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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] kword spellchecking trouble
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-13 16:28:54
Message-ID: 200402131728.54092.faure () kde ! org
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On Friday 13 February 2004 17:23, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 11:10, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > kword locks up hard with ispell when typing a number and then RMB
> > clicking. (See kword.bt for backtrace)
> >
> > The reason is that KOISpell::cleanFputsWord() bails out if it doesn't
> > encounter a word but KOISpell::checkWord() nonetheless waits for an
> > answer from ispell. koispell1.patch fixes.
Great.

> > Unfortunately that bring us to another bug because now the popup
> > dialog gets highly confused by the modal dialog that is created as
> > part of KOISpell::enter_loop() and you need "alt-tab" to get keyboard
> > control back. koispell2.patch solves that problem but the comment
> > about the other 999999999 problems still holds true, so that's not a
> > good solution.
> 
> Yap, there's no good way to solve it. The way it's setup right is that 
> it expects synchronous behavior from checkWord which it will never have 
> with kprocio and ispell binary. We could make kospell aspell plugin 
> asynchronous, but that would take us to the start since getting 
> asynchronous answers in on-the-fly spellchecking is bound to fail.
> 
> So please don't bother with it. 
Well, Waldo's fixes look good and should be committed to KOFFICE_1_3_BRANCH IMHO.

> During the last year I took every  
> complain people had about kspell and kospell and fixed all them in the 
> form of kspell2. The only thing that's missing there right now is a 
> simple configuation dialog for preferred language, which I'll put in 
> today. Tomorrow I'll start switching koffice to it. 
Great!

> What would be a lot  
> more helpful right now to me is having people try kspell2 and let me 
> know how the examples work for them. I'd also like to hear some 
> opinions on where individual files of kspell2 should go to, since so 
> far no one bothered to give it some thought.

Please explain the problem :-)

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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