Hi all, I have had to re-install Paradox on a new XP machine after a
hard drive disaster. Needless to say, it is a long time since I
originally installed Paradox. I have re-installed both Pdx9 and 10
including their respective run time versions. I have done this twice.
The first time all seemed to go well except when I used Pdx10, the
spell checker would not launch. Yes, I was in edit mode and it was not
grayed out. I decided to un-install everything and did it all again,
including the various service packs. All went well and the spell
checker worked for Pdx10 but not after I installed SP-3. Hot-fix 4 did
not help. Curiously, the Spell Checker works fine in Pdx10-Runtime (as
well as Pdx9). I presume there is some registry setting I need to
change, but what? Any ideas? Regards Paul.

First let me say I have litterally wasted hours on this frustrating
problem but thanks to a back-up of an old buglist from Bert Isberg on
a cd in the cupboard I have solved this problem. Curiously, the bug
does not appear in the copy of the list that I recently found on the
internet at http://hem.bredband.net/bertilisberg/ . The bug which I
have listed on my cd as PX0681 seems to be missing. Anyway, the
solution is a simple modification to the Windows Registry as shown
below. I did it manually. Who knows why the value was deleted but no
number of re-installations seemed to fix the problem. Where are the
people who knew this? Thankfully the spell checker now works. Viva the
back-up!



PX0681
SpellChecker

Last Verified 10.0 P3
First Verified 10.0 P3

Type of Error Functionality Verified
by me True

SUMMARY:
After installing SP3, Spell checker stopped working.


DESCRIPTION:
Open any table with an Alpha column. Move to that column. Enter edit
mode. Select Tools | SpellChecker.


Reported by: Jack E. Wasserstein, DDS <Jack (AT) Wasserstein (DOT) com>
Date: 21 September 2002 01:02

Verified by: Martin Ferwerda <mferwerd@--no_spam----teleport.com>
Yep, broken for me also after sp3 on WinME.


WORKAROUND:
Add InstallDest to the registry key below

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AppMan\10\IAYG\Compone nts
\WTEnglish_Folder2\WordPerfect
Office 2002 Professional::10]
"InstallDest"="C:\\Program Files\\Corel"




Here's code to do it from inside Paradox

var
st string
endvar

st=getRegistryValue(
"Software\\Corel\\Appman\\10\\IAYG\\Components\\WT English_Folder2\
\WordPerfect Office 2002
Professional::10",
"InstallDest", RegKeyLocalMachine )
setRegistryValue( "Software\\Appman\\10\\IAYG\\Components\
\WTEnglish_Folder2\\WordPerfect Office
2002 Professional::10",
"InstallDest", st, RegKeyLocalMachine )

good work, Paul.. sorry that nobody else had an answer/interest in the
problem.. I'm sure that Bertil will check into the buglist omission..

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"Paul Weston" <pfweston (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:16:25 -0800 (PST), Paul Weston wrote:

Only hours? <g> I'm glad you got it to work, and sorry that you couldn't
find anyone to help with this unusual problem. Lots of Paradoxians have
moved on to supported platforms since 2002, and our numbers are much
reduced.

--
Jim Hargan

On Feb 27, 12:20*am, "Steven Green" <gre... (AT) diamondsg (DOT) com> wrote:

OK, Small apology... I have since found the bug listed in the section
callled "documentation issues". http://hem.bredband.net/bertilisberg.../docissues.htm
I just did not think to look there.
Sorry Bertil.