>>I played around with the RT control, but that ended up being too slow. I have a edit box that has a bunch of functionality attached to it with the keypress event. It's acceptable with a straight VFP edit box, but with the RT control it bogs down to a crawl to where you're waiting for keystrokes.
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>It's just off the top of my head, but how about setting LockScreen = .t., change the form's caption, then pass the form's window handle to the spell check utility, then change the form's caption back? The reason I suggest this is that I'm making the assumption that the control is calling the Win32 GetWindowText(), which would look at the caption of the form.

Well, no <s>...

THe problem is that firing KeyDown on every keystroke slows the control to a crawl. Add to that a couple of ON KEY LABELS for special markup options and the RT control bogs down big time.

THe whole reason for using a control for spell checking is to get 'live' as you type spell checking. If I need external spell checking I would use Word (and I do this now actually and it works well for that).


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