Introduction

Provides German word lists for use in the online spellchecker : de, de_DE and de_CH.
They are based on expanded GNU Aspell dictionaries (GNU GPL v2), so all of the affixes have been processed (total = ~298.000 words per language).
Packaged and tested with NetBeans 7.0, and works with NetBeans 6.9.1 too.

How to install and use :

• download and install the plugin. You must have the "Spellchecker" already installed
• in the NetBeans Spellchecker options panel, select one of the German locales : "de", "de_DE" or "de_CH"
• return to the code editor, type a letter and save (in order to wake up the spellchecker, only), and -this is very important- wait : your CPU will work for some minutes because it is caching the dictionary. You can go to your ".netbeans\7.0\var\cache\dict" folder and see if the corresponding ".trie1" ("dictionary_de_DE.trie1" for the "de_DE" locale) file has been created. It is about ~7MB.
• When the ".trie1" is finished, and the CPU load is not at 100%, it is OK : the dictionary has been correctly cached, and you can use the spellchecker !

If you don't wait the dictionary caching, you may encounter an Exception, and the spellchecker won't work. If you have too many problems to obtain the ".trie1" files, you can download them (they come from my NetBeans installation : 7.0.0 on Windows Seven x64, ~540KB per file) and uncompress (with 7-zip) them in the ".netbeans\7.0\var\cache\dict" folder before launching NetBeans :

• for "de" : http://netbeanscolors.org/files/aspell/nb700/dictionary_de.trie1.7z
• for "de_CH" : http://netbeanscolors.org/files/aspell/nb700/dictionary_de_CH.trie1.7z
• for "de_DE" : http://netbeanscolors.org/files/aspell/nb700/dictionary_de_DE.trie1.7z

Known issues :

• after the first NetBeans restart, the "Spellchecker" and "Spellchecker English Dictionaries" may be disabled. You can simply reactivate them
• if you uninstall or update the dictionary plugin, the ".trie1" files won't be deleted automatically

Don't hesitate to send me suggestions at "jonathan.lermitage AT entreprise38 DOT org" ;)

What's new in this version

1.0 - first release, based on German Aspell expanded dictionaries
1.1 - word list encoding set to UTF8; the plugin is now self-signed