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third party headers which test for these defines and assume the wrong OS!

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