Spellcheck an application (from below)

[John]

Evan McPeters wrote:

> It is a database application that has a window where the user can write
> letters to patients.
> That is the area that I want to spellcheck. Any ideas how I can do this?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
>>
>>>I need to develop a program that will spell check a word processing
> window
>>>that is open in another application. I do not have access to the the API
> or
>>>any other code for this application, so I was hoping that the spell
> checker
>>>could simply do it's job on whatever the user's active window is.
>>>Does this make sense. Does anyone have an idea about how to start this.
>>What is this 'other application' ?

Try
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117221
http://www.scriptfoundry.com/snake/snakespell/snakespell/

You could use COM if you are on Windows and the users will have MS Word 
installed on their system.

There are other ActiveX components available on the web that you can try 
if users do not have MS Word installed.