[WASTE-list] WASTE 3.0d6 Evaluation Kit now available

[Marco Piovanelli]

Hi all,

A new build of the WASTE 3.0 evaluation kit is now available at:

  <http://www.merzwaren.com/bin/waste/WASTE-evaluation-kit-30d6.dmg>

The included WASTE.framework replaces the old static library
(libWASTE.a), includes the new WASTE.h header file, and exports
all of the non-deprecated APIs defined by WASTE 2.1.

Some APIs are not (fully) functional at this time, and some have
a slightly different semantics.

The included demo application is just the old demo from the 2.1
distribution (with some minor changes), linked against the new
framework.

New in this build:

  *  Added support for unencoded glyphs (see technical note
     2079, "Glyph Access Protocol"), which means you can now
     enter characters that have no Unicode representation,
     such as Wingdings dingbats and kanji variants.

        <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2079.html>

     Unencoded glyphs are represented in RTF streams (using
     the same RTF extensions used by Cocoa) and in WEst/WEcf
     scraps.

     A new attribute tag (weTagGlyphSelector) allows inspecting
     and setting unencoded glyphs programmatically.

  *  Fonts can be specified using ATSUI font IDs (weTagFontID),
     in addition to Quickdraw font family numbers (weTagFontFamily).

  *  WESetInfo() again supports the wePort selector.

  *  WASTE now attempts to work as expected when it has to draw
     into a Quickdraw port where a picture is being recorded.
     Previously, nothing would be recorded in this scenario.


Also, I added a new section to the WASTE 3.0 transition page
that briefly describes two new features introduced in version
3.0: custom attributes and grouping.

   <http://www.merzwaren.com/waste/we3_transition.html#new_features>


                                        -- marco

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