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 May 4 2003, 02:38 AM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 4-May 03 Member No.: 7  |
Is Savitar ever going to have spell checking on the input line?
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May 4 2003, 02:39 AM
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 168 Joined: 2-May 03 From: New Hampshire Member No.: 1 |
Sure, that's a fairly easy thing to add.
Any details on how you'd like it to work? /Jay |
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May 4 2003, 02:58 AM
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Two forms have been, in my opinion, my favorites; a pop-up window with suggested corrections a la MUSHclient, or underscored a la MS word with the option to right click and see a list of possible suggestions for the corrected spelling.
Just my tuppence, Stormy 
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May 4 2003, 03:29 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 4-May 03 Member No.: 7 |
I like the way Cocoa applications do it, with the option to turn it on and off and mistakes are underlined, and right-clicking gets you the options. And then another option for viewing the dictionary.
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May 4 2003, 08:21 PM
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 Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 2-May 03 From: Austin, Texas, damnit. Member No.: 5 |
This would be awesome. I like the check-as-you-type underlined approach. This way words like Elrond and Imladris won't trip me up every pose. Control-click for a list of corrections... Like TextEdit's system. I don't see a need, really, to be able to have it run through a pose, though... If you're putting so much text through that you can't just arrow through each word to check it, then you're amazingly verbose.
->Day<- (formerly Ben) ---------------------------------- "Now it's Judy's turn to cry, Judy's turn to cry, Judy's turn to cryyyy-ay-ay-ay-ayihay." -Leslie Gore -------------------- |
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May 20 2003, 07:51 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 20-May 03 From: Silicon Valley Member No.: 11 |
Following the iChat and TextEdit format of underlining questionably spelled words makes it a lot easier to type freely without learning and coping with a new feedback mechanism. Having the ability to 'learn' new words in the application dictionary (something free with the spelling feature) will mean a bit of startup time for users, but pays off in the long run.
I'm impressed that you are already thinking of this feature since I've been missing not having it since starting to use Savitar. I hope it makes it into the 1.3 version or an early beta of 1.4. Thanks for your continued support and improvement of Savitar, it's a very good client for X. |
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Jun 8 2003, 09:50 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 8-June 03 Member No.: 17 |
Using the system's text input stuff would be fine by me. Although I'm not sure how much nasty internal re-working that'd require, since Savitar's an ol' Carbon app that leapt over from the old Mac system... it might also make it no longer possible to use it under OS9. If it still does. The system offers the 'Open in Classic environment' checkbox, but I'm not about to try that.
Having spell-check is one of the features that makes me fiddle with Cantrip now and then, but other things like its ugly trigger interface make me quickly stop fiddling. Um. It's late, and I'm rambling. Make it work like TextEdit and iChat and any other happy little OSX application. Then it'll even pick up on custom spellings that you put into other programs. -Peggy |
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