ComponentOne VSSPELL

Consisting of two controls, VSSpell and VSThesaurus, ComponentOne VSSPELL 8.0 can add complete spell-checking and thesaurus functionality to any of your VB applications.

Just place the VSSpell control on your VB form and you instantly have spell-checking abilities! Your end users may choose to ignore, ignore all, change, or change all words retrieved by the tool. And VSSpell will keep an incremental count of all "bad" words that were changed and ignored throughout the document. Likewise, place the VSThesaurus control on your form to access a professional thesaurus file for quick retrieval of alternate words. VSThesaurus offers a built-in automatic dialog box, as well as the ability to create new thesaurus files based on existing thesaurus files.

Lightweight and easy to distribute with no external dependencies, ComponentOne VSSPELL 8.0 is a must-have for just about every application!

ComponentOne VSSPELL 8.0 includes add-on British English, Spanish, and Dutch dictionaries.

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Detailed Product Description

The Little Touches

You've just finished your newest application. It has the most wonderful tricks Visual Basic can apply - tool tips, help, a splash screen to die for. It's been beta tested, the reports calculate correctly, and the invoices look sharp and print on any printer. Its specially designed editor allows the end user to write customized dunning letters and other correspondence. What's missing is a spell checker!

It's What They Don't Have That Counts!

Even the greatest application in the world becomes annoying if it lacks what people expect. And spell checking in an editor is something that people expect. Let's face facts, we're not all Noah Websters. When we're doing a job, concentration on spelling is not always a top priority. Enter VSSPELL.

The Easiest Way to Add Spell Checking to Your Applications...Period!

After adding VSSPELL to your application, create a button to invoke the spell checker. Tie the spell checker to the window with the text in it, tell where you want to start (you can start anywhere in the text) and set the start property to true. You're done! If you need a thesaurus, it's just as easy. Because the little touches do so much, you should buy VSSPELL today!

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Features:

VSSPELL 8.0 International Dictionaries
VSSPELL includes additional British English, Spanish and Dutch Dictionaries. The dictionaries provided are listed below:

• 253,000 word British English Combined Dictionary
• 73,000 word British English Condensed Dictionary
• 91,000 word Spanish Dictionary
• 160,000 word Dutch Dictionary

As-you-type Spell Checking (Regular Text Boxes and RTF)
Link the VSSpell control to any textbox or rich textbox to monitor the control to underline user spelling mistakes with a wiggly red line just like Microsoft Word. Or provide users with custom warnings!

AutoLink to RichTextEdit Controls
You can also link the control to regular TextEdit or RichTextEdit controls to correct spelling mistakes without disturbing the text format.

Unlimited Text Length
Spell-check a word, a sentence, a paragraph, or entire documents at once!

Improved AutoLinkHwnd Property
While spell-checking, the VSSpell control will automatically highlight offending words and fix them when the user interacts with the built-in bad-word dialog box.

Enhanced Bad-Word Dialog Box
You can set the font to be used in the bad-word dialog box, so it looks consistent with your application. Users can also click a checkbox to enable or disable suggestions. And the bad-word dialog box now "remembers" its position when the user moves it around the screen, making it much easier and more intuitive to use.

Dependency Free
VSSPELL does not depend on any additional DLLs. To distribute applications that use VSSPELL, simply include the VSSPELL6.OCX and VSSP_AE.DCT (the main dictionary file) in your setup.

Faster Spell Checking
This version spell-checks documents twice as fast as previous versions!

Larger Dictionary (250,000+ Words)
There's also a larger built-in dictionary (over four times the entries of the previous version).

Improved Object Model
VSSPELL is backward-compatible with earlier versions of the control, and expands the original object model with many useful new methods, properties, and events that allow you to customize behavior such as: monitoring activity and adding words to be automatically ignored or changed; defining the appearance of detected spelling errors, and the actions to be taken when spelling errors are detected; and providing user feedback.

Maximized Efficiency
VSSPELL employs a word caching technique to maximize speed and efficiency. The word cache is a list of up to 1,000 commonly misspelled words that are stored in the OCX. This results in fewer dips into the dictionary, and faster access to suggested spellings. The supplied thesaurus and dictionary will display French, American English, Spanish, or German languages with the simple adjustment of one default value (a 250,000 word American English Dictionary is provided).

Custom Dictionaries
VSSPELL features a powerful utility that allows the creation of custom-built dictionaries and thesaurus files that you may distribute with your application. At design-time, building a custom dictionary (or thesaurus) is as simple as launching the included DictUtil.exe utility (ThesUtil.exe, respectively) and "dumping" the specified dictionary file (.DCT) into a text file with a single button click. Once in the .TXT format, you may open and edit the file with any word processing editor to build up to five different custom libraries. The Dictionary Utility allows you to set read-only or read/write permissions to any dictionary file you create with the simple selection of a checkbox, allowing users to add new words—or not—to your dictionary. Once you are finished modifying the .TXT file, you may use the utility to convert it back to the .DCT format and distribute it with your application. Customized dictionaries and thesaurus files are particularly helpful for words and phrases specific to certain industries.

Trim Size
At only 160K, the VSSpell OCX is must-have. (Note, however, that custom dictionaries can grow to 2MB!)