incomplete list of changes, explained as cryptic as possible
1.0.0: March 29, 2001
- merged the notename spin button from the unreleased 1.1
devel branch.
0.7.38: March 15, 2001
- src/dataparser.py: included files won't pollute the including
files name space.
- we use FDL for the online documentation.
- moved the extra copyright info out of COPYING, the GPL itself
is copyrighted, and shouldn't be changed.
- converted documentation to texinfo. Now we can make a nice
printed manual (even if we don't have content to that yet).
Also, it is possible to use lilypond and lilypond-book to
write longer texts about music theory with inline images
both for html and dvi output. Small fixes here and there in the
documentation.
- src/identifyscale.py: small bugfix to gui, only visible after
upgrading to gtk+ 2.2.9
- the LessonFileManager will sort the file listing and add white
space so the page listing all lesson files can be word wrapped.
- some work on the progression-* lesson files. Added id-by-name
content type to Giovannis lesson files.
0.7.37: March 10, 2001
- src/dataparser.py: fix to make include(filename) work with python2.
Compile re.compile operator_re only once
- mpd/parser.py(Lexer): compile the re's only once. (6% speedup to
parse_to_score_object)
- fixed bad URLs in INSTALL and welcome.html
- ran python with -tt options and fixed some inconsistent use
of tabs and spaces
- soundcard/midifilesynth.py: an os.wait(pid) call fixed the problem
with processed not being killed properly.
0.7.36: March 8, 2001
- Oliver Vollmer: updated german translations.
- debian/rules: don't include INSTALL in /usr/share/doc/solfege
- debian/copyright: fixed url of homepage.
- soundcard/midifilesynth.py(play_track): Mats Bengtsson noticed
that Solfege will fork a new process each time it run the external
midiplayer program, and will eventually eat up too much resources.
This because I don't have a clue about threading, multiple
processes and fork/kill/execl. The kill call didn't kill it properly.
So we are back to using os.system for now. The function using fork
and execlp is still in midifilesynth.py if someone want to fix it.
- friendlier error messages if the sound card is not setup
or if the device is busy and used by another app.
- converted README to texinfo, small adjustment of what goes into
INSTALL and README
- Corrected the key binding listing in the doco for chord exercise.
- Some new lesson files for the chord exercise from Giovanni
Chierico: altered-1 altered-2 diatonic-1 diatonic-2
0.7.35: March 5, 2001
- minor documentation updates, change (C) 2000 to
(C) 2000-2001 in online-docs/C/definitions.m4
- src/identifyscale.py, src/harmonicintervall.py,
src/melodicintervall.py, src/idbyname.py:
added necessary flashbar.clear() call.
- debian/rules: hack to build m68k binaries without
oss sound. Ok, lets see if we can get this into the
testing distribution now.
0.7.34: March 4, 2001
- Rewrote the FlashBar to use HarmonicProgressionLabel
so it can display string like I-VI(6)-V-I
- configure.in: make --with-gnome do the right thing.
- removed the "Use antialised canvas when possible" because
(if I remember correctly) it was necessary for some of the
instruments because I forgot to make pologons anticlockwise.
Let me know if there still are problems with the canvas.
- src/gu.py(FlashBar): added push, pop and clear method.
- This release will delete your preferences stored in
~/.gnome/solfege0.7
- Some lessonfile i18n bugfixes.
- LessonManager will no longer choke because of tmp files
created by vim.
- melodic-intervall: use utils.int_to_intervall name to get
the feedback in the flashbar correct when we don't use the
buttons interface (Wasn't this fixed months ago???) + fixed
another bug ocouring when the user clicked on a tone to answer
an intervall bigger than a decim.
- src/utils.py(int_to_intervallname): don't give direction for
unison intervall.
- added 'Give up' button to harmonic-intervall, melodic-intervall,
identify-scale, idbyname
- added copyright notice to some files that was missing it.
- renamed the constants used for q_status
- forgot to add autorepeat_if_wrong to ConfigWindow.on_apply.
- typo in online-docs/C/bug-reporting.html.m4
0.7.33: February 28, 2001
- The program will delete identify-scale statistics created
with any older release, because one key in the db was changed
a few releases ago.
- Preferences window: added global option; the program can
be configured to repeat the last question if you answer wrong.
This is used in harmonic-intervall, melodic-intervall,
identify-scale, idbyname, compare-intervalls
- BeamEngraver.engrave: 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64-notes should
work now. (There are probably some special exceptions I have not
covered yet.)
- added -w, --warranty
- added -h to be short for --help.
- --version will also display copyright information.
- made default program startup more quiet. Added
--verbose-sound-init command line option.
- 2000 -> 2000-2001 (c) search and replace
0.7.32: Feb 25, 2001 "My fingers are soon falling of..."
- Solfege now works with Python 2.0. But according to FSF,
you cannot import GPL'ed C extensions in Python 2.0 because
of GPL is incompatible with the licencse Python 2.0 is
distributed under. So to be safe, if you want to use python
2.0, you should configure with --disable-oss and use an
external midiplayer such as playmidi, drvmidi or timidity.
Let's hope Python 2.1 be released with a GPL compatible license.
- utils.py(parse_url): fixed regular expression to make it
work with python 2.0
- mpd/parser.py: updated some .append calls to make them work
with python 2.0
- src/statistics.py(het_hash_of_lessonfile): call expanduser
- src/startup.py: don't show splash window or initialise
sound if we use --help, --gtk-help, -v, --version command
line options.
- configure.in: a little cleanup. Check for pygtk and
pygnome without acutally running a python program that
imports them, because this is nicer to autobuilders that
build the program without and X display available
- rhythm.py: use SHADOW_IN for the frame where we enter
rhythm elements.
- better sectioning in the menu used to select midi instrument.
- lesson-files: completed the songs in the file 'barnesanger'
- online-docs/C/lessonfiles.html.m4: added a paragraph about
tripple quotes in lesson files.
0.7.31: Feb 23, 2001
- id-tone exercise will not run the on_start_exercise if we
are running without gnome, since the whole exercise is unusable.
- melodic-intervall, sing-intervall: The program will no
longer tell you to configure the exercise better if you select
a to small range of tones to create the question from, but
will silently adjust the range. Thanks to Giovanni for
reporting this.
- added popup window while waiting for the app to start.
Use --no-splash if you don't want to see it.
- fixed the --sound-using-drvmidi and --sound-using-timidity
command line options. Updated the man page.
- bf: makefile changes in last release broke the html->text
conversion of GPL.html.
0.7.30: Feb 21, 2001
- we use singintervall24.xpm as icon for Debian and GNOME
menus. I'm sure some user with more graphical talent than I
can come up with something better.
- src/mainwin.py: fixed Docviewer.source
- src/dataparser.py: the parser will report correct
filename and linenumber if there are errors in files
that are included with include(filename)
- default.config: make id-tone exercise simpler by default.
- twelvetone: add .clear() to the constructor, so we
see an empty line at startup.
- exernal midi player: make timidity less verbose
- small adjustments to the statistics viewer.
- small tweaking to the startup scripts for windows and
unix. i18n should work even for windows now...
- only compress the installed man page when we build debian
package
- src/inputwidgets.py: workaround for weird floating point
error when LC_ALL is set. This will not be necessary after
changing to gnome-python-1.4
- Internationalization fixes. I had done very little testing
lately, and it has been broken when using the tarball (and maybe
.rpm), the debian package worked fine.
- Simplified the makefiles a little. The configure script
only need to create the toplevel Makefile and Makefile.inc,
not all the makefiles in the subdirs.
New dist target. Each subdir has to set the dist_files
variable to include all files that has to be included.
0.7.29: February 12, 2001
- dropped the app bar. Added feedback in a statusbar
in the middle of the practise_area. Some other small gui
adjustments.
- simplified src/cfg.py a little.
- on_end_practise will be called when you change the input
widget in melodic and harmonic intervall exercise.
- small documentation updates.
- 5 new lessonfiles for the sing-chord exercise.
- souncard/track.py: added separate play_track function
that don't use fork() to be used on win32.
- solfege.gtkrc: a little cleanup, now even the small numbers
for HarmonicProgressionLabel is visible.
- A few changes to make the windows port work. Per-user-
config file will be $HOME/solfegerc0.7, not $HOME/.solfegerc0.7
because windows95 seems to like the first name better. I also
updated the makefile for win32.
- Rewrote lessonfile.py and added dataparser.py. The file format
is backward compatible. New is the include(lessonfile) command.
See lesson-files/singchord-all
The new lessonfile code is easier to read and maintain and it
is faster. Comparing the old and new code on python 1.5.2 show
15% faster parsing. Doing the same with python 2.0 and 2.1a1
show 45% speedup.
And btw, the python 2.x interpreters are more than twice as
fast as python 1.5.2 for this type of code.
The new parser will also give a little better error messages,
and tell you the linenumber that has an error (but line numbers
will be wrong if you use the include command)
The parsing of lessonfiles at startup are 5 times faster with
the new lessonfile code.
0.7.28: January 21, 2001
- configure.in: bugfix to --sysconfdir combined with missing
gnome-config script + fix some without-gnome mess
- soundcard/: oss_common.py, oss_sequencer.py, oss_sequencer2.py:
After some changes, it seems that both /dev/sequencer and
/dev/sequencer2 works fine for all exercises. But if you don't have
an AWE32 card, you might get piano sound instead of percussion on
the rhythm exercise.
- src/lessonfile.py: SingChordLessonfile are now a little smarter
when doing random transpose, you wont get key signatures with more
than 5 accidentals. Earlier you could get 8 or more. This also
adds the "key" variable to the lessonfile. See
online-docs/C/sing-chord-help.html.m4
- mpd/engravers.py: a little more space after key signatures.
- src/singchord.py: use global preferences to get preferred
instrument and velocity
- mpd/musicdisplayer.py: fix for clicking on xshifted notes
- solfege will now kill the external midiplayer if you
try to play a new sound before the other is finished. This
give people using playmidi or timidity a much better feel.
- use AWE_SET_CHANNEL_MODE and AWE_DRUM_CHANNELS to get
percussion to work. I'm not sure how the macros work, so
someone could explain this to me.
Added checkbutton on configwindow to use this macros if
you have a Sound Blaster AWE card.
- configure.in: configure will fail with an explanation if
m4 is not installed. If you don't want to install m4, use one
of the precompiled binaries as sourceforge or www.debian.org
- configure.in: added --enable|disable-oss-sound, so it can
be built on systems without OSS sound
- configure.in: added check for python bindings for gtk
and gnome.
- fix: the guitar widget was unusable for a few releases since
some cleanup to mpd.MusicalPitch.
- fix: the callback from SelectLessonfileWidget got called
twice.
- the keyboard shortcuts won't mess with the config page
of exercises any more.
- added the file solfege.desktop to be used with GNOME
0.7.27: Desember 9, 2000
- small bugfixes to the Makefile.in uninstall target.
- mpd/mainwin.py: fixed bug with clicking links and updating
the status line.
- mpd/engravers.py(KeySignatureEngraver.engrave):
fixed type in notename: his -> bis
- all exercises should use the velocity 64 by default.
- online-docs/C/GPL.html: now in html format instead of
plain ascii inside
- online-docs/ : small changes to the Makefile.in's to use
/data-targets.make
Added copyright notice to the online documentation.
- mpd/parser.py(Voice.add_notehead): Discard beam request on
1/4-notes and longer durations.
- src/identifyscale.py: changed how the displayed scale is written.
Now we use a key signature.
- mpd/parser.py(Staff.accbarline): fixed a bug with accidentals
and key signatures.
- mpd/parser.py: bf: the \key command should know about \transpose
- some small bugfixes to harmonic-intervall, melodic-intervall,
sing-intervall, id-by-name
- updated the exercises on the development menu so they
work with the latest changes to mpd and soundcard.
- documentation:
- identify-bpm.html.m4: two lines telling this exercise is shit.
- id-by-name.html.m4: just a little explanation.
- twelve-tone-help.html.m4
- mpd/parser.py, engravers.py: improved ties. They are still
not very good with xshifted noteheads, so thats on my TODO list.
- reread lots of old code, removed some old crap.
- src/statistics.py: statistics are stored in
~/.solfegeMAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION. So later the
stable 1.0.x release can coexist with unstable 1.1.x
- ConfigWindow: use a combo box to select devicefile.
- soundcard/solfege_c_midi.c(get_synth_name): no more
memory leak (I hope).
- soundcard/ : we now support both /dev/sequencer and /dev/music
Since there are some issuse with /dev/music I still don't
understand, and it seems that this make most people happy; the
default is now to use /dev/sequencer (updated default.config)
- use the configure script to create src/configureoutput.py
- no stem on whole note!
0.7.26.1:
- only import gtkhtml if the user really want it.
0.7.26:
- removed some crap that was floating around:
soundcard/devmusicsynth.py: Synth.Xplay_track
mpd.__init__.py: tr(notename, i)
- src/inputwidgets.py: we need to import cfg !!
- src/dictation.py(Gui.__init__): g_part_box is now packed
without being expanded.
- src/compareintervalls.py: Use only one musicdisplayer
since it now supports changing clef. Show the music when
the user guesses correct.
- mpd/parser.py: better handling of shifted noteheads.
(Let's hope) no more collisions between noteheads and
accidentals.
0.7.25: November 8, 2000
- PianoOctaveWithAccelName: use a fontsize available in
Xfree 4.0.1
- src/rhythm.py: bug fix when changing the number of beats in the
question and pressing give up.
- completed some half-finished changes to gu.nSpinButton, removed
the temporary class newnSpinButton
- rc files are named /etc/solfege0.7 and ~/.gnome/solfege0.7
or ~/.solfegerc0.7 (the last for non-GNOME version)
- gnomeconfigutils.py -> cfg.py
- removed some crap from src/pyscript.py
- Pressing F1 several times will not display the 'missing helpfile'
page. Also fixed duplicate history entries (src/history.py)
- added support for the new GtkHTML widget. The default is still
to use the XmHTML-widget since thats what most people have
installed. To try out with GtkHTML, edit ~/.gnome/Solfege,
and change the "htmlwidget=xmhtml" to "htmlwidget=gtkhtml"
(I have included a patch to apply to gtkhtmlmodule.c, to make
gtkhtml 0.6.1 and gnome-python 1.0.53 cooperate. The file is
included as pygnome-patch.diff)
renamed src/solfegexmhtml.py -> src/htmlwidget.py
- in the id-by-name exercise, the buttons with question names
will be ordered the same way as in the lessonfile.
- mpd/musicdisplayer.py and mpd/parser.py: Now the music displayer
can display the music from the start until timepos Rat(x, y)
- online-docs/C/lessonfiles.html.m4: documented clue_end and
clue_music.
- src/dictation.py: added clue_end and clue_music variables
to dicataion lessonfiles. They can be used if displaying the
first column is not good enough hint on what tones the music
starts with. Fixed some ugly code.
- src/lessonfile.py: removed some left-over code from the
last changes.
- default.config: added some values for identify-scale.
- The program will popup a message that you have to configure
sound from the preferences window if it fails to setup sound.
- online-docs/C/music-format.html.m4: updated after the
work on the mpd module.
- app.py(SolfegeApp.handle_href), configwindow.py:
mailto:name@dot.com links in the documentation now work.
- mpd: \stemup, \stemdown and \stemboth are renamed to
\stemUp, \stemDown and \stemBoth to use the same names as
Lilypond.
- mpd: removed some spagetticode, wrote some new.
Rewrote the Score._generate_engravers function and the engravers.
The module now support beams for quaver notes (1/8) and
semiquaver notes (1/16). 1/32 and 1/64 notes will be added later,
I have to think a little to get the algorithm correct.
Now you can change clef in the middle of the staff, and lots of
new clefs are supported.
The \key command has changed to the same syntax as GNU Lilypond:
\key g \major; or \key es \minor;
mpd/utils.py: some functions not fitting elsewhere in mpd/ will
be put here.
- gnomeemu/xmhtml.py: user GtkText.insert_defaults instead of
insert_text
0.7.24: October 14, 2000
- src/selectlessonfilewidget.py: now the widget is watching
the config variables 'lessonfile' and 'lessoncollection'. So
links to exercises for lessonfile based exercises should work now.
- mpd/engravers.py(StemEngraver): improved the code thatselects
stem direction.
- the program adds --disable-sound to the command line before
loading the gnome libs.
0.7.23: September 28, 2000
- src/mainwin.py(MusicViewerWindow): connected the 'destroy'
event to m_app.close_musicviewer to fix problem when closing the
window using the windowmanager instead of the close button.
- chords: sort the buttons for inversion and toptone.
- melodic-intervall: fixed problem when changing input widget
and the question is out of range for that widget. Also use
config/default_instrument when playing sounds.
- fixed bass widgets to sound one octave lower
- changed lessonstatistics compare the hashvalue of the
content of the files when deciding if the lessonfile have
changed and statistics has to be deleted. This way you can
keep your statistics when upgrading if the lessonfile is the
same and the file format for the saved data has not changed.
- bugfix: nothing happened when pressing 'new question' after
changing lessonfile.
0.7.22: September 13, 2000
- src/musicdisplayer.py: bug fix to make it work with
gtk-themes. Thanks to Gerard Milmeist for reporting this.
- src/configwindow.py: bug fix to instrument selection.
- src/lessonfile.py: removed some obsolete code
0.7.21: September 10, 2000
- topdocs/INSTALL.texi: fixed some bogus messages
- mpd/parser.py: handle ties between three and more notes: c~ c~ c
- src/dictation.py: breakpoints in music. The program can play
smaller parts of the music.
- changed mpd.play_music to take 'start' and 'end' argument
to play only parts of the music, for example from bar 2 to 4.
Small changes to mpd.parser to make this work.
- soundcard/: Track.set_bpm accept a third argument 'notelen'
that defaults to 4.
- moved the files in exercises/ to src/ to make the new global
vars in gnomeconfigutils work as expected.
- src/gnomeconfigutils.py: added notify feature. Used this
in nSpinButton and nNotenameRange. Using the notify feature, changed
the config page for all exercises to watch the config data, and then
moved the .configure_exercise methods to the teacher classes.
- more german translations, thanks Oliver.
- french translations by Jean Orloff
- italian translations by Mauro Colorio.
- Some work on lesson files and statistics. Running Solfege
with different locale settings should work as expected for
lesson file exercises. Please test with different locale
settings and report how it works.
0.7.20: August 25, 2000
- reoved 'never twice' check button from all exercises.
This is things the user should not have to worry about.
- melodic-intervall: only Wrong/Correct feedback.
- updated german translations, fixed translation of scale
names in scale statistics. Thanks Oliver Vollmer
- some minor changes to lessonfile format: identifier names
can contain a '-'. More work in online-docs/C/lessonfiles.html.m4
- devmusicsynth.py: handle also 255 < bpm < 511
- LessonFileManger: fixed brokens links when generating
the page with "All installed lessonfiles"
- abstract.LessonbasedGui.configure_exercise: fixed a
variable I forgot to rename.
- SolfegeApp.quit_program: the program will exit nicely
even when you did the *stupid* thing of trying to run
two instances of Solfege at the same time.
- exercises/abstract.py (_add_auto_new_question_gui):
added a .show()
- The music displayer will draw into a pixmap, and only
recreate the pixmap when the music change. Less flickering
and faster redraws!
0.7.19: August 21, 2000
- the music displayer is now a ScrolledWindow. Still too
much flickering, and not possible to scroll automatically
in sync with the music played.
- some work on dictation exercise.
- src/statistics.py(AbstractStatistics.get_keys): fixed a
typo that caused some problems with invalid statistics. But
there are still issues. I think the problem occour when we
some other error that cause statistics to be added for the
'None' key.
- Small adjustments to the gui
- exercises/compareintervalls.py: fix problem with harmonic
intervall, where there could be create intervall that
the displayer cannot display properly.
- mpd/intervall|musicalpitch.py: buxfig to intervall arithmetics.
This makes sing-intervall work correctly.
- window heading will show what exercise and lesson file you
are using.
- bugfix: show/hide toolbars
- Misc cleanup, removing unnecessary code.
- gnomeemu/gnome/xmhtml.py: we use our own html-to-text
convertor, no need for lynx
- src/instrumentselector.py: changed the look of the widgets.
Updated the config window because of this.
- A window showing the traceback will popup on exceptions.
- Mainwindow resize policy is configurable from the preferences
window.
- a few lines of documentation was written.
- added 4, 5 and 6 string bass input for intervall exercises
and did some cleanup on src/inputwidgets.py
- fixing typo in intervall exercises, thanks Harald Terkelsen.
0.7.18: August 5, 2000
- the statistics viewer is only updated when the user
actually want to see it. This because the new viewer is
slower to update than the old one.
- updated german translations, thanks Vollmer
- exercises/harmonicintervall.py: An option on the config
page to get a new question automatically after x seconds,
if you answer correct.
- mpd/parser.py: simple hack to avoid colliding accidentals.
The parser still need to be fixed before 1.0
- topdocs/AUTHORS.texi it used to create AUTHORS and
online-docs/C/AUTHORS.html
0.7.17 August 4, 2000
- src/statistics*.py: New viewer that don't use XmHTML.
Now even statistics can be used if you don't have GNOME.
- exercises/rhythm.py: set tempo on config page. This
exercise will not use config/default_bpm. Minor documentation
update.
- exercises/chord.py: gui improve/fix
- gnomeemu: GnomePropertyBox: it works :-) Now you can use
File|Preferences even when you are running without gnome.
XmHTML-"emulator" will strip away html code, and only one
right click is enough to follow links
- configwindow.py: fixed the way InstrumentSelector was
contructed
- Some additions to the documentation, fixing errors about
key bindings.
- abstract.Gui.__init__ take optional argument no_notebook=1.
This is used in twelve-tone exercise.
- src/selectlessonfilewidget.py: clear title label when
you select user collection and there are no files in it.
- minor syntax change for links to exercises. See
online-docs/C/helpfile-format.html. Updated the rest of
the program.
- added a "Velocity:" label to instrumentselector.py
(InstrumentSelector). Some of those classes really need better
names.
- GnomeCanvas is antialiased by default
- removed all code about popuping exercises
0.7.16: July 25, 2000
- new option to configure: --without-gnome
This let you run Solfege on a system with only gtk and python
bindings for gtk installed. Since I am not a autoconf guru yet,
you have to use this options if you are running without gnome.
(At the moment, Solfege without gnome is still a stip down version
of Solfege.
- harmonic and melodic intervall will ignore intervalls greater
than decim.
- gnome-emu/xmhtml.py: move the cursor to the text where there
is a link in the html document, and right click to follow the
link.
- Rewrote much of the makefiles, reduced the amount of chaos
in the world.
- miscutils.py -> util.py
- Rewrote some of the gui code used to select lesson file,
see src/selectlessonfilewidget.py. You can now include a
longer text in the lessonfile that can include links to
configure the exercise or links to other exercises and
documentation
- Some changes to lesson file format to support i18n of files
distributed independently of Solfege. Translations are kept in
the actual lesson file instead of using the same catalog as
Solfege.
Header block:
'description' is renamed to 'title', and should be a short
online description of the file
'description' is now used for a longer text describing
the file. It can contain html tags.
Translations can be entered like this:
title = "Major, minor, dim and aug in root position"
title(no) = "Dur, moll, forminsket og forstørret i grunnstilling"
title(de) = "Dur, Moll, verm. und überm. in Grundstellung"
if the file is distributed outside of Solfege or if the author want
to be independent of the solege gettext catalog.
- Added build-depend: libgnome-dev because I use gnome-config
- The online documentation is preprocessed by m4
- Some internal reorganisation, more has to be done.
src/main.py is gone, new files are src/app.py and
src/mainwin.py, src/configstuff.py -> src/configwindow.py
History in src/history.py
- the program will use /etc/gnome/config/Solfege some defaults.
These were earlier scattered all over the code. Made necessary
changes to the makefiles
- some work on gnome-emu
- src/statisticsviewer.py: Marked some more strings for translation.
- src/pyscript.py, src/solfegexmhtml.py: Added some experimental
scripting to the online documentation. At the moment it can
get strings out of the config database.
- Added key bindings from all exercises. It is now (almost)
possible to practise without using the mouse.
- exercises/singintervall.py(new_question): bugfix to make
more than one intervall work.
- mpd/musicalpitch.py: MusicalPitch.__add__ can take
Intervall instance as second argument.
Musicalpitch.str() renamed to notename(). Updated the rest
of the program.
- mpd/intervall.py: New Intervall class
- solfege.1: mentioned where statistics is saved
- harmonic and melodic intervall will give an error dialog
if the exercise is wrongly configured
- exercises/rhythm.py: polishing the ui.
- solfege.gtkrc: removed some trash, changed the font
selection string to fix Vollmers problems.
- Track(start_note, stop_note): added int(pitch) to fix
problem with compare-intervall when using an external midi
player.
- Misc cleanup to statistics.py and statisticsviewer.py.
Necessary changes to the exercises since some classes changed
name and *Statistics.add_wrong require one more argument
0.7.15: 1 July 2000
- exercises/abstract.py(IntervallGui.use_inputwidget): show
what is the tonika when changing inputwidget
- po/de.po: Added some translations I forgot for 0.7.14
- configure.in, Makefile.in: The configure script will check
for lynx, so building will not fail if it it not installed.
- exercises/chord.py: Fixed bug with transposition of chords.
- exercises/harmincintervall.py: Right click on button
will play what intervall.
- src/configwindow.py: 'config/picky_on_new_question'
Added support for this in all exercises.
- exercises/rhythm.py: Better feedback on what's
right and wrong.
- exercises/singintervall.py: will only show one
'new intervall'-button for the first question.
- src/main.py(Mainwin.show_box): will call
exercise.on_start_practise and exercise.on_end_practise
0.7.14: 26 June 2000
- debian/control: added Build-Depends: python-dev, debhelper
- debian/control: removed Depends: debconf
- src/abstract(MelodicIntervallTeacher.new_question): small fixes
- src/miscfunctions.py(random_tonika_and_intervall): bugfix
- completed mpd.select_clef
- Some work on the online documentation.
- online-docs/C/credits.html: added that gettext.py
was written by James Henstridge.
- multiline hrefs will not make them mainwindow resize.
- Solfege is now an official part of the GNU project. The
program will still be hosted at solfege.sourceforge.net
- Updated the manpage to be correct about config files, added
--no-sound option and did some small adjustments.
- Make it configurable from File/Preferences what program to
run for URLs to external webpages.
- No more use of ~/.solfegerc. Make it simple and let
everything go into ~/.gnome/Solfege
- Added souncard/fakesynth.py, it contains a Synth class
that only print the notes the program want to play. This
can be useful for debugging and porting. Use command line
argument --no-sound to use this.
- Makefiles: some changes to make things simpler, and to
make sure swig generated files *never* is included in the
debian package. Another try to fix the makefile mess. I
usually break stuff doing this, so please report any problems.
Made sure tarballs always unpack to a directory named
solfege-x.y.z
- exercises/rhythm.py: let the user select what instrument
to use for playing the rhythm. Count-in.
- src/gu.py: added nCombo and PercussionNameCombo.
- src/gnomeconfigutils.py: added default value to get_int.
Completed some work I started and forgott about some releases
ago.
- src/instrumentselector.py(InstrumentSelector): use popup
menu instead of menubar.
- soundcard/track.py: replaced __add__ with merge_with
0.7.13: June 4 2000
- exercises/compareintervalls.py(new_question): fixed bug caused
by changes to MusicalPitch
- soundcard/midifilesynth.py(play_track): added default 60 bpm
- exercises/abstract.py(IntervallTeacher.new_question): simplified
some intervall arithmetics.
- exercises/rhythm.py: New rhythm exercise. Useable, but
not finished yet.
- Makefile.in: make clean should also delete compiled files
in gnome-emu, and png/.xvpics
- execises/identifyscale.py: Simplified code using the latest changes
to gu.py
- src/gu.py(Button): Just noticed you can send data with events.
- mpd/__init__.py(transpose_notename): take integer value to tell
how much to transpose
- mpd/musicalpitch.py(MusicalPitch.transpose): renamed to
transpose_by_musicalpitch, just to give it a cryptical name so
that nobody but mpd/parser.py tries to use it.
- mpd/musicalpitch.py: Moved code related to parser.py and
relative mode to parser.py. Cleanup on __sub__.
0.7.12: May 29 2000
0.7.11: May 29 2000
- mpd/musicalpitch.py: Cleanup. Really needed :-)
- added some random_* functions to src/miscutils.py. These functions
are used by abstract.IntervallTeacher and
harmonicintervall.Teacher.new_question. The intervallexercises now
to a better job making the question within a given range of tones.
- Makefile.in: removed some silly working directory renaming
- MultipleIntervallConfigWidget: small bugfix
- exercises/singintervall.py: use mpd.select_clef
- tools/changelog2html.py: new script to convert the changelog to
html to be viewed from inside Solfege.
- src/inputwidgets.py, src/configwindow.py: added support for
antialiased canvas for guitar and accordion widget. Since antialiased
canvas still seems to be a little buggy, this is turned off by default.
Turn on from File/Preferences/Misc
- small tweaks to many files.
- mpd/parser.py(Track.generate_track_for_voice): Bug fix, dotted notes
are now played correctly.
- mpd/__init__.py: added music_to_tracklist function, that is the
same as the old (wrong named) music_to_track, and changed
music_to_track to only return one track, merging tracks if necessary.
- exercises/singchord.py: make use of 'preferred_instrument' and
'preferred_instrument_velodicy'
- mpd/__init__.py(compare_notenames): changed to return value
greater than 0 if first argument is largest, return less than 0 if
second argument is largest. Previously it returned -1, 0, or 1.
- src/notenamespinbutton.py: cleanup, PgUp, PgDown change one
octave, left mouse button change to the max/minimum allowed value,
middle mouse button change one octave. Added nNotenameRange class.
- Added guitar and accordion input for harmonic and melodic
intervall, and did some cleanup.
- InstrumentSelector.play_selected_instrument: bugfix
- Solfege officially require python 1.5.2 (it has actually done
it for a while)
- changelog and TODO is available from online-docs.
- ConfigWindow can now change the synth used for playing sound.
Also, the first time you run Solfege, it will popup the config window
and ask you to select how to play sounds if it is not able to use
/dev/music
- soundcard: tmp file creation for FileSynth is now handled in
FileSynth.__init__, not soundcard.__init__
- gnome-emu/: when renamed to gnome, this module will *try* to
emulate some of the functions from gnome. It is used to run Solfege
on win32, but it can also be used on linux.
0.7.10: May 4, 2000
- new Rat class. Simpler, make mpd.parser 6% faster, GPL'ed
- small improvements to src/main.py
- use gnome.config.[get|set]_bool for booleans
- started working with idtone to make it useable
- more work in ConfigWindow
0.7.9: April 29, 2000
- cleanup of program startup, location of files needed at runtime,
stopped the abuse of __main__.
- gu.py: RadioButton connect to callback using 'toggled' signal
- do not create /etc/solfege when installing debian package. Use
default value sequencer-device=/dev/music, and have user to change
this with /etc/solfege or $HOME/.solfegerc manually
- mpd.parser.Score.get_midi_events() will return a list of lists of
Tracks. This way we get one track for each voice, and can have
different instrument on different voices in polyphonic music.
- soundcard/mfutils.py: cleanup
- rename solfegerc -> solfege.gtkrc
- no link in /usr/bin/solfege->../share/solfege/solfege.py
- More consistent use of gnome.config and VariableStorage
- small fixes to manpage
- Reorganised soundcard/, MidiEventStream is split to Track, Synth,
MidifileSynth. Tracks can be added. Moved mpd/rat.py to
soundcard/rat.py
- link to exercise:/xxx will show exercise page, never config page
- various cleanups after ->/dev/music change
- IMPORTANT: from this release you should use /dev/music instead of
/dev/sequencer. The change is because I have read my first OSS doco,
and learned how much nicer /dev/music is
- added: --sequencer-device=/dev/devicname
- MidiEventStream: api change start_note and stop_note does not
have notelen as first argument. Instead we use notelen_time(notelen)
to get delta time. Updated necessary exercises.
- adjusted toolbar pixmaps, all are 24x24. Noteheads are 6x4
- configure_exercise for most exercises
- first port to windows using win32 port of gtk+ and pygtk. Some ugly
hacks to make it work without gnome libs. The windows port will save
the music to play to a midi file and use an external program to play
it until I find out how to use midiOutOpen and friends, and how to
create python C extentions for win32. All exercises except id-tone
works fine. If you want to test win32 port you should get the win32
snapshot on ftp://solfege.sourceforge.net/pub/solfege, don't try to
use this tarball directly.
- ask_for_intervall_nn is zero index based
- change to format of links to exercises:
exercise:harmonic-intervall?lowest_instrument:1, highest_instrument:2
is now entered as
exercise:harmonic-intervall?lowest_instrument=1; highest_instrument=2
misc cleanup to code related to this.
- help browser can be in its own window (i think this was added in 0.7.7)
0.7.8
- make sure Solfege/lesson_collections/solfege always point do the
correct place
- fixed problems with --sound-using-xxx and --external-midiplayer
command line options
0.7.7
- bf: translated messages even when not running from sourcedir
- Added error handling when errors in lesson files.
- made it possible to specify several directories to place lesson files
into.
- all lessonfile classes go into file 'lessonfile'. Improvements to
avoid heavy use of __main__
- mpd: added limited support for ties, see music-format.html for info.
- mpd.parser: adjust_noteheads renamed do_xshift_noteheads, and
avoiding a call to vector.sort()
- src/inputwidgets.py: some work, putting common code in abstract
baseclass. Not good code, but better than before.
- more """no "from gtk import *" no more""" that I missed last time
- mpd.musicdisplayer: MusicDisplay.display take a music string as
argument, not a vector of engravers. This to hide some action needed
to avoid memory leak.
- memory leak fixes. After upgrading to python-gnome 1.0.52 and
doing some careful "del someobject", redisplaying some music
does not eat any more memory. With 0.7.6, each time parsing and
displaying some music, solfege would eat 4k-8k of memory.
- wrote some documentation
- updated some helpfile links: "exercise://exercise-name" ->
"exercise:exercise-name"
- mpd: adjust to avoid crashing noteheads in chords like
Need more work, the function is parser.Score.adjust_noteheads
0.7.6-2
- debian/rules: removed dh_suidregister
- don't distribute debian/tmp/
0.7.6 March 26 2000
- ended my little tab for indent adventure
- no "from gtk import *" no more
- making some buttons insensitive until they are usable, like repeat
buttons before new_question has been pressed.
- .deb: Section: sound, not main/sound
- .deb: Depend, not Pre-Depend on debconf
- cleanup on help file links, solfege will chdir to where the help
files are stored before loading files. This make links to images:
"../png/image.png" and to a specific language as "../nn/file.html"
- lessonfilemanager work
- online-docs/C/lessonfiles.html: updated after lesson file parser
was rewritten.
- rewrote lesson file parser. Trying to define a more clear grammar.
changes to lesson file format:
use = chord, id-by-name
has to be written:
use = chord, id_by_name
'-' is not allowed in identifiers
- bf: should distribute swig generated files
- first step in cleaning up lessonfile parsing and use, some
changes to the interface exercises use to access the data in
lesson files.
- added i18n to lesson files, keep translated messages inside
_("..") like normal python code
0.7.5
- /etc/solfege to set how to play midi sound.
- Debian package use debconf to create /etc/solfege on install.
- Vollmer: po/po.de and german translation of spec file.
- set correct user and group for files in redhat package
- used ./fix_feta.py to make the background of feta pixmap white.
- started documenting the format for mpd.Parser
- Makefile: simplified dist target, do maintainer-clean,
./configure and tar everything thats left.
- soundcard: api changes to be closer to linux kernel names:
MidiEventStream: note_on -> start_note, note_off -> stop_note
program_change -> set_patch
- macro_to_function.c|i : added seq_bender to lowlevel_c_midi and
.bender to MidiEventStream
- get correct number of ledger lines
- updated after api changes in MidiEventStream
- more makefile cleanup
- Change python script start from:
#!/usr/bin/python
to:
#!/usr/bin/env python
- first release after solfege is splitted into three separate
packages
0.7.4: March 6 2000, 6975 lines of .py
- makefile changes
- renamed NEWS to changelog
- set window title to show what exercise we are practising.
- musicdisplayer/parser: major rewrite.
- support for time signature. It can display it, but the parser is
completely stupid and will allow time signatures like 7/7, 9/3
- Added barlines and accidentals, now do the right thing if there
is for example several cis in a row.
- Accidentals also understand bar lines.
- use the xpms directly from Lilypond, don't manually convert to
python code.
Rests are still invisible after the rewrite. The code
still need heavy cleanup, or even better, a complete rewrite (by
someone else than me)
- automatically generated rpm spec file, need more testing. To build
rpm, to ./configure; make rpm, just remember you need write access to
/usr/src/redhat
- --sound-using-timidity will send output to /dev/null
0.7.3: Feb 22 2000, 6914 lines of .py
- misc small bugfixes and improvements
- adding _(...) to more strings to be translated
- some documentation of lesson file format and about translating
Solfege.
- translated html files can now be placed in lessonfiles/nn/ where
nn is the code for the language you use, no=norwegian, se=swedish.
- added browser-like history and back/forward button
- sing-intervall can use random_keyword=1 in lesson file
- added mudela.select_clef, use it in chord, compare-intervall
- some work on compare-intervalls
- Vollmer: more icons
- work on toolbar, configurable to use text/icons/both,
some pixmaps renamed, Vollmer, please notice this when making new
icons.
- typo in man page
0.7.2: 6801 lines of .py
- new exercise: compare-intervall
- minor gui adjustments
- misc fixes to exercises that are not configured correctly
- intervall exercises has checkbutton to not ask same question
twice in a row.
- More work on help system, and href's to exercises
- Finished SingChord, need more lesson files
- Fixed some problems with statistics. You should remove
~/.solfege/harmonic-intervall*, probably the whole ~/.solfege
- Added random_transpose variable to lesson files. It is used by chord
lesson to decide if it can transpose the music. And also id-by-name.
- melodicintervall and singintervall will use
'Solfege/config/preferred_instrument*'
0.7.1: 6290 lines of .py
- Vollmer: small changes to pixmaps
- --debug-sound option
- cleaned up the help system (but not help file contents...)
- Statistics. Stored in ~/.solfege/exercisename/ If you get segfaults
or solfege freeze, please delete the statistics files for the exercise
you have problem with (or at least the 2-3 newest files).
- Add to sys.path if installing to /usr/local
- main.py: create exercises as they are needed, not all at startup. Now, if one
exercise is completely broken, Solfege will still work.
- Add /usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages to search path if installing
there. Not all distros is like debian...
- some cleanup to popup code. More has to be done.
0.7.0 6030 lines
- MusicDisplayer will resize to fit any number of staffs (i hope...)
- Small changes here and there to gui
- Redused memory leaks, I don't think mudela.parser is leaking any longer, but
there is problems with musicdisplayer. (Not investigated very much...)
- Added documentation on notebook page, enabling links to other exercises.
- Removed the possibility to not use a notebook in the main window
- TwelveTone exercise
- SingChord exercise
- MusicDisplayer: click on note will play it.
0.6.0
- mudela.parser: dont use channel 9 when generating midi events because
it is for perkussion
- Fixed broken link creating in debian/rules
- soundcard.midieventstream.py: __interpret_notelen should always
return an int
- Made sure solfegerc is parsed when not running from sourcedir
- removed some old code that hasn't and will never be used
- Toolbar use pixmaps from Oliver Vollmer, toolbar can be turned in
Preferences (without restarting Solfege...:-)
0.5.7: not released 5406
- Misc code-cleanup and minor fixes preparing for 0.6
- debian: created symlink /usr/share/doc/solfege/manual.html ->
../../gnome/help/solfege/C/manual.html
- bf: symbolic link /usr/bin/solfege in debian package
- mudela.parser.Parser: made it possible to generate midi events for only
the last notes.
- Making parser smarter and MusicDisplayer dumber.
0.5.6: 5349 .py lines (not counting the long feta??.py files)
- Added tempo keyword to lesson files. tempo keyword can be set globally
for the whole file, and/or local to each question.
- New startup procedure, create symbolic link in bin dir. Files in
/src are now installed in share/solfege/src, not share/solfege/
- Made it possible to play or display only the first note (or first
notes in polyphonic music). This makes the dictation exercise
useable!
- Added callback function param to InstrumentSelector so we can call
GnomePropertyBox.set_modified(TRUE) in ConfigWindow
- Some changes to keywords used in lesson files. New changes should
be backward compatible.
- small adjustments of box layout in practiseboxes.py
- the last (almost a promise) non backward compatible change to the
syntax for the music parser before 1.0: added \staff and \addvoice
keywords, removed the old usage of \staff and \voice
- music displayer/parser: added rests
- layout of stems and noteheads
- ledger lines
- Makefile.in: make clean should remove run-solfege
0.5.5: 5079 .py lines (not counting the long feta??.py files)
- Simplifying the music parser and the syntax it read. Don't try to
be Lilypond.
- MusicDisplayer to replace ScoreDisplayer, new class that use feta
font from GNU Lilypond and GtkDrawingArea instead of GnomeCanvas.
MusicDisplayer is a big improvement compared to ScoreDisplayer. It
will be possible to let different exercises use different font
size. The plan is to let it connect it to MidiEventStream and
scroll the music as it is played if the window is to small.
- moved src/const.py: instrument_sections and instrument_names to
soundcard/__init__
- parser.py: Parser.generate_midi_events: fixed problem calling
note_off with wrong channel
- teachers.py: Chord: new_question: random transpose of chord
- practiseboxes.py: ChordBox: choose clef when displaying
- updated man page
0.5.4: (17 Jan 2000) 5428 .py lines
- moved setting of default values for configurable stuff form
solfege.py to configstuff.py
- solfege.py: removed Solfege/config/program_version stuff
- updated InstrumentSelector after the changes to sound playing
modules. Small cosmetic changes to the code. InstrumentSelector
will set default values.
- made src/const.py: instrument_names a touple of strings
- removed the obsolete remove_* functions from mudela.__init__.py
0.5.3: (17. Jan 2000)
- Rewrote sound playing modules. Made a cleaner interface to the soundcard.
Better support for people using --sound-using-timidity
- oops, 0.5.2 was missing some files, configure.in had to be edited to build.
0.5.2: (16 Jan 2000) 5482 lines
- lesson-files/Makefile.in: fixed install target
- fixed make diff, see INSTALL file
- bf: HarmonicIntervall: play_melodic fixed
- Instrument change is written to midifile.
- New command line parameters
--sound-using-timidity
--sound-using-drvmidi
- Obsolete command line parameter:
-external-sound
- misc Makefile bugfixes: uninstall of man1/solfege.1, installation of
lesson files, distribution also include debian/
- distributes html version of the users manual. Don't need debiandoc-sgml
unless you change manual.sgml
- dataparser.py -> lessonfileparser.py
- removed BeginnersChordsBox and IdentifySingleChordBox and created a
lesson based ChordBox. The gui is not finished yet, and you cannot
customise the midi sound, but it is usable. Necesarry changes to
teachers.py
- removed "This is Solfege..." startup message
- update gnome.app_id on startup, now solfege --version looks nice
0.5.1: (14. jan 2000)
- testrelease of the possibiliy to make it possible to play the music
using and external program. Right now the command line parameter
--external-sound use drvmidi to play the created midi files.
- Visual changes to MultipleIntervallConfigInterface
- PianoWidget bugfix: correct number of arguments to callback
- freshed up HarmonicIntervallBox.config_box
- Rewrote InstrumentSelector
- Global preferred midi instrument overridden for each exercise. (well only harmonic intervall for now)
0.5: (12. jan 2000)
- silly manpage to please lintian
- removed the pyconfigure.py.in mess, added src/version.py
- renamed classes in practiseboxes.py:
PractiseBaseBox -> AbstractBox
IdIntervallBaseBox -> AbstractIntervallBox
- renamed classes in teachers.py:
AbstractTeacher -> Abstract
AbstractChordTeacher -> AbstractChord
AbstractLessonbasedTeacher -> AbstractLessonbased
AbstractIntervallTeacher -> AbstractIntervall
- Module guiutils -> gu
- Removed m_pretty_name member of AbstractTeacher
- Exercises to do dictation, exercises stored in lesson files.
- created class LessonFileManager that know what exercises can
be used on what gui
- small fixes because of syntax change:
\clef "violin"; --> \clef violin;
0.4.2: (2. jan 2000)
- Mudela.engravers.StemEngraver.do_stuff: make stem go in correct
direction, respect \stemup and \stemdown
- music parser syntax change: \clef "violin"; --> \clef violin;
- bf: mudela.parser.Parser: chords in relative mode
- bf: bug in mudela.parser.Parser.collaple_chords
- midi/ cleanup, some C code rewritten in python.
- Started working on harmonic progressions
- source file names to lower case, moved .py files from ./ to ./src
0.4.1
0.4 (11. november 1999)
Lots of changes, some visible, some internal. Run the program
to see yourself. Don't let the even version number make you
believe this is a stable release, I don't make stable releases.
Its just a marketing trick. Next version might be called
Solfege 2000.
(The changes before 0.4 was lost. Don't know when, don't know where...)