Survex 1.0.30 released

Olly Betts olly@survex.com
Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:21:40 +0100


The most notable change is that Phil's work to allow printing from Aven
is included.  See below for more information.

This release is also the first with a packaged MacOS X version.  Again,
see below for more info.

I've reworked the download page to give a front page where you choose
which platform you want, followed by a specific page for each platform.
I hope this is clearer than the previous version with everything on one
page - feedback welcome:

http://www.survex.com/download.html

No new versions for RISC OS and MSDOS on 286 machines this time.  If
you're using one of these and want a newer version, feel free to prod
me.

Changes since 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. 

I have left the older printing code in place for now, so if there are any
teething problems with the new code, you can still print by right-clicking
on a 3D file and selecting "Print" from the menu (on Windows, and with
suitable UNIX file managers), or by running printps, etc from the command
line.  You can ask aven to load and print a file from the command line by
running it as: aven --print file.3d

Please reports any problems.  Once the new code has proved itself, the
older printer drivers will probably be retired (with PS and HPGL reworked
into "Export as EPS" and "Export as HPGL").

Currently, I'm pretty sure the MacOS X won't work on MacOS X 10.0.  It
will probably work on 10.1 and newer, but has only been tested on 10.3.4
so far.  It would be useful to know what MacOS X versions people are using
so we know what to try to target.

Cheers,
    Olly