Implementing a Hyphenator

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A sample implementation of a hyphenator is found in the examples for linguistic.

The hyphenator implements the following interfaces:

• com.sun.star.linguistic2.XHyphenator
• com.sun.star.linguistic2.XLinguServiceEventBroadcaster
• com.sun.star.lang.XInitialization
• com.sun.star.lang.XServiceDisplayName
• com.sun.star.lang.XServiceInfo
• com.sun.star.lang.XComponent

and

• com.sun.star.lang.XTypeProvider, if you want to access your add-in interfaces from OpenOffice.org Basic, otherwise, this interface is not mandatory.

Aside from choosing a new service implementation name, the process of implementing the hyphenator is the same as implementing the spell checker, except that you need to implement the com.sun.star.linguistic2.XHyphenator interface instead of the com.sun.star.linguistic2.XSpellChecker interface.

You can choose a different set of languages to be supported. When editing the sample code, modify the hasLocale() and getLocales() methods to reflect the set of languages your implementation supports.

To implement the com.sun.star.linguistic2.XHyphenator interface, modify the functions

 public XHyphenatedWord hyphenate(...)
 public XHyphenatedWord queryAlternativeSpelling(...)
 public XPossibleHyphens createPossibleHyphens(...)<

in the sample hyphenator source file at the stated positions.

Look in the constructor

 public SampleHyphenator() 

at the relevant properties and modify the

 public void propertyChange(...) 

function accordingly.

The rest, registration and activation is again the same as for the spell checker.

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