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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    
 0.1.0   2005-03-15  Device configuration work in progress...  
6    
7  * Device configuration interface preparations.  0.5.4  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
8    
9    - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
10      setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
11    
12    - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
13    
14    - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
15    
16    
17    0.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
18    
19    - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
20      to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
21    
22    - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
23      channel settings dialog.
24    
25    - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
26    
27    - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
28      latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
29    
30    
31    0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
32    
33    - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
34      permisssive license (FSFAP).
35    
36    
37    0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
38    
39    - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
40      when the display server platform is not X11.
41    
42    - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
43    
44    - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
45    
46    - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
47    
48    - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
49    
50    
51    0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
52    
53    - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
54      (qsampler_fr.ts).
55    
56    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
57      from build/configure template chains.
58    
59    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
60      file (formerly AppData).
61    
62    
63    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
64    
65    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
66    
67    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
68      the configure build date and time stamps.
69    
70    
71    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
72    
73    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
74      instance setup.
75    
76    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
77      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
78      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
79    
80    
81    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
82    
83    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
84      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
85      
86    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
87      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
88      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
89    
90    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
91      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
92    
93    
94    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
95    
96    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
97    
98    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
99    
100    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
101      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
102    
103    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
104    
105    
106    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
107    
108    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
109      64bit Linux flavours.
110    
111    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
112    
113    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
114      sub-routine is now in effect.
115    
116    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
117    
118    
119    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
120    
121    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
122    
123    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
124      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
125    
126    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
127    
128    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
129      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
130    
131    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
132      main toolbar orientation.
133    
134    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
135      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
136    
137    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
138    
139    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
140      debian, thanks).
141    
142    * Translations install directory change.
143    
144    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
145    
146    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
147      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
148      instruments of the same file.
149    
150    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
151      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
152    
153    
154    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
155    
156    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
157    
158    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
159    
160    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
161      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
162    
163    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
164    
165    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
166    
167    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
168    
169    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
170      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
171    
172    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
173    
174    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
175    
176    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
177    
178    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
179    
180    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
181      and make.
182    
183    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
184      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
185      Debian 6.
186    
187    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
188      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
189    
190    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
191      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
192      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
193      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
194    
195    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
196    
197    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
198      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
199      wrong main widget hidden state.
200    
201    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
202    
203    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
204      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
205      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
206      targets (--enable-debug).
207    
208    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
209    
210    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
211      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
212      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
213    
214    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
215      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
216    
217    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
218      a menu separator has been added.
219    
220    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
221      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
222    
223    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
224      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
225      lame green solid background :).
226    
227    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
228      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
229    
230    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
231    
232    
233    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
234    
235    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
236      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
237      ever may follow ;)
238    
239    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
240    
241    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
242      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
243      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
244      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
245      a sampler the next time.
246    
247    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
248    
249    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
250    
251    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
252      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
253      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
254      (default none).
255    
256    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
257      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
258      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
259    
260    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
261      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
262      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
263      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
264    
265    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
266      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
267    
268    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
269      screwed.
270    
271    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
272      e.g. by other frontends.
273    
274    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
275      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
276      (fixes segfault on device changes)
277    
278    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
279      "View" main menu.
280    
281    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
282    
283    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
284    
285    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
286      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
287    
288    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
289      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
290    
291    
292    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
293    
294    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
295      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
296      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
297      default.
298    
299    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
300      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
301    
302    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
303      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
304    
305    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
306      creating a new sampler channel.
307    
308    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
309    
310    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
311      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
312      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
313      first time).
314    
315    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
316      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
317    
318    * Added Windows file path support.
319    
320    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
321      under win32.
322    
323    * Qt4 port of the application.
324    
325    
326    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
327    
328    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
329      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
330      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
331      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
332    
333    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
334      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
335      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
336      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
337    
338    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
339      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
340      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
341    
342    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
343    
344    
345    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
346    
347    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
348      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
349      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
350    
351    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
352    
353    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
354      the session state, only at code-level.
355    
356    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
357      existing instrument file name.
358    
359    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
360      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
361      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
362      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
363      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
364      corrected some tooltip text strings.
365    
366    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
367      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
368      window managers.
369    
370    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
371      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
372      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
373      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
374    
375    * GPL address update.
376    
377    
378    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
379    
380    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
381      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
382    
383    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
384    
385    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
386      installation paths have been added to configure command
387      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
388    
389    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
390      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
391      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
392      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
393      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
394    
395    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
396      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
397      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
398      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
399    
400    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
401    
402    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
403      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
404    
405    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
406      title name prefix.
407    
408    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
409      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
410      generated at configure time.
411    
412    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
413      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
414      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
415      argument have some effect on X11.
416    
417    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
418    
419    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
420      compiled with -no-stl.
421    
422    
423    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
424    
425    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
426      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
427      one, while on qjackctl).
428    
429    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
430      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
431    
432    
433    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
434    
435    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
436      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
437    
438    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
439      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
440      info updates.
441    
442    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
443      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
444      device dialog.
445    
446    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
447    
448    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
449      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
450      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
451      Mayat, for pointing these out).
452    
453    
454    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
455    
456    * Device configuration is now complete.
457    
458    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
459      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
460      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
461    
462    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
463      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
464    
465    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
466      an instrument.
467    
468    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
469    
470    
471  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
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493    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
494    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
495    
496  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
497    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
498    sampler instrument file.    sampler instrument file.
499    
500  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved

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