Contents of /gigedit/trunk/ChangeLog

Version SVN trunk (?)

  * Script Editor: Added syntax highlighting support for standard measurement
    units (and their potential metric prefix).
  * Require C++11 compliant compiler.
  * Draw LFO curves according to settings for each one of the 3 LFOs.
  * Added 2 new tabs (a 3rd tab for "Amp" and a 3rd tab for "Filter").
  * Shortened "Amplitude" -> "Amp" on tabs (to save space).
  * Increased default window width 865px -> 960px.
  * Script Editor: Show warning message in status line if Gigedit was compiled
    without liblinuxsampler support (to make user aware about limited features).
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Added combo box for selecting a wave form type
    for each one of the 3 LFOs (i.e. for overriding the default LFO sine wave
    form to either triangle, saw or square instead).
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Added slider for each one of the 3 LFOs for
    altering the phase displacement of the respective LFO (that is for moving
    the LFO's start level horizontally on the time axis).
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Added checkbox "Flip Phase" to LFO 3
    (the original Gigasampler/GigaStudio software only supported that option
    for LFO 1 and LFO 2).
  * Increased crossfade curve preview dimensions
    (280px X 80px -> 500px X 100px).
  * Fixed LFO curve previews not being redrawn on UI control changes with
    certain window managers and/or Gtk versions (patch by Ivan Maguidhir).
  * Instrument Property dialog is now tabbed, showing (already existing)
    instrument settings on tab 1, and showing now DLS meta info on 2nd tab.
  * Refactored PropDialog -> FilePropDialog.
  * Implemented sample property dialog.
  * Gain: Allow also any positive dB gain value (instead of only +6 dB) up to
    +96 dB and dropped the old "Gain +6dB" checkbox for that reason.
  * Instrument Properties Dialog: Allow -96 dB .. +96 dB and dropped "Gain +6dB"
    checkbox there as well.
  * Instrument Properties Dialog: Show unit for attenuation and pitchbend range.
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Support for additional filter types:
    lowpass 1/2/4/6-pole, highpass 1/2/4/6-pole, bandpass 2-pole,
    bandreject 2-pole.

Version 1.1.1 (2019-07-27)

  * Script Editor: Fixed some minor issues with vertical line number bar
    (which was editable, selectable and incorrectly displayed on new scripts).
  * Translation Fix: MacroEditor.cpp and MacrosSetup.cpp were not under
    translation control.
  * Spelling fixes (patch provided by Debian maintainer Jarom��r Mike��).
  * Added new main menu item "View" -> "Tooltips for Beginners" which allows
    to disable tooltips intended for newbies only (default: on).
  * Extended support for keyboard function keys up to F19.
  * List assigned scripts as colored tooltip when hovering mouse over the
    "Scripts" column in the instruments list.
  * Added global keyboard accelerator Shift + Backspace for dropping all script
    slots from an instrument.
  * Added option to save as gig v4 file (File -> Properties).
  * Fixed duplicate items in File -> Properties -> "File Format" combo box.
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Added combo box "Sustain Release Trigger" which
    can be used to optionally play release trigger samples on sustain pedal up.
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Added check box "No note-off release trigger"
    which allows to disable release trigger samples on regular MIDI note-off.
  * Fixed compiler errors with Gtk 3.24.x (patch by Miroslav ��ulc).
  * Fixed some compiler warnings
  * Avoid non-standard offsetof usage (to get rid of gcc warnings)
  * Use GDK Seat API if available to grab pointer
  * Improve version checks for pangomm
  * Fix the instrument list tooltip handling so it doesn't generate
    GTK assertion error messages
  * Use English quotation marks in tooltips instead of German
  * Use multiple columns in controller value popups, as tall popup
    menus work really badly in some GTK environments
  * Avoid deprecated sigc++ usage
  * Fix build on old linux environments
  * Enable "silent rules" in build
  * Fix memory read access bug
  * Refactor code: add common base class for Loader and Saver
  * Fix resource leak: join loader and saver threads after use
  * Use std::thread when building with newer glibmm, as Glib::Thread is
    deprecated
  * Fix bug that left the main window in a greyed out state after
    opening a small gig file
  * Set gtk settings a bit later to prevent warnings
  * Use standard name for gdk pixbuf module file on Mac
  * Look for locale files under directory share on Mac
  * Support bundled gtk3 on Mac

Version 1.1.0 (2017-11-25)

  * allow building with G/GDK/GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
  * fixed building without linuxsampler on Mac
  * fixed some compiler and cppcheck warnings
  * synthesis paremeter page tabs are now scrollable (fixes an issue with
    GTK 3: default theme uses huge tabs which breaks the overall layout on
    average window sizes)
  * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
    auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
  * NKSP Editor: Added support for liblinuxsampler's NKSP syntax
    highlighting backend.
  * Script Editor: Some color tweaks (using now same text colors as on
    the NKSP refrence documentation website).
  * Script Editor: Added support for liblinuxsampler's NKSP parser
    backend for displaying parser errors and warnings directly within
    the source code.
  * User settings are now automatically saved and restored.
  * Automatically save & restore window size and position.
  * Script Editor: Show precise parser error/warning messages as tooltip
    when the mouse points over the respective location in the script's
    source code.
  * Script Editor: Show a question dialog to the user when the editor is
    to be closed and the script changes have not been applied yet.
  * Script Editor: Added status bar at the bottom of the script editor
    window showing the amount (if any) of errors and warnings.
  * Script Editor: Added menu bar and two initial entries: "Apply" (Ctrl-S)
    and "Close" (Ctrl-Q).
  * Script Editor: if editor is used in live-mode, inform the sampler that
    it needs to automatically reload the script after the script has been
    altered and applied with the script editor.
  * Added setting to main menu "View" -> "Auto Restore Window Dimension"
    (disabled by default since it causes issues on some machines).
  * Fixed crash after changing a dimension type with the dimension manager
    dialog.
  * Script Editor: Fixed editor which did not appear on some systems due
    to missing icons (using now lists of alternative icon names).
  * Script Editor: Added "Font Size ..." selection to editor's menu.
  * Script Editor: Fixed crash on Ctrl + A, followed by Del.
  * fixed crash when opening dimension manager dialolg multiple times
    (and i.e. adding or removing dimensions each time)
  * Show sample group name and CRC-32 checksum on "Sample" tab.
  * Show instrument index number on instruments list view.
  * Added multi-row selection support on samples tree view.
  * Added multi-row selection support on instruments list view.
  * windows, 32-bit: fixed crashes by making sure the stack in sub
    threads is 16-byte aligned
  * windows: look for the data directory in the parent of the dll
    directory, if the dll directory is called "32" or "64"
  * Implemented resizing multiple dimension region zones at once, which is
    controlled by the infamous checkbox trio "all regions",
    "all dimension splits" and "both channels".
  * Implemented deleting dimension region zones of all regions at once, which
    is controlled by checkbox "all regions".
  * Implemented splitting up dimension region zones of all regions at once,
    which is controlled by checkbox "all regions".
  * Show graphical symbol on region that uses loop(s).
  * Show graphical symbol on region that misses sample reference(s).
  * Fixed crash on saving file if a sample was requested to be replaced twice
    by the user.
  * Implemented fast navigation through regions by keyboard accelerator
    Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right (on Mac: Cmd+Left and Cmd+Right).
  * Implemented fast navigation through dimension region zones of currently
    selected region by keyboard accelerator Alt+Left, Alt+Right, Alt+Up,
    Alt+Down, as well as simply using the arrow keys alone if the dimension
    region chooser got focus (i.e. when it was selected by mouse previously).
  * Color tweaking on selected regions and selected dimension zones.
  * Dimension Region Chooser: Show main selected case in opaque blue color
    (like before), but all other selected dimension zones with a blue hatched
    pattern instead.
  * Dimension Region Chooser: Show the label of the currently selected
    dimension in bold font.
  * Implemented selecting multiple dimension region zones by keyboard with
    keyboard accelerators Alt+Shift+Left and Alt+Shift+Right.
  * Implemented copy & paste of DimensionRegion (with Alt+c and Alt+v).
  * Dimension Region Chooser: Mark all zones auto selected by check box trio
    with gray hatched pattern.
  * Region Chooser: Mark all regions which are auto selected by check box
    "All Regions" with gray hatched pattern.
  * Introduced "Macro Editor" for adjusting clipboard content before applying
    it (accessible via Alt+x).
  * Introduced configurable list of macros which are auto assigned to keyboard
    accelerators (F1 ... F12) and saved along with the app's config file.
  * Macro Editor: Fixed deleting rows when delete button was hit without Ctrl
    being pressed.
  * Macro Editor: Show combo box with textual options for enum types.
  * "Macro" main menu section: show macro comments as tooltip.
  * Macro Editor: Display demangled C++ type names.
  * Macros Setup: Implemented cloning of macros.
  * Live mode performance optimization: fixed the editor to be non-responsive
    for a very long time, which happened if changing instrument parameters of a
    very large amount of dimension regions was requested.
  * Macro Editor: Handle boolean parameter types appropriately, i.e. show
    'Yes' or 'NO' instead of '1' or '0'.
  * GTK3: Bringing back icons and keyboard accelerators / mnemonics for menus
    and buttons with GTK3; Cudos to those GTK heros who thought it might be
    a clever idea to simply remove such features for all users, all devices
    and all apps by default with GTK3!
  * Autoconf: check for presence of at least gtk+-2.0-dev.
  * Instruments list view: show amount of real-time instruments scripts used
    by instrument.
  * Script Editor: Fixed Gtk crash while entering a variety of ill formed code
    like unterminated string literals.
  * Assigned more useful default dimensions (and default position) for various
    windows and dialogs (if auto-restore of user's own custom window
    dimensions is disabled).
  * Mac fix: Make sure app window appears in front of all other apps.
  * Script Editor: only if compiled without liblinuxsampler; added support for
    new NKSP language keyword "synchronized".
  * Script Editor: strike through code blocks filtered out by the preprocessor.
  * Combine Tool: Show instruments' index number in the list view.
  * Combine Tool: Now it allows to select the instruments to be combined
    already in the main window's instruments list view; then either call the
    combine instrument dialog from the main menu or use the new keyboard
    shortcut Ctrl + j.
  * Combine Tool: Added a vertical list which represents the order of the
    selected instruments to be combined; dragging them modifies their order.
  * Combine Tool: After returning from the combine tool dialog, automatically
    scroll to the newly added (combined) instrument.
  * Draw icons on individual dimension region zones, similar to the icons
    already been drawn on regions.
  * Fixed loop and sample reference icons being displayed incorrectly sometimes,
    because unused dimension regions were not ignored.
  * Script Editor: Show line numbers.
  * Script Editor: Right aligned line numbers.
  * Script Editor: Fixed font readability issue on Mac.
  * Added EG state machine options for EG1 and EG2, which may be used to
    configure whether the individual EG stages may be cancelled.
  * Fix: after the combine instruments dialog, the new instrument was not
    correctly displayed by the GUI as being selected.
  * Fix: automatically reload instrument after script slots have been modified.
  * Combine Tool: OK button has focus now by default to quickly combine
    instruments by pressing Return key.
  * Added keyboard accelerators Shift+F1 to Shift+F12 for quick assigning
    a script to the currently selected instrument, and an appropriate
    additional menu "Instruments" -> "Assign Script".
  * Added keyboard accelerators Ctrl + Arrow Down and Ctrl + Arrow Up for
    switching between instruments.
  * Added search filter field which allows to quickly filter the instrument
    list by case insensitive search tokens.
  * Fix: navigating between dimension zones by keyboard did sometimes not
    work after switching from an instrument with different dimension types.
  * Fix: Sample references view dialog had some odd behaviors, like it did not
    respond to mouse scroll events for instance.
  * Debian: Raised Debian compatibility level to Debian 9 "Stretch".
  * Raised max. pitchbend range to 48 semi tones.
  * Added experimental support for upcoming GTK(MM)4
    (for now up to GTKMM 3.91.2 while still preserving backward compatibility
    down to GTKMM 2).
  * Re-merged r2845 to compile now with and without Gtk "Stock ID" API
    (see also r3158).
  * Visual cosmetics on Gtk 3.
  * Script Editor: Use consistent font size on all screens and DPI settings.

Version 1.0.0 (2015-07-17)

  * minor fix in configure for cross-compiling
  * minor Makefile fix for parallel make
  * use Cairo instead of deprecated gdk drawing primitives
  * avoid deprecated gtk methods when using newer gtk versions
  * raised minimum supported gtkmm version to 2.8
  * ported to gtkmm 3, keeping compatibility with gtkmm 2
  * gtkmm 3 fix: rewrote the custom widgets (regionchooser and
    dimregionchooser) so they only draw pixels in the on_draw
    method. This should make them work again in newer gtkmm 3
    environments.
  * added support for new glibmm threads API
  * gtkmm 3 fix: the WrapLabel custom widget is not needed in gtkmm 3
  * fixed building on Debian testing (#186)
  * modernized configure script
  * added graphical curves for velocity response and crossfade
  * added "Duplicate Instrument" function
  * fixed import of 32 bit float wav files
  * code refactoring: created a PropEdit class for property editor
    windows, moved Table class from mainwindow to paramedit
  * minor gui tweaks: made note entry fields a bit wider, set a
    minimum width for scales
  * bug fix: avoid stale information in the instrument properties
    window when a new file is loaded or the instrument is removed
  * cross fade graph: draw curves of all layers in the same graph
  * made sure the instruments menu is updated when instruments are
    added, removed or renamed
  * fixed name entry field in instrument properties window
  * use character encoding Windows-1252 for all strings in gig files
  * show dimension zone start and end as numeric text labels
  * copying sample informations automatically may now be disabled from the
    new "Edit" main menu
  * import 'fine tune' when importing samples with libsndfile
  * Mac OS X: initialize gtk and gettext with files from base
    directory of the libgigedit library
  * Mac OS X: fixed "recently used" in file dialogs
  * Mac OS X: avoid crash when starting gigedit as an application
    bundle
  * Mac OS X: try to launch the GUI on the process's "main" thread
  * show build date and libgig version number in about dialog
  * added dialog for editing the CtrlTrigger and Legato midi rules
  * if there is no region yet, show a red hint text to the user that he may
    right click on the region chooser area to add a region
  * added tooltips to main menu entries (was buggy before)
  * added tooltips to instruments tree view and samples tree view
  * added various tooltips and adjusted some labels on the region settings
    pane
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: only a small set of possible MIDI controllers
    was selectable for EG1 controller, EG2 controller and attenuation
    controller (and no CC number was shown in the combo box). Obviously the
    additional MIDI controllers can only be used with LinuxSampler, they would
    not work with Gigasampler/GigaStudio. A warning message will be shown
    though whenever somebody tries to use one of those extension controllers.
  * Combine instruments: a new feature that allows to merge a selection of
    instruments to one new single instrument. It uses the 'layer' dimension
    to stack up the instruments. This feature is available from the main menu
    under 'Tools' -> 'Combine Instruments'.
  * Dimension zone amount: Support for increasing and decreasing the amount of
    dimension zones by right clicking on the respective zone and either
    selecting "delete" or "split" in the popup menu.
  * Combine instruments: generalized this tool to allow combining instruments
    based on any dimension, not only the 'layer' dimension.
  * 'Dimension Manager' dialog: show dialog window with at least 460x300px on
    initial usage (was far too small by default).
  * File Property Dialog: allow viewing and altering the Giga file format
    version (by combo box).
  * 'Dimension Manager' dialog: added support for viewing and editing
    dimensions of all regions simultaniously.
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Added support for managing and editing
    real-time instrument scripts. Instrument scripts are a LinuxSampler
    extension of the original Giga format and will not load with the
    GigaStudio software.
  * GIG SOUND FORMAT EXTENSION: Added support for managing script slots for
    instruments. Script slots define which scripts shall be executed for an
    instrument by the sampler and in which order.
  * Samples tree view on main window: display the amount of references for
    each sample and show the respective sample in gray color in case it is not
    referenced at all.
  * Samples tree view: implemented sample reference browser, which shows a
    tree with all instruments and their respective regions which reference the
    selected sample once ore more.
  * Restructured main menu: duplicated all popup menus to the main menu,
    automatically switch to the right tree view tab when either selecting the
    "Sample", "Instrument" or "Script" main menu entry.
  * Dimension Region Selector: implemented multi zone selection by press and
    hold CTRL key.
  * Dimension Region Selector: show bottom and upper limit values for all
    dimension zones, not just the currently selected ones.
  * Dimension Region Selector: Fixed drawing issues when zone sizes were
    altered by mouse drag and labels being displayed at wrong positions.
  * Region Chooser: Double click opens dimension manager dialog.
  * Dimension Manager: Clicking on dimension type cell of an existing dimension
    opens a popup to alter the dimension type.
  * Script Tree: Double click opens script editor.
  * Fixed potential crash if exception was thrown while opening a gig file.
  * Added support for visual progress bar while saving a gig file.
  * Automatically switch the sampler's (audible) instrument whenever another
    instrument was selected in gigedit (this default behavior can be switched
    off in the settings menu of gigedit).
  * Dimension Region Editor: Show coarse sample format info (audio channels,
    bit depth, sample rate) and unique sample ID (since the gig format allows
    different samples to have the same name).
  * Dimension Region Editor: Added button "Select Sample" on the sample tab,
    which allows to conveniently select the dimension region's sample on the
    left hand side's samples tree view.
  * Sample Referenve View Dialog: Clicking on a reference in the list closes
    the dialog and jumps directly to the respective instrument, region and
    dimension region the respective sample reference is located at.
  * Fixed instruments, samples and scripts to appear twice after save.
  * Implemented reordering of instruments by drag & drop.
  * Implemented replacing of existing samples.
  * Added "X" button next to sample reference field, which allows to remove
    the current sample reference, allowing to create a "silent case" where
    no sample shall be played.
  * Fixed file name disappearing from title bar on certain actions.
  * Added new menu item "View"->"Refresh All".
  * Added new menu item "Samples"->"Remove Unused Samples".
  * Region Chooser: when moving a region around automatically move the
    keyboard position dependent pitch accordingly (can be turned off with
    "Settings"->"Move root key with region moved").
  * Added option to main menu for performing "Save" operation with a
    tempoary file (may perform faster than directly modifying existing
    .gig file).

Version 0.2.0 (2009-07-31)

  * fixed file properties dialog - properties now can be edited
  * gig files where regions are not internally ordered are now handled
  * the resize mouse pointer is not shown anymore for regions that
    can't be resized
  * the region and dimregion chooser widgets are now resizable
  * bugfix: sometimes you could not delete more than one dimension
  * filter headers are now also greyed out when the filter is inactive
  * autoconf fix: LS plugin dirs with digits in their prefix
    (e.g. "/usr/lib64/foo") are now resolved in relative dirs as well
    (show a warning when resolving the relative path failed)
  * keys on the virtual keyboard now highlight on note on events on
    sampler side
  * virtual keyboard can now trigger notes for the sampler (only in
    live-mode of course)
  * implemented alternative behavior for the virtual MIDI keyboard
    (selectable by combobox below the keyboard)
  * show absolute velocity value of note-on & note-off events below
    the virtual MIDI keyboard
  * renamed misleading names regarding the gig format's "keyswitching"
    feature (the dimension is now displayed as "keyswitching" instead of
    "keyboard" in the dimregchooser widget and the two parameters for
    defining the actual keyswitching area on the keyboard in the instruments
    properties dialog are now called "Keyswitching range low/high" instead of
    "Dimension key range low/high")
  * added "replace all samples" function to samples popup menu
    (patch by Anders Dahnielson, a bit extended, fixes #73)
  * bugfix: dimension manager window didn't update when another region
    was selected (#78)
  * in "Save As..." dialog set inital filename to "copy_of_<filename>" and
    show a warning message that saving to the same .gig file will corrupt
    the sample wave data
  * fixed compilation with gcc 4.3
  * the "Add Samples" dialog now remembers current directory (patch by
    Devin Anderson, fixes #81)
  * it is now possible to create dimensions where the amount of zones
    isn't a power of two (patch by Devin Anderson, #89, slightly
    modified)
  * fixed configure check for libsndfile loop support
  * bugfix: when a stereo sample is replaced, make sure both zones of
    the sample channel dimension get updated with the new sample
  * minor gui fix: made multi line lables expand to use full width
  * fixes for building the plugin with MinGW
  * added rpm packaging file
    (patch by Devin Anderson, slightly modified, fixes #88)
  * made all visible strings translatable
  * bugfix: inform the sampler when new file(s) has been imported on save
    operation (#82)
  * updated LinuxSampler plugin of gigedit to the latest liblinuxsampler
    C++ API changes
  * Windows: look for translations using base directory of libgigedit
    dll
  * virtual keyboard fixes: restore to grey when outside keyboard.
    Don't trigger multiple notes for each key when moving mouse.

Version 0.1.1 (2007-12-06)

  * multiple editor windows can now be opened by the plugin
  * bugfix: gigedit didn't start on windows 2000
  * standard gtk command line parameters is now handled
  * parameter edits can now be applied to multiple regions and
    dimension regions simultaneously - three checkboxes were added
    that select if changes apply to all regions and/or all dimension
    regions

Version 0.1.0 (2007-10-15)

  * fixed compilation with older gcc versions
  * added German translation
  * reworked instrument properties dialog - properties can now be
    edited
  * restructured dimension region editor for elements to be in a more
    logical and intuitive order
  * added Makefile.cvs (just for standard compliance with other projects)
  * added Debian packaging infrastructure
  * implemented sample loop editing
  * improved labels in dimension region editor
  * use normal layout for checkboxes
  * allow to resize dimension zones even when the respective dimension has
    no custom dimension splits yet
  * moved instrument editor into a shared library 'libgigedit', the 'gigedit'
    binary is now just calling that shared library
  * implemented an "instrument editor plugin" for LinuxSampler to allow
    on-the-fly instrument editing within the sampler's own process
    (revised directories to a more automake-friendly structure for this, to
    avoid compilation and install errors)
  * added experimental support to synchronize gigedit with LinuxSampler to
    avoid race conditions / crash while modifying data structures
  * added quick start documentation by Alexander Methke
  * a changed file is now marked with an asterisk in the window title
  * added close confirmation dialog, shown if file is changed
  * "save" means "save as" for new files
  * enabled acceleration keys
  * add .gig to filename in "save as" if it's not already there
  * filename character encodings other than utf-8 supported
  * regions can now be moved, not just resized
  * improved labels in instrument properties dialog
  * remove file extensions from file names when importing samples
  * added digits for octave numbers on the keyboard and made keys
    outside piano range grey
  * added support for 24 bit sample import
  * when importing samples, settings for loops and root note are
    copied from the sample files (if they have such settings)
  * start with a new gig file by default
  * make sure samplechannel dimension gets created for stereo samples
  * allow building with older versions of gtk and libsndfile
  * remember selected dimension when switching regions
  * check if file is savable before trying to save
  * gettext is now an optional dependency
  * added Dev-C++ project files for Windows systems
  * added status bar to the bottom of main window (independent area on the
    right shows whether gigedit is running stand-alone or attached to
    LinuxSampler)
  * fixed crash when gigedit was compiled with CXXFLAGS="-g"

Version 0.0.3 (2007-03-24)

  * first release of gigedit