500606 - Inline spellchecker ignores new spellchecker API

Status: ASSIGNED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090620 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090625 Shredder/3.0b3pre

MozZemberek Spell checking extension for Turkish, which uses new API and register itself as "spell-check-engine" can be used via Check Spelling dialog, but not availabe via inline spell checking.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get MozZemberek from 
http://zemberek.googlecode.com/files/mozzemberek-0.1.4.tar.gz
2. Compile, install
3. Compose a new message.
Actual Results:  
Turkish can be selected in Check Spelling dialog, but avalable in compose window main toolbar dropdown (see attached screenshot)

Expected Results:  
Turkish should be available in main toolbar dropdown and inline spell checker.

MozZemberek works very smoth with Firefox 3.x inline spell checker.

Comment 1

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

Attachment: Combined screenshot

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)

> MozZemberek Spell checking extension for Turkish, which uses new API and
> register itself as "spell-check-engine" can be used via Check Spelling dialog,
> but not availabe via inline spell checking.

I assume you mean a new gecko API ?

Comment 3

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

> I assume you mean a new gecko API ?

Yes, exactly.

class mozZemberek : public mozISpellCheckingEngine,
                   public nsIObserver,
                   public nsSupportsWeakReference

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

rail, does this work for you with current trunk?
 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central-trunk/

Comment 5

[Thomas Schmid]

this seem to be a duplicate of Bug 522047

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

confirmed issue then ??

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.

Comment 9

[Max Emig [:maxe]]

Well, this is real and will prevent us from benefitting from alternative spell checkers like for example the proposal in bug 86886.

Comment 10

[Max Emig [:maxe]]

Attachment: Bug 500606 - Surface external spell-check engine dictionaries in compose language lists. r=#thunderbird-back-end-reviewers