--- qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2004/06/07 21:41:43 115 +++ qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2010/01/07 18:42:26 2038 @@ -1,18 +1,373 @@ -qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface +Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface ------------------------------------------ ChangeLog -0.0.2 2004-06-07 Work in progress... +SVN TRUNK -* Comment SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from - saveSessionFile(), it has no effect. +* MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists; + a menu separator has been added. -* Insert a n #include on qsamplerMessages.h, between +* Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices + and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed. + +* MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status + widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a + lame green solid background :). + +* Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to + disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied. + +* Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric). + + +0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle. + +* Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as + brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom + ever may follow ;) + +* Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons. + +* Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting + (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning + settings will be saved in case the user modified them and + automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to + a sampler the next time. + +* Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes. + +* Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions. + +* Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding + font size configuration, a new global user option is now available + to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size + (default none). + +* Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of + the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode. + (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks). + +* Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and + running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup + iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its + main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only). + +* Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance, + with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging. + +* Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were + screwed. + +* Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed + e.g. by other frontends. + +* Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed, + e.g. on changes caused by other frontends + (fixes segfault on device changes) + +* Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the + "View" main menu. + +* Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips. + +* Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips. + +* Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel + strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds. + +* Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user + decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not. + + +0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete. + +* Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument + names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then + the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by + default. + +* The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually + evident while in the application workspace (highlighting). + +* Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though + the main menu and toobar are not visible. + +* Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when + creating a new sampler channel. + +* README requirements and configuration notes update. + +* Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument + form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie + users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the + first time). + +* Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters + which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog). + +* Added Windows file path support. + +* Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles + under win32. + +* Qt4 port of the application. + + +0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard. + +* Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and + mapping instrument files with special characters in their + filename, as well as special characters for instrument names + and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side). + +* Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably + does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate + instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor + tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar. + +* Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; + application desktop entry file is now included in installation; + spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant. + +* Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list. + + +0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by. + +* Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and + cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color + highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles. + +* Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured. + +* Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving + the session state, only at code-level. + +* Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor + existing instrument file name. + +* Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save; + hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save; + keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context; + improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load; + instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional); + corrected some tooltip text strings. + +* Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag, + which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some + window managers. + +* Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now + with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities; + MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in + the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127. + +* GPL address update. + + +0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it? + +* Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license, + on qsampler.spec (RPM). + +* Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED). + +* Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig + installation paths have been added to configure command + arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig). + +* Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an + option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole + number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously + increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100 + (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog. + +* The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio + and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog, + are now expected to be a little better looking than it was + before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes. + +* Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height. + +* Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits + the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL). + +* All widget captions changed to include proper application + title name prefix. + +* Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date; + sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and + generated at configure time. + +* Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of + registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal + to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line + argument have some effect on X11. + +* Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips. + +* Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was + compiled with -no-stl. + + +0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest. + +* Fixed output disability when messages limit option is + turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this + one, while on qjackctl). + +* Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling; + minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization. + + +0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes. + +* New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks + to Christian Schoenebeck design. + +* Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found + in an error state, which was preventing correct channel + info updates. + +* Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added + buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the + device dialog. + +* Include libgig version info on command line request (-v). + +* Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and + Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing + with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim + Mayat, for pointing these out). + + +0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough. + +* Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL). + +* [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention + consistency, regarding the enumeration of available + sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers. + +* [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new + instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog. + +* Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading + an instrument. + +* Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used). + + +0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release. + +* Fixed device driver type channel information gathering, + which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session + configurations to the default audio driver type (which + is ALSA) unexpectedly. + +* Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a + session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always + loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels). + +* Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on + session file save, as its use is still troublesome. + +* Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels. + +* Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for + only those settings that are actually changed gets applied; + change information are now also posted to messages window. + +* Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or + instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files + drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument + files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel. + +* Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also + featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel + sampler instrument file. + +* Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved + from the instrument file, even though libgig is available, + avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the + channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected. + +* Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where + available, as the default handler is usually fatal when + a JACK client is zombified abruptly. + +* Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line + count exceeds in one third the user configured line count + maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is + otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format. + + +0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release. + +* Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget; + actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from + the instrument file, provided if libgig is available. + +* Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if, + the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted, + following common user-interface guidelines. + +* Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal + control structures. + +* Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar. + +* MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing + the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler + channel (omni mode). + +* Channel strip display glass effect has changed background + color to black (was green), being now an user option. + +* Minor configure fixes. + + +0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release. + +* Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support. + +* Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog, + and on session file save. + +* Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults + on create time. + +* Implied channel reset on successful instrument load. + + +0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release. + +* The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking + over the empty workspace area. + +* Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(), + so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and + avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the + correct salvage of settings and configuration. + +* Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option, + provided to override the default (which is 100%). + +* Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been + increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds. + +* A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over + each sampler channel strip. + +* Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from + qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect. + +* Insert a n #include on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between a #if !defined(WIN32) clause. -* An initial non zero value (0.8) should be set for the channel - volume, while GET CHANNEL INFO command is pending implementation. +* An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every + new sampler channel strip. * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as suggested in the following lines: