Survex 1.1.12 development snapshot uploaded

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:09:11AM +0000, David Loeffler wrote:
> The measuring line distance readout in Aven still doesn't work for me
> (with wxWidgets 2.6.3 on SuSE Linux 10.0). If in elevation mode without
> a second point selected, I still get a vertical distance reading, but as
> soon as I choose a second point the box goes blank.

Ah yes, I don't think I did ever get to the bottom of that.

> I seem to recall you saying this was a wxWindows bug involving how the
> degree sign for the bearing was handled.

It's not just the degree symbol - any non-ASCII character in a status
bar readout makes that readout disappear, at least with certain setups.
I think this triggers if you're using a UTF-8 locale.

> I will try upgrading my wx to 2.8.0; but couldn't you just leave out
> the degree sign? "Bearing 172" is pretty unambiguous, surely -- is
> there anyone out there who measures bearings in anything but degrees?

Some people use "grad", where there are 100 grad in a right angle.  Aven
supports this too (try toggling "Controls->Degrees").

> Even "Bearing 172 deg" only uses a tiny fraction more screen real
> estate.

But that doesn't fix the underlying problem, so anyone using Survex in
a language where one of the status bar messages contains a non-ASCII
character will suffer from missing status bar messages (for example, in
German you don't see the altitude of the mouse pointer in elevation
mode).  It would be much better to find out why this happens.

> BTW, I like the easter egg, or should I say easter spud?

Shh!

Cheers,
    Olly