Adds a powerful, professional-quality spelling checker to your Visual Basic, C/C++, Delphi, or PowerBuilder applications. Major features include:
The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine -- SSCE -- is your first choice for application-callable spelling-checker software. The engine is fast, reliable, and field-proven on thousands of installations running on every major computer platform: MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, and UNIX. SSCE's application-program interface has been carefully designed and tested for ease of integration with your software. The English-language dictionaries provided with the SSCE SDKs (Software Development Kits) will meet or exceed the most demanding user's expectations of accuracy and comprehensiveness. Whether you need spelling checker software for a small, in-house project running on a few workstations or for a major, multi-platform application installed in thousands of sites world wide, SSCE is right for you.
SSCE is available in two forms. The Windows SDK is what you need if your application runs only on Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT (16- and 32-bit versions of the SDK are available). The Source SDK is suitable if your application runs on multiple or non-Windows platforms, if you need to make special-purpose customizations, or if you just like the security of source-code availability. Each SDK includes everything you need to integrate SSCE with your application, and the software and dictionaries you need to distribute with your application. The Programmer's Guide provided with the SDKs describes not only the calling protocol for each function in the API, but is also packed with examples, tips, advice, and behind-the-scenes information that enables you to harness the power of the engine in your application with a minimum of fuss. Source code for working example applications is also provided.
The dictionary used by a spelling checker has the largest influence on its users' perception of quality. The dictionary must be large enough to cover most general-purpose text, yet small enough that its disk and memory requirements are manageable. And it goes without saying that the words in the dictionary must be scrupulously free of spelling errors. SSCE comes with superb American English and British English dictionaries you can distribute with your applications. The dictionaries contain about 100,000 words each, and are suitable for general-purpose spell checking. You can also create your own compressed dictionaries using the included compression utility.
Also included with the SDKs are redistributable auto-change and conditional-change dictionaries, containing hundreds of frequently misspelled words and their correct replacements. Common misspellings such as typing "recieve" instead of "receive" or "teh" instead of "the" can be corrected either automatically or after user confirmation.
Going international? Wintertree Software also has SSCE-compatible dictionaries available in French, Italian, German, and Spanish. All dictionaries use accented characters as required by native language rules.
Spelling checkers and related text-processing tools are our business. SSCE isn't an add-on component we threw together quickly to round out our product line. We researched, engineered, built, and tested SSCE to be the best spelling-checker engine available. From its release in 1992, we've continued to improve and support SSCE. If your users demand excellence, select SSCE.