| Hello Csounders,
I have placed an archive containing version 2.0-alpha3 of CsoundFront for
MacOS 7-9 in my Yahoo Breifcase. (There is a source code archive as well).
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/akozar@sbcglobal.net/lst?.dir=/CsoundFront
Please download this update if you are using Csound 5.00 on MacOS 9 or
earlier. Notes on the changes are below.
Thanks.
Anthony Kozar
anthonykozar AT sbcglobal DOT net
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Changes in CsoundFront 2.0 alpha 3
February 15, 2006
This is a minor update for anyone who has been experiencing problems with
the Csound 5.00 release for MacOS 7-9. This is not a complete Csound
package, so you will need the release file (Csound5.00_OS9.smi.bin)
available from Sourceforge.
There are just a few bug fixes and some general code cleanup in this update.
* Fixed a very annoying bug that caused the ".csoundrc" file to not be
found if any of the "default directories" (SFDIR, SADIR, or SSDIR) were set
via the front end interface. This meant the opcode libraries would not
load.
* SFDIR would not be passed correctly to Csound when either SADIR or SSDIR
was set differently from it. (This was a newly-introduced bug).
* New "Clear All" button in the "Default Directories" dialog.
* Renamed the "Utility Preprocess" menu to "Utilities" because having a
space in the name was strange.
* Started to fix some problems with events in dialog boxes being processed
twice, but this really needs a major redesign of the event code to finish.
* Eliminated the dependencies on most of the legacy (pre-System 7 !) code
that was still lurking in the front end. This code is no longer being
compiled into the application, thus making CsoundFront a little bit smaller
:)
* Fixed obscure bugs in calculating pathnames.
* The front end has always found "matching" score and orch files even when
their names differed in case (e.g. "mypiece.orc" and "MyPiece.SCO"), but it
displayed the names of those files all with the same case. It now displays
the names as they actually are on disk.
* Changed some linker options so that CsoundFront is no longer dependent on
system libraries only available on MacOS 9. However, you will also need an
updated Csound5Lib before this is usable on System 7 or 8 (not included
because I want to wait for the next official release). I will send an
updated library though immediately to anyone who emails me to ask for one.
* Some general code cleanup, optimization, and reorganization. Hopefully
did not introduce any new bugs ;-)
* Made preparations in the resources and headers for a new Options dialog
box (to replace the Options menu) and for other changes pertaining to new
settings in Csound 5. (e.g. There is a new "Score start time" option in the
Overrides dialog but it does not work yet). These changes are "work in
progress" but nothing that worked in alpha-2 has been broken (that I am
aware of). Many major improvements are in the works!
Please send any bug reports, questions, and/or comments to Anthony Kozar. |