v0.9.2 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:36:38 -0000

0.9.2 [2016-06-26]

recording via Qt Multimedia
using KDE service API for loading plugins
bugfix: screenshot function sometimes returned 1x1 image only (bug in Qt
QWidget::frameGeometry is broken, but QWindow::frameGeometry works)
Gentoo ebuild updated to EAPI=6
removed unneeded build and runtime dependencies
removed optimized memcpy for PowerPC
record plugin: improved handling of error messages
record plugin: added retry mechanism in case of device busy
added menu entries for recording and record setup
import of Core Audio Format (*.caf), using ALAC, A-LAW, U-LAW and IMA
compression
import of Sample Vision Format (*.smp)
import of NIST SPHERE Audio File Format (*.nist)
import of Creative Voice files (*.voc)
import Audio Visual Research File Format (*.avr)
import of Amiga IFF/8SVX Sound File Format (*.8svx)
handbook: description of parameters of the record plugin was missing
handbook: fixed duplicate ":" in header of plugin parameter descriptions
made Kwave::SampleFormat and Kwave::Compression independent from libaudiofile

v0.9.1 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:24:41 -0000

0.9.1 [2016-02-21]

ported to KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) / Qt5
playback via Qt Multimedia
bugfix: saved plugin parameter lists with escaped characters were not
unescaped when loading again
compile fix for armv7l
codec_mp3: added missing "help" button to encoder setup dialog
fixed invocation of file dialog, as suggested by EBN
support for cmake > 3.3, fix for policy CMP0063
cmdline option "--nofork" no longer exists
bugfix: multiple issues in context of switching the GUI type in scripts
bugfix: fixed issues in saveblocks plugin with special characters in
filenames and patterns, format strings of second and later invocations
of patterns were ignored
saveblocks: allow path separators in filename patterns to make it possible
to create subdirectories
saveblocks: added patterns to include file info (file meta data) or the
title of the current block
workaround for bug in KDE #345320 (missing translators in help/about dialog)
about plugin: added info about translation team
added screenshot of the edit_label dialog
bugfix: tooltips of the fileinfo dialog were not translated
new make target: "make msgstats" to show the progress of translations
compile fix for armv7l
playback: dropped Phonon support (was broken and no longer supported by KF5)
bugfix: hourglass cursor was not taken back in playback setup dialog
RPM: format of changelog has changed
changed plugin install directory and prefix/suffix
curve widget: use same colors as in frequency response widget, for better
readability on bright color themes

v0.9.0 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Mon, 25 May 2015 13:47:33 -0000

0.9.0 [2015-05-25]

first version hosted on KDE (kdereview) and SourceForge
added command line parameter for selecting the GUI type
in MDI mode: new menu entry + function to arrange sub windows vertically
handbook: added text command reference
handbook: added plugin reference
enabled the "Help" buttons of all plugins and let them open the corresponding
section in the handbook
make system: new target "update-handbook" (updates command, file info
and plugin cross references)
make system: fixed dependency problem in translation
new commands: "window:sendkey", "window:screenshot", "window:close"
and "window:resize"
built-in variable ${LANG} for kwave commands
support for delayed command execution
debug plugin: always compiled in, but only visible in debug build
new command sync(): wait for commands scheduled with delayed
bugfix: exporting a mono file as MP3 produced a stereo MP3 file
MP3: emphasis, copyrighted, original got lost during save/load
file info dialog: MPEG settings were not handled properly
bugfix: assert/numeric overflow in selectnextlabels() at end of file
new plugin: stringenter
bugfix: minimized windows were not migrated properly when switching GUI type
new command: window:minimize
bugfix: missing range check in noise generator (when used per script)
bugfix: saveblocks plugin did not work when omitting file extension
saveblocks plugin: use escaped strings for storing settings instead of base64

v0.8.99-2 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:03:13 -0000

0.8.99-2 [2015-01-02]

bugfix: wrong sub window mode when switching to tab mode when having only
one sub window (workaround for bug in Qt)
bugfix: recording did not work in MDI and Tab mode (wrong file context)
bugfix: fixed passing a text command as first command line parameter

v0.8.99 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:54:38 -0000

0.8.99 [2014-12-28]

GUI: implemented SDI, MDI and Tab GUI types
bugfix: deadlock in class Track
bugfix: segfault during shutdown of logger
bugfix: segfault when unloading plugins (on some systems)
bugfix: "zoom to selection" was not disabled if nothing was selected
bugfix: toolbar buttons for cut/copy/erase/delete did not properly get
enabled/disabled on change of selection
bugfix: overview widget did not properly refresh after deleting all tracks
bugfix: assert in vorbis decoder when opening file with bitrate -1
menu subsystem: added support for lists within a menu
menu subsystem: show/hide toplevel menu entries
menu subsystem: added support for exclusive selection (radio buttons)
menu subsystem: let KDE chose shortcuts automatically
added menu entry to clear "recently opened files" list
implemented URL scheme for passing text commands from the command line
example: kwave --iconic --disable-splashscreen test.wav \ kwave:plugin%3Aexecute?normalize \ kwave:save \ kwave:quit
using perl scripts creating for i18n from menus.config and for getting
entries from lsm files, no longer need awk, sort, uniq
creating menu translation template directly per perl script instead
of generated dummy cpp file (requires "msgcat")
menu translations: assign a context to each menu entry
bugfix: division through zero on ogg files with invalid bitrate info
manual: added section about GUI types
i18n: translations were missing in kwave.desktop

v0.8.12 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 05:14:47 -0000

0.8.12 [2014-06-04]

recording via PulseAudio, by Joerg-Christan Boehme joerg@chaosdorf.de
bugfix: "Close" button of the record dialog did not save settings
bugfix: amplify free plugin: untranslated action names in progress bar
bugfix: sonagram plugin did not honor the windowing function parameter
bugfix: coherency problems in overview cache
bugfix: metadata got lost after cut/undo/redo
bugfix: save/as check against overwriting existing files failed
bugfix: undo/redo did not work after recording
bugfix: signal was "modified" after canceled record (empty) / done
bugfix: wrong calculation of zoom and window geometry at startup
bugfix: wrong scaling of overview in sonagram window
bugfix: playback pointer did not update synchronously across tracks
bugfix: brought back support for optimized memcpy (from xine-lib)
updated memcpy.c + cpu detection, including AVX assembler support
new command line option: "--logfile=" for logging to a file
brought back the horizontal scroll bar
support for swap files to store undo data
speedup: too many copy-on-write operations, use more const data
improved robustness against out of memory situations
memory manager: added statistics for debugging
memory settings: only use up to 25% of process address space
internal cleanups: renamed openSampleReader -> openReader,
fixed signature of Signal/SignalManager::openWriter
speedup: use stripe list instead of raw data for saving undo data
debug plugin: added functions "labels_at_stripes", "sawtooth_verify"
and "dump_metadata"
automatic defragmentation of stripes
sonagram plugin: use Qt Concurrent framework -> more than factor 40
faster on a quad core cpu
got rid of KDE ThreadWeaver, replaced with Qt Concurrent framework
debug plugin: added function "fm_sweep"
workaround for broken WAV files with zeroed fact chunk
fixed many 32/64 bit issues
new build target "make wrapper": creates a wrapper script to start Kwave
for test/debug purpose
new build target "make dep": creates a binary debian package
(for personal use and testing purposes)
mouse wheel + Ctrl: zoom in/out aligns signal to mouse position
record plugin: level meter is always enabled, simplified dialog
PulseAudio playback: fixed wrong timeout calculation
requires at least Qt-4.7 + FLAC-1.2.0

v0.8.11 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:16:08 -0000

0.8.11 [2013-11-24]

added spanish translation, provided by Carlos R.
bugfix: file names were not properly escaped in context of file/open,
file/openrecent and drag&drop
bugfix: saveblocks() did not abort properly when pressing cancel
unclean shutdown of the file progress dialog when saving
noise plugin: add noise (mix) instead of overwrite, with adjustable
level in percent or dB
pause button: change tooltip to "continue" if paused
new command line option: "--disable-splashscreen"
new command line option: "--iconic" to start minimized
fixed quoting errors in CMakeLists.txt (cmake-2.8.12 complained)
bugfix: ASCII encoder: escape special characters in meta data
implementation of ASCII import
memory settings: raised default memory limits
bugfix: crash in file info dialog / auto generate keywords
MP3 plugin: use ID3 tag TSSE for software version
ASCII codec: implemented support for labels

v0.9.10 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:02:11 -0000

0.8.10 [2013-02-09]

file name cleanup: removed "Kwave" prefix
bugfix: added range checks for track selection commands
reverted changes in sample writer due to problems in debug mode (commits
ee54660d4380d264b7346a904eff9dd8d8d00a93 and
6fba04db879ea7ae1fdf79141dd93d47f9c1d403)
bugfix: unwanted termination if splash screen closed while the first
toplevel widget still was starting up
moved code into namespace "Kwave"
cleanup: remove support for outdated FLAC API versions below 1.1.3
removed unused code: libkwave/FileFormat.*
renamed source files with "Kwave" in the name
added subsystem prefix to inclusion of Qt header files
using bit types from qt (e.g. u_int32_t => quint32)
compile with DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII and QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII
bugfix: recording via OSS did not handle invalid devices properly
improved auto detect of svg-to-png conversion,
added support for "rsvg-convert" (SF bug #38)
removed dependency to ImageMagick if "rsvg" is available
replaced libkwave/byteswap.h with generic Qt functions
replaced some Qt classes with their KDE equivalent:
KLineEdit, KComboBox, KDialogButtonBox, KPushButton, KTabWidget, KTextEdit
using KDE standard buttons in dialogs
simplified plugin loading mechanism, do load/unload only at start/end of
the program
delete plugin settings of old versions when detected
using QLibrary instead of functions from libdl
bugfix: shutdown sequence was incomplete
bugfix: keyboard shortcut for first menu entry did not work
bugfix: ambiguous keyboard shortscut for "File/New Window"
bugfix: undo of "modify label" caused loss of other labels
bugfix: use timeout for phonon playback, to avoid hang on unusable devices
using klocale for formating numbers of samples
added common base class for all codec plugins
reduced quality level of sample rate converter from "best" to "medium",
to improve speed
refactored playback handling (controller vs. plugin)
workaround for bug in Phonon: no device names available in first call to
Phonon::BackendCapabilities::availableAudioOutputDevices()
moved playback test into worker thread, for better GUI responsiveness
Phonon playback: changed to own mainloop with timeout support to avoid
application hang on broken audio devices
bugfix: data loss in sample rate converter when processing streams
vorbis encoder: call to deprecated API (now use OV_ECTL_RATEMANAGE2_SET)
using estimated length for streaming file formats without length info
made sample rate conversion (libsamplerate) mandantory
increased default memory sizes
added toolbar buttons for "File/SaveAs" and "File/Close"
reordered toolbars

v0.8.9 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:04:38 -0000

0.8.9 [2012-11-06] * new feature: MP3 export via external program "lame", "toolame" and "twolame", with configurable command line options * new feature: allow change of compression type via file info * fix for SF #3528848, removed -Wl,--add-needed from plugin LINK_FLAGS * speedup: improved performance of sample writer * wav import/export: support for some more meta data tags * bugfix: meta data lost when writing wav files that had meta data for product/album or subject/track at the same time * bugfix: broken signal/slot connection in SaveBlocks plugin * workaround for bug in id3lib, SF #3534143: ignore id3lib crc check result for MPEG Layer II files * bugfix: Gentoo ebuild lacked required svg use flag for media-gfx/imagemagick and media-gfx/graphicsmagick * bugfix: File/SaveAs now uses last recently used directory and extension together with the user defined file name * bugfix: PluginManager::sync caused application slowdown or stale GUI

v0.8.5 released

Thomas Eschenbacher — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:32:55 -0000

0.8.5 [2009-12-24] * new feature: playback via PulseAudio * applied kwave-0.8.2-nolinguas.patch (see gentoo bug #267702) * support for the Gentoo build system that steals .po files * no longer default to english language for documentation and gui l10n * fixed use count mismatch of plugins * bugfix: playback control: continuing after pause continued from start * bugfix: G.711 encoded wav files support only 16 bit signed format * new assignment for mouse wheel: - without modifier key: scroll left/right - with Shift: page left/right - with Ctrl: zoom in/out - with Alt: vertical zoom in/out * bugfix: support sysinfo.mem_unit when >= 4GB RAM are installed * bugfix: crash in progress dialog handling (crashed when closing a plugin after finishing it's work) * new ebuild for Gentoo

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