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Misspelled

 
Project Updated:
Files Updated: Wed, Feb 3 2010
Supports Game Version: 3.3.0
Category: Chat & Communication
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Project Manager: nrpieper
Additional Authors: No additional authors
Current Version: r48
License: GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
Development Site: WowAce.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 61
Downloads Total: 20,416
Favorites: 70
Comments: 57
  • About Misspelled
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Misspelled is a Wow chat spell-checker. It watches chat messages you type, highlighting misspellings. Misspelled words may be right clicked to obtain a list of replacement suggestions.

Misspelled Screen Shot

Misspelled utilizes the HunSpell style, affix (prefix/suffix) compressed dictionaries. The same ones used in Chrome, Firefox, and OpenOffice. Misspelled provides suggestions based on words that phonetically sound like the misspelled word, along with suggestions based on common mistakes of spelling.

I've included in the US English dictionary some Warcraft specific proper nouns, including the zone names, and all Wrath dungeon and raid boss names. Your friends and guild members are also automatically added.

Misspelled includes dictionaries for US-English, UK-English, French, German, and Spanish. The appropriate dictionary, for your game client locale, will auto-load, or you can manually choose what dictionary to use from Misspelled's Interface/Addons options page.

Misspelled works with WIM (Wow Instant Messenger), and is compatible with: Prat, Skinner, Linerator and Chatter.

Note: The last word in the chat box, isn't spell checked until you type some form of word terminator, either a period, space, or some other word separating punctionation. Spell checking is very fast; but I don't want to check unneedlessly. I don't spell check the last word on a line, until it looks like your finished typing that word.

Official Distribution Points
Curse: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/misspelled.aspx
WowInterface: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13493-Misspelled.html
WowUI: http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=6944

Change Log:

  • v1.4.02-r48 - Corrected a typo in the .toc file. The addon Title entry was mistakenly mistyped. "Mispelled" was changed to "Misspelled". Changing the title, may re-enable the addon, where it has been explicitly disabled.
  • v1.4.01-r47 - Added a UK English (enGB) dictionary. Those wanting to use this dictionary, should uncheck the auto-dictionary selection option, and select the enGB option, then reload. Like the other Misspelled dictionaries, this one was derived from the enGB dictionary included in Openoffice & Chromium. Included in this dictionary are the Wow proper nouns I included in the US English dictionary, including zone names, raid boss names, and a few other Warcraft specific words. Due to the similarity to US English, the suggestion engine uses the same phonetic rules for both dictionaries.
  • r46 - TOC updated for patch 3.3
  • r45 - Added UI to show, and allow deletes, of words added to user dictionary. You'll find the "Edit Dictionary..." button, in the Interface/Options area. Reminder: you can add words to your user dictionary, by right-clicking a misspelled word, and clicking, "Add to Dictionary"
  • r42 - Beta release for PTR Patch 3.3. Misspelled is fully compatible with the current PTR. This beta release contains only a TOC bump, and no other changes. I'll leave this release flagged as beta until patch 3.3 is released and I can perform final testing.
  • r41 - Fixed a version number typo.
  • r40 - Modified a hook to WIM, needed to remove the highlighting of misspelled words, prior to sending a chat message to the server. The author of WIM is due to add a specific API, just for this purpose, in the next release.
    Added the following words to the US English dictionary (includes some proper nouns from the patch 3.3 PTR): Frostwing, Sindragosa, Baine, San'layn, Bronzebeard, Valanar, Doomguard, Saurfang, Plagueworks, Highlord, Tirion, Valithria, runeblade, Fordring, Muradin, Putricide, Deathwhisper, Hippogryph, Bloodhoof, Lich, Frostmourne, Wrynn, Marrowgar, wyrm, Skybreaker, undeath, Orgrim's, Dreamwalker, Shadowfiend, Mograine, Darion, Lana'thel
  • r39 - Added 77 additional words to the US English dictionary. (Patch 3.2 instance boss names)
  • r38 - Ready for patch 3.2. Updated .toc file for patch 3.2
  • r37 - Replaced French dictionary with the one used in Chromium. I included the additional words Chromium added.
    http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/hunspell/dictionaries/ (fr_FR.dic_delta)
    Fixed a typo/bug in the UTF8 section of RemovePrefix. This was causing words to be flagged as misspelled, if you were using one of the UTF8 (non-English) dictionaries and the word contained one of the affix compressed prefixes, even though the word was spelled correctly.
  • r36 - Added a French dictionary.
  • r35 - Hopefully fixed the issue that was crashing client.
    Hooked ChatThrottleLib:SendChatMessage so I can clean any misspelled highlighted words before the message is sent.
  • r34 - Misspelled now adds spell-checking to WIM chat windows. Please report any issues you have with this new feature.
  • r33 - Guild member and friends player names phonetic codes were always being generated using the US English phonetic code routine. The generic phonetic code is now used for German and Spanish. Locals added for ipairs and pairs, to WordDict.lua, to increased speed.
  • r32 - Added 642 new base words to the US English dictionary. See the change-log for more info.
  • r31 - Fix an error occurring for new users that were not using a prior version and didn't have a savedVariables Misspelled.lua file.
  • r30 - Spanish (esES) dictionary support added.
    There is a new interface options page, that allows you to manually select a dictionary to load.
    Fewer and better suggestions returned for misspelled words.
    UTF8 multi-byte character encodings support added.
  • r25-r27 Capitalized misspelled words will stay capitalized after selecting a replacement suggestion. Long term I want to detect the beginning of a sentence, so I can correct incorrect Capitalization. For now this change should help.
    Added these characters to the list of word separators: "(", ")", ";"
    The Suggestion ranking EditDistance method's substitution cost, is now case insensitive.
  • r24 - Changed the misspelled highlighting to a medium-cyan-ish color. Hopefully this will make it easier to see misspelled words in all the common channels: Say, Party, Raid, Guild, Whisper, Trade, Yell
  • r23 - Added Ace3 OptionDep tag to the .toc, so the addon would properly load for those running without libs embedded.
  • r22 - Now uses AceEvent to replace the hidden frame and OnEvent hook needed to load guild members.
    Added the "words" LFG and LFM to the US English dictionary.
    When a suggestion is selected to replace a given misspelled word (or Ignore or Add to Dic. was selected), the cursor was positioned at end of the replaced word. Now, if there is a space after that word, the cursor is positioned to the right of that space. This should reduce the spell-checking needed when the only character on the line, to the right of a cursor, is a space.
  • r21 - Changed some of the frame xlm code, to hopefully hide a phantom dropdown frame that was being reported showing up.
  • r20 - A German dictionary has been added and will load if you are using the German client.
    Note: No Warcraft specific proper nouns have been included in the German dictionary.
    Did some work to help ensure Misspelled's compatability with other chat addons.
    Various speed improvements.
  • r19 - Fix for errors reported loading friends player names into the dictionary.
  • r18 - Reduced memory needed to store the dictionary in half. Affix keys and phonetic codes are no longer stored using subtables. Memory usage went from 11.6Mb to 5.7Mb
    The user dictionary storage format was changed to match the, updated, in memory dictionary storage format. Any existing user dictionaries will be converted the first time you load r18.
    Improved the suggestions generation, especially when the word contains a capital letter.
    Maximum number of suggestions returned is now 8, not 10.
  • r17 - No UI or functionality changes. Made some parts of the code more efficient.
  • r16 -
    Maximum suggestions increased to 10
    Fixed an error where words in all CAPS, or words that contained numbers were throwing a Lua error.
    Fixed the chat edit cursor position so it moves naturally as you perform edits in and around misspelled highlighted words. Wow this was a lot of work. Did you know you can crash Wow, with an invalid cursor position!
    Fixed a problem where the spell checking routine was firing twice, if it found a misspelled word.
    More code cleanup. There shouldn't be any remaining, non reachable code.
    We're getting very near release quality!
  • r15 - The Misspelled word suggestions pop-up dialog now takes up less space. And a "Cancel" option was added to the bottom of the pop-up.
    Guild members weren't always loading. The loading guild members routine is now delayed until the first ChatEditBox_OnTextChanged event. I wasn't always getting guild member info during addon loading.
  • r14 - Fixed error loading guild members
  • r13 - Your friends and guild roster are now, upon zone-in, added to the list of correctly spelled words. Suggestions that match a friend or guild member player name are flagged with either (Friend) or (Guild), in the suggestions right-click pop-up. Lots of cleanup and remarks added to the code. Fixed cases where editing near the boundary of a highlighted misspelled word would mangle color tag information leaving only partial color tags. Started implementing routines to correctly set the cursor position when the chat text is changed by Misspelled. More work is still needed here.
  • r11 - Fixed an error that occurred when adding a word to the user dictionary.
  • r10 - Debug print statements turned off, fixes related to clearing cached information about the current chat text.
  • r09 - Fixes for Chatter
  • r07 - Added Wrath dungeon and raid boss names to the standard Dictionary, along with the words: Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, mana, and Warcraft
  • r06 - Fixes problems with embedded links.
  • r05 - "Ignore All" and "Add to User Dictionary" features implemented.

-Nate

  • Downloads (6)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  Misspelled r48 Release 3.3.0 560 2/3/2010
  Misspelled r47 Release 3.3.0 1,282 1/13/2010
  Misspelled r46 Release 3.3.0 2,363 12/8/2009
  Misspelled r45 Release 3.2.0 391 12/6/2009
  Misspelled r42 Beta 3.3.0 286 11/15/2009
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  • tinyorc said

    nice addon i like it but now my only problem is my grammar can ya make a addon for that i think u mite make people on wow smarter lol or makeing sense ya it would be cool

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  • nrpieper said

    Adding a grammar checker is a feature I've given significant thought to. I"m sorry to say that it's probably not something I'll ever get around to implementing. The grammar analysis isn't overly complicated, or CPU intensive. I just don't know how you could display a given grammar error, in some usefully way, with the limitations on the wow edit boxes. Having spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes in different colored text would just be messy.

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  • It's highly possible it's on purpose, but in the TOC file, and thus on the addon list, Misspelled is misspelled.
    Either way, great addon that helps me catch my clumsy typing. Thank you.

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  • nrpieper said

    Release r48 corrects the typo. Thanks for reporting it.

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  • Oh my god... if this works, you are my bestest friend ever.

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  • nrpieper said

    If you like it spread the word. :)

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  • I am wondering if you can make this work with PhanxChat? It's here at http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/phanxchat.aspx. Thank you

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  • nrpieper said

    I'll look into it, and see what I can do.

    -Nate

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  • u should throw in color options for misspelled words. i know wow can change your text but i dont wanna go through all that trouble. just an idea.

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  • nrpieper said

    Rather a sticky problem here: The default UI uses quite a large list of different color hues in chat. Linked items quality, professions, quests & achievements, channel colors (whisper/party/raid/guild/say/yell/general/XP). The only color hue I could locate that wasn't in common use was light-blue/cyan. Even that color is now kind-of in use, with patch 3.3 party-leader chat messages.

    Bottom line, if I added the ability to change the color for misspelled words, whatever color you choose may, sometimes, be the very near the same color as some other colored chat text.

    At least for now, the color I've chosen is the best compromise I could come up with.

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  • Viper23rd said

    Are you still planning to add a UK dictionary to your addon? I'm dying to try it but I don't want to be corrected when I type things like 'colour'.

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  • nrpieper said

    The latest release, r47, includes a UK-English (enGB) dictionary.

    Enjoy.

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  • nrpieper said

    Thanks for the poke in the rib. I've started pulling together the enGB dictionary. Hopefully it'll be tested and ready to deploy within a week. Some UK words contain Unicode characters, so Misspelled will have to use the slower Unicode search routines with this dictionary. I'm also including the same list of Warcraft proper nouns I added to the US English dictionary.

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  • Is it just me, or is there no way to remove a word that was accidentally added to your custom dictionary, short of editing the saved variable file?

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  • nrpieper said

    Release r45 includes new UI to show, and allow deletes, of words added to user dictionary.

    -Nate

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  • nrpieper said

    Your correct. I'll start working on a feature to allow the users custom dictionary to be edited.

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  • joseph3114 said

    I love this addon

    Thank you!

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  • TyGamer said

    Can you add a feature to add a word a suggestion to the dictionary or remove? That would be very helpful for when the word you want isnt in there along with making it customizeable for the people who can want to add words that arnt in there. Please send me a message. Thanks

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  • nrpieper said

    When you right-click a misspelled word, you can choose to add it to your personal dictionary. Words added to your personal dictionary are never again flagged as misspelled. Your personal dictionary is saved, each time you logout, and is unique per account. You have the same personal dictionary across all your characters. Personal dictionary location: <wow game folder>\wtf\Account\<account name>\SavedVariables\Misspelled.lua.

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  • Since I started playing wow I've been wishing for a spellchecker. thank you.

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