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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  0.0.2   2004-06-09  Work in progress...  SVN TRUNK
7    
8    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
9    
10    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
11      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
12    
13    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
14    
15    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
16    
17    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
18    
19    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
20    
21    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
22      and make.
23    
24    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
25      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
26      Debian 6.
27    
28    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
29      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. (EXPERIMENTAL)
30    
31    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
32      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
33      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
34      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
35    
36    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
37    
38    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
39      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
40      wrong main widget hidden state.
41    
42    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
43    
44    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
45      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
46      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
47      targets (--enable-debug).
48    
49    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
50    
51    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
52      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
53      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
54    
55    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
56      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
57    
58    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
59      a menu separator has been added.
60    
61    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
62      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
63    
64    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
65      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
66      lame green solid background :).
67    
68    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
69      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
70    
71    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
72    
73    
74    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
75    
76    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
77      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
78      ever may follow ;)
79    
80    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
81    
82    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
83      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
84      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
85      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
86      a sampler the next time.
87    
88    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
89    
90    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
91    
92    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
93      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
94      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
95      (default none).
96    
97    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
98      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
99      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
100    
101    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
102      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
103      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
104      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
105    
106    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
107      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
108    
109    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
110      screwed.
111    
112    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
113      e.g. by other frontends.
114    
115    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
116      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
117      (fixes segfault on device changes)
118    
119    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
120      "View" main menu.
121    
122    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
123    
124    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
125    
126    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
127      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
128    
129    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
130      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
131    
132    
133    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
134    
135    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
136      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
137      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
138      default.
139    
140    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
141      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
142    
143    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
144      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
145    
146    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
147      creating a new sampler channel.
148    
149    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
150    
151    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
152      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
153      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
154      first time).
155    
156    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
157      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
158    
159    * Added Windows file path support.
160    
161    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
162      under win32.
163    
164    * Qt4 port of the application.
165    
166    
167    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
168    
169    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
170      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
171      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
172      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
173    
174    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
175      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
176      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
177      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
178    
179    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
180      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
181      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
182    
183    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
184    
185    
186    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
187    
188    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
189      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
190      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
191    
192    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
193    
194    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
195      the session state, only at code-level.
196    
197    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
198      existing instrument file name.
199    
200    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
201      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
202      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
203      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
204      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
205      corrected some tooltip text strings.
206    
207    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
208      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
209      window managers.
210    
211    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
212      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
213      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
214      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
215    
216    * GPL address update.
217    
218    
219    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
220    
221    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
222      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
223    
224    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
225    
226    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
227      installation paths have been added to configure command
228      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
229    
230    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
231      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
232      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
233      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
234      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
235    
236    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
237      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
238      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
239      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
240    
241    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
242    
243    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
244      the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
245    
246    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
247      title name prefix.
248    
249    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
250      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
251      generated at configure time.
252    
253    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
254      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
255      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
256      argument have some effect on X11.
257    
258    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
259    
260    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
261      compiled with -no-stl.
262    
263    
264    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
265    
266    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
267      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
268      one, while on qjackctl).
269    
270    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
271      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
272    
273    
274    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
275    
276    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
277      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
278    
279    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
280      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
281      info updates.
282    
283    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
284      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
285      device dialog.
286    
287    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
288    
289    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
290      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
291      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
292      Mayat, for pointing these out).
293    
294    
295    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
296    
297    * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
298    
299    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
300      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
301      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
302    
303    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
304      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
305    
306    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
307      an instrument.
308    
309    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
310    
311    
312    0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
313    
314    * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
315      which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
316      configurations to the default audio driver type (which
317      is ALSA) unexpectedly.
318    
319    * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
320      session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
321      loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
322    
323    * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
324      session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
325    
326    * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
327    
328    * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
329      only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
330      change information are now also posted to messages window.
331    
332    * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
333      instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
334      drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
335      files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
336    
337    * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
338      featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
339      sampler instrument file.
340    
341    * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
342      from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
343      avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
344      channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
345    
346    * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
347      available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
348      a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
349    
350    * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
351      count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
352      maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
353      otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
354    
355    
356    0.0.4   2004-11-19  Fourth alpha-release.
357    
358    * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
359      actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
360      the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
361    
362    * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
363      the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
364      following common user-interface guidelines.
365    
366    * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
367      control structures.
368    
369    * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
370    
371    * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
372      the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
373      channel (omni mode).
374    
375    * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
376      color to black (was green), being now an user option.
377    
378    * Minor configure fixes.
379    
380    
381    0.0.3   2004-07-06  Third alpha-release.
382    
383    * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
384    
385    * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
386      and on session file save.
387    
388    * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
389      on create time.
390    
391    * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
392    
393    
394    0.0.2   2004-06-15  Pre-revolutionary release.
395    
396    * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
397      over the empty workspace area.
398    
399    * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
400      so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
401      avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
402      correct salvage of settings and configuration.
403    
404  * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,  * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
405    provided to override the default (which is 100%).    provided to override the default (which is 100%).

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