--- qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2005/01/12 10:43:37 338 +++ qsampler/trunk/ChangeLog 2020/01/04 15:04:22 3700 @@ -1,11 +1,565 @@ -qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface ------------------------------------------- +Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface +~------------------------------------------ ChangeLog -0.0.5 2005-01-12 Work in progress... -- Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line +GIT HEAD + +- Ditching deprecated QTime methods for QElapsedTimer's + (in compliance to Qt >= 5.14.0). (EXPERIMENTAL) + +- If connection to server aborted, try to automatically + reconnect (if server was not started by QSampler). + +- Fixed crash when a device disappeared on server side + (caused by iterator invalidation). + +- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2020). + + + +0.6.1 2019-12-22 The Winter'19 Release. + +- Custom color (palette) theme editor introduced; color + (palette) theme changes are now effective immediately, + except on default. + +- Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though + CMake build configuration. + +- When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=..., + it is also necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH + environment variable (after a merge request by plcl + aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas, while on qmidinet). + + +0.6.0 2019-10-17 An Autumn'19 Release. + +- Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option. + +- Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6). + +- Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard. + + +0.5.6 2019-07-12 A Summer'19 Release. + +- Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13). + +- Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability. + +- Minor update to Debian packaging control file. + + +0.5.5 2019-04-11 A Spring-Break'19 Release. + +- Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling. + + +0.5.4 2019-03-11 Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy. + +- Refactored all singleton/unique application instance + setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery. + +- HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6). + +- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019). + + +0.5.3 2018-12-06 An End of Autumn'18 Release. + +- Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices + to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files. + +- Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler + channel settings dialog. + +- Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more. + +- AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with + latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation. + + +0.5.2 2018-07-22 A Summer'18 Release. + +- AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all + permisssive license (FSFAP). + + +0.5.1 2018-05-21 Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy. + +- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic + when the display server platform is not X11. + +- Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes. + +- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side. + +- Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog. + +- Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app. + + +0.5.0 2017-12-12 An Autumn'17 release. + +- French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert + (qsampler_fr.ts). + +- Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent + from build/configure template chains. + +- Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo + file (formerly AppData). + + +0.4.3 2017-04-27 Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy. + +- Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks). + +- Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of + the configure build date and time stamps. + + +0.4.2 2016-11-14 A Fall'16 release. + +* Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application + instance setup. + +* Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command + line options, wrt. installation directories specification, + eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir. + + +0.4.1 2016-09-14 End of Summer'16 release. + +* Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended + in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange. + +* Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant + given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido + Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks). + +* Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to + auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color. + + +0.4.0 2016-04-05 Spring'16 release frenzy. + +* Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData. + +* Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms. + +* Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now + in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get. + +* Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11. + + +0.3.1 2015-07-19 Summer'15 release frenzy. + +* Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some + 64bit Linux flavours. + +* Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script. + +* A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore + sub-routine is now in effect. + +* Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. + + +0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy. + +* Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData. + +* Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most + of the nagging warning/error message boxes. + +* Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary. + +* When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to + stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes". + +* Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its + main toolbar orientation. + +* Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved + as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. + +* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir. + +* A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on + debian, thanks). + +* Translations install directory change. + +* Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration. + +* Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when + the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among + instruments of the same file. + +* Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir + (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0). + + +0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee. + +* Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS. + +* More preparations for Qt5 configure build. + +* Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for + session files (*.lscp) is now being added. + +* Preparations for Qt5 migration. + +* Added include to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures. + +* Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses. + +* Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the + configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir. + +* Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle. + +* Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix. + +* Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads. + +* Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows. + +* Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure + and make. + +* libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, + as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, + Debian 6. + +* Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling + into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. + +* Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for + other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has + been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines + instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2). + +* General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place. + +* Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has + been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to + wrong main widget hidden state. + +* General source tree layout and build configuration change. + +* Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back- + traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure + option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build + targets (--enable-debug). + +* Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6. + +* Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher: + now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit + (65536), possibly fixing bug #136. + +* LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap + just makes it a shortcut to File/Save. + +* MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists; + a menu separator has been added. + +* Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices + and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed. + +* MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status + widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a + lame green solid background :). + +* Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to + disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied. + +* Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric). + + +0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle. + +* Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as + brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom + ever may follow ;) + +* Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons. + +* Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting + (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning + settings will be saved in case the user modified them and + automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to + a sampler the next time. + +* Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes. + +* Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions. + +* Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding + font size configuration, a new global user option is now available + to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size + (default none). + +* Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of + the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode. + (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks). + +* Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and + running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup + iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its + main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only). + +* Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance, + with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging. + +* Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were + screwed. + +* Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed + e.g. by other frontends. + +* Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed, + e.g. on changes caused by other frontends + (fixes segfault on device changes) + +* Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the + "View" main menu. + +* Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips. + +* Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips. + +* Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel + strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds. + +* Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user + decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not. + + +0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete. + +* Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument + names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then + the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by + default. + +* The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually + evident while in the application workspace (highlighting). + +* Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though + the main menu and toobar are not visible. + +* Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when + creating a new sampler channel. + +* README requirements and configuration notes update. + +* Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument + form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie + users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the + first time). + +* Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters + which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog). + +* Added Windows file path support. + +* Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles + under win32. + +* Qt4 port of the application. + + +0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard. + +* Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and + mapping instrument files with special characters in their + filename, as well as special characters for instrument names + and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side). + +* Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably + does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate + instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor + tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar. + +* Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; + application desktop entry file is now included in installation; + spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant. + +* Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list. + + +0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by. + +* Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and + cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color + highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles. + +* Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured. + +* Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving + the session state, only at code-level. + +* Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor + existing instrument file name. + +* Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save; + hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save; + keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context; + improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load; + instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional); + corrected some tooltip text strings. + +* Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag, + which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some + window managers. + +* Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now + with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities; + MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in + the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127. + +* GPL address update. + + +0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it? + +* Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license, + on qsampler.spec (RPM). + +* Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED). + +* Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig + installation paths have been added to configure command + arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig). + +* Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an + option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole + number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously + increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100 + (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog. + +* The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio + and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog, + are now expected to be a little better looking than it was + before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes. + +* Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height. + +* Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits + the sampler channel dialog, at last! + +* All widget captions changed to include proper application + title name prefix. + +* Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date; + sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and + generated at configure time. + +* Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of + registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal + to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line + argument have some effect on X11. + +* Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips. + +* Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was + compiled with -no-stl. + + +0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest. + +* Fixed output disability when messages limit option is + turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this + one, while on qjackctl). + +* Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling; + minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization. + + +0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes. + +* New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks + to Christian Schoenebeck design. + +* Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found + in an error state, which was preventing correct channel + info updates. + +* Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added + buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the + device dialog. + +* Include libgig version info on command line request (-v). + +* Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and + Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing + with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim + Mayat, for pointing these out). + + +0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough. + +* Device configuration is now complete. + +* [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention + consistency, regarding the enumeration of available + sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers. + +* [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new + instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog. + +* Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading + an instrument. + +* Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used). + + +0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release. + +* Fixed device driver type channel information gathering, + which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session + configurations to the default audio driver type (which + is ALSA) unexpectedly. + +* Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a + session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always + loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels). + +* Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on + session file save, as its use is still troublesome. + +* Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels. + +* Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for + only those settings that are actually changed gets applied; + change information are now also posted to messages window. + +* Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or + instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files + drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument + files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel. + +* Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also + featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel + sampler instrument file. + +* Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved + from the instrument file, even though libgig is available, + avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the + channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected. + +* Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where + available, as the default handler is usually fatal when + a JACK client is zombified abruptly. + +* Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line count exceeds in one third the user configured line count maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.