Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Paolo Maggi ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> > 1. Use a subclass of GtkEntry -- not only does this make porting
> > easier (since SexySpellEntry is implemented as such), but most of the
> > entry boxes inside UIs don't need spell-checking.  There are some
> > improvements I'd like to make if porting SexySpellEntry directly,
> > which I'm happy to talk about with interested parties.
>
> Suppose we have a GSpellChecker class similar to GeditSpellChecker (you can 
> see it as a GObject-class wrapping EnchantDict).
> What about adding to GtkEntry the following functions:
>
> /*
>  * Add a new spell checker to the list of spell checkers (multiple
>  * checkers are used to support multiple languages)
>  * Returns: the number of spell checker in the list
>  */
> gint            gtk_entry_add_spell_checker    (GtkEntry      *entry, 
>                                                 GSpellChecker *checker); 
>
> /*
>  * Remove a spell checker from the list
>  * Returns: TRUE if the checker has been removed, FALSE otherwise
>  */
> gboolen         gtk_entry_remove_spell_checker (GtkEntry      *entry, 
>                                                 GSpellChecker *checker); 
> /*
>  * Returns the list of spell checkers. List must be freed with g_slist_free.
>  */
> GSList         *gtk_entry_get_spell_checkers   (GtkEntry      *entry);
>
> Note that we can add a similar set of functions to GtkTextView too.

I think GtkTextView should implement the GtkEditable interface so you 
can add these functions to the interface and avoid to duplicate them.