Spell check in a text field (how do I)

[Scott Morrow]

Hello Jim,

I'm no expert on spell checking but when I needed a cross-platform  
spell checker written in rev I broke the problem into 3 parts.
1.  A  UI for interacting with the spell checker
2.  A word checker that walks through the given text, word at a time,  
checking to see if they are in the bank of "real" words
3.  Suggested words... presented in the UI to allow quick correction/ 
selection of the intended word.  I found this last part to be by far  
the most challenging as things get "messy" when dealing with phonics.   
I ended up using a variation of Lawrence Philips' Double Metaphone  
algorithm.  The idea is to reduce the misspelled word to a short  
phonetic representation or key.  Previously you would also have  
reduced a subset of the "real" words in your bank to their short  
phonetic keys as well.  You might create a custom property for each  
unique phonetic key and store all the "real" words that reduce to this  
key as a list inside that custom property.  Then you could take the  
misspelled word's key and see if there was a custom property name that  
matched.  The hope then is that inside that custom property would be  
phonetically reasonable suggestions which could be presented to the  
user.

Scott Morrow

Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust!)
web       http://elementarysoftware.com/
email     scott at elementarysoftware.com


On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Jim Schaubeck wrote:

> What are some of the ways I can write a stack which has spellchecking
> for the users in the text fields?  I have Rev 3.0 Studio (XP) and will
> deploy on windows.  Thanks folks!
> Jim...
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