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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  0.1.1   2005-06-02 The mantra of bugfixes.  
7    GIT HEAD
8    
9    - When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=...,
10      it is also necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
11      environment variable (after a merge request by plcl
12      aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas, while on qmidinet,
13      thanks). (EXPERIMENTAL)
14    
15    
16    0.6.0  2019-10-17  An Autumn'19 Release.
17    
18    - Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.
19    
20    - Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).
21    
22    - Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.
23    
24    
25    0.5.6  2019-07-12  A Summer'19 Release.
26    
27    - Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).
28    
29    - Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
30    
31    - Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
32    
33    
34    0.5.5  2019-04-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.
35    
36    - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
37    
38    
39    0.5.4  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
40    
41    - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
42      setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
43    
44    - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
45    
46    - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
47    
48    
49    0.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
50    
51    - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
52      to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
53    
54    - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
55      channel settings dialog.
56    
57    - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
58    
59    - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
60      latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
61    
62    
63    0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
64    
65    - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
66      permisssive license (FSFAP).
67    
68    
69    0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
70    
71    - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
72      when the display server platform is not X11.
73    
74    - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
75    
76    - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
77    
78    - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
79    
80    - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
81    
82    
83    0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
84    
85    - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
86      (qsampler_fr.ts).
87    
88    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
89      from build/configure template chains.
90    
91    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
92      file (formerly AppData).
93    
94    
95    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
96    
97    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
98    
99    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
100      the configure build date and time stamps.
101    
102    
103    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
104    
105    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
106      instance setup.
107    
108    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
109      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
110      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
111    
112    
113    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
114    
115    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
116      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
117      
118    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
119      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
120      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
121    
122    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
123      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
124    
125    
126    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
127    
128    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
129    
130    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
131    
132    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
133      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
134    
135    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
136    
137    
138    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
139    
140    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
141      64bit Linux flavours.
142    
143    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
144    
145    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
146      sub-routine is now in effect.
147    
148    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
149    
150    
151    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
152    
153    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
154    
155    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
156      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
157    
158    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
159    
160    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
161      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
162    
163    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
164      main toolbar orientation.
165    
166    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
167      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
168    
169    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
170    
171    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
172      debian, thanks).
173    
174    * Translations install directory change.
175    
176    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
177    
178    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
179      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
180      instruments of the same file.
181    
182    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
183      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
184    
185    
186    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
187    
188    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
189    
190    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
191    
192    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
193      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
194    
195    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
196    
197    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
198    
199    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
200    
201    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
202      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
203    
204    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
205    
206    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
207    
208    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
209    
210    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
211    
212    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
213      and make.
214    
215    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
216      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
217      Debian 6.
218    
219    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
220      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
221    
222    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
223      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
224      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
225      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
226    
227    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
228    
229    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
230      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
231      wrong main widget hidden state.
232    
233    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
234    
235    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
236      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
237      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
238      targets (--enable-debug).
239    
240    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
241    
242    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
243      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
244      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
245    
246    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
247      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
248    
249    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
250      a menu separator has been added.
251    
252    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
253      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
254    
255    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
256      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
257      lame green solid background :).
258    
259    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
260      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
261    
262    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
263    
264    
265    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
266    
267    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
268      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
269      ever may follow ;)
270    
271    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
272    
273    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
274      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
275      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
276      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
277      a sampler the next time.
278    
279    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
280    
281    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
282    
283    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
284      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
285      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
286      (default none).
287    
288    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
289      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
290      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
291    
292    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
293      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
294      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
295      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
296    
297    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
298      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
299    
300    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
301      screwed.
302    
303    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
304      e.g. by other frontends.
305    
306    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
307      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
308      (fixes segfault on device changes)
309    
310    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
311      "View" main menu.
312    
313    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
314    
315    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
316    
317    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
318      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
319    
320    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
321      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
322    
323    
324    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
325    
326    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
327      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
328      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
329      default.
330    
331    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
332      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
333    
334    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
335      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
336    
337    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
338      creating a new sampler channel.
339    
340    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
341    
342    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
343      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
344      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
345      first time).
346    
347    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
348      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
349    
350    * Added Windows file path support.
351    
352    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
353      under win32.
354    
355    * Qt4 port of the application.
356    
357    
358    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
359    
360    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
361      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
362      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
363      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
364    
365    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
366      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
367      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
368      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
369    
370    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
371      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
372      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
373    
374    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
375    
376    
377    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
378    
379    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
380      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
381      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
382    
383    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
384    
385    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
386      the session state, only at code-level.
387    
388    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
389      existing instrument file name.
390    
391    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
392      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
393      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
394      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
395      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
396      corrected some tooltip text strings.
397    
398    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
399      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
400      window managers.
401    
402    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
403      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
404      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
405      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
406    
407    * GPL address update.
408    
409    
410    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
411    
412    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
413      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
414    
415    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
416    
417    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
418      installation paths have been added to configure command
419      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
420    
421    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
422      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
423      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
424      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
425      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
426    
427    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
428      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
429      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
430      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
431    
432    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
433    
434    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
435      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
436    
437    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
438      title name prefix.
439    
440    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
441      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
442      generated at configure time.
443    
444    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
445      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
446      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
447      argument have some effect on X11.
448    
449    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
450    
451    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
452      compiled with -no-stl.
453    
454    
455    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
456    
457    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
458      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
459      one, while on qjackctl).
460    
461    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
462      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
463    
464    
465    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
466    
467    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
468      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
469    
470  * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found  * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
471    in an error state, which wwas preventing correct channel    in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
472    info updates.    info updates.
473    
474  * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar.  * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
475      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
476  * Minor configure fix, a debian specialty.    device dialog.
477    
478    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
479    
480    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
481      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
482      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
483      Mayat, for pointing these out).
484    
485    
486  0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.  0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
487    
488  * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).  * Device configuration is now complete.
489    
490  * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention  * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
491    consistency, regarding the enumeration of available    consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
492    sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.    sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
493    
494  * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new  * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
495    instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.    instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
496    
497  * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading  * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
498    an instrument.    an instrument.
499    
500  * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).  * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
501    
502    
503  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
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525    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
526    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
527    
528  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
529    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
530    sampler instrument file.    sampler instrument file.
531    
532  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved

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