New on Adobe Labs: Squiggly – spell checking engine for Flash Player and AIR

by Serge Jespers on 22. Sep, 2009 in Flash Builder, Flex, adobe, labs

One of the most requested features for both Flash Player and AIR is definitely a spell checker. Grant Skinner released a spell check engine about 2 years ago and it has been used in number of different applications. While it was totally worth the cost, I did hear from some people that they thought this was an expensive solution. Adobe also recognized the need for a spell check solution for Flash Player and AIR and a small team has been working on this for a while.

Today Adobe released a first preview version of Squiggly. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control. The distribution package consists of a utility for building your own spelling dictionaries, a sample English dictionary, an ActionScript package that checks individual words for spelling accuracy, and sample code that demonstrates “check as you type” functionality [demo]. At the moment the library only supports English but the team has promised to address this limitation in a future release.

Links:
Squiggly on Labs
Download Squiggly
Download Squiggly ASDoc
Squiggly forum

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17 Responses to “New on Adobe Labs: Squiggly – spell checking engine for Flash Player and AIR”

  1. Mathieu 22. Sep, 2009 at 9:37 am #

    humm so good !

  2. Sönke Rohde 22. Sep, 2009 at 10:31 am #

    any chance this also works in Flex 4 with spark text components?

  3. Pradeek 22. Sep, 2009 at 11:53 am #

    License?

  4. Anonymos coward 22. Sep, 2009 at 5:46 pm #

    Localize locally, cash in globally? For such a big company it’s a shame they cannot support the handful of most used global languages. Microsoft is clearly ahead in this area. It’s also sad that Flex only has localizations for US and JP. Is it sheer arrogance, lack of money, or just yankeeism? I guess it will take a very long time (forever?) until we see more langages supported. I am getting tired of the many half baked stuff that comes out of Adobe. Better focus on quality instead of features for a while, please.

  5. Noela Nakos 24. Sep, 2009 at 8:01 pm #

    The spelling engine should work with Flex 4. The UI components were not built for Flex 4 spark text components. It is however, in Squiggly’s short term plans to enhance the solution for Flex 4 with spark text components.

  6. Noela Nakos 30. Sep, 2009 at 5:57 pm #

    I am sorry to hear the “Anonymos” view on Adobe’s efforts to address a global market. We are indeed committed to deliver high quality products to a global audience. We are currently working very diligently towards bringing support for as many languages as possible for our spellchecking solution. The first release of Squiggly was simply a pre-release. It would help us better serve our customers if we know their requirements. Would you mind sharing the markets that you are trying to address using Flex?

  7. Ankush 07. Oct, 2009 at 1:46 pm #

    Hi….
    This library is pretty good… Any suggestions for Adding new words to dictionary?

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