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

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