Since I know nothing about the spell checked, I'm posting this little
patch. One of the problems I was seeing was that, not having aspell
installed here, I was getting it as the default spellchecker anyway, in
which case nothing was happening. So that's part of it. The other part
is a simple check on whether we have a spellchecker. If not, the prefs
get greyed out. Oh, and one more part is that we don't list aspell as an
option if LyX has been compiled without aspell support.
rh
Index: frontends/qt4/GuiPrefs.cpp
===================================================================
--- frontends/qt4/GuiPrefs.cpp (revision 32157)
+++ frontends/qt4/GuiPrefs.cpp (working copy)
@@ -1282,19 +1282,31 @@
{
setupUi(this);
+#if defined(USE_ASPELL)
spellcheckerCB->addItem("aspell");
+#endif
+#if defined(USE_HUNSPELL)
spellcheckerCB->addItem("hunspell");
+#endif
- connect(spellcheckerCB, SIGNAL(currentIndexChanged(int)),
- this, SIGNAL(changed()));
- connect(altLanguageED, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)),
- this, SIGNAL(changed()));
- connect(escapeCharactersED, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)),
- this, SIGNAL(changed()));
- connect(compoundWordCB, SIGNAL(clicked()),
- this, SIGNAL(changed()));
- connect(spellcheckContinuouslyCB, SIGNAL(clicked()),
- this, SIGNAL(changed()));
+ if (theSpellChecker()) {
+ connect(spellcheckerCB, SIGNAL(currentIndexChanged(int)),
+ this, SIGNAL(changed()));
+ connect(altLanguageED, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)),
+ this, SIGNAL(changed()));
+ connect(escapeCharactersED, SIGNAL(textChanged(QString)),
+ this, SIGNAL(changed()));
+ connect(compoundWordCB, SIGNAL(clicked()),
+ this, SIGNAL(changed()));
+ connect(spellcheckContinuouslyCB, SIGNAL(clicked()),
+ this, SIGNAL(changed()));
+ } else {
+ spellcheckerCB->setEnabled(false);
+ altLanguageED->setEnabled(false);
+ escapeCharactersED->setEnabled(false);
+ compoundWordCB->setEnabled(false);
+ spellcheckContinuouslyCB->setEnabled(false);
+ }
}
Index: LyXRC.cpp
===================================================================
--- LyXRC.cpp (revision 32157)
+++ LyXRC.cpp (working copy)
@@ -277,7 +277,13 @@
backupdir_path.erase();
display_graphics = true;
// Spellchecker settings:
+#if defined(USE_ASPELL)
spellchecker = "aspell";
+#elif defined(USE_HUNSPELL)
+ spellchecker = "hunspell";
+#else
+ spellchecker = "aspell";
+#endif
spellchecker_accept_compound = false;
spellcheck_continuously = false;
use_kbmap = false;
