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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   2005-03-22  Device configuration work in progress...  
6    
7  * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).  GIT HEAD
8    
9    - Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though
10      CMake build configuration. (EXPERIMENTAL)
11    
12    - When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=...,
13      it is also necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
14      environment variable (after a merge request by plcl
15      aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas, while on qmidinet,
16      thanks). (EXPERIMENTAL)
17    
18    
19    0.6.0  2019-10-17  An Autumn'19 Release.
20    
21    - Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.
22    
23    - Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).
24    
25    - Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.
26    
27    
28    0.5.6  2019-07-12  A Summer'19 Release.
29    
30    - Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).
31    
32    - Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
33    
34    - Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
35    
36    
37    0.5.5  2019-04-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.
38    
39    - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
40    
41    
42    0.5.4  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
43    
44    - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
45      setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
46    
47    - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
48    
49    - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
50    
51    
52    0.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
53    
54    - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
55      to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
56    
57    - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
58      channel settings dialog.
59    
60    - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
61    
62    - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
63      latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
64    
65    
66    0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
67    
68    - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
69      permisssive license (FSFAP).
70    
71    
72    0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
73    
74    - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
75      when the display server platform is not X11.
76    
77    - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
78    
79    - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
80    
81    - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
82    
83    - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
84    
85    
86    0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
87    
88    - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
89      (qsampler_fr.ts).
90    
91    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
92      from build/configure template chains.
93    
94    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
95      file (formerly AppData).
96    
97    
98    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
99    
100    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
101    
102    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
103      the configure build date and time stamps.
104    
105    
106    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
107    
108    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
109      instance setup.
110    
111    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
112      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
113      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
114    
115    
116    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
117    
118    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
119      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
120      
121    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
122      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
123      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
124    
125    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
126      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
127    
128    
129    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
130    
131    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
132    
133    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
134    
135    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
136      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
137    
138    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
139    
140    
141    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
142    
143    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
144      64bit Linux flavours.
145    
146    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
147    
148    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
149      sub-routine is now in effect.
150    
151    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
152    
153    
154    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
155    
156    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
157    
158    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
159      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
160    
161    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
162    
163    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
164      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
165    
166    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
167      main toolbar orientation.
168    
169    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
170      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
171    
172    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
173    
174    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
175      debian, thanks).
176    
177    * Translations install directory change.
178    
179    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
180    
181    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
182      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
183      instruments of the same file.
184    
185    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
186      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
187    
188    
189    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
190    
191    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
192    
193    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
194    
195    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
196      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
197    
198    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
199    
200    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
201    
202    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
203    
204    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
205      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
206    
207    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
208    
209    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
210    
211    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
212    
213    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
214    
215    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
216      and make.
217    
218    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
219      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
220      Debian 6.
221    
222    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
223      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
224    
225    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
226      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
227      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
228      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
229    
230    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
231    
232    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
233      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
234      wrong main widget hidden state.
235    
236    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
237    
238    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
239      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
240      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
241      targets (--enable-debug).
242    
243    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
244    
245    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
246      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
247      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
248    
249    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
250      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
251    
252    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
253      a menu separator has been added.
254    
255    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
256      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
257    
258    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
259      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
260      lame green solid background :).
261    
262    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
263      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
264    
265    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
266    
267    
268    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
269    
270    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
271      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
272      ever may follow ;)
273    
274    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
275    
276    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
277      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
278      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
279      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
280      a sampler the next time.
281    
282    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
283    
284    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
285    
286    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
287      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
288      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
289      (default none).
290    
291    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
292      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
293      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
294    
295    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
296      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
297      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
298      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
299    
300    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
301      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
302    
303    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
304      screwed.
305    
306    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
307      e.g. by other frontends.
308    
309    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
310      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
311      (fixes segfault on device changes)
312    
313    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
314      "View" main menu.
315    
316    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
317    
318    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
319    
320    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
321      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
322    
323    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
324      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
325    
326    
327    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
328    
329    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
330      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
331      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
332      default.
333    
334    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
335      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
336    
337    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
338      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
339    
340    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
341      creating a new sampler channel.
342    
343    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
344    
345    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
346      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
347      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
348      first time).
349    
350    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
351      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
352    
353    * Added Windows file path support.
354    
355    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
356      under win32.
357    
358    * Qt4 port of the application.
359    
360    
361    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
362    
363    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
364      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
365      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
366      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
367    
368    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
369      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
370      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
371      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
372    
373    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
374      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
375      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
376    
377    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
378    
379    
380    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
381    
382    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
383      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
384      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
385    
386    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
387    
388    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
389      the session state, only at code-level.
390    
391    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
392      existing instrument file name.
393    
394    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
395      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
396      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
397      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
398      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
399      corrected some tooltip text strings.
400    
401    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
402      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
403      window managers.
404    
405    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
406      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
407      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
408      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
409    
410    * GPL address update.
411    
412    
413    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
414    
415    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
416      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
417    
418    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
419    
420    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
421      installation paths have been added to configure command
422      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
423    
424    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
425      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
426      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
427      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
428      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
429    
430    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
431      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
432      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
433      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
434    
435    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
436    
437    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
438      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
439    
440    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
441      title name prefix.
442    
443    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
444      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
445      generated at configure time.
446    
447    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
448      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
449      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
450      argument have some effect on X11.
451    
452    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
453    
454    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
455      compiled with -no-stl.
456    
457    
458    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
459    
460    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
461      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
462      one, while on qjackctl).
463    
464    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
465      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
466    
467    
468    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
469    
470    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
471      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
472    
473    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
474      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
475      info updates.
476    
477    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
478      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
479      device dialog.
480    
481    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
482    
483    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
484      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
485      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
486      Mayat, for pointing these out).
487    
488    
489    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
490    
491    * Device configuration is now complete.
492    
493    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
494      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
495      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
496    
497    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
498      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
499    
500    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
501      an instrument.
502    
503    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
504    
505    
506  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
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528    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
529    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
530    
531  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
532    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
533    sampler instrument file.    sampler instrument file.
534    
535  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved

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