spell checker in StyledEdit
When I first started using BeOS about 5 years ago I was very impressed with the spellchecker in BeMail. The way it works is a model of elegance. But I was surprised to see that Be hadn't included the same system in StyledEdit.
Now, I see it's working in the Haiku Mail app (if you import the dictionary files from BeOS).
Is there any reason why it cannot be adopted in the Haiku StyledEdit?
Of course, it would need some modification to allow for the different font colours supported by StyledEdit; it can't just assume black and display red for the flagged words...
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Re: spell checker in StyledEdit
why we have to limit that feature only for those two apps.
what about a spellchecker and thesaurus system for every BTextView?
So every application ( i.e.: like a native browser) could have it without bloating its code.
Re: spell checker in StyledEdit
ASpell seems to be a good open source spell checker, and there is a BeOS version of it in bebits, so it looks like it could be ported.
http://aspell.net
http://www.bebits.com/app/4427
And according to Wikipedia, it's under LGPL, so it should be license friendly too.
A system-wide speller that