Canasta wrote:
> The best approach to this problem isn't to embed yet another spelling
> checker into Mozilla. Rather, it's to incorporate an interface to
> third-party utilities to provide this and similar services.
[snip]
> Does anyone know of anything similar for Windows or Unix?
The easiest short-term solution on Windows might be just to use the
existing spell checker that comes with MS Word. This is what Visio used
to do before it was bought back by MS. During installation it would ask
if you wanted to use MS' spell checker or Visio's.
It's not too hard to figure out how to access COM objects--see the MS KB
article on automating Word for details. Of course, this interface is
MS-only, and requires MFC to compile. I just took a quick look at the MS
Word type library and saw lots of application level functionality for
spell checking, but I didn't see a spell checker interface per se. I'm
sure it's in there somewhere--probably defined in a separate .olb file.
David
