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* Better configure checking for alternate Qt4/5 builds.
1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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7 GIT HEAD
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9 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
10
11 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
12 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
13
14 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
15 main toolbar orientation.
16
17 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
18 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. (EXPERIMENTAL)
19
20 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new includedir.
21
22 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
23 debian, thanks).
24
25 * Translations install directory change. (EXPERIMENTAL)
26
27 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
28 (EXPERIMENTAL)
29
30 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
31 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
32 instruments of the same file.
33
34 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new libdir
35 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
36
37
38 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
39
40 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
41
42 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
43
44 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
45 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
46
47 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
48
49 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
50
51 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
52
53 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
54 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
55
56 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
57
58 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
59
60 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
61
62 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
63
64 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
65 and make.
66
67 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
68 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
69 Debian 6.
70
71 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
72 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
73
74 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
75 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
76 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
77 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
78
79 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
80
81 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
82 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
83 wrong main widget hidden state.
84
85 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
86
87 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
88 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
89 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
90 targets (--enable-debug).
91
92 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
93
94 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
95 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
96 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
97
98 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
99 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
100
101 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
102 a menu separator has been added.
103
104 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
105 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
106
107 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
108 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
109 lame green solid background :).
110
111 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
112 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
113
114 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
115
116
117 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
118
119 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
120 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
121 ever may follow ;)
122
123 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
124
125 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
126 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
127 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
128 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
129 a sampler the next time.
130
131 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
132
133 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
134
135 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
136 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
137 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
138 (default none).
139
140 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
141 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
142 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
143
144 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
145 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
146 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
147 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
148
149 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
150 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
151
152 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
153 screwed.
154
155 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
156 e.g. by other frontends.
157
158 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
159 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
160 (fixes segfault on device changes)
161
162 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
163 "View" main menu.
164
165 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
166
167 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
168
169 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
170 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
171
172 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
173 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
174
175
176 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
177
178 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
179 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
180 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
181 default.
182
183 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
184 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
185
186 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
187 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
188
189 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
190 creating a new sampler channel.
191
192 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
193
194 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
195 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
196 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
197 first time).
198
199 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
200 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
201
202 * Added Windows file path support.
203
204 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
205 under win32.
206
207 * Qt4 port of the application.
208
209
210 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
211
212 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
213 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
214 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
215 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
216
217 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
218 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
219 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
220 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
221
222 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
223 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
224 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
225
226 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
227
228
229 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
230
231 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
232 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
233 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
234
235 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
236
237 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
238 the session state, only at code-level.
239
240 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
241 existing instrument file name.
242
243 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
244 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
245 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
246 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
247 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
248 corrected some tooltip text strings.
249
250 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
251 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
252 window managers.
253
254 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
255 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
256 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
257 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
258
259 * GPL address update.
260
261
262 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
263
264 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
265 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
266
267 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
268
269 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
270 installation paths have been added to configure command
271 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
272
273 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
274 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
275 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
276 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
277 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
278
279 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
280 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
281 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
282 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
283
284 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
285
286 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
287 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
288
289 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
290 title name prefix.
291
292 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
293 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
294 generated at configure time.
295
296 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
297 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
298 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
299 argument have some effect on X11.
300
301 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
302
303 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
304 compiled with -no-stl.
305
306
307 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
308
309 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
310 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
311 one, while on qjackctl).
312
313 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
314 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
315
316
317 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
318
319 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
320 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
321
322 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
323 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
324 info updates.
325
326 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
327 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
328 device dialog.
329
330 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
331
332 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
333 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
334 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
335 Mayat, for pointing these out).
336
337
338 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
339
340 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
341
342 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
343 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
344 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
345
346 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
347 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
348
349 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
350 an instrument.
351
352 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
353
354
355 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
356
357 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
358 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
359 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
360 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
361
362 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
363 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
364 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
365
366 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
367 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
368
369 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
370
371 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
372 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
373 change information are now also posted to messages window.
374
375 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
376 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
377 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
378 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
379
380 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
381 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
382 sampler instrument file.
383
384 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
385 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
386 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
387 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
388
389 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
390 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
391 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
392
393 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
394 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
395 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
396 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
397
398
399 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
400
401 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
402 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
403 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
404
405 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
406 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
407 following common user-interface guidelines.
408
409 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
410 control structures.
411
412 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
413
414 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
415 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
416 channel (omni mode).
417
418 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
419 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
420
421 * Minor configure fixes.
422
423
424 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
425
426 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
427
428 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
429 and on session file save.
430
431 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
432 on create time.
433
434 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
435
436
437 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
438
439 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
440 over the empty workspace area.
441
442 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
443 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
444 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
445 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
446
447 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
448 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
449
450 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
451 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
452
453 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
454 each sampler channel strip.
455
456 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
457 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
458
459 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
460 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
461
462 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
463 new sampler channel strip.
464
465 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
466 suggested in the following lines:
467
468 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
469 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
470 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
471 LOAD ENGINE ...
472 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
473 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
474
475
476 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
477

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