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1  qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface  Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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3    
4  ChangeLog  ChangeLog
5    
6    
7    GIT HEAD
8    
9    - Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
10      instance setup.
11    
12    - Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
13      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
14      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
15      (EXPERIMENTAL)
16    
17    
18    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
19    
20    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
21      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
22      
23    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
24      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
25      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
26    
27    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
28      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
29    
30    
31    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
32    
33    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
34    
35    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
36    
37    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
38      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
39    
40    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
41    
42    
43    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
44    
45    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
46      64bit Linux flavours.
47    
48    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
49    
50    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
51      sub-routine is now in effect. (EXPERIMENTAL)
52    
53    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
54    
55    
56    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
57    
58    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
59    
60    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
61      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
62    
63    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
64    
65    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
66      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
67    
68    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
69      main toolbar orientation.
70    
71    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
72      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
73    
74    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
75    
76    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
77      debian, thanks).
78    
79    * Translations install directory change.
80    
81    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
82    
83    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
84      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
85      instruments of the same file.
86    
87    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
88      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
89    
90    
91    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
92    
93    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
94    
95    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
96    
97    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
98      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
99    
100    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
101    
102    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
103    
104    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
105    
106    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
107      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
108    
109    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
110    
111    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
112    
113    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
114    
115    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
116    
117    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
118      and make.
119    
120    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
121      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
122      Debian 6.
123    
124    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
125      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
126    
127    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
128      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
129      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
130      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
131    
132    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
133    
134    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
135      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
136      wrong main widget hidden state.
137    
138    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
139    
140    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
141      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
142      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
143      targets (--enable-debug).
144    
145    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
146    
147    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
148      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
149      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
150    
151    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
152      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
153    
154    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
155      a menu separator has been added.
156    
157    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
158      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
159    
160    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
161      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
162      lame green solid background :).
163    
164    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
165      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
166    
167    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
168    
169    
170    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
171    
172    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
173      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
174      ever may follow ;)
175    
176    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
177    
178    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
179      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
180      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
181      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
182      a sampler the next time.
183    
184    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
185    
186    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
187    
188    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
189      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
190      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
191      (default none).
192    
193    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
194      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
195      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
196    
197    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
198      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
199      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
200      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
201    
202    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
203      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
204    
205    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
206      screwed.
207    
208    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
209      e.g. by other frontends.
210    
211    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
212      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
213      (fixes segfault on device changes)
214    
215    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
216      "View" main menu.
217    
218    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
219    
220    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
221    
222    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
223      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
224    
225    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
226      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
227    
228    
229    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
230    
231    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
232      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
233      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
234      default.
235    
236    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
237      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
238    
239    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
240      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
241    
242    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
243      creating a new sampler channel.
244    
245    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
246    
247    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
248      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
249      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
250      first time).
251    
252    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
253      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
254    
255    * Added Windows file path support.
256    
257    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
258      under win32.
259    
260    * Qt4 port of the application.
261    
262    
263    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
264    
265    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
266      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
267      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
268      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
269    
270    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
271      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
272      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
273      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
274    
275    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
276      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
277      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
278    
279    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
280    
281    
282    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
283    
284    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
285      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
286      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
287    
288    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
289    
290    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
291      the session state, only at code-level.
292    
293    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
294      existing instrument file name.
295    
296    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
297      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
298      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
299      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
300      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
301      corrected some tooltip text strings.
302    
303    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
304      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
305      window managers.
306    
307    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
308      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
309      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
310      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
311    
312    * GPL address update.
313    
314    
315    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
316    
317    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
318      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
319    
320    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
321    
322    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
323      installation paths have been added to configure command
324      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
325    
326    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
327      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
328      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
329      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
330      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
331    
332    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
333      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
334      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
335      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
336    
337    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
338    
339    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
340      the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
341    
342    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
343      title name prefix.
344    
345    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
346      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
347      generated at configure time.
348    
349    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
350      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
351      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
352      argument have some effect on X11.
353    
354    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
355    
356    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
357      compiled with -no-stl.
358    
359    
360    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
361    
362    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
363      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
364      one, while on qjackctl).
365    
366    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
367      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
368    
369    
370    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
371    
372    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
373      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
374    
375    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
376      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
377      info updates.
378    
379    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
380      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
381      device dialog.
382    
383    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
384    
385    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
386      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
387      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
388      Mayat, for pointing these out).
389    
390    
391    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
392    
393    * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
394    
395    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
396      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
397      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
398    
399    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
400      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
401    
402    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
403      an instrument.
404    
405    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
406    
407    
408    0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
409    
410    * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
411      which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
412      configurations to the default audio driver type (which
413      is ALSA) unexpectedly.
414    
415    * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
416      session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
417      loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
418    
419    * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
420      session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
421    
422    * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
423    
424    * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
425      only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
426      change information are now also posted to messages window.
427    
428    * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
429      instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
430      drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
431      files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
432    
433    * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
434      featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
435      sampler instrument file.
436    
437    * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
438      from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
439      avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
440      channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
441    
442    * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
443      available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
444      a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
445    
446    * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
447      count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
448      maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
449      otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
450    
451    
452  0.0.4   2004-11-19  Fourth alpha-release.  0.0.4   2004-11-19  Fourth alpha-release.
453    
454  * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;  * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;

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