Spell Checking

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by Stephen Persson >> Mon, 9 Apr 2001 3:08:19 GMT

Hi,
Does anyone know how to get at the Microsoft Office spell checker?
Is it an ActiveX / COM object somewhere that can be imported into Jade? Alternatively, does anyone know of a decent spell checking component?

Just in passing - I didn't realise Jade cached the contents of a textbox. I found one nice little free spell checker that worked like a charm - even made the standard Jade textbox behave like a rich text box which I didn't think it was! (individual mis-spelt words were highlighted, functionality I though Jade textbox didn't support), but the textbox.text property always gave me back the old text - even though you could see something completely different on screen.

Thanks
Stephen Persson
Kinetix Group Ltd

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by Carl Ranson >> Mon, 9 Apr 2001 3:35:13 GMT

It would have done most of this by intercepting the paint messages of the controls in question and doing the drawing itself (thereby being able to draw anything it liked, incl colors etc, regardless of what the jade control thought of it all).

At a guess, it didn't manage to past the text back into the jade control at the right time, or at all, which would explain why the text box got a different value to that shown.

Cheers,
CR

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by Craig Shearer >> Mon, 9 Apr 2001 3:47:12 GMT

I have seen an OCX available from the people who make the VS-VIEW series of controls (which are VERY useful if you want to implement decent print preview functionality)...

It is interesting you mention this... we've recently had a couple of clients enquire about whether they can have a spell checker in their system... I guess as bespoke software developers we often laugh at this sort of thing, but I guess that's what users are used to. Perhaps we could work on this together and come up with a useful spell-checking component for JADE systems in general.

Regards,
Craig.

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by Stephen Persson >> Sun, 27 May 2001 22:43:55 GMT

The saga contiues...
I now have a good spell checker (Spellex), however to get at the auto correct functionality it needs a rich text box.
I imported the standard MS Rich Text control - imported into Jade fine, but when I put it on the form I got a message "You are not licensed for this product". Whats the deal with that?! Is there a "work around" without us presumably having to fork out big $$$ to Microsoft?
Alternatively does anyone have, or is able to recommend a rich text box control - there was a surprising lack of any on the major component sites I checked.