Qt spell check on mac

Question

I am porting a windows only application to run on mac as well using Qt. We had a third party library for the spell checking on windows which isn't available for OS X. I would like to tie into NSSpellchecker using Objective-C or Objective-C++. I have looked around quite a bit and found one half solution of using a custom widget. We would prefer to have it abstracted out in a class that checks instead of the widget so as to not have to use a different widget depending on operating system. I am confident in my ability to write the class for checking and that shouldn't be an issue.

My question is if I will need to create a custom UI that houses the suggestions/options or if OS X has a stock spelling grammar panel that we can just tie into?

Does anyone have experience doing spell check with Qt on Mac? We are using Qt 4.8+ and targeting Win7 / Snow Leopard.

Answer 1

To answer your question I don't know and I don't think there's a stock Qt widget to do it. This list covers pretty much every Qt widget you can use: enter link description here

As a solution you can use hunspell (http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/) directly even on Windows. It's used in Libre and Open Office and also used by MacOSX.

And to implement it you can use QCompleter (enter link description here).