This is a small tool to help you find those annoying misspelled words in the overview. It uses the spellcheck that is built-in as part of WPF Textbox. It does have some limitations that you'll have to live with.

For one thing it only spellchecks in English and in the installed Windows language (if other than English, that is), so in my personal case, English and Swedish. It's possible that it can handle other languages if the Windows Language Pack for that language is installed.

Another limitation is that you can't add words to the language dictionary. So you'll see some words, like "Blu", flagged over and over. And of course there are a lot of names that it will not recognize.



Like many of my programs, this works off an exported XML file. If you have used my program ProfilerQuery you will be familiar with that. If not, do download ProfilerQuery and read the help file. It will tell you all you need to know about exporting to XML.

This program will only show overviews with suspected spelling errors. That means that it will bypass any profiles that have no errors, and any that it cannot spellcheck because of the language. And by the way, it uses the locality to determine what language to expect.

You can right-click on a misspelled word to get a suggestion, but remember to check it against the actual back cover. At least if you plan to contribute the change to the online database.

Clicking Edit overview will open the profile in DVD Profiler. For this to work properly, make sure that all filters are cleared in Profiler.

The slider below the image allows you to zoom the back cover up to 400% from the initially loaded size.

Important: In order to find the back cover images, the program assumes that your database is named Default. Please let me know if you need to specify another database name, and I might add that as an option.

Download here.

Nice tool 
Works fine, even in French, and I found a dozen of spelling mistakes. Just a little improvement if possible : when you use the button Edit Overview, it opens the profile with Tools menu opened. Is it possible to open the profile directly in edit mode ?

Quoting GSyren:

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Hm, are you using the French translation for Profiler?

Yes, this is probably the cause...

Coming soon in this forum

I'm working on several improvements in OverviewCheck.

There will be settings:

* The biggie is that you can select a range of collection numbers so you don't have to go through the fiddle that I described in the previous post.
* You can also select to be shown all overviews (except the empty ones) if you want to compare the Profiler overview with the one on the back cover.


* When you select to show all, there will be a "traffic light" that shows green if the overview has been spell checked without any problems found. It will show red if possible misspellings have been found, and yellow if the overview could not be spellchecked (due to language not supported). The yellow one took a little thinking outside the box to implement.

* As I promised, the command to open the Profiler overview for editing has been made customizeable. It should be noted, though, that it will not work if the translator has not provided an access key (the underlined character) for the Overview tab.

I have a few more features lined up. I often get hit by "the developer's curse", that's when you think you're done, and then when you do the final testing you start thinking "That's not as convenient as it should be" or "Oh, one could slip up on that one if one isn't thinking" or "Hm, wouldn't it be neat if ..."

So there is some research to be done, some experimenting to be performed, some cursing to be supressed, but hopefully a "Eureka" or two. We'll see. Good things come to those who wait. 

Far north? Yeah, I guess that geographically Stockholm is fairly far north, although I have never considered it that. For me, the polar circle is far north, and that's a long way from here. Stockholm has a climate that is comparable to, say, New York. I believe we have the Gulf Stream to thank for that.

Anyway, glad you like the program. Version 2 is well under way. I have managed to implement "Add to dictionary" which is not part of the built-in spelling check. There are some finishing touches left, plus I think I may want to do a help file as well. Barring any unforseen problems it should be done within the next few days.

And of course the weather will impact how much time I will want to spend at the computer. 

There will probably be a version 2.1.

I am not quite satisfied with the fact that if there is a large number of profiles without any errors that the program has to skip, it appears as if it was frozen.

I am contemplating changing the search for profiles with errors, putting it on a separate thread. It won't make the search go any faster, but the program will not appear to hang, and I can hopefully provide some feedback to show that something is happening. Things appear to go quicker if you get some form of progress feedback.

That will, however, require quite a bit of re-coding, so it may not be done tomorrow. But on Monday (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

With first version, the button Edit Overview opened the cocerned profile. It doesn't work for me with this version.

Quoting myself:

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Anyone know of any free third party spell checker control?

After some search I found Hunspell, which would seem to fit the bill.
Pros: No ties to any user interface control (like textbox), so it can spellcheck on a background thread. It uses the same type of dictionaries as Open Office and Libre Office, so there are more language options.
Cons: Totally different concept than Microsoft's spellchecker, so it would pretty much require a total rewrite of OverviewCheck. Much more complex to implement "Add to dictionary". Can't use the squiggly red underline (but a regular underline could work).

Bottom line - hardly going to happen, unless I get very bored, or very curious. The latter is slightly more likely that the former.