Re: [Enchant] Plugin for submitting words to an online database

From: Tibi Turbureanu <tiberiuturbureanu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Nov 22 2009 - 08:38:39 CET

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:27:57AM +0200, Tibi Turbureanu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to write a third-party plugin for Enchant to submit users' new added
> words to an online database.
>
> Because Enchant is cross-platform, have backends for most *spells, and is
> gaining popularity it seems to be the library that can help my community
> get new words from normal users for the Romanian dictionary (for now).
>
> I wrote an ugly hack as a proof of concept and it works. When I add new
> words from Gedit and Pidgin (which use GtkSpell, which uses Enchant :-D) the
> online database receives them.
>
> I would want to learn how to write a plugin for Enchant which does the same.
> But first of all, is it possible?

The hack can be found here[1]. Taking a look at the code probably will give you
a better idea about what I want to do in the plugin.

Thanks,
Tibi

[1] http://ceata.org/svn/strajer/trimite-cuv/enchant-1.5.0-submit-word/src/enchant.c
Received on Sun Nov 22 08:38:53 2009

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