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1  qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface  Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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3    
4  ChangeLog  ChangeLog
5    
6  0.0.5   2005-03-02  Work in progress...  
7    GIT HEAD
8    
9    * Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
10    
11    - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
12    
13    - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
14    
15    
16    0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
17    
18    - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
19      (qsampler_fr.ts).
20    
21    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
22      from build/configure template chains.
23    
24    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
25      file (formerly AppData).
26    
27    
28    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
29    
30    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
31    
32    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
33      the configure build date and time stamps.
34    
35    
36    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
37    
38    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
39      instance setup.
40    
41    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
42      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
43      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
44    
45    
46    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
47    
48    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
49      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
50      
51    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
52      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
53      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
54    
55    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
56      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
57    
58    
59    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
60    
61    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
62    
63    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
64    
65    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
66      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
67    
68    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
69    
70    
71    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
72    
73    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
74      64bit Linux flavours.
75    
76    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
77    
78    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
79      sub-routine is now in effect.
80    
81    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
82    
83    
84    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
85    
86    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
87    
88    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
89      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
90    
91    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
92    
93    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
94      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
95    
96    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
97      main toolbar orientation.
98    
99    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
100      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
101    
102    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
103    
104    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
105      debian, thanks).
106    
107    * Translations install directory change.
108    
109    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
110    
111    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
112      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
113      instruments of the same file.
114    
115    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
116      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
117    
118    
119    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
120    
121    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
122    
123    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
124    
125    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
126      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
127    
128    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
129    
130    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
131    
132    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
133    
134    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
135      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
136    
137    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
138    
139    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
140    
141    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
142    
143    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
144    
145    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
146      and make.
147    
148    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
149      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
150      Debian 6.
151    
152    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
153      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
154    
155    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
156      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
157      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
158      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
159    
160    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
161    
162    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
163      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
164      wrong main widget hidden state.
165    
166    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
167    
168    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
169      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
170      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
171      targets (--enable-debug).
172    
173    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
174    
175    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
176      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
177      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
178    
179    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
180      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
181    
182    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
183      a menu separator has been added.
184    
185    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
186      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
187    
188    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
189      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
190      lame green solid background :).
191    
192    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
193      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
194    
195    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
196    
197    
198    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
199    
200    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
201      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
202      ever may follow ;)
203    
204    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
205    
206    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
207      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
208      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
209      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
210      a sampler the next time.
211    
212    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
213    
214    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
215    
216    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
217      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
218      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
219      (default none).
220    
221    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
222      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
223      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
224    
225    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
226      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
227      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
228      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
229    
230    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
231      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
232    
233    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
234      screwed.
235    
236    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
237      e.g. by other frontends.
238    
239    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
240      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
241      (fixes segfault on device changes)
242    
243    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
244      "View" main menu.
245    
246    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
247    
248    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
249    
250    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
251      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
252    
253    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
254      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
255    
256    
257    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
258    
259    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
260      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
261      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
262      default.
263    
264    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
265      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
266    
267    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
268      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
269    
270    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
271      creating a new sampler channel.
272    
273    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
274    
275    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
276      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
277      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
278      first time).
279    
280    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
281      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
282    
283    * Added Windows file path support.
284    
285    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
286      under win32.
287    
288    * Qt4 port of the application.
289    
290    
291    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
292    
293    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
294      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
295      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
296      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
297    
298    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
299      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
300      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
301      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
302    
303    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
304      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
305      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
306    
307    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
308    
309    
310    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
311    
312    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
313      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
314      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
315    
316    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
317    
318    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
319      the session state, only at code-level.
320    
321    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
322      existing instrument file name.
323    
324    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
325      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
326      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
327      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
328      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
329      corrected some tooltip text strings.
330    
331    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
332      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
333      window managers.
334    
335    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
336      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
337      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
338      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
339    
340    * GPL address update.
341    
342    
343    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
344    
345    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
346      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
347    
348    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
349    
350    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
351      installation paths have been added to configure command
352      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
353    
354    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
355      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
356      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
357      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
358      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
359    
360    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
361      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
362      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
363      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
364    
365    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
366    
367    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
368      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
369    
370    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
371      title name prefix.
372    
373    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
374      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
375      generated at configure time.
376    
377    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
378      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
379      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
380      argument have some effect on X11.
381    
382    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
383    
384    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
385      compiled with -no-stl.
386    
387    
388    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
389    
390    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
391      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
392      one, while on qjackctl).
393    
394    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
395      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
396    
397    
398    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
399    
400    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
401      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
402    
403    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
404      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
405      info updates.
406    
407    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
408      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
409      device dialog.
410    
411    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
412    
413    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
414      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
415      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
416      Mayat, for pointing these out).
417    
418    
419    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
420    
421    * Device configuration is now complete.
422    
423    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
424      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
425      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
426    
427    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
428      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
429    
430    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
431      an instrument.
432    
433    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
434    
435    
436    0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
437    
438  * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,  * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
439    which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session    which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
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458    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
459    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
460    
461  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
462    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
463    sampler instrument file.    sampler instrument file.
464    
465  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved

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