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Word Services Software Development Kit

Version: 1.0.3d1 By: Michael D. Crawford E-mail: crawford@goingware.com Web page: Available Release Date: Available Now	Info Last Modified: 12/14/98 Requires BeOS version: R3 PPC, R3 Intel, R4 PPC, R4 Intel License: Freeware Cost: 0 Source Available?: Yes
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The Word Services Suite allows any application to link to a speller, 
grammar checker, address book or other text service as if it was a 
built in menu item. 
 
It is a public protocol - no license fee or nondisclosure agreement is 
required to use it. 
 
Word Services is good for users as you can share a single speller, and 
a single dictionary among all your applications that use Word 
Services. You can have a single interface for spelling, and the you 
are not stuck with a built-in speller. If you don't like the speller 
your application came with, you can use another, or even add several, 
one for each language that you use. It's not just for spellchecking - 
it can be used for any operation on text that software publishers wish 
to provide. 
 
It is good for developers because it saves you time, money, memory and 
disk space.  You don't have to debug someone else's weird OEM speller 
to add spellchecking to your application.  It protects your 
application; if something goes wrong with the speller, the BeOS' 
memory protection keeps your app running. 
 
Word Services allows you to work the BeOS way, with small modular 
applications that communicate via BMessages.  The BeOS provides some 
unique advantages that make this work particularly well on Be. 
 
The SDK provides sample source code to several Word Services clients, 
as well as the Spellswell Demo. 
 
New in 1.0.3d1 - fixed some bugs in background highlighting, got working on
Intel R4 (R3 still supported).