[WJG] (12-Apr-09) The GtkSpell extension is a really useful tool that will check the input of any GtkTextView widget and mark up dubious words. If a mispelling is detected, the word will be tagged and underlined with a red zig-zag. Then, simply click MB-3 and a popup menu will appear with a range of suggested corrections. Here's the script to show how its done: ====== # GtkSpell_TEST.tcl #!/bin/sh # the next line restarts using tclsh \ exec tclsh "$0" "$@" package require Gnocl set but1 [gnocl::toggleButton \ -text "%#SpellCheck" \ -variable sc \ -value 1 \ -onValue 1 \ -offValue 0 \ -onToggled { $txt1 configure -spellCheck $sc }] set txt1 [gnocl::text -spellCheck 1 ] set box [gnocl::box -orientation vertical -align left] $box add $but1 -fill {1 0} -expand 0 $box add $txt1 -fill {1 1} -expand 1 set win [gnocl::window -title "GtkSpell Demo" -child $box ] gnocl::mainLoop ====== And here's the screen shot. [http://wjgiddings.googlepages.com/Screenshot-GtkSpellDemo.png] ---- [D. McC] 2009 Apr 13: Great! From the code, it appears that this "extension" is actually part of the Gnocl core, since you can create the toggleButton and the spell-checking text widget as soon as you've invoked "package require Gnocl"--is that right? And it's new with Gnocl 0.9.94, right? [WJG] (13-Apr-90) Well, the feature is still part of my development code. The GtkSpell package is relatively simple but I will spend a little more time on it beforehand. Interestingly, the GtkSpell is a bolt-on to the GtkTextView and might not necessarily be a default installation option with many Linux distros -check with the Puppy developers. If necessary, I can modify the Gnocl source to create a separate package for the spellchecker. But it does look promising doesn't it? [D. McC] 2009 Apr 13: Yes! How are the correctly spelled words stored, and can users add words to the list? [WJG] GtkSpell [http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/doc/] uses Enchant [http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant] which interfaces to a whole pile of spellcheck engines of which Hunspell [http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/] is most highly regarded. From the GtkSpell docs there is no direct support to adding to or editing custom dictionaries. Personally, I feel that this is a necessary feature of the overall package, so a little more research will be needed here. ---- !!!!!! %| enter categories here |% !!!!!!