January 2015 - Therion

Therion hanging after compile
by Jenny Black 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hi, When I compile therion, it appears to compile fine (assuming I haven't made a mistake!), and the green button on the right changes to green, and says "OK", but then it will hang. It is still running, and using lots of CPU, but I cant do anything with it without killing it. This happens either if I compile by hitting F9, or pressing the "compile" button. The same thing happens if I make a mistake and it doesn't compile, but gives me a red "Error" button. When I restart therion, and load back in my files everything works as expected... until I compile it again. I am running therion from debian (unstable) package 5.3.14-1, but I think this also happened in the previous version. Thanks, Jenny ___ Re-sending this message a week later as it didn't appear to reach the list (though i got no bounce message), apologies if you get it twice.

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Therion wx3 support tweaks
by Olly Betts 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Patch attached to fix some lingering issues. One is that wxGLCanvas::OnSize() is deprecated in 3.0 - the portable (between platforms and wx versions) way to achieve this is to call event.Skip(); which will cause the event to be propagated to the base class. AIUI, the only platform this matters on is OS X, which I can't test on - it would be useful to confirm that resizing the window still works on OS X. The other was in my original patch, but got lost when it was applied. As a result wx3 gives an "assertion failed" if loch fails to load a file. The issue here is that the wxWindowDisabler needs to be off before the messagebox gets shown, which I had carefully arranged by reordering code and adding an extra { } block around just the section which needs protecting. I've added a comment this time, to document the reason for the extra { } block. Cheers, Olly

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Therion 5.3.16 - Error opening th and th2 files
by Bill Gee 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hello everyone - I installed therion 5.3.16 a week ago but never did anything more than verify it would start. Now I need to do some work on a map. In xtherion - Whenever I try to open either a th or th2 file (text editor or map editor windows), it throws an error. I took a screen shot and attached to this message. The error comes up as soon as I click on the File-Open icon. It never presents a file chooser dialog. The cave will compile correctly. The thconfig file opens without error. This all worked in 5.3.15. The system is 64-bit Fedora 21. Any ideas? Thanks - Bill Gee

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Altitude colors range
by Marco Menchise 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hello, I use to color maps by scrap altitude. Lately I noticed Therion color gradient starts from 0 m altitude to maximum cave altitude. Because caves don't reach 0 m almost all color range is unused and most scraps are colored with similar colors. If I remember correctly some time ago Therion used all color range because color gradient extended from minimum cave altitude (not 0 m) to maximum. Am I missing something? Is there a way to use all available colors? Thanks, Marco

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Excuse that simple question
by Markus Boldt 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Hi, How is it possible to get a PDF with plans in plan and extended representation on one sheet. I have tried it with: map gs -title "Farrenwiesschacht" -projection plan scrap1 endmap map ext -title "Farrenwiesschacht" -projection scrap7 endmap But I get only scrap1 in my PDF. Scrap7 is ignored Regards Markus

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Compiling Therion projects from Notepad++
by Footleg 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

I find having multiple thconfig files open so I can compile different parts of my large cave system project very useful. So I was investgating how to run Therion from Notepad++ (my preferred text editor). This is how I got it working: I wrote a 2 line batch file containing these commands: cd %1 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Therion\therion.exe" %2 Saved to somewhere on disk, and then call it from Notepad++ using the Run command, as follows: On the Run menu in Notepad++, Select the 'Run' item, and enter the command as follows: "C:\Personal\Caving\Therion\compileTherion.bat" "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)" "$(FILE_NAME)" (But using the path to where you saved your batch file). Save the command (I called it 'Compile Therion' and gave it the shortcut CTRL+T). Now with any thconfig file open in a tab in Notepad++, I can compile that project by pressing CTRL+T, or by selecting 'Compile Therion' from the Run menu. You can create multiple thconfig files in the same folder on Windows, by giving them any filename you want with the extension .thc or give them no extension at all. That way all the files will be listed in the 'Open File' dialog from the compile tab in xTherion. Next I'll see if I can get my batch file to open the output PDF automatically in Foxit Reader :) But that will be less general because I need to pick a PDF filename which can vary between my thconfig files. Footleg

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therion 5.3.16
by Martin Budaj 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Hi all, new therion version is available. It's mostly a bug fixing release; see below for details. Most of the contributed patches were also applied or adapted (thanks, Olly & Wookey). As suggested by Wookey, we intend to use some public VCS for development, presumably Github. We'll let you know when the repository is ready. Martin --- Therion 5.3.16 (2014-12-28): therion: * scale upper limit changed to 1:10 * geomag data updated upto 2020 * bugs fixed: - black area displayed instead of some patterns in SVG - broken XHTML output when string formatting keywords are used in map-comment etc. - unescaped special characters in map-comment etc. in XHTML - improved error message when therion can't map custom TeX fonts in MetaPost macros to Unicode - cave depth value in XHTML output - invalid compass/backcompass averaging formula xtherion: * elevation orientation in Compiler map structure loch: * VTK 6.0 support * wxWidgets 3.0 support

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Debian therion using system libproj needs testing
by Wookey 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

The latest therion debian package (5.3.16-3) uses the system libproj library, not the embedded version included in the therion source (this is good practice for various reasons and should have been done a while ago). Currently the system libproj is 4.8 whilst the therion-inlcuded version is 4.7. These seems compatible for the (farily simple) usage therion makes, but I'd like people who use this to check that it still works the same as before. (I've run it on the cheddar dataset and things still come in in the right place so it appears to work OK :-) Currently in the experimental suite: https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/therion Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/

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