Progress & Frustration

Spelling B now tracks words written in any application and checks the spelling.


A few issues though when I type faster it gets confused on identifying the words. Also as the list of words typed gets longer the updates to the words typed and resorted becomes obvious.

Now considering changing some of the controls from a list box to a grid control. The list box automaticly appends new items onto the bottom of the list. My thought was that the last typed word should show in the top of the list rather than be barried in the bottom. To achieve that I resort the list through an array but as the list gets long I can see the posting change.

Its possible that the spelling validation request as it goes out to the web to validate is slowing down the capture of keys.

Perhaps I have it check when someone isn't typing. I'll just capture the key strokes and identify the words as a test.

I'm now looking at both a web service of a few dictionaries and a dictionary web site I crawl. Still determining whats best to use. The free web service dictionaries are from 2003 or older but the website is uptodate (litteraly updated daily). The website doesn't have a robots.txt that explicityly forbids web crawls. So these various factors are coming into play to determine what to use for the final product.