Spellex SDK for ActiveX - Technical Support

Spellex ActiveX includes an option dialog that can be presented to your applications' users to let them customize the spell checker's behavior to suit personal preferences. Changes made by the user via the option dialog affect certain WSpell properties. These property changes are not saved by Spellex ActiveX. They remain in effect only until your application exits. (Property settings made at design time using a property editor are saved by your development environment.)

If you want the option settings made by the user via the option dialog at run time to be saved, your application will have to save the associated Spellex ActiveX properties. In addition, your application will have to restore the properties from the saved values when it starts. Option settings are usually saved in the system registry, in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER tree.

The option dialog can be displayed in two ways. If your application uses Spellex ActiveX's built-in spell checker dialog, the option dialog is displayed if the user clicks the Options button while the spell checker dialog is visible. There is no way for your application to determine if this happens. The option dialog is also displayed if your application invokes Spellex ActiveX's ShowOptionDialog method. Because there is no way to determine if the option dialog was displayed, the safest approach is for your application to save the relevant Spellex ActiveX properties before it exits and to load them when it starts.

The following Spellex ActiveX properties may be altered by the option dialog:

• AutoCorrect
  
• CaseSensitive
  
• CatchDoubledWords
  
• IgnoreAllCapsWords
  
• IgnoreCapitalizedWords
  
• IgnoreDomainNames
  
• IgnoreMixedCaseWords
  
• IgnoreWordsWithDigits
  
• PhoneticSuggestions
  
• TypographicalSuggestions

In Visual Basic, application settings can be saved via the SaveSetting statement. You can save the Spellex ActiveX properties in an application called "MyApp" using statements such as the following:

SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "AutoCorrect", WSpell1.AutoCorrect
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "CaseSensitive", WSpell1.CaseSensitive
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "CatchDoubledWords", WSpell1.CatchDoubledWords
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreAllCapsWords", WSpell1.IgnoreAllCapsWords
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreCapitalizedWords", WSpell1.IgnoreCapitalizedWords
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreDomainNames", WSpell1.IgnoreDomainNames
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreMixedCaseWords", WSpell1.IgnoreMixedCaseWords
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreWordsWithDigits", WSpell1.IgnoreWordsWithDigits
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "PhoneticSuggestions", WSpell1.PhoneticSuggestions
SaveSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "TypographicalSuggestions", WSpell1.TypographicalSuggestions

The property values can be restored when "MyApp" starts using statements such as the following:

WSpell1.AutoCorrect = GetSetting("MyApp", "Spelling", "AutoCorrect", True)
WSpell1.CaseSensitive = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "CaseSensitive", True)
WSpell1.CatchDoubledWords = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "CatchDoubledWords", True)
WSpell1.IgnoreAllCapsWords = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreAllCapsWords", True)
WSpell1.IgnoreCapitalizedWords = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreCapitalizedWords", False)
WSpell1.IgnoreDomainNames = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreDomainNames", True)
WSpell1.IgnoreMixedCaseWords = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreMixedCaseWords", True)
WSpell1.IgnoreWordsWithDigits = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "IgnoreWordsWithDigits", True)
WSpell1.PhoneticSuggestions = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "PhoneticSuggestions", False)
WSpell1.TypographicalSuggestions = GetSetting "MyApp", "Spelling", "TypographicalSuggestions", True)

In MFC, boolean property values are saved using CWinApp's WriteProfileInt method using statements similar to the following:

AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "AutoCorrect", m_wspellCtrl.GetAutoCorrect());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "CaseSensitive", m_wspellCtrl.GetCaseSensitive());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "CatchDoubledWords", m_wspellCtrl.GetCatchDoubledWords());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreAllCapsWords", m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreAllCapsWords());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreCapitalizedWords", m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreCapitalizedWords());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreDomainNames", m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreDomainNames());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreMixedCaseWords", m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreMixedCaseWords());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreWordsWithDigits", m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreWordsWithDigits());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "PhoneticSuggestions", m_wspellCtrl.GetPhoneticSuggestions());
AfxGetApp()->WriteProfileInt("Spelling", "TypographicalSuggestions", m_wspellCtrl.GetTypographicalSuggestions());

The property values can be restored when the application starts using statements similar to the following:

m_wspellCtrl.SetAutoCorrect(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "AutoCorrect", TRUE);
m_wspellCtrl.SetCaseSensitive(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "CaseSensitive", TRUE);
m_wspellCtrl.SetCatchDoubledWords(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "CatchDoubledWords", TRUE);
m_wspellCtrl.SetIgnoreAllCapsWords(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreAllCapsWords", FALSE);
m_wspellCtrl.SetIgnoreCapitalizedWords(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreCapitalizedWords", FALSE);
m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreDomainNames(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreDomainNames", TRUE);
m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreMixedCaseWords(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreMixedCaseWords", TRUE);
m_wspellCtrl.GetIgnoreWordsWithDigits(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "IgnoreWordsWithDigits", TRUE);
m_wspellCtrl.GetPhoneticSuggestions(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "PhoneticSuggestions", FALSE);
m_wspellCtrl.GetTypographicalSuggestions(AfxGetApp()->GetProfileInt("Spelling", "TypographicalSuggestions", TRUE);