[sylpheed:33864] Re: windows version question

[Bill Pratt]

This is excellent news. Can you provide specific instructions on how to implement spellchecking in Sylpheed using Windows XP?

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:15:43 +0200
melodramus at online.de wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:48:51 -0400
> Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hiro, is there anything we, as users, can do to help spur along
> > development of a version for windows that includes spell checking as a
> > built in feature (personally, I'm not interested in claws)?
> > 
> > Bruce
> > 
> > -- 
> > Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org>
> 
> forwared from gtkspell mailinglist:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 03:24,  <melodramus at online.de> wrote:
> > hello
> >
> > i'm asking this because there's no info on the website. enchant and gtk+ work on windows. does gtkspell work on windows too?
> 
> Yes it does work on Windows; Pidgin uses it.
> 
> Currently released versions of Pidgin use GtkSpell 2.0.11, which uses
> aspell directly instead of enchant.  There is a binary available for
> download here:
> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin/Pre2.7.0#GtkSpellAspell
> 
> The next minor version of Pidgin will use GtkSpell 2.0.16 and enchant.
>  There is a binary available for download here:
> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin#GtkSpell
> 
> Feel free to ask any specific implementation questions.
> 
> -D
> 
> 
> 
> MeloDramus <melodramus at online.de>
>