how to implement Squiggly in textarea

[A_kameshwaran]

Hi,

     I am new to this. I have downloaded the Squiggly package from adobe labs. But i am not sure how to implement it.

Kindly guide me to achieve.

[moccamaximum]

Have you considered migrating your project to as3, like discussed in this thread?

1.Copy the downloaded AdobeSpellingEngine.swc in your libs folder

2.Download the ASdocs and extract them

3.Look for the SpellChecker class, it contains an example for Flex that you should have no problem adapting to FlashPro

[A_kameshwaran]

already i started to migrate teh project to as3

[moccamaximum]

Wise decision 😉

[A_kameshwaran]

Hi,

     I have used the example code to check. I have a text area in my stage with instance name inp_txt. when i compile i am getting this error. Could you please help me out.

Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 2

1172: Definition mx.controls.textClasses:TextRange could not be found.

This is my code :

import com.adobe.linguistics.spelling.*;

import mx.controls.textClasses.TextRange;

var _newdict:HunspellDictionary = new HunspellDictionary();

var sp:SpellChecker;

function init():void

{

    _newdict.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleLoadComplete);

    _newdict.load("dictionaries/en_US/en_US.aff", "dictionaries/en_US/en_US.dic");

}

function handleLoadComplete(evt:Event):void

{

    sp = new SpellChecker(_newdict);

}

function checkText():void

{

    var wordPattern:RegExp = /\b\w+\b/;// match next word...

    var inputValue:String = inp_txt.text;

    var offset:int, curPos:int;

    for ( ; ; ) {

    var res:Array = inputValue.match(wordPattern);// lookup word by word....

    if ( res == null )

    {

        break;

    }

    if (! sp.checkWord(res[0]))

    {

        offset = inp_txt.text.length - inputValue.length;

        curPos = inputValue.indexOf(res[0]);

        var currentRange:TextRange = new TextRange(inp_txt,false,offset + curPos,offset + curPos + res[0].length);// mark mispelled word.

        currentRange.color = "red";

    }

    inputValue = inputValue.substr(inputValue.indexOf(res[0]) + res[0].length);

}

}

inp_txt.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP,handler);

function handler(event:KeyboardEvent)

{

    // if the key is ENTER

    if (event.charCode == 32)

    {

        // your code here

        checkText();

    }

}

init();

[moccamaximum]

TextRange is a Flex only class.

from the ASDOCs:

The TextRange class provides properties that select and format a range of text in the Label, Text, TextArea, TextEditor, and RichTextEditor controls.

you should be able to emulate its functionality with the setSelection function

[A_kameshwaran]

I am getting the selection for the wrong word. But i am not getting any suggesting for spell error.. kindly advise me how to achieve this.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/squiggly/demo/

this is my exact request..

[moccamaximum · Accepted solution]

to override the default right-click behaviour with your spell suggestions you have to publish to at least Flash 11 (or higher, google it).

then write a function

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.RIGHT_CLICK, showSpellingAlternatives);

and show the  list you get from Squiggly.

[A_kameshwaran]

Thanks for your extrodinary support