TeXlipse spell-check configuration

I'm turning kind of desperate looking for a way to enable spell checking in TeXlipse. Of the application itself I am very fond. I've tried things I found here and on other forums, and on the user manual (http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/manual/spelling.html), but I can't find clear instructions to configure spell checking, i.e. what path directory to choose, where can I find .dict files,… I mean step-by-step instructions from the beginning to the end. The User Manual entry is too vague for me.

I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.6, Eclipse 3.6.开发者_如何转开发2, TeXlipse 1.4.1.

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The answers are in the manual:
http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/manual/spelling.html

1. Get the dictionaries here: sourceforge page
2. Save them wherever you want. Could be /Users/your_name/documents/dictionaries, for example.
3. Enable 'Use built in spell checker' in the Texlipse options in eclipse.
4. Set both directories to whatever you used above.
5. Enable eclipse's own spellchecker, if it isn't already.
6. Restart the IDE.

I had a little trouble getting it to work nicely; I keep getting the following error message in the console. There are about 10 posts on the texlipse forum about it with no answers, so presumably it's not a big deal.

running: null
Error running spell checker

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Make sure that you set the language for the project under

Properties > Latex Project Properties > Language setting to "en"

after telling it to use the built in spell checker in

Preferences > Texlipse

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For me, it turned out to be related to file extensions. I pointed the texlipse spell checker to the same directory that eclipse stores its dictionaries and it didn't work. Then I made my own directory and generated my own dictionary using aspell (as mentioned in the texlipse FAQ), but this time I used a simple "dict" extension instead of the "dictionary" as in the Eclipse installation and it worked.