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1  qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface  Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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3    
4  ChangeLog  ChangeLog
5    
 0.0.9   2005-03-11  Device configuration work in progress...  
6    
7  * Device configuration interface preparations.  GIT HEAD
8    
9    - Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
10    
11    - Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
12    
13    
14    0.5.5  2019-04-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.
15    
16    - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
17    
18    
19    0.5.4  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
20    
21    - Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
22      setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
23    
24    - HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
25    
26    - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
27    
28    
29    0.5.3  2018-12-06  An End of Autumn'18 Release.
30    
31    - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices
32      to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files.
33    
34    - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler
35      channel settings dialog.
36    
37    - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
38    
39    - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
40      latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
41    
42    
43    0.5.2  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.
44    
45    - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
46      permisssive license (FSFAP).
47    
48    
49    0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
50    
51    - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
52      when the display server platform is not X11.
53    
54    - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
55    
56    - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
57    
58    - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
59    
60    - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
61    
62    
63    0.5.0  2017-12-12  An Autumn'17 release.
64    
65    - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
66      (qsampler_fr.ts).
67    
68    - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
69      from build/configure template chains.
70    
71    - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
72      file (formerly AppData).
73    
74    
75    0.4.3  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
76    
77    - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
78    
79    - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
80      the configure build date and time stamps.
81    
82    
83    0.4.2  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.
84    
85    * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
86      instance setup.
87    
88    * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
89      line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
90      eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
91    
92    
93    0.4.1  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.
94    
95    * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
96      in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
97      
98    * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
99      given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
100      Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
101    
102    * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
103      auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
104    
105    
106    0.4.0  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.
107    
108    * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
109    
110    * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
111    
112    * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
113      in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
114    
115    * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
116    
117    
118    0.3.1  2015-07-19  Summer'15 release frenzy.
119    
120    * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
121      64bit Linux flavours.
122    
123    * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
124    
125    * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
126      sub-routine is now in effect.
127    
128    * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
129    
130    
131    0.3.0  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
132    
133    * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
134    
135    * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
136      of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
137    
138    * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
139    
140    * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
141      stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
142    
143    * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
144      main toolbar orientation.
145    
146    * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
147      as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
148    
149    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
150    
151    * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
152      debian, thanks).
153    
154    * Translations install directory change.
155    
156    * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
157    
158    * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
159      the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
160      instruments of the same file.
161    
162    * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
163      (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
164    
165    
166    0.2.3  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.
167    
168    * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
169    
170    * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
171    
172    * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
173      session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
174    
175    * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
176    
177    * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
178    
179    * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
180    
181    * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
182      configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
183    
184    * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
185    
186    * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
187    
188    * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
189    
190    * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
191    
192    * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
193      and make.
194    
195    * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
196      as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
197      Debian 6.
198    
199    * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
200      into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
201    
202    * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
203      other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
204      been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
205      instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
206    
207    * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
208    
209    * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
210      been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
211      wrong main widget hidden state.
212    
213    * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
214    
215    * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
216      traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
217      option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
218      targets (--enable-debug).
219    
220    * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
221    
222    * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
223      now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
224      (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
225    
226    * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
227      just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
228    
229    * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
230      a menu separator has been added.
231    
232    * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
233      and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
234    
235    * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
236      widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
237      lame green solid background :).
238    
239    * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
240      disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
241    
242    * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
243    
244    
245    0.2.2  2009-08-01  New release cycle.
246    
247    * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
248      brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
249      ever may follow ;)
250    
251    * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
252    
253    * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
254      (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
255      settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
256      automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
257      a sampler the next time.
258    
259    * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
260    
261    * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
262    
263    * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
264      font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
265      to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
266      (default none).
267    
268    * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
269      the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
270      (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
271    
272    * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
273      running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
274      iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
275      main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
276    
277    * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
278      with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
279    
280    * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
281      screwed.
282    
283    * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
284      e.g. by other frontends.
285    
286    * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
287      e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
288      (fixes segfault on device changes)
289    
290    * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
291      "View" main menu.
292    
293    * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
294    
295    * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
296    
297    * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
298      strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
299    
300    * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
301      decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
302    
303    
304    0.2.1  2007-12-06  Qt4 migration was complete.
305    
306    * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
307      names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
308      the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
309      default.
310    
311    * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
312      evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
313    
314    * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
315      the main menu and toobar are not visible.
316    
317    * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
318      creating a new sampler channel.
319    
320    * README requirements and configuration notes update.
321    
322    * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
323      form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
324      users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
325      first time).
326    
327    * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
328      which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
329    
330    * Added Windows file path support.
331    
332    * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
333      under win32.
334    
335    * Qt4 port of the application.
336    
337    
338    0.1.5  2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
339    
340    * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
341      mapping instrument files with special characters in their
342      filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
343      and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
344    
345    * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
346      does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
347      instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
348      tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
349    
350    * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
351      application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
352      spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
353    
354    * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
355    
356    
357    0.1.4  2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
358    
359    * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
360      cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
361      highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
362    
363    * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
364    
365    * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
366      the session state, only at code-level.
367    
368    * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
369      existing instrument file name.
370    
371    * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
372      hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
373      keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
374      improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
375      instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
376      corrected some tooltip text strings.
377    
378    * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
379      which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
380      window managers.
381    
382    * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
383      with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
384      MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
385      the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
386    
387    * GPL address update.
388    
389    
390    0.1.3   2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
391    
392    * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
393      on qsampler.spec (RPM).
394    
395    * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
396    
397    * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
398      installation paths have been added to configure command
399      arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
400    
401    * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
402      option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
403      number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
404      increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
405      (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
406    
407    * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
408      and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
409      are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
410      before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
411    
412    * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
413    
414    * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
415      the sampler channel dialog, at last!
416    
417    * All widget captions changed to include proper application
418      title name prefix.
419    
420    * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
421      sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
422      generated at configure time.
423    
424    * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
425      registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
426      to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
427      argument have some effect on X11.
428    
429    * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
430    
431    * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
432      compiled with -no-stl.
433    
434    
435    0.1.2   2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
436    
437    * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
438      turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
439      one, while on qjackctl).
440    
441    * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
442      minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
443    
444    
445    0.1.1   2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
446    
447    * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
448      to Christian Schoenebeck design.
449    
450    * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
451      in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
452      info updates.
453    
454    * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
455      buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
456      device dialog.
457    
458    * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
459    
460    * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
461      Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
462      with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
463      Mayat, for pointing these out).
464    
465    
466    0.1.0   2005-05-23  Device configuration breakthrough.
467    
468    * Device configuration is now complete.
469    
470    * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
471      consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
472      sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
473    
474    * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
475      instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
476    
477    * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
478      an instrument.
479    
480    * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
481    
482    
483  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.  0.0.5   2005-03-04  Fifth alpha-release.
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505    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument    drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
506    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.    files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
507    
508  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also  * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
509    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel    featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
510    sampler instrument file.    sampler instrument file.
511    
512  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved  * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved

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