TeXlipse spell-check configuration

Question

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 3.6.2, TeXlipse 1.4.1.

Answer 1

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