Aven exports sketch file instead of pos file

Mike Lake mikel at speleonics.com.au
Thu Oct 24 23:20:17 BST 2019


Hi

Strange. These were downloaded from the survex site a week ago and the 
users installed it for the first time on their PCs and Macs. They had 
not installed or used survex before. Both Phil and I saw this problem on 
the weekend. I'll try and get a Windows machine fired up and test.

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Mike Lake

On 2019-10-25 07:58, Olly Betts wrote:
> Thanks to Wookey for spotting this as a known and fixed bug.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:15:39PM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
>> I don't have a Windows box to check now but on the weekend I'm pretty 
>> sure I
>> tried a Skencil export and got a Skencil file, not a POS. It was 
>> definitely
>> a Windows 1.2.42 version on the weekend that had this error so if it 
>> was
>> fixed in 1.2.32 then its reverted.
> 
> It doesn't seem to me that the fix has reverted.  The current source
> code looks correct, and 1.2.42 works correctly for me under wine and
> for Brian "for real".  And it also works correctly under Linux (the
> original bug was not platform-specific).
> 
> I'm suspecting the machine you think was running 1.2.42 actually
> also has an older version of Survex installed and that's the one
> which was really being used.  Can you check what Aven's "About"
> dialog says on that machine?
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly



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