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1Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
2
3* aven:
4
5  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
6    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
7    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
8    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
9    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
10    usable format.
11
12  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
13    files.  (ticket#26)
14
15  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
16    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
17
18  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
19    using lines.
20
21  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
22    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
23
24  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
25    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
26    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
27    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
28
29  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
30    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
31    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
32
33  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
34    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
35    in 1.2.1.
36
37Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
38
39* Translation updates for US English.
40
41* aven:
42
43  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
44    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
45
46  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
47
48  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
49    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
50    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
51    visually similar to the survey legs.
52
53  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
54    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
55
56  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
57    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
58    does still provide some useful information).
59
60  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
61    a depth band boundary.
62
63  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
64    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
65    full-screen mode).
66
67  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
68    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
69    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
70    are a little better, though still not perfect.
71
72  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
73    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
74
75  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
76    that station.
77
78  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
79    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
80
81  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
82    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
83    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
84    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
85    a case as it is a bug).
86
87  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
88    invalidated on window width or height changes.
89
90  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
91    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
92    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
93    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
94
95  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
96    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
97    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
98    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
99    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
100    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
101    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
102
103  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
104    similarly for other compass points.
105
106  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
107    info in the "About" dialog.
108
109  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
110    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
111
112  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
113    as well as still working with older versions.
114
115  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
116    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
117
118  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
119    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
120    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
121    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
122    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
123
124  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
125    nicer and make better use of the available space.
126
127  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
128    dialog.
129
130  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
131    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
132
133  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
134    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
135
136  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
137
138  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
139
140  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
141    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
142    being pressed and toggle full screen.
143
144* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
145  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
146
147* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
148
149* More messages are now available to be translated.
150
151* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
152  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
153
154* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
155
156* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
157  sudo for installing on Unix.
158
159* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
160  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
161
162* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
163  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
164
165* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
166
167Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
168
169* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
170  English.
171
172* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
173  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
174  case.
175
176* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
177  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
178  these into Survex's .msg format.
179
180* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
181  an actual command).
182
183* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
184  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
185  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
186  recurrence of that).
187
188* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
189  than /usr/doc/survex.
190
191* aven:
192
193  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
194
195  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
196    nicer at larger sizes.
197
198  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
199    with GLX >= 1.3.
200
201  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
202
203  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
204    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
205    required libraries set up for building releases.
206
207  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
208
209  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
210
211  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
212    rendered with icons on some platforms.
213
214  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
215    ISO8859-1).
216
217  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
218    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
219
220  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
221    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
222
223* cavern:
224
225  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
226    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
227    fatal error!
228
229  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
230    format to output.  (ticket#21)
231
232* img library:
233
234  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
235    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
236
237* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
238  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
239
240Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
241
242* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
243  Portuguese, and US English.
244
245* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
246  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
247
248* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
249  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
250
251* img.c:
252
253  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
254
255  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
256
257* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
258
259* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
260  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
261  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
262  translated.
263
264Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
265
266* aven:
267
268  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
269    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
270
271  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
272    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
273    addresses ticket#12.
274
275  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
276    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
277    consistent shape.
278
279  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
280    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
281    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
282    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
283
284  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
285    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
286
287  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
288
289  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
290    more places.
291
292  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
293    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
294
295* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
296
297* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
298  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
299
300* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
301
302* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
303  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
304  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
305  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
306  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
307  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
308
309* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
310  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
311  redirecting to it.
312
313* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
314  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
315  I/O).
316
317* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
318  headers.
319
320* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
321
322* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
323  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
324
325* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
326
327Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
328
329* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
330
331* aven:
332
333  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
334    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
335    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
336    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
337
338  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
339
340  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
341    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
342    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
343    a number.
344
345  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
346    log window.
347
348  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
349    various cases.
350
351  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
352    (ticket#9)
353
354  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
355    namespace with its own "Point" class.
356
357  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
358    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
359
360  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
361
362  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
363    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
364
365* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
366  give them before.
367
368* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
369  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
370  point looking for them now.
371
372* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
373  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
374  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
375  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
376
377* manual:
378
379  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
380
381  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
382    (change taken from 1.0).
383
384* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
385
386Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
387
388* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
389
390* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
391
392* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
393
394* aven:
395
396  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
397
398  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
399    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
400    seem to be Unicode now).
401
402  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
403    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
404
405  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
406    text on the survey pane:
407
408    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
409
410    - Character spacing is improved.
411
412    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
413
414  + "About" dialog:
415
416    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
417      bug reporting.
418
419    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
420      modern gfx card.
421
422    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
423
424  + Processing .svx files:
425
426    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
427
428    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
429      than opening a separate frame for it.
430
431    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
432
433    - Fix small memory leak.
434
435  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
436    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
437    such a name.
438
439  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
440
441  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
442    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
443    invocations.
444
445  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
446
447  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
448
449  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
450
451* Documentation:
452
453  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
454
455  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
456    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
457    together isn't very useful.
458
459  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
460
461  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
462    the FSF website.
463
464  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
465    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
466    the source code.
467
468* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
469  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
470
471* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
472  package from the source tarball.
473
474* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
475  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
476
477Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
478
479* aven:
480
481  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
482
483  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
484
485  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
486    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
487    names/crosses).
488
489Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
490
491* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
492
493* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
494
495* aven:
496
497  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
498
499  + Fix character spacing.
500
501  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
502    proportional fonts.
503
504  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
505    rather than the filename.
506
507  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
508
509  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
510    depth colouring.
511
512  + Add "Colour by Error".
513
514  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
515
516  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
517
518  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
519
520  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
521
522  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
523
524  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
525
526  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
527
528  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
529    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
530
531  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
532
533  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
534    default.
535
536* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
537  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
538
539* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
540  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
541
542* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
543
544* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
545
546Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
547
548* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
549  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
550  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
551  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
552  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
553
554* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
555  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
556  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
557
558* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
559  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
560  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
561
562* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
563  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
564  allowed).
565
566* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
567
568* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
569
570* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
571
572Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
573
574* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
575  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
576
577* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
578  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
579  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
580
581* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
582  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
583  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
584  the new "*data passage" style.
585
586* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
587  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
588
589* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
590  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
591  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
592  some cases.
593
594* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
595  with no survey loaded.
596
597* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
598
599* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
600  loaded a survey.
601
602* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
603
604* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
605
606* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
607  doesn't exist.
608
609* Updated French and Italian translations.
610
611* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
612  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
613
614* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
615  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
616  update their copy).
617
618* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
619  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
620  trying to compile).
621
622Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
623
624* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
625  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
626
627* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
628  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
629  has been disabled.
630
631* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
632  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
633  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
634  time.
635
636* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
637  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
638  highlighted stations.
639
640* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
641
642* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
643  the tilt from plan to elevation.
644
645* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
646  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
647
648* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
649  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
650  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
651
652* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
653  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
654
655* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
656
657* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
658
659* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
660
661* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
662  run by an unprivileged user.
663
664* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
665  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
666  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
667
668* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
669  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
670
671* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
672
673* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
674  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
675
676* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
677  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
678
679* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
680  if it isn't.
681
682* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
683  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
684
685* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
686  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
687
688* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
689  reset to default view as well).
690
691* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
692  empty.
693
694* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
695  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
696
697* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
698  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
699  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
700
701* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
702  and non-zero width lines.
703
704* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
705  was turned on.
706
707* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
708  not always being fully written.
709
710Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
711
712* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
713  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
714  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
715  date near the middle of that period).
716
717* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
718  with MS Windows).
719
720* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
721  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
722  several surveys in the same directory).
723
724* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
725  our check for them to include that knowledge.
726
727* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
728
729* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
730  moved off a station.
731
732* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
733  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
734
735* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
736
737* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
738  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
739
740* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
741  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
742  dialogs.
743
744* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
745  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
746
747* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
748  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
749  introduced in 1.1.6).
750
751* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
752  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
753  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
754
755* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
756  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
757
758* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
759
760* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
761
762Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
763
764* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
765  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
766
767* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
768  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
769  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
770  3d file.
771
772* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
773
774* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
775
776* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
777  Instead turn off depth colouring.
778
779* aven: Export as HPGL added.
780
781* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
782  Martin Green).
783
784* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
785  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
786  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
787
788* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
789
790* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
791  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
792
793* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
794  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
795  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
796  of everything else.
797
798* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
799  presentation icons.
800
801* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
802  keyboard focus there.
803
804* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
805
806* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
807
808* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
809
810* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
811
812* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
813  language to use for messages.
814
815* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
816  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
817
818* Removed old printer drivers.
819
820* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
821  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
822
823Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
824
825* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
826
827* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
828
829* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
830  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
831
832* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
833  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
834
835* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
836
837* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
838  underground legs is toggled.
839
840* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
841  attached to the previous data.
842
843* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
844  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
845  them.
846
847Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
848
849* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
850
851* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
852  continental European countries).
853
854* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
855  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
856  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
857
858* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
859
860* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
861  they're needed.
862
863* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
864
865* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
866
867* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
868
869* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
870  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
871  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
872
873* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
874
875Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
876
877* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
878
879* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
880
881* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
882
883* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
884
885* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
886
887* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
888
889* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
890  when there's a presentation loaded.
891
892* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
893  in cave view.
894
895* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
896
897* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
898  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
899  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
900
901* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
902  filename for file history and window title.
903
904* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
905  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
906  only needed with GTK1.2.
907
908* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
909
910* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
911
912* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
913
914* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
915
916Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
917
918* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
919  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
920  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
921
922* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
923  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
924
925* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
926  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
927  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
928  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
929
930* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
931
932* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
933  with --help and --version.
934
935* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
936  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
937  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
938  Fixed all these problems.
939
940* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
941  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
942  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
943
944* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
945  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
946  sources.
947
948* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
949
950* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
951
952* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
953  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
954
955* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
956  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
957  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
958  animating.
959
960* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
961
962* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
963
964* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
965  to this branch.
966
967* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
968
969  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
970
971  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
972
973  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
974
975* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
976
977* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
978  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
979
980* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
981
982* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
983  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
984
985* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
986
987* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
988  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
989  for anyone building from CVS).
990
991* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
992
993* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
994
995* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
996
997* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
998
999* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1000  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1001  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1002
1003* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1004  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1005
1006* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1007
1008* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1009  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1010  loaded).
1011
1012* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1013
1014Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1015
1016* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1017  startup.
1018
1019* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1020  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1021
1022Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1023
1024* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1025  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1026  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1027
1028* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1029  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1030  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1031
1032* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1033  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1034  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1035
1036* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1037
1038* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1039  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1040
1041* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1042  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1043
1044* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1045  better use of screen space.
1046
1047* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1048
1049* aven: Perspective view.
1050
1051* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1052
1053* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1054  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1055
1056* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1057  and load/save/run them.
1058
1059* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1060
1061* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1062
1063* aven: Depth fogging option.
1064
1065* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1066
1067* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1068
1069* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1070  showing the surface legs.
1071
1072* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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