Developing on PC, one sometime forgets to thoroughly check the differences
between Windows and MacOS. Spell checker is for me one such element (amongst
many). Being a partner, I had hoped for a little help from Tech Support. That
was not to be, so I had to sit down and read the relevant sections in the
manuals and do a bit of testing (bitter fruit for a lazy man). And I found out
the following (which may be elementary to most developers):
As opposed to Windows, 4D on Mac uses (by default) a native spell checker (not
Hunspell). That means you often cannot use SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY with a
set name like nb_NO (SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY(“nb_NO”)). In this case the
native name is nb (on my Mac). The answer is to use SPELL GET DICTIONARY
LIST(langID;dicName;langDesc) and then pick the appropriate language from the
list: $dicName:=dicName{dicName} and then use SPELL SET CURRENT
DICTIONARY($dicName).
If you want to use the Hunspell dictionaries on Mac (instead of native
dictionary), you simply use SET DATABASE PARAMETER(81;1) in the On Startup (for
example). You can then use SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY on Mac like on Windows.
Regards
Carl
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>Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:17:01 +0200
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>Subject: SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY and SPELL GET DICTIONARY LIST works
>differently on Windows and Mac
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>4D v 16.6 I have the following dictionaries installed in the Hunspell folder
>(.dic and .aff) on both Mac and Windows:
>da_DK, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, fr-modern, nb_NO, nn_NO og pt_BR
>Out of those I have personally installed da_DK, nb_NO and nn_NO. The rest is
>installed by 4D as standard dictionaries.
>Using SPELL GET DICTIONARY LIST I get the following list on Windows (as
>expected):
>da_DK, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, fr-modern, nb_NO, nn_NO, pt_BR
>And on Windows I can use SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("nb_NO.dic") to load
>nb_NO in text field using form event: On load. It works but the name on the
>dictionary is "Unknown". The other dictionaries have a >proper/correct name.
>Using SPELL GET DICTIONARY LIST I get the following list on Mac:
>nb, en_GB, en, en_CA, en_AU, en_IN, en_SG, en_JP, da, de, es, fr, it, nl, pl,
>pt_BR, pt_PT, fi, sv, tr, ru, ko.
>This does not reflect the dictionaries installed in the Hunspell folder.
>On Mac I cannot use SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("nb_NO.dic") to load nb_NO in
>text field using form event: On load.
>For test purpose I use a Listbox with the following methods:
>Case of
>: (Form event=On Load)
>ARRAY LONGINT(langID;0)
>ARRAY TEXT(dicName;0)
>ARRAY TEXT(langDesc;0)
>SPELL GET DICTIONARY LIST(langID;dicName;langDesc)
>: (Form event=On Clicked)
>C_TEXT($dicName)
>$dicName:=dicName{dicName}
>SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY($dicName)
>End case
>And to test the current dictionary I use a button with the method:
>$curLangCode:=SPELL Get current dictionary
>$countryName:=langDesc{Find in array(langID;$curLangCode)}
>ALERT("Current dictionary: "+$countryName)
>Looking at the dictionaries ID numbers on Windows compared to Mac: fr, en_US,
>da_DK, nb_NO and es_ES are not the same. Only pt_BR and en_GB are the same. On
>Mac nn_NO do not load. And on Mac fr and nb_NO >have the same dictionary ID
>number.
>I can use the listbox to change dictionaries on both Mac and Windows and can
>get nb_NO to work on Mac using this procedure. (On Mac I get Spanish when I
>click ko). nn_NO do not load in the listbox on Mac.
>I cannot change to nb_NO (or nn_NO) using buttons on Mac with the following
>methods:
>SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("nb_NO.dic")
>SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("nb_NO")
>SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("nn_NO.dic")
>SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("nn_NO")
>I get english (USA)using buttons on Mac with the following methods:
>SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("en_GB.dic")
>SPELL SET CURRENT DICTIONARY("en_GB")
>The above appears to be the same in v17.2
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