Spell check for text fields

[Richmond]

On 02/11/2012 11:07 PM, Keith Clarke wrote:
> I'm intrigued yet confused - don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? Why can't these be accessed?

Well, it's news to me.

I work mainly with Linux, and decreasingly so with Mac PPC [it's a money 
thing . . .  :) ] and I don't think the operating systems
as such have in-built spell checkers.

Certainly Appleworks and LibreOffice lever their own spell checkers.

I am writing this in Thunderbird (an e-mail client) and, as far as I am 
aware it is using its own in-built checker.

Here's a spot of reading that seems to bear me out:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20spell%20checker

http://iwannafile.com/view/757738/helpsmith_v3_3_build_10_1021

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker  "On the PCs, these spell 
checkers were standalone programs, many of which could be run in TSR 
mode from within word-processing packages on PCs with sufficient memory."

TSR came before multitasking.  Presumably, nowadays, one can bundle an 
open-source spell checker with one's Livecode standalone, and, IFF, one 
can get the blasted thing to interact with one's Livecode stack one is 
"laughing". HOWEVER, that's all beyond me; so, having chucked the wooden 
spoon into the pot, I'll leave more knowledgeable people to stir the soup.

>
> Best,
> Keith..
>
> On 11 Feb 2012, at 20:58, Richmond<richmondmathewson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Spilling Chuckers . . .  Hmm
>>
>> This is rather interesting:  http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
>>
>> as is this :  http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I wonder how feasible (and how fast) an in-built spell-checker would be . . .
>>
>> certainly SCOWL 7.1 looks rather attractive.
>>
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