Survex 1.2.1 released

[Graham Mullan]

Loaded, tried to open a 3d file in Aven & get an "assertion failure".

Never seen one of them before!

Graham
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On 04/10/2011 05:26, Olly Betts wrote:
> I've just uploaded Survex 1.2.1:
>
> http://survex.com/download.html
>
> This fixes quite a few bugs and includes some UI improvements.  It doesn't
> fix all known issues, but it's a worthwhile improvement over 1.2.0 and I
> think it's better to get this out than to keep it on hold.
>
> There's no Mac OS X build of this version yet.  If you want to build your own,
> see the instructions at: http://survex.com/download.html?platform=macosx
>
> Here are SHA1 checksums should you want to verify the integrity of the
> files:
>
> 21e4669e76ec73070794d658c440ed89af680c2f  survex-1.2.1.tar.gz
> 22a264046d0e306ca1b7662669551f6cfa00e104  survex-win32-1.2.1.exe
>
> There are "release notes" on the wiki, which I'll try to keep updated with any
> issues found, so take a look there for the latest information:
>
> http://trac.survex.com/wiki/ReleaseNotes/1.2.1
>
> Please report any issues you find which are not covered in the release notes
> to the bug tracker (http://trac.survex.com/).
>
> Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
>
> * Translation updates for US English.
>
> * aven:
>
>    + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
>      it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
>
>    + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
>
>    + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
>      pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
>      other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
>      visually similar to the survey legs.
>
>    + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
>      improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
>
>    + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
>      single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
>      does still provide some useful information).
>
>    + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
>      a depth band boundary.
>
>    + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
>      menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
>      full-screen mode).
>
>    + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
>      character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
>      in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
>      are a little better, though still not perfect.
>
>    + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
>      by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
>
>    + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
>      that station.
>
>    + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
>      redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
>
>    + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
>      then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
>      aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
>      where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
>      a case as it is a bug).
>
>    + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
>      invalidated on window width or height changes.
>
>    + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
>      was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
>      that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
>      the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
>
>    + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
>      the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
>      window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
>      temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
>      wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
>      the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
>      as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
>
>    + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
>      similarly for other compass points.
>
>    + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
>      info in the "About" dialog.
>
>    + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
>      the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
>
>    + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
>      as well as still working with older versions.
>
>    + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
>      subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
>
>    + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
>      field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
>      removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
>      elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
>      been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
>
>    + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
>      nicer and make better use of the available space.
>
>    + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
>      dialog.
>
>    + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
>      shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
>
>    + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
>      and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
>
>    + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
>
>    + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
>
>    + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
>      you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
>      being pressed and toggle full screen.
>
> * (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
>    and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
>
> * "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
>
> * More messages are now available to be translated.
>
> * cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
>    the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
>
> * Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
>
> * INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
>    sudo for installing on Unix.
>
> * In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
>    pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
>
> * In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
>    also applies to newer platforms than XP.
>
> * doc/TODO.htm: Update.
>
> Cheers,
>      Olly
>
>
>
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