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diff --git a/kmid/history.txt b/kmid/history.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c436db0b --- /dev/null +++ b/kmid/history.txt @@ -0,0 +1,567 @@ +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 kdemultimedia) + +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 kdelibs 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 kdelibs 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 kdemultimedia. + +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 KIOJob 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 kdecore and qt in order to use a KConfig object to +read the default settings as saved by the user with the midi kcontrol module. +- It creates a "dummy" KInstance 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 |