2.11 July 5, 2013 New features * when running under the Palm OS Emulator (POSE), Auriga allows to select a Bluetooth link in the Preferences form (convenient when teaching); however, attempting a connection fails as POSE does not support Bluetooth Bug fixes * zooming or panning the Map while assembling a sketch elements group could result in sketch corruption and an alert asking for a repair of survey shots * while in Group mode, certain Map operations could make two tools simultaneously active (grayed) in Sketching * some controls could overlap in Link tab of Preferences form Reference manual * "Typing the first letters of the cave or network name allows to reach it faster." added to "Backup/restore on memory card" section 2.10 July 1, 2013 New features * Element Details form (Sketching) now identical for both groups and other sketch element types (lines, curves or text) * the Element Details form now allows to toggle between fixed or self-adjusted modes and to set line type and fill pattern for grouped sketch elements (in bulk) * menu item "Select All" renamed "Check "Close" for All" in Loops view of the List form for more clarity with this feature that sets the Close checkbox of all loops * when closing the Measures form after saving the survey shot while the Assistant is active, the Assistant post-save action is performed * better cave-linking process for networks * an alert is popped up when exporting to SVG with stations without selecting any station * easier input of 'X' (unknown) passage dimension in survey shot after first inputting numerical data * after closing the Color by Date/Depth forms, the Map mode gets updated (not doing it was confusing) * stations with a sketched cross-section display a +s/+e in Attributes column of Shots and Stations view of List form; a + may also be displayed next to the station in Map; a + may also appear above the station name in the Attributes form; sketched sections may be searched with the Search form (by Attribute); this applies to new survey shots or those saved after installing version 2.10; applying a Repair operation to Survey Shots (see Operations form) also sets this attribute for earlier survey shots and stations Bug fixes * the Color by Date and Color by Depth forms could hang or crash on certain devices * the color selector in Session form was not updated when switching to another session while in Shots tab * editing splay measures for a survey shot missing required passage dimensions could silently mark the survey shot as Incomplete (and hide it in Map) * cutting open a closed filled polygon with the Scissors would draw it hollow * with a group of sketch elements, the Undo button can only work once (changes cannot be redone) unless only the line type or fill changed * opening the Measures form on an existing survey shot without changing anything could still mark it as modified (with save check) * '.' (dot) separator used as default when switching from 12-character station names to 6.6 format in Import form * optional Configuration section in Visual Topo .TRO files would be reported as lines with missing data in import log * when exporting the line plot to DXF or KML files, origin coordinates were not deduced from geographic positions * minor interface corrections in Measures and Export forms Reference manual * new screenshot of Element Details form * note added to Undo button in Map * Check "Close" for All menu item documented in Loops view of List form section * altitude reference station documented (Cave Details) 2.09 June 11, 2013 New features * "Color By Date" added to Map display settings * "Color by Date" form added to Map menu * operation "Rename One Station" added to Operations form * better optimization for the display of station names in Map * station name optimization now toggable in Map tab in Preferences * after deleting part of a split sketch element, the other part gets selected automatically * the Object Details form in Sketching mode now displays the parent survey shot (before a future version allows its change) * holding down the Station tool (Sketching) filters the Map to only display sketches related to the current survey shot (the tool then gets displayed in red as a warning) * Statistics now report the date range of survey shots * the Shots view of the Selection form may be now be filtered to only display survey shots belonging to the current session Bug fixes * computing dive survey shots could sometimes prevent their further modification, popping up the "Survey Shot Already Exists" alert * the Measures form on devices with virtual Graffiti did not allow the manual input of measures below the 7th line * line plot exports that did not include stations could end up empty * the loop alert could pop up twice upon saving a new survey shot * in Main form, the Save As menu item did not always use the selected cave as source * in Main form, the Export menu item did not require a selected cave * Network/Import menu element removed in Main form (confusing) * the Compass import and export were using the user-preferred order for passage dimensions instead of the compulsory LUDR order of the .DAT file format * importing nameless Compass surveys would put garbage in Auriga session name * survey shot input order (in sessions) was not properly handled by Compass import and export * converted lengths properly rounded after Compass import * the Attributes icon would no longer appear in Session form * theodolite data in Survey Shot form were multiplied by 100 Reference manual * new features above documented 2.08 May 1st, 2013 New features * migration of cave PDBs to format 63 and network PDBs to format 9 so as to, among other, support upcoming Map option of coloring survey shots by date * "Purge Deleted Records" option removed from Operations form (irrelevant after this migration) * Selection saved after cave database closed even when not computed * sketch exported to Therion using PocketTopo's TXT export format * the Curve sketch tool allows tracing a very short line, down to a single dot * better error handling with Bluetooth communication * Cave Sniper data import (tested) or fetched from device (untested); see www.caveexplorer.eu * station name labels and markers are automatically dropped at low zoom ratios to unclutter the Map * name labels located around stations according to survey shot direction in Map * if backsights were taken in Measures form but not to be stored in Survey Shot form, they are now averaged with foresights * upon receiving first splay measure, default type takes survey shot direction into account * left-right passage dimension auto-detection was wrong when handling direct sizes with reverse azimuth or vice-versa * the connected device is disconnected if the PDA turns itself off * text elements in sketch allow multiple lines * the keyboard selected in Preferences for notes is also used to input text elements in sketch * nameless sketch layers now enabled (layer index is used as name) * 3, 5 and 7-second delays offered in Power form * the Geodesic Converter remembers its current formats and datum * Cave and Network menus revised for more clarity * the name of the cave or network backup file on the memory card is editable * Public checkbox removed from Cave Details (the conduit never used it) * numeric date format display year on 4 digits Bug fixes * displaying sketches in network mode could crash the Map * access to the memory card for cave imports failed with the Palm T5 (and perhaps others with non volatile memory) * in some cases, the Export form could hang when left idle * changing the format to SVG in the Export form would not show the Paper tab * some controls could overlap in Export form in CSV format * color choices were ignored in Export form in SVG format * disconnecting the device in Measures form left the Connect pushbutton highlighted in Survey Shot form * not all hardware buttons triggered the Pit Sounder * changing the Selection did not always update the Map when filtered by Selection * menu items of the Preferences form allowing to backup/restore Auriga preferences on the memory card (when launched from Main form) did not always appear * the Auriga Keypad did not copy its data to the Geodesic Converter when launched with the a-b-c icon in the Graffiti area * current cave/network was not closed after restoring another cave/network from the memory card * at low zoom level, certain sketch line patterns could produce weird diagonal lines across screen * wall lines could appear between caves in the DXF export of a network * holding down the stylus on the zoom - or + buttons in Cross-Section view would offer a useless option (this action is now inhibited) * minor acquired data display glitch under StyleTap * compatibility with Palm OS 3.0 restored in Map Reference manual * TXT export to Therion documented * complete reread and correction to match latest developments 2.07 March 6, 2013 New features None Bug fixes * beaming had been disabled by accident Reference manual Unchanged 2.06 March 1st, 2013 New features * migration of cave PDBs to format 62 to fix a minor error to some series beginnings and to sort them before any other survey shot in the series * when displaying Map or exporting survey shots, selected sessions (in addition to loops and stations) are used to determine target survey shots in Selection if no survey shot is already selected * # and ^ added to list of accepted characters in station names when the @ checkbox is selected in Cave Details form * non fatal errors (bad station, duplicate survey shot, conversion error, missing data) no longer abort the import process (allows to see all errors at once in log) * import log now saved under the name of the target cave * in Compass import, LRUD marked as Unknown (Passage) when negative and as Indefinite (missing) when all 0; -999.00 handled as Indefinite for foresight/backsight azimuth or slope * Compass import and export take into account the choice of station to which LRUDs are attached (new in Compass 5.13.1.27.169) * when editing a note for which tags are recognized by the export process (depending on the target software), a Tags button is displayed to quickly input those tabs (ex. [SURVEY TEAM: ] in Compass sessions (surveys) * under StyleTap, the Off button is hidden in the Power form; beaming is disabled on Android devices (unsupported) * Map walls and passage fill exported in KML file (Google Earth) * "Current Shot with Neighbors" added in Map zoom options to let the existing "Current Shot" strictly zoom on the current shot (convenient for sketching) * "Current Shot" zoom option used by Assistant when automatically jumping to Map after saving a new survey shot * in extended profile view, when a survey shot completes a loop, its end station is not displayed a second time in Map but the walls, passage dimensions and splay measures are displayed where the survey shot really ends to assist with sketching * splay measures projected left or right in extended profile view according to their heading relative to that of their parent survey shot * size of stylus input buffer raised to allow sketching longer curves (especially in cross-section) Bug fixes * a geographic position could no longer be input in series beginnings * cave imports failed if the PDA decimal separator were a comma (,) * the Toporobot and GH Topo TAB file import did not properly handle Topofil calibration and lengths as well as gaps in entrance (-6) and position (-5) lines * series beginnings did not sort before any other survey shot in the series if the connection station sorted after the first station in series; this prevented a proper use of series attributes for display or computation, as well as a proper Toporobot/GH Topo export * view selector unduly displayed in Export form for GPX and KML formats * right and down passage dimensions were swapped in the Compass export; lines breaks filtered in session and survey shot comments * LRUD station toggled even when reversing LRUDs in Survey Shot form * the Confirm button for backsights would appear in the Auriga Keypad even after the proposed backsight value had been edited * navigating the Survey Shot fields via the Auriga Keypad in backward order could erase the edited backsight azimuth * if no foresight were taken in Measures form, the backsight length would not be used in Survey Shot form * slopes were not properly validated in the Measures form * the Search form only accepted 9 characters for stations (instead of 13) and refused wildcards (* and ?) if stations were strictly numeric * the Keypad icon in the Measures form on devices with virtual Graffiti did not always work * DistoX configuration no longer viewable unless Bluetooth available (it created false hopes) * azimuth averaging would detect an error with 0/180° or 0/200 grads * various minor interface fixes Reference manual * changes to the KML export and Map zoop options documented 2.05 December 9, 2012 New features * migration of cave PDBs to format 61 and network PDBs to format 8 to support centimetric altitudes and passage width direction for each individual survey shot * a new Export item in Cave menu allows exporting survey shots and station coordinates as a tab-delimited CSV (text) file or in Compass, Survex, Therion, GH Topo/Toporobot, VisualTopo and Walls formats * a new Import item in the Cave menu of the Main form allows importing cave files in Compass, GH Topo/Toporobot and VisualTopo formats * Export element of Cave menu renamed "Save As" to avoid confusion with Export element in Cave and Map menus * sketch lines and curves now support patterns and fills (although DXF and SVG exports don't render them yet) * even with GH Topo/Toporobot as a software target for the cave, series beginnings can now hold a geographic position * map view appended to survey shot layer name in DXF * Survey Shot form now allows toggling the direction of passage widths by holding down the stylus on one of the station selector arrows for LRUDs * survey stations and shots dated in KML export to allow viewing cave progress in Google Earth (if the PDA time was properly set) * logs that could be exported to Memo (statistics, loop itinerary, loop analysis and survey shot errors) can now be saved as text files on the memory card * spaces replaced by underscores (_) in name of all exported files * when editing a note or a file name with the Auriga Keypad, holding down a letter button inserts the opposite case, or pops up a list of accented versions of that letter * pasting a geographic position in Survey Shot fields (using Edit/Paste menu item) now includes altitude * better handling of altitude received from connected GPS * Keypad icon added in Measures form on devices with virtual Graffiti area when Palm OS 1-2-3 icon is not visible * the clipping mask in Map now accepts an absolute XYZ position for its center * azimuth and slope fields in Survey Shot form displayed with at least one decimal to ease detection of input errors * dragging the stylus from Graffiti area to middle of screen now toggles between Top and Developed profile views in Sketching tool * wrong input highlighted in Auriga Keypad (along with beep) * with caves where the target software is GH Topo or Toporobot, an alert is displayed when creating a new survey shot produces non sequential stations (incompatible with Toporobot) Bug fixes * editing a hi-res sketch curve on a low-res map could shift the curve or display garbage on screen * sketched curves could end up very jaggy if traced while the coordinates of the cave origin were very large numbers (like UTM coordinates) * the Auriga Keypad could not be opened from the Measures form (again) * the column before last in the List form could not be resized if the list was scrolled to the right * the SVG export would display a North arrow for profile views * using dates with "AM/PM" could cause odd crashes in List form * inputting the magnetic declination in d°m's" or d°m.m' format in Session form did not work well * the Clipping Mask form could crash when displaying a geographic position for the center point * better handling of d°m's" characters by the Auriga Keypad * a slope of -0.01 produced an incomplete survey shot * in case of data corruption in splay measures, erroneous types are shown as ? * better alert when survey shot data is about to be overwritten by new data received from the DistoX * DistoX acquisition did not automatically restart after hitting the New button in Survey Shot form while data remained unsaved * on some devices, exporting the Map to the memory card could fail if the target file already existed * better handling of Topofil input in Survey Shot form * some station separators such as _ could not be input into fields * survey shots count in sessions could be off by 1 * various minor interface fixes Reference manual * new section on export in Cave menu * new section on import in Main form * update screenshot for (sketch) Element Details form and Report menu 2.04 June 18, 2012 New features * timestamp of survey shot updated when its geographic position, measure or measure-related attributes are changed * in Export form, when changing the default name of the export file, if this file already exists, an alert is popped up before overwriting it * in the SVG map export, when exporting only selected survey shots, the automatic export scale is computed based on the selection size * in the SVG map export, the scale can be determined by the user as long as it remains suitable with the exported map and paper sizes * when using the Text tool in sketch, the Auriga Keypad opens in its previous layout (alphabetic or numeric) * option "Recount Session Shots" added in Caves view of Operations form * option "Full Screen Cave Map" moved from Preferences to Display forms for consistency * Auriga preferences can now be backed up and restored from memory card when called from Main form * cave origin station displayed as a landmark in Map if not on 0,0,0 * streak-free Map move in Pan mode * if only one loop in the cave, it is automatically set as the current loop for analysis * in the Loops view of the Operations form, the "Export as New Cave" option now allows to select the target cave category Bug fixes * in Sketching mode, the "Full Screen Cave Map" option in Preferences was not well ignored, sometimes hiding controls in Map * when zooming the Map, sketches would sometimes not be redrawn * in black Map background, the scale could appear highlighted * in black Map background, after selecting a sketch color, the sketch tools could disappear * sketches drawn in Extended profile did not follow the direction of development when it changed * upon returning from the Paper tab in the (line plot) Export form, the Card checkbox did not reappear when relevant * sometimes, with the Auriga-computed scale, the Map would appear truncated in the SVG export * wrong passage heights exported in hidden DXF layer in Top view * using the Auriga Keypad to input cave names in a network could crash * beaming one or more selected caves from Main form did not work well * the new loop alert could pop up in Survey Shot form after saving an already existing survey shot * in very odd cases, the Selection form could crash after changing the viewed cave category filter * the Auriga Keypad could not be opened from the Measures form * in the Measures form, upon saving a survey shot form with no backsight, the azimuth and slope fields would get cleared * when applying the "Associate to Session" operation, the number of shots in sessions were not updated * selecting survey shots from Map no longer worked * the "Accept Dubious Data" preference was not saved * the List form would not always scroll to the currently selected line on devices with a virtual Graffiti area * networks built from caves with origin XYZ corresponding to geographic coordinates linked with the "Use Cave Origin as Offset" type did not appear properly ordered in Map * beaming a network and its caves would fail Reference manual Unchanged 2.03 February 24, 2012 New features * sketch element grouping implemented; Group tool/mode reached by holding down stylus on sketch tool (3rd to the right) in Map * stylus trace interpolated to sketch smoother curves * sketch stays displayed when switching Map mode to a transient mode (Span, Line, Spot or Path) even if sketch is disabled in display options * when inputting a GPS position in Survey Shot form, leaving the data connection active averages the position * ITRF92 datum added in new Grids.pdb * option "Disable External Search" added in Cave Details form * option "Current Shot" added to Search form when launched from Survey Shot form * smarter pattern-finding algorithm in Global Find and Select forms now allows finding * and ? characters even when wildcards are used * options "Convert Sketch" and "Convert Splay Measures" added in Shots view of Operations form * option "Export Itinerary" added in Loops view of Operations form * options "Add Attributes" and "Remove Attributes" added to Caves view of Operations form * options "By Absolute Error" and "By Relative Error" added for overall, horizontal and vertical loop errors in Loops view of Select form * if only one loop in cave, it is automatically set as the current loop * the "Export as New Cave" option in Loops view of Operations form now allows exporting to memory card * scale and North arrow added to SVG export of Map * SVG and DXF scales based on overall map width * Auriga Keypad used for Projection and Path modes in Map * Auriga Keypad now tolerant when using the a-b-c icon for a numeric field of the 1-2-3 icon for an alphabetic field * Sessions form operates in read-only mode when called from Map (it could cause too much trouble otherwise) * number of search results, survey shot errors or survey shots in loop or path displayed in title bar * "Subtract One" station auto-incrementation mode added to Cave Details * in Main form, the Beam menu item also allows beaming Auriga components (software, language resources, math library, datums and preferences) * when called from Main form, Export and Beam forms allow exporting or beaming selected caves (in Caves view of Selection form) * option "Update Only" added to Export form to only update existing survey shots or sessions in target cave(s) * "Caseless" and "Wildcards" checkboxes selected by default in Search form * sketch "objects" renamed "elements" to match GIS terminology Bug fixes * undoing a Scissors operation in sketch could erase all sketch elements for the current survey shot * ignoring the unsaved survey shot alert before returning to Map in Sketch mode could erase all sketch elements for that survey shot * the Survey Shot form did not self-adapt to a virtual shot when receiving GPS data while displaying an empty regular survey shot * in Section view in Map, if all non-zero passage dimensions and splay measurement were on the same side of the station, the wall outline and the automatic polygon in Sketching mode excluded the station * in certain cases, a station could show in Map or export in DXF more splay measures than it really had * zooming the Map would sometimes hide sketch elements even though their parent survey shot crossed the screen * creating a new session and leaving it unsaved while in Map form would later crash sketching * the extended profile SVG export was truncated * in the DXF export, passage heights and sketch ignored the "Keep Origin XYZ" checkbox * in the SVG export, the sketch would appear away from the line plot if the cave had a non 0,0,0 origin * passage heights could appear huge in profile views in the DXF export * the Map did not follow well the (connected) GPS position * text styles (underlined, framed, etc.) did not use text color in sketch * wrong number of total steps displayed when searching for a path in Map form * when there was no middle station, the path computed in the Map showed an impossible middle station name * it is now possible to interrupt the search of a path in Map * better interface for the bulk restore of PDBs from memory card * better handling of the Aceeca PDA32 keys * the sketch selection rectangle could leave a ghost trace in Map * selecting a sketch element could leave the previously selected survey shot highlighted in Map * in certain cases, it was possible to have more than one tool selected in Map * caves with an uppercase PDB extension were not recognized for restore from memory card * logs could no longer be exported as memos * the Palm OS Global Find (launched outside of Auriga) did not search Auriga caves or networks * fields in the Measures form accepted letters (although refused when attempting to save) * using the Up or Down buttons in the Auriga Keypad while inputting a sketch layer name would crash * an unnamed hidden sketch leyer could be selected as current layer * exporting the cave while in Map in Sketch mode could crash * minor overlaps fixed in Preferences, Element Details (sketching) and Export forms Reference manual * Group mode and Group tool documented in sketch * changes to beaming and data export 2.02 October 2, 2011 New features * option "With Sketch" added to Shots view in Find form Bug fixes * sketches could disappear when editing earlier sketches * undoing a sketch element deletion could fail * characters were doubled when typing the name of the line plot export file * exporting a text sketch element with certain characters like '<' would produce an invalid SVG file * there could be a shift between survey shots and sketch in the SVG export file * sketching could stop working after closing loops * the extended profile view was wrong after loop closure * passage widths were no longer perpendicular to survey shots after loop closure * some menu items in Map could inadvertently switch stylus mode to Sketching or hide Sketching tools * in network Map, after changing cave colors, the Info, Line and Spot modes could stop displaying data Reference manual Unchanged 2.01 September 20, 2011 New features * sketch elements other than curves (dots, lines and texts) can now be toggled between fixed and self-adjusted modes Bug fixes * in Operations form, repairing survey shots would remove splay measures and sketches if any * Sketching mode would overestimate its memory needs by 30 Kb, sometimes preventing it to start on smaller devices * when panning the Map, sketch elements could sometimes not appear even if the parent survey shot remained visible * sketches would sometimes be skewed after loop closure * sketch display was not inhibited when sketch and loop closure data was not retained in network mode (see Network Details form) * clearing survey shot attributes through the Operations form would also set the Hide flag * a polyline could exceed by 1 its maximum number of segments, causing crashes (was 50, now 60 and properly enforced) * in Cross-section view widths would sometimes appear shortened * Cross-section view angle properly rounded Reference manual * minor corrections 2.00 July 28, 2011 New features * on-screen sketching implemented in Map form * SVG export supports Cross-Section view in Map * Colors form expanded to Display form to add sketching settings * black or white survey shots self-adapt to remain visible despite map background color changes * option "With sketches" added to Shots view in Select form * "Self-adjusted->Absolute Sketch" and "Absolute->Self-adjusted" options added to Shots options in Maintenance form * options "With position", "With splay measures" and "With sketches" added to Stations view in Select form * support for Aceeca's Meazura 1500 side buttons * latitude and longitude input in degrees now support 6 decimals * cross-section now displayed as a diamond joining LRUD points when there is no splay measurement * the DXF export uses the Auriga shot and walls colors * Splay pushbutton in Measures form now changes label to be more visible Bug fixes * exporting the line plot to a DXF file could fail when there were splay measures in exported survey shots * averaging limitation was applied to both azimuth and slope whenever either one was selected in the Preferences form * in Measures form, length data for both foresight and backsight is averaged together; backsight length is copied in Survey Shot length field if no foresight were taken * the Geodesic Converter could not show a resulting d°m's" West longitude over 100° due to lack of space * decimals were not properly limited on input in sexagesimal latitude and longitude fields * using the Undo menu item in the Auriga Keypad could crash for fields in the List or Measures form * switching to the Virtuals view in the List form could crash * the note of a survey shot could not be edited from the List form * switching to theodolite azimuth or slope in Session form would ruin angles in survey shots associated with that session * cave coordinates were sometimes uselessly computed upon restarting Auriga * Auriga would not always prefer Bluetooth by default for connected devices even if Bluetooth were available on the PDA * the "Skipped LRUD = 0.00" option was ignored in the Measures form * texts displayed in Map were sometimes very small on high-resolution Sony devices * in Auriga Keypad, when editing a field accepting any character, the '-' key would change to 'X' after hitting the backspace button * opening the Measures form in the Map form on a device with virtual Graffiti would show a button overlap at the bottom of the screen * in the Auriga Keypad, the previous text could overlap the current field Reference manual * on-screen sketching documented * new Display form documented 1.29 December 5, 2010 New features * Path mode added to cave Map to search for shortest path between two or three stations * SVG export added in Map for all views except Cross-Section (done later) * Paper tab added to Export form in SVG format to set up page * the DXF export of profiles now uses the Z coordinate (group 30) to pass the third axis so as to allow a 3D view in AutoCAD * the Left and Right buttons of Palm's 5-way Navigator toggle the key layout in the Auriga Keypad * holding down the stylus on an unmodifiable column of the Virtuals or Graph view of the List form pops up the survey shot name (as with the Survey Shots view) * holding down the stylus in the Session view of the List form no longer pops up an action list to add the survey shots to Selection (too confusing) Bug fixes * in the GPX, DXF and KML exports of a network, stations could be wrong if they belonged to an unlinked or hidden cave * the "Walls" and "Sketches" (not implemented yet) Map attributes were erroneously swapped in the English version * some field overlap could occur in the Clipping Mask form * session checkboxes in List form were not toggable * toggling the Sum checkbox in the List form would not immediately update statistics * the session length would not always appear in the List form * selecting survey shots by attributes would sometimes not work in the Select form Reference manual * Path mode in Map documented * SVG export documented 1.28 October 26, 2010 New features * instantaneous Map redraw * Beam option added to Operations form in all views * option added to Beam form to automatically beam all caves of a network along with the network itself * support for loops completed by geographic positions * "Ignore GPS position" added to Attributes form to allow ignoring a geographic position in cave computation (e.g. when the line plot is more accurate than the difference between GPS positions) * "Ignored" option added in Select form to filter survey shots on ignored, or not, geographic positions * survey shots with ignored geographic positions mentioned in the results list of the Find form * ETRS89 datum added in new Grids.pdb * Statistics, Erroneous Survey Shots, Loop Itinerary, Current Loop Analysis and Search Results forms now use the full screen height on devices with a virtual Graffiti area Bug fixes * exporting the line plot in internal RAM (not on memory card) would leave the export file open, preventing another export under same name * double Map draws eliminated on devices with virtual Graffiti area * the Measures form would not handle well the virtual Graffiti area on the PDA32 * opening the Power form could crash on devices that erroneously report having a backlight (like the TX and PDA32) * upon returning from the Measures form, the Survey Shot form did not show the Save button indicating modified data could be saved * in persistent Bluetooth mode, creating a new survey shot did not restart data acquisition nor display the Measures form (if configured to do that) * the Measures form could display the survey shot data even when the Splay pushbutton was selected * saving an incomplete survey shot with splay measures could crash * survey shots linked to the rest of the cave through incomplete survey shots were not marked as an incomplete leg * the display of survey shots part of an incomplete leg is now determined by the display attribute or orphan survey shots * incremental computation would fail when adding a new survey shot with an end station that got sorted before the start station * a loop with a station holding a geographic position could sometimes not appear in the Loops list of the List form and later cause a crash when closing the cave database * loop closure could crash if it took place during a network was built * exporting an entire cave or network would display the target name as the source cave or network in the confirmation alert * the Clipping Mask bounds did not appear properly in profile views * auto-off timer disabled during line plot export in Map * data acquisition (ex. DistoX) in Persistent Bluetooth mode did not work well * on devices with a virtual Graffiti area, the datum list would extend beyond the screen bottom * in the Auriga Keypad, while editing a station name in 6.6 format, the separator key would not appear if it weren't "." * the character font for station names in the Survey Shot form was unnecessarily small Reference manual * Operations form Beam option documented * Attributes form "Ignore GPS position" attribute documented 1.27 August 29, 2010 New features * the detection of wrong backsights is now performed even when the whole cave is not computed * Loop analysis now tests for distinct azimuth and slope inversion * station option "Left-justify numbers with 0s" added in Operations form to make survey shots sorting more intuitive Bug fixes * beaming (IR or Bluetooth) no longer worked * the length of a loop could be exaggerated by the loop error, thus reducing the relative error and the loop quality index * after modifying a survey shot in a loop that was already closed, launching the loop closure would do nothing * when editing the Measures form, the Auriga Keypad would not properly show measures beyond the seventh line * on some devices, the Auriga Keypad would not display the type of splay measures * new loop and wrong backsight alerts did not appear when data input was done under Assistant control * in certain cases, passage dimensions or walls did not appear in networks unless zooming much * mapped length did not appear in network statistics * computation time could be wrong in network statistics * the Clipping Mask form could not be opened in network Map * copying/pasting positions between the Survey Shot form and the Geodesic converter did not work well * better handling of the Aceeca PDA32 Reference manual * documentation of new option in Operations form * documentation of the use of the Aceeca PDA32's brightness button 1.26 August 9, 2010 New features * Aceeca PDA32-aware: in Survey Shot form under Assistant control, the Brightness button creates a new survey shot or saves the current one Bug fixes * applying an operation (Operations form) on survey shots after exporting a cave into another one could fail * cave statistics were not properly maintained when the cave was computed one survey shot at a time (adding new survey shots) * the Attributes icon in Survey Shot for could be erroneously highlighted when selecting a position type Reference manual Unchanged 1.25 July 14, 2010 New features * when the Map is open, tapping on a survey shot in the Loop Analysis report now zooms on that survey shot in Map (instead of opening the Survey Shot form) * when calling the Loop Analysis while no current loop is selected, the alert offers a button to jump to the Loops view of the List form * current selection target switched to Survey Shots or Loops after saving a new survey shot or adding a loop to Selection in List form * UTM coordinates now support 2 decimals (centimeters) * current form data saved before executing a menu-triggered PDA reset * Options menu shortened by moving Limits element to About Auriga form Bug fixes * it was sometimes impossible to input digits in station fields of the Survey Shot form * in rares cases, adding new survey shots would not properly select them in the survey shots Selection * Backup to Card and Restore from Card items did not show up in Network menu in Main form * GPX schema 1.0 used to timestamp lineplot export * in Beam or Export forms, the name of the current session could overlap the "+Shots" pushbutton Reference manual * change to Options/Limits menu documented 1.24 July 6, 2010 New features * Loop Analysis (aka "Blunder Detection") option added in popup list in Loops view of List form * Current Loop Analysis item added in Cave menu for quick access to analysis report * Analysis button added to alert that pops up when completing a new loop * Quality column added in Loops view of List form; computed according to instruments precision selected in Precision and Session forms * faster sort by loop name in Loops view of List form * the Search form now offers a Loops search mode * loop paths stored with cave XYZC coordinates for quick restore when re-opening Loops list or using the Search form on loops * current selections (survey shots, stations, sessions and loops) preserved when closing the cave if "Save XYZC Computations" checkbox selected in Computations tab of Cave Details form * Maintenance form renamed Operations to better reflect its use * Operations form now offers operations on Loops such as exporting loops as separate cave subsets for easier handling * Select form now offers loop-specific selection modes * when merging caves, received survey shots with same stations but different survey data can now replace existing survey shots in target cave instead of producing duplicates (convenient when fixing loops in cave subsets and later merge them back with the whole cave) * an alert now pops up when foresight-backsight azimuth or slope disagree beyond user-set tolerance (on first occurrence only) * survey shots with foresight-backsight azimuth or slope disagreement beyond user-set tolerance now reported in Shots view of List form ("Wrong Azimuth", "Wrong Slope" or "Wrong Backsights") * Wrong Azimuth and Wrong Slope errors added to By Error selection mode in Select form * the alert for dubious data (ex. a slope of 0.13°) can now be turned off in Preferences * length, azimuth and slope of survey shot with same start and end stations now left as is (not set to 0 anymore) Bug fixes * adding a new survey shot would recompute the whole cave instead of that sole survey shot * exporting/beaming survey shots by series did not work well * saving several caves to memory card through the Operations form would leave them open, thus impossible to overwrite again * GPS positions input in decimal degrees now accept 6 decimals * the Auriga Keypad would propose a backsight value even when the session setting were "Store" (instead of "Show+Store") * the line plot export in Map produced an incomplete KML file * in Operations form, attempting to apply an operation on stations, survey shots or sessions after an operation on caves would crash * modifying a survey shot in the List form would delete its splay measures, if any * inputting a survey shot with identical stations but a non-0 length (an error) would set its azimuth and slope to 0 * in Survey Shot form, an erroneous input would not always get highlighted when attempting to save the data * attempting to change geographic position field in Auriga Keypad while an erroneous position was input would crash * adding a note to an existing survey shot while changing its stations would crash upon saving it * deleting a session with survey shots while in List form could crash * the Auriga Keypad would never allow taking a * or an accentuated letter in a station name * when editing a survey shot while in List form, the Auriga Keypad would not navigate from reverse azimuth or reverse slope fields * some controls were misplaced in List form run in landscape mode * modifying the first default session and then refusing to save it would cause havoc in future survey shots * fixes various odd crashes found by POSE Gremlins in Operations, Keypad, Beam, Map and Survey Shot forms Reference manual * Loop Analysis documented * Precision form section added * new screenshots for Search and Preferences forms 1.23 April 21, 2010 New features * Current Loop option added to Select form (useful for Export or Maintenance forms) * Backup to Card option added to Maintenance form for caves * Reset PDA option added to Options menu (convenient when Bluetooth needs to be reset while the PDA is stored in its waterproof case) * vertical drop altitudes now preceded by + or - in Info mode in Map to be told apart from regular altitudes * the auto-incrementation of survey station names now keeps the last character unchanged if it's a punctuation mark among .,;:_-+/=!@$%?&*()<>[]{}|~'\ * Span mode added in Map to get the absolute, horizontal and vertical distances between two survey stations * columns dXY and dZ of the Loops List renamed dH (horizontal difference) and dV (vertical difference) * All Caves option added to the list of caves of the Restore from Card element of the Cave menu Bug fixes * cave PDB format migrated to 60 to complete cave format migration 59 where altitude unit in sessions had been omitted * in Session form, the selector for the number of Topofil digits no longer worked * no loop alert were popped up when a new survey shot completed a loop while the cave was not already computed * passage dimensions and splay measures of a survey shot that looped unto itself did not appear in Map * the second and following positions received from a GPS were sometimes offset Reference manual * Span mode documented 1.22 March 20, 2010 New features * cave PDB format migrated to 59 (and networks to 6) to support upcoming features Bug fixes * a crash would occur upon tapping OK in the Preferences form if one field had erroneous data * splay measures would not appear in Map in Projected Profile views * the Info mode in Map would highlight the splay measures of all survey shots when returning to Map * after selecting a survey shot with the Find tool in Map, that survey shot would not be selected as current in Export form * splay measures would export wrong in DXF for profile views Reference manual Unchanged 1.21 February 27, 2010 New features * interruptible progress dialog added to line plot export in Map * DXF export of cave walls and floor/ceiling from splay measures * incoming splay measures take by default the type of the previous measurement * wall or ceiling/floor splay measures type "guessed" according to their slope angle (user can always override it) * Connect pushbutton added to Geodesic Converter to allow converting positions directly received from a GPS * support of Ocotepeque 1935 datum and Lambert coordinates (North and South) in Costa Rica - the new Grids.pdb file must be loaded * Skipped LRUD = 0.00 option replaces (redundant) Auto Dimensions option in Preferences form * Keypad options moved from Prefs. tab to Assistant tab in Preferences form to unclutter the form * after changing the screen resolution, an alert offers to stop and restart Auriga in order for the change to take effect * a-b-c icon in Graffiti area usable in all forms (although the Auriga Keypad can sometimes open in numeric mode) Bug fixes * Palm E2 and TX would put themselves in QVGA resolution (240x240 and 240x320), causing graphic anomalies in Map * the Auto Decimal Lengths and Auto Dimensions options in Preferences did not always work * the user datum, if any, was not used when creating a new cave or network nor restored when using the Load Default Settings item of the Defaults menu * ceiling and floor lines could cross themselves in Map profile views * splay measures did not display right in Projected profiles * adding splay measures in Map through the Measures form did not always work well * the Measures form did not beep when receiving data * lengths were not limited in Measures form * the Auto Decimal Lengths option did not apply in Measures form * no falsely open connection when DistoX connection fails * better handling of cyclical acquisitions (e.g. with GPS) * pasting a position in Survey Shot form failed on a Palm E2 * the series beginning station name validation did not work in Cave Details * survey shot navigation by stations in Map (using Up/Down keys in Info mode) was inconsistent * the (currently) uneditable vertical factor in Cave Details could superimpose itself in Map * the incremental computation of a survey shot inserted in the middle of the cave could popup an alert about a missing session 0 * hardware keys for zoom and pan in Map would auto-repeat * the Info mode in Map did not highlight splay measures Reference manual * documentation of changes in Preferences form 1.20 January 30, 2010 New features * Subgrid option added to Cross-section view options in Map * the subgrid can now be displayed even when the grid is hidden or too big or small to appear in Map * North scale added to DXF export * Illustrator-compatible DXF scale * compatibility with devices with QVGA screen (320x240) like PocketPC (under StyleTap) or future Aceeca models * when receiving data from a connected device while the connected device is not selected in the current session, an alert offers to fix that automatically * ability to selectively choose to automatically popup the Measures form in Survey Shot and/or Map forms (Preferences form, Link tab) Bug fixes * the incremental computation of a new survey shot could crash * acquisition with the SAP and TruPulse had been broken by the introduction of the Measures form (I don't own either to test) * on devices with Dynamic Input Area (virtual Graffiti), the Measures form could overlap the Map form * the Auriga Keypad would not allow inputting a 'X' (unknown) for passage dimensions * the cave or network subgrid no longer appeared in the Map * the cave or network subgrid was not saved among cave/network defaults * the DXF scale would appear well below the map when using origin XYZ coordinates * inverting the Cross-section view in Map could result in a view angle above 360° * inverting the Cross-section view in Map would not work with only passage dimensions * computing a cave with only one shot, of 0-length, would pop up a spurious alert * splay measures acquired while in Map would not always appear at their proper location on the first time * splay measures would appear way too long in profile views * splay measures linked to end station would appear way too long in DXF export * splay measures would sometimes appear misplaced in DXF export * on some devices, the Calculator button in the Graffiti area could remain set to launch Auriga Reference manual * improved Customizing Auriga section (in key concepts) 1.19 January 15, 2010 New features * Section view now exported in DXF as a set of all sections in Map * in DXF export, passage heights only exported in profile views * scale added to DXF exports * in Map, splay measures that go to walls or ceiling/floor use the walls color Bug fixes * the Pre-empty option in Preferences/Link would turn off the DistoX data transmission with firmware 1.02+ * replacing an existing survey shot by a new one with same stations could crash * the Export Line Plot form did not use the Auriga Keypad * the English version would not show the Survey Shots checkbox for the DXF export * exporting the line plot on a device with Palm OS 3.x would crash due to an unsupported API call (TimTimeZoneToUTC) * on Sony devices with hi-res, the section outline in Map would appear misplaced * the Full Screen Map mode would sometimes mismanage controls in Map * in Section view with a station with null passage dimensions, the Map could loop forever * Palm OS 3.0 compatibility restored by blocking Measures form Reference manual * contents of line plot export detailed * more details in Preferences/Link section 1.18 December 22, 2009 New features * support for splay measures in Map and use of these for displaying a finer cross-section view * new Measures form added to follow data acquisition from connected devices (see the manual) * new Measures icon added to Survey Shot form * DXF option added to Line Plot Export in Map form * new options in Map tab of Preferences form to control azimuth and slope averaging and cross-section tolerance when made with splay measures * new Power Management form replaces Power Off, Backlight/Contrast and Battery Status menu items; the screen auto-dimming feature requires the BrightnessFix add-on (see Download page in website) * color selections moved from Preferences to new Color form reachable with Options/Colors menu item (on Palm OS 3.5+ devices) * a check for possible duplicate survey shots (same stations, different data) is now performed before merging beamed or exported cave data; a log is produced and stored in Palm OS Notes * virtual survey shots and series beginnings can now be excluded from statistics (even if sessions override series) * GPX and KML line plot export now timestamped and identified with Auriga's current version * "By Session" mode added to Selection form for survey shots * Radiant and Convergent survey station auto-incrementation mode maintained until explicitly changed or Survey Shot form closed * Radiant and Convergent survey station auto-incrementation modes set Exclude from statistics attribute to such survey shots * passage fill drawn "under" line plot, dimension lines and now splay measures for better viewing * DistoX "post-silence" option removed (limited use and a potential nuisance) * speed improvement of cave Map draws * backsights in Show mode visible in summary popped up with Shot button in Sketch to Scale form * the Auriga Keypad now self-adjusts the width of its numeric field * Cross-Section view in Map now displays view angle (either foresight or backsight azimuth of survey shot) * Line mode now available in Cross-Section view in Map * Full Screen option no longer applies to Cross-Section view in Map (bottom controls always visible in this view) * Survey Shot fields now selectable in Network mode (convenient for a copy+paste into the Geodesic Converter) * on Palm OS 4.0+ devices, station names now overlay most Map features (except splay measures), leaving background intact * specific cave, session, series and survey shot named in Beam/Export form * a station can combine passage dimensions from more than one survey shot (although only one dimension is kept per direction) * X, Y and Z coordinates in survey shots and cave/network details now accept 11 characters, including 2 decimals * Auto Detect series checkbox removed from Station tab in Cave Details form (detection is now systematic if character sets overlap in separator-less station names in 6.6 format) * in Survey Shot and Map forms, arrows for fast navigation skip 25 survey shots or stations if navigation by session or series cannot work (when only one session or series exists) Bug fixes * sorting the Shots view of the List form by the Attributes column could crash * accepting the cave recomputation after connecting an orphan leg to the rest of the cave could crash * after changing the filter of the Shots view in the List form, the list could appear unsorted * selecting a session in the List form would not automatically select a survey shot belonging to that session * changing the Maintenance target would not change the Selection count * when called from the Session item of the Cave or Network menu, the Session form would not open with the current session * if the network georeference were set by a station that was not the first station of its cave, the networked caves would appear misplaced in the Map * the origin station automatically selected by the Map computation could differ from the one reported * lengths received from connected devices could not exceed 32.76 units * setting the Hide attribute of a virtual survey shot or series beginning would not highlight the Attributes button in Survey Shot form * session length statistics (shown in Sessions view of List form) were not updated during incremental survey shot computation * in Display mode, the slope reported for connected devices was wrong * receiving beamed data while Auriga was not running could crash * exporting an entire cave would display the target cave name as the source cave in the log description * Show and Store option was not retained for slopes in Session form * in Map, the Info mode would display garbage for dead survey shots between computed stations * in Map, the Info mode would display an erroneous altitude in vertical drop mode * a button overlap could occur in the Attributes form when called from the Session form * problem with selecting the current field with the stylus in the Survey Shot form on Palm Tungsten E2 and TX * the Edit menu of the Network Cave form did not use the Auriga Keypad * a cave would not reopen on its current survey shot * some superfluous Map draws suppressed on devices with Dynamic Input Area (virtual Graffiti) * better cave lists layout in Network forms * beaming any networked cave would always beam the current cave * beaming a network could confuse the Caves/Networks selector in the Main form on the receiving device * confirming a shown backsight in the Survey Shot form by holding the stylus on that field would not immediately show the survey shot as modified * station names could be altered if the Auto Detect Series checkbox of the Stations tab of the Cave Details form were selected while station names in 6.6 format did have a not null separator * the compulsory series beginning station number (if any) was not well validated * in some cases, the auto-incrementation of survey stations when creating a new survey shot would place it a the very end of the cave * vertical factor feature repaired and restored in Cave/Network Details forms Reference manual * splay measures explained in Key Concepts * section added on new Power Management, Colors and Measures forms * new options in Map tab of Preferences form documented 1.17 April 9, 2009 New features * Wait for 4 Satellites added in the GPS Preferences in Input mode to ensure a better quality fix * in non cyclical Display mode, the GPS is disconnected only after receiving a valid position * the Dead Shot status of survey shots is now shown in the Shots view of the List form * improved GPX and KML line plot export interface in Map (see manual) * optimized GPX and KML file exports in Map Bug fixes * the Note button in Survey Shot form was not usable until a note had been input * the Note button in Session form was not usable * data received from connected devices (like the DistoX) would not fill empty fields in Survey Shot form if the Accept Retries checkbox were not selected in the Link tab of the Preferences form * inputting the geographic position of a survey shot in d°m.m' or d°m's" format through the Auriga Keypad could crash * the input of geographic positions in d°m.m' or d°m's" format underwent a double rounding * in rare instances, the Survey Shot form in network mode could open with all fields empty * the status of the Close column in Loops view of the List form was not always preserved after closing the cave * zooming on the current loop in Map or List form could show only part of the loop * zooming on current session in Map could fail * cave names differing by only a suffix could appear missorted in Main form * using an uninitialized User datum would cause position conversion errors * editing the User datum could overwrite the Map scale and display attributes of the cave or network * importing a sub-part of a cave back into its original cave would create duplicate survey shots due to a missort of the exported sub-cave * isolated survey shots with a geographic position were not reported as orphan when the georeference station was not linked to the rest of the cave * the slope 0 option was not re-enabled when switching from Device to another instrument in Session form * GPX and KML file exports did not convert coordinates to WGS84 * exporting a cave network in KML produced overlapping caves * in rare cases, passage widths appeared huge in Map Reference manual * Map line plot export section revised 1.16 March 4, 2009 New features * support of backsights with connected devices (display, input and detection) * connected device no longer disconnected when tapping the New button in Survey Shot form * connected device no longer disconnected when tapping the Save button in Survey Shot form if the Persistant checkbox is selected in Link tab of the Preferences form * Bluetooth link preferred over RS-232 for DistoX and SAP devices * number of satellites, HDOP (Horizontal Dilution Of Precision) and local magnetic declination displayed for GPS data in Display mode in Survey Shot form (if info available from GPS) * loops consisting of only 2 survey shots, with same stations, can now be detected and closed * Select All menu item added in List form for Loops view to select Close checkbox for all loops * in Loops view of List form, dX and dY columns merged into dXY (to show horizontal closure error) and dZ column displayed in absolute value * in Shots view of the List form, the Status column is now sortable * when more than one survey shot provides passage dimensions for a given survey station, those from a survey shot with azimuth override all others Bug fixes * more robust cave format migration process * a spurious alert could appear when refusing to insert DistoX data in the Survey Shot form * switching devices in Link tab of the Preferences form could leave some checkboxes hidden * replacing the survey stations of an existing survey shot to duplicate another existing survey shot would not remove the original survey shot * the session number were sometimes replaced by the survey shot date and time in the Session coulum of the Survey Shots view in List form * cave automatically reorganized when loading a survey shot with a session reporting a null survey shot count (rare) * in List form, when the vertical scrollbar was hidden, the Forms button could disappear as well in the PalmOS Emulator (POSE) * in List form, dead shots were not properly displayed * tolerance was too small for the Right passage dimension in the automatic LRUD detection for 3-in-1 devices * recomputing coordinates or closing loops could hide some lines or change the current loop in List form * left-right passage dimensions from a virtual survey shot were not always used to complete walls at the beginning or end of a passage * the Colors by Depth form would crash on strictly horizontal caves * when displaying positions, minutes now use 3 instead of 4 decimals to match internal storage precision (one millionth of a degree) * on Tungsten TX, the Auriga Preferences erroneously offered backlight options, and the Options/Backlight+Contrast menu item did not work * calibration unit hidden for Topofil in Session form (calibration is a unit-less multiplying factor) * projected length would not show with connected devices * the first survey shot of a cave and its session could end up with a timestamp of January 1st, 1904 * survey shots with a MTM or Lambert position could be reported as orphaned Reference manual * renamed Reference Manual (that's what it is) * more info on using connected devices 1.15 January 27, 2009 New features * automatic connected device disconnect when turning off the Palm Bug fixes * migration of cave PDBs to format 58 and network PDBs to format 6 to repair previous migrations; fixes side effects of orphan survey shots and Search failure * valid geographic positions were sometimes marked as erroneous * automatic connected device disconnect when leaving the Survey Shot form * Detect Retries and Auto Connect on New shot checkboxes state preserved when changing device mode to Display in the Link tab of the Preferences form * a cave created with no survey shot would lose its note (if any) Reference manual * Rainbow and Rotate buttons displayed in Colors by Depth form section 1.14 January 23, 2009 New features * loop closure (Map and List forms) * support of the DistoX Bluetooth-connected 3-in-1 device * support of the SAP (Shetland Attack Pony) Bluetooth-connected compass-clinometer device * support of 12-character station names and 6.6 format (were 8/4.4) (migration of cave databases to format 57, and network databases to format 5) * Clipping Mask implemented in Map * Color by Depth dialog and display option implemented in Map * Tape instrument added to slopes in Session form to support slopes measured by vertical drop * Loops list and Loop filter added in List form * Current Loop zoom option added in Map * loop alert now reports relative closure error * changing the survey data of an existing survey shot that first completed a loop repeats the loop closure alert with the updated closure error * Survey Shot and Sketch to Scale forms can navigate loop path * loop closure mode and maximum loop error controls removed from Cave Details form (now irrelevant) * support of additional separator characters in 6.6 format * support of accented letters in station names * 0 = Level enforced for slopes measured in % in Session form * color pickers now give visual feedback when tapped * color pickers now also offer a color selection by RGB values * orphan legs can now be viewed alone in Map when the Line Plot is disabled in display options * faster cave statistics computation * Select by Datum option added in Select form for survey shots and caves * when coloring Map by Selection, to avoid confusion, the current shot remains in normal color if outside the Selection * the Display/Input selection in the Link tab of the Preferences form now only applies to the Survey Shot form; when in Map form, the GPS is always connected in Display mode * geographic position of a survey shot no longer copied automatically into position clipboard while in Survey Shot form (allows pasting a position from the Geodesic Converter) * the Grids.pdb datum file can be beamed from the Geodesic Converter * selecting Lambert 2 extend zone made simpler in Map tab of Preferences form * Count(#) button added in List form * Forms (exit) button relocated in right bottom corner in List form to match other forms * sorting the Shots List by the Attribute column uses its label * highest and lowest points added in Statistics form Bug fixes * zooming a network Map could hide other caves if the current cave were off screen * in network Map, the Spot mode would not update geographic coordinates when moving the stylus * in network Map, line plot export would sometimes be refused for lack or a georeference even if there were one * a scale would not always be shown when Map zoom reached the point where grid lines would become too close to be drawn * when zooming too much to display a Map grid, the scale and current survey shot info could take the grid color * restoring cave databases from the memory card could fail if caves with names longer than 22 characters were present on the card * a small negative floating point number could be rendered as -0 * support of the Select button of the Palm 5-way navigator on the Tungsten E2 and TX in Map, Survey Shot and Pit Sounder forms * when searching session numbers, the Search form would accept non- numeric characters * options for survey shot selection By Error in the Select form were mixed up * the computation process could report warnings due to duplicate survey shots while the Survey Shot Errors report and Shots List did not always show them * original backsight azimuth or slope preserved when session setting for backsights is to Ignore or Show them * the Session form would sometimes show the "0 is" popup trigger for Depthmeter or Altimeter slopes * altimeter slopes were not well supported * the Garmin iQue internal GPS could not be selected as a GPS link in Preferences * beaming a cave or network to a device with no cave or network could crash the receiving device * field insertion point position preserved between calling forms and Auriga Keypad * a survey shot without azimuth or slope data would be considered incomplete even if backsights were available * fixes a conduit bug in caves imported from Compass where the backsight azimuth would be set as the foresight azimuth when survey shots did not have a backsight azimuth while the Compass survey was configured to allow them (this false backsight azimuth was later ignored in Auriga computations for being too far off from the expected value range) * the Select form would not use the Auriga Keypad * hidden survey stations could still be tapped in Info mode in Map * -100 grad-slopes could be reported as invalid * sorting the Shots List by its Slope column did not work * tapping below the last row in List form could display a ghost line * changes to the Hide, Flip or Sum attribute of a series beginning made through the Attribute form would not be saved * the Search form would not find dead survey shots if the cave were computed * the automatic linking of networked caves could fail to find common stations between caves * mixing length units between caves and network would result in an erroneous network Map * in some cases, modifying an existing survey shot or adding a new one between existing stations did not trigger a recomputation of coordinates when switching to the Map or List form * removing the Dead Shot attribute from a survey shot while the cave were computed would cause a crash * more POSE Gremlins-found low level errors fixed Reference manual * Loop section added * Clipping Mask section added * Color by Depth section added * loop handling documented in Survey Shot, Sketch to Scale and List form sections * DistoX section added * updated screenshots for Cave Details/Computations and Map and Network Details/Map 1.13 June 26, 2008 New features None Bug fixes * due to a 0.01 rounding error, negative slopes would always be reported as dubious in the Survey Shot form * the category of the list of caves in the Selection form could be changed by the Select form and not reflect the actual selection Reference manual Unchanged 1.12 June 20, 2008 New features * lookup implemented in cave lists in Network Details, Export and Beam Accept forms (input up to 5 characters) * user-selected survey shot position type and datum overrides default position type and cave datum when acquiring GPS data in Survey Shot form * default input order save/load managed by new Defaults menu in Input Order form (default session settings now exclude input order) * the Statistics now show the kind of North (Magnetic and/or Geographic) used in Map * "Show Map; Create New Shot" and "Show Map; New Shot; Power off" added to list of Assistant actions after saving a new survey shot * the GPS position cross can now be simultaneously displayed with the current survey shot Info in Map * hitting the Confirm button in Auriga Keypad (to accept backsights as is) now moves to next input field * by default, the Geodesic Converter uses the datum of the initial position (if any) as target datum * in Map, when the current survey shot already has the highlight color selected in Preferences, the inverse color is used * deleting survey shots through the Maintenance form could crash * Swap East-West (azimuth) and Swap Up-Down (slope) options added in Maintenance form * Search form now accessible from Main form * the Search form now searches substrings (like the Palm OS Search) when handling survey shot or session notes or session names * on screen Graffiti enabled in forms other than Map or List if it were enabled before opening these forms * revised help Bug fixes * the "Session" label had disappeared from the session selector in the Survey Shot form * it was sometimes impossible to select Bluetooth in the Link tab of the Preferences form (on a Bluetooth-enabled device) * restoring the connected device from a 3-in-1 device to None in the Link tab of the Preferences form could leave a checkbox displayed * in Maintenance form, the current cave pushbutton would appear empty * in Maintenance form, when editing a conversion factor, the Auriga Keypad would not offer a decimal key * the Search form could miss a match when searching survey shot or session notes or session names * in Search form, the Attributes selector would first appear empty * in Search form, selecting the Attributes search mode would still indicate a Station search * the Search, Select and Network Cave forms did not use the Auriga Keypad * a memory leak would occur when canceling a Map line plot export * a crash could occur when returning to map with a connected GPS * the Defaults menu in Session form would not save the input order * tapping a hardware button or icon would not disconnect device in Survey Shot form or Map * the list of network caves in Network Details would not redraw itself after using the Up/Down buttons if all caves could fit in a single page (no scrollbar shown) * when editing a latitude or longitude, the Auriga Keypad would always assume a d°m.m' format, regardless of the user-selected format * the Save button would remain visible in Survey Shot form upon returning from the Sketch to Scale form opened by the Assistant * when returning from the Sketch to Scale form opened by the Assistant the initial survey shot was not recalled if survey shots had been navigated while in Sketch to Scale form * the Sketch to Scale form could display null dXYZC when handling a survey shot with an end station whose passage dimensions were also provided by another survey shot * the Sketch to Scale form could crash when handling a network where closure errors or passages dimensions were not retained in computations (set in Network Details form) * sometimes, the Assistant would not trigger the computation of a survey shot after it was saved, even when required * resetting the Auriga Preferences would not turn on hi-res * extending the screen on a Tungsten T3 would not scroll the List form so as to fill the display area * tapping on a survey shot name in the Shot Errors or Closure Errors reports would not select the corresponding survey shot * changing the current session in the Session form would not update the List form * in network mode, the List form would not save its settings * opening a cave last saved on a device with a later date would ignore saved computations and always re-compute cave coordinates * the Auriga Keypad and the Survey Shot form did not work well with a '-' separator in 4.4 station name format * opening the Selection form right after creating a new cave would show an empty caves list and eventually crash * renumbering an existing session could crash * in rare instances, a crash could occur on a Page Up/Down key tap * in read-only mode or in networks, it seemed possible to edit survey shot or sessions notes * a survey shot with a geographic position in decimal degrees would not be used as a cave georeference * feet altitude in Info mode in Map would be reported in meters * rounding now applied to altitudes reported in Info mode in Map * in rare instances, a 0.01 rounding error could occur when inputting data in Survey Shot form * sorting the List form could crash * in rare instances, the Auriga Keypad would accept 10 characters for station names (then refused by Survey Shot form) * applying a Delete operation in Maintenance form would not update the selection count * the +backsights pushbutton in Maintenance form did not do anything * the Geodesic Converter and the Survey Shot form could accept erroneous positions * when a position were automatically pasted in the Geodesic Converter, the N-S and W-E pushbuttons could all be selected * UTM conversion of Southern latitudes would fail * the interpretation of sexagesimal angles or positions input with spaces as °'" separators would fail * backsights in sexagesimal format would get displayed in decimal format during foresight input * a backspace would sometimes have no effect on sexagesimal fields in Survey Shot form due to automatic reformatting * spaces input in feet-inches fields would not be reformatted when switching field in Survey Shot form * the Session form accepted feet-inches as a valid Topofil unit * changing the walls color in the Preferences would not always redraw the Map * when using a virtual survey shot to close a loop, the loop closure error could go undetected * the sessions list for a network could be wrong if session statistics were not retained in the Network Details form * on screen Graffiti icon in T3/TX status bar now reflects actual status in all forms * trying to delete a cave from an empty network would crash * re-opening an empty cave targeted for Toporobot would crash * fixes over 20 crashes and run-time debug warnings reported by automatic tests with POSE Gremlins Reference manual * note on Map North in Coordinates section * minor changes to document new features listed above 1.11 April 24, 2008 New features * Lambert geographic coordinates supported for NTF (France) and BD72, Lambert 2005 and Lambert 2008 datum (Belgium) * French Lambert zone selector added in Preferences/Map * new Grids.pdb; datum handling now allows adding future datum in alphabetic order without requiring a cave/network migration * datum list widened in every form * lookup implemented in datum lists (input up to 5 characters) * in Geodesic Converter, the Edit/Paste menu item pastes the converted position back into the input fields * in Survey Shot form, the Edit/Paste menu item pastes the converted position into the input fields if the position type of the survey shot matches the converted position and the insertion point is in one of the position fields * Strict NMEA (WGS84) GPS checkbox added in Preferences/Link to account for GPS units that do not send proper WGS84 positions * Survey Shot Search form extended to sessions and implemented in Sessions form * improved handling of '*' wildcard in Search form * Maintenance conversions on length, azimuth and slope can now be simultaneously applied to widths/heights LRUDs and backsights * operation "0-length Shots => Virtuals" added in Maintenance form * operations Add/Clear Attributes added for Sessions in Maintenance form * TruPulse data displayed even when device does not return length data * blinking insertion point follows current field when operating a connected device in automatic sequence mode * LRUD fields automatically filled with 0.00 only when connected device is disconnected by manual intervention or after the last expected data is received * previous cave/network origin XYZ coordinates retained when selecting the Origin XYZ = 0 checkbox (convenient to alternate between absolute or grid-relative coordinates) * azimuth and slope displayed with less than 2 decimals in Survey Shot form when unnecessary (better readability); unchanged in List form to maintain column alignment * menu items Add to Selection/Remove from Selection added in Edit menu in Survey Shot form * "Info Mode Reports Vertical Drop" option added in Preferences/Map to show vertical drop with highest station in Z coordinate or altitude in Info mode in Map * improved search algorithm for Survey Shot Search and Selection: characters following the * wildcard are no longer ignored (ex. *50*) * List form beeps when sorting is aborted, not the opposite * Hi-res checkbox added in Preferences/Map to disable high resolution in Map after restarting Auriga (better readability in bright light) * XYZ spans displayed in Statistics, along with their scaled value * removed Sessions menu item in Survey Shot form (redundant with the session selector trigger) Bug fixes * cave DBs migrated to format 56 to fix mis-handling of undefined magnetic declinations * Surface checkbox available for sessions in Attributes form * erroneous 0.5 square rounding error for 0-length shots in Sketch to Scale form * when navigating between survey shots in the Sketch to Scale form, previous LRUD data would remain displayed if current shot did not have LRUDs * Sketch to Scale form could display decimals even if 0 decimals selected for paper grid in Preferences * changing station name format from 4.4 to 8 characters would not always convert series beginnings to virtual survey shots * in the Geodesic Converter, switching the input format to lat/lon or degrees could leave the UTM zone field visible * a cave with a georeference position input in d°m.m' or d°m's" format could display impossible UTM positions in Spot mode in Map * the altitude of the connected GPS was not converted from meters to the current session altitude unit in Survey Shot form * opening a menu in Map while the connected GPS position was being tracked would not disconnect the GPS, and the displayed position could superimpose itself on the menu * the current cave pushbutton would appear empty in Maintenance form if no cave were selected in Main form * Maintenance operations on stations could be applied to stations in Cave Details form even if their fields were empty * station name incrementation would not work properly with stations with a leading 0 * when adding a prefix/suffix to stations in Maintenance form, resulting stations > 8/9 characters were not detected * inverse passage widths were shown as direct in Map * the Session form would not refresh itself when navigating sessions while in the Shots tab * the Backup to Card menu option could save the wrong cave or network when the Main form displayed a category other than All * the Selection form could crash when handling cave names or sessions names or session notes longer than 10 characters * when a Maintenance operation on stations could not be performed, the Apply button would remain disabled when the prefix/suffix was edited * ignoring a first unmigratable or invalid cave/network in Main form would ignore all others (as if the Ignore All button had been hit) * sorting the Survey Shots List by session could crash * orphan legs would get assigned to 0,0,0, ignoring the origin coordinates, if any * a cave with non-0 XYZ origin coordinates could lose these coordinates when exported * in rare instances, an orphan survey shot could remain undetected in computations * in network Map, tapping a station in Info mode could sometimes not find the tapped station or crash * editing Network Details right after displaying a network could lose its display options selected in the Map * calling the Reinitialize menu item in the Preferences form would not restore default colors * editing an existing survey shot would not always recompute whole cave even if survey shot had an impact on other survey shots * beaming a cave from the network Map would display the wrong cave name on both sending and receiving devices (but beam the right cave) * after creating a new survey shot, the insertion point would always move to the length field, ignoring the input order set by the session * changing the category of a cave would not always update the Main form * deleting a session while in List form would not always update list * the List form would not always show a scrollbar upon opening, even when required * changing the origin coordinates of a cave or network would not automatically recompute coordinates when displaying Map * in the Network Cave form, the selected cave in the popup list would not always match the current cave * when navigating the sessions with the up/down buttons, fields would overlap in the Session form Reference manual * note on datum and new options in Maintenance form section * notes on datum and TruPulse in Preferences/Link form section * note on Lambert coordinates in Geodesic Converter section 1.10 March 24, 2008 New features * a +Shots pushbutton in the Maintenance form now allows to set the cave datum to all survey shots with a gegraphic position * alert added when first starting version 1.10 to suggest installing the new Grids.pdb * easier Disto reconnection under Bluetooth * handling of cases where TruPulse does not return a distance data Bug fixes * cave datum migration to the new Grids.pdb would fail and always be set to WGS84 (default datum) * clearing the read-only attribute of a cave would not always work * attempting to zoom the Map on the current GPS location when no GPS was connected could crash Reference manual * +Shots pushbutton documented in the Maintenance form section 1.09 March 14, 2008 New features * geodesic conversions implemented (computations on lat/lon positions, Map coordinates reported in lat/lon, UTM or MTM, GPS tracking in Map, user-defined datum, geodesic converter, line plot export in GPX or KML format) * datum name replaced by UTM in list of coordinates types in Survey Shot form * datum selectable for each survey shot with a position * input UTM zone automatically shifted to uppercase in Keypad * input UTM zone validated for polar regions * Maintenance form also offers operations on survey shots, stations and sessions * order of Survey Shot form input fields moved from Auriga Preferences to Session form (now set per session); the new Input Order form allows setting the order of each field of regular survey shots (->) except stations * numeric data columns in the Survey Shots view of the List form can be edited by holding down the stylus on them * Topofil length in cm displayed without decimals in List form * serial/Bluetooth support for LaserTech's TruPulse devices * infrared link offered for acquisition devices * all connected data acquisition devices (currently Disto, TNT Module, Toposcan and TruPulse) replaced by generic Connected Device in Session form * length/dimension calibration for lasermeter and connected devices is always added to measurement; allows to account for device size (if necessary) * simplified setup interface in Link tab of Preferences form * improved handling of connected device in Survey Shot form (retries, cycling, field navigation and popup message display ) * checksum validated in NMEA messages (GPS and other devices) * passage dimension instrument selectable in Session form * attributes checkboxes and pushbutton replaced by Attributes button in Session form (same as in Survey Shot form) * Up/Down arrow buttons in Keypad grayed out when first/last field reached (Keypad no longer exits when hitting the Down key while in last field) * holding down the stylus on the Add button in the Network Details form adds the caves of the current Selection to the network * survey shot and session colors made fully portable between color or monochrome devices; resists survey shot or session edition (other than color itself) * series beginning checkboxes in Survey Shot form only displayed when series beginning survey shot does not have a geographic position (otherwise viewable in the Attributes form) * a lengthy sort process can be aborted (after a delay) by tapping the screen in List form; a beep confirms the sort is over * beaming now works under StyleTap (Palm OS Emulator for Pocket PC) - requires version 1.0.007 * Battery Status menu item can be called from the command bar or with /Y shortcut * divisions replaced by (faster) multiplications in coordinates computations whenever possible * more stringent data validations applied when computing coordinates * Shot Error form available even if no survey shot could be computed * UFD dropped for memory card backup/restore; use of /PALM/Applications/Auriga default directory instead * dynamic menu items for memory card operations and GPS connection * Log menu and form renamed Report * caves migrated to format 55 and networks to format 4 Bug fixes * networked caves linked by georeference would all be set at the same altitude * changing station name format from 4.4 to 8 characters would not convert the "Station Suffixes" option into "Station Names" in Map * the alert confirming the exportation of an entire cave under another name would report the same name for both the source and destination caves * beaming entirely or exporting the currently open cave no longer leaves it marked as disorganized (thus avoiding a useless reorganization when opening it) * exporting part of a cave with a non-zero origin into an empty cave computes the coordinates of a new origin station * the Confirm button for backsight azimuth or slope in Auriga Keypad only appears if the field is not empty * in the network Map, the displayed name of the tapped station in Info mode could appear as garbage * rendering error of lat/lon positions stored in survey shots * the East/West and North/South pushbuttons would not always show in the Auriga keypad when editing a survey shot position * the Surface attribute would not set the Attributes icon in the Survey Shot form * renaming a cave or network would not immediately update the Main form * Beam and Export menu items are disabled in the Selection form when in Caves view * spaces could be input in station names (but not accepted when saving) * loop closure alert could be displayed when editing an existing shot * the cave or network note could be input one character too many and sometimes cause a crash * a 0.0 instrument calibration could be displayed in d°m's" or d°m.m' format with a negative sign in Session form * editing a cave attribute in Network Details would not select that cave in the list * moving a cave in Network Details would not scroll the list if needed * the Survey Shot and Session forms would not always prevent data modification while in Network mode (where cave data is read-only) * in Network mode, switching to a cave found by the Palm OS Global Find would not first close the open network * attempting to edit Statistics could crash Auriga (no cheating ;) * the Beam form could be truncated when called from the Session form * the Beam form could crash attempting to beam a non-existent survey shot when called from the Session form * the Sketch form could display a '=' link type for a regular survey shot * changing the category of a new cave or network could crash * it could be impossible to save Cave Details settings as defaults * the Map would sometimes ignore new default colors * attributes or color changes of an existing survey shot would not always be immediately reflected in the Map * a rounding error in trigonometric computations could declare a survey shot as invalid Reference manual * Preferences, Survey Shot, Session, List, Select and Maintenance forms sections updated * Input Order and Line Plot Export form sections added 1.08 July 28, 2007 Bug fixes * the input backsight azimuth in Survey Shot form would overwrite the foresight value * backsight fields in Survey Shot form would not be properly initialized for the first survey shot of the cave * navigating the Auriga keypad before the first field of a form would hide all Keypad buttons 1.07 July 26, 2007 New features * enhanced Selection form (selection can now also be performed on caves and sessions; more selection modes) * enhanced Select form * enhanced Maintenance form * changing the station name format from 4.4 to 8 characters now keeps the separator if left non-blank in Cave Details form * holding the stylus down on the Help button in the Keypad displays the survey stations of the survey shot being input Bug fixes * when exiting the Cave Details form with a cave surveyed in feet, the subgrid validation could fail and thus prevent saving new settings or creating a new cave * the status of the Note button in Survey Shot and Session forms could be wrong * holding down the "-" or "+" button in Map would offer the "Current Cave" zoom option even when displaying a single cave * opening the built-in keyboard from the Auriga Keypad (with the a-b-c or 1-2-3 icons) would make the survey shot note as modified * invalid characters input into XYZ origin fields in Cave or Network Details forms were not ignored event if the XYZ=0 checkbox was set * changing station name format from 4.4 to 8 characters could leave the "Show Station Suffixes" option set in Map * in Map, the "Station Names" option would draw station names even for stations not drawn (i.e. no line plot, station markers or walls) * in Map, the "Fill Passages" option would not fill survey shots where one of the two stations had a zero width * in Map, the Info mode could select undisplayed stations * in List form, the Session columns could never appear if the cave only had one session * in Cave Details form, the magnetic declination unit would not be selected for caves imported by the conduit; Auriga now compensates for this bug in conduit 0.29 * the Auriga Keypad would freeze upon opening on the Garmin iQue Reference manual * Select and Maintenance forms sections updated 1.06 May 27, 2007 New features * improved Survey Shot Search now allows to search by note or by attribute (now called with Find icon in Graffiti area) * with networks, Survey Shot Search results now show cave names (instead of a numeric index) * beamed or exported subparts of caves with a non-0 XYZ origin may be assigned a new and recomputed origin station if the origin station is not part of the cave subset * network caves can now be beamed without leaving the network * + displayed in Map in Spot mode to track the stylus * Bluetooth now supported for beaming (if available) * Overwrite checkbox added in Receive form to completely overwrite cave target * Locate a shot zoom option replaced by Find icon in Graffiti area * Selected Shots option added to Beam and Export forms * previous form selected in Exit list in Map and List forms * multi-tabbed forms title set in bold * more display attributes set by default when creating new caves or networks * Export form trimmed to available options * transient "@" and "é" layouts set by default in Keypad * in Shots List, holding down the stylus outside of checkboxes or color selectors pops up the survey shot stations * removal of session timestamping alert upon saving first survey shot in session (this date can be edited in Session form) Bug fixes * it was impossible to exit Auriga if an erroneous value was input in the Auriga keypad * changing backsight settings while in Survey Shot form would not always clear the backsight fields if appropriate * virtual survey shots were ignored when detecting new passage loops * filled passages would be be drawn South-East of actual passage in Sony high resolution mode * selecting a survey shot in Stations list would not set it as the current survey shot * beam remnants now deleted when opening the Main form * the field navigation list in Keypad would only pop up after releasing the arrow key * changes made in current session would not reflect immediately upon returning to Survey Shot form * in rare cases, passage widths could be swapped * current coordinate type always selected in list in Sketch to Scale form * the Up/Down scroll buttons would only work once in the Survey Shot Search results * Survey Shot Search "!" button properly re-labeled "?" * a crash could occur when selecting a survey shot in Info mode if a network cave could not be loaded * entering an "X" in a passage size field would not set the survey shot as modified * leaving the end of Topofil field empty would not set the survey shot as incomplete * the device buttons did not start the Pit sounder stopwatch * virtual survey shots could not hold a position if Toporobot were the target software * tapping the Address button on a two-button Palm Zire while the Auriga keypad displayed a numeric field would freeze Auriga * rounding of negative numbers was wrong * Info mode was not restored when reopening the Map in Section view * stations without passage dimensions did not appear in Section view in Map * the None option of new survey shots stations auto-incrementation would repeat previous stations * the Auriga Keypad would freeze upon opening on the Palm Tungsten E2 * two alerts for unsaved data could appear when leaving Auriga * under Bluetooth, turning off the GPS before stopping acquisition (and thus disconnecting the GPS) later required to reset the Palm before connecting the GPS again * minor help corrections Reference manual * Survey Shot Search changes documented 1.05 March 29, 2007 New features * migration of caves to format 54 and of networks to format 3 to implement the sub-grid, allow for the automatic migration of categories and to support Toporobot * "Zoom to Scale" option added to Map zoom options * while in zoom mode in Map, tapping in the screen performs an automatic zoom centered on the stylus position * Screen Width field added to Preferences form * smarter automatic Map grid growth/reduction * Map grid displayed even if only one line fits in screen (but a regular scale is then shown) * field for min/max number of grid lines removed from Map tab of Preferences from (now useless) * subgrid implemented to display notebook paper squares (sketch assist) * the Cross-section map view now offers an Auto Zoom option to take up all available screen space * in Cross-section map view, the list of stylus modes now only shows available modes (Zoom and Info) * Map station markers 'E', 'P' and '?' now use the station name font * the position information of the current station is now simply superimposed over the cave Map (leaving more screen space for map) * for clarity, an Attributes form now replaces the list in the Survey Shot form * more consistent survey shot attribute abbreviations * survey shots attribute Exclude from Development replaced by Exclude from Statistics to also ignore the vertical drop of survey shots with this attribute * Development is now reported as the sum of the length of all survey shots that do not have the Dead Shot or Exclude from Statistics attributes, Horizontal Extent as the sum of the horizontal projection of the same survey shots and Mapped Length as the sum of the length of all survey shots * Position selector now highlighted in Survey Shot form when series beginnings have a position * series beginning can no longer hold position data if target software is Toporobot (internal space used for Toporobot series summary) * software targets in Cave Details form now limited to existing (or under development) conduits * the Sessions Over Series checkbox is no longer automatically checked when selecting the 4.4 station name format * Export item added to Network menu * multi-tabbed forms (Preferences, Session, Cave Details and Network Details) automatically jump to tab with empty field when OK button is tapped * loading or receiving a cave or network from another device adjusts its category to existing choices (or sets it to Unfiled if no corresponding category) * reception of beamed networks now handled by Auriga (instead of leaving Palm OS handle it), allowing to change its name in the receiving device * caves beamed with Entire Cave option now transmitted in raw mode, compatible with any IrDA device, such as a PC * in Map, a survey shot with a closure error can now be selected in Info mode by tapping its end position (that does not reach its true end station) * zoom ratios maintained when opening a cave or network previously viewed on a device with different screen resolution * Preferences menu added to Preferences form to initialize, export or beam preferences * an alert is now popped up when inputting a new survey shot with a Topofil start value lesser than the previous end value * inputting an azimuth or slope angle that is not a multiple of 0.25 pops up an alert (except for a theodolite) * in the Survey Shot form, holding down the stylus in a backsight field while the corresponding session setting set to Show and store confirms the displayed value button allows to explicitely confirm the proposed backsight data * in the Auriga Keypad, when editing a backsight azimuth or slope, if the corresponding session setting is Show and store, a Confirm button allows to explicitely confirm the proposed backsight data * Map drawing is interrupted by tapping in the screen; a message then appears and the Info mode no longer works * Beam form trimmed to available choices when called in Main form * help added in Statistics form Bug fixes * the degree sign could not be input into azimuth and slope fields (when using sexagesimal formats) on a Palm Zire 22 * due to a rounding error, the Map grid was sometimes off by a pixel from the origin station or the current station in the Cross-section * the map grid would not appear for cave networks * the map display options would not be retained for cave networks * with very narrow passages, the Fill Passage option would draw nothing * setting the position type of a virtual survey shot or series beginning with the Auriga Keypad could let the Survey Shot form position controls show through the Keypad * in Line and Spot modes, leaving the Map with displayed data would prevent the device from turning itself off automatically * the Sessions Over Series checkbox in the Cave Details form would be unchecked but disabled when creating a new cave in 8-character station name format * Map Scale field added in Network Details form (allows the Sketch to Scale form and the Stations and Graph lists to display scaled coordinates in network mode) * backsight azimuth and slope fields were not validated when input through the Auriga Keypad * backsight azimuth and slope fields were not visited by the Auriga keypad when editing a new survey shot * in Network Map, the Zoom on Current Session or Series would often show more survey shots than required * in Network Map with a projected profile, beyond a certain zoom ratio, selecting a survey shot by tapping on a station would fail * in Network Map with a projected profile, beyond a certain zoom ratio, some caves could disappear from the map * calling the Auriga Keypad from a backsight field in the Survey Shot form could crash * tapping on the arrow of the Position popup trigger in the Survey Shot form would not drop down the list * the input X, Y and Z origin coordinates in the Network Details form would be ignored * when inputting erroneous data in the Survey Shot form, the insertion point would not be placed in the offending input field * switching from Cross-section to another Map view would not restore the previous stylus mode * in Map, if the origin station had a loop error, tapping on it while in Info mode would select the closing survey shot instead of the first survey shot of the loop * building the network graph by searching for common stations between caves could crash if the search failed * the Auriga Keypad would ignore a yet unsaved backsight input outside of the Keypad * the Device ID button of the Link tab of the Preferences form would appear even if no Bluetooth device had previously been connected * deleting an existing survey shot after modifying it without saving would leave the Save button shown in the Survey Shot form * converting a virtual survey shot into a regular survey shot would not empty the length and slope fields in the Survey Shot form * in the Map, the left and right passage dimensions of a station with a virtual survey shot would not appear perpendicular to the next survey shot * in the Map, in rare cases, the passage dimensions of a station could be displayed anywhere in the scren * when the Main form reported a cave or network could not be migrated to the current format, hitting the Delete button would not delete it * receiving a beamed network would quit Auriga * receiving a beamed network would fail if it already existed and was open on the receiving device * receiving beamed data while Auriga was not running could crash * merely navigating with the Auriga Keypad among backsight fields could set the Survey Shot as modified (and display the Save button) * a 'Grid' color label would appear in the Preferences form on Palm OS 3.0 devices even if color/grayscale are not supported * the Topofil fields in the Survey Shot form would not accept 6 digits * projected length and net Topofil length displayed with 2 decimals in Survey Shot form * some controls in Link tab of Preferences form could overlap * in Main form, holding the Map icon to popup the Map views list would not always show the projection angles of the selected cave/network * in Survey Shot form, holding down the Map icon now pops up a list of views (rather than zoom options), like in Main form * the automatic display of the Map by the Assistant after saving a survey shot could crash Auriga * eliminated superfluous list sort upon switching view in List form * the Virtuals, Sessions and Caves views in List form would not indicate the sort column when first displayed * the List form would not refresh itself if the networked caves were changed * In List form, the Shots view would not automatically scroll to the selected survey shot * in Map form, editing the projected profile angles could show both pushbuttons 1 and 2 selected simultaneously * the Session form would not always display the tab with the faulty field when attempting to save invalid data Reference manual * Auto Zoom option of the Cross-section view documented * Zoom to Scale Map display option documented * new Attributes form documented * survey shot attribute abbreviations updated * Map grid/subgrid configuration documented * Screen Width documented in Preferences form section * new screenshots for Preferences, Cave Details and Network Details forms * new section Constraints of the target software 1.04 December 1st, 2006 New features * Section view added to Map form to aid in sketching * support of the arrow keys of the Disto A6 distancemeter to let the operator remotely select the current passage dimension field or to input an 'X' (unknown) under Bluetooth * Disto disconnect now detected under Bluetooth * the visual feedback obtained when hitting a survey shot name in the Loop Errors or the Shot Errors log or the results list of the Survey Shot Search (Running Man icon) is now better and behaves like that of Palm OS builtin Global Find * Azimuth and Slope backsights and Topofil Start and End columns now available in Survey Shot list of List form (but not selected by default in Columns form) * Locate a Shot option added to list of zoom options (reached by holding stylus on - or + buttons in Map form) * Survey Shot Search (Running Man icon) implemented for Survey Shot, Virtuals and Graph lists in List form * the Survey Shot Search now supports wildcards ('*' and '?') and can ignore lowercase/uppercase or accented letters * the Palm OS Global Find now also searches survey shot names, then supporting wildcards ('*' and '?') * Auriga now accepts corrected azimuth backsights (ex. 35° vs 36° instead of 35° vs 216°) to match reading with dual-scale compasses (if foresight/backsight values differ by more than 90°, a corrected value is assumed) * Ignore Slope and Ignore Backsight Slope added to list of survey shot attributes * faster column sort in List form * 8-character lookup field added in Main form Bug fixes * the Pit Sounder form would exit when using the Select button of the Palm five-way navigator to trigger the stopwatch * loading the default values in the Network Details form caused a memory leak * the Map Info would not always put the current station of the current survey shot in bold * the Stations list would not automatically scroll to current station * the azimuth backsight field in survey shot form could sometimes display the slope backsight value * the Map scale would use unrounded values when automatically switching to miles * the Survey Shot Search (Running Man icon) did not work in Survey Shot form with networks * selecting a survey shot in the List form would not always succeed when handling networks * editing or resizing columns or changing the sort column in the List form could fail if columns had been hidden with the Columns form * the List form could crash in network mode if one of the caves had the read-only attribute * the Sessions list could select more than one session in network mode * the averaging of foresight and backsight slopes would lead to horizontal survey shots (0° slope) * missing line feed in Network Statistics * the Survey Shot form would not always display the backsight azimuth field with a small font even if if the survey shot had the Ignore Backsight Azimuth setting * tapping on a survey shot name in the Shot Errors, Loop Errors or Survey Shot Search list of results could crash Reference manual * Section view documented in Map form section * new handling of backsight azimuths documented in Session form section * Disto 2nd mode documented in Preferences/Link section * section Recommended Devices removed; see Required Hardware section in Auriga Web page instead * new screenshot for Survey Shot Search, Main and Maintenance forms * note on angular units and formats added in Instruments tab section Session form 1.03 September 11, 2006 New features * Pit Sounder form added * improved user interface in Link tab of Preferences form to connect with a Disto A6 under Bluetooth * on the Aceeca Meazura, the left and right hardware arrows now behave like the hardware buttons on a Palm Zire * Auriga now handles the hardware buttons of the Palm Zire 22 like other two-button Zires * number of caves reported in network Statistics * 0.0 can now be input as the maximum loop closure error in the Cave Details in order to list all loops in the Loop Errors log * in Survey Shot form, the Sessions menu item now has the same effect as tapping the session selector Bug fixes * if the decimal separator was set as a comma in the Palm Preferences, hitting the dot key when inputting survey station names in the Auriga keypad would double the dot * a crash could occur when converting a cave station name format from 8 to 4.4 * selecting a cave or network by inputting its initial letter in Main form would not update the Note icon status * some items in the Edit menu of the Survey Shot form did not work * better handling of Up/Down arrows in Session form * editing a new session after refusing to save it would create a confusion between this session and the one of the current survey shot * a memory leak could occur when merging beamed or exported data * letters could be written in the Scale field of the Cave Details form * better automatic decimal completion in Auriga Keypad * erroneous default selection in Select form * renumbering sessions could crash Auriga * renumbering sessions could lead to affecting session -1 (impossible) to the current survey shot, thus causing havoc in the cave database * selecting stations in the Select form could crash Auriga if the Selection form had been launched from the Main form * some Selection menu items did not update the number of selected survey shots or stations, therefore crashing Auriga at times * the Survey Shot Search in the Survey Shot form could crash if one of the found survey shots had a note * the Note form could display a superfluous scroll bar * setting the survey shot position type to None in the Auriga Keypad would freeze the display * loading default values in the Cave Details form would crash * in the command bar, the Beam icon did not have a text when handling a cave network * in the command bar, the Help icon did not have a text when called in Note form * in the Session form, some fields did not accept as many characters as permitted * displaying a Map view for the first time while the grid was enabled would freeze the display * the Auriga Keypad called from the Note form would show an empty title bar * the Projection mode is maintained when opening the slider on a Palm T3 * the Survey Shot form title could be too long with long cave names * changing the end station of a existing series beginning survey shot could be refused with a series duplication alert * Auriga would not report the loop closure error when changing the stations of an existing survey shot so as to close a loop * when returning from the Session form, backsights could overwrite the Survey Shot form if it displayed a virtual survey shot or a series beginning * changing the color of a session required recomputating the coordinates to take effect in the Map Reference manual * Pit Sounder form documented * Disto usage documented 1.02 August 8, 2006 Bug fixes * in Main form, deleting cave databases that could not be migrated could crash Auriga * the decimal character key of the numeric layout would do nothing when inputting station names on a Palm Zire 22 * the Auriga Keypad would always offer the alphabetic layout for stations names if these were not strictly numeric (even if letters were not permitted) * the "Use Alphabetic Keyboard" options in the Stations tab of the Cave Details form was not effective * the target name list selection would not reflect the current name in the Export and the Data Received forms 1.01 July 23, 2006 Bug fixes * the migration of cave databases in read-only mode would fail 1.00 July 23, 2006 New features * Cave DB format migrated to version 53 to support more internal flags and a second projection angle * Network DB format migrated to version 2 to support a second projection angle * Preferences now allow to select the real-time display of either the net Topofil length or the projected length in the Survey Shot form * tapping the New button while a new unsaved and unmodified survey shot is displayed now clears all input fields (instead of doing nothing) * input limit of percent slopes changed from +/- 100% to +/- 150% (as on a Suunto clinometer) * Swap Left-Right (passage dimensions) menu item added in Edit menu in Survey Shot form * Suffixes option added in Stations attributes list in Map form to shorten displayed labels (offered only if series are enabled) * faster navigation between survey shot fields in Auriga Keypad form after data is input (also suppresses transient ghost images) * the popup navigation list of Survey shot fields in Keypad form now simultaneously displays input values * checkboxes Flip and Draw and Sum pushbutton hidden in Session form if attribute Sessions over Series not set in Cave Details (these attributes are then irrelevant, being set by series beginnings) * columns Flip, Draw and Sum display a '-' in Sessions list if attribute Sessions over Series not set in Cave Details * checkboxes Flip, Draw and Sum Series hidden in Survey Shot form if attribute Sessions over Series is set in Cave Details (these attributes are then irrelevant, being set by sessions) * columns Flip, Draw and Sum display a '-' in Virtuals list if attribute Sessions over Series is set in Cave Details * Map projection angle is now selected though a simple interface called by the Projection item in the list of Map stylus modes * the Map form now offers two projected profile views to assist in sketching fissure caves * more stringent validation for shift, precision and declination fields in Session form * Draw attribute can now be set/cleared for virtual survey shots in Survey Shot and List forms * if a beamed or exported cave database has a not null origin or georeference or altitude reference station while the target cave database does not, these fields are updated when merging data * modifying the current session updates the Survey Shot form if the displayed survey shot is new and unmodified * recomputing cave coordinates no longer resets zoom ratios and pan factors * performing a selection in the Map form now only pops up the Select form (and not also the Selection form) * the number of Topofil digits is now configurable in the Session form (default = 5) * better completion of decimal fields in Survey Shot form * when navigating between survey Shot fields, the Auriga Keypad opens in alphabetic layout in note field * d°m's" option blocked in Session form for instruments other than theodolite * passage dimensions no longer required when saving a survey shot if Surface attribute is set * the loop closure alert is now displayed whenever a modified survey shot gets computed, and not only upon its creation * new survey input order options added to Preferences to accommodate rangefinder users (length and passage dimensions grouped together) * value of projection angle shown in views list of Map form and in Main form * Survey Shot and List forms now available when handling cave networks * new Caves list added to List form * columns in List form are now user-selectable via List/Columns menu * passage dimension columns in List form now shown in the input order set in Preferences * the displayed data in Line or Spot mode in Map is now dismissed by tapping into it Bug fixes * the grid value in Map form would not display decimals when needed * Topofil values above 65535 could be refused in the Survey Shot form * the Topofil start value would not appear when running in Continuous Topofil mode * modifying the current session would not trigger a recomputation of station coordinates * modifying certain survey shot attributes would not trigger a recomputation of station coordinates * adding a survey shot linking an orphan leg to the rest of the cave would not trigger a recomputation of station coordinates * the incremental computation of a new survey shot would not update the cave statistics * some checkboxes in the Link tab of the Preferences form would overlap * poking the Map in Line or Spot stylus modes could leave the info line empty * the card-related menu items would not be ignored on cardless devices (and could crash, instead of just beeping) * auto-incrementation of station names could fail if all 8 characters were used (ex. 6D10.0009) * when attempting to convert a cave database from station name format 8 to 4.4, if the operation were impossible, station format controls were not reset properly in the Cave Details form (and a memory leak occurred) * superfluous backsight fields skipped in Shot popup in Sketch to Scale form * creating a new session by editing an existing one would duplicate the number of associated survey shots * deleting a yet unsaved new survey shot would cause havoc in the cave database * changing a session instruments calibration or display attributes while in Map form would not recompute coordinates * survey shots to be excluded from development are now also excluded from mapped length in cave statistics * tapping in Map form controls while they were masked by Line or Spot mode would nonetheless activate them * the number of series in cave database was miscomputed (reorganizing the cave would fix it though) * virtual survey shots with XYZ position would not appear in Map * in rare cases, the default pan factor would put the map off screen * the Flip attribute for individual survey shots was ignored * passage dimensions would appear for both stations in Map even if only one really had dimensions input (but walls still extrapolate dimensions for aesthetics) * changing the session to which a survey shot is associated properly updates survey shots count for both sessions * the Draw attribute for sessions was sometimes ignored * survey shots computed from their end station would be flipped in the extended profile Map * navigating between fields in the Auriga Keypad for forms other than the Survey Shot form could display an incomplete keypad layout * leaving an unsaved modified new survey shot would leave the Save button available in Survey Shot form * changing the behavior of backsights in Session form would not have an immediate effect on the Survey Shot form * a dot or comma could not be input for station names in 8-character format even if punctuation symbols were allowed * UTM easting coordinates above 500000 were refused * note scroll arrows would not be initialized when creating a new survey shot * a cave computed while building a network would need to be recomputed when displayed as a single cave * correction and optimization of graphic zooming acceleration based on excluding off screen individual survey shots (graphic optimization based on zones now abandoned due to redundancy) * in standard resolution (160x160), zooming and panning the Map would not exclude controls at the bottom of the screen * popping up the Auriga Keypad after selecting a survey shot position type would not open with currently selected field * computations would not swap left/right passage dimensions at stations when these were taken in reverse direction (session setting) * the List form could crash when displaying the Graph list if survey shots had passage dimensions * the Note icon in the Main and Cave Details forms was sometimes not highlighted even if the selected cave or network had a note * the + (resize) button in the List form would not always resize the rightmost visible column * passage dimensions in Graph list would always be 0.0 * the Info mode in Map would sometimes fail to identify virtual stations when tapped with the stylus * sorting the Shots list with the Direct columns would do nothing * survey shots with Altitude or Depth position type can no longer be saved if the altitude or depth field is empty * a depth position of -1 could not be entered Reference manual * new Caves list documented in List form section * new screenshots for Cave and Network Details forms (Map tab) * Columns form documented in List form section 0.35 April 11, 2006 New features * Selection implemented (Selection and Select forms) * Selection option added in Beam and Export forms * Select option added in list of stylus modes in Map form (only works for Caves) * Color Selection added in list of color options of Map form * implements a graphic acceleration method for zoomed Map that quickly skips caves, sessions or series whose bounding rectangle lies outside of the screen * tapping on the a-b-c silkscreen button while the cursor is in a numeric field now pops up the Auriga Keypad with a numeric layout (instead of doing nothing) * precision of angles displayed in d°m.m' or d°m's" formats limited if not input with a theodolite (see Limits section in manual) * Maintenance menu item now only available in Main form * Close menu item removed from Cave and Network menus in Main form * E, P, or ? (Entrance, Permanent or Lead) can now appear simultaneously next to a station in Map * XYZ position simplified in Map Info if too wide for screen * Slope Calculator, Swap Stations and Save Shot menu items now available in Survey Shot form even for pre-OS 3.5 devices * Recompute all Caves menu item added in Network Map form * holding down the stylus on survey shot info in Map pops up the full note (persists on screen until next stylus tap) * Line and Spot data in Map now persist on screen until next stylus tap * support of link to Disto Pro (serial) and Disto Plus (Bluetooth) rangefinders; untested, I don't have a Disto :( * Disto Pro/Plus added in length instruments list in Session form * buttons reordered in Main form to match those in Survey Shot form * a crash would occur when merging a beamed cave database with an existing one if Auriga was not the running application * field added in Session form to select number of Topofil digits Bug fixes * fixes compatibility issues with Palm Tungsten E2 and TX (input of decimal separator in certain fields, crash on Backlight checkbox in Preferences form and erroneous display in Session form when changing tab) * angles displayed in d°m.m" or d°m's" formats were erroneously rounded * the azimuth of survey shots displayed in d°m.m' or d°m's" formats was wrong in the List form * the info for certain survey shots could sometimes not display in the Map * a crash could occur when exporting survey shots while not in Main form * the incremental computation of new survey shots with a geographic position can now detect whether the cave just became georeferenced * sexagesimal data can now be input in the Survey Shot form without resorting to the Auriga Keypad; for convenience, separators °'" can be replaced by a space for convenience * the dive attribute would not always be properly shown or hidden in Survey Shot form * the Auriga Keypad could not navigate between Survey Shot form fields from a slope field containing only a '-' sign * the Projected profile view would not display for cave networks or for certain caves * orphan legs would always be positioned on XYZ coordinate 0,0,0 regardless of cave origin * selecting a survey shot with the Running Man survey shot search would not update the session-related settings in the Survey Shot form * a read-only cave or network database could not be deleted in Main form without prior unlocking * clearing or setting an Entrance, Permanent or Lead attribute in a survey shot would sometimes not reflect in the Map * Continuation stations would display a 'P' instead of a '?' on Sony hi-resolution devices * Beam or Export operations could crash if several sessions had to be sent along with survey shots * when the Beam or Export form was called from the List form, selecting a date range would draw the underlying List form over the Beam/Export form * a cave database reorganized during the network computation process would be reorganized again when opened individually * resetting Auriga preferences upon startup with PageUp button held down would unduly report an error * color selectors in Map tab of Preferences form were not usable while displaying a network * the search for the tapped station in Info mode in Map would not take the vertical factor into account * the Map form in projected profile would sometimes re-open empty * projection angle was inverted in projected profile view in Map form (0° must correspond to a S-N profile and 90° to a W-E profile) * sorting columns would sometimes fail in List form * renaming an existing network would render it unusable * changing the category in Cave or Network Details forms now changes the category in Main only if it were not set to All * the list of networked caves would not redraw after hitting Cancel in the Network Cave form * saving or restoring a cave or network database on the external card could fail or crash Reference manual * new Selection and Select forms documented * added section on Backup/Restore of cave databases on memory card * Limits section revised * Select stylus mode documented in Map form section 0.34 January 16, 2006 New features * automatic migration of the cave databases to format version 51 to recount all series, not just series beginnings, and to perform various adjustments; Auriga now requires conduit 0.26 * holding down the Map icon in the Survey Shot form pops up a list of zoom options if the cave is already computed * holding down the + or - buttons in the Map form pops up a list of zoom options * holding down the List icon in the Survey Shot form pops up a list allowing to select its view before opening the List form * holding down the Acquisition pushbutton in the Survey Shot form pops up a list of acquisition actions * navigating between survey shots automatically pans the Map to make the current survey shot visible in screen * "Fill Passages" item added in display options list of the Map form '* attributes Lead on Start/End Station added in Survey Shot form (a '?' is displayed in the Map) * unedited backsight data displayed in bold font in Auriga Keypad (like in Survey Shot form) * azimuth or backsight azimuth displayed in small font in Auriga Keypad if attribute Ignore (Backsight) Azimuth set (like in Survey Shot form) * Caps lock set when using the Auriga Keypad in a survey station input fields that allows uppercase letters * Link tab of Preferences form revised * '_' (underscore) added to punctuation characters that may be accepted in station names * omitting passage dimensions may pop up an alert but no longer marks a survey shot as incomplete * Note button highlighted in Main, Survey Shot and Session forms if cave/network, survey shot or session has a note * removal of % unit for azimuth calibration shift unit * navigating beyond the last form field in the Auriga Keypad now returns to the calling form even if the Assistant is not active * cave link option "Use Cave Origin as Offset" added to Networks Bug fixes * exporting or beaming survey shots selected between dates would not always include all relevant survey shots (beam/export must include survey shots between 00:00:00 on start date and 23:59:59 on end date) * using the menus while the Map form displayed the survey shot info could crash * creating a new session would not initialize its default dimension station with the stored default setting * creating a new survey shot would not always set the bold font for backsight input fields in Show and Store mode * electronic data could not be acquired via a serial link on pre-OS 3.5 devices (GPS or TNT Revolution module) * Bluetooth now supported for electronic data acquisition (Link tab of Preferences form) * the Link tab of the Preferences form would not restore the state of the "Auriga prompts Acquisition" checkbox * Sketch to Scale form now uses passage dimensions from the current survey shot even when the station with passage dimensions has other dimensions in other survey shots * better cave database reorganization process * changing the time of a survey shot or session on devices with OS 3.0 would crash * a crash could occur while computing the cave * better number rounding in Sketch to Scale and Slope Calculator forms * changing the passage dimensions of an existing survey shot does not recompute the whole cave * the Forms button in List form would never return to Main form * dead survey shots ignored in Shot Errors log * the Note button did not work for cave networks in Main form * proper handling of length/dimensions calibration shift expressed in % * changing the category of a network would not affect the Main form * the projected length displayed in the Survey Shot form was not updated upon returning from the Slope Calculator * changing the color of a session in the Session form would not update the cave map if it were already computed * better handling of Topofil session configuration and data display * wall lines could cross in Map profile views * when necessary, cave coordinates adapted to the cave network length unit * exporting a cave while in Main form could crash Auriga * the connection of an orphan leg to the rest of the cave by adding a new survey shot were not detected if the orphan leg was on the end station side of the new survey shot * proper rounding of station coordinates of perfectly horizontal or vertical survey shot * station attributes 'E' or 'P' would sometines not appear in Map Reference manual * Lead on Start/End Station added in Survey Shot form section * Lead draw option added in Map form section * Fill Passages option added in Map form section * zoom list options documented in Map and Survey Shot forms * List form options documented in Survey Shot forms * data acquisition options documented in Survey Shot forms * Link tab section of Preferences form revised * option "Use Cave Origin as Offset" documented in Networks section * FAQ enhanced * shipped in PDF format 0.33 November 17, 2005 New features * holding the stylus on the New button in the Survey Shot form allows to temporarily override the station auto-incrementation scheme * Stations or Graph views of List form now offer Real, To Scale (in cm or inches) or paper Grid coordinates * Attributes list in the Survey Shots view of the List form limited to shot-relevant choices * "Swap Stations" item added in Edit menu of Survey Shot Form * "Save Survey Shot" item added in Cave menu of Survey Shot Form (convenient when using an external keyboard to edit survey shots) * altitude reported in Spot mode in Map if cave or network has an altitude reference * C (extended profile) and P (projected profile) coordinates reported for X axis in Spot mode in Map * more robust cave reorganization process * tapping on the Length icon in the Survey Shot form when inputting Topofil data displays the net length (using calibration) * "+" pushbutton removed from Survey Shot form (it was redundant with the "Exclude from development" item of the Attributes list) Bug fixes * the black frame would disappear around color pickers in the List form when changing the selected row * invalid dive survey shots (where depth change > length) better handled when computing coordinates * Cut or Paste operations in Survey Shot or Session forms now set the survey shot or session as modified * the Sketch to Scale form would not show up for the first survey shot if it were not already saved * new survey shots in new caves would sometimes be initialized with the "Exclude from Development" attribute * a crash could occur when changing the number of the first session while creating a new cave DB * changing the number of a session that did not have survey shots would enter a cycle of circular alerts * Auriga preferences reset automatically if they become corrupt (I am now researching why they can become corrupt...) * opening an empty cave database could repeatedly crash Auriga * selecting the Dimensions checkbox in the Shots tab of the Session form would still not make dimensions compulsory in survey shots * adding dimensions to an existing survey shot would not always show them in the Sketch to Scale form * left and right dimensions could be wrong in the Sketch to Scale form when in absolute mode * new survey shot would sometimes have the Exclude from Development attribute * after saving the first or last survey shot of the cave, the Save button would sometimes remain shown in the Survey Shot form * in slope 0ø = up or down mode, Survey Shot form would not accept slopes greater than 45ø Reference manual * more explanations on the Sketch to Scale form, the cave map (Cave Details/Computations) and the paper grid (Preferences/Map) * coordinate types documented for Stations and Graph views of List form * Frequently Asked Question section enhanced 0.32 October 28, 2005 New features * cave diving survey shots (slopes with depthmeter) now supported (see user manual); erroneous data (depth change > shot length) is still not handled perfectly * automatic migration of the cave databases to format version 50; Auriga now requires conduit 0.23, even if this conduit does not yet handle dive data for Compass and VisualTopo * field contents validated in Survey Shot form when navigation between fields with stylus or hardware buttons * Survey Shot field contents validated while in Auriga Keypad * DB cache flushed after saving a survey shot or session on devices with non-volatile memory (Palm Tungsten E2, T5 and TX) * Attributes column added in Survey Shots view of the List form Bug fixes * tapping on survey shots in Shot Errors or Loop Closure reports would no longer select and display the tapped survey shot * slope or reverse slope -0.01 could not be input * altitude -1 could not be input * the Cave Details would ignore the georeference station if an altitude reference station was also set (this could prevent the cave from being properly linked to a network) * the Sketch to Scale form could display grossly erroneous data depending on cave map scale and paper grid * the passage dimension unit could differ from the length unit even if the "Instrument Set #1 = #2" checkbox was set for dimensions in the Session form * the Auriga Keypad could edit the reverse azimuth or slope even if the session set them as uneditable * valid slopes in % were sometimes reported as erroneous * networked caves positioned by georeference could sometimes be misplaced * the Spot tool could not display UTM coordinates in the network Map Reference manual * Cave Diving section added * usage described in Sketch to Scale form section * Limits section upgraded * Frequently Asked Question section revised * Attributes list documented in List form section 0.31 October 3, 2005 New features * notebook paper grid size and unit selection added in Map tab of Preferences form * Sketch button added in Survey Shot form to call the new Sketch to Scale form that provide sketch data (survey shot and passage dimensions in notebook grid units) * option "Map; New shot; Power off" removed from list of Assistant actions after saving a new survey shot * options "Sketch to Scale" and "Sketch to Scale; New shot; Power off" added in list of Assistant actions after saving a new survey shot * the incremental computation of new survey shots now reports the creation of orphan cave legs or their connection to the rest of the cave * survey shot attributes now allow to force the computation process to ignore the foresight or backsight azimuth (convenient when experiencing magnetic anomalies, common in lava tube caves) * azimuth and slope now optional in survey shots if a backsight azimuth or slope is provided * the cave map scale no longer applies to station coordinates reported in List form (only used in Sketch to Scale form) * beamed or exported sessions with same number but different settings or calibration are now renumbered instead of duplicated in the local cave database (see Beam section in manual) * progress popup window suppressed when computing a single shot * a padlock is now displayed in the title bar of the Shot form when the cave is in read only mode (and the Assistant pushbutton is hidden because irrelevant) * "cross-section" replaced by "profile"; "developed profile" replaced by "extended profile" to better match common vocabulary * when receiving beamed or exported data, Auriga now checks whether the sent origin, georeference and altitude reference stations exist in the target cave. If not, these station references are cleared Bug fixes * toggling the Shot/Virtual/Series pushbutton in the Auriga Keypad could crash on certain devices (on a Tungsten 3 at least) * redundant confirmation alerts removed when exiting Auriga while the Assistant is running and a survey shot is unsaved * the Global Find could hang when launched within Auriga * saving a note with leading or trailing blanks could crash * the Sessions view in List form could be unavailable if the cave coordinates could not be computed (likely due to lack of memory) * input XYZ cave offsets from network origin would not show when reading the details of a Network Cave * "Series" option hidden in Beam and Export forms if series are disabled * computations a backsight azimuth would be wrong * setting the "Hide in Map" attribute for an individual shot would have no effect * tapping on virtual survey shots or series beginnings in the list returned by the Survey Shot Search had no effect * exporting or beaming survey shots by series or by dates could crash * "Altitude only" station positions in List form were wrong * some checkboxes could appear shrunk in List form columns * the Session form would not refresh itself when navigating between sessions with the arrow buttons * the popup navigation list of Survey shot form fields in the Auriga Keypad would loop * the loop closure alert would pop up even when editing an existing survey shot * the Auriga Keypad would not always open in numeric layout even when the user tapped on the 1-2-3 button while the form focus was in an alphanumeric field Reference manual * new Sketch to Scale form documented * OS version, RAM size and CPU speed added to device list in Limits section * corrected minor errors in table of hardware button use * spell-checker applied * Beam section reviewed 0.30 September 1st, 2005 New features * self-looping zero-length survey shots with same start and end stations can now be input (ex. to provide passage dimensions for dead end stations) * if coordinates are currently computed, saving a new survey shot that closes a loop pops up an alert to report closure error * if the Palm OS Global Find is launched within Auriga while a cave database is open, the search only takes place in the current cave Bug fixes * irrelevant checkboxes in List form would appear as narrow rectangles * backsights could get lost when modifying an existing survey shot * backsights would not always get saved when input with the Auriga keypad * the name field of new networks would sometimes get initialized to the previous network name * the popup list of Survey shot form field data in the Auriga Keypad did not show the Length field * the navigation popup list of Survey shot form fields in the Auriga Keypad was not set to current field * even manually creating a new survey shot while the Assistant was active would power off the device if this option was selected * the Gofer (survey shot Search) in the survey Shot form would not always open with the end station even if the input focus was in that field in the Survey Shot form * hitting the Home button while in the Auriga Keypad could exit Auriga without first asking to save a modified survey shot * exporting a cave (item Export of Cave menu) would crash * auto-incrementation of survey shot stations would sometimes fail if existing survey shots had to be skipped to lead to a unique name * if option to automatically compute new survey shots is selected, the process now starts with the first survey shot * "reverse azimuth/slope" replaced by "backsight azimuth/slope" in Session form * Gofer form renamed "Survey Shot Search" * calling the Slope calculator from the Auriga Keypad would crash Reference manual * section "Coordinates computation" added * Palm m125 and m130 added in devices list in Limits section * "reverse shot" replaced by "backsight" * Gofer form renamed "Survey Shot Search" 0.29 August 4, 2005 New features * simpler Gofer (survey shot search) * "Go To Active Session" item added in Session menu * faster cave graph computations (~20%) * active session marked by a "*" in Sessions view (like in Session form) of List form * current language now toggable via Main form (if corresponding Auriga??_rsrc.prc resource file is loaded on device) * smarter auto-incrementation of station names in Survey Shot form (see Stations tab of Cave Details form section in manual) Bug fixes * the Length column in the Sessions view of the List form would only display "?" * modifying a survey shot with a UTM position would truncate UTM coordinates * associating a survey shot to a different session would not update the count of survey shots for each session * reorganizing a cave database could clear number of shots for sessions * survey shots could remain highlighted navigating the Map in Info mode Reference manual * new screenshots for Main and Gofer forms * new screenshot for Session menu * language toggle documented in Main form section * Tungsten 2 data added in Limits section * auto-incrementation documented in Stations tab of Cave Details form 0.28 July 19, 2005 New features * Assistant settings can now be modified even if the Assistant is active * alert displayed when the current session instrument selection does not include the acquisition device connected to handheld * slight margin left around map when first drawn to move cave away from screen borders * alert displayed when the auto-incrementation of the end station had to skip existing stations when creating a new survey shot * network development direction and development of networked caves removed from Network feature (these were useless); networked caves use their own development direction as set in Cave Details * cave networks are now beamable via IR * slight layout changes between Network Details tabs * Map drawing can now be interrupted by tapping in the screen; on devices with a fixed Graffiti area, a user confirmation is required * Limits item added in Options menu * Sketch button removed form Survey Shot form (sketching, when implemented, will occur in Map form) * Print item removed from Network menu (it was inactive) * closure errors can now be seen in cave networks Map * Punctuation option for station names expanded to support .,;:-+/\|'~!@$%?&*()<>[]{} Bug fixes * the List form could crash under Palm OS 3.0-3.3 * closure errors would no longer appear in Map * changing the development direction of the cave while the Map is displayed would not automatically recompute coordinates * setting the cave development direction to Right could lead to an empty cave map * the Note form would not show text with dotted underlines when editing cave, session and survey shot notes * the Preferences form could not be saved if the cycle duration field in the Link tab was invalid even if data acquisition was not cyclical * the list of caves in the Caves tab of the Network Details form would not appear under Palm OS 3.0-3.3 * adding or removing caves to a network could cause scrolling problems * building a network with an incomputable cave could crash Auriga Reference manual * network development direction and development of networked caves removed from Network section * new screenshots for Survey Shot and Network Details forms * Limits menu item documented * Network menu documented * new paragraph on device capabilities in Limits section 0.27 June 30, 2005 New features * Networks feature implemented (see manual) * Settings list added to Survey Shot form (Entrance checkbox moved to that list) * support of permanent stations * support of surface survey shots and dead survey shots * permanent stations marked in map with a 'P' * Entrance and Permanent columns added in Stations list * Stations sublist added in Display Options list in Map form * holding the Up/Down buttons in the Auriga Keypad while editing the Survey Shot form pops up a list of survey shot input fields (for quick field navigation) * survey shot and session date-time now editable * updating session time with first survey shot now optional * cave map redraws faster when zoomed in * fields, checkboxes, lists and most pushbuttons locked in Survey Shot and Session forms when handling a read-only cave database Bug fixes * sorting the Sessions view in List the form could crash * sorting the date columns in the List form could crash * sorting the passage dimensions columns in the List form did not work well (and empty dimensions now sort before others) * the map coloring options list would appear misplaced on Tungsten 3 in tall screen mode Reference manual * Network forms documented * Main form section covers networks * Survey Shot form field popup list documented in Keypad form section * new columns added in List form * new Stations sublist added in Map form 0.26 May 22, 2005 New features * the digit order of the Auriga custom keypad is now user-selectable in the Preferences form Bug fixes * deleting a session to which survey shots were associated would not always require a confirmation before deleting the session and all its survey shots * the vertical factor is now used by the grid and the Line and Spot stylus modes in the Map form * the Note form would not accept line feeds (the input of blank lines) * changing the session selection for a survey shot marks it as modified in the Survey Shot form (and the Save button appears) * the "Move by n survey shots" arrows navigation option would not work well in the Map form * toggling grid display would redraw the Map twice Reference manual * numeric keypad layout pushbuttons documented * new screenshot for General tab of the Preferences form * details added on rectangular Map grid when using a vertical factor 0.25 May 7, 2005 New features * selection inversion uninterrupted by color selector in List form Bug fixes * New and Delete buttons were accidentally swapped in Survey Shot form * checkboxes and color picker were no longer usable in the Survey Shots view of the List form * the Draw setting in Virtuals and Sessions view of the List form could have no effect on the map * reorganizing an empty cave database would leave the popup message on Reference manual * new screenshot for the Link tab of the Preferences form 0.24 April 30, 2005 New features * filters added to List form in Shots view * current station now selectable in Stations view * current session now selectable in Sessions view * Status column added to the Survey Shots view * Forms icon in Map form now returns to previous form * revised icon look in Survey Shot form (icons leading to other functions are framed) * Survey Shot and Map buttons replaced by Forms button in List form * buttons replaced by icons in Main form to add List and Note icons * Virtuals and Sessions lists now available even if cave coordinates could not be computed (normally due to a lack of heap memory) * SerialFix no longer required for two-way serial communications on Tungsten 3 (Auriga compensates for faulty hardware flow control) * computation time and memory requirement added to Statistics form * checkboxes and color pickers drawn in List form even if column narrower than required width * PalmOne's voice recorder button disabled * Sony's JogDial Back button handled in Survey Shot, List, Map and Main forms Bug fixes * the survey shot errors count would be reset by the incremental computation of a new survey shot (Assistant mode) * the GPS position format was not selectable in the Link tab of the Preferences form * d°m.m' position format corrected * angle unit list in Cave Details form could become corrupt * Info mode fixed for Sony hi-resolution displays * format migration would fail with caves in read-only mode Reference manual * new screenshots for Map, Survey Shot, List and Main forms * List form filters documented 0.23 April 19, 2005 New features * serial link to GPS and TNT module added to Auriga * support of PalmOne Tungsten 3/5 Dynamic Input Area (virtual Graffiti) and landscape mode in Map and List forms * faster cave computation through optimized end stations enumeration (up to 35% faster overall) * "Go to Next Session" option added to navigation arrows in Cave Details form (applies to Survey Shot and Map forms) * Note column added to Sessions view in List form * reduced memory requirements to hold sessions when computing cave * all input fields now displayed when holding the i button in the Auriga Keypad while editing the Survey Shot form (popup window now remains visible until screen tapped again) * Tungsten 3/5 Prefs. Handedness setting now used (Lefty useless on T3/T5) * duplicate survey shots counted as survey shot errors in log * PDB format migrated to 49 to prepare for geodesic conversions required for GPS acquisition and the display of cave networks Bug fixes * Tungsten 3/5 screen controls remain usable in Map form after switching to landscape (horizontal) mode * incremental computation of survey shots could result in extraneous orphan shots being reported * renaming a cave database while in a form other than the Main form would not refresh the list of caves in the Main form * when automatically showing the cave map, the Assistant would not always show the last saved survey shot nor resize the map Reference manual * new "Link" tab documented * "Go to Next Session" option added * Survey Shot form fields Keypad popup added * FAQ added * "Link" tab added in Preferences * improved "Limits" section 0.22 March 17, 2005 New features * Slope Calculator displayed even when resulting slope could not be computed due to erroneous or missing length or height data * map scale raised by one pixel to separate it from bottom controls when using a black background * confirmation alert displayed after exporting a cave to a non-existent database * navigating between survey shots in Map form no longer skips hidden or orphan survey shots; their info appears at top of screen even if the shot/station must not be displayed in map Bug fixes * a crash could occur in Main form after exporting a cave * the cave database list was not always refreshed after exporting a cave * calling the Slope Calculator under Palm OS 3.0-3.3 would crash * receiving data via IR while Auriga is not active would crash * the cave would not always show an active session (marked by a star) in the Session form * stations part of orphan legs now hidden in Map if Show Orphan Legs option not selected in Map form * checkboxes in List form would never appear as checked under Palm OS 3.1-3.3 * exporting the same cave database twice in a row would fail Reference manual * renamed AurigaEN.html * better definition for Slope Calculator inputs 0.21 March 3, 2005 New features * "Spot" option added in Map form to fetch the position of any location * when starting Auriga with "PageUp" button held down, an alert offers to reset Auriga's context and to re-initialize all settings * at first Auriga startup, an alert now asks for default length unit * station names popup (reached by holding the stylus on "i" (Help) button) in Auriga Keypad widened to be more visible * "Series" pushbutton hidden if series are disabled (i.e. if 8-character station name format is selected) * "Session" title removed from Session form to eliminate confusion with adjacent tab names * "+" (Sum) pushbutton and "Flip" checkbox added in Session form * checkboxes reordered in List form to math usefulness in Map form * options "Use Hardware Buttons", "Smart Calculator Button" and "Button 2 Wakes up Auriga" removed from General tab of the Preferences form; these behaviors are now automatically implemented * options ""Use Hardware Buttons", "Button 2 Wakes up Auriga", "Prevent Exit" and "Confirm Stop" removed from Assistant tab of the Preferences form; these behaviors are now automatically implemented * option "Calc Button Shot<->Map" removed from Assistant tab of the Preferences form to leave access to calculator * option "Find Button Toggles Views" removed from Map tab of the Preferences form; dragging stylus from Graffiti area to middle of screen now toggles between Top and Developed profile views * option "Continuous Topofil" restored in the General tab of the Preferences form * "Automatic Decimal Length" option moved from Assistant to General tab (and renamed ("Auto Keypad Dec. Lengths") to make it available all the time in the Auriga Keypad * instruments set pushbuttons moved to title bar in Session form * on devices with dynamic Graffiti area, in full screen map mode, if the Graffiti area is closed, hitting the Menu button first displays the controls at the base of the screen * all font selections moved to a revised Fonts form; now possible to select the font used to display station names in Survey Shot form * "No special action" option added to list of Assistant behavior after saving a new survey shot Bug fixes * "None" added to list of keyboard choices for notes in Preferences form * loading cave default settings could crash * the Palm OS built-in keyboard would pop up upon inputting the first character in the note field of a survey shot * grid, projection angle and magnetic declination unit would not always follow length and angle selection in Cave Details form * the scale line would sometimes disappear in the Map * the controls would sometimes disappear in the Map when using the "Black Background" option * the passage dimension shift was not read in Session form * compatibility with Palm OS 3.0-3.3 restored Reference manual * added "Assistant" and "Launching Auriga" sections * improved "Rapid Start" and "Data Input" sections * new screenshots for all tabs of the Preferences and Session forms * new screenshot for Fonts form 0.20 February 4, 2005 New features * holding the i (Help) button in the Auriga Keypad while editing a survey shot displays start/end stations * station name input fields widened in all forms to hold letters * in Survey Shot form, station name input fields use a smaller font if character set A-Z selected on both sides of separator of if 8-character alphabetic format selected * separator-less stations names can now be automatically split into series.station number upon first leftmost character type change in name (ex. XO69A gets interpreted as station number 69A in series XO); see "Auriga Key Concepts" section in manual * checkbox "Sessions Override Series" in Cave Details automatically set and disabled if 8-character station names format selected * automatic internal station names migration when changing from 8-character to 4.4 format (a log of erroneous survey shots is produced if migration would fail due to invalid station names); see manual * automatic internal station names migration when changing from 4.4 format to 8-character; see manual * the session number shown in the Survey Shot form now appears with the beginning of the session's name (if the session has a name) * holding the PageUp hardware key while starting Auriga opens the Main form (forgetting the previously open cave and active form) Bug fixes * the "*" key in the Symbols layout and the "ÿ" key in the Accents layout of the Auriga Keypad did not do anything * the "Smart Calculator" option did not work with the PalmOne Zire and Zire 21 * after saving Cave Details as defaults, creating new caves would crash * Map coloring by sessions did not work * unselecting the Draw checkbox in the Sessions list would not hide relevant survey shots in Map * in Survey Shot form, when navigating with hardware buttons, a save confirmation alert would sometimes appear twice Reference manual * improved Key Concepts section (read it!) * new screenshot for Stations tab of Cave Details form * new "Auto Split Series in Name" checkbox documented * display of start/end stations mentioned in Keypad section * note on the effect of the "Sessions Override Series" option on checkboxes in List form 0.19 January 22, 2005 New features * numeric columns in List form left-justify if the data does not fit in column width; see manual * focus set in projection angle field when calling Cave Details from Map form * assignement of hardware buttons reviewed to switch between form tabs and to adapt to Zire's only 2 buttons; see manual * Auriga now ships Mathlib 1.2; no functional change over previous version 1.03 * a padlock gets shown with caves in read-only mode in Main form * Star button (HotSync) in Graffiti area of PalmOne Zires handled like Calculator button of other devices * letters automatically uppercased in station names during input if only uppercase letters are accepted Bug fixes * inputting floating-point numbers while the decimal separator is set to a comma (in Palm OS Prefs. program) would truncate decimals * cave database automatically sorted after merging sessions in Maintenance form * under Palm OS 3.0-3.3, where horizontal scrollbars are unusable, none gets shown in the List form * beaming a series could fail for series without a series beginning * smarter post-sort scrolling in List form * changing the survey shot color would not always display the Save button in the Survey Shot form * the Maintenance form was incompatible with Palm OS 3.0-3.3 * the Cancel button in the progress dialog would not stop coordinates computations * datum for new caves now properly defaults to WGS84 * "Move by n shots" and "Go to Next Cave Leg" Cave Details options now fully work in Survey Shot and Map forms with navigation arrows * Read-only cave Mode (in Cave Details) fully supported * Slope Calculator can now be called by Tungsten 3's Calculator icon in Graffiti area (upper right) * exporting data into an existing cave database would crash * corrections in data export log * station names in 8-character format would lose their first character on the left after saving * the auto-incrementation of station names in 8-character format failed * the Contacts/Addresses hardware button would sometimes unduly remain assigned to Auriga Reference manual * note added on column justification in List form * note added Read-only mode in Cave Details section * updated "Use of silkscreen icons and hardware buttons" section 0.18 January 3, 2005 New features None Bug fixes * display of projected length restored in Survey Shot form * Global Find properly detects whether Auriga is active Reference manual Unchanged 0.17 December 31, 2004 New features None Bug fixes * in the Auriga Keypad when editing a note with the alphabetic layout, tapping on the "A" pushbutton pops up the Palm OS built-in keyboard (just like depressing the To-Do hardware button) * migration to PDB format 48 would not properly set station names character sets when using a-z+A-Z * inputting stations in 4.4 separator-less format would crash Auriga * erroneous character set lists in Cave Details form * compatibility with Palm OS 3.0-3.3 restored Reference manual Unchanged 0.16 December 29, 2004 New features * cave PDBs migrated to format 48 to remove space separator in survey shots, convert series beginnings into virtual survey shots when series are disabled (8-character station name format instead of 4.4) and to set individual survey shot color to either series values (if series enabled) or session value * option "Session over Series" implemented * option "Session over Series" automatically selected if series are disabled (if 8-char station name format is selected) * Survey Shots, Virtuals and Sessions views sortable in List form * List form color selectors and checkboxes editable when stylus held down * "X" accepted as unknown in passage dimension fields in Survey Shot form (analogous to "P" in Compass) * graph construction improved to circumvent an OS bug that prevented computing large caves (1000+ survey shots) on Palm OS prior to 4.0 * maximum number of computable survey shots only limited by dynamic memory heap made available to programs by Palm OS (device-dependent; about 2900 survey shots on a Palm IIIxe) * Slope Calculator added to Survey Shot and Keypad forms to compute slopes from a hypotenuse and a height * data export option added to Cave menu * Flip attribute added to series/sessions and individual survey shots to flip the direction of development in the developed cross-section view; see manual in Map form section * reception of beamed data now offers to change target cave name * smart survey shot sort sort better handles both digits and letters in survey shot names * Loop Closure Error log shows coordinates deltas (instead of absolute coordinates) * when selecting a survey shot in the Closure Error log while in Map form, the Map form remains displayed, with the selected survey shot info displayed * minus sign can now be entered from any insertion point into signed input fields (useful when entering a slope) * landmarks displayed with a star (instead of a square) in map: better-looking in 160x160 map * both survey shot date and time displayed when tapping the clock icon in the Survey Shot form * session time with seconds displayed when tapping the date selection trigger in the Session form * duplicate survey shots reported in Shot Errors log * "Color by Shot" added to map coloring options * color selector available for each individual survey shot * regular shot sights use the calibration of instruments set 1, while backsights use set 2, regardless of shot direction or session defaults * option "Allow Duplicate Shots" removed from Cave Details: duplicate shots are always allowed but require user confirmation * new columns added to List form * "Draw" checkbox in Session form implemented * better handling of the "Use Passage Size Fields" Assistant option; see manual * Palm OS built-in keyboard accessible when editing an alphabetic field while in the Auriga Keypad with the Edit menu or the a-b-c button (while in the "A" layout of the Auriga Keypad in the latter case) * cave statistics omit number of series when series are disabled * tapping the title bar or the selected tab pops up the menu in the Preferences form on devices with Palm OS 3.5+ * modifying the current session while a new survey shot is being created updates survey shot attributes if it was yet unmodified * map computes and draws slightly faster * "Notes Keyboard" option added in Preferences to select between the Palm OS standard keyboard and the Auriga custom keypad for notes editing * the Palm OS built-in keyboard can be called from the Auriga Keypad by depressing the To-do hardware button while the alphabetic layout is already displayed * in the Auriga Keypad, on two-button PalmOne Zires, the left hardware application button pops up the Palm OS keyboard if the current field is a note; the right button cycles rightward through permitted keypad layouts Bug fixes * beaming now works; see Miscellaneous/Beaming section in the manual * the internal status of the shot info in the map would be out of sync with the display after an aborted (null) pan operation * incomplete survey shots with empty length field would display as 2.55 length units * navigation and selection disabled for survey shots not drawn in map * tapping outside a survey shot name in the Loop Errors log would crash * list in List form would sometimes only appear from current row and on * the column auto-resize (+) button in List form would sometimes scroll way too far to the right * the inverted row would sometimes overwrite the vertical scrollbar in the List form * the user-chosen dimension field order could sometimes be ignored when creating a series beginning or virtual survey shot * decimal character defined in Palm Preferences accepted for input and used for display (comma now supported) * Shot Errors log would leak 4 Kb of memory if no error found * self-looping survey shots were erroneously checked in Loop Errors log * station bullets would remain as ghosts in the map when navigating among stations located in the shot info line (top of screen) * vertical drop computation skips survey shots excluded from development * trace and current shot color properly initialized to black and red on first use of Auriga * "+" auto-resize button properly located on right of screen in List form even with Lefty.prc installed and active * Assistant properly stopped when user chooses so in Preferences form * under some circumstances, the first survey shot record could become corrupted and seen as a session record * when switching Auriga Keypad layout, the "." key could become "|" * letters would sometimes be refused by the Auriga Keypad for alphanumeric station names * grid value uninitialized for new cave databases * the Auriga Keypad would first use a numeric layout when entering a note field after editing a numeric field * Auriga sounds now audible on OS 5 devices regardless of Prefs. system sound volume * caves created with version 0.15 could have problems displaying an self-adjusting grid * the caves list in the Main form would not always highlight the last opened cave * color selector properly cleared from tabs other than Map in Preferences form * survey shot info would not reappear after hitting a hidden series in Map * when saving an existing survey shot with modified stations, the alert text would display erroneous station names * saving a modified existing survey shot could pop up 2 consecutive alerts * hardware buttons' order now corresponds to the Auriga Keypad layout order * inputting origin or georeference stations would sometimes fail upon creating a new cave * the "Passage Dimensions" Assistant option was not well handled Reference manual * new screenshots for Cave Details, Preferences, List and Survey Shot forms * instrument set calibration use documented in Instruments tab section of Session form * mention in the Map section that the North is at the top of the map * new columns, checkboxes, color selectors and sorting documented in List form * updated documentation of "Use Passage Size Fields" Assistant option * Beaming section added under Miscellaneous * Data Export section added under Miscellaneous * Series vs Sessions section added * development direction flip attribute documented in a note about the developed cross section view in the Map form section * orthographic revision 0.15 September 9, 2004 New features * display of passage widths/heights and wall lines in cave map * configurable map grid * Palm OS high resolution support * smarter map scale when in small ranges * the Line tool in Map form uses smaller units in small ranges * selectable input field order in Survey Shot form for passage dimensions * Map tab added in Cave Details form * Projection angle form merged into Cave Details Map tab * decimal sign selection removed from Cave Details: Auriga did not use it and the conduit does not need it * cave PDBs migrated to format 47 to support grid and map display settings * detection of input of not-null survey shots with identical stations * lists automatically scrolled to current survey shot, series or session * Graffiti shift indicator added in Survey Shot and Cave Details forms * automatic reorganization of new caves if a crash occurs while inputting survey shots Bug fixes * coordinates were recomputed every time the map was displayed, even if no survey shot had changed * inputting a minus sign in a field of the Survey shot form would not mark the record as modified * negative absolute coordinates would not be allowed for survey shots * station markers properly centered on actual station in map * an alert about replacing an existing survey shot would sometimes pop up when saving a survey shot created with the New button * proper save/restore status of Start/End pushbuttons for passage dimensions in Session form * previous zoom factor properly restored on Sony hi-res devices * Main form list updated after cave renamed Reference manual * documented Map display options list * screenshot and documentation of new Map tab in Cave Details form * new screenshot for General and Map tabs in Preferences form * grid and cave walls display documented in Map form section 0.14a August 5, 2004 Bug fixes * the automatic incremental computation of new survey shots could crash Auriga * entering a letter in the Main form would search all caves, not only those in the current category 0.14 August 4, 2004 New features * support of FontBucket (www.handshigh.com/fontbucket) to allow smaller fonts for station names in the cave map * removed "Show Scale" checkbox in Map Preferences form; scale is always drawn but can be hidden by tapping on it and restored with the map shortcuts list (leftmost icon) * added a "Landmarks" checkbox in Map Preferences form to draw square markers to stations with a geographic position * date/time displayed along with battery status * alphabetic keypad initially set in uppercase shift when editing empty note fields * altitude reference field hidden in Cave Details form until it gets implemented (soon) Bug fixes * some options in the Map tab of the Preferences would not appear with Palm OS prior to 3.5 * Edit menu fully functional in Auriga Keypad * fixed field navigation in Maintenance form * changing the stations of an existing survey shot could fail * development, mapped length and vertical drop would sometimes be null in cave statistics * cave coordinates automatically recomputed if required when cave geo reference changed * map scale visibility status maintained after panning * minor internal fixes Reference manual * fixed some wrong internal links * FontBucket use explained in Map Preferences * mention of Auriga conduit 0.13 July 24, 2004 New features * options list (left in screen) replaces the "I" pushbutton in Map form * optional display of station names in cave map * option "Zoom from Center" removed in Preferences form * magnetic declination taken as indefinite if field left empty in Session or Cave Details forms (and computed as 0) * coordinates set as invalid after a survey shot is deleted * session magnetic declination displayed using user-chosen unit * new "Save->Map; New shot->Power off" Assistant option * orphan/incomplete survey shots/legs and loop closure errors displayed in red in map * northing/easting swapped in map info to comply with GPS usage * option "Find Button Toggles View" added in Preferences form to toggle between Top and Developed Cross-section map views * pushbuttons to select the station that corresponds to passage dimensions now available for all survey shot types Bug fixes * the saved coordinates computations would sometimes be ignored (and re-computed) * session magnetic declination unit used for computations (azimuth units were assumed) * position fields of virtual survey shots would not display upon returning from Session form * with the "Compute Shots on Save" unselected, adding survey shots to a cave would not force a re-computation when viewing the map * minor column misalignment in some List printouts * proper handling of insufficient memory error when computing map * azimuth shift could be misinterpreted if azimuth shift unit differed from azimuth unit * station marker closer to station in printed cave map * changing the station names character sets while in Survey Shot form would not update station input fields * the numeric keypad would sometimes be unavailable for alphanumeric station fields in the Survey Shot form * the "Show Series in Map" option in the Survey Shot form would always be set * entering a new cave name with the Auriga Keypad would hang the Palm * changing the attributes of a series beginning could alter its geographic position data Reference manual * option "Show Station Names" documented in Preferences form * shorter Map menu * options list documented in Map form 0.12 July 2, 2004 New features * "Backlight/Brightness" item in "Options" menu pops up the Contrast dialog on Zire/Zire 21 (these units don't have a backlight) * support of the new Vulcain Topofil calibration (2.n) * better internal handling of memory allocated to compute cave coordinates * passage dimensions and note added to the Survey Shots and Graph list (screen and print) * header added to printed lists * option "Highlight Orphan Shots" replaced by "Show Orphan Legs" to draw, or not, series of orphan shots; this applies to printing too * tab/shift-tab characters handled to move between fields with a real keyboard * station markers now printed (if selected in displayed map) * Courier font imposed for List printing (fixed-width font for column alignment) * "Date" column moved in Survey Shots list * number of lines per page configurable when printing lists * pan and zoom factors reset when survey shot computation fails * survey shots in orphan legs or computed from incomplete survey shots reported in Shot Errors Log * UTM positions of survey shots may be used to compute XY coordinates of stations that cannot be computed from other stations (provided the cave georeference station is not orphan) * northing/easting swapped in input/display to comply with GPS usage * device auto-off suspended while printing Bug fixes * length calibration properly reported for instruments other than tape (Topofil or rangefinder) * when automatic cave computation fails when saving a survey shot, the operation is not repeated for subsequent survey shots * automatic incremental cave computation upon saving new survey shot works * the carriage return symbol could appear inopportunely in the Auriga Keypad * the Graph view in the List form would not show the last 8 survey shots * map scale and vertical factor now applied in List form (they had only been mistakenly implemented in printing) * alignment error in List form when left-handed (Lefty.prc) * the Graffiti shift indicator could sometimes display in the numeric layout of the Auriga Keypad * the status (Direct/Inverse, etc.) button in the Auriga Keypad would sometimes not update the corresponding control in the calling form * an alert would sometimes pop up to warn that the cave database could not be migrated from format 0 * values input with the Auriga Keypad would sometimes not appear in calling form * changes made with the Auriga Keypad detected in Session form * the Addresses/Contacts hardware button would sometimes remain linked to Auriga after using the Assistant * proper handling of UTM zone field in Auriga Keypad * stylus operations in bottom part of Tungsten 3 screen would fail * the "Smart Calculator" option would not work with most calculators * Position menu immediately available after survey shot type changed to Virtual or Series in Auriga Keypad * changing a survey shot to virtual type would not always display its position type when returning from Auriga Keypad * a crash could occur upon startup with Palm OS prior to 3.5 Reference manual * explanation on Topofil * mention of map scale and vertical factor use in Survey Shots and Graph lists * mention of XY coordinates computation from UTM positions * new screenshots for Assistant, Map preferences and Print Setup * use of silkscreen icons and hardware buttons 0.11 May 26, 2004 New features * use of left/right button of PalmOne Tungsten navigator in Auriga forms Bug fixes * proper handling of "0" (button or Graffiti) in Auriga Keypad * proper keypad layout called by a-b-c and 1-2-3 buttons in Survey Shot form * proper Map pan direction with buttons and navigator * last (rightmost) column auto-resize "+" button moved at bottom of form to allow resizing this column with the stylus * the List form would sometimes not compute coordinates even if it needed them * better List display in "Lefty" mode (still imperfect) 0.10 May 19, 2004 New features * stylus drag Graffiti->screen gesture relinquished to OS (it used to quit the Map to return to the Survey Shot form) * Assistant option "Home button toggles Map<->Shot" replaced by "Calculator button toggles Map<->Shot" to relinquish Home button to OS * minor PDB migration (46) to better store theodolite angles and recover them (without one-second precision) if azimuth/slope instrument changed from theodolite to compass/clinometer * scroll arrows added to Auriga Keypad when editing notes * cave database automatically reorganized upon opening if required (after a crash) * zoom ratio and pan factor left unchanged when computing cave (desirable when only changing session colors) Bug fixes * reverse measurement fields in Survey Shot form properly hidden/shown * reverse measurement fields properly edited/ignored in Keypad * "." Keypad key would sometimes exit back to calling form * smaller font used to display sexagesimal data (d°m's") in Survey Shot form * proper handling of sexagesimal data in Survey Shot form * trying to open an existing cave database would sometimes pop up an alert that the database could not be opened * migration of previous cave databases on devices with lower screen depths (less color choices) would crash * left subpart character set restored when switching from station format 8 to 4.4 in Stations tab of Cave Details form * zoom rectangle now complete on Palm Tungsten 3 (circumvents a Palm OS API implementation error) * migrating to another PDB format could crash if Auriga was last exited while a cave database was open * proper computation of slope calibration when slope 0 is not level * Auriga Keypad shift key synchronized with Graffiti * cave categories handling now works 0.09 May 7, 2004 New features * optional black background for cave map * tabs reordered in Auriga Keypad to make room for long titles * if hardware buttons override allowed, they are intercepted in every form * hardware buttons can cycle between Auriga Keypad layouts * station coordinates in Stations and Graph lists now use map scale and vertical exaggeration factor * map drawn using vertical exaggeration factor (but coordinates displayed in Info mode remain unaltered) * minimum number of decimal places automatically added to fields upon returning from Auriga Keypad * cycling through survey shots in map navigates is now shot-based instead of station-based (all shots properly visited) * display of projected length disabled when survey shot length invalid * handling of 1-2-3 and a-b-c buttons on Palm Tungsten 3 * handling of Sony JogDial push and Back button * handling of Handera 330 JogWheel push and Auxiliary button * support of Lefty (a freeware indicating the user prefers a left-handed interface) in Survey Shot, List, Session and Note forms Bug fixes * numeric tab available in Auriga Keypad when editing alphanumeric station names * lists properly reinitialized when forcing coordinates computation * proper detection of incomplete survey shots when computing graph (broken in version 0.08x) * better handling of sexagesimal or feet-inches data in Auriga Keypad * using the "Automatic Decimal Length" preference could change the length instrument in session to Topofil * session number properly set to new survey shots when active session differs from current session * map scale would sometimes appear as an inverted rectangle or not show at all * Palm IIIc-specific alternative implemented to workaround crash occuring when panning map with stylus * scroll arrows for note displayed right upon entering Survey Shot for (if needed) * map maintained at center of screen when zooming with + and - buttons 0.08a April 2, 2004 Bug fixes * solves problems with List form when some survey shots are incomplete or incomputable 0.08 April 2, 2004 New features * "Close Cave" option added to exit list in Map form * better checkbox handling in Maintenance form * "Rangefinder" item added to lengths/dimensions session instruments list * better use of Sony OS 4 high resolution display * removed square zoom restriction in full screen map to support new rectangular displays (Tungsten 3) * alert message displayed when attempting to close the cave database while under Assistant control if "Prevent escape" option selected * if not set by user, cave origin set to start station of first survey shot (in sort order) when closing the cave database and in the coordinates computation * "UTM" and "Datum" used to refer to the cartographic grid and its datum * "Shift" replaced by "Calibration" in Session form * "I" or "O" zone refused as UTM zone in Survey Shot form * beep played when attempting to navigate beyond existing survey shots in Survey Shot and Map forms * menu shortcuts standardized * removed transparency and round border of current survey shot info in Map * survey shot info displayed in the map even if the current station lies outside of the screen * menu "Re-compute Coordinates" added in List form * narrower map scale when possible * checkbox "Conduit skips Separator" removed from Cave Details form (now performed by the conduit itself) * checkbox "Sessions override Series" in Cave Details form * reduced font size for editing non numeric station names in the virtual keypad field * Session form automatically displayed when opening a new cave for the first time * Survey Shots, Virtuals and Sessions lists now sortable by column * editing the current session while a new survey shot is being created updates the survey shot settings (if survey shot not yet modified) Bug fixes * "Lengths/Dimensions" label properly switched in Session form * slope shift/precision properly saved in Session form * station name separator properly accepted by Auriga Keypad * station names refreshed in Survey Shot form upon return from keypad * proper handling of length shift for instruments other than tape in Session form * possible crash when changing the navigation arrows behavior in Cave Details form * viewing session data of an unsaved survey shot may erase field data in Survey Shot form * viewing the first session data may erroneously prompt the unsaved session alert * empty Session view (List form) if cave has no survey shots * pixels under map scale properly restored * Map controls sometimes not displayed after closing a dialog * deleting the sole survey shot in a cave database would crash Auriga * deleting a new unsaved survey shot would leave the modification status set * possible crash saving the same survey shot twice * number of stations properly displayed in Statistics form even if the cave could not be computed * cancelling the Cave Details form after saving survey shots makes them invisible 0.07 March 8, 2004 New features * shot error and closure error logs are now IR beamable and printable * in Map form, under Assistant control, dragging the stylus from the Graffiti area to the map returns to the Survey Shot form * Statistics form reviewed; now printable, exportable and IR beamable Bug fixes * garbled grid name in Survey Shot form * Survey Shot form controls prevented from appearing "through" the Auriga Keypad * "Direct" checkboxes in Survey Shot form left unchanged upon returning from Session form * direction of projection fixed in projected cross-section map view * projected cross-section map view properly restored when re-entering Auriga * short lists are sometimes displayed empty * erroneous reverse slopes in % * changing pushbutton settings could crash under Palm OS prior to 3.5 0.06 February 27, 2004 New features * if a series beginning has a position, its is displayed by default in the Survey Shot form * faster interface to alternate between details and position of a series beginning in the Survey Shot form * virtual survey shots can now have a position * alert displayed when about to lose survey or position data by changing the survey shot type in the Survey Shot form * column auto-resize button added in List form * exporting a log (incomputable survey shots or station errors) to built-in Memo application now done manually by user; checkbox "Delete logs after Use" removed from preferences * "~" replaced by "-" in survey shot names for clarity * Preferences dialog updated before displaying the active Assistant alert * "pane" aptly renamed "tab" in manual * Global Find also searches session names * orphan and incomplete survey shots differentiated in list of incomputable survey shots * start of orphan survey shots forced at 0,0,0 to allow computation and display * "Incomputable Shots" log renamed "Shot Errors" * "Station Errors" log renamed "Closure Errors" * developed cross-section development direction initialized to "right" in Survey Shot form (series beginnings) * "Battery Status" item added to the Options menu Bug fixes * faulty UTM grid name initialization in Survey Shot form * spurious database reorganization upon opening if a target software was selected for the cave * position improperly saved when position fields hidden in Survey Shot form * fixed poor initial vertical scroll when entering List form * fixed computation of horizontal coordinate of developed cross-section map * cave databases with 8-char free format station names would get their station naming scheme changed to 4.4 after an automatic database reorganization (station names would thus become invisible) * incomplete survey shots now appear with right station names in Graph list * incomplete survey shots with empty length field properly saved * proper detection of incomputable survey shots * proper display of "?" for incomplete shots in List form * proper handling of 1-2-3 and a-b-c silkscreen buttons while in Auriga Keypad * possible crash and mishandling when renumbering and/or deleting an existing session * crash when inputting position in cave with 8-character free format station names * intermittent crash occurring when saving an existing survey shot * better UTM position validation in Survey Shot form * Session form tab properly initialized when displaying Global Find results in session name or session note * session color choice properly displayed when returning from viewing a session note displayed as a Global Find result * possible crash when launching Global Find from outside Auriga 0.05 February 7, 2004 New features * List form implemented * printing is now interruptible * holding the stylus down on the form icon in the Map form pops up a list to either go to the List or Survey Shot forms * UTM (grid) positions now reported in Map Bug fixes * proper tab and instruments set displayed upon input validation failure in Session form * proper session updated upon modification in first survey shot * UTM position properly saved in Survey Shot form * negative altitudes now accepted in Survey Shot form * cave map and scale not drawn when cave extreme coordinates could not be computed due to incomputable survey shots * backward survey shot computation iteration now successful * Global Find results garbled display * cave can now really be created with a 26-character name * crash provoked by tapping the color picker on newly created series beginnings * wrong Cave Details magnetic declination field input * Global Find icon disabled while in modal forms * fixed crash occurring when beaming was cancelled * better handling of insertion point upon exiting the Auriga Keypad * proper restore of previous Address hardware button setting upon exiting Auriga despite a previous crash in Auriga 0.04 January 15, 2004 New features * improved Toporobot conversion for the supplied Fairy Cave demo * migration to PDB format 45 to better support 8-char station names * ability to rename a cave database implemented * faster response to Cancel button while computing coordinates * rounding in computed reverse measures * input validation for slope and reverse slope Bug fixes * corresponding XYZC coordinates file deleted when receiving beamed data * proper initialization of session name * better handling of Save button upon modification of station names in Survey Shot form * handling of feet.inches in projected length display in Survey Shot form * use of instruments calibration to compute reverse azimuth and slope * fixed possible crash when exiting Survey Shot form with unsaved data * unsaved data checked before exiting Auriga * proper handling of unsaved survey shot data when returning from Gofer (running man icon) * Save button properly displayed after a field cut or paste in Survey Shot form * default use of hardware buttons respected in Survey Shot form if Auriga preferences not set to override them 0.03 December 31, 2003 New features * migration to PDB format 44 and new preferences (old ones reset) * optional display of projected length in Shot form for sketching * added option to go to Map after every shot save in Assistant mode * RGB values used instead of color indexes in cave DB for portability across devices * optional incremental computation of survey shots (as they get input) after the cave map was initially computed * name field added to sessions * ability to modify the session and survey shot dates * vocabulary change: Passages (galleries) * keypad field updated before layout rearranged * cave map initially centered in screen * narrow empty border added to initial cave map to leave room for station and entrance markers * reduced list of target topo software in Cave Details form * passage size input order set to left, right, up, down (soon to be customizable) Bug fixes * deleting a cave DB also deletes the eventual corresponding XYZC file * better handling of instruments set 2 fields in Session form when calibration same as set 1 * fixed crash when deleting a new (yet unsaved) modified survey shot * modification status properly set when clearing the keypad field * Graffiti help available while in keypad * fixed mishandling of autosave options * fixed mishandling of user choice in alert requiring to stop the Assistant before proceeding * removed redundant cave draw when opened with a selected survey shot * fixed bug disabling cave map manipulations when starting stylus drags just above controls at bottom of screen * better menu handling in Map form * effective recomputation or invalidation of the cave graph or cave map redraw after cave details changes * fixed length conversion bug 0.02 December 17, 2003 * vocabulary changes: Incomputable (incomputable) and Azimuth (heading) * data autosave option added in preferences * fixed save of second instruments set in sessions * fixed projected cross-section cave view * recomputation or invalidation of the cave graph or cave map redraw after sessions, cave details or preferences changes * map option items moved from leftmost list to Map menu * global cave magnetic declination added (overridden by individual session magnetic declination, if provided) * position 0,0,0 given to incomputable survey shots to be able to display cave legs unlinked with the rest of the cave * missing gallery dimensions accepted for saving incomplete survey shots 0.01 December 9, 2003 * status pushbutton (direct/reverse, shot/virtual/series) in Auriga keypad now animated * map kept in center of screen when zooming in with "+" button (zoom out still a problem) * removed Assistant restriction over survey shot navigation * proper selection of instruments set calibration depending on shot direction (as documented in manual) * Address Book hardware button creates new shot AND pops up the Auriga keypad * scale displayed above map controls in full screen mode * "?" symbol displayed next to incomplete survey shots in lists (Gofer and Incomputable shots) * proper handling of New button in Shot form and better station auto-incrementation algorithm for the new shot (with check that the proposed shot does not already exist) * fixed backward navigation from unsaved new shot * eliminated screen flicker when creating a new shot * proper handling of series color for self-linking series beginnings 0.00 December 1, 2003 First public beta