Re: spell checking

["Kenneth R. Kinder" <Ken KenAndTed com>]

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> Kenneth> Have an attribute in gtk's text and entry widgets that turns
> Kenneth> on and off an on-the-fly spell checker.
> 
> I think it's better to write a subclass for something like this.
> 
> Kenneth> A libispell wouldn't be bad idea either... :)
> 
> For something like this, I prefer CORBA.  That way we could substitute
> a different spelling checker if we were so motivated.

I guess CORBA would work.  I'm just kind of old fashion I guess. :)

> Also it's possible to see the spelling checker as just one potential
> service of many that editors (of various sorts: text, word processors,
> html editors, etc) would want to make available.

Yeah...  Actually, a default right click menu on every textbox would be 
nice; it would have all the services (including simple ones, like just 
"insert text").  Then programs could add to that menu or over-ride it 
entirely.

hmmmm...

> CORBA would let us do this in a uniform, extensible way.  E.g., we'd
> make a GnomeTextService class from which the spell checker and other
> services would inherit.

I guess...

> Right now I don't have good examples of other text-editing services.
> So it's possible there's no real need for this.

Grammar checking... stuff like that... Get a copy of word perfect, and 
you'll have lots of good ideas. :)


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