Spell Checker for Firebird

autumnriver · Post by **autumnriver** » November 18th, 2003, 9:23 pm

James,

Thanks. It seems to work OK now.

lynchknot · Post by **lynchknot** » November 18th, 2003, 9:29 pm

James wrote:Just a thought... *scratches head*

Did you install that first experimental version that Torisugari first posted in the first post in the same Nov.9 build your using now, as the first spell checker was very crashy for me, as Firebird would shut down each time.

I installed this first: http://mozcafe.com/xpi/spellchecker_1.5a.xpi then I went to the first page and tried all the links there.

zengiman · Post by **zengiman** » November 19th, 2003, 5:52 am

Wow it works.
Brilliant! Finally I'm a 100% Firebird men.( Sorry K-Meleon... ).

c∂n · Post by **c∂n** » November 19th, 2003, 6:38 am

zengiman wrote:Wow it works.
Brilliant! Finally I'm a 100% Firebird men.( Sorry K-Meleon... ).

that would make you zengimen then ?

or did you mean you were/are a 100% Firebird man ?

zengiman · Post by **zengiman** » November 19th, 2003, 11:08 am

c∂n wrote:
zengiman wrote:Wow it works.
Brilliant! Finally I'm a 100% Firebird men.( Sorry K-Meleon... ).

that would make you zengimen then ?

or did you mean you were/are a 100% Firebird man ?

Hmm, spellchecker does not solve all my problems apparently....(he, I can use words like apparently now)

Nos402 · Post by **Nos402** » November 19th, 2003, 11:14 am

Excellent work! This was the final thing that I was really missing in Firebird. My only suggestion for the future would be for the spellchecker to ignore any code such as links. IESpell somehow ignores any code written in the field.

Torisugari · Post by **Torisugari** » November 20th, 2003, 3:48 am

TychoQuad wrote:This is a screenshot of Trillian Pro's spell checker in action. as you can see in the text entry box at the bottom, there are horribly misplelt words, and those words have a squigilly line underneath them. you can also see a right-click menu. this menu appeared when i clicked on the mispelled word "doo" and has the suggestions for the word at the top of the menu. I am requesting that this be added to your spell checker plugin.

Many apps these days spell check "in line" or as you type like this these days, including Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and of course, Trillian Pro. To be perfectly honest, I really can't be bothered spell checking entire documents, and it's really handy becuase it tells my i've mispelt an important word, and i can correct it. It also means i don't have to go through every word in a long document which may contain slang or URL's

Thank you for the screen shot. I understood about squiggly line things, but "in line" is not clear to me yet. Maybe you should file a RFE bug in bugzilla, because I didn't touch spellchecker itself. My extension only calls it from contextmenu. To be honest, too, I have never used any kind of spell checker except this extension, because there's no checker for the Japanese sentence. This is useful to me only on posting here.

http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/addo ... e0_4_0.xpi

irkregent · Post by **irkregent** » November 20th, 2003, 8:16 am

Today's 0.4 release consistently crashes Firebird for me (Windows 2000, aebrahim's G6-optimized 2003-11-18 build).

sboulema · Post by **sboulema** » November 20th, 2003, 8:29 am

is there a way to save the dictionaries after you have added words? i would like to backup them for if i have to install firebird again or upgrade. and the fornt end 0.4 works great for me

Torisugari · Post by **Torisugari** » November 20th, 2003, 9:03 am

sboulema wrote:is there a way to save the dictionaries after you have added words? i would like to backup them for if i have to install firebird again or upgrade.

I think they are stored in %profile%\persdict.dat.

sboulema · Post by **sboulema** » November 20th, 2003, 9:07 am

Torisugari wrote:
sboulema wrote:is there a way to save the dictionaries after you have added words? i would like to backup them for if i have to install firebird again or upgrade.

I think they are stored in %profile%\persdict.dat.

yep youre right

Thanks.

sboulema · Post by **sboulema** » November 20th, 2003, 3:34 pm

got the bug i was talking earlier again. took some time to show, it did it more often in the older versions.
made a screenshot so you can see it. basically its that the spellchecker gives an suggestion which is exact the same as the word that is marked as incorrect spelled, and the replace buttons are greyed out.

Michael Scherer · Post by **Michael Scherer** » November 20th, 2003, 4:43 pm

I had some problems with version 0.4.0 (Windows 2000, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031116 Firebird/0.7+). The following text caused an infinite loop in function HighlightMissspelledWord():

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test djflkdslf
 
test

Using another method to apply the HTML code for highlighting the misspelled words seems to solve it:

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function HighlightMissspelledWord()
{
    // Needed by setCSSInlineProperty
    var aserv=Components.classes["@mozilla.org/atom-service;1"].
        getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAtomService);
 
    gMisspelledWord = gSpellChecker.GetNextMisspelledWord();
    gEditor.beginTransaction();
    while(gMisspelledWord){
        // Old:
        //gEditor.insertHTML("<span style=\"border=solid;
        //        text-decoration:underline;color:red;\">"+gMisspelledWord+"</span>");
 
        // New:
        gEditor.setCSSInlineProperty(aserv.getAtom("span") , "style" ,
                "text-decoration:underline;color:red;" );
 
        gMisspelledWord = gSpellChecker.GetNextMisspelledWord();
    }
    gEditor.endTransaction();
    RecheckEditor();
    NextWord();
}

In order to get it working, I had to change one line in startup():

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gEditorElement.makeEditable('html',false);  // changed first argument from 'htmlmail' to 'html'

The source is downloadable from http://www.schereronline.net/files/spellcheckerfe.jar. I haven't encountered any implications so far, but may have overlooked something important.

Thanks for providing such a valuable extension.

@sboulema: I don't think it's a bug. There are simply no appropriate alternatives in the dictionary which could be suggested. The buttons are enabled again after changing the 'replace with' text field.

sboulema · Post by **sboulema** » November 21st, 2003, 1:11 am

@sboulema: I don't think it's a bug. There are simply no appropriate alternatives in the dictionary which could be suggested. The buttons are enabled again after changing the 'replace with' text field.

hmm ok that sounds logic. why didnt i thought of that :S

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » November 21st, 2003, 2:08 am

Torisugari wrote:Thank you for the screen shot. I understood about squiggly line things, but "in line" is not clear to me yet.

All i meant by in line, is that it tells you what's a spelling mistake without having to bring up another dialog. I'm not really going to go out of my way to spell check, but if words tell me thier wrong, i'll fix them.

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