The spell check module seems to be belly up....

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John Case
Rookie Gardener
Veteran Drinker
'Circular logic works because circular logic works!'

You can turn it off in your profile

I really want it to work.....it makes me look like I can spell....and type!

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John Case
Rookie Gardener
Veteran Drinker
'Circular logic works because circular logic works!'

Go ahead and shut it off, you've prepared us with your 'Veteran Drinker' handle and we won't think twice about mis-spelled wurds

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Brad Salmon, zone 12B Kea'au, HI
http://www.needmorebamboo.com

I think the spelling cow is dead. I did not upgrade to V3 because it did not have custom dictionaries but they have not worked in this version for a while and now it is giving more errors. It will not allow me log in where the setup use to be so I cannot even check anything. On the spellingcow website the last update was almost two years ago.

It looks like when I upgrade the forum software I can install install a spell checker that is ran from this server and not rely on on another server like spelling cow.

Bill

but when I'm sober, the misspells actually hurt!

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John Case
Rookie Gardener
Veteran Drinker
'Circular logic works because circular logic works!'

Bill,

Is there anyway to include an option to use a word editor such as MS Word or WordPerfect to compose a message? I sometimes use the spelling cow, but more often just cut and paste into Word since I have added technical terms into that dictionary as they were picked up and checked.

Mike McG near Brenham TX

The new spell checker that I am looking at has a custom dictionary that we can add the spelling of the bamboo names and technical terms.

Bill

I don't know quite where the "spell checking" is coming from, but I'm using Firefox on a 7.5 year old Mac and this is how I spell check:

I type, and words that are automatically underlined in red, I click on the underlined word with my mouse, right click, and up pops a list of words to select from. There is a place to add the current spelling to the dictionary. Which "dictionary"? I'm not sure.

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Roy Rogers
Southern Tampania de la Floridana Universidad (STFU)
STFU Motto: All Bamboos are not Created Equal; @ STFU, the Search Continues
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ROY'S BAMBOO LIST

It's from Firefox. If you go Tools->Options->Advanced->General there is a toggle near the bottom that says "Check my spelling as I type".

Well then, there's a spell checker for everyone right there. I don't know whether Explorer has the same thing are not, as I don't use Explorer.

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Roy Rogers
Southern Tampania de la Floridana Universidad (STFU)
STFU Motto: All Bamboos are not Created Equal; @ STFU, the Search Continues
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ROY'S BAMBOO LIST

WOW thanks Roy. I have done computer repair for a lot of years and I had no idea about the right click option in Firefox. COO!!!

Well the "right click" option is a little more difficult on a Mac, but we know how to get it done.

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Roy Rogers
Southern Tampania de la Floridana Universidad (STFU)
STFU Motto: All Bamboos are not Created Equal; @ STFU, the Search Continues
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ROY'S BAMBOO LIST

Bill,
Have you checked to see if the cow works lately?
mad cow

From what I remembered their website was even down for a bit, but I might br wrong.

*edit: If not, you might not want to advertize for them in the footer.

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Rick

From their website it looks like the cow is still dead.

When I get time I will remove the link to their site but hopefully I can get everything ported over to phpbbV3 soon because I think I have found a spell checker that will work better.

Right now I have about 20 more auctions to set up.

Bill