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Hi all,
This was raised quite a while ago, but I'll raise it again in case technology and options have moved on:

Does anyone use any spell checking tools in their Jade application? Either 3rd party external apps, 3rd party Jade packages or coded yourself in Jade? We're looking for the ability to validate the spelling of user input in text box controls.

Any ideas or recommendations on this?

Thanks,
Allistar.

Hi Allistar,

Do you have BaseSchema (freely available) - that has a Spell Checker and dictionary implemented in Jade itself. It's not quite as flashy as some 3rd party products, but it works quite well.

cheers,
darrell.

Hi Darell,
No, we don't have BaseSchema and fitting it into our schema hierarchy would be too difficult, especially for something as simple as a spell checker. Thanks anyway.

Anyone else?

Parsys uses the Wintertree spell checker ActiveX, see http://www.wintertree-software.com/#Spelling for a description of their spell checker offerings, which are quite numerous.

Hi, I have used an earlier version of Vspell which was very functional.

http://www.componentsource.com/products ... mmary.html

John

To be more precise, Parsys uses the Sentry Spelling Checker Engine for Windows from Wintertree software:

http://www.wintertree-software.com/dev/ ... wssdk.html

It uses it in non-interactive mode, although I do know of at least one other development team using it in interactive mode where it highlights mis-spelt words directly in the actual TextBox/RichText control and provides a right-click context menu for spelling suggestions.

They don't provide a Unicode version of their DLL, and you have to separately licence their non-English dictionaries, so if you want/need to support languages other than English there may be better options available.

Cheers,
BeeJay.

Hi Darell,
No, we don't have BaseSchema and fitting it into our schema hierarchy would be too difficult, especially for something as simple as a spell checker. Thanks anyway.

Anyone else?

Hi Allistar. Well, you could load CardSchema/BaseSchema/YourPackageSchema. Now expose the spell checking methods from YourPackageSchema, and import the package into your appropriate schema. Just saying ...

Simon.