
3294* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3295
3296* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3297
3298* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3299
3300* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3301  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3302  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3303
3304* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3305  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3306  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3307
3308* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3309  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3310
3311* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3312
3313* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3314
3315* Fix some compiler warnings.
3316
3317Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3318
3319* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3320  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3321  Holder.
3322
3323* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3324  statistics when the value gets large.
3325
3326* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3327  equations.
3328
3329* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3330  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3331  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3332  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3333  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3334
3335* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3336  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3337
3338* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3339  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3340  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3341  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3342  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3343  way is coming soon.
3344
3345* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3346  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3347
3348* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3349  time ago, so update references.
3350
3351* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3352  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3353
3354* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3355  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3356
3357* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3358  Sebastian Ramacher.
3359
3360* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3361
3362* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3363
3364* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3365
3366* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3367
3368* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3369
3370* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3371  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3372  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3373
3374* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3375
3376* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3377
3378* img library:
3379
3380  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3381    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3382    reading).
3383
3384  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3385    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3386
3387  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3388    support these as an extension.
3389
3390  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3391
3392* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3393  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3394  itself has any translations for.
3395
3396* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3397
3398* Minor translation updates.
3399
3400* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3401
3402Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3403
3404* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3405  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3406  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3407  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3408  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3409  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3410  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3411  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3412
3413* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3414
3415  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3416
3417  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3418    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3419
3420  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3421    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3422
3423  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3424
3425  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3426    human-readable string.
3427
3428  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3429    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3430
3431* img library:
3432
3433  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3434
3435  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3436    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3437
3438  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3439    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3440    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3441    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3442    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3443    explicitly in the file.
3444
3445  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3446
3447* aven:
3448
3449  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3450    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3451    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3452    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3453    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3454    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3455
3456  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3457    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3458    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3459    queued up.
3460
3461  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3462    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3463
3464  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3465    them like other legs.
3466
3467  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3468    station names to positions.
3469
3470  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3471    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3472    wrongly.
3473
3474  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3475
3476  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3477    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3478    that's used by the desktop).
3479
3480  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3481
3482  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3483    error from cavern.
3484
3485  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3486
3487  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3488    in the dialog in sync.
3489
3490* cavern:
3491
3492  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3493    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3494    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3495
3496  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3497    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3498
3499  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3500    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3501    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3502    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3503    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3504    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3505    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3506    degrees.
3507
3508  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3509    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3510    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3511
3512  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3513
3514  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3515    warnings.
3516
3517  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3518    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3519
3520  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3521    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3522
3523  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3524    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3525    relevant.
3526
3527  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3528    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3529    the same line.
3530
3531  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3532    "End of line not blank" error.
3533
3534  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3535    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3536
3537  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3538    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3539
3540  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3541    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3542    include that character in the token reported.
3543
3544  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3545    first item.
3546
3547* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3548
3549* dump3d:
3550
3551  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3552    info from 3d files in scripts.
3553
3554  + Add --show-dates option.
3555
3556  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3557
3558  + Report the data style of legs.
3559
3560  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3561
3562  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3563
3564* Test suite:
3565
3566  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3567    expected output so it passes reliably.
3568
3569  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3570    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3571
3572  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3573    for more.
3574
3575* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3576  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3577  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3578
3579* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3580  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3581
3582* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3583  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3584
3585* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3586  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3587  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3588  settings.
3589
3590* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3591  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3592  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3593  set correctly.
3594
3595* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3596  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3597  them to translate.
3598
3599* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3600  close to complete.
3601
3602* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3603
3604* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3605
3606* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3607
3608Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3609
3610* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3611
3612* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3613  package (ticket#35).
3614
3615* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3616  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3617  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3618
3619* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3620  Kahler.
3621
3622* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3623  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3624  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3625  libproj and build survex with:
3626
3627      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3628      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3629
3630* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3631
3632* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3633
3634* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3635  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3636  file".
3637
3638Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3639
3640* aven:
3641
3642  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3643
3644  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3645    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3646
3647  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3648
3649  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3650
3651  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3652    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3653
3654* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3655  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3656  error early on).
3657
3658* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3659  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3660
3661Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3662
3663* aven:
3664
3665  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3666    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3667    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3668    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3669
3670  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
3671    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3672
3673  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3674
3675  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3676
3677  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3678
3679* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3680
3681Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3682
3683* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3684
3685* (Mac OS X version):
3686
3687  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3688
3689  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3690
3691  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3692    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3693
3694  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3695
3696* aven:
3697
3698  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3699
3700  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3701
3702    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
3703      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
3704      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
3705      character.
3706
3707    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
3708      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
3709      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
3710      and two in a few cases.
3711
3712    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
3713      8 pixels.
3714
3715  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
3716    draw crosses.
3717
3718  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
3719    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
3720    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
3721    is the start or end of a tube.
3722
3723  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
3724    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
3725
3726  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
3727    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
3728    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
3729
3730* extend:
3731
3732  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
3733
3734  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
3735    which means "no info").
3736
3737* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
3738  was no longer used - it certainly is!
3739
3740* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
3741  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
3742  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
3743  current character set.
3744
3745* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
3746
3747* Test suite:
3748
3749  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
3750
3751  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
3752
3753Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
3754
3755* aven:
3756
3757  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
3758    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
3759    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
3760    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
3761    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
3762    usable format.
3763
3764  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
3765    files.  (ticket#26)
3766
3767  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
3768    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
3769
3770  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
3771    using lines.
3772
3773  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
3774    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
3775
3776  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
3777    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
3778    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
3779    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
3780
3781  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
3782    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
3783    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
3784
3785  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
3786    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
3787    in 1.2.1.
3788
3789Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
3790
3791* Translation updates for US English.
3792
3793* aven:
3794
3795  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
3796    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
3797
3798  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
3799
3800  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
3801    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
3802    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
3803    visually similar to the survey legs.
3804
3805  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
3806    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
3807
3808  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
3809    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
3810    does still provide some useful information).
3811
3812  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
3813    a depth band boundary.
3814
3815  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
3816    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
3817    full-screen mode).
3818
3819  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
3820    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
3821    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
3822    are a little better, though still not perfect.
3823
3824  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
3825    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
3826
3827  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
3828    that station.
3829
3830  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
3831    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
3832
3833  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
3834    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
3835    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
3836    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
3837    a case as it is a bug).
3838
3839  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
3840    invalidated on window width or height changes.
3841
3842  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
3843    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
3844    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
3845    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
3846
3847  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
3848    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
3849    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
3850    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
3851    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
3852    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
3853    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
3854
3855  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
3856    similarly for other compass points.
3857
3858  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
3859    info in the "About" dialog.
3860
3861  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
3862    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
3863
3864  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
3865    as well as still working with older versions.
3866
3867  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
3868    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
3869
3870  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
3871    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
3872    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
3873    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
3874    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
3875
3876  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
3877    nicer and make better use of the available space.
3878
3879  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
3880    dialog.
3881
3882  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
3883    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
3884
3885  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
3886    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
3887
3888  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
3889
3890  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
3891
3892  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
3893    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
3894    being pressed and toggle full screen.
3895
3896* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
3897  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
3898
3899* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
3900
3901* More messages are now available to be translated.
3902
3903* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
3904  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
3905
3906* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
3907
3908* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
3909  sudo for installing on Unix.
3910
3911* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
3912  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
3913
3914* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
3915  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
3916
3917* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
3918
3919Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
3920
3921* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
3922  English.
3923
3924* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
3925  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
3926  case.
3927
3928* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
3929  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
3930  these into Survex's .msg format.
3931
3932* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
3933  an actual command).
3934
3935* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
3936  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
3937  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
3938  recurrence of that).
3939
3940* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
3941  than /usr/doc/survex.
3942
3943* aven:
3944
3945  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
3946
3947  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
3948    nicer at larger sizes.
3949
3950  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
3951    with GLX >= 1.3.
3952
3953  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
3954
3955  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
3956    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
3957    required libraries set up for building releases.
3958
3959  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
3960
3961  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
3962
3963  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
3964    rendered with icons on some platforms.
3965
3966  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
3967    ISO8859-1).
3968
3969  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
3970    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
3971
3972  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
3973    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
3974
3975* cavern:
3976
3977  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
3978    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
3979    fatal error!
3980
3981  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
3982    format to output.  (ticket#21)
3983
3984* img library:
3985
3986  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
3987    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
3988
3989* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
3990  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
3991
3992Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
3993
3994* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
3995  Portuguese, and US English.
3996
3997* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
3998  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
3999
4000* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
4001  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
4002
4003* img.c:
4004
4005  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
4006
4007  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
4008
4009* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
4010
4011* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
4012  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
4013  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
4014  translated.
4015
4016Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
4017
4018* aven:
4019
4020  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
4021    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
4022
4023  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
4024    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
4025    addresses ticket#12.
4026
4027  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
4028    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
4029    consistent shape.
4030
4031  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
4032    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
4033    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
4034    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
4035
4036  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
4037    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
4038
4039  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
4040
4041  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
4042    more places.
4043
4044  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
4045    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
4046
4047* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
4048
4049* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
4050  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
4051
4052* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
4053
4054* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
4055  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
4056  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
4057  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
4058  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
4059  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
4060
4061* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
4062  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
4063  redirecting to it.
4064
4065* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
4066  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
4067  I/O).
4068
4069* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
4070  headers.
4071
4072* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
4073
4074* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
4075  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
4076
4077* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
4078
4079Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
4080
4081* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
4082
4083* aven:
4084
4085  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
4086    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
4087    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
4088    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
4089
4090  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
4091
4092  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
4093    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
4094    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
4095    a number.
4096
4097  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4098    log window.
4099
4100  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4101    various cases.
4102
4103  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4104    (ticket#9)
4105
4106  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4107    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4108
4109  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4110    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4111
4112  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4113
4114  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4115    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4116
4117* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4118  give them before.
4119
4120* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4121  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4122  point looking for them now.
4123
4124* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4125  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4126  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4127  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4128
4129* manual:
4130
4131  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4132
4133  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4134    (change taken from 1.0).
4135
4136* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4137
4138Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4139
4140* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4141
4142* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4143
4144* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4145
4146* aven:
4147
4148  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4149
4150  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4151    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4152    seem to be Unicode now).
4153
4154  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4155    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4156
4157  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4158    text on the survey pane:
4159
4160    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4161
4162    - Character spacing is improved.
4163
4164    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4165
4166  + "About" dialog:
4167
4168    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4169      bug reporting.
4170
4171    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4172      modern gfx card.
4173
4174    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4175
4176  + Processing .svx files:
4177
4178    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4179
4180    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4181      than opening a separate frame for it.
4182
4183    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4184
4185    - Fix small memory leak.
4186
4187  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4188    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4189    such a name.
4190
4191  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4192
4193  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4194    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4195    invocations.
4196
4197  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4198
4199  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4200
4201  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4202
4203* Documentation:
4204
4205  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4206
4207  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4208    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4209    together isn't very useful.
4210
4211  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4212
4213  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4214    the FSF website.
4215
4216  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4217    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4218    the source code.
4219
4220* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4221  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4222
4223* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4224  package from the source tarball.
4225
4226* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4227  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4228
4229Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4230
4231* aven:
4232
4233  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4234
4235  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4236
4237  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4238    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4239    names/crosses).
4240
4241Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4242
4243* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4244
4245* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4246
4247* aven:
4248
4249  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4250
4251  + Fix character spacing.
4252
4253  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4254    proportional fonts.
4255
4256  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4257    rather than the filename.
4258
4259  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4260
4261  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4262    depth colouring.
4263
4264  + Add "Colour by Error".
4265
4266  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4267
4268  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4269
4270  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4271
4272  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4273
4274  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4275
4276  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4277
4278  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4279
4280  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4281    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4282
4283  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4284
4285  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4286    default.
4287
4288* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4289  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4290
4291* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4292  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4293
4294* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4295
4296* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4297
4298Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4299
4300* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4301  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4302  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4303  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4304  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4305
4306* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4307  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4308  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4309
4310* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4311  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4312  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4313
4314* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4315  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4316  allowed).
4317
4318* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4319
4320* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4321
4322* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4323
4324Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4325
4326* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4327  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4328
4329* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4330  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4331  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4332
4333* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4334  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4335  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4336  the new "*data passage" style.
4337
4338* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4339  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4340
4341* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4342  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4343  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4344  some cases.
4345
4346* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4347  with no survey loaded.
4348
4349* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4350
4351* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4352  loaded a survey.
4353
4354* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4355
4356* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4357
4358* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4359  doesn't exist.
4360
4361* Updated French and Italian translations.
4362
4363* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4364  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4365
4366* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4367  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4368  update their copy).
4369
4370* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4371  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4372  trying to compile).
4373
4374Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4375
4376* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4377  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4378
4379* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4380  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4381  has been disabled.
4382
4383* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4384  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4385  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4386  time.
4387
4388* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4389  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4390  highlighted stations.
4391
4392* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4393
4394* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4395  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4396
4397* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4398  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4399
4400* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4401  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4402  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4403
4404* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4405  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4406
4407* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4408
4409* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4410
4411* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4412
4413* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4414  run by an unprivileged user.
4415
4416* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4417  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4418  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4419
4420* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4421  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4422
4423* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4424
4425* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4426  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4427
4428* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4429  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4430
4431* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4432  if it isn't.
4433
4434* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4435  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4436
4437* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4438  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4439
4440* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4441  reset to default view as well).
4442
4443* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4444  empty.
4445
4446* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4447  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4448
4449* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4450  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4451  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4452
4453* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4454  and non-zero width lines.
4455
4456* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4457  was turned on.
4458
4459* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4460  not always being fully written.
4461
4462Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4463
4464* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4465  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4466  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4467  date near the middle of that period).
4468
4469* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4470  with MS Windows).
4471
4472* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4473  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4474  several surveys in the same directory).
4475
4476* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4477  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4478
4479* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4480
4481* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4482  moved off a station.
4483
4484* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4485  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4486
4487* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4488
4489* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4490  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4491
4492* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4493  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4494  dialogs.
4495
4496* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4497  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4498
4499* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4500  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4501  introduced in 1.1.6).
4502
4503* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4504  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4505  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4506
4507* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4508  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4509
4510* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4511
4512* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4513
4514Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4515
4516* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4517  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4518
4519* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4520  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4521  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4522  3d file.
4523
4524* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4525
4526* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4527
4528* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4529  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4530
4531* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4532
4533* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4534  Martin Green).
4535
4536* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4537  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4538  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4539
4540* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4541
4542* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4543  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4544
4545* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4546  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4547  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4548  of everything else.
4549
4550* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4551  presentation icons.
4552
4553* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4554  keyboard focus there.
4555
4556* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4557
4558* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4559
4560* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4561
4562* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4563
4564* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4565  language to use for messages.
4566
4567* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4568  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4569
4570* Removed old printer drivers.
4571
4572* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4573  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4574
4575Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4576
4577* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4578
4579* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4580
4581* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4582  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4583
4584* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4585  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4586
4587* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4588
4589* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4590  underground legs is toggled.
4591
4592* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4593  attached to the previous data.
4594
4595* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4596  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4597  them.
4598
4599Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4600
4601* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4602
4603* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4604  continental European countries).
4605
4606* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4607  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4608  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4609
4610* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4611
4612* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4613  they're needed.
4614
4615* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4616
4617* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4618
4619* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4620
4621* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4622  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4623  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4624
4625* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4626
4627Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4628
4629* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4630
4631* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4632
4633* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4634
4635* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4636
4637* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4638
4639* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4640
4641* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4642  when there's a presentation loaded.
4643
4644* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4645  in cave view.
4646
4647* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4648
4649* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4650  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4651  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4652
4653* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4654  filename for file history and window title.
4655
4656* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4657  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4658  only needed with GTK1.2.
4659
4660* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4661
4662* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4663
4664* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4665
4666* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4667
4668Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4669
4670* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4671  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4672  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4673
4674* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4675  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4676
4677* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4678  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4679  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4680  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4681
4682* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4683
4684* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4685  with --help and --version.
4686
4687* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4688  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4689  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4690  Fixed all these problems.
4691
4692* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4693  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4694  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4695
4696* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4697  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4698  sources.
4699
4700* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4701
4702* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
4703
4704* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
4705  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
4706
4707* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
4708  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
4709  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
4710  animating.
4711
4712* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
4713
4714* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
4715
4716* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
4717  to this branch.
4718
4719* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
4720
4721  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
4722
4723  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
4724
4725  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
4726
4727* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
4728
4729* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
4730  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
4731
4732* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
4733
4734* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
4735  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
4736
4737* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
4738
4739* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
4740  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
4741  for anyone building from CVS).
4742
4743* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
4744
4745* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
4746
4747* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
4748
4749* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
4750
4751* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
4752  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
4753  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
4754
4755* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
4756  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
4757
4758* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
4759
4760* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
4761  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
4762  loaded).
4763
4764* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
4765
4766Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
4767
4768* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
4769  startup.
4770
4771* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
4772  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
4773
4774Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
4775
4776* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
4777  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
4778  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
4779
4780* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
4781  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
4782  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
4783
4784* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
4785  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
4786  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
4787
4788* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
4789
4790* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
4791  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
4792
4793* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
4794  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
4795
4796* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
4797  better use of screen space.
4798
4799* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
4800
4801* aven: Perspective view.
4802
4803* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
4804
4805* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
4806  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
4807
4808* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
4809  and load/save/run them.
4810
4811* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
4812
4813* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
4814
4815* aven: Depth fogging option.
4816
4817* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
4818
4819* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
4820
4821* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
4822  showing the surface legs.
4823
4824* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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