fixed ugly extrusion syntax (finally!)

extrusions are now specified in the same way as all other transformations
(the old syntax is still available, but is deprecated)

- new button under the graphic window to temporarily disable mouse
  selection (speeds-up redrawing of very large models + permits to
  rotate/zoom-in a model in selection mode even when the whole screen
  is full of selectable entities--e.g. a surface mesh)

- new "lasso" selection mode (to select entities using the same kind
  of lasso as the lasso zoom: just Ctrl+click, then drag the mouse in
  selection mode; the shortcuts are the same as for the lasso zoom)

- it is now possible to unselect entities using the middle mouse button
  (only for the creation of physicals at the moment; not sure if it's
  useful in the other cases)

- new button in visibility browser to invert the current selection
  (very useful e.g. when multiple physical entities are associated
  with a given elementary entity, in order to "peel" away the model
  when adding new physicals; cf. philou)

- changed meaning of Escape shortcut (cancel lasso or toggle mouse
  selection) + restore standard fltk Escape handling for all dialog
  windows

- updated copyright string

- new mesh label mode (coordinates); all label types are now also
  available for mesh vertices

- added option in 'Print Option' dialog to disable printing of help
  strings

- added a comment string with the date when creating a new file

- new snapping grid for adding points in the GUI

- new button under the graphic window to temporarily disable mouse
  selection (speeds-up redrawing of very large models + permits to
  rotate/zoom-in a model in selection mode even when the whole screen
  is full of selectable entities--e.g. a surface mesh)

- new "lasso" selection mode (to select entities using the same kind
  of lasso as the lasso zoom: just Ctrl+click, then drag the mouse in
  selection mode; the shortcuts are the same as for the lasso zoom)

- it is now possible to unselect entities using the middle mouse button
  (only for the creation of physicals at the moment; not sure if it's
  useful in the other cases)

- new button in visibility browser to invert the current selection
  (very useful e.g. when multiple physical entities are associated
  with a given elementary entity, in order to "peel" away the model
  when adding new physicals; cf. philou)

- changed meaning of Escape shortcut (cancel lasso or toggle mouse
  selection) + restore standard fltk Escape handling for all dialog
  windows

- updated copyright string

- new mesh label mode (coordinates); all label types are now also
  available for mesh vertices

- added option in 'Print Option' dialog to disable printing of help
  strings

- added a comment string with the date when creating a new file

- new snapping grid for adding points in the GUI

Removed all compile-time depdencies on byte ordering (big- or little-
endianness). Replaced them with run-time conversions where necessary (only
for packing/unpacking of colors into unsigned ints). Performance hit
should be negligeable, but this will allow to compile Universal Binaries
on Mac in a single step (instead of having to compile the PPC/big-endian
and the i386/little-endian separately, which wouls be a royal pain in the
butt).

trying to fix the transfinite volume bug introduced by the 'left' and
'alternate' transfinite surface changes made a while ago

make "BoundingBox{x,X,y,Y,z,Z}" actually do what the documentation claims
it does

explain #list[]

generalized the solver interface to allow permanent listening on a
socket for whoever wants to connect (gmsh -listen)

the polling should also be less CPU hungry in this new version

next step is to add new commands to the protocol so that solvers can
directly transmit data to merge (geometry, mesh, etc.) in addition to
messages and filenames

fix memory leak + missing depend

reset the list of trsf pnts if we redefine a transfinite entity multiple
times by mistake

Removed the last bits of the "Discrete Surface/Line" stuff.

Gmsh can now simply read a .msh file, and use it as the boundary mesh
of a 3D mesh. For an example on how to do this, cf.
demos/sphere-discrete.geo.

This complements nicely the STL remeshing stuff: Gmsh can now
for example very easily be used to extrude surface meshes that
come from other tools.

added all the missing "Combine" modes in the parser

- Generalized the "View" parser so that we can add new elements more easily
  (the code is *much* shorter, but unfortunately about 10-15% slower)

- Upgraded all post-pro file formats to handle curved (second order)
  elements: SL2, VL2, TL2, ST2, VT2, ... The new version number for the
  postpro files is 1.4

- Added code to automatically split the curved elements into linear
  elements when the view is created. WARNING: this is only a temporary
  solution: weshould generalize Adaptive_Post_View to handle these curved
  elements.

- fixed double free in case there is an error in tSprintf

- new StrRelative command

- small demo on how one can add a generic title to a plot using
  Plugin(Annotate)

- New "Discrete Line" commands (similar to the Discrete Surface commands, but for
  curves).

  This permits e.g. to use Gmsh's extrusion mesh generators on 2D meshes (with
  boundaries) imported from other programs, and have all the useful elements
  generated (both volume and surface).

- Don't use Ctrl+m for File->Merge, as it is a reserved keyword for
  Window->Minimize on OS X:
  * File->Merge is now Shift+Ctrl+o (since it's in some way a variation of
    File->Open's Ctrl+o)
  * Tools->Options is now Shift+Ctrl+n

- added new "spectral" colormap (truncated hsv)
- added GUI button for elliptic mesh + geometry coherence
- added GMSH_MAJOR_VERSION, GMSH_MINOR_VERSION and GMSH_PATCH_VERSION
  in the parser

allow negative line loop number in surface definitions

- fixed the "unix socket name is one character short" problem on
MacOS and AIX. Unfortunately, this required the client code to be
slightly modified as well (and as a consequence, old versions of getdp
will for example not work with new versions of Gmsh on MacOs and
AIX). But it's better to do things "the right way" (TM) for people who
want to connect using different languages (Perl, Python).

- moved the GmshServer stuff in its own class

- added missing rules in parser makefile (so that the parser gets
  rebuilt automatically when one changes Gmsh.y or Gmsh.l)

new "AliasWithOptions" command

- renamed "Duplicate View" into "Alias View" (suggested by Philippe;
  less confusing since "Duplicate" implies that we actually copy the
  data, which is not what we are doing)

- added general "on the fly" tranformation matrix option. This allows
  for very efficient visualization of aliased datasets with
  non-destructive rotations, symmetries, etc.

- removed all the crappy STL code and rewrote it using JF's POLY_rep
  class

- generalized POLY_rep so that we can use the polygonal discretization
  as a surface mesh, and mesh in 3D afterwards. I.e., we can now take
  an input triangulation (a single surface in STL format, multiple
  surfaces in STL format, one or more surfaces defined using the new
  "Discrete Surface" commands), and generate a 3D mesh that uses it. We
  could in theory even mix triangulated and "normal" surfaces in the
  same geometry, but nothing is done at the moment to ensure that the
  mesh at the interfaces would match (if it does, it actually works
  very nicely)

- new STL mesh output format to export a surface mesh as a STL file

- added an option to the GEO output routine to save the surface mesh
  as discrete surfaces associated with the geometrical surfaces

- added STL and Text output formats for post-processing views (the
  text output allows for example to exploit plugin-generated data in
  gnuplot)

- generalized Plugin(Evaluate):

  * can loop automatically over all the timestep and/or components

  * can do operations using data from an external view

     - if the 2 views are based on the same grid, the plugin does the
       evaluation very efficiently

     - if the 2 views are based on differenet grids, the plugin
       automatically interpolates the external view data onto the
       grid of the current view

- added new Rand() function in MathEval

- default colormap is now # 2 (the Matlab "Jet" colormap)

add special token "Today" to return the current date

copyright update

bulletproof parse_string and skip_until so that we don't crash and simply
report the error + use Msg instead of YY_FATAL_ERROR in YY_INPUT

Fixed all (well, most) string memory leaks in the parser. I've run
automated tests on all the demos and benchmarks, and I did not see
anything suspicious (no crashes, double frees, etc.)

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*********** Pretty please, please give this version **************
*********** a try, especially on files with lots of **************
*********** loops, includes, arrays of variables,   **************
*********** etc., and report any problems. Thanks!  **************
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don't need UpdateViewsInGUI in parser anymore

better test for invalid For/EndFor loops

more robust "Delete Empty Views"

my last commit also fixed several problems in For/EndFor loops:

- the body of the loop was executed at least once, even if the test was
  always false (e.g. For (1:-1:1) )
- the body could be executed one extra time when using optional
  step values
- the for loops didn't work with negative step values

- new parser function GetValue("text", default_value) to query a value
  interactively in a script

- added a nice example using this (to compute slices automatically):
  demos/multislice.script

- new "Delete Empty Views" command
- new View.MinX, View.MinY, View.MinZ, View.MaxX, View.MaxY, View.MaxZ options
- added example on how to do simple volume visualization

- fix cast in a couple of error msg
- more fixes in elliptic algorithm (surf->TrsfVertices and surf->Vertices
  were incomplete)

one can now specify a TIME list of values in parsed views to give the
values of the time (or whatever) steps (like in ascii/binary views)

- Added a bunch of colormaps from:

  Color Theory and Modeling for
  Computer Graphics, Visualization,
  and Multimedia Applications

  Haim Levkowitz
  University of Massachusetts Lowell
  Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

- Increased max size of colormap to 1024

- Small cleanup in parser+plugin

This patch fixes an old design flaw in the post-processing module,
namely that we used a list of Post_View objects instead of a list of
pointers to Post_View objects in CTX.post.list.

This had many annoying consequences, in particular the fact that we
needed to be extra careful every time the list was reallocated (as
pointers to the list elements would become invalid).

I tried very hard to change the code everywhere it should be changed,
but I might have missed something. Please let me know if you see
anything suspicious (like a crash when you duplicate/remove/combine/...
post-processing views).