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