gramps/src/Spell.py

#
# Gramps - a GTK+/GNOME based genealogy program
#
# Copyright (C) 2005  Donald N. Allingham
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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# $Id$

"""
Provide an interface to the gtkspell interface. This requires
python-gnome-extras package. If the gtkspell package is not
present, we default to no spell checking.

"""

import Config

from gettext import gettext as _

#-----------------------------------------------------------
#
# Attempt to instantiate a gtkspell instance to check for
# any errors. If it succeeds, set a success flag so that we
# know to use the spelling check in the future
#
#------------------------------------------------------------

success = False
try:
    import gtk
    import gtkspell
    import locale

    lang = locale.getlocale()[0]
    gtkspell.Spell(gtk.TextView()).set_language(lang)
    success = True

except ImportError, msg:
    print _("Spelling checker is not installed")
except RuntimeError,msg:
    print "Spell.py: ", msg
except SystemError,msg:
    msg = _("Spelling checker is not available for %s") % lang
    print "Spell.py: %s" % msg

#-----------------------------------------------------------
#
# Spell - if the initial test succeeded, attach a gtkspell
#         instance to the passed TextView instance
#
#------------------------------------------------------------
class Spell:

    def __init__(self,obj):
        if success and Config.get_spellcheck():
            self.spell = gtkspell.Spell(obj)
            lang = locale.getlocale()[0]
            self.spell.set_language(lang)