[Gambas-user] Textedit and Spell checking

[Benoit Minisini]

On samedi 29 mars 2008, Rob wrote:
> On Friday 28 March 2008 19:05, MaxVK wrote:
> > Firstly I am trying to pop open a modal window that will show a
> > list of the suggested words, and give options to replace etc.
> > However, I cant seem to work out where to put the code for this,
> > because if I show the modal window during the aspell_read routine
> > everything else is finished by the time I return to it. This means
> > I only get a chance to change one error word.
>
> Yeah, that's the bummer with asynchronous processing.  You could
> always write a temporary file with the text you want to check, then
> shell "aspell pipe <thatfile >anotherfile" and read anotherfile
> synchronously to display your modal dialog a bunch of times.
>
> > Secondly, the program never quits properly, so something is hanging
> > on when I exit, and I'm not sure what. Presumably I need to close
> > the link with aspell when the spelling routine has finished, but
> > I'm unsure how to do this.
>
> That's true, aspell will just sit there until you send it an
> end-of-file.  I don't know how to send an EOF to a process without
> closing it (which I assume closes it for input, not just output.)
> The temporary file approach would solve this too, awkward though it
> is.
>
> Rob
>

Just CLOSE it to send the EOF, as written in the documentation of the CLOSE 
instruction.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini