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QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface
-----------------------------------------------------
ChangeLog
0.9.1 2021-02-07 A Winter'21 Release.
- Graph Disconnect now applies to all selected ports
and connections.
- Main window is now freely resizable, while keeping
all the buttons stretched to the same aspect ratio.
- Warning to confirm application close is now back in
business when functioning as client only (Active).
- Graph items are automatically raised when created or
high-lighted (incremental z-value).
- Add a little but straight horizontal line-gap to the
Graph connections.
- Customize the Graph zoom slider widget to reset upon
mouse middle-button click.
- Add Clear preset button to Setup dialog.
- Use default values for most preset parameters: sample
rate, frames/period (aka. buffer-size), periods/buffer,
realtime priority, port maximum, client timeout, word
length, wait time, channel maximum.
- Early preparations for the New Year develop(ment) cycle.
0.9.0 2020-12-17 A Winter'20 Release.
- List only available backend drivers when JACK D-BUS
is enabled.
- Graph client-name / node-title aliases persistence
have been hopefully fixed.
- Get rid of those "JACK has crashed" red-herrings
from latest Windows(tm) builds.
- Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply
with C++17 standard.
0.6.3 2020-07-31 A Summer'20 Release.
- Clock source and Self connect restriction options
have been added to Setup / Settings / Advanced
(only enabled when JACK D-BUS control interface
is in effect).
- Added preliminary support for JACK CV signal-type
ports and JACK OSC event-type ports (Graph only).
- Left-clicking on the system-tray icon now simply
toggles the main widget visibility, disregarding
if already hidden undercover to other windows.
- Graph nodes and ports are now presented with some
gradient background.
- Fixed Setup dialog Cancel (or close) behavior when
Settings > Parameters > Frames/Period (aka. buffer-
size) it's the only setting that's changed.
- Early fixing to build for Qt >= 5.15.0.
0.6.2 2020-03-24 A Spring'20 Release.
- A scalable (.svg) icon version has been added.
- 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).
- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2020).
0.6.1 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,
thanks).
0.6.0 2019-10-17 An Autumn'19 Release.
- Graph: avoid self-connecting over their own ports
when client nodes are selected as a whole group;
also try to match port-types in a oderly fashion
when connecting multiple selected ports.
- Changing current JACK buffer size from Setup dialog
(cf. Settings / Frames/Period) may now take effect
just immediately ;)
- An 'Apply' button as been added to the Setup dialog;
ask whether to restart the JACK audio server, if any
settings are changed.
- Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.
- Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).
- Command line arguments (--start, --preset=[label] and
--active-patchbay=[path]) are passed and take effect
on the current singleton/unique application instance,
when enabled and already running.
- System-tray icon context menu has been refactored to
be exactly the same as the main-window context menu
that is re-instantiated on demand.
- Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.
0.5.9 2019-07-12 A Summer'19 Release.
- Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).
- Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.
0.5.8 2019-05-25 A Spring'19 Release.
- When enabled the current default preset settings are
now read from the last known JACK D-BUS configuration.
- Minor update to Debian packaging control file.
- Removed all the remaining leftovers of old pre-FFADO
'freebob' driver support.
0.5.7 2019-03-11 A Spring-Break'19 Release.
- Graph node and port title renaming and nodes position
move changes are now undo/redo-able.
- Graph client and port title in-place renaming is now
integrated to native aliases and JACK metadata (aka.
pretty-names).
- Refactored all native client/port name aliases.
- Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.
0.5.6 2019-03-11 Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.
- Refactored all singleton/unique application instance
setup logic away from X11/Xcb hackery.
- At last, JACK freewheel mode is now being detected
as to postpone any active patchbay scans as much as
possible.
- Removed old pre-FFADO 'freebob' driver support.
- HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).
- Graph port temporary highlighting while hovering,
if and only if connecting ports of same type and
complementary modes.
- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).
0.5.5 2018-11-23 A Black-Friday'18 Release!
- Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.
- Graph port sort options added as View / Sort menu.
- System tray options now subject to current desktop
environment availability.
- Also disable Setup / Misc / Other / Save JACK server
configuration to (.jackdrc) when JACK D-Bus interface
is enabled.
- Whether to use server synchronous mode option added
to Setup / Settings / Parameters (only applied when
JACK D-BUS interface is enabled).
- Disable some Setup / Settings / Advanced parameters
when JACK D-Bus interface is enabled and vice-versa.
- Attempt to power-cycle JACK D-Bus service on demand;
- Marked as probably useless anyway, old "H/W Monitor"
option (-H) is now being ditched from Setup / Settings
/ Advanced tab.
- Graph port/connections highlighting.
0.5.4 2018-09-24 An Early Autumn'18 Release.
- Graph port-type colors are now configurable (cf. menu
View > Colors.
- Make Graph nodes (ie. client boxes) transparent for yet
some eye-candiness ;). Also keep the (Graph) current
selection across port (dis)connections.
- Drawing patchbay connector lines as (bezier) curves is
now a difinitive and fixed feature (as long as no more
remains from the so called "Cambric explosion era" are
still lurking in there).
- AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with
latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.
- Graph auto-layout improvement for brand new node clients.
- Avoid showing setup warning when no server settings have
changed.
- Fixed JACK D-Bus settings for MIDI driver parameter.
0.5.3 2018-07-22 A Summer'18 Release.
- Portuguese (pt) translation added (by Heitor Rocha).
- AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all
permisssive license (FSFAP).
- Improved Graph rubberband add (Shift) and toggle (Ctrl)
multiple (de)selections.
- Added user preference option: Setup / Misc / Buttons /
Replace Connections with Graph button (on main window).
- Added a zoom slider control to the Graph view status bar.
0.5.2 2018-05-27 Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy hotfix.
- Respect ALSA Sequencer support option also on Graph view.
- Regression to new Graph node/ports sorting comparator;
also fixed multiple and many port removals, most probably
causing it to crash due to double-free/delete potential.
- Fixed the automatic aggregation of new Graph client nodes
that are split as either input or output only (ie. system,
terminal, physical or otherwise non-duplex nodes).
- Added View/Zoom Range mode option to Graph tool.
0.5.1 2018-05-21 Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.
- Half a decade later, recent new custom entries may now get
removed from Session Infra-client list.
- Some rather old, better said "Cambric explosion era", user
preference options have been ditched altogether: Display /
Time Format; Display / Shiny glass light effect; Display /
Connections/Draw connections and patchbay lines as Bezier
curves; Misc/Configure as temporary server.
- A brand new and way long overdue connections Graph widget
is finally introduced, only to be accessible through the
context menu at this time.
- Extended multi-selection is now supported on all Connections
client/port lists, allowing for multiple (dis)connections at
once.
- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic
when the display server platform is not X11.
- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
0.5.0 2017-12-16 End of Autum'17 release.
- Current preset is always taken into account if ever changes
while the Setup dialog is hidden (eg. via context menu).
- 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).
0.4.5 2017-04-27 Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.
- On some desktop-shells, the system tray icon blinking on
XRUN ocurrences, have been found responsible to excessive
CPU usage, an "eye-candy" effect which is now optional as
far as Setup/Display/Blink server mode indicator goes.
- 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.
0.4.4 2016-11-14 A Fall'16 release.
- Fixed an early crash when the singleton/unique application
instance setup option is turned off.
- Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.
0.4.3 2016-09-14 End of Summer'16 release.
- Fix build error caused by variable length array.
- Fix some tooltip spelling (patch by Jaromír Mikeš, thanks).
- Translation (not) fix for the default server name "(default)".
- Old "Start minimized to system tray" option returns to setup.
- Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant
given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido
Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks).
- Late again French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert
aka. trebmuh, thanks).
0.4.2 2016-04-05 Spring'16 release frenzy.
- Added a brand new "Enable JACK D-BUS interface" option, split
from the old common "Enable D-BUS interface" setup option which
now refers to its own self D-BUS interface exclusively.
- Dropped old "Start minimized to system tray" option from setup.
- Add double-click action (toggle start/stop) to systray (a pull
request by Joel Moberg, thanks).
- Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
- System-tray icon context menu has been fixed/hacked to show up
again on Plasma 5 (aka. KDE5) notification status area.
- Switched column entries in the unified interface device combo-
box to make it work for macosx/coreaudio again.
- Blind fix to a FTBFS on macosx/coreaudio platforms, a leftover
from the unified interface device selection combo-box inception,
almost two years ago.
- Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
- Late French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
0.4.1 2015-10-28 A Fall'15 release.
- Probing portaudio audio device in a separate thread (by Kjetil
Matheussen, thanks).
- Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now
in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
- Regression fix for invalid system-tray icon dimensions reported
by some desktop environment frameworks.
- New hi-res application icon (by Uttrup Renzel, Max Christian
Pohle, thanks).
- System tray icon red background now blinks when a XRUN occurs.
- Desktop environment session shutdown/logout management has been
also adapted to Qt5 framework.
- Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
- Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
- Overrideable tooltips with latency info (re. Connections JACK
client/ports: patch by Xavier Mendez, thanks).
- Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
0.4.0 2015-07-15 Summer'15 release frenzy.
- Some windows fixes added (patch by Kjetil Matheussen, thanks).
- Most advanced Setup/Settings are moved into new Setup/Advanced
settings tab; limit range for the real-time priority setting,
now having 6 as absolute minimum valid value (after patches by
Robin Gareus, thanks).
- A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
sub-routine is now in effect.
- Delayed geometry setup for widget windows upon startup has
been deprecated and scrapped altogether.
- Setup/settings dialog tab is going into some layout changes;
also got rid of old patchbay auto-refresh timer cruft, which
was previously hidden/disabled.
- New socket names are now automatically inferred from selected
client names while on the Patchbay widget, Socket dialog.
- Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, thanks).
0.3.13 2015-03-25 Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.
- Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
- Setup dialog form is now modeless.
- Introducing brand new active patchbay reset/disconnect-all
user preference option.
- Current highlighted client/port connections are now drawn
with thicker connector lines.
- New user preference option on whether to show the nagging
'program will keep running in the system tray' message, on
main window close.
- Connections lines now drawn with anti-aliasing; connections
splitter handles width is now reduced.
- Drop missing or non-existent patchbay definition files from
the most recent used list.
0.3.12 2014-10-19 JACK Pretty-names aliasing.
- JACK client/port pretty-name (metadata) support is being
introduced and seamlessly integrated with old Connections
client/port aliases editing (rename) (refactored from an
original patch by Paul Davis, thanks).
- Application close confirm warning is now raising the main
window as visible and active for due top level display,
especially applicable when minimized to the system tray.
- Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved
as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
- Translations install directory change.
- Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
- Missing input/output-latency parameter settings now settled
for the D-BUS controlled JACK server and firewire back-end
driver.
0.3.11 2013-12-31 A fifth of a Jubilee.
- More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
- Interface device selection is now unified, by moving the old
'>' pop-up menu into the customized combo-box drop-down list
showing all available card/device names and descriptions (on
a patch by Arnout Engelen, thanks).
- Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures
(patch by Alexis Ballier, thanks).
0.3.10 2013-04-01 The singing swan rehersal.
- Session infra-client management finally being added.
- Preparations for Qt5 migration.
- Transport tempo (BPM) precision display fixed to 4 digits.
- Color-candy (dang old ANSI terminal?) escape sequences are
now silently stripped from jackdbus messages captured log
(onliner from original patch by Brendan Jones, thanks).
- List ALSA device card id. string instead of device number,
while on setup dialog.
- Japanese (ja) translation added (by Takashi Sakamoto).
0.3.9 2012-05-18 The last of the remnants.
- Killing D-BUS controlled JACK server is now made optional,
cf. Setup/Misc/Stop JACK audio server on application exit.
(a patch by Roland Mas, thanks).
- Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
- Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
- A mis-quoting bug at the command line argument string may
have been crippling the (unmaintained) Windows port since
ever, leaving its main function to start jackd dead in the
water, belly down :) now hopefully fixed (following a mail
transaction with Stephane Letz and Mathias Nagorni, thanks).
- Currently a JACK2-only feature, the JACK version string
display at the About dialog box, must now be explicitly
enabled on configure time (--enable-jack-version).
- A new so called "Server Suffix" parameter option appears
to rescue on the situations where QjackCtl falls short on
extra, exquisite and/or esoteric command line options eg.
(net)jack1/2 differences.
- Fixed D-Bus Input/Output device parameter settings, filled
when either interface is selected for Capture/Playback only.
(probable fix for bug #3441860).
- Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to
the configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir, --mandir.
(after an original patch from h3xx, thanks).
- Main window is now brought to front and (re)activated when
clicking on the system tray icon instead of just hiding it.
- Add current xrun count to the system tray icon tooltip, if
not zero (after patch #3314633 by Colin Fletcher, thanks).
0.3.8 2011-07-01 JACK Session versioning.
- Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.
- Session "Save" button now a drop-down menu, replacing the
session save type combo-box/drop-down list selection. Also,
an early session directory versioning/numbering scheme is
now in place, although optional.
- Probable fix to debian bug report #624198 - segfault when
pressing the stop button (by Grant Adrian Diffey, after a
patch from Adrian Knoth, thanks).
- Desktop environment session shutdown (eg. logout) is now
tapped for graceful application exit, even though the main
window is active (visible) and minimizing to system tray
is enabled. Both were causing first shutdown/logout attempt
to abort. Not anymore, hopefully ;).
- Make sure all activated patchbay definition files are in
their complete and absolute directory path forms.
- Connections refresh button now does an immediate and true
reconstruction of all clients and their respective ports
and connections, unconditionally.
- Command line server start option (-s, --start) is now made
independent from configuration setup option (cf. Setup/Misc
/Start JACK audio server on application startup).
- Now handling cable socket types properly to let patchbay
definitions work correctly, whenever having sockets with
the very same literal name (twisted from patch #3183467,
by Karsten, thanks;).
- Abrupt focus behavior when any of the keyboard modifiers
(Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Caps Lock) is hit while on Connections
client/port aliases editing (rename) has been fixed.
- Russian (ru) translation updated (by Alexandre Prokoudine).
- Added include "errno.h" alegedly missing for BSD style
systems (applying patch for bug #3126091).
0.3.7 2010-11-30 JACK Session managerism.
- Session widget has session save type preserved as well.
- Connections and the new Messages/Status widgets now have
their last open tab preserved across program run-cycles.
- Connections and Patchbay widgets have been finally given
up on an old feature request: an Expand All items button.
- A significant UI layout has been made: the Messages and
Status widgets were merged into one, giving space to the
brand new Session wigdet to be easy accessible from the
main panel control window.
- libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link
phase, as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros
eg. Fedora 13, Debian 6. (closing bug #3050915).
- Input/Output latency options were missing but now finally
enabled for the firewire back-end.
- General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
- Avoid pre-loading a stalled patchbay definition filename
and its nagging error on startup (fixes bug #3017078).
- Client connection retrial logic scrapped. Being a leftover
from early ages, when machines were slower and JACK server
startup times were longer... now, if it can't connect first
time as client, it will tear down the server whether it's
starting up still or not at all. (cf. Setup/Settings/Start
Delay for the rescue).
- Server name is finally part of the server settings presets,
thanks to Fons Adriaensen for the heads-up.
- As a workaround regarding issues switching jack2's backends,
Robin Gareus sends us yet another D-Bus method slot: "preset",
(dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.preset string:PRESET).
Thanks again.
- Another D-Bus interface slot makes it through implementation:
"quit" (eg. usage: dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.quit).
Besides, there's also these new JACK session management actions
which were being overlooked as well: "load", "save", "savequit"
and "savetemplate" are also available as D-Bus method slots.
- Make sure that Patchbay socket names are unique when adding
or copying, fixing previous patch by Dominic Sacre.
- JACK version is now being shown on the About box (jack2).
- Slight Connections widget behavioral change: (dis)connecting a
client (from) to one single port, (dis)connections will be
applied in sequence from (to) all client output ports to (from)
as many input ports there are in below, one by one (satisfying
a 5 year old request from Yann Orlarey, thanks:).
- JACK session support is being introduced.
- Ignore first XRUN occurrence option dropped from statistics.
- Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
wrong main widget hidden state.
- Double-quotes are now being added to device names which include
blank characters and were rendering invalid all command line
invocation of the classic JACK server (eg. specially due for
Portaudio device names on Windows).
- Transport play (rolling) status is now being guarded to avoid
backfiring from extraneous transport state changes.
- General source tree layout and build configuration change.
- Italian (it) translation added (by Sergio Atzori).
- Post-shutdown script invocation logic slightly refactored in
attempt to enforce its execution on application quit.
0.3.6 2010-03-09 Full D-Busification!
- Make sure socket names are unique on each side of the Patchbay
(another patch from Dominic Sacre, thanks).
- A bunch of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been added,
allowing shortcut access to most of main applications actions
like toggling Messages, Status, Connections, Patchbay widget
pop-ups, reset stats, transport and so on. New bindings are
given eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.(main,
messages, status, connections, patchbay, setup, about, reset,
rewind, backward, play, pause, forward). (from an original
idea from Sebastian Gutsfeld, thanks).
- Patchbay snapshot now tolerates JACK client port strings that
have more than one semi-colon in it, honoring just the first
one exactly as everywhere else eg. Connections. (a glitch as
reported by Geoff Beasley while using a2jmidid).
- Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now
replaced by system tray icon bubble messages where available
(mitigating feature request #2936455).
- Comply with jackd >= 0.118.0 which nowruns in real-time mode by
default; use of -R is now deprecated from the jackd command line
interface options; use -r to run in non-real-time-scheduling.
- A man page has beed added.
- Got rid of a pretty old and never really useful "jackd-realtime"
server path option--actually, it was only seen available on the
now defunct old Mandrake Linux distro.
- D-Bus support, as provided by org.jackaudio.service aka jackdbus,
is now being introduced and used wherever available and whenever
enabled. Configuring, starting, stopping and logging the JACK
back-end server through the "infamous" jackdbus service is now
being seamlessly exploited.
- Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
disk when Setup dialog changes are accepted and applied.
- Server name command line option added (-n, --server-name).
- Single application instance restriction option added (X11).
- Setup for the netjack (slave) "net" driver has now sample-rate
and frames per buffer (period size) settings disabled and/or
ignored, as those are pretty much auto-detected by default;
also, a new "netone" backend driver option has been introduced
(as suggested by Torben Hohn).
- Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
- Fixed some main window keyboard shortcuts. Escape key now closes
Connections, Patchbay, Status and Messages widgets as usual (bug
#2871548).
- Fixed glitch on configure portaudio support, specially when the
library is not detected as available.
0.3.5 2009-09-30 Slipped away!
- Late support for UTF-8 encoded client/port names.
- Allow only one single patchbay connection to or from an exclusive
socket (mitigating bug #2859119).
- 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).
- Probable fix on the audio connections with regard to client/port
(re)name changes (an ancient bug reported by Fons Adriaensen).
- Portaudio device selector is now available (after a patch handed
by Torben Hohn and Stephane Letz).
- A couple of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been introduced,
giving the option to start/stop the jackd server from the system
bus eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.start (.stop),
(a nice addition supplied by Robin Gareus, thanks).
- New command line option (-a, --active-patchbay=[path]) to specify
and activate a given patchbay definition file (a simple patch sent
by John Schneiderman, thanks).
- Added one significant digit to DSP Load percentage status display.
- Tentative support for netjack (slave) by adding the "net" driver to
the existing backend driver options on the Setup/Settings section.
- Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
- New patchbay snapshot now raises the dirty flag and allows for the
immediate salvage of patchbay definition profile.
- Conditional build for JACK port aliases support (JACK >= 0.109.2).
- Alternate icon sizes other than default 16x16, are now effective to
the Connections widget (Setup/Dislay/Connections Window/Icon size).
0.3.4 2008-12-05 Patchbay snapshot revamp.
- Introducing the very first and complete translations in-package:
German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr) and Russian (ru); credits
in TRANSLATORS.
- At last, after years of retarded procrastination, the old infamous
patchbay snapshot feature has been the subject of a almost complete
rewrite and it does try to give a way better mapping of all actual
and current running client/port connections, both JACK (audio, MIDI)
and ALSA MIDI, of course ;)
- On Setup/Settings/Parameters dialog, all device selection options
are now reset to default when disabled interactively.
- Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
- Qt Software logo update.
- Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
- ALSA PCM devices now only listed/enumerated iif strictly compliant
with the audio mode criteria (Duplex, Capture-only or Playback-only)
as kindly suggested by Nedko Ardaunov.
- JACK client/port aliases may now be displayed as a global user option
(see Setup/Display/Connections/JACK client/port aliases).
- Lighten up the connections line and highlight colors, as seen to fit
best on some darker background themes.
- Patchbay snapshot fixed to differentiate socket clients according
to its type (Audio, MIDI or ALSA-Seq), avoiding the mess and gross
mistake of hanging disparate type ports under the same client item.
- JACK_DEFAULT_SERVER environment variable is now appended to the X11
unique application identifier, allowing for having multiple instances
each controlling its own JACK server, besides the default one.
- 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: Setup/Misc/Defaults/Base font size (default is no-op).
0.3.3 2008-06-07 Patchbay JACK-MIDI, file logging and X11 uniqueness.
- 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).
- Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance,
with user configurable settings in Setup/Options/Logging.
- 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 and the server started automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).
- Finally, full JACK MIDI support sneaks into the patchbay; socket
types now differ in Audio, MIDI and ALSA, following the very same
nomenclature as found on the Connections widget tabs.
- Sun driver support (by Jacob Meuser).
- Delay window positioning at startup option is now being disabled,
on the Setup/Misc tab, when Minimize to system tray is enabled.
- Cosmetic fix: Setup/Settings tab, 'Input Device' text label was
using a slightly smaller font than the rest of the application
(bug#1872545, reported by Jouni Rinne).
0.3.2 2007-12-20 Patchbay heads-up with season greetings.
- Patchbay port matching has been slightly extended, this time
allowing for the multiple or as many-to-many connections between
socket plugs, provided these are specified in proper regex form
(after a patch proposed by Dave Moore, thanks).
- A new option to start the program minimized when the system tray
icon is enabled, is now available from Setup/Misc/Start minimized
to system tray (as kindly suggested by Marc-Olivier Barre).
- Regression from QSystemTrayIcon (Qt4 >= 4.2) implementation, at
least on X11 environments: while the main application widget was
minimized to the system-tray, closing any other top-level widget
was causing the immediate and unexpected application shutdown.
- Some portaudio backend settings are now being enabled, specially
suited for the jackdmp flavouring.
- Server mode display blinking, usually shown as the RT indicator,
is now an option (Setup/Display/Blink server mode indicator when
started).
- Tool/child windows position and size preservation fixed.
- The connections/patchbay auto-refresh option has been finally
removed due to several user requests, although deprecated for
quite some time now it has been the probable cause of some
periodic xrun occurrences due to graph-locking in jackd (while
making Geoff Beasley angry in the process:).
- Messages line limit was not being checked, now honored.
- Simple as it could ever be, the build executive summary report
is now given on configure.
- Patchbay snapshot ot its socket and port ordering back.
- ALSA Sequencer support is now an optional feature on setup,
preventing the annoying "MIDI patchbay will be not available"
warning message, ruining window placement on Linux systems
where the snd-midi-seq kernel module is not loaded or not
favorable (eg. OSS) at startup (by request from Jussi Laako).
- Get configure to try and detect the correct qmake location and
insert it the search order, so let the qt4 tools take precedence
when --with-qt option is given and older qt3 ones coexist and
are found located ahead in the PATH.
- The connections widget is now being properly refreshed, due to
some quirk in the QTreeWidget which was preventing some items,
specially the expanded ones, to disappear in the void. Meanwhile,
with a hand from Stephane Letz, the client/port lookup method was
changed to prevent duplicated, missing entries or worse, crashes
due to weird behaved windows applications.
- The xrun count stats can now be reset simply by middle clicking
on the systray icon or the main window's display area (thanks to
patch sent by Dominic Sacre).
- An improved version of the "shiny" background image was issued.
The original somehow looked like two different images put together,
probably most apparent on a bright TFT screen (by Dominic Sacre).
- A warning is now being issued, asking whether one wants to remove
a corresponding Patchbay connection, when client/ports are being
disconnected over the Connections window, thus avoiding automatic
reconnection annoyance due to normal active Patchbay behavior.
- The infamous "Keep child windows always on top" global option is
now supposed to behave a little better when disabled, layering
child windows as naturally as far the window manager dictates.
- Input/Output Channel setting is now allowed to be greater than 32;
the special default text is now displayed, also on Input/Output
Latency and Priority settings spin-boxes.
- Andreas Persson just sent a patch that makes it possible to compile
and run qjackctl with Qt version 4.1. Applied without hesitation,
thanks.
0.3.1a 2007-07-19 System-tray tooltip icon crash fix.
- An immediate showstopper crash upon client start was irradicated,
which was affecting those with the system-tray icon disabled,
as is the default (thanks to Ken Ellinwood for first reporting
this sloppy one).
0.3.1 2007-07-18 Shallowed bug-fix release.
- The current DSP load percentage activity is now also displayed on
the system-tray icon tooltip.
- An illusive but nasty Connections/Patchbay item tooltip crash bug
has been hopefully fixed (Qt >= 4.3).
- Now using QSystemTrayIcon class facility if available (Qt4 >= 4.2)
making the system-tray option available on most platforms, notably
on Windows and Mac OS X.
- Usage of QProcess class has been severely refactored, now using
QProcess::start() instead of QProcess::startDetached(), giving
much tighter control over the started jackd(mp) process. Downside
is that QjackCtl lost its ability and option to leave the process
detached upon quitting the application. Too bad.
- A new eye-candy bit has sneaked in: server mode display, that is
the RT indicator, now blinks when server/client is started/active.
- Combo-box setup history has been corrected on restore, which was
discarding the very initial default (factory) contents.
- Now that Qt4 is accessible to open-source Windows appplications,
there's some experimental stuff sneaking in for jackdmp support
on win32 (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html).
- Connections list items were initially sorted in descending order
by default. Fixed. Client items are now naturally sorted, again.
0.3.0 2007-07-10 Qt4 migration was complete.
- Qt4 migration was complete. Care must be taken with this new
configuration file and location: this release starts a new one
from scratch and won't reuse any of the previous existing ones,
although cut and paste might help if you know what you're doing :)
- On a last-minute addition, the "firewire" audio backend driver
option has been also included, supporting the ffado.org project
which is evolving where "freebob" is leaving (thanks to Klaus
Zimmermann for this one).
0.2.23 2007-07-02 JACK MIDI support debut.
- JACK MIDI support is now being introduced. Connections window
now has a brand new MIDI tab, the older being renamed to ALSA,
as for the ALSA/MIDI sequencer conveniency. The server settings
now include the MIDI driver setup option (ALSA backend only).