Author Topic: NANY 2010 Release: FarrSpell (Read 83,633 times)

mouser · « **on:** December 26, 2009, 12:55 PM »

NANY 2010 Entry Information

Application Name	FarrSpell - Spellchecker+Thesaurus Plugin for FARR
Version	v1.03.01
Short Description	A plugin for Find and Run Robot which will spellcheck words and list synonyms
Requires	Find and Run Robot
Early Download Link	FarrSpell.zip v1.03.01
Screencast	http://donationcoder.com/nany2010/sc/fspell/fspell.html YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGSUdFCjX4w

Description
This will be a plugin for Find and Run Robot to help people who quickly need to spell a word or look up synonyms.

Screencast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGSUdFCjX4w

Screenshots

tomos · « **Reply #1 on:** December 26, 2009, 01:54 PM »

is it premature to make a feature request ?!!

that it would spell in English English as well as American English (maybe show both even?)

cranioscopical · « **Reply #2 on:** December 26, 2009, 02:30 PM »

Quote from: mouser on December 26, 2009, 12:55 PM

This will be a plugin for Find and Run Robot to help people who quickly need to spell a word or look up synonyms.

Will this be an adjunct to your forthcoming ICCPIPRICR?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I Can Capitalize Properly In Posts Really I Can Robot

mouser · « **Reply #3 on:** December 26, 2009, 02:37 PM »

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that it would spell in English English as well as American English (maybe show both even?)

you will be able to choose your dictionary, same as Clipboard Help+Spell does it.

mouser · « **Reply #4 on:** December 26, 2009, 06:18 PM »

updated with screenshot teasers.

tomos · « **Reply #5 on:** December 26, 2009, 06:57 PM »

Quote from: mouser on December 26, 2009, 06:18 PM

updated with screenshot teasers.

ooohh - looks nice

mouser · « **Reply #6 on:** December 26, 2009, 11:52 PM »

Preview release posted -- download at link specified above, and unpack into a subdirectory of farr Plugins folder (Plugins\FarrSpell).

mouser · « **Reply #7 on:** December 26, 2009, 11:53 PM »

The icons suck at large size -- i'm hoping hamradio or someone else will make some new .icon files with 32x32 and 16x16 resolution.

tomos · « **Reply #8 on:** December 27, 2009, 12:43 AM »

on first use only I got an error (& crash) but no problems after a restart

error

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Find and Run Robot
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Access violation at address 0611AFAC. Read of address 0611AFAC.
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OK
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there was a second error message but then it crashed before I could copy the other.

Seems to be working fine now after restart - I'll be using this one, thanks mouser!

cranioscopical · « **Reply #9 on:** December 27, 2009, 02:49 AM »

Different layout from your example, is this expected?
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mouser · « **Reply #10 on:** December 27, 2009, 03:42 AM »

yes, you have large mode result mode.. it will look better once we get some better icons.

mouser · « **Reply #11 on:** December 27, 2009, 03:43 AM »

by the way if you get sick of typing fspell you can go to advanced options for a plugin and change the alias trigger to something like fsp or even fs or s

cranioscopical · « **Reply #12 on:** December 27, 2009, 03:56 AM »

Quote from: mouser on December 27, 2009, 03:42 AM

you have large mode result mode.

So what do I set to get a numbered list of synonyms as in your example, rather than a list in parentheses?

mouser · « **Reply #13 on:** December 27, 2009, 04:06 AM »

Here's how it works: When you type in a word, it finds 2 dif kinds of synonym lists:

1. The type is shown all on one line -- that's what you have in your result, and it happens when the word youve typed is not a "head word" but merely in a list with others. So your word is IN that list shown.
2. If you word is a "head word" then you get all of the results listed individually. The easiest way to see this is to click (or arrow down and hit enTer) on that second result, which by default will change the word in the search to the head word, thus showing all the synonyms listed individually.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #14 on:** December 27, 2009, 04:20 AM »

Quote from: mouser on December 27, 2009, 04:06 AM

click (or arrow down and hit ener) on that second result

Thanks I see how it works now that my spelling has been ener-gized

mouser · « **Reply #15 on:** December 28, 2009, 04:29 AM »

Updated with new icon set from hamradio that looks a lot better in large icon mode. Thank ham

mouser · « **Reply #16 on:** December 28, 2009, 04:30 AM »

By the way the problem Tomos had with crashing is related to a known problem with an older version of the fsubscript.dll found in some other plugins.
See http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9306.msg176615#msg176615 for more info.

tomos · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2009, 02:10 AM »

Quote from: mouser on December 28, 2009, 04:30 AM

By the way the problem Tomos had with crashing is related to a known problem with an older version of the fsubscript.dll found in some other plugins.
See http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9306.msg176615#msg176615 for more info.

entertainingly embarrassing when I get a link to my own advice in response to a problem I report... lol

mouser · « **Reply #18 on:** December 31, 2009, 12:25 AM »

New version (v1.03.01) uploaded with context menu to lookup a suggested word online.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #19 on:** December 31, 2009, 12:53 AM »

Works well.
I was expecting the web look-up to appear within FARR so it took me a few moments to wake up to the fact that another tab had appeared in my browser.
Be nice if one could choose the web look-up site.
Be nicer still if it would call my online OED
Be nice when the dictionary knows how to spell. At the moment it seems to use some strange tongue called... American!

The updater appears to have put this new version into a subfolder called FSubscript, while leaving the previous version in FarrSpell, which made for an entertaining few minutes.

mouser · « **Reply #20 on:** December 31, 2009, 12:56 AM »

yipes.. that's weird..

cranioscopical · « **Reply #21 on:** December 31, 2009, 01:01 AM »

Killed the FSubscript stuff, downloaded from your first-post link and extracted to FarrSpell -- no problem.

mouser · « **Reply #22 on:** December 31, 2009, 01:08 AM »

It would be helpful to me if you run the updater and right clicked on farrspell, and said to "install update" even though same version.
and see if the problem happens again -- it may have been because my initial release had a bad .dcupdate file.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #23 on:** December 31, 2009, 01:23 AM »

Done. No problem, issue didn't recur.
(Please note wish list in amended post above.)

mouser · « **Reply #24 on:** December 31, 2009, 01:34 AM »

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I was expecting the web look-up to appear within FARR so it took me a few moments to wake up to the fact that another tab had appeared in my browser.

that's why you can choose internal or web search.

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Be nice if one could choose the web look-up site.

agreed, i'll add this to advanced options.

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Be nice when the dictionary knows how to spell. At the moment it seems to use some strange tongue called... American!

readme points to additional dictionaries you can download and configure from advanced options, including some british dictionaries, etc.