Survex 0.96 prerelease 4 available

[Brian Clipstone]

----- Original Message -----
From: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
To: <survex@survex.com>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: Survex 0.96 prerelease 4 available


> I've uploaded the fourth prerelease of Survex 0.96.  Download links are
on:
>
> http://www.survex.com/
>
> The major change in this version is that I've dropped the directx caverot
> and replaced it with Mark Shinwell's MS Windows version of aven.  Aven
> offers nearly all of caverot's features (the missing ones are being worked
> on) plus a few extra features (e.g. depth colouring).  It's also a "real"
> windows application, running in the desktop with menus, etc.  Let us know
> what you think of it.
>
> This prerelease is available for all platforms apart from RISC OS and
> pre-386 DOS machines (these will appear in 2-3 weeks time):
>
> Changes in 0.96-prerelease4:
>
> * cavern (RISC OS version): "is this a directory" test would never say
>   "yes".
>
> * caverot: (MSDOS version) cursor keys and delete had stopped working (due
>   to changes in allegro graphics library) - fixed.
>
> * xcaverot: Zoom in and out with keyboard now behaves exactly like
clicking
>   on buttons; Removed unused "select" button; Fixed significant memory
leak.
>
> * aven: (MS Windows version) Mark Shinwell has written a Microsoft Windows
>   version of aven, which is better in almost every way than the directx
>   version of caverot (and we're working to fix the few shortfalls), so
we've
>   shelved directx caverot and are now including aven instead with the MS
>   Windows version.
>
> I'm off to Whistler (in Canada) tomorrow for 2 weeks of skiing, so get
> hammering away on this and let me know any problems you find.  Hopefully
we
> can get a real release out shortly after I get back.
>
> We've slipped a little from the "1.0 at the end of 2000" target I was
hoping
> for, but there's not too much left to do now.
>
> Cheers,
> Olly


The Dos version does not work in Dos, you get ??? no matter what you type.
But it works in Windows OK.

Brian

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