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| 12:17 | JeffreyH > | RobinD, yt? |
| 12:18 | RobinD > | hi JeffreyH |
| 12:18 | JeffreyH > | hey Robin, how's the new gig working out? |
| 12:18 | RobinD > | very well |
| 12:19 | JeffreyH > | We've got a user asking about getting Mac wx text widgets to do native spell checking. Is that just a matter of updating mac wx to use native widgets? Is that something that's coming, gradually, never gonna happen, or almost here? |
| 12:20 | JeffreyH > | Re: the new gig, I can't remember, are you working on a shipping product, or developing something from scratch? |
| 12:21 | JeffreyH isn't sure if he lost RobinD... |
| 12:21 | RobinD > | stand by... |
| 12:21 | JeffreyH > | heh, np |
| 12:23 | heikkit > | (n=chatzill@209.10.209.56) joined #chandler. |
| 12:24 | RobinD > | Ok, I just got back from a little trip using Guido's Time Machine and went and implemented it for you. Try calling theTextCtrl.MacCheckSpelling(True) ;-) |
| 12:24 | JeffreyH > | uh, as in, it's in there now? |
| 12:24 | RobinD > | yep |
| 12:25 | JeffreyH > | sheesh. Well, sweet! Thanks! |
| 12:25 | JeffreyH points this out to gbaillie |
| 12:25 | gbaillie > | Hmm ... I tried it the other day and it didn't work. Does it require rich text? |
| 12:26 | JeffreyH suspects RobinD is no longer paying close attention to #chandler and might need a ping |
| 12:28 | RobinD > | I think it is only good for multi-line textctrl's, and there is a comment in the SVN log that it is for the MLTE implementation of textCtrl. I think the MLTE version can be turned on/off via a wx.SystemOption so you may want to check if that is being done somewhere. |
| 12:32 | JeffreyH > | intriguing. gbaillie, is there a bug for this? Do we want one? Just seems like we shouldn't lose RobinD's last comment. |
| 12:35 | gbaillie > | I thought there was a bug for that somewhere. |
| 12:35 | RobinD > | Hmm... I couldn't get it to work either. Looking at the source... Ah, there is another system option for turning the feature on by default, and then you can use MacCheckSpelling for turning it off for those that you don't want to use spell checking. |
| 12:35 | gbaillie > | But, so far as I can tell (from poking around in C++ sources) we are using MLTE. |
| 12:35 | RobinD > | wx.SystemOptions.SetOption("mac.textcontrol-use-spell-checker", "1") |
| 12:35 | gbaillie > | Aha |
| 12:45 | RobinD > | JeffreyH: re the new gig, it's currently an in-house (mostly) suite of applications, but the plan is to product-ize it eventually and market it to other medical institutions. They already had a ton of stuff done when I started, but their GUI skills are, well, let's say less than desired, so I'm currently doing a bunch of clean up, streamlining, beautifying, etc. of the existing UI. It sounds dull but it's actually a lot of fun. |
| 12:46 | JeffreyH > | yeah, actually, sounds pretty fun, RobinD |
| 12:47 | gbaillie > | RobinD: is that spellchecker the "check spelling automatically" type, or the "use a menu item to check spelling" type? |
| 12:47 | gbaillie > | (if that makes sense) |
| 12:48 | RobinD > | it's turning on/off the "check as you type" feature |
| 12:49 | gbaillie > | ok, that's what i thought. |
| 12:49 | gbaillie > | btw, i agree cleaning up ui can be lots of fun ... visual reward and all that ;) |
| 12:51 | RobinD > | The MacCheckSpelling method calls TXNSetSpellCheckAsYouType. Setting the system option adds kTXNSupportSpellCheckCommandProcessing | kTXNSupportSpellCheckCommandUpdating flags when the widget is created. |
| 12:51 | RobinD > | (some google fodder for you) ;-) |
| 12:55 | JeffreyH > | ~mark |
| 12:55 | soup > | http://wiki.osafoundation.org/script/getIrcTranscript.cgi?channel=chandler&date=20080708&startTime=1255 |
| 12:58 | bjordan > | (n=bjordan@cpc1-hitc2-0-0-cust632.lutn.cable.ntl.com) left irc: "Changing server" |
| 12:58 | soup > | Tinderbox build ahukini-full-osx: test_failed |
| 12:59 | JeffreyH > | I didn't find an existing bug for this, in fact, it looks like this was working before, so I filed Bug 12228 |
| 12:59 | soup > | Chandler bug #12228: Get Mac native spell checker working again Product: Chandler, Component: Detail View, Severity: normal, Assigned to: grant@osafoundation.org, Status: NEW, Url: http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12228 |