Howdy

Making the dialog modal would be the best for 1.1.1 I think...

Sorry, the first line was meant to be "David, I found..."

Thanks
Budgee

On 20 Nov 2001, at 20:45, David Faure wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:45, Warwick Chapman wrote:
> > Howdy
> > 
> > David found a cute little bug in the spellcheck which may or may 
> > not have already been identified.
> 
> Did I ? Or did you mean "I found" ? ;-)
> 
> > If the checker is running and the selection of the highligted word is 
> > changes between words on the check, all words checked there 
> > after, and replace are a few characters off - and the following sort of 
> > replacements occur: replacementsents sucessfullull etc etc.
> 
> Right.... I wanted the spellcheck and the replace dialog not to be modal, so 
> that it's possible to fix stuff by hand while having a "spellcheck" or a
> "search and replace" dialog open.
> 
> With a modal dialog you need to abort it, fix things, launch it again... not handy.
> (I'm talking about fixing something else that you happen to see while doing
> the spellcheck, not fixing an actual mispelling, that can be done from the dialog).
> 
> But the spellchecker parses the whole text at once, so it remembers
> it from before you modify it, hence the offset.
> 
> Sending the text paragraph by paragraph or even word by word would be quite
> slow (lauching ispell everytime), or we would hit a kspell bug again (first word skipped
> when reusing the same ispell process, bug still not fixed by the kspell maintainer).
> 
> My preferred solution would be
> - to have that kspell bug fixed ;)
> - to give the text to kspell paragraph by paragraph
> - and to add a mechanism for notifying the spellchecker when the current paragraph
> is being edited, so that we update the text known by kspell, to prevent the above problem.
> Might be that we would start again from the beginning of the paragraph in such a case.
> - to use that mechanism to notify the "search and replace" dialog too.
> 
> All of this is obviously too much for 1.1.1.
> What do you think of the "making the dialog modal, i.e. prevent modifying the text
> while doing a spellcheck" quickfix for 1.1.1, though ?
> (Same for "search" and "search and replace")
> 
> -- 
> David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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Warwick Chapman
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Glenwood High School, Durban, South Africa
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