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diff --git a/kmid/history.txt b/kmid/history.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b6ed3407..00000000 --- a/kmid/history.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,567 +0,0 @@ -Thursday 11-9-97 -- I have started with some tries to make the midi work and due to the - success I have even made an object to manage the midi : midiOut - -Friday 12-9-97 -- Waking up at 7:00am, working from 8:20 to 11:20 and doing some fixes - at 14:20, I have been able to play a midi file through the /dev/sequencer - using the class midiOut and writing some new classes like : midfile - track and some more. - -Saturday 13-9-97 -- Today I have made a midi mapper (object mapper) which read a map config file - and is used to support older synths without general midi compliance. - -Sunday 14-9-97 -- I have made a window, with a KMenuBar, and a KSilder, which reads a mid file - and play it (using a fork) - -Monday 15-9-97 -- fork copy the memory and thus, I cannot tell the player to pause, I have read - much about the subject, and about threads - -Tuesday 16-9-97 -- I have made a small program to test the threads and forks, threads apparently -are faster, but it seems to have a problem with libqt or anyone, and I get -core dumpes what I run kmid even if I only link libpthread but don't use it. -So I've decided to make a fork, in the other way, I've learned to share memory - -Wednesday 17-9-97 -- Christian Esken has told me to use mediatool, but I don't have the -documentation, so I cannot continue work until I get it. - -Thursday 18-9-97 -- Well, I'll continue even without the docs, and when I have them, I will -make the neccesary changes to the code. I have made a few details in windows - -Friday 19-9-97 -- Today I have made the Pause and Stop buttons work. Also, I have made the -slide bar move. And also, I have made a parser of the midi file, which tells -how long the song is, in seconds. If this was little, I have made the interface -between the ui and the player. - -Saturday 20-9-97 -- The interface between the ui and the player doesn't work well, I have to -redesign it because it's difficult to be accurate writing the karaoke at the same that the note plays - -Sunday 21-9-97 -- I have redesigned twice the interface between ui and player and it still -doesn't work well, the first method was creating a list of the karaoke events -and using a timer to process the next event at the right time, but that doesn't -work perfectly, because the text appears a moment after or before the note is -played. The second method is a while loop, which calls processEvents, but -that isn't a very good option, because, though text appears just at the same -time of the note is played, top tells me that kmid is consuming up to 98% of -CPU time, and I don't want to make such a monster. - -Monday 22-9-97 -- Another failed method, and another passed day - -Tuesday 23-9-97 -- Some small changes beautifying the monster to send it to Christian - -Wednesday 24-9-97 -- More debugging and no result. I have uploaded current version to arrakis for -Christian to see it. - -Thursday 25-9-97 -- Eureka ! , at last, I have made the player and the ui run at the same time -with PERFECT syncronisation :-) (at 10:30 pm) - -Friday,Saturday,Sunday 26,27,28-9-97 -- I've been looking at the birds flying freely from tree to tree in all this -weekend, also, I've studied for the test drive. - -Monday 29-9-97 -- I have passed the exam and also, I have (almost) done the karaoke widget -and it works very well ! - -Tuesday 30-9-97 -- The karaoke widget is finished, it also have a scrollbar to see all the -lyrics. By the way, StarTrek : First Contact is a very recommended film - -Wednesday 1-10-97 -- I have fixed pause and stop, which were broken during the karaoke syncro -By the way, kmid consumes 0.0% CPU and 00:00 time while playing a 6 minute song -(and I think that even in longer songs !) - -Thursday 2-10-97 -- I have started classes, so I think I will have less time :-( - -Wednesday 8-10-97 -- The player now recognizes the SETPOS message, but the ui is not syncronized -yet - -Thursday 9-10-97 -- S. R. has "show"ed me the way to initialize the menu, toolbar and client of a -KTopLevelWidget, without the need to resize the window. - -Sunday 12-10-97 -- I have made that all time variables are expressed in milliseconds, so no -more change units !! - -Sunday 19-10-97 -- I have programmed very little this week, but today I have kill a big bug, -now all the songs play well. Some songs were played with some parts faster and -some parts slower than they should (thanks to Christian Esken for reporting - the bug!) - -Tuesday 21-10-97 -- WOE, KDE-Beta-ONE is even better than before. But now kmid doesn't compile (?) - -Wednesday 22-10-97 -- After compiling the kde libs, kmid compiles ok. KSlider has changed and its -behaviour (Arrrgh!), so I have trickered a little the code. - -Thursday 23-10-97 -- I have cleaned a little the code. - -Friday 24-10-97 -- I started to "rewrite" the track class to make the slider work well - -Saturday 25-10-97 -- I have passed the day working in the time. - -Sunday 26-10-97 -- Eureka !!!, KMid works great! with good timings and syncronization between - O ~ music and lyrics. - U - \_/ - -Monday 27-10-97 -- After 10 hours in the university, I have made the final touches to send -kmid 0.1 to the internet. - -??? 7-11-97 -- Finally, there's an impossible-better syncro between the program -and the user !!!. I mean, that when you press the pause button, the music -is inmediatly paused !!! - -Saturday 8-11-97 -- So I suppose yesterday was Friday, but I should demostrate it :-) -I have added drag & drop support in kmid to load files by dropping them from kfm -Also made the slider show the time played at resizeable steps - -Sunday 9-11-97 -- Today I have made possible to change the font and I have made an icon. -Prepare a version to upload tomorrow to the internet. - -Thursday 13-11-97 -- I have nearly rewritten (made lots of changes to) the lyrics display widget -Also fixed that old "bug" that let in black the last word of a phrase in some -songs. - -Friday 14-11-97 -- Automatic text event chooser is done ! -- Fixed a bug that could freeze kmid under very rare circunstances. -- Added more support for incomplete/broken files - -Saturday 15-11-97 -- I have changed the exit-behaviour for a messagebox-behaviour -- Fixed a bug that could leave the children running when closing kmid - -Sunday 16-11-97 -- KMid adds a mime entry for karaoke files in audio/x-karaoke -- Real Session Management. -- Made the first rpm of kmid. - -Monday 17-11-97 -- Release version 0.3 in tgz and rpm - -Friday 28-11-97 -- I've been quite busy this week, but I have had reports and patches :-) on -how to make kmid to work with an AWE, a GUS, and in FreeBSD :-)))) - -Monday 8-12-97 -- I have fixed a small bug with which the time that a song longs was not well -reported. -- Also a tiny bug in consolekmid - -Tuesday 9-12-97 -- I've made the first feature that I've been asked for. Another thing to map -with the midi mapper for Dietmar's PSR500 - -Friday 12-12-97 -- Nearly done the map chooser so that there will no be needed to edit the kmidrc -for anything. -Now when you choose a new map or change GM/MT32 mode, the music is automatically -changed while playing !. - -...... **-12-97 -- I have been the rest of the month implementing a midi server that I will -call KMidServer and that will provide any application with easy control over -midi functions. - -30-12-97 -- KMid now can play gzipped midi files just as any other normal file. - -.... **-1-98 -- I have improved the midi mapper by allowing to factor the pitch bender. - Now pitch benders works OK !! (at last I have improved the windows mapper :-) - I have also added support to convert expression events to volume events. -* I have been doing the kfourier this month and studying (little time to do more) - - -Thursday 5-2-98 -- After doing my first exam this year, I have decided to calm things a little - by programming something. I have made the options added to the mapper available -through the config map file. - -Monday 9-2-98 -- 2nd exam done and a bug that I introduced last thrusday fixed. - -Friday 20-2-98 -- I've finished exams, have installed the yesterday snapshots and have -updated the configure scripts to add rpath and all that stuff to my copy -of kmid (thanks to Kulow, who added it to kmid in tdemultimedia) - -Saturday 21-2-98 -- Fixed the not-a-feature problem with FM, next time I will not let the -option for the user to select something that doesn't work. -Final touches to release kmid 0.41 tomorrow morning. - -Monday 23-2-98 -- I've started working on FM support (and it goes very fast) - -Tuesday 24-2-98 -- fm already works, but notes are shifted to a higher key !!! -Also pitch bender seems not to be accurate. - -Wednesday 25-2-98 -- pitch bender is now fixed, and also the shift of notes, now the problem - is that some notes are lost (always from the same track/channel/patch?!?!) - -Friday 27-2-98 -- The problem with the lost notes is fixed :-/, the problem was that some -notes are played through the left speaker and some thru the right speaker, -and my wires for the right speaker were broken, but it wasn't noted with -the surround activated :-))))))) (Sometimes I feel real shame). Three days -lost in that !! - -Saturday 28-2-98 -- I've gone to the country and I've done the internals of the playlists in a -486/50 without linux, so I'll compile the Monday. - -Sunday 1-3-98 -- Some test with multiple toolbars. - -Monday 2-3-98 -- Started to do the collections manager dialog - -Tuesday 3-3-98 -- The collections manager dialog is done. - -Wednesday 4-3-98 -- KKeyConfig is a really good class, easy to use to make the karaoke scroll -when arrow keys are pressed. - -Thursday 5-3-98 -- I've done the playlist hardest part, now it works and there's only left - some final touches to do - -Tuesday 10-3-98 -- Playlists are finally working ok. - -Wednesday 11-3-98 -- Fixed the session management (in fact, I've changed it a little to support -collections) - -Thursday 12-3-98 -- Fixed some small bugs. - -Friday 13-3-98 -- I have replaced my new Makefiles.am (just two days old) with the one -of Stephan Kulow which look much better. - -Saturday 14-3-98 -- Finished deleting printf's to upload kmid tomorrow :-) - -Sunday 15-3-98 -- Upload it, but as I forgot to delete some printf messages :-( , I had -to quickly do a fix and send also 0.5.1 - -**** **-3-98 -- I've passed many days configuring the modem, the internet connection, -sendmail, kppp, cvs and all those programs :-) - -Monday 30-3-98 -- I've implemented the save-Lyrics feature that Adrian Knoth suggested (thanks!) - -Tuesday 31-3-98 -- I've done some changes to support the new KFileDialog and the new -changes in tdelibs done by Matthias. - -Thursday 2-4-98 -- Some bug fixes - -Monday 6-4-98 -- I've found and fixed a memory leakage bug, I forgot to delete the -SpecialEvents from each song, so kmid was using more and more memory with -each opened song. - -Tuesday 7-4-98 -- Aaaargh !, I have to remove the changes that I did last tuesday because it -seems that the changes in the tdelibs have been removed. - -Monday 13-4-98 -- Added support for midi files with strange headers not related to midi files. - (suggested by Adrian Knoth, thanks !) - -Friday 24-4-98 -- At last, I have had some free time and have done some things: - 1. Finally fixed the synchronization between gui and player (hopefully forever) - 2. Fixed a problem openning a gzipped file with spaces in its name - 3. Fixed a bug which caused kmid to freeze if collection has only 1 song, and - trying to play next song in aleatory mode. - 4. Fixed the problem which made some songs to play at a lower volume when - moving the slider, but no if playing from the beginning - That's all for now :-) , there have been so many changes that I've call - this version 0.5.3 - -Thursday 7-5-98 -- Released version 0.6 to update my homepage which was getting very outdated - -Saturday 9-5-98 -- After fixing my midi cable, I've noticed that fm is (as Gyula Kerekes - reported), playing in mono, and I've fixed it. - -Sunday 10-5-98 -- I've fixed a small bug with which midi files without text events (nor lyrics) -got the time slider very desynchronized after pausing for a long time. - -Monday 25-5-98 -- Applied a patch submitted by Kevin Street, to compile kmid on FreeBSD 3.0 -systems with awe support (directory settings has changed since 2.2) - -Saturday 20-6-98 -- I'm on exams, but just to relax a few minutes I've been hunting for bugs :-) - -Sunday 21-6-98 -- Wow, KDE-1.0 is finally here, and it is REAL, so I will prepare very quickly -KMid 1.0 before the freeze of tdemultimedia. - -Saturday 4-7-98 -- Just finished exams :-), and I've implemented the (long awaited feature of a) -volume bar. - -Sunday 5-7-98 -- I'm doing a channel view in which you can see the keys being pressed -and released, it's very nice :-) - -Monday 6-7-98 -- Using the (still hot) shutDown signal (the most awaited thing for -kmid) - -Monday 13-7-98 -- I've restructured the Channel view, it's much nicer and allows for easier -expansion. It also shows the used instrument - -Saturday 15-8-98 -- Wow, I haven't updated this file for so long ... - I've finished the changing instrument feature and so the channel view. - I've also improved speed a little by supressing some parses to the midi file. - I have improved consolekmid, now it is much more usuable. - Finally, I've changed the sources to use the KAccel class. - -Monday 31-8-98 -- I've fixed some bugs, the most important one being that kmid left its player - processes as zombies after stopping playing (it worked ok, but now it doesn't, - dunno why). That problem made to appear some weird dialogs telling "song is already - playing" at each moment -- I left a color hardcoded in button*.xpm when it should be Transparent (not - everybody has a window background color of #5D5D8F8FA0A0 :-) ) -- I created a Motif 1.0 combo box in the channelview, but it should be Motif 2.0 - because 1.0 has a "feature" for large como boxes (as this one) - - -Wednesday 9-9-98 -- Fixed the last bug for leaving zombies around. - -Monday 14-9-98 -- Released Version 1.2 - -Tuesday 15-9-98 -- Added the change tempo widget and the KTriangleButton widget - -Wednesday 16-9-98 -- It's possible now to change the tempo of a song. - -Thursday 1-10-98 -- Fixed some problems - -Thursday 15-10-98 -- FIXED !!! - The long awaited fix has arrived for songs keeping playing after X11' logout - when channelview was actived. - Now also the ChannelView change its colors when the user change the - global colors, kdisptext paints a frame over the karaoke text, - KLCDNumber only accepts a range of values (from 3 to 999) - -Friday 16-10-98 -- Improved support for really broken files. -- Added some translations to Spanish - -Friday 23-10-98 -- I've started writing the internals of a rhythm view - -Saturday 24-10-98 -- Now KMid shows a new widget to make easier follow the rhythm of songs. - I've also fixed a small bug by which the tempo (and rhythm) changed its - state before the event actually happening if you moved the timebar near - before the event time. The problem was caused by volatile shared variables. - -Sunday 25-10-98 -- Fixed a serious bug I introduced in the previous commitment - -Monday 2-11-98 -- Fixed some problems - -Sunday 8-11-98 -- Some small changes - -Wednesday 25-11-98 -- I've finally fixed the bug that made kmid play music sometimes -faster and sometimes slower on some machines (i.e. mine, since I installed -kernel 2.0.36) -This bug was there since the real beginning, and now, it is FIXED. -This deserves a new 2.0 version, probably next week. - -Friday 27-11-98 -- Fixed a broken link in the .kdelnk file (DocPath) and raised version -number to 1.6 - -Thursday 10-12-98 -- Added new sgml documentation, updated up to KMid 1.6 - -Friday 11-12-98 -- Fixed a shared memory leackage bug (hopefully the last bug in KMid :) ). - -Thursday 17-12-98 -- Initial support for SoftOSS (this is making some sound now :)) -- Indentified the player directory sources and beautified them a little - -Friday 18-12-98 -- Fixed a geometry layout bug - -Sunday 20-12-98 -- Fixed a problem when [un]installing midi devices (not such a mad idea if you -use kernel modules) that made kmid segfault because it couldn't found -the device. - -Saturday 16-1-99 -- Decode URL before showing it on the screen. - -Thursday 21-1-99 -- Fixed a null pointer access while generating beats, because I didn't -checked for songs which didn't contain any spev (songs which use absolute 0 spev -are extremely rare to find, as any song must include at least a tempo event) - -Tuesday 26-1-99 -- Removed ; after QOBJECT and fixed default midi map in consolekmid (not kmid) - -Sunday 21-2-99 -- Made a quick hack (no more than 15 lines) and kmid uses TDEIOJob to be -net transparent (now it can download files using an http or ftp protocol just -using dnd from a kfm window or using the open file dialog) - -Saturday 6-3-99 -- The sound driver in Linux kernels from the 2.2.x series work very different -than the ones in 2.0.x so kmid was severely damaged. After several days of -hacking (and after getting from A.Cox that this wasn't going to be fixed in the -kernel) I've found a fix that even works in the 2.0.x kernels. - -Sunday 21-3-99 -- Fixed the high pitch of AWE cards (thanks to Joseph H. Buehler and Takashi Iwai for - the indications) -- Raised version number to 1.7 - -Friday 2-4-99 -- Did a workaround for a bug in egcs which doesn't seem to optimize simple -return-a-value function as an inline function when using -O2 and it made kmid -freeze under certain conditions when parsing some midi files. - -- Removed a comparison of double variables which is very dangerous (_even_ after -storing in one of them the value of the other one) -- Fixed a problem by which kmid didn't play the last half second or so of some songs. - -Thursday 8-4-99 -- Fixed a problem that made Kmid consume 99% of CPU since a month ago. Now it's back -to the usual 0.00% of CPU use :-) - -Monday 12-4-99 -- Fixed a bug that made KMid freeze when trying to open a directory - -Thursday 15-4-99 -- Better support for broken karaoke files which has duplicated lyrics - -Thursday 11-11-99 -- Fixed a problem with corrupt files that suddenly doesn't work (but KMid - from the 1.1 branch works ok (?) ). Anyway, I've got it to work even - better with broken files -- Fixed the KLed usage, which was broken since the KLedLamp -> KLed transition. -- Fixed a repaint bug with the time tags that has been here for too long. - -Friday 12-11-99 -- Instead of using manual layout, let's use QLayouts (there are still some - problems with this ) -- Added xdnd support (finally !) - -Thursday 25-11-99 -- Changed a lot of code to look much better -- Fixed many problems when painting lyrics in different colors - -Friday 26-11-99 -- The lyrics display doesn't flicker anymore (finally :-) ) -- Reworked the scrolling code, it's smooth now instead of line-by-line (but also - makes consumes a bit of CPU, so I'll make it configurable for people who don't - want to waste resources) -- note: don't call resizeContents from drawContents, or you'll have some - problems (QScrollView bug ?, anyway, this note should be on the docs) - -Tuesday 11-1-2000 -- SoftOSS is working now ! -- Added LOTS of documentation to the MIDI library. Anyway, there's a lot more -to come. -- Also fixed a few problems in the lyrics display, and added a new option -to consolekmid - -Sunday 27-2-2000 -- Ported KMid to use the "official" LibKMid and KXMLGUI, with the following - result : - # wc kmidframe.cpp - Before: 769 1450 24820 kmidframe.cpp - After : 622 1171 19045 kmidframe.cpp - -Monday 28-2-2000 -- Added ALSA support to libkmid - -Tuesday 29-2-2000 -- I'm making KMid a part - -It took me : exactly 13 minutes to port the app - 30 seconds to do /LD/LIB/ in Makefile.am - 5:14 to compile it and see that kbrowser.h doesn't exist now :( - -Sunday 5-3-2000 -- Now libkmid does build and run on systems where OSS is not installed. -- Updated the code to simplify it a bit due to libkmid changes. -- I still have to search for a bug that makes KMid (and the part!) to crash - when destroying KDisplayText (the curious thing is that it crashes on - QScrollView) - -Sunday 2-4-2000 -- Now Libkmid links with tdecore and qt in order to use a TDEConfig object to -read the default settings as saved by the user with the midi kcontrol module. -- It creates a "dummy" TDEInstance in case of the application being a non-KDE -application. -- Fixed compilation of KMid, as 1) someone renamed klinedit.h to klineedit.h -and 2) now we have to include qiconset.h when creating an action with pictures -as in kmid_part.cpp -- Now I just have to find why KMid doesn't show any interface except the -standard actions - -Saturday 30-9-2000 -- Hmm, it's been a long time since I don't update this file. In summer - I've fixed ALSA support and many related bugs. -- Today, I've finally added the accelerators. -- Raised version to 2.0 |