mSpell: The Spell Checker add-on discussions

OK, I don't receive any javascript errors now -- but for some reason the same IE error that the script is running slow still appears. Maybe something wrong with my system - if other members could check that woudl be great ;).

tom322
what text are you using to check it? can you copy/paste it here?

tom322
well i believe i was able to recreate the problem :) it's not something you can see at first sight.. some rare bug in the JS part of the script which appears only when there's some random character sequence which doesn't match any spelling dictionary at the very bottom of the message you check. I'm going to investigate the problem.

OK :). I just put a random text like,

sdsfd sdasdas dasdsfdsfd asdj8832l
sdasfd as;das ;)

It always works :)).

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Also, if I may suggest - I think the popup window should be a little bigger so that there are no scroll bars.

tom322
it's just not big enough on this particular site :) you can adjust the popup size in the HTML code inserted into the main_post_form template depending on the forum design requirements.

edited..
ahh well my mistake.. i forgot i have it in the the msploader.js file where it says:

var wdp=300, htp=200

these values correspond to width and height respectively :)

tom322
ok, this issue has been resolved now. the updated plugin is available in the downloads section.

Once again the file which needs to be updated is mSpell.php

Ok, sounds good :).

One more suggestion (remember I'm looking on the example site provided at http://www.minibb.com/forums/9_3702_0.html#msg22673 -- I'm not sure why the "Spelling suggestions" box contains empty entries. For example, when there are 5 spelling suggestions, the box should be 5 or 6 rows "long". Currently there are 5 suggestions and dozens of empty rows...

tom322
currently there's no fix for that, it's because of a javascript issue in IE browser.. we have to keep these empty fields there or there's no way to populate the spelling suggestions drop down menu .. it just remains empty. This may be fixed in future releases if we'll find a way to overcome the problem.

Thanks for your reply, Team.

I've just stumbled upon a similar spell-checker at http://www.articlebiz.com/submit_article/ - maybe some ideas could be used if you find it helpful ["Undo" button could be a good idea for some users too].

tom322
we'll have undo/redo buttons etc in our forthcoming commercial BBCodes compatible WYSIWYG solution :)

about the spell checker links :) thanks, i'll check it. Hopefully the addon works now in general and I'll just keep making it better when i'll have time.

The addon has been updated today. We've noticed that it was trying to spellcheck numbers also :) which is somewhat annoying if you have lots of numbers in your post. Now it should spellcheck words only. The only updated file is mSpell.php

The addon has been updated to meet more multilingual requirements.

Added "setlocale()" support. Now mSpell will set the locale (local language etc.) based on your spelling language preference.

Added $doNotCheck variable. $doNotCheck variable may be useful in case you're using mSpell for languages other than english and your server doesn't support the "setlocale()" PHP function, which sets the range of the \W regexp pattern depending on characters present in the specified language. You can manually define all characters you want to remove in this case.

Updated file(s): mSpell.php

Hi Sergei/miniBB Team,

A Mac user (using Safari 2.x) on my forums recently reported that mSpell had been stripping typographic/curly quotation marks and apostrophes out of his posts automatically. He also said that mSpell would query anything before the mark and that instructing the script to ignore the highlighted bit had not prevented the mark from being removed.

I have not been able to re-create the Mac user's experience, but my tests show the following behaviour:
if mSpell detects no typos in my post, it leaves all the typographic quotation marks and apostrophes alone; if mSpell detects a typo and I ignore its advice to correct anything, the marks stay unchanged. However, if I make a change/any change via mSpell, each mark is replaced by small letter "a" with a circumflex accent.

- mb

hello.. Macs are using non-standard quotation marks and possibly apostrophes (not sure about these though)... These are, probably, similar to MS Word's Smart quotes.. Aspell/Pspell dictionaries come with default "normal" apostrophes, which are standard for Linux and Unix machines. The best and the simplest solution for this would be replacing all Mac apostrophes and quotation marks with standard corresponding linux/windows symbols.

You can try using the following approach for that.. Replace the following portion of code in the mSpell.php:

<body class="gbody" style="margin:0px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var wParent=opener;
document.write('<form name="spForm" method="post" action="mSpell.php">\
<input type="hidden" name="setlang" value="<?php echo $lang ?>" />\
<input type="hidden" name="spellLang" value="'+escape(eval("wParent."+wParent.spChkLang+".value"))+'" />\
<input type="hidden" name="spellText" value="" />\
<'+'scrip'+'t type="text/ja'+'vascr'+'ipt">\
document.forms["spForm"].spellText.value=eval("wParent."+wParent.spChk Item+".value");\
document.forms["spForm"].submit();\
</scr'+'ipt>'+'\
</form>');
//-->
</script>
</body>


with this:


<body class="gbody" style="margin:0px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var wParent=opener;
var sqFreeText=eval("wParent."+wParent.spChkItem+".value").replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8216),"g"),"'")
sqFreeText=sqFreeText.replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8217),"g"),"'");
sqFreeText=sqFreeText.replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8220),"g"),"\"");
sqFreeText=sqFreeText.replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8221),"g"),"\"");
document.write('<form name="spForm" method="post" action="mSpell.php">\
<input type="hidden" name="setlang" value="<?php echo $lang ?>" />\
<input type="hidden" name="spellLang" value="'+escape(eval("wParent."+wParent.spChkLang+".value"))+'" />\
<input type="hidden" name="spellText" value="" />\
<'+'scrip'+'t type="text/ja'+'vascr'+'ipt">\
document.forms["spForm"].spellText.value=escape(sqFreeText);\
document.forms["spForm"].submit();\
</scr'+'ipt>'+'\
</form>');
//-->
</script>
</body>


Let us know how it works..

Basically you need to change:

document.forms["spForm"].spellText.value=eval("wParent."+wParent.spChk Item+".value");\


to

document.forms["spForm"].spellText.value=sqFreeText;

and add:

var sqFreeText=eval("wParent."+wParent.spChkItem+".value").replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8216),"g"),"'")
sqFreeText=sqFreeText.replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8217),"g"),"'");
sqFreeText=sqFreeText.replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8220),"g"),"\"");
sqFreeText=sqFreeText.replace(new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(8221),"g"),"\"");

on top of that Javascript code..