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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Autocorrection in KWord
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-07-12 7:56:46
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Troy Unrau wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Thomas wrote:
> > At the moment there are a couple of entries in the kword_doc.cc file (line
> > 1272) You might consider making a nice file with mappings which is read
> > at execution time, also consider what to do with different languages.
> 
> At risk of sounding naive, stupid or generally ill informed, but how exactly
> would I do this?
> 
> I can understand the current code (pretty straight forward) but in all of my
> rather pitiful attempts at dabbling in C++ and Qt, I've never yet had to read
> or write something to file, nevermind some sort of database like entity.
> 
> I know what is required is quite simple:  A file that is in plain text or XML
> that has two entries per line -- what word to replace and what to replace it
> with -- this much is simple.  I also know that if I can set up a loop to read
> each line and call the appropriate functions ( as demonstrated in line 1272
> or kword_doc.cc ), these entries can be added or removed from the list.
> 
> Two problems, (and maybe you could help me out in learning how to do this ) I
> don't know how to create such a mechanism, and secondly, I don't know how to
> create dialogs that would access this and update the list at runtime.
> 
> I know this may sound trivial to those that live, breathe, eat and dream of
> pointers, but I just don't have (yet) the skills to perform this.  If someone
> could walk me through this, it would be much appreciated.
> 
Look for QFile and QTextStream

Greetings, Stephan

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