Wide Range of Supported Controls

Support for a wide range of Standard and DevExpress text-aware controls including the complete integration with the DevExpress Rich Text Editor.

Help Topic: Supported Controls | Help Topic: Checking Spelling in Different Controls

Check As You Type Mode

Whether you use Developer Express or standard text input controls, words that aren't in the dictionary can be underlined using wavy red lines. The XtraSpellChecker automatically checks spelling as you type, word by word. This is done in a separate thread without affecting UI responsiveness.

Help Topic: How to: Turn On the Check-As-You-Type Mode

Dictionary Availability

Built-in support for custom dictionaries in a plain text format and the most popular dictionary formats: Ispell, OpenOffice and Hunspell.

Help Topic: Dictionaries | Help Topic: How to: Add Dictionaries at Runtime

The SharedDictionaryStorage Component

The SharedDictionaryStorage component allows you to establish a collection of dictionaries that can be shared by all forms in your application.

Help Topic: How to: Use the SharedDictionaryStorage Component

Ready-to-Use Spelling Dialogs

A choice of two error indication dialogs - both replicate dialogs found in Microsoft Office. ● Pre-built Spelling Options editor. ● Dictionary dialogs allow end-users to add unrecognized words to a dictionary. As one would expect from this type of control, end-users can build a custom word list as their needs dictate.

Help Topic: Visual Elements

Spelling Options

Spell checker options allow you to ignore emails, URLs, mixed case/upper-case words, repeated words and words with numbers within them.

Extender Properties

By introducing the XtraSpellChecker into your project, you can easily enable spell checking capabilities for Developer Express text editor controls. You can control spell checker options for each individual text editor using extender properties. You can also have centralized control over these settings if you specify them using the SpellChecker component's properties. Text editor controls read settings from the spell checker by default.

Help Topic: Extender Properties

Mixed Language Text Checking

You can change the language and the corresponding dictionary during text checking.

Help Topic: How to: Switch Between Languages

API

The XtraSpellChecker's API includes methods to check an arbitrary string, a text editor's content or all text editor controls within a specified container. You can handle specially designed events to fully manage the spell checking process - including suppression of built-in forms, modification to suggestion lists, skipped words, manual error processing, etc.

Help Topic: Product Class Structure