I too, am cursed with awfull spelling. I was really kinda expecting Blog-X to have a spell check. Espically in the Windows OS. I'm no programmer, but with all the spell check options in other programs, one would think that to intergrate this into Blog-X would be a snap.
I really really would like to see this feature added! I will have a donation ready.
I will be sure to include this, but I am unsure how it will work across different languages. I will have to look into that.
Thanks...
chris
Hi Chris, look into Aspell (GPL) at http://aspell.net, it has an easy integration path and currently has about 70 dictionaries. Don't know how this would effect your licensing (as I am still unsure what licence Blog-X is distributed under) but perhaps you could get around any of the peculiarities of GPL by making it an optional include.
I really hope you include spellchecking as this is a fantastic tool but for that.
builderchad... I did come across Aspell a while back in my search for an open source spellchecking API and thought it was what I needed but unfortunately its not written in Java so including it in Blogg-X will cause problems, but there seems to be a Java app based on it named Jazzy so I am working to get it integrated.
By the way Blogg-X is GPL, guess after the site redesign last week that "detail" got omitted and I will be adding it back in.
If you come across any other spell checkers please let me know, there's a wealth of great software out there and I am sure I haven't found it all yet .
chris take a look at the desktop workstation tool at www.cerberusweb.com back when i used windows i used this. Its made on java, very similar to your application and its got a spell checker built in. unfortunately their application is not GPL so they may be using some propietary API.
Jazzy looks good but hasn't been active for over a year looking at thier CVS. There is also jTextCheck (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtextcheck) but that has been even less active with the last update sometime in 2004.
I have seen other but all commercial, so I will keep my eye open for other GPL/LGPL/BSD based ones.
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