Mac Spell Check?

[PBH]

Hi,

Although I've had RunRev/LiveCode for some time I've only just dabbled a little, but now I'm trying to create a small text processing app (mainly to use on a Mac) and it would be nice to be able to access the Mac Spell Check and Thesaurus in a similar way that most other apps do, ie. under the edit menu or contextual menu. I've searched the forum and user guide etc., but I can't find any info on how to do this, so my questions are:

1. Is this easy to achieve?
2. Is there any documentation available for guidance?

I'd really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

Paul

[townsend]

Check out RunRevPlanet_com's Spell Check for LiveCode.

It works in Mac, Windows and Linux environments.

[PBH]

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll keep that in mind for now, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to have a Thesaurus.

I was hoping to be able to access the built-in Mac Services.

Thanks again.

Paul

[shaosean]

you can access the built-in spell checking with an external..

[mcgrath3]

You can create an automator app and run that. I just tried it and it works.

• Open automator.
  Create a new "Application"
  drag "Get Contents of Clipboard" over to the workflow area to the right
  drag "Get Definition of Word" over next
  Select "Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus" in the Dictionary btn of "Get Definition of Word"
  drag "Copy to Clipboard" over last
  save as an application "ThesaurusClipboard".

In LC create one button "Get Thesaurus" and two fields "Text" and "Thesaurus Results"

Code: Select all

on mouseUp
    put the selectedChunk into tTemp
    put word 2 of tTemp into tChar1
    put word 4 of tTemp into tChar3
    put character tChar1 to tChar3 of field 1 into tChunk
    copy
    launch "/Users/yournamehere/Desktop/ThesaurusClipboard.app"
    wait 6 seconds with messages
    focus on field "Thesaurus Results"
    paste 
end mouseUp

This works and pastes the results from the Dictionary app into LiveCode.

HTHs

Tom

[PBH]

Thank you for the replies.

Thank you very much Tom for the code example, I really appreciate you taking the time to work that out, I'll certainly give it a go.

Paul