Acropolis Spell Checking Components v2.0

The Acropolis Spell Checking Components provide the Delphi programmer with
components to add spell checking to the applications.

Included in the base components are:

  Standard TMemo and TDBMemo spell checking components (MemoSpell)
  Checking for Turbo Power Software's Orpheus CustomEditor classes (OrphSpell)
  Roll your own spell checking component (AcropSpell)

There is also low-level Object Pascal access to the base spell checking engine.

Dual suggestion methods are available. Use either Close Match suggestions
which provide suggestions based on common typing and spelling errors or use
the more powerful Phoneme based suggestions which build the list based on the
way a word sounds.

Extensive on-line context sensitive help is of course included.
Support for non-English languages is designed into the base engine.
80,000 word common usage dictionaries in both US and UK English are included.

Spell checking TMemo, TDBMemo and Orpheus Editors is a easy as dropping a
single component on your form and making one method call. There are also
methods to spell check only the selected text of a Memo or Orpheus Editor.

Building your own spell checking components is of course a little more
difficult, but the fully commented source code for checking TMemo and
Orpheus editors is included to provide you with examples to help in
designing spell checking components for your own objects and classes.

Registration is only $45 and will get you the latest version and remove the
evaluation version notice that pops up when the main dictionary is opened.



INSTALLATION
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If you have an earlier version of the components install please uninstall
them before installing version 2.0.

Before you use the Acropolis Spell checking components, you must install
them into the Delphi palette and rebuild the component library.

From within Delphi, do the following:

 1. Select Options|Install components from the main menu.

 2. Select 'Add', and then select the 'Browse' button.

 3. Locate and select the MEMOCHK.PAS file in the directory you placed the
    files in and select the OK button from the 'Add Module' dialog.

 4. If you want to register the lower level TAcropSpell component repeat
    step 3 selecting ACROPSPL.PAS.

 5. If you have Turbo Power Software's Orpheus components installed and
    what to install the OrphSpell component repeat step 3 selecting the
    ORPHCHK.PAS file. If you do not have the Orpheus components installed
    the OrphSpell component will not install properly as it requires some
    of the Orpheus unit files.

 6. Select OK from the Install Components dialog to have Delphi compile
    and add the new components to the component library.

The Delphi component palette will be updated and add the components to the
'Samples'  tab.  TAcropSpell will have an icon that looks like a checkmark.
TMemoSpell icon will look like a checkmark on top of a memo icon and the
TOrphSpell icon will look like the Orpheus Editor pencil with a checkmark
above it.

If you do not plan on setting the DictionaryMain property for the components
you should probably copy the ACROP.DCT or BRIT.DCT file to the directory of
the application you are working on to make it easier to access.




INSTALLING HELP FILE
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Make sure Delphi is not running when you install the help file.

 1.  Copy the ACROPSPL.HLP file to the \DELPHI\BIN directory.

 2.  Use the HelpInst program (included with Delphi) to open the file
     DELPHI.HDX located in the \DELPHI\BIN directory.

 3.  Click the "+" button to add a keyword file.  Select the ACROPSPL.KWF
     file from the directory where you placed the component code.

 4.  Save the updated DELPHI.HDX file and quit the HelpInst program.




REVISION HISTORY
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V1.0   - Initial Release

v1.1   - Corrected minor bug in MemoSpellCheck (not seeing last character)

v1.2   - Enhanced suggestions of hyphenated words

v2.0   - Renamed MemoSpellCheck component to MemoSpell
         Improved the "look" of the suggestion dialog
         Added Ignore Once and Change All options to components
         Added Orpheus editor spell checking component
         Added the CheckMemoSelection and CheckOrphSelection methods
         Context sensitive help added (including Base Unit documentation)




REGISTRATION

If you use AcropSpell and wish to compile programs without the notice
stating that you are using an unregistered version, send $45 to Acropolis
Software to register.  You will receive a disk containing the latest version
of both the components and dictionary files, that will not display the
unregistered warning.

Please use this order form to register. If you do not use this form, please
specify that you are registering the AcropSpell component.
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    You will receive the registered version of the component and the latest
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