How to Use the FoxPro Spelling Checker (SPELLCHK.APP)

Last reviewed: April 30, 1996
Article ID: Q117212

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0
Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5, 2.5a, 2.5b, 2.6
Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, version 2.5b, 2.5c

SUMMARY

This article is intended to provide supplemental information on how to use the FoxPro spelling checker (SPELLCHK.APP). Note that there are no examples showing how to use the spelling checker in either the manuals or the online Help files.

MORE INFORMATION

_SPELLCHK is a system memory variable that contains the drive, path, and name of the spelling checker program. For example, the value contained in the _SPELLCHK variable might be:

   "C:\FOXPROW\SPELLCHK.APP"

This information can be found in the online Help file by searching for "SPELLCHK," but cannot be found in any of the manuals.

To illustrate how to use the spelling checker, do the following:

Use the Screen Builder to create a screen named TEST.
The Setup Code snippet should contain:
```
      USE tutorial\salesman
```
The Cleanup Code snippet should contain:
```
      CLOSE ALL
```

Place the following objects on the screen:

a. A GET object with an input field of SALESMAN.NAME.

b. An EDIT region object with an input field of SALESMAN.NOTES.

c. A push button object with a variable field of CHOICE, a push button

      prompt of "Spell Check" (without the quotation marks), and a VALID
      clause procedure containing the following code:

         SET SAFETY OFF
         CREATE TABLE notefile (dummy C(1), notes m)
         APPEND BLANK
         REPLACE notefile.notes WITH salesman.notes

         MODIFY MEMO notefile.notes NOWAIT
         DO (_SPELLCHK)
         CLOSE MEMO notefile.notes
         REPLACE salesman.notes WITH notefile.notes

         USE
         ERASE notefile.dbf
         ERASE notefile.fpt
         ERASE notefile.bak
         SET SAFETY ON

         SELECT salesman
         SHOW GETS

Generate the screen, and then run it by issuing the following command in the Command window:
```
      DO TEST.SPR
```

NOTE: The file MSSPELL.DLL, which is a dynamic-link library installed by Microsoft Word 6.0, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft Works for Windows, must be present in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM or WINDOWS\MSAPPS\PROOF subdirectory for SPELLCHK.APP to work.

MSSPELL.DLL is owned and licensed by a third-party vendor. To use this DLL, you must contact the vendor and obtain a licensing agreement. The vendor will require a nominal fee for licensing the usage of its DLL.

Soft-Art's owns MSSPELL.DLL and can be reached at:

   Linguistic Software Solutions (Soft-Arts's marketing group)
   Phone: 813-642-6010
   Fax: 813-642-5774
   Attn: Pat Carder

Additional reference words: VFoxWin FoxMac FoxWin 2.50 2.50a 2.50b 2.50c
2.60 memvar docerr
KBCategory: kbtool kbprg kbdocerr
KBSubcategory: FxtoolSbuilder

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Last reviewed: April 30, 1996
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