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* Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.

1 Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
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4 ChangeLog
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7 GIT HEAD
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9 * Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
10
11 - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
12
13 - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
14
15 - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.
16
17
18 0.5.0 2017-12-12 An Autumn'17 release.
19
20 - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert
21 (qsampler_fr.ts).
22
23 - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent
24 from build/configure template chains.
25
26 - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo
27 file (formerly AppData).
28
29
30 0.4.3 2017-04-27 Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
31
32 - Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
33
34 - Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of
35 the configure build date and time stamps.
36
37
38 0.4.2 2016-11-14 A Fall'16 release.
39
40 * Fixed a potential crash on the singleton/unique application
41 instance setup.
42
43 * Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
44 line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
45 eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
46
47
48 0.4.1 2016-09-14 End of Summer'16 release.
49
50 * Fixed a race condition on creating sampler channels that ended
51 in duplicate channel strips; also fixed channel auto-arrange.
52
53 * Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
54 given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
55 Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
56
57 * Automake: set environment variable GCC_COLORS=auto to allow GCC to
58 auto detect whether it (sh/c)ould output its messages in color.
59
60
61 0.4.0 2016-04-05 Spring'16 release frenzy.
62
63 * Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
64
65 * Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
66
67 * Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
68 in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
69
70 * Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
71
72
73 0.3.1 2015-07-19 Summer'15 release frenzy.
74
75 * Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some
76 64bit Linux flavours.
77
78 * Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
79
80 * A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
81 sub-routine is now in effect.
82
83 * Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
84
85
86 0.3.0 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
87
88 * Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
89
90 * Added this "Don't ask/show this again" option to some if not most
91 of the nagging warning/error message boxes.
92
93 * Mac OS X: Fixed default path of linuxsampler binary.
94
95 * When closing qsampler and showing the user the dialog whether to
96 stop the LinuxSampler backend, set the default selection to "Yes".
97
98 * Master volume slider now getting proper layout when changing its
99 main toolbar orientation.
100
101 * Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
102 as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
103
104 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect the new --includedir.
105
106 * A man page has beed added (making up Matt Flax's work on
107 debian, thanks).
108
109 * Translations install directory change.
110
111 * Added support for SF2 instrument names/preset enumeration.
112
113 * Added instrument list popup on channel strip which shows up when
114 the instrument name is clicked. Allows faster switching among
115 instruments of the same file.
116
117 * Adjusted configure check for libgig to detect its new --libdir
118 (impolitely forcing the user now to have at least libgig 3.3.0).
119
120
121 0.2.3 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
122
123 * Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
124
125 * More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
126
127 * Standard scalable format (SVG) and MIME type icons support for
128 session files (*.lscp) is now being added.
129
130 * Preparations for Qt5 migration.
131
132 * Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
133
134 * Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
135
136 * Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the
137 configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir.
138
139 * Made lookup of translation files work inside a Mac OS X bundle.
140
141 * Minor Mac OS X compilation error fix.
142
143 * Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
144
145 * Made lookup of translation files more robust on Windows.
146
147 * Fixes for cross compiling and building for Windows with configure
148 and make.
149
150 * libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase,
151 as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13,
152 Debian 6.
153
154 * Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling
155 into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy.
156
157 * Sampler channel and instrument file requester support for
158 other than GIG engine instrument files (*gig; *.dls) has
159 been added, making roads for the newer SFZ and SF2 engines
160 instrument files (*.sfz; *.sf2).
161
162 * General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
163
164 * Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
165 been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
166 wrong main widget hidden state.
167
168 * General source tree layout and build configuration change.
169
170 * Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
171 traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
172 option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
173 targets (--enable-debug).
174
175 * Attempt to fix broken instrument list model/view on Qt >= 4.6.
176
177 * Device parameter spin-box default maximum has been set higher:
178 now at a magic 24-bit limit (16777216) instead of older 16-bit
179 (65536), possibly fixing bug #136.
180
181 * LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap
182 just makes it a shortcut to File/Save.
183
184 * MIDI Device Status menu is disabled when no MIDI device exists;
185 a menu separator has been added.
186
187 * Window manager's close button was found missing from the Devices
188 and Instruments widgets when on Qt >= 4.5, now fixed.
189
190 * MIDI activity indicator on channel strips and MIDI device status
191 widgets is now implemented as a flashing green LED, instead of a
192 lame green solid background :).
193
194 * Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
195 disk when View/Options... dialog changes are accepted and applied.
196
197 * Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
198
199
200 0.2.2 2009-08-01 New release cycle.
201
202 * Russian (qsampler_ru.ts by Alexandre Prokoudine) makes it as
203 brand first translation delivered. Thanks and welcomes whom
204 ever may follow ;)
205
206 * Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
207
208 * Added support for runtime max. voices / disk streams setting
209 (accessible from the "Options..." dialog). Those fine tuning
210 settings will be saved in case the user modified them and
211 automatically restored to the sampler when reconnecting to
212 a sampler the next time.
213
214 * Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
215
216 * Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
217
218 * Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding
219 font size configuration, a new global user option is now available
220 to the rescue: View/Options... /Display/Other/Base font size
221 (default none).
222
223 * Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of
224 the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode.
225 (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).
226
227 * Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and
228 running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup
229 iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its
230 main widget shown up automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
231
232 * Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
233 with user configurable settings in View/Options.../Server/Logging.
234
235 * Bugfix in sampler channel dialog, driver combo boxes' content were
236 screwed.
237
238 * Automatically add & remove channel strips as they were removed
239 e.g. by other frontends.
240
241 * Refresh device management dialog when device informations changed,
242 e.g. on changes caused by other frontends
243 (fixes segfault on device changes)
244
245 * Implemented MIDI device activity windows, selectable from the
246 "View" main menu.
247
248 * Implemented MIDI activity indicator on channel strips.
249
250 * Added FX Sends Dialog to Channel Strips.
251
252 * Color pallete fix for the instrument name display in channel
253 strip, particularly notorious on Mac OS X builds.
254
255 * Added dialog when the application exits which lets the user
256 decide whether to keep the LinuxSampler running or not.
257
258
259 0.2.1 2007-12-06 Qt4 migration was complete.
260
261 * Added recent new support of libgig for retrieving instrument
262 names in avery fast way. If libgig provides this feature, then
263 the respective name retrieval setting in qsampler is enabled by
264 default.
265
266 * The current selected/activated channel-strip is now visually
267 evident while in the application workspace (highlighting).
268
269 * Make View/Menubar and Toolbar shortcuts accessible even though
270 the main menu and toobar are not visible.
271
272 * Audio routing table is initially hidden in the dialog, when
273 creating a new sampler channel.
274
275 * README requirements and configuration notes update.
276
277 * Disable OK button in sampler channel form and MIDI instrument
278 form if no valid engine is selected (to avoid bothering newbie
279 users with confusing LSCP syntax errors when using the UI the
280 first time).
281
282 * Fixed creation of devices (don't try to set device parameters
283 which the user did not touch in the device creation dialog).
284
285 * Added Windows file path support.
286
287 * Fixed win32/qmakefile and win32/config.h so that it compiles
288 under win32.
289
290 * Qt4 port of the application.
291
292
293 0.1.5 2007-10-15 Five months later a fifth is heard.
294
295 * Added support for LSCP escape sequences to allow loading and
296 mapping instrument files with special characters in their
297 filename, as well as special characters for instrument names
298 and instrument map names (requires LSCP v1.2 on sampler side).
299
300 * Added new button "Edit" to the channel strips, which probably
301 does exactly what you think it does: it opens an appropriate
302 instrument editor application; the channel instrument editor
303 tool is also accessible from the main menu and toolbar.
304
305 * Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps;
306 application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
307 spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant.
308
309 * Crash fix on double-clicking on a empty instrument list.
310
311
312 0.1.4 2007-05-04 Almost another year has gone by.
313
314 * Channel button colors have changed: yellow for mute and
315 cyan for solo is now the rule, but note that this color
316 highlighting is only rendered on some widget styles.
317
318 * Master sampler volume slider/spinbox combo is now featured.
319
320 * Initial support for sampler channel FX sends, while saving
321 the session state, only at code-level.
322
323 * Sampler channel setup dialog does not mandate for valid nor
324 existing instrument file name.
325
326 * Revised error verbosity in general and on session load/save;
327 hour-glass wait cursor is now displayed on session load/save;
328 keyboard shortcuts changed on MIDI instruments view context;
329 improved channel strip arrangement on session open/load;
330 instrument map entry removal confirmation (as optional);
331 corrected some tooltip text strings.
332
333 * Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag,
334 which were causing some sticky size behavior while on some
335 window managers.
336
337 * Added preliminary MIDI instrument mapping support; now
338 with an instrument list widget and editing capabilities;
339 MIDI instrumeent map program numbers are now displayed in
340 the range 1-128, instead of the internal 0-127.
341
342 * GPL address update.
343
344
345 0.1.3 2006-06-01 Its been a long year isn't it?
346
347 * Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license,
348 on qsampler.spec (RPM).
349
350 * Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).
351
352 * Optional specification of alternate liblscp and libgig
353 installation paths have been added to configure command
354 arguments (--with-liblscp, --with-libgig).
355
356 * Whenever the listing of actual instrument names is not an
357 option (e.g. due to lack of libgig support), the whole
358 number of selectable instrument items is now being graciously
359 increased from just the bare 8 (eight) right up through 100
360 (one hundred), on the sampler channel setup dialog.
361
362 * The selection buttons, on the right of the Instrument, Audio
363 and MIDI devices combo-boxes, on the sampler channel dialog,
364 are now expected to be a little better looking than it was
365 before, at least for those Mac OS X eyes.
366
367 * Minor fixing on the initial messages dock-window height.
368
369 * Audio output channel routing configuration finally hits
370 the sampler channel dialog, at last!
371
372 * All widget captions changed to include proper application
373 title name prefix.
374
375 * Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date;
376 sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and
377 generated at configure time.
378
379 * Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of
380 registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal
381 to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry command line
382 argument have some effect on X11.
383
384 * Added MUTE/SOLO buttons to individual channel strips.
385
386 * Fixed compilation error which occured when Qt was
387 compiled with -no-stl.
388
389
390 0.1.2 2005-06-23 Even minor workings needs a rest.
391
392 * Fixed output disability when messages limit option is
393 turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this
394 one, while on qjackctl).
395
396 * Added CHANNEL_INFO event feedback notification handling;
397 minor stream/voice usage auto-refresh cycle optimization.
398
399
400 0.1.1 2005-06-12 The mantra of bugfixes.
401
402 * New improved and full-featured application icon, thanks
403 to Christian Schoenebeck design.
404
405 * Fixed refresh cycle of channel strips that are found
406 in an error state, which was preventing correct channel
407 info updates.
408
409 * Device configuration now accessible on toolbar. Added
410 buddy text label to device port/channel combobox on the
411 device dialog.
412
413 * Include libgig version info on command line request (-v).
414
415 * Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and
416 Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing
417 with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim
418 Mayat, for pointing these out).
419
420
421 0.1.0 2005-05-23 Device configuration breakthrough.
422
423 * Device configuration is now complete.
424
425 * [bug #9] Fixed for a LSCP command syntax convention
426 consistency, regarding the enumeration of available
427 sampler engines, Audio and MIDI drivers.
428
429 * [bug #13] Update instrument names list when a new
430 instrument file is select on the channel setup dialog.
431
432 * Show appropriate message in channel strip while loading
433 an instrument.
434
435 * Show libgig version in About box (in case libgig is used).
436
437
438 0.0.5 2005-03-04 Fifth alpha-release.
439
440 * Fixed device driver type channel information gathering,
441 which was severely flawed, dropping all channel session
442 configurations to the default audio driver type (which
443 is ALSA) unexpectedly.
444
445 * Channels are now properly renumbered when saving to a
446 session LSCP script, assuming that it should be always
447 loaded from scratch (i.e. zero channels).
448
449 * Disabled MIDI port setting on channel dialog, and on
450 session file save, as its use is still troublesome.
451
452 * Added new menu and toolbar option: Reset All Channels.
453
454 * Channel setup changes are now properly filtered, as for
455 only those settings that are actually changed gets applied;
456 change information are now also posted to messages window.
457
458 * Drag-and-drop of either session files (LSCP scripts) or
459 instrument files (GIG) are now supported. Multiple files
460 drop is allowed, but it only makes sense for instrument
461 files, each one prompting to create a new sampler channel.
462
463 * Drag-and-drop to an existing channel strip is now also
464 featured, allowing the in-place change of the channel
465 sampler instrument file.
466
467 * Actual instrument names are now optionally retrieved
468 from the instrument file, even though libgig is available,
469 avoiding excessively annoying load times while on the
470 channel dialog, when huge instrument files are selected.
471
472 * Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where
473 available, as the default handler is usually fatal when
474 a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
475
476 * Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line
477 count exceeds in one third the user configured line count
478 maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is
479 otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
480
481
482 0.0.4 2004-11-19 Fourth alpha-release.
483
484 * Instrument index selection now made via combo box widget;
485 actual instrument names are now properly retrieved from
486 the instrument file, provided if libgig is available.
487
488 * Sampler channels strips are just created if, and only if,
489 the respective channel setup dialog is actually accepted,
490 following common user-interface guidelines.
491
492 * Almost complete rewrite of sampler channel strips internal
493 control structures.
494
495 * Sampler reset command action added to menu and toolbar.
496
497 * MIDI channel selection is now a dropdown list, allowing
498 the explicit selection for "All" channels input per sampler
499 channel (omni mode).
500
501 * Channel strip display glass effect has changed background
502 color to black (was green), being now an user option.
503
504 * Minor configure fixes.
505
506
507 0.0.3 2004-07-06 Third alpha-release.
508
509 * Mon-modal intrument file loading and status support.
510
511 * Effective MIDI input port setting on channel dialog,
512 and on session file save.
513
514 * Channel dialog gets sensible engine and driver defaults
515 on create time.
516
517 * Implied channel reset on successful instrument load.
518
519
520 0.0.2 2004-06-15 Pre-revolutionary release.
521
522 * The channel context menu is also accessible by right-clicking
523 over the empty workspace area.
524
525 * Added small wait event loop on qsamplerMainForm::stopServer(),
526 so let local server terminate gracefully and stabilize, and
527 avoiding a probable segfault on exit, which was preventing the
528 correct salvage of settings and configuration.
529
530 * Maximum channel volume percent setting is now a global option,
531 provided to override the default (which is 100%).
532
533 * Client/server transaction timeout option upper limit has been
534 increased from 5000 to 60000 milliseconds.
535
536 * A channel context menu is now featured, by right-clicking over
537 each sampler channel strip.
538
539 * Commented SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_PORT command from
540 qsamplerMainForm::saveSessionFile(), it has no effect.
541
542 * Insert a n #include <unistd.h> on qsamplerMessages.cpp, between
543 a #if !defined(WIN32) clause.
544
545 * An initial non zero value (0.8) is now set for volume of every
546 new sampler channel strip.
547
548 * The order to load/save and setup channel settings is now as
549 suggested in the following lines:
550
551 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_TYPE ...
552 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_TYPE ...
553 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_CHANNEL ...
554 LOAD ENGINE ...
555 LOAD INSTRUMENT ...
556 SET CHANNEL VOLUME ...
557
558
559 0.0.1 2004-06-05 Primordial alpha release.
560

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