spell check on all text fields/areas

I've seen this one posted a few times without a response. Has anyone ever tried to implement a bespoke or third-party spell checker that can run on all text fields and areas. I know that the Visual Formatter has one built in, but we are not using it for most text areas and it does not apply to text fields. If no one has tried this, can someone at least suggest an approach?

TS 5.5.2 (soon to be 6.5)
Solaris 9

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Michael

Two suggestions

-- consider WatchFire: I understand that spell checking is one of the many things it does. If you search on devnet there are some threads on this and probably stuff on the support site also.

-- custom code something like a callout on your template. This could be a nightmare, however if you had a very standard client desktop that was Windows with Office installed you might be able to do some kind of clever ActiveX thing that leverages off the MS components...

* Disclaimer: I haven't tried either of these things, they are just suggestions.

Good luck!

Cheers
Michael

awgolk

We are in the process of testing out COAST, which can do the same thing that Watchfire can.

chuckles

What exactly does watchfire do? I couldn't find any threads (at least not in this forum). We actually have found a potential solution, but need to jump through some procedural hurdles first so probably won't get to implement it for a while. There is an open-source (LPGL) project on sourceforge called Speller Pages http://aspell.sourceforge.net/. It seems like it would integrate perfectly with DCTs. There is also a Perl module for integrating with Aspell if we want any additional features http://search.cpan.org/~hank/Text-Aspell-0.04/Aspell.pm.

If anyone else wants to implement this and write a KB for us, it would be appreciated Smiley Happy

Michael

Hi

The Watchfire website is thread that might be helpful if you go down that path.

Spellerpages looks very promising -- I look forward to reading your upcoming KB article describing your successful implementation!!!

Cheers
Michael