Thanks for the update... i've also made progress in my spell checker suggest words algorithm. I'm basically using a modified version of the Levenshtein algorithm. I've found that with some minor tweaks it works great for 90% of mispelled words. I'm always looking to speed up the word distance algorithm Levenshtein provides.
As far as UI, i just modeled the spell checker dialog window MS Word uses. It seams to be the most intuitive and what most people know. I would be curious to know your performance since everytime you want to suggest a word or check some text for bad spellings you have to go back to the server. I have the complete word list downloaded into my app and do all checking and suggesting based on that list. It's not perfect but no spell checker is. I get suggestions back within 100- 500 milliseconds, sometimes less depending on the length of the word. Now the question is, how well will this perform for me on a slower pc... i'm running a dual core 2.4ghz with 2gb of ram, i'm guessing on a slower pc i won't see as fast of a response. I plan to test to see how well it holds up. --Scott --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jmfillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scott, > > I'm sending the word Array to PHP for checking. PHP will check each > word until it finds an incorrect word, then it will send the wrong word > back, along with 10 suggestions. I'm not that good at PHP, so I hired > someone to do this for me. We've worked out a fairly comprehensive > logorithm that I'm quite pleased with the suggested words it returns. > > I'm still working on the Flex part, but how I envision this is that > Flex gets the wrong word back, searches for it and > highlights/underlines it. The user is presented with a list of words > they can replace it with, or they can type in a new word (there are > some good examples of similar stuff in the Flex Builder Help/Flex 2 > Developer's Guide: "Selecting and modifying text" and "Programming > RichTextEditor Subcontrols"). "Programming RichTextEditor Subcontrols" > has a section near the end that has a find/replace Application that > uses a RichTextEditor with a TitleWindow popup. > > Anyway, after correcting or adding the "wrong" word, I re-send the word > Array to PHP for checking. Since I'll allow them to modify the text > during the spell checking process, I resend the whole array until there > are no incorrect words. > > Still thinking about how to give them the option to ignore words, > without adding to their custom dictionary, so the spell check doesn't > get caught in a loop of returning a word that the user says is correct, > but they don't want to add. >
