TurboSpell  3/27/94  Bob Gordon  @ Borland

Welcome to TurboSpell!  This spell checker designed especially for Paradox for Windows version 4.5.  You can check any FIELD at an average speed of 275 words per SECOND.  Also, you can automatically add any word to the custom dictionary.


FILES:

Supplied are one form and two tables.  The form is TSPELL.FSL which does the checking, corrections, word lookup (primary), and custom dictionary additions.  The two tables supplied are WORDS1.DB and WORDS2.DB.


INSTALLATION:

The best place to in install the program is in your Paradox for Windows private directory.  This way you can access the checker anywhere, regardless of your working directly.  1.2 MEG of disk space is required.  When you first run the checker, a custom dictionary will get created (CUSTOM.DB).  CUSTOM.DB is always created in your private directory regardless of where you installed the other files.  Once the files are in place, you will never need to deal with them again except to manually remove words accidentally put into the custom dictionary or if you want to expand the two main dictionaries.  WORDS1.DB is the main dictionary for words no longer than fifteen characters; WORDS2.DB for longer words.


USE:

TurboSpell is designed to easily check and correct any FIELD, MRO or TABLEFRAME one record of one field at a time by simply running your FORM, clicking the desired field, and clicking the thunderbolt on TurboSpell (or just click the thunderbolt if the field is already in focus).  If you just have a table, create a quick form.  You can either open your form OR TurboSpell first.  Putting the form into edit mode is NOT necessary, but it must be editable.  Any misspelling will appear in the "Word Finder" and highlighted in your form.  You can type directly into the word finder to instantly inform you of a correct spelling.  If you decide that the original word is OK, then leave the "Word Finder" as-is and click SKIP or ADD (to the custom dictionary) and TurboSpell will continue.  Clicking SKIP will skip over only the word that is highlighted in the form.  Clicking ADD (to the custom dictionary) will skip over all other occurrences of that word from then on until you decide to remove it from the custom dictionary (edit :PRIV:CUSTOM.DB).  To correct the word, change it in the "Word Finder" and click CONTINUE.  Your form is automatically updated and goes on to the next word.  When TurboSpell is finished, your form will be in focus ready to move to the next record or field.

  Note: TurboSpell automatically puts your form in edit mode AND persistent field view.  When its done, your form is left in edit mode but persistent field view is exited.  If your form depends on persistent field view to run correctly, rerun it when you are finished checking it.


LIMITATIONS:

1. Memos fields (each record) containing > 15,000 characters is not supported and will give a message if encountered.

2. If a misspelling is encountered (i.e. - "oo" for "to") and is also part of a second word (i.e. - "toot"), the part of the second word will also get flagged.  Just skip the second word to leave it as is.