Thanks Mike,
That sounds pretty fancy, but I guess almost everyone has Word. The key is
it accomplishes the objective of being transparent to the user. A little
more elegant than my: Copy text, paste into WP, Spellcheck, Copy, (Return
RBase), Paste.
Dennis
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At 11:40 AM 9/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>If you have Word, You can spell check through Automation.
>
>It can be as simple as:
>
>dim a
>dim b
>dim c
>
>Set a = CreateObject("word.application")
>
>a.WordBasic.FileNew 'open a doc
>a.Visible = False 'hide the doc
>
>b = a.CheckSpelling("boy")
>c = a.CheckGrammar("I am a boy.")
>
>MsgBox b
>MsgBox c
>
>a.Quit
>set a = nothing
>
>wscript.quit(0)
>
>You would write the contents of your variable to disk in a temp file then
>spellcheck it as above (The above is a snippet and not necessarily loaded
>with all the things you would do in spellcheck) then pass the corrected file
>contents back to RBase via the FileSystemObject as used in some of my other
>examples....
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dennis Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:44 AM
>Subject: Spell Check?
>
>
>> We've enjoyed incorporating the Launch command to display images (using
>> your favorite viewer) and to display graphs (using Excel, Quattro Pro,
>> etc.), but not sure how best to address a spell check option. (Read
>> Razzak's post as to Launch enhancements.)
>>
>> I'm thinking 3rd party s/w which is running in the background and appears
>> to be part of your app. If Word or Word Perfect is left open on your tool
>> bar, I guess you could make spell check somewhat transparent to your user.
>> I.e., Copy and then click an EEP button which saves to a file, Launch and
>> spell check, and then return to your screen form. (Or paste to clipboard
>> and then spell check.)
>>
>> Anyone doing this?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Dennis
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