Re: Spell checking on a Mac

Thanks for sharing all that code Scott! I found a whole section on the Apple Developers site about implementing the OS X spell checker but it's all Cocoa-based so I guess would need some sort of external to interface to. Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, Oct 27, 2011

Re: Spell checking on a Mac

On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Scott Morrow wrote: > > Here is some code that might give you a start on rolling your own using the > RunRevPlanet spell checker. I forgot to include a frontscript for the right-click feature… which was the whole point : ) this frontscript "pops-up" a button nam

Re: Spell checking on a Mac

Hello Pete, For a while I shipped an app that used XSpell < http://lestang.org/spip.php?article51 > an osax AppleScript extension that gives access to Apple's spell check engine. Obviously it isn't cross platform and requires a bit of scripting but it did handle the (for me) tough part of ret

Re: Spell checking on a Mac

Thanks Paul. The thing is, OS X has a spell checker built into it so I guess I'm really looking for any info on how to hook into that from Livecode. Most applications have a "Spelling and Grammar" entry in the Edit menu, and you can also control-click or right click a word for suggested correctio

Re: Spell checking on a Mac

Pete, See http://runrev.com/store/product/runrevplanet-spell-2_0/ On 10/27/2011 5:01 PM, Pete wrote: > Almost every Mac program that allows text entry allows you to correct > spelling by right-clicking on a word but it doesn't happen in LC text > fields. Any ideas as to how to implement this? I