spell check language change

In article <47ade872$0$12642$3b214f66@usenet.univie.ac.at>,
Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth DeleteThis @univie.ac.at> wrote:

> I would like to have an item on the application which allows me to
> change the language for spell checking quickly instead of going through
> the edit-spelling menu. Does anybody know if there is a utility doing
> this. This should probably not be too hard with AppleScript.

Right click (or control click) on a text input area and you will get a
contextual menu. Pick Spelling and you'll get the dialogue.

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I had one word wrong, and that made the question unsmart ;-)

thats what it should me
I would like to have an item on any application which allows me to
change the language for spell checking quickly instead of going through
the edit-spelling menu. Does anybody know if there is a utility doing
this. This should probably not be too hard with AppleScript.

What I would like is a menu item similar to the keyboard layout
switching icon on the right end of the application menu bar.


Jolly Roger wrote:
> In article <47ade872$0$12642$3b214f66@usenet.univie.ac.at>,
> Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth.TakeThisOut@univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> I would like to have an item on the application which allows me to
>
> Which application?
>
> Pleas read:
> <http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
>
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In article <47b2e5a8$0$11610$3b214f66@usenet.univie.ac.at>,
Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth RemoveThis @univie.ac.at> wrote:

> I had one word wrong, and that made the question unsmart ;-)

Ah ok. I see now.

> thats what it should me
> I would like to have an item on any application which allows me to
> change the language for spell checking quickly instead of going through
> the edit-spelling menu. Does anybody know if there is a utility doing
> this. This should probably not be too hard with AppleScript.

No, AppleScript isn't the right tool for this job.

> What I would like is a menu item similar to the keyboard layout
> switching icon on the right end of the application menu bar.

Unfortunately, Mac OS X currently does not have a system-wide spelling
checker - at least not in the sense of what you want. It is left to
individual application developers to implement spell checking in their
applications. Some use standard facilities offered by Mac OS X Cocoa
frameworks, while others use their own proprietary implementation.

What I think you want is a system-wide spell checker. There are some
available - IIRC, one of the better ones is SpellCatcher:

<http://www.rainmakerinc.com/>

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Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth.TakeThisOut@univie.ac.at> wrote:

> I would like to have an item on the application which allows me to
> change the language for spell checking quickly instead of going through
> the edit-spelling menu.

the closest thing I see is to activate a multilingual spellcheck, but
while I do have this running on my intel-based machine, it seems the
extra control panel that I used to choose this initially is now banned
for not being intel-compiled. I can't even see where I got it from.

If you are interested and cannot find a way to set it, just react and
I'll try archeologic searches.

H.

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