Spel cheker

[Pat Rogan <rogan lycos com>]

Is anyone interested in a gtk spell checker?  ( I am... ).  I use
Netscape's spell check religiously now that 4.x is stable on unix. I'm a
little dyslexic, and it makes conversational typing a bitch because i
reach for a key with the wrong hand, or type two keys out of order a LOT
ontop of just not being able to spell.  

               "Hooked on spell checkers works for me!"

This thing might use ispell or hook up to a random webster server
(remember the episode when webster wet the bed?) or something.  

You would just point it to a text box, and let it rip. 

There would be built in support for only proofing the selection in the
text box, if one exists. 

You might be able to give it any widget or container and have it drill
down recursively looking for text widgets... (could be dangerous) 

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to make SURE you spelled all the labels
correctly in your menus and buttons before you ship out v1.0 of your
code? (or even v0.1)

Maybe it only looks at the container's immediate children (or
specifically looks at level n of the widget's heiarchy).

What other behavior would be useful?  Has anyone already done this?

-- 
Patrick Rogan
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Systems Engineer

Lycos, Inc.
1 Oxford Centre
301 Grant Street, Suite 525
Pittsburgh, PA   15219-1408