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39 #include "nsISupports.idl"
41 interface nsIEditor;
42 interface nsITextServicesFilter;
44 [scriptable, uuid(90c93610-c116-44ab-9793-62dccb9f43ce)]
45 interface nsIEditorSpellCheck : nsISupports
48 /**
49 * Returns true if we can enable spellchecking. If there are no available
50 * dictionaries, this will return false.
52 boolean canSpellCheck();
54 /**
55 * Turns on the spell checker for the given editor. enableSelectionChecking
56 * set means that we only want to check the current selection in the editor,
57 * (this controls the behavior of GetNextMisspelledWord). For spellchecking
58 * clients with no modal UI (such as inline spellcheckers), this flag doesn't
59 * matter
61 void InitSpellChecker(in nsIEditor editor, in boolean enableSelectionChecking);
63 /**
64 * When interactively spell checking the document, this will return the
65 * value of the next word that is misspelled. This also computes the
66 * suggestions which you can get by calling GetSuggestedWord.
68 * @see nsISpellChecker::GetNextMisspelledWord
70 wstring GetNextMisspelledWord();
72 /**
73 * Used to get suggestions for the last word that was checked and found to
74 * be misspelled. The first call will give you the first (best) suggestion.
75 * Subsequent calls will iterate through all the suggestions, allowing you
76 * to build a list. When there are no more suggestions, an empty string
77 * (not a null pointer) will be returned.
79 * @see nsISpellChecker::GetSuggestedWord
81 wstring GetSuggestedWord();
83 /**
84 * Check a given word. In spite of the name, this function checks the word
85 * you give it, returning true if the word is misspelled. If the word is
86 * misspelled, it will compute the suggestions which you can get from
87 * GetSuggestedWord().
89 * @see nsISpellChecker::CheckCurrentWord
91 boolean CheckCurrentWord(in wstring suggestedWord);
93 /**
94 * Use when modally checking the document to replace a word.
96 * @see nsISpellChecker::CheckCurrentWord
98 void ReplaceWord(in wstring misspelledWord, in wstring replaceWord, in boolean allOccurrences);
101 * @see nsISpellChecker::IgnoreAll
103 void IgnoreWordAllOccurrences(in wstring word);
106 * Fills an internal list of words added to the personal dictionary. These
107 * words can be retrieved using GetPersonalDictionaryWord()
109 * @see nsISpellChecker::GetPersonalDictionary
110 * @see GetPersonalDictionaryWord
112 void GetPersonalDictionary();
115 * Used after you call GetPersonalDictionary() to iterate through all the
116 * words added to the personal dictionary. Will return the empty string when
117 * there are no more words.
119 wstring GetPersonalDictionaryWord();
122 * Adds a word to the current personal dictionary.
124 * @see nsISpellChecker::AddWordToDictionary
126 void AddWordToDictionary(in wstring word);
129 * Removes a word from the current personal dictionary.
131 * @see nsISpellChecker::RemoveWordFromPersonalDictionary
133 void RemoveWordFromDictionary(in wstring word);
136 * Retrieves a list of the currently available dictionaries. The strings will
137 * typically be language IDs, like "en-US".
139 * @see mozISpellCheckingEngine::GetDictionaryList
141 void GetDictionaryList([array, size_is(count)] out wstring dictionaryList, out PRUint32 count);
144 * @see nsISpellChecker::GetCurrentDictionary
146 wstring GetCurrentDictionary();
149 * @see nsISpellChecker::SetCurrentDictionary
151 void SetCurrentDictionary(in wstring dictionary);
154 * Call to save the currently selected dictionary as the default. The
155 * function UninitSpellChecker will also do this, but that function may not
156 * be called in some situations. This function allows the caller to force the
157 * default right now.
159 void saveDefaultDictionary();
162 * Call this to free up the spell checking object. It will also save the
163 * current selected language as the default for future use.
165 * If you have called CanSpellCheck but not InitSpellChecker, you can still
166 * call this function to clear the cached spell check object, and no
167 * preference saving will happen.
169 void UninitSpellChecker();
172 * Used to filter the content (for example, to skip blockquotes in email from
173 * spellchecking. Call this before calling InitSpellChecker; calling it
174 * after initialization will have no effect.
176 * @see nsITextServicesDocument::setFilter
178 void setFilter(in nsITextServicesFilter filter);
181 * Like CheckCurrentWord, checks the word you give it, returning true if it's
182 * misspelled. This is faster than CheckCurrentWord because it does not
183 * compute any suggestions.
185 * Watch out: this does not clear any suggestions left over from previous
186 * calls to CheckCurrentWord, so there may be suggestions, but they will be
187 * invalid.
189 boolean CheckCurrentWordNoSuggest(in wstring suggestedWord);