gecko-dev/editor/idl/nsIEditorSpellCheck.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIEditor;
interface nsITextServicesFilter;

[scriptable, uuid(334946c3-0e93-4aac-b662-e1b56f95d68b)]
interface nsIEditorSpellCheck : nsISupports
{

  /**
   * Call this on any change in installed dictionaries to ensure that the spell
   * checker is not using a current dictionary which is no longer available.
   * If the current dictionary is no longer available, then pick another one.
   */
  void checkCurrentDictionary();

 /**
   * Returns true if we can enable spellchecking. If there are no available
   * dictionaries, this will return false.
   */
  boolean       canSpellCheck();

  /**
   * Turns on the spell checker for the given editor. enableSelectionChecking
   * set means that we only want to check the current selection in the editor,
   * (this controls the behavior of GetNextMisspelledWord). For spellchecking
   * clients with no modal UI (such as inline spellcheckers), this flag doesn't
   * matter
   */
  void          InitSpellChecker(in nsIEditor editor, in boolean enableSelectionChecking);

  /**
   * When interactively spell checking the document, this will return the
   * value of the next word that is misspelled. This also computes the
   * suggestions which you can get by calling GetSuggestedWord.
   *
   * @see nsISpellChecker::GetNextMisspelledWord
   */
  wstring       GetNextMisspelledWord();

  /**
   * Used to get suggestions for the last word that was checked and found to
   * be misspelled. The first call will give you the first (best) suggestion.
   * Subsequent calls will iterate through all the suggestions, allowing you
   * to build a list. When there are no more suggestions, an empty string
   * (not a null pointer) will be returned.
   *
   * @see nsISpellChecker::GetSuggestedWord
   */
  wstring       GetSuggestedWord();

  /**
   * Check a given word. In spite of the name, this function checks the word
   * you give it, returning true if the word is misspelled. If the word is
   * misspelled, it will compute the suggestions which you can get from
   * GetSuggestedWord().
   *
   * @see nsISpellChecker::CheckCurrentWord
   */
  boolean       CheckCurrentWord(in wstring suggestedWord);

  /**
   * Use when modally checking the document to replace a word.
   *
   * @see nsISpellChecker::CheckCurrentWord
   */
  void          ReplaceWord(in wstring misspelledWord, in wstring replaceWord, in boolean allOccurrences);

  /**
   * @see nsISpellChecker::IgnoreAll
   */
  void          IgnoreWordAllOccurrences(in wstring word);

  /**
   * Fills an internal list of words added to the personal dictionary. These
   * words can be retrieved using GetPersonalDictionaryWord()
   *
   * @see nsISpellChecker::GetPersonalDictionary
   * @see GetPersonalDictionaryWord
   */
  void          GetPersonalDictionary();

  /**
   * Used after you call GetPersonalDictionary() to iterate through all the
   * words added to the personal dictionary. Will return the empty string when
   * there are no more words.
   */
  wstring       GetPersonalDictionaryWord();

  /**
   * Adds a word to the current personal dictionary.
   *
   * @see nsISpellChecker::AddWordToDictionary
   */
  void          AddWordToDictionary(in wstring word);

  /**
   * Removes a word from the current personal dictionary.
   *
   * @see nsISpellChecker::RemoveWordFromPersonalDictionary
   */
  void          RemoveWordFromDictionary(in wstring word);

  /**
   * Retrieves a list of the currently available dictionaries. The strings will
   * typically be language IDs, like "en-US".
   *
   * @see mozISpellCheckingEngine::GetDictionaryList
   */
  void          GetDictionaryList([array, size_is(count)] out wstring dictionaryList, out PRUint32 count);

  /**
   * @see nsISpellChecker::GetCurrentDictionary
   */
  AString       GetCurrentDictionary();

  /**
   * @see nsISpellChecker::SetCurrentDictionary
   */
  void          SetCurrentDictionary(in AString dictionary);

  /**
   * Call this to free up the spell checking object. It will also save the
   * current selected language as the default for future use.
   *
   * If you have called CanSpellCheck but not InitSpellChecker, you can still
   * call this function to clear the cached spell check object, and no
   * preference saving will happen.
   */
  void          UninitSpellChecker();

  /**
   * Used to filter the content (for example, to skip blockquotes in email from
   * spellchecking. Call this before calling InitSpellChecker; calling it
   * after initialization will have no effect.
   *
   * @see nsITextServicesDocument::setFilter
   */
  void          setFilter(in nsITextServicesFilter filter);

  /**
   * Like CheckCurrentWord, checks the word you give it, returning true if it's
   * misspelled. This is faster than CheckCurrentWord because it does not
   * compute any suggestions.
   *
   * Watch out: this does not clear any suggestions left over from previous
   * calls to CheckCurrentWord, so there may be suggestions, but they will be
   * invalid.
   */
  boolean       CheckCurrentWordNoSuggest(in wstring suggestedWord);

  /**
   * Update the dictionary in use to be sure it corresponds to what the editor
   * needs.
   */
  void          UpdateCurrentDictionary();

};