Spell Checker for Firebird

Geronimo · Post by **Geronimo** » November 16th, 2003, 6:45 am

Torisugari wrote:Thank you for many feedbacks, and I'm feeling sorry for those who tested the crashy version.

bozz wrote:if you could combine the components and make it just one xpi installation.

Spell checker components are a mature product, which have been polished for 3 years. On the other hand, my front end said hello to firebird just 3 days ago, still having a lot of things to do. Another reason for keep them separate is DL size; 450K and 17K. And components are not cross platform. However, in the future, if FE would be stable enough, I might change my mind.

Geronimo wrote:Even with a new profile

It's no strange. Generally speaking, creating a new profile solves various problems like a charm, but in this case, spellchecker components are installed into your program directory so that it didn't help you. Please click the link below and try again.

http://mozcafe.com/xpi/spellchecker_1.5a.xpi

I installed 1.5A AND THE UPDATED FRONT END. iT CRASHED ANYWAY.

Probably I should combine them.

sboulema · Post by **sboulema** » November 16th, 2003, 7:14 am

this extension works pretty good. only thing i found is that it sometimes highlights words which are spelled correct and it gives the exact word as replacement but the replace button is greyed out. and i want to suggest a hotkey combination so that you don't need to use the mouse since your hands on the keyboard.

Geronimo · Post by **Geronimo** » November 16th, 2003, 7:41 am

I even tried deleting my install and starting from scratch using the links above. I still crash. Nice idea. MAket hat a great idea but I can't use it.

Dan Kies · Post by **Dan Kies** » November 16th, 2003, 8:49 am

Torisugari,

Thanks for this great work. I hope you will prepare a front end for the Mozilla Suite as well. The spellchecker is already built into the suite, so the front end needs only hook into it, right?

sboulema · Post by **sboulema** » November 16th, 2003, 9:41 am

another suggestion. is it possible to not let the spell checker check http-links...

lynchknot · Post by **lynchknot** » November 16th, 2003, 10:26 am

I tried all install links - still crashes every time for me.

Torisugari · Post by **Torisugari** » November 16th, 2003, 10:59 am

Geronimo wrote:I installed 1.5A AND THE UPDATED FRONT END. iT CRASHED ANYWAY.

lynchknot wrote:I tried all install links - still crashes every time for me.

Okay, then how about this one?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... lcheck.xpi

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

BT_Justice · Post by **BT_Justice** » November 16th, 2003, 12:27 pm

I got a stupid question. How do you install it? I let it install (so I thought) and I cannot find a way to access it.

BTJustice

Quack · Post by **Quack** » November 16th, 2003, 12:30 pm

Torisugari wrote:
Geronimo wrote:I installed 1.5A AND THE UPDATED FRONT END. iT CRASHED ANYWAY.

lynchknot wrote:I tried all install links - still crashes every time for me.

Okay, then how about this one?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... lcheck.xpi

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Werks great!
ps added werks!

lynchknot · Post by **lynchknot** » November 16th, 2003, 2:27 pm

Still crashing for me. This is the error I see:

Quack · Post by **Quack** » November 16th, 2003, 4:51 pm

i got that error once, i think i just restarted the browser.

Post by **bdeonline** » November 16th, 2003, 4:58 pm

BT_Justice wrote:I got a stupid question. How do you install it? I let it install (so I thought) and I cannot find a way to access it.

BTJustice

I highlight a word or groups of words in a textbox or input box, right click and select spellcheck.

BT_Justice · Post by **BT_Justice** » November 16th, 2003, 9:54 pm

I don't get that when I highlight text and right-click on it. Hmmm...

BTJustice

Torisugari · Post by **Torisugari** » November 17th, 2003, 4:50 am

Today I tried several builds and they worked for me.

Mozilla 1.5:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Just installed Front End 0.3 for mozilla.
http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/addo ... ckerfe.xpi
Firebird 0.7:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Latest nightly(zip)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031116 Firebird/0.7+
Latest aebrahim (non sse)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031116 Firebird/0.7+ (aebrahim)

Installed 2 xpi files.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... lcheck.xpi
http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/addo ... ckerfe.xpi

edit: for linux
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... lcheck.xpi
http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/addo ... ckerfe.xpi
Latest nightly(official installer)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031114 Firebird/0.7+

Installed 3 xpi files.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... lcheck.xpi
http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/addo ... ckerfe.xpi
http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/~mozzarel/addo ... t_1_6b.xpi

After exit firebird, deleting components\compreg.dat and components\xpi.dat might solves crash problem, though I'm not sure at all.

Torisugari · Post by **Torisugari** » November 17th, 2003, 5:43 am

aaron wrote:The only thing (ui) that I would change is to have a visible border for the text display at the top, like there is a border for the "replace with" and "suggestions" boxes.

I added to css

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border: 2px inset ThreeDFace;

Is there anything else to improve?

TychoQuad wrote:Feature request though... could you add the ability to check words in line... just change the background behind them or maybe even an MS Office style squiggly line under the offending word?

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean. What is in line and what is squiggle? Screen shot, please.

Dan Kies wrote:I hope you will prepare a front end for the Mozilla Suite as well. The spellchecker is already built into the suite, so the front end needs only hook into it, right?

Right! And I did it. Take a look at the previous post.

sboulema wrote:only thing i found is that it sometimes highlights words which are spelled correct and it gives the exact word as replacement but the replace button is greyed out. and i want to suggest a hotkey combination so that you don't need to use the mouse since your hands on the keyboard.

Hmm, I've never experienced it. Is it reproducible? And Yes, hotkey is a very good idea! But we think about what key should be assigned, very carefully. It's too late to change it when your fingers get used to that action. Ctrl + S is assigned Save Page as, and Ctrl + C is Cut. I think Ctrl + some key is better, but Alt(meta) + S may be safer. What do you think?

another suggestion. is it possible to not let the spell checker check http-links...

Thunderbird has this feature. However, you know, thunderbird components crashes firebird. And I guess this change would be the reason to crash. If strings contained "http://", firebird crashed at 100%... Please wait till Mozilla 1.5b.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172186
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116242