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Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.

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