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2<TITLE>Survex To-Do List</TITLE>
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8<H1>Survex To-Do List</H1>
9
10<H2>Bugs</H2>
11
12<ul>
13
14<li>This gives "*** Singular!!!" warning with DEBUG_INVALID on:
15<pre>
161 2 50000 0 -
171 2 5 0 -30
18</pre>
19
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
22<li>img.c: eliminate duplicate img_LABELs when reading .PLT files.
23
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>
39Implement as extension to number format so any suitable numeric value to be
40repeated?
41</ul>
42
43<H2>Aven</H2>
44
45<ul>
46
47<li>check on monochrome, 16, and 256 colour displays - especially that depth
48colouring looks OK
49
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?
54
55<li>dot (or some mark) for a fixed point not otherwise used
56
57<li>Z/X a bit "exponential"
58
59<li>tilt speed and direction on keys?
60
61<li>print subsurvey scales to whole plot???
62
63<li>grid: If you zoom in a long way, the grid display goes
64completely bonkers. I refer you to
65http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dl267/snapshot1.png for an example.
66
67</ul>
68
69<H2>Printing</H2>
70
71<ul>
72
73<li>aven: Finish adding calls to msg() so messages can be translated.
74
75<li>aven: Implement "print clipped to what's in the window".
76
77<li>aven: the preview window should display all the pages in one window,
78    arranged in an n x m grid.  We should be able to do this by subclassing
79    wxPreviewFrame and overriding CreateCanvas.  And CreateControlBar too
80    perhaps, though we could just make the page nav buttons scroll the
81    window to show that page.
82
83<li>aven: Once the above is done, the user should be able to enable/disable
84    pages by clicking on them like in Toporobot (or on checkboxes next to     
85    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
86    moved to the least awkward positions...
87
88<li>Check skip blank pages works (checked printps)...
89
90<li>
91On Windows, if the default printer is on another machine which
92isn't switched on, there's a 5 second delay when bringing up the
93page setup dialog, during which aven is unresponsive.  Some other
94applications exhibit similar 5 second delays, so we're not alone.
95</ul>
96
97<H2>Documentation</H2>
98
99<ul>
100
101<li>Platform specific versions of docs?
102
103<li>Put more terms in terminology in docs ? trip, instrument, ...
104
105<li>Finish off manual loose ends.
106
107<li>Look at using docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man (command is
108<i>nsgmls man_aven.sgml | sgmlspl /usr/lib/perl5/sgmlspl-specs/docbook2man-spec.pl</i>).  Issues are: double space between sentences is lost;
109double blank lines appear in output; &amp;bsol; isn't understood.
110
111<li>Make sure there's documentation for all the various settings in print.ini
112(colours aren't documented at present)
113
114</ul>
115
116<H2>Survex file format</H2>
117
118<ul>
119
120<li>flag legs as "skeletal" or something? (i.e. not in the cave passage) -
121e.g. a radiolocation leg from one passage to another isn't surface,
122but it isn't in the cave itself either (it's through rock).  You could
123just call it surface but maybe later we want to use the surface
124flag to produce points for a surface triangulation...
125
126<li>?outlaw prefixes on stations in data legs (as Todd has lobbied for)
127and then the prefix of a leg == prefix of each end...?
128
129<li>comma separated dates in *date?
130
131<li>Find a solution to Thilo's "." problem.
132
133<li>Units in *fix (currently metres)
134
135</ul>
136
137<H2>Internationalisation and Localisation</H2>
138
139<ul>
140
141<li>quotes in messages - translate too? e.g. `XXX' to &laquo; XXX &raquo;.  Eric
142suggests not in French.
143
144<li>extract --help messages for translation.
145
146<li>control of output units in .err file and in stats at end of cavern run?
147In fact anywhere we report a value in degrees or metres, the units should be
148selectable
149
150</ul>
151
152<H2>Test Suite</H2>
153
154<ul>
155
156<li>test diving data with compass omitted (plumbed)
157
158<li>more tests for direction
159
160<li>improve 3d torture test and try to automate its use if possible.
161
162<li>Compass .mak and .plt and CMAP .xyz in test suite?
163
164<li>img.c: test routines in test suite?
165
166</ul>
167
168<H2>Miscellaneous</H2>
169
170<ul>
171
172<li>resolve FIXMEs in code
173
174<li>Default variance for topofil counter? (currently same as that of tape)
175
176<li>Rather than forming a linked list of components, solve each as it is
177identified?  Beware of issues like those that revcomplist test checks.
178
179<li>Don't split other traverses at articulating traverses when reporting error
180stats.
181
182<li>flag nosurvey legs in .3d file
183
184<li>sort out title which goes in .3d file for this (if no *includes in ...
185it gets the title of the leafname of this .svx file, otherwise it's the
186leafnames of the *include-d files, comma-separated):
187
188<pre>
189*begin mycave
190*title "My Cave"
191...
192*end mycave
193</pre>
194
195<li>make img more modular (convert to C++?)
196
197<li>add support for .KST?  Gary says documentation is out of date, and recent
198releases of winkarst have broken .KST export/import...
199
200<li>resolve documentation/examples mismatch for station based .XYZ files and
201implement reading of legs from them.
202
203<li>diffpos: compare connectivity (i.e legs as well as stations) - e.g.
204
205<pre>
206foo.1 moved by (0.02, 0.10, -0.06)
207leg between foo.1 and bar.2 removed
208...
209bar.2 moved by (-0.02, -0.05, 0.03)
210</pre>
211
212<li>improve .plt export to include less crude survey structure.
213
214<li>look at solution by QR factorisation in matrix.c more
215
216<li>consider disabling the more expensive asserts - turning them all off
217speeds up cavern by about 10%.
218</ul>
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