We're currently finishing off version 1.2 of the Spelling Plus Library, which includes a number of enhancements including:
- various minor fixes and improvements, including resolving an issue with AIR context menus
- improvements to the text highlighting engine
- suggestions algorithm has been refactored to be slightly faster and more accurate
- support for multiple languages using the roman character set
That last one is a big one, and one that we could use a little help with, if any multilingual folk have a bit of time to spare. Our office is hopelessly monolingual, and we are looking for some brave folk to spend 5 minutes or so just playing with the engine and seeing if it returns appropriate results. We're currently testing French, Spanish, and German.
If you're interested, either drop a comment below, or send us an email (use the contact link at the top of the page). Honestly, there's no immediate incentive for doing it, but we'll try to figure something out.
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Comments (14)
I'm French and I can spend some time on this!
Posted by: Quentin at April 29, 2008 09:30 AMURL: http://toki-woki.net
Im Mexican and i can spend some time checking the spanish spelling.
Posted by: Gonzalo León at April 29, 2008 10:40 AMURL:
Hi Grant,
Posted by: Riccardo Bartoli at April 29, 2008 11:47 AMI'm italian. If you will need my support for the italian language (if it will be released) drop me a mail.
URL:
Hi Grant,
I noticed that improvements were made to the highlight engine. We ran into some problems and wondered if they are fixed. In TextHighlighter.as drawHighlight method uses rect1, rect2 and rect3 without always checking for null. I get actionscript errors when this happens.
Thanks!
Posted by: Peter at April 29, 2008 12:01 PMURL:
Hi, Grant!
Posted by: injun #576871 at April 29, 2008 12:04 PMI'm Russian and I can help you!
URL: http://injun.ru
Peter,
Yes, this has been resolved in this build.
Regards,
Posted by: Grant Skinner at April 29, 2008 12:20 PMGrant.
URL: http://gskinner.com/blog/
I'm dutch, if I can help let me know!
Kind regards,
Posted by: Jankees at April 29, 2008 02:20 PMJankees van Woezik
URL: http://blog.6angrymen.com
French and can help too!
Posted by: Florian at April 30, 2008 02:23 AMURL:
nico from Argentina, just drop an email if you need spanish check!
Posted by: nico at April 30, 2008 06:07 AMURL: http://www.estadodigital.com
If you still need german testers - I would love to have a look at the german version...
Kind regards! Markus Raab
Posted by: derRaab at April 30, 2008 09:17 AMURL: http://blog.derraab.com
hey Grant I'm from Venezuela. If you still need spanish check let me know.
Posted by: Oscar Hungsberg at May 1, 2008 12:24 AMURL:
Hi...
Posted by: jkozniewski at May 3, 2008 03:48 PMIf you'll need any testing on Polish character set
just drop a line :)
URL: http://jkozniewski.com
Drop me a line if you need some more people for French tests. ;)
Best regards
Posted by: Cedric M. (aka maddec) at May 8, 2008 10:31 AMURL: http://analogdesign.ch/blog
If you need any help with Dutch, let me know! I'll even have more than 5 minutes to play and test it...
:-) Keep up the great work!!
Posted by: Michael at May 10, 2008 09:50 PMURL: http://mikemedia.eu