Spell Checking in KDE4 (KSpell2)

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 00:19, heiko.evermann at gmx.de wrote:
> Hi Zack, hi everyone,
> 
> after reading some code from kspell.cpp, I am a bit astonished. 
> The code looks as if over several years several people put their hacks in. 

Nobody disagrees on that. I think we're all for ditching the old kspell (kspell-1 if I may call it)
in KDE 4. Are you confusing kspell and kspell2?

> My original problem was a lot different: I wanted words that are unknown to be 
> rendered in red even when the spell checker has no suggestions, but only 
> knows that the word is wrong. All the code is so complicated that I would 
> have to spend hours just to find where to twist KSpell. 

Works fine, and is very easy to do, with kspell2.

Please disregard kspell's code, and look into kspell2 instead, it's the clean one :)

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).