[WASTE-list] WASTE 3.0.1 now available

[Marco Piovanelli]

WASTE 3.0.1 is now available for download at:

    <http://www.ovolab.com/technologies/waste/WASTE-sdk-301.dmg>

This release addresses several issues that have come up in the
last few months.  Here's a detailed list:

1.  Having WEStreamRange() with the kTypeUnicodeText selector
    always return UTF-16 text in big-endian order was an
    unfortunate design choice which we want to revert.
    WEStreamRange() will now return UTF-16 text in native byte
    order.  This is consistent with the way the Carbon Scrap Manager
    and Drag Manager interpret the 'utxt' flavor type.  However,
    it is inconsistent with the wording of the weGetLittleEndian
    flag.  The meaning of weGetLittleEndian is now really "return
    my UTF-16 text in swapped byte order, i.e., little-endian on
    PowerPC machines, big-endian on Intel machines".
    weGetLittleEndian is now effectively a misnomer, so we're
    deprecating it in favor of a new constant with a more suitable
    name: weStreamEndianSwap.

2.  On Intel machines, WASTE was putting endian-swapped plain text
    on the pasteboard. This is now fixed. Thanks to Jérôme Seydoux
    for first catching this.

3.  Since WEGetTextRangeAsUnicode() is only partially supported
    in WASTE 3.0, we're deprecating it.  For most purposes, you
    can use WEStreamRange() with the kTypeUnicodeText or
    kTypeUTF8Text selectors instead.

4.  Added back support for parsing and generating 'SOUP' scraps,
    which was missing in the previous release.

5.  Click and stream handlers of embedded objects are now called.

6.  The built-in object handlers for 'PICT' and 'snd' objects
    are again functional, as well as WEInstallStandardObjectHandlers()
    and WERemoveStandardObjectHandlers().

7.  A gray dotted box is now drawn in place of embedded objects
    that don't have an associated draw handler.

8.  WEDisposeView() was raising a mostly harmless, but annoying,
    assertion failed exception.

9.  Some long deprecated, but still widely used APIs were added
    back to WASTE.h.

10. Fixed crasher triggered by using WEUpdate() to draw into
    a Quickdraw port where a picture is being recorded.

11. Refined the algorithm for extending style runs when text
    is inserted at a style run boundary.

12. View preparation hooks, an undocumented feature of WASTE 2.1,
    are now back, and documented in the header file.

13. Added a new WEGetDragSourceView() API that allows you to
    check whether an intra-application drag comes from a WASTE
    view.

14. Added a new WEGetViewOwner() API.


There's probably more, but this is what I can recall right now. :)


                                        -- marco

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rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.