Cocoa Completion

New in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) is the Complete command, available in the Edit menu of most Cocoa applications (Mail, Address Book, iCal, TextEdit, Safari, iChat, Stickies, OmniOutliner, OmniWeb, Nisus Writer Express, Notebook, and many more). Type a portion of a word, then type F5 (or option-escape), and a list of matching words appears. These matching words are provided by the currently-chosen language in the standard OS X Spelling Panel, which Spell Catcher X fully integrates with.

Using Spell Catcher X with Cocoa Completion

• You must first select one of Spell Catcher's languages from the Dictionary menu in the Spelling Panel (choose Edit -> Spelling -> Spelling..., the choose a Spell Catcher language from the pop-up menu).

• Configure your Completion items as described in the previous section.

• In a Cocoa application that supports the Complete command (TextEdit, for instance), type the portion of the word you want completions for (or move the insertion point or select a portion of a word), then type option-escape or F5 to see a list of potential matches.

• Choose the completion you want to use from the list, or keep on typing if none of them are what you're looking for.

Limitations of Cocoa Completion

• A maximum of 100 items are displayed. This is a limit enforced by Mac OS X itself.

• When using Cocoa completion, the application is in total control of how completions are inserted into the text.

• Spell Catcher can only supply a list of words to be used to the underlying application, and has no control over the display of the list or the words in it.

• Spell Catcher has no control over whether the completions list remains open as you type, or closes after each keystroke (the latter is the default behavior).

• The option to automatically show completions does not apply to Cocoa Completion. Some applications provide an option to control whether completions are automatically displayed.