On Dec 18, 2003, at 12:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
How difficult/desireable would it be to have a means of using OS X's Spelling Checker application service within Rev?
In OS X a "Service" sometimes refers to the Services menu seen in many OS X apps. Is that what you mean? I don't have a spell check service in there.
But many OS X apps utilize a spell checker that maintains per-user dictionaries and preferences. I think it's part of the Cocoa frameworks; the Objective C class NSSpellChecker. I think it should be possible to write a simple Rev external to talk to NSSpellChecker. I don't know if Carbon has this capability. A quick API search says Carbon does not.
Another alternative, which does *not* interface with the user's dictionary and preferences, is the GNU ispell program, which is a command-line tool that could be called with shell(). It's a fine utility, it's just not installed by default, and is disconnected from the rest of the OS X system spell checking facilities.
I have a client gearing up for a heavy production cycle and we're looking at
options for incorporating QA conveniences into his workflow.
I got partway through a spell checking plugin for Rev, transcript only, before I put it on the back burner. You are welcome to the unfinished source code if you want it.
For OS X only, I think a NSSpellChecker external would provide the best user experience because it would be consistent with other spell checking going on in the workflow- maybe.
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