check

Check the spelling of a word or String

getLexicons, setLexicons

Get/set the set of lexicons (dictionaries) used to check spelling. The set of lexicons is represented as an Array.

getOption, setOption

Get/set option values:

• CASE_SENSITIVE_OPT: Enable if words with different letter-case patterns should be treated as different words.
  

• IGNORE_ALL_CAPS_WORD_OPT: Enable if checked words consisting entirely of upper-case letters should be ignored.
  
• IGNORE_CAPPED_WORD_OPT: Enable if checked words should be ignored if they begin with an upper-case letter.
  
• IGNORE_DOMAIN_NAMES_OPT: Enable to ignore (skip) words that appear to be Internet domain names.
  
• IGNORE_MIXED_CASE_OPT: Enable if checked words containing an unusual mixture of upper- and lower-case letters should be ignored.
  
• IGNORE_MIXED_DIGITS_OPT: Enable if checked words containing a mixture of letters and digits or other symbols should be ignored.
  
• REPORT_DOUBLED_WORD_OPT: Enable if two occurrences of the same word in a row should be reported.
  
• REPORT_MIXED_CASE_OPT: Enable if checked words containing an unusual combination of upper- and lower-case letters should be reported.
  
• REPORT_MIXED_DIGITS_OPT: Enable if checked words containing a combination of letters and digits or other symbols should be reported.
  
• REPORT_UNCAPPED_OPT: Enable if check words should be reported whose first character is not capitalized.
  
• SPLIT_CONTRACTED_WORDS_OPT: Enable if apostrophes should if necessary be as word separators, and each sub-word spell checked individually.
  
• SPLIT_HYPHENATED_WORDS_OPT: Enable if hyphens ("-") as should if necessary be treated as word separators, and each sub-word spell checked individually.
  
• SPLIT_WORDS_OPT: Enable if words should if necessary be treated as a series of concatenated sub-words, and each sub-word spell checked individually.
  
• STRIP_POSSESSIVES_OPT: Enable if possessives of the form xxx's and xxxs' should be removed from words before checking their spelling.
  
• SUGGEST_SPLIT_WORDS_OPT: Enable if suggest() should attempt to split words into two valid sub-words.

suggest

Locate suggested alternate spellings for a misspelled word.

addWord

Add a word to the lexicon.

deleteWord

Remove a word from the lexicon.

words

Enumerate the words in the lexicon.

deleteText

Delete a specified number of characters from the text starting at the current cursor position.

deleteWord

Delete the word at the cursor position.

getCursor

Obtain the current cursor position, expressed as an offset from the start of the text.

getNumReplacements

Get the number of words replaced so far.

getWord

Obtain the word at the WordParser's current cursor position.

insertText

Insert text at a specified position.

isDoubledWord

Determine if the current word and the previous word are identical, and that no punctuation appears between them.

nextWord

Obtain the current word and advance to the next word.

replaceWord

Replace the word at the current position with a new word.

setCursor

Set the cursor to a given position.

toString

Convert the text to String form.