libspelling

A spellcheck library for GTK 4.

This library is heavily based upon GNOME Text Editor and GNOME Builder's spellcheck implementation. However, it is licensed LGPLv2.1+.

Documentation

Our documentation is updated on every commit.

Example

In C

SpellingChecker *checker = spelling_checker_get_default ();
g_autoptr(SpellingTextBufferAdapter) adapter = spelling_text_buffer_adapter_new (source_buffer, checker);
GMenuModel *extra_menu = spelling_text_buffer_adapter_get_menu_model (adapter);

gtk_text_view_set_extra_menu (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (source_view), extra_menu);
gtk_widget_insert_action_group (GTK_WIDGET (source_view), "spelling", G_ACTION_GROUP (adapter));
spelling_text_buffer_adapter_set_enabled (adapter, TRUE);

In Python

from gi.repository import Spelling

checker = Spelling.Checker.get_default()
adapter = Spelling.TextBufferAdapter.new(buffer, checker)
extra_menu = adapter.get_menu_model()

view.set_extra_menu(extra_menu)
view.insert_action_group('spelling', adapter)

adapter.set_enabled(True)

In JavaScript

const Spelling = imports.gi.Spelling;

let checker = Spelling.Checker.get_default()
let adapter = Spelling.TextBufferAdapter.new(buffer, checker)
let extra_menu = adapter.get_menu_model()

view.set_extra_menu(extra_menu)
view.insert_action_group('spelling', adapter)

adapter.set_enabled(true)

In Rust

Add the bindings dependency to your Cargo.toml

let checker = libspelling:::Checker::default();
let adapter = libspelling::TextBufferAdapter::new(&buffer, &checker);
let extra_menu = adapter.menu_model();

view.set_extra_menu(Some(&extra_menu));
view.insert_action_group("spelling", Some(&adapter));

adapter.set_enabled(true);