Eclipse Juno not recognizing user defined dictionary has been specified

Question

I'm a new user to Eclipse (Juno) with SUSE 11 Linux,I am looking for specifying a user defined dictionary so that I can stop all the "Trolltech" and "Qt" references in my Qt projects showing up as spelling errors, without turning off all spell checking.

I found following instructions online, I select Window | Preferences | Editors | Text Editors | Spelling and get a panel including a field in which to specify a user defined dictionary. I gather all this needs to be, is a text file. I have tried two variations for this:

As root,

1. created an /opt/eclipse/dictionary/dictionary.txt file, file permissions set 777 but higher level directories 755s
2. created a /dictionary/dictionary.txt file, both directory and file permissions set 777.

I have at this point, in each case,

1. specified the full (absolute) path to one of these files in the "User defined dictionary" field,
2. clicked either Apply | OK to set the path, or just OK, exiting the dialog
3. seen no change in the Eclipse editor, which still shows these terms as misspellings
4. at the level of the project, attempted Refresh of the project from the right-mouse popup menu
5. tried re-indexing at the level of the project using Index | Rebuild from the right-mouse popup menu
6. tried refreshing files at the level of the project using Index | Freshen All Files from the right-mouse popup menu (no reason to believe that either of steps 5 or 6 will help, but I'm basically trying everything that seems available to be tried)
7. closed and re-opened the project
8. closed and re-opened the IDE.

When I restart the IDE and go back into Window | Preferences, etc., the panel shows the dictionary text file I've specified AS specified, but there seems to be no functional recognition of this by the IDE.

Adding to the joy, when I hover above either of the "errors" I'd like to stop seeing, I don't get the quick fix option of adding the error word to the dictionary, because last week I ticked the option that said "don't prompt to add to a dictionary, if no dictionary exists". Doesn't appear that any dictionary is being recognized as existing.

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing, here?

Trotline

OK, I figured it out. The thing none of the instructions I'd read mentioned, is that in the Windows | Preferences etc., panel, you have to change from "Default spelling engine" to "C/C++ spelling engine". Then you re-specify the dictionary and it works. – Trotline

Than you, it works. You should add the answer. – Debug

Dorothy, it is perfectly fine on stackoverflow to answer your own question and accept it. It will be useful for future generations of unlucky eclipse users. – Counterstatement

Answer 1

I'm just adding this here because Dorothy didn't answer his own question even after 3 years. This will stop the question showing up in the unanswered category and provide space for newer questions.

Dorothy Wight:

OK, I figured it out. The thing none of the instructions I'd read mentioned, is that in the Windows | Preferences etc., panel, you have to change from "Default spelling engine" to "C/C++ spelling engine". Then you re-specify the dictionary and it works.

Anatolian