Spell Checker

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Hello,

I don't know about anyone else, but I am a very bad speller, and it would be nice to have a spell checker for the forums.. I have used a cool Java spell checker called jazzy before and it might be a good fit here.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jazzy/

This feature could probably wait until after the 1.0 release..

Thanks,
Ken
[originally posted on jforum.net by kencochrane]

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Nice.. 'will take a look.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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hmm, that's very interesting..

I'm accepting a jforum's version of it ;).. Anybody interested in doing the integration with forum??

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Rafael Steil wrote:hmm, that's very interesting..

I'm accepting a jforum's version of it ;).. Anybody interested in doing the integration with forum??

Rafael

How would you like it implemented?

This is how I used it on my site. I scan the text and then I find any possible mistakes and then get all of the possible corrections, I build a list with all of this info. Then I scan through the list of possible mistakes and highlight the words in the message. At the top of the page I list all of the possible mistakes, and then the suggested corrections.. This is all done without any pop up windows.

The best approach is done my SquirelMail's SquirelSpell, it will pop open a window and go over each mistake one at a time, and give the user a pulldown list with possible corrections. Once they go through the list of possible mistakes they can say finished and it will then update the original message.

Any ideas on how you want to do it for jforum?

Ken
[originally posted on jforum.net by kencochrane]

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The popup way seems nice, as most desktop programs act this way too.

It is interesting if the user could optionally check this feature, choosing the available dictionaries too.. For example, a checkbox could be placed at user's profile page, and then, at the new post page, the system checks for the spell check option.

Is it done without any applet code, right?!...

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Rafael Steil wrote:The popup way seems nice, as most desktop programs act this way too.

It is interesting if the user could optionally check this feature, choosing the available dictionaries too.. For example, a checkbox could be placed at user's profile page, and then, at the new post page, the system checks for the spell check option.

Is it done without any applet code, right?!...

Rafael

That is probably best, have a check box in the user profile and when the new topic get created have a check box with the default state for the checkbox set to what the user specified in their profile.

The pop up window is pure HTML, no applets..

I Would like to work on this for you, but I am afraid at the momment, I don't have much free time, I just bought a new house, and I am in the process of remodeling it and moving in.. So if I do work on it, it won't be for a little while. So if there is someone else that wants to work on this before me, feel free

Ken
[originally posted on jforum.net by kencochrane]

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uuuhh, I can see an incoming barbecue

Well, if you give some usage instructions, like "the spell checker works in that way, you should use these and these methods to put blablabla to work" etc etc, other users can try implement it, or at least help out..

That's a start, since you'll be giving some direction to code the speller support, avoiding the need for learn the api to just use the code.. ( or something like that hehe )

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Rafael Steil wrote:uuuhh, I can see an incoming barbecue

Well, if you give some usage instructions, like "the spell checker works in that way, you should use these and these methods to put blablabla to work" etc etc, other users can try implement it, or at least help out..

That's a start, since you'll be giving some direction to code the speller support, avoiding the need for learn the api to just use the code.. ( or something like that hehe )

Rafael

Yeah, I plan on having many barbeques this summer next to my pool

OK, that sounds like a good idea.. I will see what I can do, to throw something together.. Where should I post this information?

Ken
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Anonymous wrote:

Rafael Steil wrote:uuuhh, I can see an incoming barbecue

Well, if you give some usage instructions, like "the spell checker works in that way, you should use these and these methods to put blablabla to work" etc etc, other users can try implement it, or at least help out..

That's a start, since you'll be giving some direction to code the speller support, avoiding the need for learn the api to just use the code.. ( or something like that hehe )

Rafael

Yeah, I plan on having many barbeques this summer next to my pool

OK, that sounds like a good idea.. I will see what I can do, to throw something together.. Where should I post this information?

Ken

That was me, I guess I wasn't logged in
[originally posted on jforum.net by kencochrane]

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Anonymous wrote:Where should I post this information?

Ken

Create a new topic like "Spell checker implementation tips" and post there.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Is someone working on this?

I've made some fun with this and maybe I can get a functional code working by the end of this week ....
[originally posted on jforum.net by smota]

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smota wrote:Is someone working on this?

I've made some fun with this and maybe I can get a functional code working by the end of this week ....

Go ahead!!

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Just in case, some web browsers do spellchecking anyway (KDE Konqueror does):


[originally posted on jforum.net by Daniil]

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.... ehehehe not a problem.

The spell checker is almost done ... maybe will not be that usefull since most admins will not write their own dictionary files (many forums use non-english or technical words that should not be taken as misspelled). (anyway it's pretty easy to write one and add to the system with the config file)

Jforum.net should store the contributed dictionaries

But I had fun ... reviewed a lot of Javascript and got into the Jforum code
[originally posted on jforum.net by smota]

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Hi ..I'm some what new to programming... some VB some C++..some PHP and some Java....what I would like to be able to do is....create my own version of a spell checker...What would be nice is a generic and basic version including the source code ...so that I can develope ideas and create the resulting spell checker I desire from a shareware soucecode ...MUST BE Java...

any sujjestions

maxi1212
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hi ..I'm some what new to programming... some VB some C++..some PHP and some Java....what I would like to be able to do is....create my own version of a spell checker...What would be nice is a generic and basic version including the source code ...so that I can develope ideas and create the resulting spell checker I desire from a shareware soucecode ...MUST BE Java...

any sujjestions

maxi1212

Did you check out the jazzy project that was referenced in the first post?

Here it is again for you: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jazzy
[originally posted on jforum.net by GatorBait3]