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1  qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface  Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4  ChangeLog  ChangeLog
5    
6  0.0.3   2004-06-27  Work in progress...  
7    GIT HEAD
8    
9    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
10      of the nagging warning/error message boxes. (EXPERIMENTAL)
11    
12    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
13    
14    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
15      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
16    
17    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
18      main toolbar orientation.
19    
20    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
21      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. (EXPERIMENTAL)
22    
23    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new includedir.
24    
25    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
26      debian, thanks).
27    
28    * Translations install directory change. (EXPERIMENTAL)
29    
30    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
31      (EXPERIMENTAL)
32    
33    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
34      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
35      instruments of the same file.
36    
37    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new libdir
38      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
39    
40    
41    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
42    
43    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
44    
45    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
46    
47    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
48      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
49    
50    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
51    
52    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
53    
54    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
55    
56    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
57      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
58    
59    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
60    
61    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
62    
63    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
64    
65    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
66    
67    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
68      and make.
69    
70    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
71      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
72      Debian 6.
73    
74    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
75      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
76    
77    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
78      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
79      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
80      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
81    
82    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
83    
84    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
85      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
86      wrong main widget hidden state.
87    
88    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
89    
90    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
91      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
92      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
93      targets (--enable-debug).
94    
95    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
96    
97    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
98      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
99      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
100    
101    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
102      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
103    
104    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
105      a menu separator has been added.
106    
107    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
108      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
109    
110    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
111      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
112      lame green solid background :).
113    
114    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
115      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
116    
117    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
118    
119    
120    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
121    
122    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
123      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
124      ever may follow ;)
125    
126    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
127    
128    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
129      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
130      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
131      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
132      a sampler the next time.
133    
134    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
135    
136    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
137    
138    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
139      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
140      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
141      (default none).
142    
143    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
144      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
145      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
146    
147    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
148      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
149      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
150      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
151    
152    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
153      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
154    
155    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
156      screwed.
157    
158    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
159      e.g. by other frontends.
160    
161    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
162      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
163      (fixes segfault on device changes)
164    
165    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
166      "View" main menu.
167    
168    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
169    
170    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
171    
172    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
173      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
174    
175    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
176      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
177    
178    
179    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
180    
181    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
182      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
183      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
184      default.
185    
186    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
187      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
188    
189    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
190      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
191    
192    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
193      creating a new sampler channel.
194    
195    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
196    
197    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
198      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
199      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
200      first time).
201    
202    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
203      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
204    
205    * Added Windows file path support.
206    
207    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
208      under win32.
209    
210    * Qt4 port of the application.
211    
212    
213    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
214    
215    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
216      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
217      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
218      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
219    
220    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
221      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
222      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
223      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
224    
225    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
226      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
227      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
228    
229    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
230    
231    
232    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
233    
234    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
235      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
236      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
237    
238    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
239    
240    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
241      the session state, only at code-level.
242    
243    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
244      existing instrument file name.
245    
246    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
247      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
248      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
249      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
250      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
251      corrected some tooltip text strings.
252    
253    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
254      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
255      window managers.
256    
257    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
258      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
259      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
260      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
261    
262    * GPL address update.
263    
264    
265    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
266    
267    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
268      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
269    
270    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
271    
272    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
273      installation paths have been added to configure command
274      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
275    
276    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
277      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
278      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
279      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
280      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
281    
282    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
283      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
284      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
285      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
286    
287    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
288    
289    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
290      the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
291    
292    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
293      title name prefix.
294    
295    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
296      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
297      generated at configure time.
298    
299    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
300      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
301      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
302      argument have some effect on X11.
303    
304    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
305    
306    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
307      compiled with -no-stl.
308    
309    
310    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
311    
312    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
313      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
314      one, while on qjackctl).
315    
316    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
317      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
318    
319    
320    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
321    
322    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
323      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
324    
325    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
326      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
327      info updates.
328    
329    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
330      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
331      device dialog.
332    
333    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
334    
335    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
336      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
337      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
338      Mayat, for pointing these out).
339    
340    
341    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
342    
343    * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
344    
345    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
346      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
347      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
348    
349    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
350      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
351    
352    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
353      an instrument.
354    
355    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
356    
357    
358    0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
359    
360    * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
361      which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
362      configurations to the default audio driver type (which
363      is ALSA) unexpectedly.
364    
365    * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
366      session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
367      loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
368    
369    * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
370      session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
371    
372    * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
373    
374    * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
375      only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
376      change information are now also posted to messages window.
377    
378    * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
379      instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
380      drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
381      files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
382    
383    * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
384      featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
385      sampler instrument file.
386    
387    * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
388      from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
389      avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
390      channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
391    
392    * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
393      available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
394      a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
395    
396    * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
397      count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
398      maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
399      otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
400    
401    
402    0.0.4   2004-11-19  Fourth alpha-release.
403    
404    * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
405      actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
406      the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
407    
408    * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
409      the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
410      following common user-interface guidelines.
411    
412    * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
413      control structures.
414    
415    * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
416    
417    * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
418      the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
419      channel (omni mode).
420    
421    * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
422      color to black (was green), being now an user option.
423    
424    * Minor configure fixes.
425    
426    
427    0.0.3   2004-07-06  Third alpha-release.
428    
429  * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.  * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
430    
431    * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
432      and on session file save.
433    
434    * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
435      on create time.
436    
437    * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
438    
439    
440  0.0.2   2004-06-15  Pre-revolutionary release.  0.0.2   2004-06-15  Pre-revolutionary release.
441    

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