What is the best quickest way to do a spell check on a text area box?

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I don’t know just how to ask this question so please take that into account when reading this question.

I want to do a spell check on the text I type into a text area box. How do I do this?

Is there a spell check program out there that I could access via clipboard?? (It would have to be quick).

I can copy the text to the clip board and then open a word processor and drop the text into it. But it seems awfully slow and cumbersome.

Is there a better way to do it?

Any help would be appreciated as my spelling is very, very, very bad.
Thanks for any help.
Dave

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I’m not sure about Windows, but in Cocoa in OS X, it’s automatic. In fact, you have to turn spell check off for the control if you don’t want it.

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I assume you are on a Windows machine because, if you were using a Mac, you’d already have Spell Check. Are you talking then, about just your own use in MSWord and such, or for within your programs you write. If within your coded programs, I have a suggestion

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http://www.bkeeney.com/allproducts/bks-spell-checker-plugin-for-xojo/ uses the native spell checker in Mac OS X and on Windows 8 and above. You also have the option of using Hunspell dictionaries in any Mac or Windows target (basically Windows 7 at this point). While I haven’t specifically tested against the clipboard I have no doubt that it couldn’t be done.

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Bob
Thanks for the answer about the plug in but the 100 dollars is a problem That is why I’m still running Real Basic.

The thing that interests me in your reply is the native spell checker on windows 8 above I’m running windows 10. How do I find out more information about this?

As I would like to have the spell checker available to my real basic program so that it automatically check the spelling as I type or I can click a button and it will check the text in the box.

Dave

PS I seem to have lost Roger Clary’s suggestion or more like it was over my head LOL

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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.spellcheck(v=vs.110).aspx

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@Michel Bujardet

Any information on how to implement this in Xojo?

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It should be a rather simple declare. I will see if I can find the time to do it.

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Well, no so simple. The spell checking API of Windows 8-10 works only with .Net controls apparently.

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That was what I thought but wanted to be proven wrong.

Next question. It’s not easy/possible to use a .net control in Xojo, is it?

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The only way I know how is to use a .Net DLL. But maybe our plugin geniuses have done it.

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I think that might be above my level of knowledge…

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Spellcheck is automatic now? no plugin needed for XOJO? i was using MagicSpeller before and it is pretty weak. Need a new solution.

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Xojo does not include a spell checker.

Edit: (except for Mac - see below).

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TextArea.AutomaticallyCheckSpelling enables spell checking for Mac apps. For Windows/Linux you’ll still need another solution.

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thanks! i’ll check that out.