Presumably you have fixed the script?
I'm sorry - no. Probably nobody uses these versions - so I thought it useless (at least no time for that).
I thought that's what you said but I didn't understand how metapost and Tex macros could be compiled into a C++ executable - I assumed TeX/Metapost still needed to be able to see the files somewhere.
They're stored in C++ as string constants and written directly to the beginning of MP file and TeX file. This is quite nasty - but seems to be very idiot-proof.
1. Automatically generated graphical scale, north arrow, title, authors and legend should be added to map and atlas by default. User will have possibility to modify them.
That would be sensible - it wil need quite a lot of flexibility. Standard slots for Grade/survey type/entrance location(s) would probably be helpful. Other info can be free text.
Of course - we will discuss it at meetend in two weeks, than I'll let you know and we can discuss it in conference.
4. 3D passage wall modeling.
Survex (survex-1_1 branch in CVS) now has general passages round centrelines using opengl (also C++ code). Currently they are square because we haven't got code to read in better passage-dimension info yet. It may well be possible to 1) use that code in therion or 2) have therion provide passage dimension info to Aven and use that viewer
Thanks - at least the second possibility will be supported - because OpenGL at TclTk is not so easy to set-up. Do you have also other shapes in aven? Can I insert sections on other points, than centerline?
5. My suggestion: I need to do some more drawing to be sure but at the moment I think we need to improve xtherion so that drawing is not so slow - It will never be as fast as pen-drawing but currently I find it takes an amazingly long time and this makes me wonder if Therion is really practical for my surveys - things like code to auto-track walls would save a lot of time (TunnelX has this but it's java so we can't just use it directly unfortunately). Easier ways of drawing large, specific boulders. Maybe all I need is a list of the keyboard shortcuts for starting and stopping lines, changing line types, moving around the data-file. Is there one?
Ad shortcuts: * create line : Ctrl+l (see menu) * finish line : click (insert point) on the last point by right button * close line: click (insert point) on the first line point * changing line type - no at the moment - do you have any idea? Some popup menu or something simmilar? * moving around the data file - what do you mean? Scrolling can be done via left-click and mouse move. We plan to put tree instead of list with objects (file commands). Object search should work also. OK, I will put to TODO on the first place making the list of all controls to thbook. Ad wall tracking: I have this in a long-term TODO - but if there is a code doing this in TunnelX, I can try to steal it (transcription to Tcl from Java should be no problem). By the way - you can use TunnelX (if it's faster) and convert data to therion (as far as I know TunnelX, it should not be big problem - just removing the <>""= XML stuff should be more or less enought. Or you can definitelly use TunnelX :-) Ad boulders: I draw rock-edge lines not very cosher way (shapes like Y or so)- some line segments are entered twise - but then I enter the entire rock-edge by one line.
I admit I have spent too much time packaging and not enough actually using recently! I have some surveys to draw soon so I'll use it some more...
I'm very curious about your impressions... S.