Change List

Changes in 1.0.39:

• (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.

• Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey. Also updates to German, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.

• (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running (it was meant to but the code had a bug). Bug introduced in 1.0.38.

• (Unix version): Debian: Updated "Build-Depends:" for the new X library packaging; Upgrade to debhelper >= 4.

Changes in 1.0.38 (all backported from 1.1.7):

• (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5 (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).

• (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what language to use for messages.

• aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to Martin Green).

• aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.

• aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.

• aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most continental European countries).

• aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete"). Now we pass most keypresses across so they operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.

• aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.

• aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used in cave view.

• aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".

• (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).

• (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0. The attempt to fix this backported in 1.0.36 failed because __WXGTK12__ is set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so it is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!

• (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11 we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.

• (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the keyboard focus there.

• extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on with MS Windows).

• extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend several surveys in the same directory).

• cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino, and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files. Added a feature test for this to the testsuite.

• cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is attached to the previous data.

• cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between them.

• cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.

Changes in 1.0.37:

• cavern: Also ignore any arguments after "*data passage" which makes this feature actually useful as intended.

• aven: Recognise .3d file format versions 4 and 5 so you can load .3d files processed by 1.1.x test builds.

• aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised filename for file history and window title.

Changes in 1.0.36:

• cavern: Ignore "*data passage" data style so you can process files containing LRUD data for Survex 1.1.3 and later.

• cavern: Fix assertion failure when handling a survey with a station only attached by a nosurvey leg.

• aven: The bearing used for a printout now defaults to the current view. (This feature was accidentally broken between 1.0.31 and 1.0.32).

• Changes backported from 1.1.3: + aven: Improve initial window sizing and placement on multimonitor displays when using wx2.4 or earlier. + testsuite: Fix cavern.tst to report misspelled test names and make badnewline test case actually run and actually pass. + (Unix version): aven: Only add toolbar margins for gtk1.2 + (Unix version): configure: Updated check for wx version.

Changes in 1.0.35:

• aven: Fix printing which was deciding how many pages to spread the plot over by looking at the whole paper size, not the printable area.

• aven: When exporting, omit surface data if it's not being shown at the moment. Also omit unnecessary MOVE ops from generated files (which saves quite a lot of space when surface data is turned off).

• (Unix Version): Set Aven's icon on non-Windows platforms too.

• extend: Added documentation and test cases for the new extend features.

• manual: Fix example of setting decimal separator.

• printxbm: Fixed test program printxbm to compile.

• Include syntax colouring mode for .svx files for the vim editor, written by David Loeffler.

Changes in 1.0.34:

• extend: Added changes from John Pybus which allow you to specify a configuration file to control how the centreline is extended - e.g. where to fold and where to break loops.

• (MS Windows version): Fixed detection of codepage 1250 (used for Slovak and Romanian) - this should fix problems with missing accents.

Changes in 1.0.33:

• aven,printwin: Fixed bug which would sometimes pick one too few pages vertically resulting in the survey escaping off the top of the topmost pages.

• aven: Changed the toner-wasting, hard-to-measure-exactly alternately filled scale bar to a simple line with ticks.

• aven: SVG export fixes: second and subsequent exports had bogus extra "</g>"; Fixed to invert all Y coordinates, not just some; Fixed tags for layers.

• aven: Added EPS export option.

• (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed inverted icons.

• aven: Initial window size and position will not straddle monitors if you have multiple monitors connected to one machine (needs wxWidgets 2.5 to work on Unix).

• (Unix version): aven: Fixed initial sizing problems when building with gtk2.

• Minor documentation updates.

Changes in 1.0.32:

• aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.

• aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.

• aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and extend elevations.

• aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.

• aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the default button.

• aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).

• aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.

• aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window - previously this was being ignored.

• aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.

• aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is manipulated with keys. Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a smidgen more efficient. Fixed the blob and ring size which were one pixel too small on Windows.

• aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold information useful when reporting bugs. Currently it contains the wxWindows version, OS version, and colour depth information.

• aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency with pretty much every other application.

• aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality within aven.

• aven: Updated a few icons.

• cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus

• (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4

• (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer (we were using innosetup 2). This results in a much smaller download and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language. The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously doubt anyone is still using that...

• Updates to German translation.

Changes in 1.0.31:

• (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).

• aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the grid is enabled or not.

• aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.

• Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish translations.

• cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.

Changes in 1.0.30:

• aven: Added printing directly from Aven!

• aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.

• (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.

• cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are flagged as surface and underground.

• Romanian translation mostly completed.

• (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.

Changes in 1.0.29:

• cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).

• aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.

• Removed some unused messages from the message files.

• (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch from John Pybus).

• Romanian translation started.

• (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in menu files.

Changes in 1.0.28:

• Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station names in a rare case. Also checked other rare cases work correctly.

Changes in 1.0.27:

• cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate layers.

• (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.

Changes in 1.0.26:

• cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being calculated as zero.

• (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.

• aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.

• aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.

• (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work! It turns out that we must apply resources *after* installing.

• (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.

• (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location of their choice.

• (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't installed.

• cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always worked).

• extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was probably causing crashes on some platforms.

• Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.

• Documentation updated.

• (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot documentation!

• test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.

• (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.

• (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed most of them.

• (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.

Changes in 1.0.25:

• (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.

• (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of the box on more Unix platforms.

• (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.

• (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently insurmountable technical problems.

Changes in 1.0.24:

• cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.

• cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.

• printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.

• Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.

• (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X (and probably some other Unix versions).

• (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.

Changes in 1.0.23:

• Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS, and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates to manual.

• Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.

• (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows; automatically add resource fork to aven binary.

• Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS Windows.

• (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.

• cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.

Changes in 1.0.22:

• aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) - they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.

• Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source code).

Changes in 1.0.21:

• cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be entirely ignored. And we now report correct line number with errors in Compass .MAK files.

• cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).

• cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.

• cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes per station.

• cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very unusual circumstances.

• (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since 1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed. You wouldn't notice this if you installed over an previous version.

Changes in 1.0.20:

• aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.

• cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the correction was about 57 times too large!)

• Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't insert a survey separator character.

• Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.

Changes in 1.0.19:

• cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) - these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.

• cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass files are handled).

• cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.

• cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.

• cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.

• cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.

• cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed and added test case. This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a crash.

• Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.

• Documentation: minor updates.

Changes in 1.0.18:

• (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.

• (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit instead.

• (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.

• (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons to the aven subpackage.

• Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).

• Updated TODO list.

Changes in 1.0.17:

• (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't install this action now falls back to using notepad). SvxEdit now has its own icon.

• (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome. Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g. Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually refresh the view.

• Minor update to manual.

Changes in 1.0.16:

• (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops programs from finding the message files.

• (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx files.

Changes in 1.0.15:

• (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops programs from finding the message files.

• (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu obtained with the right mouse button.

Changes in 1.0.14:

• svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team. It needs tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free from Activeware.

• Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the separator between survey name and station name.

• aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter labels with the aim of displaying more labels.

• aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.

• cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).

• cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some stations not being attached to a fixed point.

• cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.

• cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a DIRECTION reading.

• cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.

• print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would have taken up.

• Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings once again. Added regression test for this.

• (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.

• Updated documentation.

Changes in 1.0.13:

• aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown connecting arbitrary stations.

• extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys join.

• cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled, and everything should work exactly as before.

• Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are currently translated.

Changes in 1.0.12:

• diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.

• sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.

• Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250 (both cover Eastern European languages).

• (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf files and for CMAP .xyz files. Also install the file icon for .plt and .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for permission to include the icon).

• (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works again.

• (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.

• (Unix version): minor portability improvements.

• Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.

Changes in 1.0.11:

• aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is 2.2.9 where this doesn't work). Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9, and as intended on 2.3.

• aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't '.').

• aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause autorotation.

• aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.

• aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".

• (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by double-clicking or from the command line.

• cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.

• printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.

• print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.

• extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.

• Updates to Italian translation.

• Minor documentation updates.

Changes in 1.0.10:

• (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station names.

• aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened successfully.

• aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT", "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.

• cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).

• Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion factor was being applied backwards!)

• Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't be opened.

• Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.

• Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.

• Updates to German and Italian translations.

Changes in 1.0.9:

• aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.

• cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.

• (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the end of each line).

• (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put them).

• Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.

Changes in 1.0.8:

• Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.

• aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and responsiveness.

• aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the speed of the computer or size of the survey.

• aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of the program).

• aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.

• aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.

• aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now work as in caverot and xcaverot).

• aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the right mouse button.

• aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.

• aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys. This was a crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system. Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to approximately 1mm/pixel.

• aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.

• print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer. This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.

• print*: improved output when --no-border is used.

• printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user to choose between alternative fonts. Current we supply "default" and "bold".

• printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank pages on rare occasions.

• cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.

• cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".

• cavern: added "*infer exports on". Any stations seen while this is on will have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their own survey. This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which doesn't. It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.

• cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in underground surveys.

• cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.

• cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown - now it gives the correct error message.

• cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).

• cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line of data which was rejected because of an error.

• cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").

• cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.

• cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the odd values in bcra3.svx. We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2 standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd by default).

• ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people). MSDOS and MS Windows versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.

• Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help" and with "--version". This should avoid problems such as that which broke the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.

• (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has been removed.

Changes in 1.0.7:

• print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.

Changes in 1.0.6:

• aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.

• aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging, exit with Delete) improved.

• aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.

• aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.

• aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).

• aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys with no clino information).

• aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and crosses buttons to behave oddly.

• aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.

• Spell-checked documentation.

Changes in 1.0.5:

• Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).

• North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.

• cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file structure for Compass to read them now.

• Documentation updates.

Changes in 1.0.4:

• extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.

• cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default output format.

• aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.

• print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.

• aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing on Microsoft Windows.

• aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.

• img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.

• Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres. Also .plt files should now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd special case better.

• Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files. There are two variants of these - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly the sample files I have do not match the format specification).

• (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort out packaging now...

• (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.

• Documentation updates.

Changes in 1.0.3:

• aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead of degrees.

• aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.

• cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.

• print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being written.

• Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).

• (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.

Changes in 1.0.2:

• printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in print.ini etc.

• cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL style is now synonymous with NORMAL.

• cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.

• cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.

• (MacOS X version): command line programs now build. We're working on Aven.

• Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.

• xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.

• cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.

• img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were .3d files.

Changes in 1.0.1:

• (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment ticks.

• Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.

Changes in 1.0.0:

• Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.

• aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match the coloured blobs used to indicate them.

• (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).

• (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.

• survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx" instead of "survex file.svx".

• (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling with a lower optimisation level.

• (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non "in directory" build.

• German translation now completely up-to-date.

webmaster: Olly Betts