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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    
 0.1.0   2005-03-14  Device configuration work in progress...  
6    
7  * Device configuration interface preparations.  0.5.6  2019-07-12  A Summer'19 Release.
8    
9    - Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).
10    
11    - Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
12    
13    - Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
14    
15    
16    0.5.5  2019-04-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.
17    
18    - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
19    
20    
21    0.5.4  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
22    
23    - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
24      setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
25    
26    - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
27    
28    - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
29    
30    
31    0.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
32    
33    - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
34      to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
35    
36    - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
37      channel settings dialog.
38    
39    - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
40    
41    - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
42      latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
43    
44    
45    0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
46    
47    - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
48      permisssive license (FSFAP).
49    
50    
51    0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
52    
53    - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
54      when the display server platform is not X11.
55    
56    - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
57    
58    - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
59    
60    - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
61    
62    - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
63    
64    
65    0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
66    
67    - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
68      (qsampler_fr.ts).
69    
70    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
71      from build/configure template chains.
72    
73    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
74      file (formerly AppData).
75    
76    
77    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
78    
79    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
80    
81    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
82      the configure build date and time stamps.
83    
84    
85    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
86    
87    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
88      instance setup.
89    
90    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
91      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
92      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
93    
94    
95    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
96    
97    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
98      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
99      
100    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
101      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
102      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
103    
104    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
105      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
106    
107    
108    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
109    
110    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
111    
112    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
113    
114    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
115      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
116    
117    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
118    
119    
120    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
121    
122    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
123      64bit Linux flavours.
124    
125    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
126    
127    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
128      sub-routine is now in effect.
129    
130    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
131    
132    
133    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
134    
135    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
136    
137    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
138      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
139    
140    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
141    
142    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
143      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
144    
145    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
146      main toolbar orientation.
147    
148    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
149      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
150    
151    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
152    
153    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
154      debian, thanks).
155    
156    * Translations install directory change.
157    
158    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
159    
160    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
161      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
162      instruments of the same file.
163    
164    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
165      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
166    
167    
168    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
169    
170    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
171    
172    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
173    
174    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
175      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
176    
177    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
178    
179    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
180    
181    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
182    
183    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
184      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
185    
186    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
187    
188    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
189    
190    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
191    
192    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
193    
194    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
195      and make.
196    
197    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
198      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
199      Debian 6.
200    
201    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
202      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
203    
204    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
205      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
206      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
207      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
208    
209    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
210    
211    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
212      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
213      wrong main widget hidden state.
214    
215    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
216    
217    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
218      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
219      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
220      targets (--enable-debug).
221    
222    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
223    
224    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
225      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
226      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
227    
228    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
229      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
230    
231    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
232      a menu separator has been added.
233    
234    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
235      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
236    
237    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
238      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
239      lame green solid background :).
240    
241    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
242      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
243    
244    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
245    
246    
247    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
248    
249    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
250      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
251      ever may follow ;)
252    
253    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
254    
255    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
256      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
257      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
258      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
259      a sampler the next time.
260    
261    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
262    
263    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
264    
265    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
266      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
267      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
268      (default none).
269    
270    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
271      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
272      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
273    
274    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
275      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
276      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
277      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
278    
279    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
280      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
281    
282    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
283      screwed.
284    
285    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
286      e.g. by other frontends.
287    
288    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
289      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
290      (fixes segfault on device changes)
291    
292    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
293      "View" main menu.
294    
295    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
296    
297    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
298    
299    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
300      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
301    
302    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
303      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
304    
305    
306    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
307    
308    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
309      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
310      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
311      default.
312    
313    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
314      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
315    
316    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
317      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
318    
319    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
320      creating a new sampler channel.
321    
322    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
323    
324    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
325      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
326      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
327      first time).
328    
329    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
330      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
331    
332    * Added Windows file path support.
333    
334    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
335      under win32.
336    
337    * Qt4 port of the application.
338    
339    
340    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
341    
342    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
343      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
344      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
345      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
346    
347    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
348      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
349      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
350      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
351    
352    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
353      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
354      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
355    
356    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
357    
358    
359    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
360    
361    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
362      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
363      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
364    
365    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
366    
367    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
368      the session state, only at code-level.
369    
370    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
371      existing instrument file name.
372    
373    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
374      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
375      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
376      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
377      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
378      corrected some tooltip text strings.
379    
380    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
381      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
382      window managers.
383    
384    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
385      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
386      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
387      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
388    
389    * GPL address update.
390    
391    
392    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
393    
394    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
395      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
396    
397    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
398    
399    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
400      installation paths have been added to configure command
401      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
402    
403    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
404      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
405      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
406      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
407      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
408    
409    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
410      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
411      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
412      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
413    
414    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
415    
416    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
417      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
418    
419    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
420      title name prefix.
421    
422    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
423      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
424      generated at configure time.
425    
426    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
427      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
428      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
429      argument have some effect on X11.
430    
431    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
432    
433    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
434      compiled with -no-stl.
435    
436    
437    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
438    
439    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
440      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
441      one, while on qjackctl).
442    
443    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
444      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
445    
446    
447    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
448    
449    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
450      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
451    
452    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
453      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
454      info updates.
455    
456    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
457      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
458      device dialog.
459    
460    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
461    
462    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
463      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
464      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
465      Mayat, for pointing these out).
466    
467    
468    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
469    
470    * Device configuration is now complete.
471    
472    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
473      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
474      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
475    
476    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
477      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
478    
479    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
480      an instrument.
481    
482    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
483    
484    
485  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
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507    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
508    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
509    
510  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
511    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
512    sampler instrument file.    sampler instrument file.
513    
514  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved

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