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Last change on this file since 3715fa9 was 168df28, checked in by Olly Betts <olly@…>, 20 years ago

Backport a whole pile of fixes and minor tweaks from 1.1.7.

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2<TITLE>Survex To-Do List</TITLE>
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8<H1>Survex To-Do List</H1>
9
[584dd6b]10<H2>Bugs</H2>
11
12<ul>
13
[5aa0d75]14<li>This gives "*** Singular!!!" warning with DEBUG_INVALID on:
15<pre>
161 2 50000 0 -
171 2 5 0 -30
18</pre>
[0e26b3a]19
[12d0d1b]20<li>aven: loading a .3d file with no survey data (or which has a valid header but is broken later) with a survey already loaded doesn't work well.
21
[3ede867]22<li>img.c: eliminate duplicate img_LABELs when reading .PLT files.
23
[5bcd880]24<li>multiple readings:
25<p>
26average bearings specially - they don't average like normal numbers
27<p>
28%age gradients should probably average the same as angle gradients
29<p>
30Document - works like so:
31<pre>
32*set open {
33*set close }
34*calibrate compass {000.5 001.0 001.25}
351 2 10.23 {000 001} -02
362 3 {10.16 10.17} 127 {+06 +05}
373 4 11.98 007 {+03 +03}
38</pre>
[b548758]39Implement as extension to number format so any suitable numeric value to be
40repeated?
[b6de07d]41</ul>
[e03199f]42
43<H2>Aven</H2>
44
45<ul>
46
[ea3ff04]47<li>check on monochrome, 16, and 256 colour displays - especially that depth
48colouring looks OK
[0e26b3a]49
[a8e9fde]50<li>Feed back redraw time to key based movement as in caverot?  Or perhaps best
51not to?  It depends on whether we expect people to hold down keys or not...
52Perhaps something smart where the first press is a fixed size, then after that
53it depends on the redraw?
[0e26b3a]54
[3ede867]55<li>aven for MSDOS?
[5c7b5fa]56
57<li>max (or fullscreen) on startup option.  Or just remember last window size?
58
59<li>dot (or some mark) for a fixed point not otherwise used
60
61<li>distances to nearest cm, not m (inch or 0.1ft, not ft)
62
63<li>give coords of nearest point _instead_ of mouse (x,y)/alt, not as well?
64
65<li>Z/X a bit "exponential"
66
67<li>tilt speed and direction on keys?
68
69<li>print subsurvey scales to whole plot???
[29fb5fd]70
71<li>grid: If you zoom in a long way, the grid display goes
72completely bonkers. I refer you to
73http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dl267/snapshot1.png for an example.
74
[0e26b3a]75</ul>
76
77<H2>Printing</H2>
78
79<ul>
80
[f4b1dae]81<li>aven: Finish adding calls to msg() so messages can be translated.
[d4cf0ae]82
[f4b1dae]83<li>aven: tilt and rot should be floating point values, not integers...
[d4cf0ae]84
[f4b1dae]85<li>aven: Implement "print clipped to what's in the window".
[d4cf0ae]86
[f4b1dae]87<li>aven: the preview window should display all the pages in one window,
[314dc05]88    arranged in an n x m grid.  We should be able to do this by subclassing
89    wxPreviewFrame and overriding CreateCanvas.  And CreateControlBar too
90    perhaps, though we could just make the page nav buttons scroll the
91    window to show that page.
92
93<li>aven: Once the above is done, the user should be able to enable/disable
[ff62100e]94    pages by clicking on them like in Toporobot (or on checkboxes next to     
95    them which I think is what Compass does?)  It would also be nice to be able     to drag the survey around relative to the pages so that page breaks can be
96    moved to the least awkward positions...
[d4cf0ae]97
[f17dbe2]98<li>Check skip blank pages works (checked printps)...
[0e26b3a]99
[2e53e55]100<li>printdm: put standard scaling in print.ini for canon bj
101(work out what's up with vertical size...)
102
[29fb5fd]103<li>
104On Windows, if the default printer is on another machine which
105isn't switched on, there's a 5 second delay when bringing up the
106page setup dialog, during which aven is unresponsive.  Some other
107applications exhibit similar 5 second delays, so we're not alone.
[0e26b3a]108</ul>
109
110<H2>Documentation</H2>
111
112<ul>
113
114<li>Platform specific versions of docs?
115
116<li>Put more terms in terminology in docs ? trip, instrument, ...
117
[2e53e55]118<li>Finish off manual loose ends.
119
[398863fc]120<li>Look at using docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man (command is
[354ce62]121<i>nsgmls man_aven.sgml | sgmlspl /usr/lib/perl5/sgmlspl-specs/docbook2man-spec.pl</i>).  Issues are: double space between sentences is lost;
122double blank lines appear in output; &amp;bsol; isn't understood.
[398863fc]123
[65ad692]124<li>Make sure there's documentation for all the various settings in print.ini
125(colours aren't documented at present)
126
[0e26b3a]127</ul>
128
129<H2>Survex file format</H2>
130
131<ul>
132
133<li>flag legs as "skeletal" or something? (i.e. not in the cave passage) -
134e.g. a radiolocation leg from one passage to another isn't surface,
135but it isn't in the cave itself either (it's through rock).  You could
136just call it surface but maybe later we want to use the surface
137flag to produce points for a surface triangulation...
138
139<li>?outlaw prefixes on stations in data legs (as Todd has lobbied for)
140and then the prefix of a leg == prefix of each end...?
141
142<li>comma separated dates in *date?
143
144<li>Find a solution to Thilo's "." problem.
[b548758]145
146<li>Units in *fix (currently metres)
147
[0e26b3a]148</ul>
149
[65ad692]150<H2>Internationalisation and Localisation</H2>
[0e26b3a]151
152<ul>
153
154<li>extract help screen from caverot.c for translation
155
156<li>quotes in messages - translate too? e.g. `XXX' to « XXX ».  Eric
157suggests not in French.
158
159<li>extract --help messages for translation.
160
[65ad692]161<li>control of output units in .err file and in stats at end of cavern run?
162In fact anywhere we report a value in degrees or metres, the units should be
163selectable
164
165</ul>
166
167<H2>Test Suite</H2>
168
169<ul>
170
171<li>test diving data with compass omitted (plumbed)
172
173<li>more tests for direction
174
175<li>improve 3d torture test and try to automate its use if possible.
176
[b548758]177<li>Compass .mak and .plt and CMAP .xyz in test suite?
[65ad692]178
179<li>img.c: test routines in test suite?
180
[0e26b3a]181</ul>
182
183<H2>Miscellaneous</H2>
184
185<ul>
186
187<li>resolve entries in TODO; resolve FIXMEs in code
188
189<li>Default variance for topofil counter? (currently same as that of tape)
190
191<li>Rather than forming a linked list of components, solve each as it is
192identified?  Beware of issues like those that revcomplist test checks.
193
194<li>Don't split other traverses at articulating traverses when reporting error
195stats.
196
197<li>caverot: on RISC OS now fall back to using 2 or even just one screen
198bank if we can't find a mode where we can create 3 banks [FIXME: need
199to test this works]
200
201<li>Allow extend (or printing of extend) to unfold right-left instead of
202left to right?
203
[4c5c5f3]204<li>flag nosurvey legs in .3d file
205
206<li>sort out title which goes in .3d file for this (if no *includes in ...
207it gets the title of the leafname of this .svx file, otherwise it's the
208leafnames of the *include-d files, comma-separated):
209
210<pre>
211*begin mycave
212*title "My Cave"
213...
214*end mycave
215</pre>
[3ede867]216
217<li>make img more modular (convert to C++?)
218
219<li>add support for .KST?  Gary says documentation is out of date, and recent
220releases of winkarst have broken .KST export/import...
221
222<li>resolve documentation/examples mismatch for station based .XYZ files and
223implement reading of legs from them.
224
225<li>diffpos: compare connectivity (i.e legs as well as stations) - e.g.
226
227<pre>
228foo.1 moved by (0.02, 0.10, -0.06)
229leg between foo.1 and bar.2 removed
230...
231bar.2 moved by (-0.02, -0.05, 0.03)
232</pre>
233
[ca51382]234<li>improve .plt export to include less crude survey structure.
[3ede867]235
[dbec409]236<li>MacOS X packaging - make Aven.app a bundle - structure like so:
237<pre>
238        Aven.app/
239                Contents/
240                        MacOS/
241                                Aven
242                Info.plist
243                Resources/
244</pre>
245
246And we need to set Aven.app's bundle bit.
[3ede867]247
248<li>look at solution by QR factorisation in matrix.c more
[7c663ef]249
[fe1f251]250<li>consider disabling the more expensive asserts - turning them all off
251speeds up cavern by about 10%.
252
[c87d246]253<li>InnoSetup: UninstallDisplayIcon = {app}\foo.ico (or .exe) | in [Files] ... ; Flags: isreadme | {userdesktop} to add icons | -mail | do we remove file
254 associations on uninstall?
[0e26b3a]255</ul>
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