Release notes for GNU Solfege 3.13.x

3.13.2 March 6, 2009

This is the release candidate 3.14 will be out soon.

Added two tooltip strings to the preferences window.
Use better label for the checkbutton 'web_browser_as_help_browser'.
Clearer screenshots in the user manual. Will updated the translated screenshots before 3.14 is out
Tweak the with calculation of nested TextViews used in html tables, so that the html widget does not show horizontal scrollbars when not necessary. Noticed when viewing scales theory.
soundcard: added seq_set_volume, and use it in oss_sequencer2. People using /dev/sequencer2 was just seeing error messages.

Right-clicking on buttons in melodic intervals should play an interval that goes in the same direction as the question being asked.
Changed all gtk.Adjustment constructor calls to not set page_size, since setting it to a non-zero value is deprecated.
Remove some placeholder code in help-menu.xml that made two help menus appear on the menu bar.
Bugfix to display_docfile so that C locale file is correctly selected if the file is not translated.
jazz-progression-elements: Replace plabel with rnc, since plabel was nuked.
Bugfix to the new external players code of the config window. We did always show options for the OGG players, and dumping a stack trace sometimes.
Configwindow: use osutils.find_progs to seach for external programs. Don't use duplicate code for this.
The preferences windows should make the "Test" buttons insensitive if the binary is not found. It only did after the user had typed one character in the entry.
Added two tooltip strings to the preferences window.

Better handling of external programs like LilyPond, CSound, timidity and MMA.
Better error reporting and MS Windows portability conserning external programs. This time things are actually tested on Windows.
On MS Windows spaces in folder names will actually work. For example "Program files"...
Don't search drive A: and B: on MS Windows when looking for external programs. Drives are configurable in the app/win32_ignore_drives rcfile variable
Added log window that show the output of lilypond-book, lilypond and latex when creating ear training test printouts. And this is tested and works on windows :-)
Don't fail, but disable translations, if gettext setup fails because of broken locale settings on the operating system.
Change the GUI in the preferences for "Use different instrument for chords and harmonic intervals" to use the Gtk volume widget.
Midi output (at least to midi files) will use MIDI volume events, not velocity. Not implemented on win32.
Improved preferences window 'Instruments' tab layout. Be more consistent.
We now require Python 2.4, Gtk+ 2.14 and pygtk 2.14
Fixed bug:110, bug:111, bug:112.