>I am fairly new to VFP5, but I can't believe that in this day and age, one still can't do a spellcheck on an editbox whilst in a form.!! (Or am I wrong and have I missed something?)
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>Does this mean that we are still almost where dBase III was is the mid 1980's? I can still remember having to dump all the contents of a dbf's memo fields out to a text file, open a wordprocessor to do all the spell checking, and then import it all back again. It seems that very little has changed.
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>What is M$ case when it comes to Spell checking? Don't they want people running distributed applications to have correct spelling? Why can't we have spellchecking when running a form and editing a memo field (editbox)? In "computer years", I think we are still in the dark ages in this regard.
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>Just my feelings. Any thoughts?
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>Regards

David,

There are quite a few third party spell checkers available for FPW and VFP.

Take a look at www.Hallogram.Com for a list of different third party tools.

We use "FoxSpell Checker" in our applications. It is extremely easy to use and very flexible and it comes with the source code. It can spell check edit regions and text boxes and has many other capabilites.

Jerryt