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1Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2
3* aven:
4
5  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
6    Clipstone.
7
8  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
9    Reported by Jenny Black.
10
11  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
12    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
13    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
14
15  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
16    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
17    messages.
18
19  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
20    the terminal in 1.2.23.
21
22* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
23  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
24
25* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
26
27* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
28  by Wookey.
29
30Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
31
32* aven:
33
34  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
35    machines.
36
37  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
38
39  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
40    already being processed.
41
42  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
43    Reported by Martin Green.
44
45  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
46
47* cavern:
48
49  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
50    find the original survey notes).
51
52  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
53    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
54    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
55    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
56    progress display to be useful.
57
58* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
59
60* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
61  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
62
63* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
64  running cavern.
65
66* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
67  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
68  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
69
70Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
71
72* aven:
73
74  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
75    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
76    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
77    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
78    finding this fix.
79
80* cavern:
81
82  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
83
84  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
85    station.
86
87  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
88    *export.
89
90Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
91
92* aven:
93
94  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
95    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
96    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
97
98  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
99
100  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
101    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
102    does.
103
104  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
105    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
106
107  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
108    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
109
110  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
111    as appropriate.
112
113  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
114    values on Windows.
115
116* cavern:
117
118  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
119    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
120    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
121
122  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
123    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
124
125  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
126    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
127    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
128    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
129
130  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
131    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
132    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
133    Atkinson.
134
135  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
136    actual error rather than on a separate line.
137
138  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
139    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
140    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
141    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
142
143  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
144    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
145    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
146
147* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
148  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
149  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
150  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
151
152* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
153
154* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
155  "*DECLINATION" command.
156
157* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
158  Reported by Jenny Black.
159
160* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
161  documentation.
162
163* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
164  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
165
166* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
167
168* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
169
170Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
171
172* aven:
173
174  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
175    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
176    the same or very similar by default.
177
178  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
179    Maynard.
180
181  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
182
183  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
184
185  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
186    away.
187
188  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
189
190  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
191    display it.
192
193* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
194  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
195  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
196  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
197
198* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
199
200* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
201  before 1.2.19.
202
203* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
204  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
205
206* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
207
208* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
209  disk image.
210
211* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
212
213* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
214  libav features we don't use.
215
216* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
217  a load of libav features we don't use.
218
219* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
220  message in the installer.
221
222Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
223
224* aven:
225
226  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
227    the exported file in 1.2.18.
228
229  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
230
231  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
232    exit full screen mode.
233
234  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
235    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
236    using since 1.2.7).
237
238  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
239    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
240    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
241    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
242    St. Lawrence.
243
244  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
245    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
246
247  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
248    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
249    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
250
251  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
252    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
253    case like we do on other platforms.
254
255  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
256
257  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
258    support multi-monitor setups.
259
260  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
261    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
262
263  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
264    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
265
266  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
267    cases.
268
269  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
270    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
271    Erin Lynch)
272
273  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
274    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
275    items in in so it uses the full width.
276
277  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
278    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
279    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
280    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
281    window.
282
283  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
284    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
285    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
286    only relevant on the first ever run.
287
288* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
289
290* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
291  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
292  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
293  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
294  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
295  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
296
297* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
298  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
299
300Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
301
302* aven:
303
304  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
305    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
306    rendering it as a transparent surface.
307
308  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
309    sanely want to perform from the menu.
310
311  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
312    colouring options.
313
314  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
315
316  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
317    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
318    pressing "Escape".
319
320  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
321    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
322
323  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
324    exporting.
325
326  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
327
328  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
329    is quite likely to change.
330
331  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
332    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
333
334  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
335    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
336    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
337
338  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
339
340  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
341    markers in orange.
342
343  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
344    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
345
346  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
347    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
348    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
349    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
350    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
351    them would be better.
352
353  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
354    Gee.
355
356  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
357    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
358    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
359
360  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
361
362* cavern:
363
364  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
365    susscorfa).
366
367  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
368    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
369
370  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
371
372  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
373    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
374
375  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
376    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
377
378* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
379
380* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
381  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
382  in a modern desktop.
383
384* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
385  the filename in the error message.
386
387* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
388  most complete translations.
389
390* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
391
392* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
393  lacks them.
394
395* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
396
397* Manual:
398
399  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
400    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
401
402  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
403
404  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
405
406  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
407    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
408    available for download.
409
410* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
411  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
412  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
413
414* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
415
416* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
417
418Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
419
420* MacOS X version:
421
422  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
423
424  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
425
426  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
427
428  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
429
430  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
431    currently do this for us.
432
433  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
434
435  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
436
437  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
438
439  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
440    OS X cursor.
441
442  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
443    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
444    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
445    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
446    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
447    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
448    with TextEdit.app for example).
449
450  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
451    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
452
453  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
454
455  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
456    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
457
458  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
459    Riggs.
460
461  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
462    space.
463
464  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
465
466  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
467    10.10.1.
468
469  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
470    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
471    errors.
472
473  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
474    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
475    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
476    wxWidgets build supports by default.
477
478  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
479
480* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
481  treat as a single leg.
482
483* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
484
485* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
486
487* aven:
488
489  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
490    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
491
492  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
493    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
494    1:500).
495
496  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
497    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
498    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
499    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
500
501  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
502    there rather than the two animations fighting.
503
504  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
505    fast.
506
507  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
508    when rotating).
509
510  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
511    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
512
513* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
514  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
515
516* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
517
518* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
519
520* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
521
522* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
523
524* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
525  we're using git.
526
527* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
528
529  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
530    compass.
531
532  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
533
534  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
535
536Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
537
538* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
539
540* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
541
542* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
543
544* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
545  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
546
547* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
548
549* tests/: Improve test coverage.
550
551* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
552  Greek and Polish.
553
554* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
555  by Martin Sluka.
556
557* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
558  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
559
560Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
561
562* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
563  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
564  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
565  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
566  for *cs has also been improved.
567
568* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
569  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
570  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
571  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
572
573* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
574  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
575  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
576  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
577  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
578
579* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
580  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
581  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
582
583* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
584
585* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
586
587* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
588  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
589  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
590
591* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
592  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
593
594Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
595
596* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
597  system in use in 3d v8 files.
598
599* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
600  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
601  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
602  export dialog.
603
604* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
605  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
606  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
607  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
608  rather than having one corner there.
609
610* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
611  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
612
613* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
614  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
615
616* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
617  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
618  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
619
620* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
621  such as 64-bit Linux.
622
623* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
624  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
625
626* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
627  64-bit platforms.
628
629* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
630  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
631  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
632
633* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
634  the space available in the aven UI.
635
636* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
637  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
638  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
639
640* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
641  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
642
643* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
644  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
645  about unconnected surveys.
646
647* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
648  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
649
650* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
651  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
652  freed memory.
653
654* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
655
656* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
657
658* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
659
660* Fix a compiler warning.
661
662* Improve test coverage.
663
664Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
665
666* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
667  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
668  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
669
670* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
671  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
672  Hugh St Lawrence.
673
674* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
675  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
676  with using aven on a touch screen device.
677
678* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
679  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
680
681* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
682  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
683
684* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
685  off and back on.
686
687* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
688  up time a little.
689
690* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
691  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
692
693* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
694  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
695  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
696  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
697  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
698  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
699  situation too.
700
701* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
702  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
703  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
704
705* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
706
707* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
708
709* Minor translation updates to French.
710
711* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
712
713* Testsuite improvements:
714
715  + Test that "..." anon station works.
716
717  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
718    fail and give an error count.
719
720  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
721
722Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
723
724* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
725  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
726  Clipstone.
727
728* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
729
730* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
731
732  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
733    overlap the scale bar ticks.
734
735  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
736    clipping the border in print preview.
737
738  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
739
740* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
741  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
742
743* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
744  available.
745
746* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
747
748* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
749
750* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
751  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
752
753* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
754  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
755
756* Various translation updates.
757
758Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
759
760* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
761  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
762
763* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
764  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
765  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
766  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
767
768* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
769  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
770
771* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
772  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
773
774* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
775  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
776
777* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
778  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
779
780* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
781  box".
782
783* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
784
785* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
786  indicators.
787
788* aven: All length units are now translatable.
789
790* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
791  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
792  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
793
794* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
795  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
796  measurably slower.
797
798* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
799  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
800
801* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
802  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
803
804* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
805  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
806  from Therion and elsewhere.
807
808* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
809  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
810  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
811
812* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
813  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
814
815* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
816  A. Riggs for his work on this.
817
818* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
819  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
820
821* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
822
823* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
824  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
825  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
826  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
827  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
828  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
829
830* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
831
832Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
833
834* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
835  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
836  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
837  Clipstone.
838
839* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
840  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
841
842* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
843  exported SVG files.
844
845* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
846
847* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
848  file.
849
850* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
851  GPX files.
852
853* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
854
855* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
856  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
857
858* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
859  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
860  on startup.
861
862* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
863
864* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
865  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
866  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
867  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
868  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
869  other extensions.
870
871* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
872  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
873  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
874  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
875  timezone wrong.
876
877* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
878
879* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
880  'SURVEY DATE:'.
881
882* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
883
884* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
885
886* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
887  enabled.
888
889Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
890
891* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
892
893* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
894
895* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
896
897* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
898  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
899  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
900
901* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
902  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
903  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
904
905* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
906  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
907
908* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
909
910* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
911
912* Fix some compiler warnings.
913
914Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
915
916* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
917  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
918  Holder.
919
920* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
921  statistics when the value gets large.
922
923* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
924  equations.
925
926* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
927  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
928  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
929  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
930  better when the "View" box is hidden.
931
932* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
933  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
934
935* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
936  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
937  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
938  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
939  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
940  way is coming soon.
941
942* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
943  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
944
945* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
946  time ago, so update references.
947
948* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
949  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
950
951* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
952  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
953
954* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
955  Sebastian Ramacher.
956
957* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
958
959* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
960
961* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
962
963* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
964
965* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
966
967* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
968  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
969  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
970
971* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
972
973* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
974
975* img library:
976
977  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
978    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
979    reading).
980
981  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
982    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
983
984  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
985    support these as an extension.
986
987  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
988
989* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
990  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
991  itself has any translations for.
992
993* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
994
995* Minor translation updates.
996
997* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
998
999Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
1000
1001* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
1002  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
1003  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
1004  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
1005  is an anoymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
1006  separator ('...' by default) is an anoymous point (with nothing special about
1007  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
1008  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1009
1010* New version 8 of the 3d format:
1011
1012  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1013
1014  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
1015    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
1016
1017  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
1018    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
1019
1020  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
1021
1022  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
1023    human-readable string.
1024
1025  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
1026    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
1027
1028* img library:
1029
1030  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
1031
1032  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
1033    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
1034
1035  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
1036    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
1037    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
1038    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
1039    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
1040    explicitly in the file.
1041
1042  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
1043
1044* aven:
1045
1046  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
1047    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
1048    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
1049    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
1050    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
1051    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
1052
1053  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
1054    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
1055    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
1056    queued up.
1057
1058  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
1059    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
1060
1061  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
1062    them like other legs.
1063
1064  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
1065    station names to positions.
1066
1067  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
1068    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
1069    wrongly.
1070
1071  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
1072
1073  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
1074    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
1075    that's used by the desktop).
1076
1077  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
1078
1079  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
1080    error from cavern.
1081
1082  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
1083
1084  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
1085    in the dialog in sync.
1086
1087* cavern:
1088
1089  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
1090    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
1091    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
1092
1093  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
1094    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
1095
1096  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
1097    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
1098    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
1099    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
1100    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
1101    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
1102    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
1103    degrees.
1104
1105  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
1106    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
1107    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
1108
1109  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
1110
1111  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
1112    warnings.
1113
1114  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
1115    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
1116
1117  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
1118    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
1119
1120  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
1121    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
1122    relevant.
1123
1124  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
1125    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
1126    the same line.
1127
1128  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
1129    "End of line not blank" error.
1130
1131  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
1132    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
1133
1134  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
1135    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
1136
1137  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
1138    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
1139    include that character in the token reported.
1140
1141  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
1142    first item.
1143
1144* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
1145
1146* dump3d:
1147
1148  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
1149    info from 3d files in scripts.
1150
1151  + Add --show-dates option.
1152
1153  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
1154
1155  + Report the data style of legs.
1156
1157  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
1158
1159  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
1160
1161* Test suite:
1162
1163  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
1164    expected output so it passes reliably.
1165
1166  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
1167    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
1168
1169  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
1170    for more.
1171
1172* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
1173  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
1174  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
1175
1176* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
1177  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
1178
1179* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
1180  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
1181
1182* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
1183  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
1184  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
1185  settings.
1186
1187* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
1188  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
1189  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
1190  set correctly.
1191
1192* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
1193  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
1194  them to translate.
1195
1196* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
1197  close to complete.
1198
1199* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
1200
1201* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
1202
1203* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
1204
1205Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
1206
1207* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
1208
1209* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
1210  package (ticket#35).
1211
1212* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
1213  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
1214  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
1215
1216* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
1217  Kahler.
1218
1219* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
1220  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
1221  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
1222  libproj and build survex with:
1223
1224      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1225      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
1226
1227* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
1228
1229* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
1230
1231* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
1232  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
1233  file".
1234
1235Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
1236
1237* aven:
1238
1239  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
1240
1241  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
1242    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
1243
1244  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
1245
1246  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
1247
1248  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
1249    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
1250
1251* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
1252  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
1253  error early on).
1254
1255* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
1256  the man page source as well as in the filename.
1257
1258Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
1259
1260* aven:
1261
1262  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
1263    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
1264    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
1265    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
1266
1267  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and chose a consistent
1268    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
1269
1270  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
1271
1272  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
1273
1274  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
1275
1276* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
1277
1278Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
1279
1280* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
1281
1282* (Mac OS X version):
1283
1284  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
1285
1286  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
1287
1288  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
1289    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
1290
1291  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
1292
1293* aven:
1294
1295  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
1296
1297  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
1298
1299    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
1300      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
1301      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
1302      character.
1303
1304    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
1305      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
1306      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
1307      and two in a few cases.
1308
1309    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
1310      8 pixels.
1311
1312  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
1313    draw crosses.
1314
1315  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
1316    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
1317    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
1318    is the start or end of a tube.
1319
1320  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
1321    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
1322
1323  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
1324    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
1325    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
1326
1327* extend:
1328
1329  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
1330
1331  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
1332    which means "no info").
1333
1334* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
1335  was no longer used - it certainly is!
1336
1337* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
1338  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
1339  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
1340  current character set.
1341
1342* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
1343
1344* Test suite:
1345
1346  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
1347
1348  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
1349
1350Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
1351
1352* aven:
1353
1354  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
1355    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
1356    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
1357    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
1358    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
1359    usable format.
1360
1361  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
1362    files.  (ticket#26)
1363
1364  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
1365    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
1366
1367  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
1368    using lines.
1369
1370  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
1371    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
1372
1373  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
1374    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
1375    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
1376    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
1377
1378  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
1379    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
1380    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
1381
1382  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
1383    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
1384    in 1.2.1.
1385
1386Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
1387
1388* Translation updates for US English.
1389
1390* aven:
1391
1392  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
1393    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
1394
1395  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
1396
1397  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
1398    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
1399    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
1400    visually similar to the survey legs.
1401
1402  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
1403    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
1404
1405  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
1406    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
1407    does still provide some useful information).
1408
1409  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
1410    a depth band boundary.
1411
1412  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
1413    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
1414    full-screen mode).
1415
1416  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
1417    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
1418    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
1419    are a little better, though still not perfect.
1420
1421  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
1422    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
1423
1424  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
1425    that station.
1426
1427  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
1428    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
1429
1430  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
1431    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
1432    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
1433    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
1434    a case as it is a bug).
1435
1436  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
1437    invalidated on window width or height changes.
1438
1439  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
1440    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
1441    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
1442    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
1443
1444  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
1445    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
1446    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
1447    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
1448    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
1449    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
1450    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
1451
1452  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
1453    similarly for other compass points.
1454
1455  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
1456    info in the "About" dialog.
1457
1458  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
1459    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
1460
1461  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
1462    as well as still working with older versions.
1463
1464  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
1465    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
1466
1467  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
1468    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
1469    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
1470    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
1471    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
1472
1473  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
1474    nicer and make better use of the available space.
1475
1476  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
1477    dialog.
1478
1479  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
1480    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
1481
1482  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
1483    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
1484
1485  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
1486
1487  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
1488
1489  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
1490    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
1491    being pressed and toggle full screen.
1492
1493* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
1494  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
1495
1496* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
1497
1498* More messages are now available to be translated.
1499
1500* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
1501  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
1502
1503* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
1504
1505* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
1506  sudo for installing on Unix.
1507
1508* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
1509  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
1510
1511* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
1512  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
1513
1514* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1515
1516Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
1517
1518* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
1519  English.
1520
1521* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
1522  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
1523  case.
1524
1525* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
1526  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
1527  these into Survex's .msg format.
1528
1529* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
1530  an actual command).
1531
1532* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
1533  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
1534  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
1535  recurrence of that).
1536
1537* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
1538  than /usr/doc/survex.
1539
1540* aven:
1541
1542  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
1543
1544  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
1545    nicer at larger sizes.
1546
1547  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
1548    with GLX >= 1.3.
1549
1550  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
1551
1552  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
1553    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
1554    required libraries set up for building releases.
1555
1556  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
1557
1558  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
1559
1560  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
1561    rendered with icons on some platforms.
1562
1563  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
1564    ISO8859-1).
1565
1566  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
1567    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
1568
1569  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
1570    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
1571
1572* cavern:
1573
1574  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
1575    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
1576    fatal error!
1577
1578  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
1579    format to output.  (ticket#21)
1580
1581* img library:
1582
1583  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
1584    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
1585
1586* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
1587  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
1588
1589Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
1590
1591* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
1592  Portuguese, and US English.
1593
1594* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
1595  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
1596
1597* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
1598  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
1599
1600* img.c:
1601
1602  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
1603
1604  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
1605
1606* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
1607
1608* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
1609  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
1610  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
1611  translated.
1612
1613Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
1614
1615* aven:
1616
1617  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
1618    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
1619
1620  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
1621    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
1622    addresses ticket#12.
1623
1624  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
1625    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
1626    consistent shape.
1627
1628  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
1629    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
1630    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
1631    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
1632
1633  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
1634    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
1635
1636  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
1637
1638  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
1639    more places.
1640
1641  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
1642    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
1643
1644* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
1645
1646* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
1647  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
1648
1649* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
1650
1651* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
1652  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
1653  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
1654  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
1655  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
1656  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
1657
1658* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
1659  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
1660  redirecting to it.
1661
1662* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
1663  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
1664  I/O).
1665
1666* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
1667  headers.
1668
1669* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
1670
1671* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
1672  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
1673
1674* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
1675
1676Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
1677
1678* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
1679
1680* aven:
1681
1682  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
1683    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
1684    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
1685    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
1686
1687  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
1688
1689  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
1690    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
1691    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
1692    a number.
1693
1694  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
1695    log window.
1696
1697  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
1698    various cases.
1699
1700  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
1701    (ticket#9)
1702
1703  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
1704    namespace with its own "Point" class.
1705
1706  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
1707    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
1708
1709  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
1710
1711  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
1712    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
1713
1714* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
1715  give them before.
1716
1717* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
1718  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
1719  point looking for them now.
1720
1721* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
1722  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
1723  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
1724  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
1725
1726* manual:
1727
1728  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
1729
1730  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
1731    (change taken from 1.0).
1732
1733* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
1734
1735Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
1736
1737* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
1738
1739* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
1740
1741* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
1742
1743* aven:
1744
1745  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
1746
1747  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
1748    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
1749    seem to be Unicode now).
1750
1751  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
1752    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
1753
1754  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
1755    text on the survey pane:
1756
1757    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
1758
1759    - Character spacing is improved.
1760
1761    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
1762
1763  + "About" dialog:
1764
1765    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
1766      bug reporting.
1767
1768    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
1769      modern gfx card.
1770
1771    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
1772
1773  + Processing .svx files:
1774
1775    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
1776
1777    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
1778      than opening a separate frame for it.
1779
1780    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
1781
1782    - Fix small memory leak.
1783
1784  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
1785    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
1786    such a name.
1787
1788  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
1789
1790  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
1791    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
1792    invocations.
1793
1794  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
1795
1796  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
1797
1798  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
1799
1800* Documentation:
1801
1802  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
1803
1804  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
1805    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
1806    together isn't very useful.
1807
1808  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
1809
1810  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
1811    the FSF website.
1812
1813  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
1814    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
1815    the source code.
1816
1817* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
1818  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
1819
1820* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
1821  package from the source tarball.
1822
1823* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
1824  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
1825
1826Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
1827
1828* aven:
1829
1830  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
1831
1832  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
1833
1834  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
1835    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
1836    names/crosses).
1837
1838Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
1839
1840* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
1841
1842* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
1843
1844* aven:
1845
1846  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
1847
1848  + Fix character spacing.
1849
1850  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
1851    proportional fonts.
1852
1853  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
1854    rather than the filename.
1855
1856  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
1857
1858  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
1859    depth colouring.
1860
1861  + Add "Colour by Error".
1862
1863  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
1864
1865  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
1866
1867  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
1868
1869  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
1870
1871  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
1872
1873  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
1874
1875  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
1876
1877  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
1878    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
1879
1880  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
1881
1882  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
1883    default.
1884
1885* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
1886  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
1887
1888* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
1889  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
1890
1891* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
1892
1893* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
1894
1895Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
1896
1897* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
1898  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
1899  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
1900  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
1901  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
1902
1903* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
1904  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
1905  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
1906
1907* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
1908  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
1909  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
1910
1911* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
1912  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
1913  allowed).
1914
1915* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
1916
1917* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1918
1919* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
1920
1921Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
1922
1923* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
1924  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
1925
1926* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
1927  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
1928  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
1929
1930* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
1931  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
1932  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
1933  the new "*data passage" style.
1934
1935* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
1936  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
1937
1938* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
1939  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
1940  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
1941  some cases.
1942
1943* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
1944  with no survey loaded.
1945
1946* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
1947
1948* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
1949  loaded a survey.
1950
1951* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
1952
1953* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
1954
1955* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
1956  doesn't exist.
1957
1958* Updated French and Italian translations.
1959
1960* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
1961  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
1962
1963* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
1964  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
1965  update their copy).
1966
1967* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
1968  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
1969  trying to compile).
1970
1971Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
1972
1973* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
1974  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
1975
1976* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
1977  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
1978  has been disabled.
1979
1980* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
1981  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
1982  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
1983  time.
1984
1985* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
1986  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
1987  highlighted stations.
1988
1989* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
1990
1991* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
1992  the tilt from plan to elevation.
1993
1994* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
1995  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
1996
1997* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
1998  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
1999  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
2000
2001* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
2002  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
2003
2004* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
2005
2006* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
2007
2008* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
2009
2010* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
2011  run by an unprivileged user.
2012
2013* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
2014  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
2015  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
2016
2017* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
2018  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
2019
2020* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
2021
2022* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
2023  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
2024
2025* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
2026  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
2027
2028* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
2029  if it isn't.
2030
2031* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
2032  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
2033
2034* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
2035  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
2036
2037* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
2038  reset to default view as well).
2039
2040* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
2041  empty.
2042
2043* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
2044  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
2045
2046* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
2047  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
2048  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
2049
2050* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
2051  and non-zero width lines.
2052
2053* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
2054  was turned on.
2055
2056* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
2057  not always being fully written.
2058
2059Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
2060
2061* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
2062  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
2063  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
2064  date near the middle of that period).
2065
2066* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
2067  with MS Windows).
2068
2069* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
2070  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
2071  several surveys in the same directory).
2072
2073* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
2074  our check for them to include that knowledge.
2075
2076* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
2077
2078* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
2079  moved off a station.
2080
2081* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
2082  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
2083
2084* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
2085
2086* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
2087  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
2088
2089* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
2090  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
2091  dialogs.
2092
2093* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
2094  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
2095
2096* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
2097  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
2098  introduced in 1.1.6).
2099
2100* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
2101  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
2102  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
2103
2104* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
2105  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
2106
2107* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
2108
2109* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
2110
2111Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
2112
2113* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
2114  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
2115
2116* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
2117  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
2118  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
2119  3d file.
2120
2121* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
2122
2123* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
2124
2125* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
2126  Instead turn off depth colouring.
2127
2128* aven: Export as HPGL added.
2129
2130* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
2131  Martin Green).
2132
2133* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
2134  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
2135  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
2136
2137* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
2138
2139* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
2140  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
2141
2142* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
2143  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
2144  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
2145  of everything else.
2146
2147* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
2148  presentation icons.
2149
2150* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
2151  keyboard focus there.
2152
2153* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
2154
2155* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
2156
2157* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
2158
2159* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
2160
2161* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
2162  language to use for messages.
2163
2164* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
2165  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
2166
2167* Removed old printer drivers.
2168
2169* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
2170  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
2171
2172Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
2173
2174* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
2175
2176* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
2177
2178* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
2179  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
2180
2181* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
2182  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
2183
2184* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
2185
2186* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
2187  underground legs is toggled.
2188
2189* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
2190  attached to the previous data.
2191
2192* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
2193  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
2194  them.
2195
2196Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
2197
2198* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
2199
2200* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
2201  continental European countries).
2202
2203* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
2204  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
2205  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
2206
2207* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
2208
2209* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
2210  they're needed.
2211
2212* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
2213
2214* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
2215
2216* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
2217
2218* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
2219  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
2220  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
2221
2222* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
2223
2224Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
2225
2226* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
2227
2228* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
2229
2230* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
2231
2232* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
2233
2234* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
2235
2236* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
2237
2238* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
2239  when there's a presentation loaded.
2240
2241* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
2242  in cave view.
2243
2244* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
2245
2246* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
2247  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
2248  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
2249
2250* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
2251  filename for file history and window title.
2252
2253* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
2254  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
2255  only needed with GTK1.2.
2256
2257* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
2258
2259* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
2260
2261* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
2262
2263* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
2264
2265Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
2266
2267* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
2268  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
2269  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
2270
2271* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
2272  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
2273
2274* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
2275  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
2276  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
2277  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
2278
2279* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
2280
2281* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
2282  with --help and --version.
2283
2284* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
2285  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
2286  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
2287  Fixed all these problems.
2288
2289* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
2290  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
2291  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
2292
2293* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
2294  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
2295  sources.
2296
2297* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
2298
2299* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
2300
2301* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
2302  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
2303
2304* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
2305  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
2306  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
2307  animating.
2308
2309* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
2310
2311* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
2312
2313* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
2314  to this branch.
2315
2316* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
2317
2318  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
2319
2320  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
2321
2322  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
2323
2324* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
2325
2326* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
2327  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
2328
2329* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
2330
2331* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
2332  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
2333
2334* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
2335
2336* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
2337  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
2338  for anyone building from CVS).
2339
2340* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
2341
2342* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
2343
2344* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
2345
2346* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
2347
2348* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
2349  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
2350  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
2351
2352* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
2353  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
2354
2355* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
2356
2357* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
2358  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
2359  loaded).
2360
2361* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
2362
2363Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
2364
2365* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
2366  startup.
2367
2368* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
2369  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
2370
2371Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
2372
2373* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
2374  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
2375  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
2376
2377* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
2378  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
2379  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
2380
2381* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
2382  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
2383  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
2384
2385* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
2386
2387* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
2388  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
2389
2390* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
2391  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
2392
2393* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
2394  better use of screen space.
2395
2396* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
2397
2398* aven: Perspective view.
2399
2400* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
2401
2402* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
2403  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
2404
2405* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
2406  and load/save/run them.
2407
2408* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
2409
2410* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
2411
2412* aven: Depth fogging option.
2413
2414* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
2415
2416* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
2417
2418* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
2419  showing the surface legs.
2420
2421* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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