yep, everything fixed now. We were also caught up with EMV licenses to be done completely.

Anyway, here is InstaSpell v0.71 We have sent mails to the beta team with installation process for InstaSpell. Pls let us know your experience and suggestions !

Thanks,
Ani.

My experience:
It's AWESOME. I have only used it for a few hours though, but so far, it's been a solid experience!

I'm wondering though, will InstaSpell learn? Like in T9? Will there also be prediction?

Downloaded and installed with no problems. My first impression is that this is an awesome utility that has been very well integrated with the BB's own e-mail client. Will give you a more full report after I have had a chance to use it more.

Works great Ani. I find myself wanting it to automatically pop up suggestions (vs. pressing the scroll key and selecting one) when it sees a misspelled word. Could this be added? Have an option that lets you select whether you want it to automatically or not?

Tony

Ani,

I have not received any emails, unless they got trapped in spam filter, I will PM you with email address to send it to.

Thanks.

Will this check you text messeges also?

Yep

I believe that ani said it will check everything, e-mail, sms, tasks, memo, etc..

ani- Great program. One suggestion, could the underline be a lttle more bolder?

Could someone with an 8300 compare the spell check that is built in to the new InstaSpell program?

This program is working great here also. I second the suggestion to make the underline a little bolder. It looks fine on emails but when using bb messenger I don't notice the underline until I hit enter to send since it is so close to the bottom of the screen. I also noticed that it excludes words that include numbers. It would be nice there were an option to cut this off so that it did tag them as misspelled.

So far so good. This is great!

It works on email, SMS, BB Messenger, PIN messages, and Calendar. It doesn not work with JiveTalk.

I have deleted LexSpell from my device, but I think that InstaSpell actually takes more space. It is well worth it.

I am looking for reasons to send messages now to test it. It is the weekend though.

Suggestions:

*Create a menu of what to check or exclude.
*I do not know if it is possible, but underline in a different color (or highlight misspelled words) to make them more visible.
*Ability to delete words from the custom wordlist. I added a word in error and can't get it out.
*Ability to add words on the fly.

Otherwise, this is fantastic.

Upon using it for 2 days, the program have crashed my blackberry three times, but that's expected. It was a java error. unexpected java.lang or something like that. Seems like a buffer exception error.

Suggestions:
*MAKE IT WORK WITH JIVETALK! :P
*Ability to learn names from the address book. It's funny because my name isn't recognized at all.. Evan (van is underlined).
*as phone_caller mentioned, please include include and exclude
*different indicator, already mentioned.

Other than that, the program works great!

also, how about a red color underline?

When will the nonbeta version be ready for all the rest of us?

People have also reported it working with Yahoo messenger, AIM, OZ messenger and even web posting!


Will do.

redsox - 'when?' Depends on how much we add. No ETA.

Ani.

Does it work with the 8300? I like the new spellcheck w/ the 8300, but its not "instant" or "as you type"

It would be nice if it would still give you recommendations in the space after a word. For example, when I type a word often I don't stop in the middle of it for a suggestion but wait until the space after the final letter.

Consequently, I now have to use the scroll key to back up on the word before I can get a suggestion, it would be nice to get the suggested word in and be able to replace the misspelled word in, the space after misspelled word.

I hope this makes sense.

Tony

Yes. I've been testing it with the 8300. It seems to work without any problems so far.

-David

Sounds like a grat program. Can't wait for it to be released.

After much testing I found that the easiest way to backup to the word is to use ALT+Scroll and move the cursor back into the work and then press the scroll wheel for a list of sugestions. It should be noted that there is some odd behavior doing this. Sometimes scrolling backwards simply places the cursor into the misspelled word and sometimes it actually highlights the entire word. However, it doesn't really matter. Once the cursor is under any letter of the word or selected the entire word, you can do corrections. Once you correct simply scroll to the right and start typing. The old space is not deleted by the correction which I find useful.

toddz

In doing some testing today, I came across the following "problem". When typing the word "I'll" it underlined the "ll". I also noticed it underlined "isn" as part of "isn't". I would recommend better support with contractions in the default dictionary or allow us to input custom words to cover contractions.

-David

I've brought this to ani's attention as well. It appears to have a problem with contractions in general.

Is this out of beta yet? tia

No.... if you look at the thread's start date, it was pretty recent.
Typically, a beta would last for about 3 months, then there's RC (feature freeze), then RTM.

Not yet Low. But we hope to do it soon - if everything goes well with beta, Version 1.0 will be open for all.

I m surprised, how come you missed the beta this time!

Ani.

Ani,

Everything is working good, no complaints, agree with past suggestions.

However, got a question. Since it spell checks words as you type them, is it possible to also do a BULK spell check at the end of what ever it is you are doing similar to other spell checkers?

In other words you would have the capability of either spell checking as you type and/or if you wish spell check all the words at the end of your composition.

Just a thought.

Tony

Thx, Ani.
D/l fast, works great. I like the setup. NP

Ani. Can I get the beta V? I really need a spell checker for SMS. There is not a spell checker out there that will check your SMS.

ani .. i would like to try the beta also . if ur still looking for testers ..

Ani - Just want to give you props for the new beta version. It allows spell-checking after your message. Similar to the way the other spellcheckers do. This is fantastic! I love how it integrates with many native and aftermarket BB apps!

One suggestion. If you can somehow make the suggestions come up as you type. That would be incredible!

I am interested in being a beta tester if possible.

Ani,

I sent you an email on this yesterday with the new release. But, I will put it here as well just to see if any of the other testers have noticed it.

... I think I found an issue. When creating a new task, it catches misspelled words and lets you correct them one at a time but it has no selection in the menu to perform a bulk spell check.

Tony

Uh-oh!

I didn't get the updated version. Please PM me with the link.

Thank you.

I still don't like the fact I can't add words into the custom dictionary through the app itself. I have to highlight the word I wanted OUTSIDE of the app, in order for me to add it to the custom word list. Unless I'm missing something...
but regardless, that's a usability issue.

In bulk spell check mode, during the spell check you click the scroll wheel and select Add. It adds it to the Dictionary. If you add a word you don't like, you go to the dictionary, select it and click delete. Or, are you saying you want to go into the dictionary itself, click add and the put in your word. In other words, you don't want to have to do it during a spell check session.

Tony

The question is how do you know whether the word you are adding exists in the dictionary or not? The only sure way is to do this is while spell checking.

And how many such words can we think of offhand?

However, I guess a way to implement this feature can be something like "Add all words that do not appear in the main wordlist to the custom wordlist"

Ani,

I have sent you a couple of emails regarding bugs (have not heard back) and not much has been posted lately in this topic. My assumption is that we are still testing but not much activity.

Tony

Please count me in !!!

Thx Mitch

PM sent

when will this application become public beta?

would love the ability/option to backup custom word list to desktop - could this make the list of features?