Spellex Spelling Server

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Technical details

• Packaging: COM (ActiveX) DLL

• Threading model: Both (apartment threading and free threading)

• Performance: Checks spelling of over 25,000 words per second on 300Mhz PII

• DLL file size: 120Kb

• Dictionary file size: Average of .5Mb per language

• Maximum number of concurrent spelling requests: Limited only by processor speed and available memory

• Run-time memory requirements: 120Kb + approx. .5Mb per dictionary language

Application Program Interface (API) Summary

AddToUserDict	Add a word to a user dictionary file.
CheckText	Checks the spelling of words in a string: a phrase, sentence, paragraph, or an entire document. CheckText returns to your application when it finds the next misspelled word in the string or when it reaches the end of the string. CheckText also reports incorrectly capitalized words and words requiring automatic or conditional correction.
DelFromUserDict	Remove a word from a user dictionary file.
DelText	Remove some text (e.g., a word) from a string at a given position. DelText is typically used when replacing a misspelled word with a correction.
GetTextWord	Obtain the word in a string at a given position.
GetUserDict	Obtain the set of words in a user dictionary file.
InsertText	Insert some text (e.g., a word) into a string at a given position. InsertText is typically used when replacing a misspelled word with a correction.
NextTextWord	Advance to the word following the current word. NextTextWord is used to skip over a word reported as misspelled without correcting it.
Suggest	Locates suggested alternative spellings for a misspelled word. The set of suggestions is returned in order of decreasing probability of correctness, so the first word is the best choice. Suggestions can be located using typographical (looks like) or phonetic (sounds like) matching, or both.
WordCount	Return a count of the number of words in a string.