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* Preparations for Qt5 migration. (TESTING)
1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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6 SVN TRUNK
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8 * Preparations for Qt5 migration. (TESTING)
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10 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
11
12 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
13
14 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
15 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
16
17 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
18
19 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
20
21 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
22
23 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
24
25 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
26 and make.
27
28 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
29 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
30 Debian 6.
31
32 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
33 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. (EXPERIMENTAL)
34
35 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
36 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
37 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
38 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
39
40 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
41
42 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
43 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
44 wrong main widget hidden state.
45
46 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
47
48 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
49 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
50 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
51 targets (--enable-debug).
52
53 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
54
55 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
56 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
57 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
58
59 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
60 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
61
62 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
63 a menu separator has been added.
64
65 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
66 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
67
68 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
69 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
70 lame green solid background :).
71
72 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
73 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
74
75 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
76
77
78 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
79
80 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
81 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
82 ever may follow ;)
83
84 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
85
86 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
87 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
88 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
89 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
90 a sampler the next time.
91
92 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
93
94 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
95
96 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
97 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
98 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
99 (default none).
100
101 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
102 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
103 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
104
105 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
106 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
107 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
108 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
109
110 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
111 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
112
113 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
114 screwed.
115
116 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
117 e.g. by other frontends.
118
119 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
120 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
121 (fixes segfault on device changes)
122
123 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
124 "View" main menu.
125
126 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
127
128 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
129
130 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
131 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
132
133 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
134 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
135
136
137 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
138
139 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
140 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
141 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
142 default.
143
144 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
145 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
146
147 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
148 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
149
150 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
151 creating a new sampler channel.
152
153 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
154
155 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
156 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
157 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
158 first time).
159
160 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
161 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
162
163 * Added Windows file path support.
164
165 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
166 under win32.
167
168 * Qt4 port of the application.
169
170
171 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
172
173 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
174 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
175 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
176 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
177
178 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
179 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
180 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
181 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
182
183 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
184 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
185 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
186
187 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
188
189
190 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
191
192 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
193 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
194 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
195
196 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
197
198 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
199 the session state, only at code-level.
200
201 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
202 existing instrument file name.
203
204 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
205 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
206 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
207 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
208 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
209 corrected some tooltip text strings.
210
211 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
212 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
213 window managers.
214
215 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
216 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
217 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
218 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
219
220 * GPL address update.
221
222
223 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
224
225 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
226 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
227
228 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
229
230 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
231 installation paths have been added to configure command
232 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
233
234 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
235 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
236 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
237 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
238 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
239
240 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
241 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
242 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
243 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
244
245 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
246
247 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
248 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
249
250 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
251 title name prefix.
252
253 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
254 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
255 generated at configure time.
256
257 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
258 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
259 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
260 argument have some effect on X11.
261
262 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
263
264 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
265 compiled with -no-stl.
266
267
268 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
269
270 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
271 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
272 one, while on qjackctl).
273
274 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
275 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
276
277
278 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
279
280 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
281 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
282
283 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
284 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
285 info updates.
286
287 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
288 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
289 device dialog.
290
291 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
292
293 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
294 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
295 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
296 Mayat, for pointing these out).
297
298
299 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
300
301 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
302
303 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
304 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
305 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
306
307 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
308 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
309
310 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
311 an instrument.
312
313 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
314
315
316 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
317
318 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
319 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
320 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
321 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
322
323 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
324 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
325 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
326
327 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
328 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
329
330 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
331
332 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
333 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
334 change information are now also posted to messages window.
335
336 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
337 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
338 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
339 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
340
341 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
342 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
343 sampler instrument file.
344
345 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
346 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
347 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
348 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
349
350 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
351 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
352 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
353
354 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
355 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
356 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
357 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
358
359
360 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
361
362 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
363 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
364 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
365
366 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
367 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
368 following common user-interface guidelines.
369
370 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
371 control structures.
372
373 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
374
375 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
376 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
377 channel (omni mode).
378
379 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
380 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
381
382 * Minor configure fixes.
383
384
385 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
386
387 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
388
389 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
390 and on session file save.
391
392 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
393 on create time.
394
395 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
396
397
398 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
399
400 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
401 over the empty workspace area.
402
403 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
404 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
405 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
406 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
407
408 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
409 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
410
411 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
412 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
413
414 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
415 each sampler channel strip.
416
417 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
418 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
419
420 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
421 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
422
423 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
424 new sampler channel strip.
425
426 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
427 suggested in the following lines:
428
429 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
430 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
431 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
432 LOAD ENGINE ...
433 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
434 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
435
436
437 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
438

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