How do I use ActiveX Speller to check text entered in Web page forms?

ActiveX Speller can check text entered in text areas on Web pages viewed with Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, Netscape does not currently support ActiveX controls.

How do I use ActiveX Speller to spell check in my application?

ActiveX Speller can spell check text strings, standard text boxes (TextBox and CEdit), and standard rich-text boxes (RichTextBox and CRichEdit). The most common application involves checking the contents of a text box on a form. Usually, your application will set ActiveX Speller's TextControlHWnd property with the window-handle property of the text box (usually called the hWnd property), then call ActiveX Speller's Start method. ActiveX Speller will check the words in the text box. When it finds a spelling error, it will highlight the misspelled word and present its built-in spell check dialog, The user can use this dialog to look up suggestions, add words to user dictionaries, and correct misspellings. When a correction is made, ActiveX Speller updates the text control automatically. You can also use ActiveX Speller to spell check strings using the built-in spellchecker dialog, with your own dialog, or without interacting with the user at all.

What's the difference between ActiveX Speller and your Spellex Windows SDK product?

The main difference is that Spellex Windows SDK is implemented as DLLs and ActiveX Speller is an ActiveX control (OCX). ActiveX Speller uses the Spellex Sentry engine internally, so the two products are comparable in terms of power and performance.

What about support?

Our current policy provides free e-mail support with no fixed time limits for all customers. This support is limited to spending reasonable amounts of time helping you solve problems related to integrating our products with your software.

How do I obtain upgrades?

An Annual maintenance contract keeps your software updated with any major or minor upgrades released by Spellex during the year. Your maintenance agreement also provides you with e-mail technical support. You can contact us at any time to enquire about current version numbers, recent changes, etc.

Can I add words to the dictionary?

Yes. ActiveX Speller allows your application to open dictionaries, much like a program can open files. When ActiveX Speller checks the spelling of a word, it checks all open dictionaries. Text dictionaries are modifiable; your application can add and remove words from them at runtime. Any number of user dictionaries can be open at once, limited only by available memory.

Can ActiveX Speller offer suggested replacements for misspelled words?

Yes. ActiveX Speller includes the Suggest method, which looks up suggestions for misspellings. If your application is using our built-in spelling-checker dialog, suggestions can be offered automatically or when the "Suggest" button is pressed.

Do I have to use your dialog boxes, or can I write my own?

You can do either or both. Using our dialogs is the easiest approach, but ActiveX Speller's properties and methods are flexible enough to support custom dialogs. Instructions for providing your own dialog is included in the programmer's guide, and example custom dialogs are provided. If necessary, you can access ActiveX Speller's spell check capabilities without a user interface at all.

Does the dictionary just contain words, or words and definitions?

Just words. ActiveX Speller is a highly optimized spell check engine.

Can ActiveX Speller use other applications' user dictionaries (e.g., Word for Windows)?

Yes. ActiveX Speller can use most other applications' user dictionaries.

How much memory and disk space does ActiveX Speller need?

The ActiveX Speller OCX file is about 110K. The American and UK English dictionaries each occupy just over 300K. At run time, ActiveX Speller will use a maximum of about 500K of memory.

How fast is ActiveX Speller?

On an average system (P133), ActiveX Speller can spell check over 14,000 words per second!

How long has ActiveX Speller been around? Is it stable?

The core spell check engine in ActiveX Speller has been around since 1992. It formed part of a commercial stand-alone spell checker product. We released our spell check engine as a separate product in 1993. ActiveX Speller, which contains our spell check engine, was released in late 1997.

There are several spellcheck packages on the market. Why should we license yours?

• Spellex has been the acknowledged leader in software spell checking solutions since 1988. That is one reason why thousands of the world's most successful companies rely on Spellex for fast, accurate spell checking.
  

• Spell check software solutions are our business. Software spell checking solutions are our specialty, therefore, all of our engineering time is devoted towards improving our existing Spellex products, supporting our many customers, and developing new products to meet your needs. Spellex has set the standard for spell checking providers. We focus on keeping current -- and even defining -- the latest trends in spell checking technology.
  
• Spellex offers multilingual product use, with dictionaries available in a variety of languages, including Brazilian (Portuguese), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.
  
• Dictionary Quality -- All Spellex SDKs come standard with the Spellex world class dictionaries. The Spellex Java SDK contains an American English and British English dictionary which includes contractions, abbreviations, possessive forms, and capitalized proper names. Spellex lexicons have been the preferred spelling dictionary by the world's most prominent and successful companies for more than a decade.
  
• Ease of integration — ActiveX Speller's interface is direct and straightforward. We remember all necessary state information so your application does not have to. There are no complicated data structures to set up and maintain.
  
• Royalty free — No copy counting required, and no disclosure of your sales figures necessary.