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  Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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  ChangeLog
- SVN TRUNK
- * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
+ GIT HEAD
+ - Prepping into the next development cycle (with Qt >= 6.5).
+.9.9  2023-03-23  An Early-Spring'23 Release.
+ - Bumping copyright headers to the brand new year.
+.9.8  2022-12-28  An End-of-Year'22 Release.
+ - Just bumping into the next develop cycle/season.
+.9.7  2022-10-03  An Early-Autumn'22 Release.
+ - Add current system user-name to the singleton/unique application
+   instance identifier.
+.9.6  2022-04-02  A Spring'22 Release.
+ - Main application icon is now presented in scalable format (SVG).
+ - Migrated command line parsing to QCommandLineParser/Option
+   (Qt >= 5.2)
+ - Fixed translations path to be relative to application runtime.
+.9.5  2022-01-09  A Winter'22 Release.
+ - Dropped autotools (autoconf, automake, etc.) build system.
+ - Fixed for Qt6 plugins path eg. widget theme or styles.
+.9.4  2021-07-03  An Early-Summer'21 Release.
+ - All builds default to Qt6 (Qt >= 6.1) where available.
+ - CMake is now the official build system.
+.9.3  2021-05-11  A Spring'21 Release.
+ - All packaging builds switching to CMake.
+.9.2  2021-03-14  An End-of-Winter'21 Release.
+ - Bumped version micro/dot number into the next develop cycle.
+.9.1  2021-02-07  A Winter'21 Release.
+ - Early preparations for the New Year develop(ment) cycle.
+.9.0  2020-12-17  A Winter'20 Release.
+ - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17
+   standard.
+.6.3  2020-07-31  A Summer'20 Release.
+ - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 5.15.0.
+.6.2  2020-03-24  A Spring'20 Release.
+ - Make man page compression reproducible (after request by Jelle
+   van der Waa, while on the Vee-Ones, thanks).
+ - Ditching deprecated QTime methods for QElapsedTimer's (in
+   compliance to Qt >= 5.14.0).
+ - If connection to server aborted, try to automatically reconnect
+   (if server was not started by QSampler).
+ - Fixed crash when a device disappeared on server side (caused by
+   iterator invalidation).
+ - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2020).
+.6.1  2019-12-22  The Winter'19 Release.
+ - Custom color (palette) theme editor introduced; color (palette)
+   theme changes are now effective immediately, except on default.
+ - Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though CMake build
+   configuration.
+ - When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=..., it is also
+   necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
+   (after a merge request by plcl aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas,
+   while on qmidinet).
+.6.0  2019-10-17  An Autumn'19 Release.
+ - Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.
+ - Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).
+ - Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.
+.5.6  2019-07-12  A Summer'19 Release.
+ - Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).
+ - Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
+ - Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
+.5.5  2019-04-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.
+ - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
+.5.4  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
+ - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance setup logic
+   away from X11/Xcb hackery.
+ - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
+ - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
+.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
+ - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices to
+   regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
+ - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
+   channel settings dialog.
+ - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
+ - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with latest
+   freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
+.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
+ - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive
+   license (FSFAP).
+.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
+ - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when
+   the display server platform is not X11.
+ - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
+ - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
+ - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
+ - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
+.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
+ - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert (qsampler_fr.ts).
+ - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from
+   build/configure template chains.
+ - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file
+   (formerly AppData).
+.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
+ - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
+ - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of the
+   configure build date and time stamps.
+.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
+ - Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
+   instance setup.
+ - Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
+   line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
+   eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
+.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
+ - Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
+   in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
+ - Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant given
+   that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido Scholz, while
+   for Qtractor, thanks).
+ - Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
+   auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
+.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
+ - Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
+ - Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
+ - Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
+   in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
+ - Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
+.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
+ - Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
+bit Linux flavours.
+ - Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
+ - A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
+   sub-routine is now in effect.
+ - Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
+.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
+ - Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
+ - Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
+   of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
+ - Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
+ - When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
+   stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
+ - Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
+   main toolbar orientation.
+ - Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved as for
+   non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
+ - Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new
+ --includedir.
+ - A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on debian,
+   thanks).
+ - Translations install directory change.
+ - Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
+ - Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
+   the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
+   instruments of the same file.
+ - Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
+   (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
+.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
+ - Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
+ - More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
+ - Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
+   session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
+ - Preparations for Qt5 migration.
+ - Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
+ - Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
+ - Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
    configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
- * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
+ - Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
- * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
+ - Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
- * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
+ - Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
- * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
+ - Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
- * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
+ - Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
    and make.
- * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
+ - libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, as
-   as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
+   seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, Debian
-   Debian 6.
+.
- * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
+ - Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling into
-   into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. (EXPERIMENTAL)
+   regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
- * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
+ - Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for other
-   other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
+   than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has been added,
-   been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
+   making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines instrument files
-   instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
+   (*.sfz; *.sf2).
- * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
+ - General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
- * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
+ - Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been
-   been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
+   slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main
-   wrong main widget hidden state.
+   widget hidden state.
- * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
+ - General source tree layout and build configuration change.
- * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
+ - Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
    traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
    option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
    targets (--enable-debug).
- * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
+ - Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
- * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
+ - Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher: now
-   now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
+   at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit (65536),
-   (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
+   possibly fixing bug #136.
- * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
+ - LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap just
-   just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
+   makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
- * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
+ - MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
    a menu separator has been added.
- * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
+ - 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
+ - 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
+ - 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).
+ - Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
 .2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
- * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
+ - Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
-   brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
+   brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom ever
-   ever may follow ;)
+   may follow ;)
- * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
+ - Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
- * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
+ - 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.
+ - Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
- * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
+ - Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
- * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
+ - 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
+ - Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of the
-   the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
+   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
+ - Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and running,
-   running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
+   with immediate but graceful termination upon startup iif an already
-   iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
+   running instance is detected, which will see its main widget shown
-   main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
+   up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
- * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
+ - 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
+ - Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
    screwed.
- * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
+ - Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
    e.g. by other frontends.
- * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
+ - Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
-   e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
+   e.g. on changes caused by other frontends (fixes segfault on device
-   (fixes segfault on device changes)
+   changes)
- * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
+ - Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
    "View" main menu.
- * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
+ - Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
- * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
+ - Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
- * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
+ - 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
+ - Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user decide
-   decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
+   whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
 .2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
- * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
+ - Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument names
-   names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
+   in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then the
-   the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
+   respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by default.
-   default.
- * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
+ - 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
+ - Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though the
-   the main menu and toobar are not visible.
+   main menu and toobar are not visible.
- * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
+ - Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
    creating a new sampler channel.
- * README requirements and configuration notes update.
+ - README requirements and configuration notes update.
- * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
+ - 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
+ - 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.
+ - Added Windows file path support.
- * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
+ - Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
    under win32.
- * Qt4 port of the application.
+ - Qt4 port of the application.
 .1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
- * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
+ - Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
-   mapping instrument files with special characters in their
+   mapping instrument files with special characters in their filename,
-   filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
+   as well as special characters for instrument names and instrument
-   and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
+   map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
- * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
+ - Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably does
-   does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
+   exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate instrument
-   instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
+   editor application; the channel instrument editor tool is also
-   tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
+   accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
- * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
+ - 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.
+ - Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
 .1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
- * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
+ - Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and cyan
-   cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
+   for solo is now the rule, but note that this color highlighting
-   highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
+   is only rendered on some widget styles.
- * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
+ - Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
- * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
+ - Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving the
-   the session state, only at code-level.
+   session state, only at code-level.
- * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
+ - Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
    existing instrument file name.
- * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
+ - 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,
+ - Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag, which
-   which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
+   were causing some sticky size behavior while on some window
-   window managers.
+   managers.
- * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
+ - Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now with an
-   with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
+   instrument list widget and editing capabilities; MIDI instrumeent
-   MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
+   map program numbers are now displayed in the range 1-128, instead
-   the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
+   of the internal 0-127.
- * GPL address update.
+ - GPL address update.
 .1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
- * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
+ - Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license, on
-   on qsampler.spec (RPM).
+   qsampler.spec (RPM).
- * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
+ - Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
- * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
+ - Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
-   installation paths have been added to configure command
+   installation paths have been added to configure command arguments
-   arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
+   (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
- * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
+ - Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an option
-   option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
+   (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole number of selectable
-   number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
+   instrument items is now being graciously increased from just the
-   increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
+   bare 8 (eight) right up through 100 (one hundred), on the sampler
-   (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
+   channel setup dialog.
- * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
+ - The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio and
-   and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
+   MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog, are now
-   are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
+   expected to be a little better looking than it was before, at least
-   before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
+   for those Mac OS X eyes.
- * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
+ - Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
- * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
+ - Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits the
-   the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
+   sampler channel dialog, at last!
- * All widget captions changed to include proper application
+ - All widget captions changed to include proper application title
-   title name prefix.
+   name prefix.
- * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
+ - Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date; sample
-   sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
+   SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and generated at
-   generated at configure time.
+   configure time.
- * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
+ - Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of registering
-   registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
+   the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal to quit() slot, just to
-   to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
+   let the -geometry command line argument have some effect on X11.
-   argument have some effect on X11.
- * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
+ - Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
- * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
+ - Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was compiled with
-   compiled with -no-stl.
+   -no-stl.
 .1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
- * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
+ - Fixed output disability when messages limit option is turned off
-   turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
+   (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this one, while on qjackctl).
-   one, while on qjackctl).
- * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
+ - Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling; minor
-   minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
+   stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
 .1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
- * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
+ - New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks to
-   to Christian Schoenebeck design.
+   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).
- * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
+ - Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and Mac OS X
-   in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
+   specialties. Also, install does the right thing with target file
-   info updates.
+   modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim Mayat, for pointing these
+   out).
- * 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).
 .1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
- * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
+ - Device configuration is now complete.
- * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
+ - [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention consistency,
-   consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
+   regarding the enumeration of available sampler engines, Audio and
-   sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
+   MIDI drivers.
- * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
+ - [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new instrument file
-   instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
+   is select on the channel setup dialog.
- * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
+ - Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading an
-   an instrument.
+   instrument.
- * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
+ - Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
 .0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
- * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
+ - Fixed device driver type channel information gathering, which was
-   which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
+   severely flawed, dropping all channel session configurations to the
-   configurations to the default audio driver type (which
+   default audio driver type (which is ALSA) unexpectedly.
-   is ALSA) unexpectedly.
+ - Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a session LSCP
- * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
+   script, assuming that it should be always loaded from scratch (i.e.
-   session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
+   zero channels).
-   loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
+ - Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on session file
- * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
+   save, as its use is still troublesome.
-   session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
+ - Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
- * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
+ - Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for only those
- * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
+   settings that are actually changed gets applied; change information
-   only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
+   are now also posted to messages window.
-   change information are now also posted to messages window.
+ - Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or instrument
- * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
+   files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files drop is allowed, but
-   instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
+   it only makes sense for instrument files, each one prompting to
-   drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
+   create a new sampler channel.
-   files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
+ - Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also featured,
- * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
+   allowing the in-place change of the channel sampler instrument file.
-   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
- * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
+   excessively annoying load times while on the channel dialog, when
-   from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
+   huge instrument files are selected.
-   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
- * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
+   zombified abruptly.
-   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
- * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
+.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is otherwise set to the
-   count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
+   optimized Qt::LogText format.
-   maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
-   otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
 .0.4   2004-11-19  Fourth alpha-release.
- * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
+ - Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget; actual
-   actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
+   instrument names are now properly retrieved from the instrument
-   the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
+   file, provided if libgig is available.
- * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
+ - Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if, the
-   the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
+   respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted, following
-   following common user-interface guidelines.
+   common user-interface guidelines.
- * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
+ - Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal control
-   control structures.
+   structures.
- * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
+ - Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
- * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
+ - MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing the
-   the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
+   explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler channel
-   channel (omni mode).
+   (omni mode).
- * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
+ - Channel strip display glass effect has changed background color to
-   color to black (was green), being now an user option.
+   black (was green), being now an user option.
- * Minor configure fixes.
+ - Minor configure fixes.
 .0.3   2004-07-06  Third alpha-release.
- * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
+ - Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
- * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
+ - Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog, and on
-   and on session file save.
+   session file save.
- * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
+ - Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults on create
-   on create time.
+   time.
- * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
+ - Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
 .0.2   2004-06-15  Pre-revolutionary release.
- * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
+ - The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking over
-   over the empty workspace area.
+   the empty workspace area.
- * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
+ - Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(), so
-   so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
+   let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and avoiding a
-   avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
+   probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the correct salvage
-   correct salvage of settings and configuration.
+   of settings and configuration.
- * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
+ - 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
+ - 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
+ - A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
    each sampler channel strip.
- * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
+ - Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
    qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
- * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
+ - Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between a
-   a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
+   #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
- * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
+ - An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every new
-   new sampler channel strip.
+   sampler channel strip.
- * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
+ - The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
    suggested in the following lines:
      SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
      SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
      SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
      LOAD ENGINE ...
-     LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
+     LOAD INSTRUMENT ... SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
-     SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
 .0.1   2004-06-05  Primordial alpha release.

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