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Comment on NSSpellServer guilty of tearing my hair out! by Steingrímur Árnason

Steingrímur Árnason — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:06:10 +0000

I am also a developer of a 3rd party spelling service for Mac OS X and have the same issue.
Can you please publish the Radar (bugreporter.apple.com) ID number so I can ask Apple about it?

Comment on NSSpellServer guilty of tearing my hair out! by tench

tench — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:41:35 +0000

i know, i definitely experienced the switch problem with cocoAspell as well. i will test checkspell later — i’m very curious. i will keep my fingers crossed that apple gets its act together. (admittedly, in their attempt to simplify things for the user, they did introduce the multilingual mode for spell-checking, which works reasonably well… especially in single-language documents, BUT they forgot that that works only for the languages which they officially support… which leaves many of us in the dark…)

Comment on NSSpellServer guilty of tearing my hair out! by Adam

Adam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:07:03 +0000

tench: Thanks for cheering me up. I believe you can encounter the language switch problem also with cocoAspell (at least I did), so it doesn't matter if you install CheckSpell or not, Foundation will mess with your secondary spelling server anyway. Regarding new words and adding them back to CheckSpell I have no clue. Is CheckSpell faster than cocoAspell ?, I believe it is. It relays on OpenOffice spelling engine with is pretty fast in comparison to aspell. To disable AppleSpell you need to go to /System/Library/Services and move AppleSpell.service out into some safe place. Note that cocoAspell and CheckSpell reside in /Library/Services (/System/Library is reserved for Apple & system files).

Comment on NSSpellServer guilty of tearing my hair out! by tench

tench — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:06:18 +0000

I was very glad to read your post — I now know that I am not the only freak around who’s been upset about the way spell-checking works on the Mac. I’ve sent feedback too. It’s embarrassing for Apple. My other pet peeve is that there is no way to change languages directly in the mail.app window, but one always has to open the spelling pane. One should really have shortcuts for this.

Now, I’ve gone to the web site of CheckSpell — it’s all in Polish. I can sort of understand it, because I speak Russian, but I am still a bit reluctant to install it. In cocoAspell, one can add new words to the spelling dictionary and they are kept in a file in one’s Library/Spelling. Now, over time, I’ve accumulated a significant number of these. Would I be able to add them to CheckSpell? And is CheckSpell really faster than cocoAspell? And how would one manually disable AppleSpell services?

Comment on jabberd2 win32 by Valeriy

Valeriy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:01:22 +0000

Answer to my post and 79(David) - install VC++ redistr and OpenSSL

Comment on jabberd2 win32 by Valeriy

Valeriy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:46:01 +0000

I have same problem as in post #79(David), download installation jabberd-2.2svn688-win32.msi, short blink and nothing…
WinXP SP3

Comment on jabberd2 win32 by David

David — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:44:58 +0000

I have tried running the installer on 2 systems now but everytime it fails to run. It just closes the installer right after it opens. I have tried redownloading the installer file 3-4 times but still get the same problem.

Comment on NSSpellServer guilty of tearing my hair out! by Huski

Huski — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:43:51 +0000

First, big thanks for devoting your time and efforts to draw Apple’s attention to that problem. IMHO, I presume that nothing will change until Polish spell-checker will be implemented by Apple originally.

Comment on Themed menu’s icons, a complete Vista and XP solution by Adam

Adam — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:46:40 +0000

Carlos: Indeed hbmp(Un)checked makes all icons to be inverted when item is focused, this is the way it works, probably due it was designed to handle monochrome bitmaps in most circumstances. Dieter: Are you sure they are not present in the system? AFAIK GdiPlus is shipped with all Windows begging with XP, please have a look coz newer systems may not have GdiPlus.dll inside of system32 folder directly but inside WinSxS, i.e.: C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_Microsoft.Windows.GdiPlus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.3790.3959_x-ww_B45BA3BE\GdiPlus.dll C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.GdiPlus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.3790.3959_x-ww_8251BDDE\GdiPlus.dll Having them in WinSxS requires proper manifest inside your application to load. Anders: If you have read the article more carefully you'd see that the problem is actually ownerdraw method that requires much more code and attention, also it makes keyboards shortcuts stop working. Moreover "themed" is just a term, you say XP menus are not themed, but they may be flat or not. But isn't this flatness a part of XP theming functionality? How do you tell menu is flat or now w/o using uxtheme API?

Comment on Themed menu’s icons, a complete Vista and XP solution by Anders

Anders — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:49:28 +0000

XP does not have themed menus (Other than start-menu .. all programs, but that is not a menu, its a toolbar (yes, really)) The only thing you need to do to get 100% correct icons on XP is to check to see if flat menus are on, if they are, the selection rectangle needs a border with COLOR_HIGHLIGHT and fill it with COLOR_MENUHILIGHT