On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:17:48PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Nicolas Montgermont hat gesagt: // Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
Has anybody developped a way to check the existence of a word in a given dictionnary? As a basis, I was looking at the aspell command line spell checking tool : http://aspell.net/ This is well suited, but it will need to use the shell object and I'm working under OSX, so I'm not sure of it's long term stability. Aspell can be used as a lib also, so i was wondering if anyone has ever developped an external based on it? Or has anyone some other ideas to do that?
You could use Lua instead. It's like [shell] on steroids, if you employ something like "io.popen" like this:
word = get_word_from_inlet() cmd = "aspell -c " .. word p = assert(io.popen(cmd)) result = p:read("*all")
Lua is trivial to build on OS-X. I just did it and I'm a complete OS-X idiot. Here's how: You check out pdlua from goto10 subversion, edit Makefile.static to let it find m_pd.h and build for OS-X ("PLATFORM = macosx"), then do "make -f Makefile.static" while connected to the net to let make download and build Lua for you and that's it. OS-X seems to come with everything needed.
Hi Frank,
Did you have to install the XCode developer kit (or whatever it's called) to do this? Or is there a built in compiler? What version of OSX is it?
Thx for the help, sorry for the OT!
Chris.