Just down loaded jortho  and created a project using eclipse and the sample application to verify operation.  I have the code compiled and the application running.  However, no misspellings are shown.  Strongly suspicious that it's because I don't have a dictionary loaded.

// Load the configuration from the file dictionaries.cnf and

// use the current locale or the first language as default

SpellChecker.registerDictionaries( null, null );

    ??'s:
    Am assuming that (null,null) need a path name and dictionary type.  Looking for an example.
    Where should the dictionary be placed?  If there is a preferred location.
    Need clarification on the statement regarding the dictionaries.cnf file.
    dictionary_en.ortho seems to be the correct dictionary.
   

Hi,

I have the same problem. I figured that only the path to the dictionary file serves as the BaseURL and the actual dictionary filename gets build inside the SpellChecker.registerDictionaries() method. what I don't get is how this BaseURL has to look like if I for example have the dictionaries in a folder "resource/dict" within my project.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions or examples.

Cheers,
Lena

You are both correct.

What I observed is that SpellChecker will throw one to three exceptions if it can't find one or more of the three files it needs to setup properly.

Here is the code I used to test it (on a Mac - your path type may vary):

        try
        {
        File configFile = new File("//Volumes/SomeVolume/Path1/Path2/config/dictionaries.cnf");
       
        boolean exists = configFile.exists();
       
        configFile = new File("config/dictionaries.cnf");
       
        exists = configFile.exists();
       
        URL url = new URL("file",null, "/config");
        url = configFile.toURL();
        SpellChecker.registerDictionaries( url, null );
        }
        catch(MalformedURLException ex)
        {
        ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
        }

Where you put the config file may vary, but the other files like the dictionary need to be relative to that. I haven't worked out all the details yet, but I will as I need to do this for my app to work correctly.

The docs are poor in this respect (and some others) - they need to spell this out and give examples.

We have add some samples the API documentation. Here is a copy of it. I hope this make it clearer.

Samples:
// Load the configuration and dictionaries from the current working directory and use the current locale or the first language as default
SpellChecker.registerDictionaries( null, null );

// Load the configuration and dictionaries from the sub directory "dict"
SpellChecker.registerDictionaries( new URL( "file", null, "dict" ), null );

// Load the configuration and dictionaries from a web server and activate English as language
SpellChecker.registerDictionaries( new URL( "http://MyWebServer/dictionries/" ), "en" );

// Load the configuration and dictionaries from the same web location like the applet and use the German dictionary as default
SpellChecker.registerDictionaries( myApplet.getCodeBase(), "de" );

// Sample content from a file dictionaries.cnf
extension=.ortho
languages=de,en,it,fr,es,ru