Text editors

Hi all,

after following the discussion I have tried it myself and I think I found the solution - for the windows environment that is.

There are several step that have to be taken:

1. Install aspell under the root - c:\aspell is fine
2. Change the editor settings as an administrator the following way:
    -aspell path = c:\aspell\bin\
    that last part is essential - and don't forget the backslash
3. Then the source code has to be changed since there is a bug in it
    -open the editor.php source in the directory admin and look for the following         piece of code:
=======================================================================
    global $CFG;

    $cmd          = $CFG->aspellpath;
    $output       = '';
    $dictionaries = array();
    $dicts        = array();

    if(!($handle = @popen(escapeshellarg($cmd) .'dump dicts', 'r'))) {
        return $strerror = "Couldn't create handle!";
        exit;
    }
the coloured line holds the error. The programmer tries to execute the command dump dicts. That however is no command. It is the parameter that has to be passed on to the program aspell.exe so - this line must read

    if(!($handle = @popen(escapeshellarg($cmd) .'aspell dump dicts', 'r'))) {
        return $strerror = "Couldn't create handle!";
        exit;
    }
=======================================================================
Now you can choose the present dictionary in the editor settings AND it works again in the editor itself.

Try it yourself

Cheers

Frank