OSpell V1.1 for OMNIS 73 and OMNIS Studio

by Brainy Data Limited

About OSpell

OSpell is a cross platform spell checker designed for integration with OMNIS libraries on both, Macintosh and Windows platforms.

The spell checker consists of two major parts

  1. The interface is written in OMNIS 4GL. You have full access to the spell checker library. The library is designed in such a way that you should be able to use it from your existing libraries with very little coding effort (see Integrating the Library).
  2. The spell checker engine is implemented as a series of external commands. These commands allow you to open or close dictionaries, set options, check words or blocks of text, etc.

The spell checker component ships with both OMNIS Classic and OMNIS Studio libraries.

The OMNIS Classic library has been written for OMNIS 73 version 3.6.4 or later. It can not be used, as is, with OMNIS Studio, and may not work correctly with earlier versions of OMNIS 73.

The Studio library is only a converted library to provide an upgrade path from Classic to Studio version 1.2 or later. It is aimed at developers who intend to migrate their OMNIS 73 libraries to OMNIS Studio. However, it will work perfectly well with OMNIS Studio, and in the absence of the dedicated Studio OSpell, can be used for developing Studio libraries. We have planed to release a dedicated spell checker for OMNIS Studio during the summer of 1999. It will take full advantage of OMNIS Studio features, but will require OMNIS Studio version 2.0 or later.

Installing the software

Macintosh installation

The software consists of the following

Windows installation

The software consists of the following files

Deploying your software

Please refer to the licence agreement for rules on deployment.

Documentation

The documentation is intended for the OMNIS 73 developer. All OMNIS specific terms and phrases used in the documentation are OMNIS 7 terms and phrases.

If you are working with OMNIS Studio version 2.0 or later, the HTML pages can be added to the OMNIS Help. This means they can be integrated into the OMNIS environments context help and search.

To add the documentation pages to your OMNIS Help

  1. Create a folder called Update inside the OMNIS Help\Omnis folder.
  2. Inside the Update folder create a folder called BrainyData.
  3. Inside the BrainyData folder create a folder called OSPELL.

You should now have a folder called Help\Omnis\Update\BrainyData\OSPELL starting from the root of your OMNIS folder.

  1. Copy all the files from this Docs folder to the OSPELL folder. You may exclude this page.
  2. Launch your OMNIS.
  3. Select OMNIS Help Topics from the OMNIS Help Menu.
  4. Right click ( ctrl-Click on Macintosh ) on the contents tree and select Rebuild Update Help.

The OMNIS context help and word search will now include this documentation.

Table of Contents

Version 1.1 Changes

OSpell Component Copyright © 2003 Brainy Data Limited
Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine Copyright © 1998 Wintertree Software Inc.

ACWrite © 1999 Advanced Concepts AG