New Client-Side Spell Check Plugin for XINHA using ieSpell

[anonymous]

It's a client-side IE only option, but it works great if you need a spellcheck and can't use aspell. A lot of WYSIWYG editors use it, and FCKEditor has a config option to use either IESpell or SpellerPages?, which is similar to Xinha's PHP Aspell spellcheck.

[mharrisonline]

I bet it would be easy to do... In Kevin Roth's public domain editor RTE this is all the code it takes:

function checkspell() {
	dlgCleanUp();
	//function to perform spell check
	try {
		var tmpis = new ActiveXObject("ieSpell.ieSpellExtension");
		tmpis.CheckAllLinkedDocuments(document);
	}
	catch(exception) {
		if(exception.number==-2146827859) {
			if (confirm("ieSpell not detected.  Click Ok to go to download page."))
				window.open("http://www.iespell.com/download.php","DownLoad");
		} else {
			alert("Error Loading ieSpell: Exception " + exception.number);
		}
	}
}

[mharrisonline]

Well, this almost worked...sort of...

I replaced all the functions in spell-checker.js with:

SpellChecker.prototype._lc = function(string) {
    return HTMLArea._lc(string, 'SpellChecker');
}

SpellChecker.prototype.buttonPress = function(editor) {

	
		content : editor.getHTML()
	

	try {
		var tmpis = new ActiveXObject("ieSpell.ieSpellExtension");
		tmpis.CheckAllLinkedDocuments(html);
	}
	catch(exception) {
 		if(exception.number==-2146827859) {
			if (confirm("ieSpell not detected.  Click Ok to go to download page."))
				window.open("http://www.iespell.com/download.php","DownLoad");
		} else {
			alert("Error Loading ieSpell: Exception " + exception.number);
		}
	}



		editor.insertHTML( html );
	}

I get exception number 2146828275 and it pastes all the HTML into the editor where the cursor is... but at least it did something...

[mharrisonline]

I found the developer api online at

http://www.iespell.com/developerapi.htm

It looks there is a better api for WYSIWYGs than before...

[mharrisonline]

client-side spellcheck for XINHA (no ASPELL!)

[mharrisonline]

I made the plugin and attached it, hopefully it will be useful to anyone that can't use Aspell.

[mharrisonline]

Fixed version, the js file was uppercase in the first zip file, which doesn't work in LINUX...

[mharrisonline]

I wonder how I could make the button not appear if the user isn't using IE...

[mharrisonline]

Another fix, also I figured out how to make it not appear in Mozilla

[mharrisonline]

I figured out how to make it not appear in the if someone is using Firefox, it looks for the saveas button, which only shows up in IE. So, IE users will see the spellcheck and will be able to use it, Mozilla users won't see the button.

If you aren't displaying the saveas button, you can change line 26 of clientside-spellcheck.js from:

  cfg.addToolbarElement("clientsidespellcheck", "saveas", 1);

to

cfg.addToolbarElement("clientsidespellcheck", "print", 1);

...basically change "saveas" to the button named in htmlarea.js that you want it to appear after.

[mharrisonline]

Actually, making it appear after a gecko-only button just makes it go to the front of the toolbar in Firefox. What would be the best way to make it only appear to IE users?

[niko]

try this:

if(HTMLArea.is_ie) {
  cfg.addToolbarElement("clientsidespellcheck", "print", 1);
}

[mharrisonline]

Newest version of plugin, now it really does hide in Firefox

[mharrisonline]

It works! Thanks, Niko! I uploaded the fixed version.

[mharrisonline]

Uh oh, it finds everything that is misspelled, but the changes aren't made...

[mharrisonline]

last problem fixed, ready to use

[mharrisonline]

The final version

[mharrisonline]

Ah, iespell had already changed the words and I was overwriting the changes by returning the original HTML. It's all fixed now and ready to go in ClientsideSpellcheck_final.zip

[mharrisonline]

Niko, you were right, you don't really need Xinha to do anything with this. The line I currently have in the plugin

content : editor.getHTML()

isn't needed at all by iespell, and currently getHTML triggers a nasty bug in full page mode (ticket 434) so this line should be removed...

[mharrisonline]

version with uneeded line of code removed

[mharrisonline]

Maybe, possibly, is there any way someone could check this in? :)

[gocher]

checked in at revision: 335

[mharrisonline]

Thank you!