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* Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
  and make.
* Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows

1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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6 SVN TRUNK
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8 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows
9
10 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
11 and make.
12
13 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
14 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
15 Debian 6.
16
17 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
18 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. (EXPERIMENTAL)
19
20 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
21 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
22 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
23 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
24
25 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
26
27 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
28 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
29 wrong main widget hidden state.
30
31 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
32
33 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
34 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
35 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
36 targets (--enable-debug).
37
38 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
39
40 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
41 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
42 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
43
44 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
45 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
46
47 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
48 a menu separator has been added.
49
50 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
51 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
52
53 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
54 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
55 lame green solid background :).
56
57 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
58 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
59
60 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
61
62
63 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
64
65 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
66 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
67 ever may follow ;)
68
69 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
70
71 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
72 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
73 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
74 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
75 a sampler the next time.
76
77 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
78
79 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
80
81 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
82 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
83 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
84 (default none).
85
86 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
87 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
88 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
89
90 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
91 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
92 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
93 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
94
95 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
96 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
97
98 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
99 screwed.
100
101 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
102 e.g. by other frontends.
103
104 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
105 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
106 (fixes segfault on device changes)
107
108 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
109 "View" main menu.
110
111 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
112
113 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
114
115 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
116 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
117
118 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
119 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
120
121
122 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
123
124 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
125 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
126 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
127 default.
128
129 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
130 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
131
132 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
133 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
134
135 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
136 creating a new sampler channel.
137
138 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
139
140 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
141 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
142 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
143 first time).
144
145 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
146 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
147
148 * Added Windows file path support.
149
150 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
151 under win32.
152
153 * Qt4 port of the application.
154
155
156 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
157
158 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
159 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
160 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
161 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
162
163 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
164 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
165 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
166 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
167
168 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
169 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
170 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
171
172 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
173
174
175 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
176
177 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
178 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
179 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
180
181 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
182
183 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
184 the session state, only at code-level.
185
186 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
187 existing instrument file name.
188
189 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
190 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
191 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
192 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
193 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
194 corrected some tooltip text strings.
195
196 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
197 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
198 window managers.
199
200 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
201 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
202 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
203 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
204
205 * GPL address update.
206
207
208 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
209
210 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
211 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
212
213 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
214
215 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
216 installation paths have been added to configure command
217 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
218
219 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
220 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
221 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
222 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
223 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
224
225 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
226 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
227 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
228 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
229
230 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
231
232 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
233 the sampler channel dialog, at last! (EXPERIMENTAL).
234
235 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
236 title name prefix.
237
238 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
239 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
240 generated at configure time.
241
242 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
243 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
244 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
245 argument have some effect on X11.
246
247 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
248
249 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
250 compiled with -no-stl.
251
252
253 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
254
255 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
256 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
257 one, while on qjackctl).
258
259 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
260 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
261
262
263 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
264
265 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
266 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
267
268 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
269 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
270 info updates.
271
272 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
273 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
274 device dialog.
275
276 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
277
278 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
279 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
280 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
281 Mayat, for pointing these out).
282
283
284 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
285
286 * Device configuration is now complete (EXPERIMENTAL).
287
288 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
289 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
290 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
291
292 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
293 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
294
295 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
296 an instrument.
297
298 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
299
300
301 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
302
303 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
304 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
305 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
306 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
307
308 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
309 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
310 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
311
312 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
313 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
314
315 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
316
317 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
318 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
319 change information are now also posted to messages window.
320
321 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
322 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
323 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
324 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
325
326 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
327 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
328 sampler instrument file.
329
330 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
331 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
332 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
333 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
334
335 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
336 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
337 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
338
339 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
340 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
341 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
342 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
343
344
345 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
346
347 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
348 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
349 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
350
351 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
352 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
353 following common user-interface guidelines.
354
355 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
356 control structures.
357
358 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
359
360 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
361 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
362 channel (omni mode).
363
364 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
365 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
366
367 * Minor configure fixes.
368
369
370 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
371
372 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
373
374 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
375 and on session file save.
376
377 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
378 on create time.
379
380 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
381
382
383 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
384
385 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
386 over the empty workspace area.
387
388 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
389 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
390 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
391 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
392
393 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
394 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
395
396 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
397 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
398
399 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
400 each sampler channel strip.
401
402 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
403 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
404
405 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
406 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
407
408 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
409 new sampler channel strip.
410
411 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
412 suggested in the following lines:
413
414 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
415 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
416 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
417 LOAD ENGINE ...
418 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
419 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
420
421
422 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
423

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