Re: SCU 2.1b2 update

Ryan Dary wrote:
This may have been asked before, so forgive me if it has, but: If I use FTC and your Spell Check Utilities, will I get an experience similar to the Mac OS X Cocoa inline spell checking as seen in TextEdit, Pages and other Cocoa apps? Is it that way out of the box, or do I have to implement something? 

There are two separate issues here.

The first issue is if you will get inline (live) spell checking
experience. The infrastructure is already in place in the FTC to
support that in that you can mark words as misspelled and the FTC
will draw a red line under the word. I have even provided a hook
for you to change the appearance of the red line if you want
something different. What is missing is the part of the
infrastructure that "triggers" inline spell checking as you type.
There are several ways to do this. To be most efficient about
inline spell checking I need to provide in the guts of the code of
the FTC the ability to detect such events and then pass the word
in question to an event. This will make it almost automatic to do
inline spell checking. That will probably be a version 2.0 feature.
So the short answer to your question is you will have to do some
additional work to implement inline spell checking in order to
trigger it at the right times.

The second issue is the SCU. What spell checker you use will not
affect inline spell checking (they are unrelated). What the SCU
does for you is provide a powerful, cross-platform spell checker
that is fast and most important, provides really good suggestions!
The list of suggestions you get back for a misspelled word really
is what defines a good spell checker from a cheap implementation.
Using the SCU depends on your requirements and your pocket book
and what level of professionalism you are willing to accept.

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