The WASTE (an acronym for WorldScript-aware styled text engine) is an

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text editing

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. WASTE helps Macintosh programmers include advanced text display and editing in their applications. WASTE is a memory-based editor, which places no arbitrary limit on the amount of text being edited, up to available system memory. It supports the Macintosh

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system, allowing it to handle double-byte character sets and

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. It includes automatic support for undo operations,

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editing, text justification, embedding images into text, and low-level hooks for rendering and measuring text. WASTE version 2.0 gained support for paragraph-level formatting, additional character styles, multiple undo and redo operations,

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translation, and

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support, as well as providing new

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s (APIs) for printing and string matching. WASTE is a popular third party library used in many Macintosh applications, formerly under the

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and more recently under Mac OS X, including

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, Microsoft Outlook for Mac,

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, and Tex-Edit Plus. Since WASTE uses deprecated

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features, it was deprecated in Mac OS X version 10.4 and unsupported as of version 10.6.

References

External links

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