$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1.4.11.2.44 2007/09/06 16:12:01 chunlee Exp $

DesireData 2009.06... :
 * fixed some win32 (mingw) bugs (thanks to Patrice Colet)
 * modal dialogues now appear on top of current window, not always main window
 * added -stdout
 * fixed osx scrolling
 * -listdev not supported anymore


DesireData 2008.02.19 :

 * added more Bokmål (Norwegian) translations from Gisle Frøysland
 * added Nihongo (Japanese) translations from Kentaro Fukuchi
 * added Dansk (Danish) translations from Steffen Leve Poulsen
 * added Türkçe (Turkish) translations from Koray Tahiroglu
 * added Nederlands (Dutch) translations from Tim Vets
 * added Brasiliano (Brasilian Portuguese) translations from chgp
 * added Russkij (Russian) translations from Ilya Dmitrichenko
 * added History class to unify command history for Listener/Runcommand/TextBox
 * KeyboardDialog clean up, added font selector for console and virtual keyboard
 * Appearance settings can be applied at run time
 * new object/wire indexing system (diff-friendly)
 * Added keyboard/mouse macro recording, playback, and copy (to clipboard)
 * [select] has as many inlets as it has arguments
 * Added [macro] so that a macro can be played back in a patch using messagebox
 * Added [clipboard] to pull the content of system clipboard
 * Fixed variable width font support and TextBox code clean up
 * Added object id display toggle
 * Added [display] object
 * Added patch editing commands
 * Added expand_port
 * Added profiler (object speed measurements) (not compiled in by default)
 * Can now use spaces and \{} in IEM labels and some other places.
 * Added Locale diff tool: localeutils.tcl
 * Added [>~] [<~] [<=~] [>=~] [==~] [!=~]
 * moved from CVS to SVN.
 * officially requiring Tcl version >= 8.5

DesireData 2007.08.04 :

 * Unicode locales
 * fixed type mismatch bug recently introduced in [unpack]...
 * fixed lost console posts at startup
 * turned most fprintf() into post() or error()
 * added Chinese locale from Chun Lee
 * added Polish locale from Michal Seta
 * added object creation history
 * added arrow keys and mouse clicks to KeyboardDialog
 * added click drag and copy
 * added background grid
 * added snap to grid
 * added new font selector (in client prefs)

DesireData 2007.07.30 :

 * added classes [unpost], [tracecall], [parse], [unparse]
 * non-constructed objects finally have a dashed box like they used to
 * most of the rest of the C code switched to C++,PD_PLUSPLUS_FACE
 * beginning to use C++ standard library components
 * added event history view (help menu)
 * added keyboard view
 * fixed several bugs in copy/paste, undo/redo, subpatches, gop.
 * added atom_ostream (similar to atom_string)
 * lifted many string length restrictions
 * fixed the hexmunge generator (for classnames with special chars)
 * pd_error() is deprecated
 * added verror(), added open_via_path2(), canvas_open2(), outlet_atom(), ...
 * [route] and [select] support mixed floats and symbols
 * [unpack] supports type "e" meaning any atom ("e" stands for "element")
 * added variable mouse cursor sensitivity
 * various fixes on keyboard navigation

DesireData 2007.06.27 (which should have been 2007.01.12) :

 * merged new loader from Miller's pd 0.40-2
 * merged (but not tested) the rest of the [declare] code from pd 0.40-2
 * added gensym2 (support for NUL in symbols)
 * most of the code now uses C++,PD_PLUSPLUS_FACE,class_new2,etc
 * auto show/hide scrollbars
 * menu bar can be disabled
 * new Find widget (FireFox style)
 * added "subpatcherize" (turn a selection into a subpatch)
 * IEMGUI can now by controled with keyboard
 * more general keyboard control
 * merged t_alist and t_binbuf together and aliased them to t_list
 * delay uploading until #X restore or #X pop
 * don't upload all abstractions instances to client (much faster)
 * introduced zombie objects to deal with dead objects
 * Command evaluator per canvas window
 * Added locale for Euskara (Basque) by Ibon Rodriguez Garcia
 * PureUnity is now part of the DesireData project (but is designed to
   run also on Miller's 0.40).
 * added -port option in desire.tk so that server and client may
   be started separately.
 * PureUnity has type suffixes for some class families; for each $1 in
   f,~,# (float,signal,grid) there is [inlet.$1] [outlet.$1] [taa.$1]
   [op2.$1] [rand.$1] [norm.$1] [swap.$1] [packunpack3.$1]
 * Other new PureUnity classes: [^] [commutator] [associator]
   [invertor] [distributor] [tree] [protocols-tree]

DesireData 0.40.pre5 (2006.12.19) (-r desiredata; ./configure && make) :

 * merged changes from Miller's pd 0.40-2 (80% of it)
 * new canvas method "reply_with" of canvases replaces the implicit
   reply-matching of pre4. (even less bug-prone)
 * server-side wires and scalars appear to client just like other objects.
 * floatatom,symbolatom,[nbx] use normal Tk text edition just like
   ObjectBox,MessageBox,Comment have done for a while
 * obsolete t_object fields removed: te_type te_width
 * global object table (crash protection for bindless .x targets)
 * variable width font usable in ObjectBoxes and MessageBoxes and Comments.
 * [hsl] [vsl] support jump-on-click again
 * lots of bugfixes
 * -console and -lang moved to Client Preferences dialog
 * added some more translations by Patrice Colet
 * removed Find menu in main window
 * added Find, Find Next, Find Last Error (canvas windows only)
 * choose between horizontal and vertical in Properties of slider or radio.

DesireData 0.39.A.pre4 (2006.12.07) (-r desiredata; ./configure && make) :

 * major speedup of the GUI (sometimes 3-4 times faster)
 * lots of bugfixes
 * logging of the socket into the terminal is now disabled by default
 * introducing PD_PLUSPLUS_FACE, a new way to use <m_pd.h> and <desire.h>
 * new branch "desiredata" instead of "devel_0_39".
 * got rid of #ifdef DESIRE
 * reply-matching in client-server protocol (less bug-prone)
 * reversing the connection to what it was supposed to be:
   the client connects to the server, not the other way around.
 * the server uses [netreceive] to receive the connection from the GUI
 * removed support for .pdsettings, .plist, microsoft registry.
 * cross-platform libpd
 * new titlebar icon
 * removed t_guiconnect
 * removed [scope]

DesireData 0.39.A.pre3 (2006.11.27) (-r devel_0_39; ./configure && make) :
 * français updated by Patrice Colet
 * italiano updated by Federico Ferri
 * tons of bugfixes
 * better pdrc editor (renamed to server prefs)
 * removed media menu (split to: help menu, file menu, server prefs)
 * removed Gdb box, added crash report dialog
 * renamed objective.tcl to poe.tcl (because the name was already taken)
 * replaced scons by autoconf and make (starting from Miller's 0.39's files)
 * removed detection of Tcl (we don't need to use libtcl)
 * removed the setuid option because no-one needs it; also fixed the
   setuid security vulnerability in case someone does chmod u+s anyway
 * Portaudio 18 is no longer supported.
 * simplified configure.in (detector and makefile generator)
 * APIs not compiled in show up in "pd -help", with a special mention
   "(support not compiled in)"; those options don't give you a "unknown
   option" when trying them, it says "option -foo not compiled in this pd".
 * switched desire.c to C++, as another way to reduce redundancy in code.
 * can be compiled without audio support.
 * can be compiled without MIDI support.
 * can --disable-portaudio on OSX
 * added multiple wire connection support
 * fixed copy/paste on canvas
 * keyboard navigation pointer makeover
 * added automatic object insertion support

DesireData 0.39.A.pre2 (2006.11.12) (-r devel_0_39; scons desire=1) :
 * español updated by Mario Mora
 * subpatches
 * GOPs
 * abstraction instances
 * multi-line objectboxes, messageboxes and comments
 * keyboard-based navigation
 * made desire.c C++ compatible (for future use)
 * lots of things not written here

DesireData 0.39.A.pre1 (-r devel_0_39; scons desire=1) :
 * merged into the devel branch; enable with scons desire=1, which
   disables lots of g_*.c files (and s_print.c) and enables desire.c;
   use the std devel gui using desire=0.
 * added an object-oriented programming system in desire.tk (do not
   confuse with a dataflow system). added proc unknown, which allows
   subject-verb-complement method-calling in tcl (aka objective.tcl)
 * run the client to start the server and not the other way around: do wish desire.tk
 * the client can make the server start via GDB
 * added Pd box (like Ctrl+M but with history)
 * added Gdb box
 * menu translations in 8 languages
 * classbrowser now show short descriptions in 3 languages
 * objectbox tooltip now replaced by mini-classbrowser
 * client conf editor
 * other stuff I forget to write about
 * looks for .ddrc
 * pdrc and ddrc config becomes server and client configuration editor
 * graphics rendering completely removed from the server
 * toolbar and status bar can be enabled/disabled
 * added Patcher->View->Reload: client reloads the patch from the server
 * localization support (currently 8 languages: english, français, deutsch,
      català, español, português, bokmål, italiano.)
 * lots of things not written here

ImpureData 0.37.B :
 * moving rendering to the TCL side
 * moving event-handling to the TCL side too
 * new file u_object.tk
 * added pd_scanargs(), pd_upload(), sys_mgui().
 * added color schemes (modifiable in u_main.tk)
 * switched to a jmaxish look
 * merged g_vdial.c into g_hdial.c
 * merged g_vslider.c into g_hslider.c
 * added Patcher->View->Redraw
 * added proc populate_menu, proc property_dialog
 * added ~/.pd.tk loading
 * inlet tooltips have new look
 * rewrote all of the property dialogs
 * added object class name completion (the <Tab> key)
 * mouse scrollwheel works in patchers
 * plus/minus button on tcl listener
 * changed default font and borderwidth
 * if conf not found in ~ ($HOME),
     looks in Pd's install directory (eg. /usr/local/lib/pd)
 * looks for .impdrc before .pdrc
 * pdrc editor
 * -help lists unavailable options with note "not compiled in"
 * sys_vgui() message size limit removed
 * new peak meters (thanks Carmen)
 * dropper object outputs symbols of filenames (requires tkdnd)
 * joe sarlo's VST-plugin i/o scheduler available on windows
 * error() merged into pd_error()
     and using strerror() to get meaningful error messages for failed I/O
 * completely breaking compatibility with Pd's GUI externals
   (for a good reason)

ImpureData 0.37.A.2 (-r impd_0_37_A_2) :
 * merged GG's reverting of "quote hack"

ImpureData 0.37.A (-r impd_0_37_A) :
 * forked from devel_0_37, 2004.02.21
 * added console for post()
   * .pdrc: -console <number_of_lines>
 * added button bar (that does like Ctrl+E & Put menu)
   * .pdrc: -look <directory_of_icons>
     (remember you can't use ~ nor $HOME in .pdrc)
   * includes a selectable windowid (for those who know how to use it)
 * class list dialog
   * scans for loaded classes, abstractions/externs dirs
   * help button fetches help file without needing to instantiate first
   * filter box helps finding classes quickly
   * displays some info on the class, like a list of defined methods and such.
 * statusbar shows cursor position (enable with -statusbar)