No suggestions - spellchecker

[PeterJones]

@Stef-Ks ,

tried that special button

As @astrosofista and I have both plainly said, we recommend using “Use N++ Context Menu”.

Looks like there is currently no help for this problem

So far, we cannot replicate your problem when using N++ Context Menu. You have yet to show us a way to make it not work on our machines. If it isn’t broken for us, we cannot show you how to fix it. If you can show us what’s different about your system then ours, and we can replicate that and make it broken on ours, we might be able to help. Or if you try the experiments we recommend, we might be able to narrow it down or solve your problem. For example, I made two suggestions in a previous post, neither of which you commented on.

1. First, I suggested changing the Suggestions Control setting, then changing it back – you claimed you set it one way, but you never acknowledged changing it back, so I do not know whether that would have solved the problem for you.
2. I said, If that doesn’t fix it, my next debug step for you would be to download the v7.8.9-64bit zip edition (“portable”), and unzip it to a known-writeable directory, like a folder in your Desktop. Run Notepad++ from there, and follow the instructions in my first post to install and test DSpellCheck in the portable edition.

You didn’t respond to either of those, so I have to assume you didn’t try. Until you try and report the results back to us, we have nothing new to be able to help you with.

As they say, “the ball is in your court”

[Stef Ks]

Okay, installed the portable version and suggestions show (but not with special button!)Clipboard01s.jpg

[PeterJones]

@Stef-Ks ,

Great. You have just proven to yourself that it’s not impossible to work, and that you have something different between the two. And now you’re going to have to go about determining what the difference is, or eliminate the differences. We can give hints, but really, it will just require some digging on your part.

Maybe you can go through Plugins > DSpellCheck > Settings and compare the settings one at a time, making sure to look at everything.

Maybe all you’ll have to do in the installed version is exit Notepad++, go to %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config [*: see the %AppData% FAQ] and delete DSpellCheck.ini (which should reset all the DSpellCheck settings to default), and re-run Notepad++; DSpellCheck should re-initialize its config… you might have to re-install your dictionaries, but at that point, it should be the same as the copy in the portable. Or maybe copy the ...\plugins\Config\DSpellCheck.ini from the unzipped version into %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config\DSpellCheck.ini , which should make the two have exactly the same contents (though if the ini file contains paths, that might not work).

Or maybe you can uninstall the DSpellCheck, exit Notepad++, delete the DSpellCheck.ini mentioned above, then re-install DSpellCheck.

Maybe one of the other plugins (MenuIcons or CustomizeToolbar) is messing with something, so you could try disabling them: the easiest way is to exit Notepad++, then rename the directories for the other plugins, found in c:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\ , to something like MenuIcons--old and _CustomizeToolbar--old, because if the folder name doesn’t match the DLL filename, it won’t load. After renaming, reload Notepad++ and see if it works; if it does, then fix the name of the folders, one at a time, and figure out which one breaks it.

Those are the next few debugging steps I would go through, if I were having this problem. Unfortunately for you, I am not having this problem – nor is anyone else that’s chimed into this conversation – so you’re going to have to do the bulk of the work here.

If you need more help, describe exactly how you tried to implement my suggestions, and explain what happened with each. But whatever you do, don’t change settings in the unzipped portable edition, because that’s a known-good setup right now, and can give you something to come back to.

[Stef Ks]

@PeterJones

you have a way to keep people busy, no? ;)

I dug a little bit - see screen shot! quite a difference in folder size… the installer version seems to miss a few files?! the bigger version is the portable (64bit). I work through the other things later on… stay tuned

[Alan Kilborn]

@Stef-Ks said in No suggestions - spellchecker:

the installer version seems to miss a few files?! the bigger version is the portable (64bit)

I think if you are starting by looking at THAT for differences, you are looking at the wrong thing, and thus “spinning your wheels”.
You need to look specifically at the spell checking plugin folders and files for differences.

[Stef Ks]

@Alan-Kilborn
The size difference between portable/installer is quite too significant for my taste - hence makes me think there is something missing/wrong. I have uninstalled the installer version and work with the Portable which is good nuf even the “button” still fails to work.

whatever is … I rest my case

[Alan Kilborn]

@Stef-Ks said in No suggestions - spellchecker:

The size difference between portable/installer is quite too significant for my taste - hence makes me think there is something missing/wrong

But that size difference is not relevant to the problem you are trying to solve.
It was only suggested to try the portable version in order to get a clean testbed for diagnosing your spell checking issue.
But good for you if you are now happy. :-)

[Stef Ks]

@Alan-Kilborn said in No suggestions - spellchecker:

But good for you if you are now happy. :-)

well, certainly not my job to figure what’s wrong with this software but who is perfect anyway?

[tbotbo]

Hello community,
same behavior with my client. Until v7.7 it was possible to use the “Special Suggestion Button”. With 7.9 there appear no more suggestions. Context Menu works fine, but I prefer the other method.

Plugin DSpellCheck v1.4.17

Notepad++ v7.9 (64-bit)
Build time : Sep 22 2020 - 03:19:04
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 2004
OS Build : 19041.572
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

I hope for a positive result.
Best regards, Tom.

[Ekopalypse]

@tbotbo

seems to be fixed with release 1.4.18
See here.

[tbotbo]

@Ekopalypse Thank you very much! I confirm, it’s fixed with release 1.4.18.

[tbotbo]

@tbotbo said in No suggestions - spellchecker:

@Ekopalypse Thank you very much! I confirm, it’s fixed with release 1.4.18.

@Stef-Ks FYI