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Clipper Change Log
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v4.8.4 - 1 June 2012
* Bugfix: Another obscure bug affecting ExPolygons structure.

v4.8.3 - 27 May 2012
* Bugfix: Obscure bug causing incorrect removal of a vertex.

v4.8.2 - 21 May 2012
* Bugfix: Obscure bug could cause an exception when using
  ExPolygon structure.

v4.8.1 - 12 May 2012
* Update: Cody tidy and minor bug fixes.

v4.8.0 - 30 April 2012
* Bugfix: Occasional errors in orientation fixed.
* Update: Added notes on rounding to the documentation.

v4.7.6 - 11 April 2012
* Fixed a bug in Orientation function (affecting C# translations only).
* Minor documentation update.

v4.7.5 - 28 March 2012
* Bugfix: Fixed a recently introduced bug that occasionally caused an
  unhandled exception in C++ and C# translations.

v4.7.4 - 15 March 2012
* Bugfix: Another minor bugfix.

v4.7.2 - 4 March 2012
* Bugfix: Fixed bug introduced in ver 4.7 which sometimes caused
  an exception if ExPolygon structure was passed to Clipper's
  Execute method.

v4.7.1 - 3 March 2012
* Bugfix: Rare crash when JoinCommonEdges joined polygons that
  'cancelled' each other.
* Bugfix: Clipper's internal Orientation method occasionally
  returned wrong result.
* Update: Improved C# code (thanks to numerous excellent suggestions
  from David Piepgrass)

v4.7 - 10 February 2012
* Improved the joining of output polygons sharing a common edge.

v4.6.6 - 3 February 2012
* Bugfix: Another obscure bug occasionally causing incorrect
  polygon orientation.

v4.6.5 - 17 January 2012
* Bugfix: Obscure bug occasionally causing incorrect hole
  assignment in ExPolygon structure.

v4.6.4 - 8 November 2011
* Added: SimplifyPolygon and SimplifyPolygons functions.

v4.6.3 - 11 November 2011
* Bugfix: Fixed another minor mitering bug in OffsetPolygons.

v4.6.2 - 10 November 2011
* Bugfix: Fixed a rare bug in the orientation of polygons
  returned by Clipper's Execute() method.
* Bugfix: Previous update introduced a mitering bug in the
  OffsetPolygons function.

v4.6 - 29 October 2011
* Added: Support for Positive and Negative polygon fill
  types (in addition to the EvenOdd and NonZero fill types).
* Bugfix: The OffsetPolygons function was generating the
  occasional artefact when 'shrinking' polygons.

v4.5.5 - 8 October 2011
* Bugfix: Fixed an obscure bug in Clipper's JoinCommonEdges
  method.
* Update: Replaced IsClockwise function with Orientation
  function. The orientation issues affecting OffsetPolygons
  should now be finally resolved.
* Change: The Area function once again returns a signed value.

v4.5.1 - 28 September 2011
* Deleted: The UseFullCoordinateRange property has been
  deleted since integer range is now managed implicitly.
* BugFix: Minor bug in OffsetPolygon mitering.
* Change: C# JoinType enum moved from Clipper class to
  ClipperLib namespace.
* Change: The Area function now returns the absolute area
  (irrespective of orientation).
* Change: The IsClockwise function now requires a second
  parameter - YAxisPositiveUpward - to accommodate displays
  with Y-axis oriented in either direction

v4.4.4 - 10 September 2011
* Change: Deleted jtButt from JoinType (used by the
  OffsetPolygons function).
* BugFix: Fixed another minor bug in OffsetPolygons function.
* Update: Further improvements to the help file

v4.4.3 - 29 August 2011
* BugFix: fixed a minor rounding issue in OffsetPolygons
  function (affected C++ & C# translations).
* BugFix: fixed a minor bug in OffsetPolygons' function
  declaration (affected C++ translation only).
* Change: 'clipper' namespace changed to 'ClipperLib'
  namespace in both C++ and C# code to remove the ambiguity
  between the Clipper class and the namespace. (This also
  required numerous updates to the accompanying demos.)

v4.4.2 - 26 August 2011
* BugFix: minor bugfixes in Clipper.
* Update: the OffsetPolygons function has been significantly
  improved by offering 4 different join styles.

v4.4.0 - 6 August 2011
* BugFix: A number of minor bugs have been fixed that mostly
  affected the new ExPolygons structure.

v4.3.0 - 17 June 2011
* New: ExPolygons structure that explicitly associates 'hole'
  polygons with their 'outer' container polygons.
* New: Execute method overloaded so the solution parameter
  can now be either Polygons or ExPolygons.  
* BugFix: Fixed a rare bug in solution polygons orientation.

v4.2.8 - 21 May 2011
* Update: JoinCommonEdges() improved once more.
* BugFix: Several minor bugs fixed.

v4.2.6 - 1 May 2011
* Bugfix: minor bug in SlopesEqual function.
* Update: Merging of output polygons sharing common edges
  has been significantly inproved

v4.2.4 - 26 April 2011
Input polygon coordinates can now contain the full range of
signed 64bit integers (ie +/-9,223,372,036,854,775,807). This
means that floating point values can be converted to and from
Clipper's 64bit integer coordinates structure (IntPoint) and  
still retain a precision of up to 18 decimal places. However,
since the large-integer math that supports this expanded range
imposes a small cost on performance (~15%), a new property
UseFullCoordinateRange has been added to the Clipper class to
allow users the choice of whether or not to use this expanded
coordinate range. If this property is disabled, coordinate values
are restricted to +/-1,500,000,000.

v4.2 - 12 April 2011
JoinCommonEdges() code significantly improved plus other minor
improvements.

v4.1.2 - 9 April 2011
* Update: Minor code tidy.
* Bugfix: Possible endless loop in JoinCommonEdges() in clipper.pas.

v4.1.1 - 8 April 2011
* Update: All polygon coordinates are now stored as 64bit integers
  (though they're still restricted to range -1.5e9 to +1.5e9 pending
  the inclusion of code supporting 64bit math).
* Change: AddPolygon and AddPolygons methods now return boolean
  values.
* Bugfix: Bug in JoinCommonEdges() caused potential endless loop.
* Bugfix: Bug in IsClockwise(). (C++ code only)

v4.0 - 5 April 2011
* Clipper 4 is a major rewrite of earlier versions. The biggest
  change is that floating point values are no longer used,
  except for the storing of edge slope values. The main benefit
  of this is the issue of numerical robustness has been
  addressed. Due to other major code improvements Clipper v4
  is approximately 40% faster than Clipper v3.
* The AddPolyPolygon method has been renamed to AddPolygons.
* The IgnoreOrientation property has been removed.
* The clipper_misc library has been merged back into the
  main clipper library.
  
v3.1.0 - 17 February 2011
* Bugfix: Obscure bug in TClipperBase.SetDx method that caused
  problems with very small edges ( edges <1/1000th pixel in size).
  
v3.0.3 - 9 February 2011
* Bugfix: Significant bug, but only in C# code.
* Update: Minor refactoring.

v3.0 - 31 January 2011
* Update: Major rewrite of the portion of code that calculates
  the output polygons' orientation.
* Update: Help file significantly improved.
* Change: Renamed ForceOrientation property to IgnoreOrientation.
  If the orientation of output polygons is not important, or can
  be managed separately, clipping routines can be sped up by about
  60% by setting IgnoreOrientation to true. Defaults to false.
* Change: The OffsetPolygon and Area functions have been moved to
  the new unit - clipper_misc.

2.99 - 15 January 2011
* Bugfix: Obscure bug in AddPolygon method could cause an endless loop.

2.8 - 20 November 2010
* Updated: Output polygons which previously shared a common
  edge are now merged.
* Changed: The orientation of outer polygons is now clockwise
  when the display's Y axis is positive downwards (as is
  typical for most Windows applications). Inner polygons
  (holes) have the opposite orientation.
* Added: Support module for Cairo Graphics Library (with demo).
* Updated: C# and C++ demos.

2.522 - 15 October 2010
* Added C# translation (thanks to Olivier Lejeune) and
  a link to Ruby bindings (thanks to Mike Owens).

2.0 - 30 July 2010
* Clipper now clips using both the Even-Odd (alternate) and
  Non-Zero (winding) polygon filling rules. (Previously Clipper
  assumed the Even-Odd rule for polygon filling.)
  
1.4c - 16 June 2010
* Added C++ support for AGG graphics library
  
1.2s - 2 June 2010
* Added C++ translation of clipper.pas

1.0 - 9 May 2010