Large number of improvements in the user interface. The float box is now actually usable (the horizontal mouse position set the scale of the dragging).

A number of examples and tutorial has been added, accessible thru the Help Menu.

Menus are a lot more consistent. Editing of objects is more consistent.

First support for PD objects source compatibility.

This revision complete the migration from tcl to XML for configuration, including I/O configuration and user interfaces. The new I/O configuration simplify the configuration model, providing a simple space of named configuration to select from.

The wiki documentation migrated to the XML model and is being completed with complete documentation of the basic configuration (preferences and so on), i/o configuration, and later packages and user interfaces.

This snapshot is the baseline for the first planned public release of jMax Phoenix and for the Mac OS X (and hopefully Windows) port. No major functional evolution are planned before the Mac OS X port.

This snapshot is the first to be compiled with optimisations. The speed improvement should be around 6 times, from some benchmark i run.

This snapshot was possible thanks to a fix to a bug that happened only with optimisation.

This snapshot have the following important features:

1) Support portaudio. jMax support the default portaudio device at startup, but can be configured to use any audio device seen by portaudio.

2) Support portmidi. jMax can be configured to use all the MIDI connections seens by portmidi. THIS FEATURE IS UNTESTED. Beta tester are welcome, for the moment i do not have a MIDI setup that i can use.

3) Support different vector sizes (buffer size). jMax tradionally supported only 64 sample buffer size, now it can go up to 2048. See the file config/core.xml for how to configure this parameter. Vector size cannot be changed after startup.

I'll soon add some info on the wiki on how to configure the portaudio and portmidi device.

If you do not know, portaudio and portmidi are libraries that transparently access the underlying audio system, allowing to write portable code that run on ALSA, Jack, Core Audio on Mac OS X, various audio systems on Windows etc.

Adding portaudio was a cheap way to support ALSA (and jack if you have the right portaudio library version), and to prepare the porting of jMax to other platforms.

Fixed some user interface coherency issue. Added documentation (on the project wiki).

First public snapshot.

Printing do not yet works in jMax Phoenix.Code Text

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