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