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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    
 0.0.5   2005-01-14  Work in progress...  
6    
7  - Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where  GIT HEAD
8    
9    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
10      from build/configure template chains.
11    
12    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
13      file (formerly AppData).
14    
15    
16    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
17    
18    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
19    
20    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
21      the configure build date and time stamps.
22    
23    
24    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
25    
26    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
27      instance setup.
28    
29    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
30      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
31      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
32    
33    
34    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
35    
36    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
37      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
38      
39    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
40      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
41      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
42    
43    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
44      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
45    
46    
47    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
48    
49    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
50    
51    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
52    
53    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
54      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
55    
56    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
57    
58    
59    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
60    
61    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
62      64bit Linux flavours.
63    
64    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
65    
66    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
67      sub-routine is now in effect.
68    
69    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
70    
71    
72    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
73    
74    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
75    
76    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
77      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
78    
79    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
80    
81    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
82      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
83    
84    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
85      main toolbar orientation.
86    
87    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
88      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
89    
90    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
91    
92    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
93      debian, thanks).
94    
95    * Translations install directory change.
96    
97    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
98    
99    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
100      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
101      instruments of the same file.
102    
103    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
104      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
105    
106    
107    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
108    
109    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
110    
111    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
112    
113    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
114      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
115    
116    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
117    
118    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
119    
120    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
121    
122    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
123      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
124    
125    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
126    
127    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
128    
129    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
130    
131    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
132    
133    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
134      and make.
135    
136    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
137      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
138      Debian 6.
139    
140    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
141      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
142    
143    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
144      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
145      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
146      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
147    
148    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
149    
150    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
151      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
152      wrong main widget hidden state.
153    
154    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
155    
156    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
157      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
158      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
159      targets (--enable-debug).
160    
161    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
162    
163    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
164      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
165      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
166    
167    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
168      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
169    
170    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
171      a menu separator has been added.
172    
173    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
174      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
175    
176    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
177      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
178      lame green solid background :).
179    
180    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
181      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
182    
183    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
184    
185    
186    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
187    
188    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
189      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
190      ever may follow ;)
191    
192    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
193    
194    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
195      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
196      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
197      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
198      a sampler the next time.
199    
200    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
201    
202    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
203    
204    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
205      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
206      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
207      (default none).
208    
209    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
210      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
211      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
212    
213    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
214      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
215      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
216      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
217    
218    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
219      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
220    
221    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
222      screwed.
223    
224    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
225      e.g. by other frontends.
226    
227    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
228      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
229      (fixes segfault on device changes)
230    
231    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
232      "View" main menu.
233    
234    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
235    
236    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
237    
238    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
239      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
240    
241    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
242      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
243    
244    
245    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
246    
247    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
248      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
249      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
250      default.
251    
252    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
253      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
254    
255    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
256      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
257    
258    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
259      creating a new sampler channel.
260    
261    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
262    
263    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
264      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
265      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
266      first time).
267    
268    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
269      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
270    
271    * Added Windows file path support.
272    
273    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
274      under win32.
275    
276    * Qt4 port of the application.
277    
278    
279    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
280    
281    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
282      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
283      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
284      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
285    
286    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
287      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
288      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
289      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
290    
291    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
292      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
293      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
294    
295    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
296    
297    
298    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
299    
300    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
301      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
302      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
303    
304    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
305    
306    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
307      the session state, only at code-level.
308    
309    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
310      existing instrument file name.
311    
312    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
313      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
314      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
315      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
316      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
317      corrected some tooltip text strings.
318    
319    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
320      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
321      window managers.
322    
323    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
324      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
325      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
326      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
327    
328    * GPL address update.
329    
330    
331    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
332    
333    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
334      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
335    
336    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
337    
338    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
339      installation paths have been added to configure command
340      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
341    
342    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
343      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
344      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
345      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
346      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
347    
348    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
349      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
350      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
351      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
352    
353    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
354    
355    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
356      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
357    
358    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
359      title name prefix.
360    
361    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
362      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
363      generated at configure time.
364    
365    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
366      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
367      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
368      argument have some effect on X11.
369    
370    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
371    
372    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
373      compiled with -no-stl.
374    
375    
376    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
377    
378    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
379      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
380      one, while on qjackctl).
381    
382    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
383      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
384    
385    
386    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
387    
388    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
389      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
390    
391    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
392      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
393      info updates.
394    
395    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
396      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
397      device dialog.
398    
399    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
400    
401    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
402      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
403      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
404      Mayat, for pointing these out).
405    
406    
407    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
408    
409    * Device configuration is now complete.
410    
411    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
412      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
413      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
414    
415    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
416      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
417    
418    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
419      an instrument.
420    
421    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
422    
423    
424    0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
425    
426    * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
427      which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
428      configurations to the default audio driver type (which
429      is ALSA) unexpectedly.
430    
431    * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
432      session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
433      loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
434    
435    * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
436      session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
437    
438    * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
439    
440    * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
441      only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
442      change information are now also posted to messages window.
443    
444    * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
445      instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
446      drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
447      files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
448    
449    * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
450      featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
451      sampler instrument file.
452    
453    * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
454      from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
455      avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
456      channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
457    
458    * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
459    available, as the default handler is usually fatal when    available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
460    a JACK client is zombified abruptly.    a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
461    
462  - Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line  * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
463    count exceeds in one third the user configured line count    count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
464    maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is    maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
465    otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.    otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.

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