Hi All,

I'd like to announce a new version of blue is available at:

http://www.csounds.com/stevenyi/blue

This version includes an initial version of waveform display for
AudioFile soundObjects, a much improved speed in rendering of CSD's
(especially an issue for projects with large SCO files like those
using CMask and generating 5+ megs of SCO), and some other smaller
features and fixes (of which the new time log options are finding
great use for me =) ).

There are some known issues for the AudioFile waveform having to do
with audio file formats and rates; these are things which will require
moving to a different library for reading soundfiles than what comes
with Java so will be looked at for the next release.

Thanks all who have contributed their time to help test beta builds as
well as those who have contributed their thoughts and feedback to help
shape this release.

As always, comments and feedback are always appreciated.

Cheers!
steven



[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 0.118.0<
[released 2007.10.23]

Steven Yi-----------------------------------------------------------------------

blue

    [new] - AudioFile SoundObject

            - Added Waveform display on timeline (renders waveform of audio file
            object; Thanks to Peiman Khosravi, Greg Thompson, John Lato, Oeyvind
            Brandtsegg, and others on the Csound list for their help on this!

            - Updated editor: added scrollpane for audiofile properties to make
            it more useful when SoundObject Editor area is small; fixed so that
            when editing a SoundObject that does not have a sound file set or
            an invalid one, to clear out the info area (was just leaving on
            values last set which was misleading)

    [new] - Added "Time Log" option to Help menu; selecting this from menu will
            report time when blue started as well as elapsed time since blue
            started in HH:MM:SS:MS format (useful to keep track of how much time
            you worked in blue, for those who like to keep track how much work
            we're doing!)

    [new] - Added "Show Time Log on Exit" option to Program Options; if enabled,
            will show the Time Log when program exits

    [new] - Added piece "Aurora" by Dave Seidel to examples/pieces/daveSeidel
            folder

    [new] - Added "Synchronize Presets" to presets dropdown menu; calling this
            will remove values within presets which are for widgets which no
            longer exist, as well as will add values to presets from widgets
            which now exist in the interface which did not when the preset was
            saved

    [new] - Added cpspch to orchestral composition library in ScoreUtilities.py,
            works like csound's cps2pch taking in a pch value for first arg and
            number for equal temperament for second arg (optional, defaults to
            12 et)

    [new] - Added Program Option for Java 2D acceleration, whether to use the
            default or use Open GL

    [updated] - Big improvement in speed of rendering of CSD

            - reduced unnecesary creation of Strings by using ensureCapacity
            with StrBuilder class

            - combined two regular expressions into one for single line comment
            stripping method which reduced time almost 45%

            (These changes may not be noticable unless your project contains
            large amounts of SCO text, i.e. when doing granular scores with
            CMask, generating large amounts of notes with Orchestral composition
            library, etc.)

    [updated] - changed look of polyObject bar to use smaller buttons with no
            borders decorated with right arrow icon to look more like a bread
            crumb bar

    [updated] - Updated Jython to 2.2.1

    [fix] - ScriptingUtils.py restored to lib/pythonLib (was accidentally
            deleted when upgrading to Jython 2.2)