dude09 - How to Minimize the Oversize Spellcheck Menu?

How to Minimize the Oversize Spellcheck Menu?

Tuesday, 4. August 2009, 15:24:40

Be careful of what you wish for in the Opera Wish-list forum, because you might just get exactly what you requested! Over the years, many Opera users lament over the dialog-base Spellchecker, & mesmerize by the Inline Spellchecker in Firefox 2. Thus, we requested a Fx2-Style-Inline-Spellchecker. Then in Opera 10, we finally got what we asked for... plus an OVERSIZE SPELLCHECK MENU!!! I can't believe this, we have overlooked this tiny little undesirable side effect...

The good news is, we don't have to live with IT. That's right, you can "hack" this OVERSIZE SPELLCHECK MENU down to a more reasonable size, & this is how I did it.

A. Dissect the Spellcheck Menu
If you don't know how to edit menu setup, read this TUTORIAL before you proceed further...

1. First, open standard_menu (1).ini with text editor.
(Renamed standard_menu (1).ini to something else to prevent Opera from overwrite it)

2. Next, search for [Edit Widget Popup Menu Spellcheck Word] section, & look for this line:

Include, Internal Spellcheck Suggestions

3. Then add this line under it, remember to save the document when you're done:

BreakItem

4. Finally, fire-up Opera & select the newly modified menu setup to apply the changes you just made.

B. Condense the Edit Widget Popup Menu
It's optional, you can move some commands into a custom submenu to further reduce the menu size. Search for [Edit Widget Popup Menu] section, & replace the entire section with these:

[Edit Widget Popup Menu]
Submenu, M_INSERT_PERSONAL, Edit Widget Insert Menu
Submenu, M_INSERT_NOTE, Internal Note List
--------------------1
Submenu, Edit..., Custom Edit Menu
--------------------5
Item, M_CREATE_SEARCH=Create search|Manage Search Engines,,,M_MANAGE_SEARCH_ENGINES
--------------------6
Item, M_INTERNAL_SPELLCHECK_ENABLE=Spell check | Spell check

[Custom Edit Menu]
Item, MI_IDM_EDIT_UNDO=Undo
Item, M_REDO=Redo
--------------------2
Item, MI_IDM_EDIT_CUT=Cut
Item, MI_IDM_EDIT_COPY=Copy
Item, MI_IDM_EDIT_PASTE=Paste
Item, MI_IDM_EDIT_DELETE=Delete
--------------------3
Item, M_COPY_TO_NOTE=Copy to note
--------------------4
Item, M_CLEAR_ALL=Clear
Item, MI_IDM_EDIT_SELECTALL=Select all

C. How It Works?
Here are some before & after screenshots:

By default, it's REALLY HUGE...

After dissection, it looks a lot better...

And then, you can further condensed it into this:

Got better ideas? Then share 'em in the forum!

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Comments

AnthonyA1 # 4. August 2009, 16:18

Nice trick thanks. I prefer Ospell to the built in Opera spell check and use it all the time. I never use the built in one any more. Besides the huge dialog you provided a fix for I find the built in spell check to be not nearly as accurate as Ospell.

z@h3k # 5. August 2009, 05:43

It's usefull tip.

dapxin # 5. August 2009, 08:57

@anthony,

I think it work in progress. rough edges will be trimmed out.

erich_k # 3. September 2009, 12:57

Not working here: the problem is that I've been using a customized menu for years, and these entries are simply not in there. Nevertheless spellchecking works, so somehow Opera is looking in several files at the same time to construct its menus...

jp10558 # 8. September 2009, 17:33

I also cannot find these entries, same as erich k..... Do you have an example entry for the [Edit Widget Popup Menu Spellcheck Word] so I can add it to my custom menu file?

I figured it out, for some reason it's not in the defaults or in your profile, but in
C:\Program Files\Opera 9\ui
for me, and when searching in Notepad, watch for spaces before the text....

I wouldn't change any of the default menu.ini files, but instead just add the section to your own menu.ini in your profile's \menu directory.

oceanic # 10. September 2009, 13:17

thank you, this setup is really nice!

however i have some cosmetic problems

http://i28.tinypic.com/jk87l2.jpg

any idea how to solve this?

i'm running Opera 10.10