Re: Real-time Spell checking API's for use in applet.

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>

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Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:48:51 -0700

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On 7/15/2010 5:37 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:

On 7/15/2010 4:00 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:

On 7/15/2010 12:43 PM, Jim Janney wrote:

Daniel Pitts<newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net> writes:

I'd like to emulate the Firefox/thunderbird real-time spell-checking
feature in a (signed) Java applet. Right now, the user is entering
data in a JTextArea, but I'm willing to replace that, as long as the
replacement has word-wrap.

If there are good libraries available that don't have UI integration,
that's fine too, I can probably handle that part myself. Grammar
suggestion is a nice-to-have. I only need, and will probably only
ever need English correction.

To be specific, The goal is to provide red-underlined text for
misspelled words, and allow easy correction from a pop up/context
menu.

This one does all of that.

http://www.wintertree-software.com/dev/ssce/javasdk.html

Thanks.
I did forget to mention that free is very important, and open-source is
a big nice-to-have.

I'm guessing that you're asking for recommendations from users of Java
spell-check libraries rather than references to the same.

Correct. GIMF. I found a few references, but I have never utilized such
a library, so I'm not sure which features might be useful or which APIs
are mature.

I don't have recommendations, but a web search reveals a seeming
abundance of FOS Java spell-check libraries. One that caught my eye, in
fact the first hit for java+spell+check was Jazzy.

Are there some FOS Java spell-check libraries that you are certain you
will not use?

Any one that is broken beyond my ability to repair it ;-)

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