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

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