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- I have started with some tries to make the midi work and due to the
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success I have even made an object to manage the midi : midiOut
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- Waking up at 7:00am, working from 8:20 to 11:20 and doing some fixes
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at 14:20, I have been able to play a midi file through the /dev/sequencer
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using the class midiOut and writing some new classes like : midfile
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- Today I have made a midi mapper (object mapper) which read a map config file
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and is used to support older synths without general midi compliance.
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- I have made a window, with a KMenuBar, and a KSilder, which reads a mid file
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and play it (using a fork)
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- fork copy the memory and thus, I cannot tell the player to pause, I have read
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much about the subject, and about threads
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- I have made a small program to test the threads and forks, threads apparently
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are faster, but it seems to have a problem with libqt or anyone, and I get
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core dumpes what I run kmid even if I only link libpthread but don't use it.
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So I've decided to make a fork, in the other way, I've learned to share memory
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- Christian Esken has told me to use mediatool, but I don't have the
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documentation, so I cannot continue work until I get it.
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- Well, I'll continue even without the docs, and when I have them, I will
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make the neccesary changes to the code. I have made a few details in windows
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- Today I have made the Pause and Stop buttons work. Also, I have made the
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slide bar move. And also, I have made a parser of the midi file, which tells
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how long the song is, in seconds. If this was little, I have made the interface
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between the ui and the player.
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- The interface between the ui and the player doesn't work well, I have to
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redesign it because it's difficult to be accurate writing the karaoke at the same that the note plays
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- I have redesigned twice the interface between ui and player and it still
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doesn't work well, the first method was creating a list of the karaoke events
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and using a timer to process the next event at the right time, but that doesn't
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work perfectly, because the text appears a moment after or before the note is
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played. The second method is a while loop, which calls processEvents, but
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that isn't a very good option, because, though text appears just at the same
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time of the note is played, top tells me that kmid is consuming up to 98% of
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CPU time, and I don't want to make such a monster.
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- Another failed method, and another passed day
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- Some small changes beautifying the monster to send it to Christian
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- More debugging and no result. I have uploaded current version to arrakis for
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- Eureka ! , at last, I have made the player and the ui run at the same time
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with PERFECT syncronisation :-) (at 10:30 pm)
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Friday,Saturday,Sunday 26,27,28-9-97
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- I've been looking at the birds flying freely from tree to tree in all this
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weekend, also, I've studied for the test drive.
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- I have passed the exam and also, I have (almost) done the karaoke widget
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and it works very well !
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- The karaoke widget is finished, it also have a scrollbar to see all the
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lyrics. By the way, StarTrek : First Contact is a very recommended film
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- I have fixed pause and stop, which were broken during the karaoke syncro
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By the way, kmid consumes 0.0% CPU and 00:00 time while playing a 6 minute song
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(and I think that even in longer songs !)
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- I have started classes, so I think I will have less time :-(
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- The player now recognizes the SETPOS message, but the ui is not syncronized
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- S. R. has "show"ed me the way to initialize the menu, toolbar and client of a
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KTopLevelWidget, without the need to resize the window.
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- I have made that all time variables are expressed in milliseconds, so no
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- I have programmed very little this week, but today I have kill a big bug,
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now all the songs play well. Some songs were played with some parts faster and
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some parts slower than they should (thanks to Christian Esken for reporting
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- WOE, KDE-Beta-ONE is even better than before. But now kmid doesn't compile (?)
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- After compiling the kde libs, kmid compiles ok. KSlider has changed and its
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behaviour (Arrrgh!), so I have trickered a little the code.
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- I have cleaned a little the code.
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- I started to "rewrite" the track class to make the slider work well
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- I have passed the day working in the time.
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- Eureka !!!, KMid works great! with good timings and syncronization between
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O ~ music and lyrics.
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- After 10 hours in the university, I have made the final touches to send
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kmid 0.1 to the internet.
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- Finally, there's an impossible-better syncro between the program
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and the user !!!. I mean, that when you press the pause button, the music
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is inmediatly paused !!!
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- So I suppose yesterday was Friday, but I should demostrate it :-)
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I have added drag & drop support in kmid to load files by dropping them from kfm
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Also made the slider show the time played at resizeable steps
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- Today I have made possible to change the font and I have made an icon.
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Prepare a version to upload tomorrow to the internet.
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- I have nearly rewritten (made lots of changes to) the lyrics display widget
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Also fixed that old "bug" that let in black the last word of a phrase in some
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- Automatic text event chooser is done !
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- Fixed a bug that could freeze kmid under very rare circunstances.
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- Added more support for incomplete/broken files
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- I have changed the exit-behaviour for a messagebox-behaviour
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- Fixed a bug that could leave the children running when closing kmid
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- KMid adds a mime entry for karaoke files in audio/x-karaoke
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- Real Session Management.
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- Made the first rpm of kmid.
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- Release version 0.3 in tgz and rpm
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- I've been quite busy this week, but I have had reports and patches :-) on
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how to make kmid to work with an AWE, a GUS, and in FreeBSD :-))))
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- I have fixed a small bug with which the time that a song longs was not well
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- Also a tiny bug in consolekmid
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- I've made the first feature that I've been asked for. Another thing to map
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with the midi mapper for Dietmar's PSR500
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- Nearly done the map chooser so that there will no be needed to edit the kmidrc
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Now when you choose a new map or change GM/MT32 mode, the music is automatically
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changed while playing !.
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- I have been the rest of the month implementing a midi server that I will
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call KMidServer and that will provide any application with easy control over
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- KMid now can play gzipped midi files just as any other normal file.
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- I have improved the midi mapper by allowing to factor the pitch bender.
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Now pitch benders works OK !! (at last I have improved the windows mapper :-)
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I have also added support to convert expression events to volume events.
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* I have been doing the kfourier this month and studying (little time to do more)
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- After doing my first exam this year, I have decided to calm things a little
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by programming something. I have made the options added to the mapper available
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through the config map file.
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- 2nd exam done and a bug that I introduced last thrusday fixed.
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- I've finished exams, have installed the yesterday snapshots and have
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updated the configure scripts to add rpath and all that stuff to my copy
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of kmid (thanks to Kulow, who added it to kmid in kdemultimedia)
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- Fixed the not-a-feature problem with FM, next time I will not let the
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option for the user to select something that doesn't work.
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Final touches to release kmid 0.41 tomorrow morning.
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- I've started working on FM support (and it goes very fast)
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- fm already works, but notes are shifted to a higher key !!!
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Also pitch bender seems not to be accurate.
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- pitch bender is now fixed, and also the shift of notes, now the problem
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is that some notes are lost (always from the same track/channel/patch?!?!)
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- The problem with the lost notes is fixed :-/, the problem was that some
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notes are played through the left speaker and some thru the right speaker,
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and my wires for the right speaker were broken, but it wasn't noted with
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the surround activated :-))))))) (Sometimes I feel real shame). Three days
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- I've gone to the country and I've done the internals of the playlists in a
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486/50 without linux, so I'll compile the Monday.
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- Some test with multiple toolbars.
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- Started to do the collections manager dialog
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- The collections manager dialog is done.
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- KKeyConfig is a really good class, easy to use to make the karaoke scroll
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when arrow keys are pressed.
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- I've done the playlist hardest part, now it works and there's only left
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some final touches to do
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- Playlists are finally working ok.
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- Fixed the session management (in fact, I've changed it a little to support
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- Fixed some small bugs.
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- I have replaced my new Makefiles.am (just two days old) with the one
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of Stephan Kulow which look much better.
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- Finished deleting printf's to upload kmid tomorrow :-)
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- Upload it, but as I forgot to delete some printf messages :-( , I had
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to quickly do a fix and send also 0.5.1
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- I've passed many days configuring the modem, the internet connection,
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sendmail, kppp, cvs and all those programs :-)
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- I've implemented the save-Lyrics feature that Adrian Knoth suggested (thanks!)
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- I've done some changes to support the new KFileDialog and the new
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changes in kdelibs done by Matthias.
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- I've found and fixed a memory leakage bug, I forgot to delete the
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SpecialEvents from each song, so kmid was using more and more memory with
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- Aaaargh !, I have to remove the changes that I did last tuesday because it
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seems that the changes in the kdelibs have been removed.
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- Added support for midi files with strange headers not related to midi files.
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(suggested by Adrian Knoth, thanks !)
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- At last, I have had some free time and have done some things:
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1. Finally fixed the synchronization between gui and player (hopefully forever)
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2. Fixed a problem openning a gzipped file with spaces in its name
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3. Fixed a bug which caused kmid to freeze if collection has only 1 song, and
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trying to play next song in aleatory mode.
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4. Fixed the problem which made some songs to play at a lower volume when
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moving the slider, but no if playing from the beginning
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That's all for now :-) , there have been so many changes that I've call
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- Released version 0.6 to update my homepage which was getting very outdated
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- After fixing my midi cable, I've noticed that fm is (as Gyula Kerekes
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reported), playing in mono, and I've fixed it.
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- I've fixed a small bug with which midi files without text events (nor lyrics)
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got the time slider very desynchronized after pausing for a long time.
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- Applied a patch submitted by Kevin Street, to compile kmid on FreeBSD 3.0
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systems with awe support (directory settings has changed since 2.2)
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- I'm on exams, but just to relax a few minutes I've been hunting for bugs :-)
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- Wow, KDE-1.0 is finally here, and it is REAL, so I will prepare very quickly
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KMid 1.0 before the freeze of kdemultimedia.
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- Just finished exams :-), and I've implemented the (long awaited feature of a)
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- I'm doing a channel view in which you can see the keys being pressed
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and released, it's very nice :-)
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- Using the (still hot) shutDown signal (the most awaited thing for
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- I've restructured the Channel view, it's much nicer and allows for easier
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expansion. It also shows the used instrument
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- Wow, I haven't updated this file for so long ...
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I've finished the changing instrument feature and so the channel view.
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I've also improved speed a little by supressing some parses to the midi file.
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I have improved consolekmid, now it is much more usuable.
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Finally, I've changed the sources to use the KAccel class.
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- I've fixed some bugs, the most important one being that kmid left its player
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processes as zombies after stopping playing (it worked ok, but now it doesn't,
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dunno why). That problem made to appear some weird dialogs telling "song is already
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playing" at each moment
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- I left a color hardcoded in button*.xpm when it should be Transparent (not
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everybody has a window background color of #5D5D8F8FA0A0 :-) )
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- I created a Motif 1.0 combo box in the channelview, but it should be Motif 2.0
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because 1.0 has a "feature" for large como boxes (as this one)
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- Fixed the last bug for leaving zombies around.
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- Released Version 1.2
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- Added the change tempo widget and the KTriangleButton widget
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- It's possible now to change the tempo of a song.
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- Fixed some problems
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The long awaited fix has arrived for songs keeping playing after X11' logout
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when channelview was actived.
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Now also the ChannelView change its colors when the user change the
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global colors, kdisptext paints a frame over the karaoke text,
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KLCDNumber only accepts a range of values (from 3 to 999)
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- Improved support for really broken files.
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- Added some translations to Spanish
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- I've started writing the internals of a rhythm view
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- Now KMid shows a new widget to make easier follow the rhythm of songs.
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I've also fixed a small bug by which the tempo (and rhythm) changed its
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state before the event actually happening if you moved the timebar near
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before the event time. The problem was caused by volatile shared variables.
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- Fixed a serious bug I introduced in the previous commitment
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- Fixed some problems
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- I've finally fixed the bug that made kmid play music sometimes
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faster and sometimes slower on some machines (i.e. mine, since I installed
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This bug was there since the real beginning, and now, it is FIXED.
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This deserves a new 2.0 version, probably next week.
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- Fixed a broken link in the .kdelnk file (DocPath) and raised version
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- Added new sgml documentation, updated up to KMid 1.6
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- Fixed a shared memory leackage bug (hopefully the last bug in KMid :) ).
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- Initial support for SoftOSS (this is making some sound now :))
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- Indentified the player directory sources and beautified them a little
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- Fixed a geometry layout bug
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- Fixed a problem when [un]installing midi devices (not such a mad idea if you
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use kernel modules) that made kmid segfault because it couldn't found
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- Decode URL before showing it on the screen.
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- Fixed a null pointer access while generating beats, because I didn't
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checked for songs which didn't contain any spev (songs which use absolute 0 spev
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are extremely rare to find, as any song must include at least a tempo event)
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- Removed ; after QOBJECT and fixed default midi map in consolekmid (not kmid)
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- Made a quick hack (no more than 15 lines) and kmid uses KIOJob to be
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net transparent (now it can download files using an http or ftp protocol just
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using dnd from a kfm window or using the open file dialog)
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- The sound driver in Linux kernels from the 2.2.x series work very different
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than the ones in 2.0.x so kmid was severely damaged. After several days of
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hacking (and after getting from A.Cox that this wasn't going to be fixed in the
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kernel) I've found a fix that even works in the 2.0.x kernels.
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- Fixed the high pitch of AWE cards (thanks to Joseph H. Buehler and Takashi Iwai for
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- Raised version number to 1.7
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- Did a workaround for a bug in egcs which doesn't seem to optimize simple
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return-a-value function as an inline function when using -O2 and it made kmid
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freeze under certain conditions when parsing some midi files.
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- Removed a comparison of double variables which is very dangerous (_even_ after
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storing in one of them the value of the other one)
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- Fixed a problem by which kmid didn't play the last half second or so of some songs.
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- Fixed a problem that made Kmid consume 99% of CPU since a month ago. Now it's back
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to the usual 0.00% of CPU use :-)
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- Fixed a bug that made KMid freeze when trying to open a directory
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- Better support for broken karaoke files which has duplicated lyrics
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- Fixed a problem with corrupt files that suddenly doesn't work (but KMid
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from the 1.1 branch works ok (?) ). Anyway, I've got it to work even
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better with broken files
501
- Fixed the KLed usage, which was broken since the KLedLamp -> KLed transition.
502
- Fixed a repaint bug with the time tags that has been here for too long.
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- Instead of using manual layout, let's use QLayouts (there are still some
507
- Added xdnd support (finally !)
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- Changed a lot of code to look much better
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- Fixed many problems when painting lyrics in different colors
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- The lyrics display doesn't flicker anymore (finally :-) )
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- Reworked the scrolling code, it's smooth now instead of line-by-line (but also
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makes consumes a bit of CPU, so I'll make it configurable for people who don't
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want to waste resources)
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- note: don't call resizeContents from drawContents, or you'll have some
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problems (QScrollView bug ?, anyway, this note should be on the docs)
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- SoftOSS is working now !
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- Added LOTS of documentation to the MIDI library. Anyway, there's a lot more
525
- Also fixed a few problems in the lyrics display, and added a new option
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- Ported KMid to use the "official" LibKMid and KXMLGUI, with the following
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Before: 769 1450 24820 kmidframe.cpp
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After : 622 1171 19045 kmidframe.cpp
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- Added ALSA support to libkmid
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- I'm making KMid a part
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It took me : exactly 13 minutes to port the app
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30 seconds to do /LD/LIB/ in Makefile.am
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5:14 to compile it and see that kbrowser.h doesn't exist now :(
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- Now libkmid does build and run on systems where OSS is not installed.
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- Updated the code to simplify it a bit due to libkmid changes.
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- I still have to search for a bug that makes KMid (and the part!) to crash
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when destroying KDisplayText (the curious thing is that it crashes on
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- Now Libkmid links with kdecore and qt in order to use a KConfig object to
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read the default settings as saved by the user with the midi kcontrol module.
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- It creates a "dummy" KInstance in case of the application being a non-KDE
557
- Fixed compilation of KMid, as 1) someone renamed klinedit.h to klineedit.h
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and 2) now we have to include qiconset.h when creating an action with pictures
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- Now I just have to find why KMid doesn't show any interface except the
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- Hmm, it's been a long time since I don't update this file. In summer
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I've fixed ALSA support and many related bugs.
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- Today, I've finally added the accelerators.
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- Raised version to 2.0
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