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* Added application keywords to freedesktop.org AppData.
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 * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
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11 * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
12
13 * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
14 in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get. (EXPERIMENTAL)
15
16 * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
17 (EXPERIMENTAL)
18
19
20 0.3.1 2015-07-19 Summer'15 release frenzy.
21
22 * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
23 64bit Linux flavours.
24
25 * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
26
27 * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
28 sub-routine is now in effect. (EXPERIMENTAL)
29
30 * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
31
32
33 0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
34
35 * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
36
37 * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
38 of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
39
40 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
41
42 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
43 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
44
45 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
46 main toolbar orientation.
47
48 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
49 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
50
51 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
52
53 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
54 debian, thanks).
55
56 * Translations install directory change.
57
58 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
59
60 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
61 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
62 instruments of the same file.
63
64 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
65 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
66
67
68 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
69
70 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
71
72 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
73
74 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
75 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
76
77 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
78
79 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
80
81 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
82
83 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
84 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
85
86 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
87
88 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
89
90 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
91
92 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
93
94 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
95 and make.
96
97 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
98 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
99 Debian 6.
100
101 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
102 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
103
104 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
105 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
106 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
107 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
108
109 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
110
111 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
112 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
113 wrong main widget hidden state.
114
115 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
116
117 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
118 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
119 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
120 targets (--enable-debug).
121
122 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
123
124 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
125 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
126 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
127
128 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
129 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
130
131 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
132 a menu separator has been added.
133
134 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
135 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
136
137 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
138 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
139 lame green solid background :).
140
141 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
142 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
143
144 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
145
146
147 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
148
149 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
150 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
151 ever may follow ;)
152
153 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
154
155 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
156 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
157 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
158 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
159 a sampler the next time.
160
161 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
162
163 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
164
165 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
166 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
167 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
168 (default none).
169
170 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
171 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
172 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
173
174 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
175 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
176 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
177 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
178
179 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
180 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
181
182 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
183 screwed.
184
185 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
186 e.g. by other frontends.
187
188 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
189 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
190 (fixes segfault on device changes)
191
192 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
193 "View" main menu.
194
195 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
196
197 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
198
199 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
200 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
201
202 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
203 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
204
205
206 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
207
208 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
209 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
210 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
211 default.
212
213 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
214 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
215
216 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
217 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
218
219 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
220 creating a new sampler channel.
221
222 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
223
224 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
225 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
226 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
227 first time).
228
229 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
230 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
231
232 * Added Windows file path support.
233
234 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
235 under win32.
236
237 * Qt4 port of the application.
238
239
240 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
241
242 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
243 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
244 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
245 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
246
247 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
248 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
249 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
250 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
251
252 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
253 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
254 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
255
256 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
257
258
259 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
260
261 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
262 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
263 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
264
265 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
266
267 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
268 the session state, only at code-level.
269
270 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
271 existing instrument file name.
272
273 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
274 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
275 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
276 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
277 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
278 corrected some tooltip text strings.
279
280 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
281 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
282 window managers.
283
284 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
285 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
286 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
287 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
288
289 * GPL address update.
290
291
292 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
293
294 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
295 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
296
297 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
298
299 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
300 installation paths have been added to configure command
301 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
302
303 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
304 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
305 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
306 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
307 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
308
309 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
310 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
311 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
312 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
313
314 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
315
316 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
317 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
318
319 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
320 title name prefix.
321
322 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
323 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
324 generated at configure time.
325
326 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
327 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
328 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
329 argument have some effect on X11.
330
331 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
332
333 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
334 compiled with -no-stl.
335
336
337 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
338
339 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
340 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
341 one, while on qjackctl).
342
343 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
344 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
345
346
347 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
348
349 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
350 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
351
352 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
353 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
354 info updates.
355
356 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
357 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
358 device dialog.
359
360 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
361
362 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
363 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
364 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
365 Mayat, for pointing these out).
366
367
368 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
369
370 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
371
372 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
373 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
374 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
375
376 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
377 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
378
379 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
380 an instrument.
381
382 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
383
384
385 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
386
387 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
388 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
389 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
390 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
391
392 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
393 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
394 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
395
396 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
397 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
398
399 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
400
401 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
402 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
403 change information are now also posted to messages window.
404
405 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
406 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
407 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
408 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
409
410 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
411 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
412 sampler instrument file.
413
414 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
415 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
416 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
417 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
418
419 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
420 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
421 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
422
423 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
424 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
425 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
426 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
427
428
429 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
430
431 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
432 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
433 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
434
435 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
436 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
437 following common user-interface guidelines.
438
439 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
440 control structures.
441
442 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
443
444 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
445 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
446 channel (omni mode).
447
448 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
449 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
450
451 * Minor configure fixes.
452
453
454 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
455
456 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
457
458 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
459 and on session file save.
460
461 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
462 on create time.
463
464 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
465
466
467 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
468
469 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
470 over the empty workspace area.
471
472 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
473 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
474 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
475 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
476
477 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
478 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
479
480 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
481 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
482
483 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
484 each sampler channel strip.
485
486 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
487 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
488
489 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
490 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
491
492 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
493 new sampler channel strip.
494
495 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
496 suggested in the following lines:
497
498 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
499 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
500 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
501 LOAD ENGINE ...
502 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
503 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
504
505
506 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
507

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