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Ani--

Some feedback on v1.0...

1) It appears that contacts are automatically loaded into the personal dictionary during installation, but the words are not checked against the default dictionary, resulting in many duplications. Simple words such as "and" were added to the personal list, resulting in about 400 extraneous entries in my case (I cleared the list, and I re-added contacts -- the dupes did not occur the second time).

2) The red highlighting for e-mail bodies is awesome! Consider making this the default for all misspelled words in all fields/applications.

3) Consider adding an additional menu item to ignore spelling suggestions (keep as is, but do not add to personal dictionary).

I will provide more feedback as I use it more. Thanks again for continuing to improve an excellent application!

Thanks. Will be fixed.

We would love to have that. But the reason you don't see it in other apps is because of technical issues - there is a possibility of stuff breaking if highlighting is done in other apps. That is why its there in Email composer, which happens to be most frequently used for instaspell. We are looking for a more universal way to do the highlighting.

sorry, I couldn't understand this. If you mean an option to Skip a work, then when the suggestion come in the drop down, the first option is the same word that was marked misspelled, so just hit enter or cancel - this effectively means Skip the word (leave at it is). If you meant something else, let me know in a bit detail, will try to get it done.

Thanks again for your feedback!
Ani.

cayzac - InstaSpell dictionary is about 2 MB and can be lessened to 1.5 MB if you delete the Dictionary module after you have installed and indexed it.
Btw, did the 50% issue you were getting earlier got resolved in v1.0 ?

Thanks.
Ani.

Yes! No more 50% issue! Great job!
As far as the memory issue, I did a little test. I uninstalled InstaSpell and rebooted. Checked my memory and it was 14.2 meg. I installed InstaSpell and Dictionary, checked and I was at 12.7 meg (1.5 just installing). I then indexed the dictionary and I was at 10.5. I rebooted to clear up any stray memory issues and now I'm at 10.9, so the total space InstaSpell is taking up seems to be 3.3 meg. Does this sound correct?

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Ani--

On 3) above, I am referring to check on-the-fly mode, when a word is highlighted in red in the e-mail body (or underlined in other apps). If I back up to the highlighted word and click, I am presented with a drop-down menu which includes spelling suggestions (if any) as well as "Add Word". There is no way to Ignore (or skip) to accept the spelling as is without adding the word to the personal dictionary -- there are times that I don't necessarily want to add one-time use (i.e., obscure) words to the personal dictionary, but it would be nice to be able to acknowledge them to remove the highlighting for the session. It is common practice for spell checkers in general. Hopefully, this clears up my earlier feedback.

I think there should be a separate list between contacts, and users words. it will avoid confusion in the long run. There should also be a special algorithm for the contacts, they're not really really 'words' per-say.

The main screen for the app. needs a little more refining. Making things a little more obvious for the users who aren't so avid with the BB. I'm all about user friendliness! There should be buttons that indicates users can add words to the dictionary, as well as add contacts.

Will there ever be JiveTalk support?

Once you have indexed the dictionary, you can uninstall the dictionary module, it will free up quite a lot of space.

I believe 8300 (the 4.2.2 OS) has some different way of using memory. The 50% issue had happened because the the object sizes on 4.2.2 OS were bigger than that on the older OS.

Thanks for the suggestions. Separate list for contacts may be a good idea, we have to see if it does not affect the performance.

Yes, we need to make the screen more user friendly. Thanks for pointing that out too.

Would be great if it worked in IM+ Messenger and IM+ Skype. Thanks

Ani--

A couple more suggestions:

1) Words in the personal dictionary should be case sensitive when capitalized. For example, the word "Alexa" is a person's first name in my personal dictionary that was imported from my Contacts. If "alexa" is typed into an e-mail, it should be flagged as misspelled with "Alexa" offered as one of the spelling suggestions.

2) Words from the personal dictionary should not be flagged as misspelled when apostrophe plus "s" is added to make it possessive. From the previous example, "Alexa's" should not be flagged as misspelled.

3) I agree with the suggestin to separate the personal dictionary from the contact list from the personal dictionary if at all possible (you were going to look into performance). This makes even more sense for backup purposes as the contact list personal dictionary can be easily regenerated.

Thanks.

I agree with everything visortgw just said. Contractions after a contact's name shouldn't be treated as a mispelled word.

Again, visortgw's #1 point, there should be a special algorithm just for names. Uhh.. I wish the BB has a more powerful processor.

Ani,

any thought about having the possible correct words pop up after the space bar is hit as an option? Is it possible, would save quite a few key strokes. Also, is this only going to go commercial or will there be beta licenses issued, just wondering? Thanks

I recently upgraded my 8700 to T-Mobile's 4.2 and I can't install the software. I tried deleting it, restarting my BB, then downloading it again. I can see the "abc" icon and I have the dictonary installed but nothing happens when I click on the abc icon. Same result for loading the alx/cod files vice the OTA.

Please verify that you are using v1.0 and not the expired v0.99. The links for installation have changed -- see Ani's earlier post:

http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...tml#post629742

That would be why. I uninstalled the .99 files and installed 1.0 via the alx/cod file. When I click on the ABC to index my dictionary it reads 0% and appears stuck. It's been going on 10 minutes now with no action.

How many contacts are in your Address Book? v1.0 added the feature whereby all of the names in your Address Book are automatically added to the personal dictionary. There is no way to disable this on initial installation of the dictionary, which could explain why it appears to be going so slowly. Just a thought...

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Tried a battery pull and it fixed the problem

I heard that the 8830 Verizon new software has spell check already! Is this true?? I am on AT&T 8800 Model...

all the sudden it quit working on my 7130e I cant get it to delete either it gives me a java error.

I deleted it through the app loader and reloaded but It wont do anything I click on the icon and it does nothing so not sure whats happening.

I've been getting numerous errors too, especially with long email. I had to delete the software.

Regards-Michael G.

I am fixing to delete as well I have installed and reinstalled 5 times now and it still doesnt work. I have used both DM and OTA and neither is functioning.

Prolly expired!

I guess you have the wrong version. It should be 1.0 and available from

I had what was posted here about ten posts up I never saw an updated link.. I just went with lexspell and I am loving it.

I installed 1.0 last night. I love the colored text, but am noticing a pretty substantial delay when I attempt to bring up the menu for any calendar item I've created prior to saving the item. Anyone else seeing this? Any way to fix the delay?

Ani, loving the beta. I have been busy and haven't really had time to be "active" in the beta testing. Sorry!

But, it has been working great so far for me. Couple things. It is rather slow on my BB (I know it's old). If I go under apps to uninstall, I have

Empower Instaspell 0.99
US English Dictionary 1.1
Empower Instaspell Base 0.99
Empower Instaspell 1.0
EmpowerUSEnglishDict 1.2


Can I review any of these? I am hoping to clear some memory.

Trevor, v1.0 is to be installed after uninstalling v0.99. From the list above it seems that you have both v0.99 and v1.0 installed on your device! The best way for you is to delete both v0.99 and v1.0 from your device, and install v1.0 afresh. Deleting both version will resolve any clashes that may be there between the two.

Thanks.
Ani.

Hi All,

Empower InstaSpell v1.3 is live! A number of enhancements have been made to improve the overall usability of the application.

For ex now you can;

• Cancel Spellcheck in the middle (Useful if for ex, you are in the middle of a long email)
• Skip Word in as-you-type mode, and skipped words are not shown as red.
• Have separate list for Contact and Personal Dictionary
• Apostrophe for Contact are valid.
• Edit words in the Contact List, Reload Contacts, etc.

Please uninstall the previous version of InstaSpell completely before upgrading to v1.3

Purchase information will be announced here soon. Also, we intend to offer everyone on BBF a substantial discount! It will be time-limited so, do let everyone you know, know about it.

Beta team, thanks for your really constructive feedback. Your licenses will be ariving in your emails in a day or two from now. Special thanks to Tony, Tom, Joe, Eddie, Low, Tecrishon and dgy2k1 for their outstanding work - they are an asset for any developer!

How to Install:
Please uninstall any previous version of InstaSpell from your device before installing v1.3

PC-DM: http://www.getempower.com/isc/isc.zip

OTA:
InstaSpell first: http://www.getempower.com/isc/isc.php
Dictionary next: http://www.getempower.com/isc/dict.php

Also, work continues on some of the other really exciting ideas we have here at Empower. You will be hearing about them soon.

Thanks!
Ani.

after installing 1.3 I get an error and cant open it. Can you post ota downlaod for older version!

Fred, whats the error you get? Did you uninstall the previous version completely (both lib & dict)?

Previous version can be have from:
InstaSpell: http://www.getempower.com/isc/10/isc.php
Dictionary: http://www.getempower.com/isc/10/dict.php

Basically they just have a 10 in the url, which the lastest version does not has.

Thanks.
Ani.

Thanx Ani. Is it me, or was the last version much faster on lookups? Thanx again for the great product.

- B.

Ani--

I wanted to provide some initial feedback on v1.3:

1) As mentioned by brilovett, lookups appear to be very slow when you scroll from word to word and click on a highlighted word -- it takes about 10 seconds for the spelling suggestions to appear in the drop-down menu (BlackBerry 8703e, OS v4.1.0.377, VZW). This is definitely a negative impact for this release, but it does not appear to occur when one selects "InstaSpell" from the menu to check the entire e-mail message (i.e., batch mode).

2) How do I use the "Skip Word in as-you-type mode, and skipped words are not shown as red" feature? The other features that you list in your release announcement appear to be well implemented and positive enhanncements.

3) I like the ability to more easily scroll between highlighted words -- just scroll back and forth to change background of selected misspelled word to dark gray.

Ani--

Some more findings:

4) The slowness now appears to affect batch mode, too (it didn't appear that way at first).

5) In batch mode, when one selects "Ignore" the word is still highlighted red. Was this intentional?

Thanks.

Ani--

The slowdown appears to be directly related to the Contacts Dictionary. I have about 750 contacts in my address book which resulted in the addition of 644 words to my contact wordlist plus one word that I added to the User Wordlist (so that it was not empty) for a total of 645 user dictionary words. If I clear the Contacts Dictionary, InstaSpell returns to "normal" (i.e., just like v1.0) speed.

As a further test, I then restored the v1.0 user wordlist (which included an older contacts wordlist as well as the user wordlist) of 652 words. I then re-Add(ed) Contacts, which only resulted in eleven words in the Contact Wordlist since the majority were already in the User Wordlist that I had restored (the eleven words were from recent new contact additions). Performance appears to be at the v1.0 speeds even though I now now have 663 user dictionary words!

I hope that this will help you to find the problem. Is it possible that the Contacts Dictionary is not indexed at creation time?

We have identified the issue and are working on an update, that should be released by morning.

Thanks.

Thx Ani, will post back after install.

Hi Ani, I get "Error starting..........Add AdressBook Screen" not found". I got both parts d/l'ed, although very slow.
Should delete and redown or wait for the update l8r this morning? tia, bro!

Ani, I got it w/ Desktop install, a lot faster too! I'm d/l'ing the dictionary base now. Will keep you up to date. And thx again!

btw...nice new features. wow...

After update I lost my custom dictionary. Is there a way to keep it across updates?

BR
Jaime

Before you delete the application and install the update, backup your device using the Desktop Manager. After installing the new application and dictionary, you can restore the personal dictionary database (i.e., Empower SpellCheck) using the Desktop Manager restore capability.