Survex 0.99 prerelease 9

[Mark Shinwell]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:41:13AM -0500, Dunks wrote:
> [1] There's still a problem opening .3d files by using
> the file association with aven.exe in windows (at least
> in NT4).  Aven launches, the tree of station names
> gets populated, but no survey appears.  Stations can be
> displayed, but aven seems to think there are no legs
> joining them.
> 
> [2] There seems to be a new problem opening .3d files
> by using the File Open... menu in Aven.  Same as above.
> In both cases, opening the .3d file a second time using
> the File Open... menu causes the survey to be loaded
> correctly

I'm quite sure both of these operations work correctly on my Windows
2000 machine.  Can you check that you're definitely running the new
executable?

Can anyone else confirm these problems?

> [3] A minor glitch exists when searching for stations by
> name.  In all.3d from the sample dataset, try searching
> for 'qz'.  You should get '0 found'.  Now search
> for 's', and you'll get '4159 und', rather than '4159
> found'.

Bizarre.  It works fine on Linux -- haven't got a Windows machine to
test it on right now.

> [4] Rotation still falters if the mouse is moved in the
> survey panel, even with the measuring line off.

I'll be addressing performance issues like these after we've got version
1.0 out.  There are a multitude of areas in which I intend to improve
speed...

Mark

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Mark Shinwell -- http://mrs30.quns.cam.ac.uk/ -- Mark.Shinwell@cl.cam.ac.uk
Theory and Semantics Group, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory