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