Squiggly spell checking component

Hi everyone,
Following the release of Squiggly - the spell checker engine for mx components - I just realized a small Flex4/Spark component for using the spell checker with a TextFlow.
The demo here: http://lafabrick.com/labz/pageLayout/squiggly/.
Sources are available here: http://lafabrick.com/labz/pageLayout/squiggly/srcview/index.html.
I took the opportunity to make a small management of TextFlow with a scrollbar in a custom Spark component.
These are basic components which waiting for you to edit:)
You'll see that I use a different system compared to a standard spell checker (all words highlighted in red, ...)
So I have a question/request: To get the red underlining of words wrong, it would be possible to have an extra character format, NOT taken into account by the TextConverter? Another possibility could be a style highlighter, or a character format, directely in the TextRange... I do not know if I'm clear!
If a way exist to do this, tell me more !
Also ... A second feature request!
It would be really interesting to replace a text / word via elements ParagraphElement: I work in elearning, and it happens to need of words that have several character with different formats from each other (example: abigwordwithdifferentformat ) . The aim would be to replace directly this type of word, composed of several SpanElement by another, in the paragraphElement.
Thanks a lot !
Fabien

Hi,
As i tried to run the application by downloading the source code provided by you.
Not able to do so. I am getting of this error even i installed SDK 4.0
Severity and Description Path Resource Location Creation Time Id
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Matrix3D. SquigglyTLF Unknown 1255522232781 119258.
Even i tried to run the application in Flash Gumbo, where i am getting this error.
Description Resource Path Location Type
1120: Access of undefined property TextConverter. Flow.as SquigglyTLF/src/com/lafabrick/tlf/components line 127 Flex Problem
1120: Access of undefined property TextConverter. Flow.as SquigglyTLF/src/com/lafabrick/tlf/components line 127 Flex Problem
1172: Definition flashx.textLayout.conversion:TextConverter could not be found. Flow.as SquigglyTLF/src/com/lafabrick/tlf/components line 17 Flex Problem
1172: Definition flashx.textLayout.events:CompositionCompleteEvent could not be found. Flow.as SquigglyTLF/src/com/lafabrick/tlf/components line 20 Flex Problem
Thanks in advance

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See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dictionaries<br />

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#LID 30840
1boffo i
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following the term. I'm not sure if a tab is what was used between
the term and the i, so it may take a bit of trial and error.
Hopefully this helps a bit... Rick

Client only side spell checker

I was wondering if there would be an interesting in a client
only spell checker.
I sell a product at www.flextendibles.com to provide UI
feedback of spelling issues. I had a request from a purchaser for a
non server side service to fill in the spell checking requirements.
I was wondering if others might want the same functionality.
I've completed 95% of the work and have found that it's much
more responsive then the server side version.
Would others be intersted in this type of
functionality?

Also would anyone know how I would go about trying to get
this Actionscript class into the FlashPlayer? I would think it
would be a nice capability to have in the FlashPlayer then specific
to a Flex component. But i'm more of a j2EE/flex person then a
Flash person. I find the Flash IDE somewhat chaotic, but that's me
and I'm sometimes easily confused.

Squiggly spell checking component

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