How to enable spellchecker?

[DiapDealer]

It's not possible for a dialog to be able to be automatically positioned so as not to cover a specific word in a dialog underneath.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by Shohreh

Suggestion for the Spellcheck dialog: If need be, display it so that the user doesn't have to move it to see the word underneath

Once the dialog is open you can move it over to the side/other monitor/etc so it isn't covering the CV window... then you can double click on any word in the list without having the dialog cover any.

[KevinH]

And you can shrink the size of the Dialog.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Shohreh

Suggestion for the Spellcheck dialog: If need be, display it so that the user doesn't have to move it to see the word underneath

We have no clue on what size monitor or window size or where the word is in the line, making dialog placement probably wrong anyway.
BTW the dialog is also resizable.
I have mine on my second monitor, (Sigil remembers where it was from a previous session) so it never overlays.
You might find an ancient 1024x768 LCD at a thrift store for very little $ if you want another display. There are USB video cards (modules) if you don't have an extra video port. For Sigil, you do not need FAST.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Shohreh

Suggestion for the Spellcheck dialog: If need be, display it so that the user doesn't have to move it to see the word underneath

I interpret the earlier reply from Kevin as something that would address this issue

Originally Posted by KevinH

I will add a keyboard only way to make the Spellcheck Dialog show context for the currently selected word to my to-do list for a future Sigil release as that would help keyboard centric users and those with Accessibility issues with a mouse.

So something like this:



Afterthought: make the Spellcheck Dialogue window dockable, e.g. in the same dock as most have Preview.

BR

[KevinH]

No, I was suggesting a keysequence that would do the same as a double-click does. That is all. The actual context depends on word list order as the word double-clicked on is searched for its first occurrence in CV.

So far I do not think any change is needed in the SpellCheck Dialog. And making yet another QDockWidget is not in the cards. The QDockWidget interface in the MainWindow is overly cluttered now in my opinion.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by KevinH

No, I was suggesting a keysequence that would do the same as a double-click does. That is all. The actual context depends on word list order as the word double-clicked on is searched for its first

I don't doubleclick unless I have to, but what would the new keysequence do that F3 doesn't already do?

BR

[KevinH]

F3 does nothing as far as I can tell, at least on my mac. I have to doubleclick on a word in the wordlist in Spellcheck to get CV to find the word and show its context.

From the SpellCheck Dialog code:

  connect(ui.SpellcheckEditorTree, SIGNAL(doubleClicked(const QModelIndex &)),
            this,         SLOT(FindSelectedWord())

I was going to add a key sequence to do the same thing but if one already exists, that works to.

But according to the code the only only place to get that is from the popup context menu but that requires a right mouse click as well.

Are you sure we are talking about the same thing?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by KevinH

F3 does nothing as far as I can tell, at least on my mac. I have to doubleclick on a word in the wordlist in Spellcheck to get CV to find the word and show its context.

From the SpellCheck Dialog code:

  connect(ui.SpellcheckEditorTree, SIGNAL(doubleClicked(const QModelIndex &)),
            this,         SLOT(FindSelectedWord())

I was going to add a key sequence to do the same thing but if one already exists, that works to.

But according to the code the only only place to get that is from the popup context menu but that requires a right mouse click as well.

Are you sure we are talking about the same thing?

Sure as I can be

I have installed 2.3.1 and I've restored the default settings.

F3 appears to be hard coded into the spell checker (along with F1 and F2)



Note the lack of a key sequence for Select all - however Ctrl+A does work, as does Ctrl+C.

Here are the default short cuts I see, where F3 is Go to link or style.



Added: If it's of any interest the calibre editor spellchecker uses the Enter key to cycle through the occurrences of a misspelt word - seems quite effective.

BR

[KevinH]

Huh? That is only available in the right click context pop-up menu. To use it you should have to have the pop-up menu open. If it works for you without a pop-up menu open first it really should not. It should be creating that context menu on the fly when a right click is done and tearing it down afterwards. Any connections of actions/signals to slots should happen only when built on the fly and then torn down when the context menu is closed.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Note the lack of a key sequence for Select all - however Ctrl+A does work, as does Ctrl+C.

Ctrl+A is the default Windows "Select All" shortcut (and Ctrl+C will always be Copy). Sigil's shortcuts rarely succeed in overriding (or eliminating) those.

[KevinH]

Okay, my bad. I tested using my laptop which has the damn active key area instead of real function keys. Hitting "F3" did nothing without me finding and hitting the "fn" key as well in the bottom left hand corner.

Yes repeated use of F3 (or double-clicking) will in fact show you a sequence of matches all in a row if the same misspelled word is used multiple times in a document.

So I guess there is nothing to do here at all - other than maybe document that the context menu is only built once here and is not dynamic- - which means those shortcuts are always active.

[BetterRed]

At first I assumed F3 worked because I have F3 assigned to Find Next in Preferences.

It was only when I restored the default settings and discovered F3 still worked that I pressed the AppMenu key that I saw that context menu, and then deduced it was hard coded. So, it was happenstance that F3 to Find next occurrence of a misspelling made sense to me. F1 and F2 to Ignore and Add to dictionary make no sense at all…

I have the F1 key disabled to prevent me pressing it at all, and I have F2 assigned to Book browser Rename.

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Bug: Tabbing in Preferences->Shortcuts never lands on the Assign or Remove buttons, tabbing out of the Shortcut field lands on Find.

Deficiency: there's no way to find next occurrence using the keyboard in the Reports lists, double click is the only way… Enter key would work well here.

FWIW As I posted previously the calibre editor uses Enter in its Spell checker to find next occurrence of a misspelling, but it doesn't use it in its Reports… have to double click there too Ψ

BR

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Bug: Tabbing in Preferences->Shortcuts never lands on the Assign or Remove buttons, tabbing out of the Shortcut field lands on Find.

Deficiency: there's no way to find next occurrence using the keyboard in the Reports lists, double click is the only way… Enter key would work well here.

BR

You have to have an established shortcut highlighted for the remove button to be enabled and to get Tab Focus, and the shortcut field must have a shortcut ready to assign for the Assign button to be enabled and get tab focus.

And for the Reports Widgets, what exactly are you finding and in which specific report?

[BetterRed]

IMO: Because the Spellcheck dialogue is non-modal, i.e. the user can access the Main window and use the shortcuts assigned in Preferences. The use of the same keysequences to do totally different things in Spellchecker is just plain wrong. If it was modal it would only be borderline acceptable.

That said, I appreciate why the developers would be reluctant to change it, but I do wonder how many users make use of those hard coded shortcuts. If it were me I'd keep the context menu, but get rid of hard coded shortcuts except for Find in Text which I'd make Enter. And if it's doable, I'd make provision for a user assigned shortcuts in Preferences for Ignore and Add to user dictionary. But, I for one wouldn't assign anything to them… I'd use the AppMenu and arrow keys.

BR