Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

re: Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

Mikael Söderström — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:01:52 GMT

Wow. This is great. :)

re: Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

Kazi — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:04:17 GMT

It's working for non English languages also. Hmm, good. Mine is Hungarian. This one is installed by the Office 2003 MUI on my computer.

re: Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

Keeron — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:31:41 GMT

Does this work using the Word/Outlook spellcheck engine or just has a built-in one? I can't test it as I have office installed (and Sept CTP, Vista PDC build).

If it has its own spellcheck engine, this is AWESOME!!! Now only if we can extend this (and add things like "Add to Dictionary" or other stuff)

Thanks for showing this example!

- Keeron

re: Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

marcelolr — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:05:13 GMT

Kazi - weeird. I don't think the speller engine should be picking up any dictionary that is not installed with WPF - if it does, I believe it's an error.

Keeron - yes, the WPF speller has its own engine, and should be independent of others that may be on the user's system. See my confuzed reply above. We are considering what level of extensibility we will give to the spell checking feature, but it will in all likelihood not be very comprehensive, I'm sorry to say. Like the undo/redo sytem in the editing controls, this is meant as a transient, in-memory thing (note that you have an Ignore menu item).

re: Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

Kazi — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:49:41 GMT

Sorry everybody, it seems it doesn't really work well on my computer. I have checked it again, but the result is a bit confusing. If I change the xaml, it underlines the whole text, but if I change the text whithin the textboxes, the spellchecker accepts anything and hides the red wavy lines. That's why I thought that it's working with non english languages.

re: Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

Kazi — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:48:43 GMT

It's work completely weird on my computer. The spellchecker never accepts english words only sentences, but accepts hungarian sentences again. But here is an extreme example:

"This is a Hungarian sentence." The spellchecker does not accept it, the whole sentence is underlined.

But if I insert one valid hungarian word for the first place:
"Ez This is a Hungarian sentence."
It accepts as a valid sentence, the wavy red underline disappears.

But if I insert a not valid hungarian word:
"Ezz This is a Hungarian sentence." the red unerline appears again.

I use english version of XP with hungarian locale settings. Is that may be the source of the problem?

re: Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

marcelolr — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:32:37 GMT

Kazi: yep, your description sounds weird all right :-) I'll forward this to our local spell checker experts and have them take a look