Recently Adobe launched a new component: Squiggly. What is Squiggly? As they are saying…
Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR®. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control.
Worth mentioning that the distribution package consists of a utility for building your own spelling dictionaries, a sample English dictionary, an Action Script package that checks individual words for spelling accuracy and sample code that demonstrates it (demo available here).
The included user interface class requires the Flex SDK but the core spell checking engine can be used in Flash applications without the Flex framework.
Adobe’s new spell checking component comes a long time after Grant Skinner has already released a check spelling commercial component called Spelling Plus Library. This may end the lifeline of Grant Skinner SPL product but keeping in mind that Adobe doesn’t offer a service but only a component the SPL may live by being sold as a service offering access to updated language dictionaries if Grant will wish to do it. You can read more here. Any way I think Adobe did a great thing offering this tool for free because, in my opinion, the prices of Grant’s SPL are a bit to high.
Having this said I wish both SPL and Squiggly a long live.
Tags: Adobe, adobe labs, spell checker, squiggly
This post was written by Andrei Ionescu
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Grant’s SPL lib is worth the price! I needed a spell checking lib for a huge project and it would have taken my team probably a good few weeks to put out a half decent spell checking lib. We actually saved quite a bit of money with going with the SPL package.
-Dan
Dan, thanks for your comment. It would be great for the community to know the things that determined you to choose Grant’s SPL over other available spell checkers – some found even on flashden.net at a very low cost (http://flashden.net/searches?term=spell+check&type=files). Also some details about your big project will be wonderful, details like: start date, needed time of development, if you worked in team how many members, etc.
Thank you.
the spell checking flash component is really something. it’s really must have thing for some big projects to work on.
thanks to Andrei for sharing the link for spell checkers.