Will Any of the Phat Spellcheckers Work w/ Pocket Word/4.1?

I see a variety of spellcheckers from Phatware, but they appear to work with Notepad and Email rather than PW. I know cmonex made a Wordpad for 4.2 with spellchecker, but that doesn't seem to run on 4.1.

Jake

I haven't tried installing that but it should theoretically work. I'll try it and let you know.

In the meantime, textmaker works fine and has a built in spell checker...

@thenzero I would really appreciate that.

Jake

Hm. I installed the one listed on her site (here) and it works but doesn't appear to have spellchecker. Can you point me to the one you're thinking of by chance?

Isn't that interesting: I found the same result.

What I think I'm referring to is hpcspell: https://www.hpcfactor.com/search.asp?query=hpcspell§ion=downloads

Which I believe Rich has used successfully, but I can't get it to work with PWord.

Thanks for looking into this.

Jake

OK, I just followed your link and downloaded the first cab file there. I hex edited it to change the first two occurrences of "110a" to "2007" and then installed it on the sig and it works fine.

Edit: meaning HPC Spell 2.6, ARM.

Edit2: Attaching the modified cab file in case that is helpful to you.

Edited by thenzero 2023-10-30 2:22 AM




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hpcspell.hpc_arm.CAB (439KB - 3 downloads)

Fantastic. Many, many thanks. Will install and test.

Jake

Thanks again. Dilemma, though: HPCSpell needs to be run outside of PWord and it won't check .doc. I was hoping to run it right from a PWord hotkey or something.

It's strange that neither cmonex's directory of Wordpad or its cab set up a spell program.

Jake

I was kind of surprised when you said "with word" since HPC Spell seems to be a standalone....erm....replacement? for word.

Sorry to sound like a broken record but will textmaker not fill the need? It suppports .doc and has a built in spell check.

On the Sig3, given its available keys for remapping for syntax, PWord's larger menu bar, and TM's smaller fonts, I find myself using PWord more than my TM 2002. Too, the Thesaurus program available here for download, has a larger display than TM's thesaurus.

Jake

Ah ok, fair enough. So the goal is specifically to get some kind of spellcheck plugin for word, not to find any word processor that meets the criteria.

I'm afraid we've run into my ignorance at that point- is there such a thing that is known to work elsewhere? If so we can definitely try to get it working on the sig.

There is this: https://www.hpcfactor.com/scl/907/PhatWare_Corp/PhatSpell_CE.NET/version_1.0?page=download

Perhaps working here with PwWord: https://web.archive.org/web/20071011233706/http://phatware.com/phatspell.html

It'll install on the Sig3, but it won't start on mine.

Jake

Oh ok, interesting. Cool, let me give it a shot.

So for anyone following up on this later- the phatspell does work on the sig by installing it and then assigning it to one of the HW shortcut buttons (or presumably any other global shortcut) but sadly it is payware.

Hmm. While I got it to install on the Sig3, I couldn't get it to start. I wonder why. Maybe the mysteries of 4.1...

Jake