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Recent changes to the development sources

The last time the recent changes were posted was sometime during March this year.  So, to put matters right, here's a list of the recent changes. Mostly enhancements plus one or two bug fixes. 2016-09:     gnocl::tree & gnocl::list         o added -textColor and -textColour     gnocl::text         o new command, wordCount, return size of buffer in words.         o new command, magnify. Increase/decrease basefont height by specified amount in pixels (e.g. 1 or -1), or "reset", to set to default.     gnocl::box, gnocl::vBox, gnocl::hBox         o new command, getPos. Returns postilion of child widget packed into box, or -1 if not found.     gnocl::entry         o improved error checking to the -innerBorder option, a list of 4 integers must be supplied.     gnocl::statusBar         o low priority command 'remove' renamed to 'subtract', this allows the 'remove' keyword to be used for removal of widgets embedded in a statusbar with the add comma

GnoclSpellCheck

The earlier version of the GnoclSpellCheck module as developed on my ancient 32-bit workstation running OpenSuse 11.2 (yes, I said that it was ancient). The problem arising from using legacy equipment is that when packages like Gnocl are developed, not only can various elements cease to work (i.e GtkSpell 2 does not run at all on a Gnome 3 desktop or under Ubuntu Mate) but later libraries such as GtkSpell 3 are complete re-writes and can, as I've found, have their own bugs! A new Gnome speller, gspell is under development but this requires the bleeding edge Gtk3 libraries which, apart from being incompatible with the Gtk+2 libraries against which Gnocl is built, these latest versions are not currently part of the stable releases. So, I thought, build my own. So, I did. Rather than using the C-api for either Ispell, Aspell or Hunspell, I've just used a simple data pipe. These three packages give varying suggestions for misspelt words so, the eventual front end will enable the us