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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    
6  0.0.3   2004-06-29  Work in progress...  SVN TRUNK
7    
8    * Preparations for Qt5 migration. (TESTING)
9    
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.  * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
388    
389  * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog.  * 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.  0.0.2   2004-06-15  Pre-revolutionary release.

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