: : Hi,
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: : I just started Python so please forgive my "newness".
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: : I need to create a Windows XP program that will spellcheck the word processing screen of a proprietary database program that my office uses.
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: : I don't have access to the database's api or source code so I was thinking that the program could simply spellcheck the active window of whatever program the user is running on their computer.
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: : Can anyone help point me in the right direction for this project?
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: Wow, that's tough. You'd definitely need the win32 extension modules to do this. You'll also need a good reference on the win32 API. There are ways of getting handles to particular windows via the API. Assuming you can get a handle to the window you might be able to send some kind of "get text" message to the window to retreive the contents, but if it isn't a standard control then there's no guarantee you're going to get anything or have any luck. It would be much easier to create a standalone spellchecker program and copy/paste the text from the database program to it for spell checking. Someone else may have better suggestions, but probably not here on the Python board.
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infidel
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: $ select * from users where clue > 0
: no rows returned
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Thanks very much for your response. I will look into the win32 extension.
