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[Release] Spellchecker! by vikke on 10-01-2006 at 09:04 AM

Last hour I figured out how to do a spell checker, and I did one :)

You need Office installed to use this.

KNOWN BUGS:
Doesn't work functnally with [c] tags (and other tags).

Enjoy!

How to make emoticons pass through
Type :), bring the spellchecker up, and press Add, Done!!

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by Felu on 10-01-2006 at 09:10 AM

Nice work but it has a lot of bugs
1. Freezes Messenger when sending a message.
2. If you cancel the spell checker it opens word and closes it.
3. If someone doesn't have office? It won't work :P.

Needs to ignore emoticons too :P.

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by vikke on 10-01-2006 at 09:12 AM

1. I might thread this :)
2. I'm not able to fix
3. It wont work. Mostly people has Word. Without Word I have no API, and writing a spellchecker then is really hard.

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by -dt- on 10-01-2006 at 10:05 AM

quote:
Originally posted by vikke
3. It wont work. Mostly people has Word. Without Word I have no API, and writing a spellchecker then is really hard.
use aspell =p
RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by Jesus on 10-01-2006 at 10:12 AM

Great idea for a script!
too bad I can't use it though...

will it eventually support OpenOffice in the future??

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by Spunky on 10-01-2006 at 12:48 PM

I don't (didn't) have office installed. I know a spellchecker script was in development using the translation files supplied for use with FireFox.

It does sound like this script has a few bugs that need to be fixed before it'll be used by too many people, or before it's even fully functional. As for colour tags, just add an option to add them to the dictionary using the API. Use a for loop to add "[c="+i+"]" to the dictionary and also add the IRC equivalent as well as closing tags

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by vikke on 10-02-2006 at 02:25 PM

But still that's just a list of words. :)

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by vikke on 10-02-2006 at 03:31 PM

Yeah it freezes, but it stops after some secs.
That delay is not my fault, it's Word :)

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by Spunky on 10-02-2006 at 05:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by vikke
But still that's just a list of words.
quote:
Originally posted by vikke
That delay is not my fault, it's Word.

Yes, it's still a list of words, but it's a list that doesn't require using the API for a program, causing WLM to freeze. You can also ship the file with the script so that EVERYBODY that wants to use the script, can.
RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by Chris4 on 10-02-2006 at 05:25 PM

Nice, too bad it doesn't work.

Oh I think it's working now, but won't use because it's buggy.

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by vikke on 10-02-2006 at 06:16 PM

It's not buggy at all, it just causes some frezees but they're just there some secs. I'll thinking of threading it (to prevent freeze).

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by CookieRevised on 10-02-2006 at 06:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by -dt-
quote:
Originally posted by vikke
3. It wont work. Mostly people has Word. Without Word I have no API, and writing a spellchecker then is really hard.
use aspell =p

http://aspell.sourceforge.net/

but I find Word's dictionnaries far better than any other spellchecker dictionnary there is. They are also updated more frequently and they have a huge language database (which can hardly be said about any other one; though aspell does provide some languages; the question is only how up-to-date are they).

For this reason (and for almost the same purpose as vikke's script) I am looking for something which does use Word's dictionnaries but without the overhead of using the API (and thus starting word, which is what causes that delay) and the drawbacks it creates (the API isn't that great).

In other words, I need something which directly can work with the Word dictionnaries file format without the use of the API (aka make your own spellchecker with the use of Word's dictionnaries).

Also, multiple languages in the same text (or ignoring certain text parts) is something I look for.
RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by vikke on 10-04-2006 at 03:43 PM

Thanks! I'm going to use another library, if you don't think it's up-to-date you can still choose for a fast Word spell check :)

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by aNILEator on 11-22-2006 at 09:37 PM

any news on this?

would be great if it could underline and/or autocorrect errors whilst typing

RE: RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by deAd on 11-22-2006 at 09:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
any news on this?

would be great if it could underline and/or autocorrect errors whilst typing
Underlining is impossible, but autocorrect is easy to do -- but be warned it's extremely annoying :P
RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by aNILEator on 11-23-2006 at 08:55 AM

I thought Patchou added a function to allow this?

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by roflmao456 on 11-24-2006 at 11:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by vikke

KNOWN BUGS:
Doesn't work functnally with [c] tags (and other tags).

why dont you just put in like

MsgPlus.RemoveFormatCodes(obj)

so you can check without the [c] codes.. more like /noformat
RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by deAd on 11-25-2006 at 12:07 AM

quote:
Originally posted by roflmao456
quote:
Originally posted by vikke
KNOWN BUGS:
Doesn't work functnally with [c] tags (and other tags).
why dont you just put in like

MsgPlus.RemoveFormatCodes(obj)

so you can check without the [c] codes.. more like /noformat
Yes, when you pass the string to check, just pass the cleaned string.

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
I thought Patchou added a function to allow this?
...no.
RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by vikke on 11-25-2006 at 08:28 AM

I've stopped this project due to my time.
I hope I'll get time soon to fix it :(

Sorry.

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by joey on 05-25-2008 at 08:39 PM

i know this thread kinda died in 2006 but, is there any progress on this or anything else similar. didnt want to make a new thread asking for a spellchecker that doesnt freeze and/or use MS word if possible. :P

RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by aNILEator on 05-25-2008 at 08:50 PM

I tihnk your best hope is for an update to Stuffplug that really promotes user scripts then poke deAd some more :P His red underlining spellchecker looked really promising.

OR

JUST BEG MICROSOFT LIKE HELL IN CONNECT AND NEWSGROUPS!

Oh wait, yeah they don't listen to their testers :(

RE: RE: [Release] Spellchecker! by T-PO on 05-26-2008 at 06:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
I tihnk your best hope is for an update to Stuffplug that really promotes user scripts then poke deAd some more :P His red underlining spellchecker looked really promising.

OR

JUST BEG MICROSOFT LIKE HELL IN CONNECT AND NEWSGROUPS!

Oh wait, yeah they don't listen to their testers :(

Do you have links to StuffPlug and the spelling script of DeAd?

Thanks!

T-PO