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- qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
+ Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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  ChangeLog
-.0.3   2004-06-26  Work in progress...
- * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
+.9.6  2022-04-02  A Spring'22 Release.
+ - Main application icon is now presented in scalable format (SVG).
+ - Migrated command line parsing to QCommandLineParser/Option
+   (Qt >= 5.2)
+ - Fixed translations path to be relative to application runtime.
+.9.5  2022-01-09  A Winter'22 Release.
+ - Dropped autotools (autoconf, automake, etc.) build system.
+ - Fixed for Qt6 plugins path eg. widget theme or styles.
+.9.4  2021-07-03  An Early-Summer'21 Release.
+ - All builds default to Qt6 (Qt >= 6.1) where available.
+ - CMake is now the official build system.
+.9.3  2021-05-11  A Spring'21 Release.
+ - All packaging builds switching to CMake.
+.9.2  2021-03-14  An End-of-Winter'21 Release.
+ - Bumped version micro/dot number into the next develop cycle.
+.9.1  2021-02-07  A Winter'21 Release.
+ - Early preparations for the New Year develop(ment) cycle.
+.9.0  2020-12-17  A Winter'20 Release.
+ - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17
+   standard.
+.6.3  2020-07-31  A Summer'20 Release.
+ - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 5.15.0.
+.6.2  2020-03-24  A Spring'20 Release.
+ - Make man page compression reproducible (after request by Jelle
+   van der Waa, while on the Vee-Ones, thanks).
+ - Ditching deprecated QTime methods for QElapsedTimer's (in
+   compliance to Qt >= 5.14.0).
+ - 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).
+.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).
+.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.
+.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.
+.5.5  2019-04-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.
+ - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
+.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).
+.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.
+.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
+ - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive
+   license (FSFAP).
+.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.
+.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).
+.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.
+.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.
+.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.
+.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.
+.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
+ - Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
+bit 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.
+.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).
+.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 <unistd.h> 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
+.
+ - 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).
+.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.
+.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.
+.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.
+.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.
+.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.
+.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.
+.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).
+.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).
+.0.5   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
+.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is otherwise set to the
+   optimized Qt::LogText format.
+.0.4   2004-11-19  Fourth alpha-release.
+ - Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget; actual
+   instrument names are now properly retrieved from the instrument
+   file, provided if libgig is available.
+ - Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if, the
+   respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted, following
+   common user-interface guidelines.
+ - Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal control
+   structures.
+ - Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
+ - MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing the
+   explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler channel
+   (omni mode).
+ - Channel strip display glass effect has changed background color to
+   black (was green), being now an user option.
+ - Minor configure fixes.
+.0.3   2004-07-06  Third alpha-release.
+ - Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
+ - Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog, and on
+   session file save.
+ - Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults on create
+   time.
+ - Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
 .0.2   2004-06-15  Pre-revolutionary release.
- * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
+ - The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking over
-   over the empty workspace area.
+   the empty workspace area.
- * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
+ - Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(), so
-   so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
+   let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and avoiding a
-   avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
+   probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the correct salvage
-   correct salvage of settings and configuration.
+   of settings and configuration.
- * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
+ - Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
    provided to override the default (which is 100%).
- * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
+ - Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
    increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
- * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
+ - A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
    each sampler channel strip.
- * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
+ - Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
    qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
- * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
+ - Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between a
-   a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
+   #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
- * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
+ - An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every new
-   new sampler channel strip.
+   sampler channel strip.
- * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
+ - The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
    suggested in the following lines:
      SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
      SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
      SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
      LOAD ENGINE ...
-     LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
+     LOAD INSTRUMENT ... SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
-     SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
 .0.1   2004-06-05  Primordial alpha release.

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