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Spell-checked QPlainTextEdit for PyQt 5.x using PyEnchant
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""QPlainTextEdit With Inline Spell Check
Original PyQt4 Version:
https://nachtimwald.com/2009/08/22/qplaintextedit-with-in-line-spell-check/
Copyright 2009 John Schember
Copyright 2018 Stephan Sokolow
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
"""
__license__ = 'MIT'
__author__ = 'John Schember; Stephan Sokolow'
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
import sys
import enchant
from enchant import tokenize
from enchant.errors import TokenizerNotFoundError
# pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
from PyQt5.Qt import Qt
from PyQt5.QtCore import QEvent
from PyQt5.QtGui import (QFocusEvent, QSyntaxHighlighter, QTextCharFormat,
QTextCursor)
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QAction, QApplication, QMenu, QPlainTextEdit
class SpellTextEdit(QPlainTextEdit):
"""QPlainTextEdit subclass which does spell-checking using PyEnchant"""
max_suggestion_limit = 20
def __init__(self, *args):
QPlainTextEdit.__init__(self, *args)
# Start with a default dictionary based on the current locale.
self.highlighter = EnchantHighlighter(self.document())
self.highlighter.setDict(enchant.Dict())
def contextMenuEvent(self, event):
"""Custom context menu handler to add a spelling suggestions submenu"""
# TODO: Use the version of createStandardContextMenu which takes
# QPoint(event.x(), event.y()) once I don't need to support Qt versions
# before 5.5. (It's recommended as it allows more contextual contents)
popup_menu = self.createStandardContextMenu()
# Create a cursor object selecting the word under the mouse pointer
# FIXME: This method tokenizes differently than the highlighter and
# allows one to right-click an un-highlighted URL and find a
# suggestions menu when there shouldn't be one.
cursor = self.cursorForPosition(event.pos())
cursor.select(QTextCursor.WordUnderCursor)
# Check if the selected word is misspelled and offer spelling
# suggestions if it is
if cursor.hasSelection():
text = cursor.selectedText()
spl_dict = self.highlighter.dict()
if not spl_dict.check(text):
spell_menu = QMenu('Spelling Suggestions')
spell_menu.triggered.connect(self.cb_correct_word)
# TODO: Use enchant.utils.trim_suggestions once I don't have to
# support old PyEnchant versions.
for word in spl_dict.suggest(text)[:self.max_suggestion_limit]:
action = QAction(word, spell_menu)
action.setData((cursor, word))
spell_menu.addAction(action)
# Only prepend "Spelling Suggestions" submenu if it's non-empty
if len(spell_menu.actions()) != 0:
popup_menu.insertSeparator(popup_menu.actions()[0])
popup_menu.insertMenu(popup_menu.actions()[0], spell_menu)
popup_menu.exec_(event.globalPos())
# Fix bug observed in Qt 5.2.1 on *buntu 14.04 LTS where:
# 1. The cursor remains invisible after closing the context menu
# 2. Keyboard input causes it to appear, but it doesn't blink
# 3. Switching focus away from and back to the window fixes it
self.focusInEvent(QFocusEvent(QEvent.FocusIn))
def cb_correct_word(self, action): # pylint: disable=no-self-use
"""Event handler Handler for 'Spelling Suggestions' entries."""
cursor, word = action.data()
cursor.beginEditBlock()
cursor.removeSelectedText()
cursor.insertText(word)
cursor.endEditBlock()
class EnchantHighlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter):
"""QSyntaxHighlighter subclass which consults a PyEnchant dictionary"""
tokenizer = None
token_filters = (tokenize.EmailFilter, tokenize.URLFilter)
def __init__(self, *args):
QSyntaxHighlighter.__init__(self, *args)
self._sp_dict = None
# Define the spellcheck style once and assign it as necessary
# XXX: This will probably cause problems if I need to set underline
# styles on rich text.
self.err_format = QTextCharFormat()
self.err_format.setUnderlineColor(Qt.red)
self.err_format.setUnderlineStyle(QTextCharFormat.SpellCheckUnderline)
def dict(self):
"""Gets the spelling dictionary in use"""
return self._sp_dict
def setDict(self, sp_dict):
"""Sets the spelling dictionary to be used"""
self._sp_dict = sp_dict
try:
self.tokenizer = tokenize.get_tokenizer(
self._sp_dict.tag, filters=self.token_filters)
except TokenizerNotFoundError:
# Fall back to the "good for most euro languages" English tokenizer
self.tokenizer = tokenize.get_tokenizer(filters=self.token_filters)
self.rehighlight()
def highlightBlock(self, text):
"""Overridden QSyntaxHighlighter method to apply the highlight"""
if not self._sp_dict:
return
for (word, pos) in self.tokenizer(text):
if not self._sp_dict.check(word):
self.setFormat(pos, len(word), self.err_format)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
spellEdit = SpellTextEdit()
spellEdit.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
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