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- From: howie@sunny.dab.ge.com (J. Bruce Howie)
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- Subject: Re: Spell Checker
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.145301.15098@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 14:53:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.172112.4750@cas.org>
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- In article 4750@cas.org, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- >That would be useful. When _I_ try it, it fails due to the fact that
- >OW 3.0 drops the selection before ispell gets a chance to complete its task...
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- >Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
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- >Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614
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- When I implemented this feature in my .text_extras_menu menu I had the same
- problem. I called Sun about it. It turns out that when the text window ships
- out the highlighted text the window waits for a return. Since this waiting can
- "hang" your window, a timer was implimented to prevent that hang. The only problem
- is that in the documentation a "Selection.Timeout" resource exists. However this
- resource does not seem to change the time that the window waits. Sun has no
- plans to fix this problem in the near future (A documented bug).
-
- So, I have a limited implimentation of a spell checker. I select ONLY one word.
- and send it off to ispell. If I am quick, I can beat the timer and return the
- corrected word back to the text window before the timer times out.
-
- I hope this helps.
-
- J. Bruce Howie
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