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