Is it possible to have the spelling dictionary and what not on the USB drive with Portable GAIM in a way that I don't have to install Spelling on every computer that I use it on?
Thanks,
George
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Anyone have any help for this.. I have taken the ASpell files installed on a computer and copied them to various locations on the USB drive that runs Gaim but apparently it doesn't matter where I copy them, it still can't find them. Is there some way to point Portable GAIM to these files?
ASPell help/README files seems to say that there is a way to get ASpell to see files on a USB drive or without a drive letter.
George
Unfortunately, it appears that you will need to have Aspell fully installed (including your preferred language pack). Right now, there doesn't seem to be any other way to get Gaim to hook into Aspell's shared DLL's so that it can do its voodoo with your fat-fingered words.
After much tinkering and what not... I was able to get ASpell to work in PortableGaim from an Aspell installed on my portable drive. I thought I'd share this with the community.
I had to set an environment variable to the location on the portable drive where Aspell\bin directory was, then run PortableGAIM... with that I get spell checking in PortableGAIM.
I tried modifying the PortableGAIM.nsi script to create an PortableGAIM.exe that included this like it does the GTK but failed miserably some how. I got the modifications in, but wan't able to get the Portable.nsi script to build/compile. If someone could help me with this, I'd be glad to send a patch to the portable gaim developers with this addition and make it so that all users can benefit from this...
Post the info related to the environment variable and what you've discovered here (use the PRE html tag for code) and we'll test it out.
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Ok... the ugly details...
In the directory PortableGAIM\Aspell is where I put the Aspell files...
In the directory ProtableGAIM\gaim is where gaim is...
I start gaim from a .BAT in the root directory of the portable drive with an bat files that has the following:
This is what I have working atm... It works, as it gives me spell checking at this very moment in my PortableGAIM.. It's not the best solution but it works. Following is an post of the PortableGAIM.nsi with my (failed) attempted hack to accomplish setting the same environment variable in it so as to not need to set it in the batch file. In a nutshell I copy/pasted the GTK stuff and made changes to it to be ASPELL and the GAIM_ASPELL_DIR environment instead. So here it is in it's entirety, hope you have more luck with it than I did, hope I didn't butcher trying different things out trying to get it to compile:
This work for me for a few days and now all of a sudden it does not work. I have tried re-creating the batch file, reinstalling Aspell and so forth. Any ideas?
John,
Can you please confirm that someone in regards to the project has seen my other message with the details?
Thanks,
George