Spell Catcher X - 10.2.2

Universal

• Spell Catcher X 10.2.2 is a Universal Macintosh application and input method component. Input method (and other) components must be built as Universal for use on an Intel-based Macintosh.

New Interactive Preference

• A preference has been added to the Interactive pane, Typing tab: Ignore typing when the application is automatically completing. This is useful when you don’t want Spell Catcher “interferingâ€? when, for example, Mail is automatically completing email addresses when composing a message.

Note that there is no definitive way to tell when an application is performing its own automatic completion. This feature requires that the application is able to return to an input method whether there is text selected in a document (as opposed to just an insertion point), and that the application, during automatic completion, selects the portion of text that is the proposed completion. New Alert Sounds

• Alert sounds can now be played for Automatic Changes (nothing is played for double space prevention) and for when the Caps Lock key is engaged (useful for those times when accidentally hit).

More Predictable “Quitting�

• When Quitting the Spell Catcher X application while the input method is in use, interactive features and other commands available with the input method are disabled by default. This makes sure that the input method does not re-launch the application (it may be re-launched by the Mac OS itself for other reasons, like the Spelling Panel or commands from the Services menu). All commands in the input menu are removed, leaving an “Open Spell Catcherâ€? item, and the usual “Set Keyboardâ€? submenu. This, along with other changes mentioned below, makes upgrading the product quite a bit easier.

Simplified Update Procedure

• The input method can now be updated “liveâ€? - while it’s active, while it’s in use. This means that you can now update your Spell Catcher installation without having to choose a keyboard first. Combined with the above new “Quitâ€? behavior, updating is (very nearly) as simple as with any other application. Just Quit the Spell Catcher application, copy the new version of the app over the old, and launch it. If the version you are updating from is 10.2.2b1 or newer, you will not be asked to choose a keyboard if Spell Catcher’s input method is active! It’s still strongly recommended that you restart after updating the component, but no longer strictly necessary.

Note: In those applications that were open at the time the component is updated, Spell Catcher’s input method will be disabled. For Developers

• Spell Catcher X has some powerful tools available for developers to help implement and test certain aspects of their application’s text input (TSM or NSTextInput) support. These tools must be manually enabled by using the defaults command in the Terminal. See the For Developers section of Spell Catcher's Help Book for more information.

For more detail, please see the complete release notes