Survex 1.1.8 development snapshot uploaded

Loeffler, David david.loeffler at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Jun 30 17:54:35 BST 2006 

A few other things I've spotted after having more of a play around:

(3) Running Aven on a .svx file, a window marked "Aven Error Log" appears filled with errors saying

17:41:31: No OpenGL information available yet - try opening a file.
17:41:54: Error: Failed to display HTML document in ISO-8859-1 encoding
17:41:54: Error: Failed to display HTML document in ISO-8859-1 encoding
17:41:54: Error: Failed to display HTML document in ISO-8859-1 encoding
17:41:54: Error: Failed to display HTML document in ISO-8859-1 encoding

(the latter error repeated 50 or more times). This appears to be harmless - the file eventually opens fine.

(4) Aven claims to accept the -s switch, but it doesn't work: if you use it, it flashes up a message saying "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors" and quits, printing to the console the message:

aven: mainfrm.cc:1175: bool MainFrm::LoadData(const wxString&, wxString): Assertion `i != m_Labels.end()' failed.
Abnormal termination

I think this error happens with Survex 1.0 as well. It's a shame because I'd actually find -s with Aven quite handy for certain things, particularly if it could be made to accept a list of prefixes rather than just one.

(5) [Probably a wxWindows error] When the hierarchical station list loads, it is in black (or green for surface surveys etc) against a grey background. When you mouse over a station (or prefix heading) the background turns darker grey, and then when you mouse out again it turns to white, so you get a sort of trail of which ones you've moused over -- it looks very weird.

Dave

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David Loeffler
Mathematics Department
Imperial College, London



-----Original Message-----
From: survex-bounces at survex.com on behalf of Loeffler, David
Sent: Fri 6/30/2006 12:36
To: survex at survex.com
Subject: RE: Survex 1.1.8 development snapshot uploaded
 
Here are a couple of bugs I've noticed from the first attempt to build the new version. Niether of these are new; they have been present in all Survex 1.1 versions I've tried under Linux.

(1) Where is the length reading for the measuring line? I get a blank box where I had expected it to appear.

(2) At one end of the measuring line, there should be a filled white blob (IIRC). This blob doesn't appear; it gets plotted somewhere else on the screen, which then shifts around in a weird random way when you zoom and rotate the image.

See screenshot at www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~dl505/snapshot1.png.

Dave

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David Loeffler
Mathematics Department
Imperial College, London



-----Original Message-----
From: survex-bounces at survex.com on behalf of Olly Betts
Sent: Thu 6/29/2006 22:15
To: survex at survex.com
Subject: Survex 1.1.8 development snapshot uploaded
 
I've just uploaded 1.1.8:

http://www.survex.com/software/1.1.8/

Please note that this is a test build of the development version.
Things should mostly work, but you're a lot more likely to encounter
problems than with the stable 1.0.X versions.  

But please do download it, try it out, and report any problems.  I
think this is getting pretty close to what I'd like to release as
Survex 1.2, so please report any problems (even if you've reported
them before!)

Changes in 1.1.8:

* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
  (which was released on 2003-01-07).

* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
  has been disabled.

* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
  time.

* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
  highlighted stations.

* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.

* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
  the tilt from plan to elevation.

* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".

* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).

* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)

* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.

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

* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.

* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
  run by an unprivileged user.

* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.

* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).

* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.

* 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).

* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
  if it isn't.

* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).

* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".

* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
  reset to default view as well).

* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
  empty.

* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.

* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.

* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
  and non-zero width lines.

* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
  was turned on.

* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
  not always being fully written.

Cheers,
    Olly

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