Highlight words which are incorrect

[Todd Millett]

Instead of showing the Window of spell checking, is there a way in which we can highlight only the incorrect words inside the textbox, same as can be done in the RichTextBox? With RichTextBox the only problem is that we cannot prevent the user from entering multiline.

[Iva Toteva]

Hello Todd Millett,

You are right that it would be great if it was possible to have the underlines in the MS controls. However, it is not possible for us to implement highlighting or underlining of incorrect words in a TextBox or a RichTextBox, as they do not provide an API for that.
On the other hand, the behavior of RadRichTextBox on pasting multi-paragraph text when AcceptsReturn = "False" has already been fixed and that will be visible once an interim build is released.

Kind regards,
Iva
the Telerik team

[Todd Millett]

Also is it possible to get suggestions for a word without calling the RadSpellChecker.Check(...) method ? Like explicitly go and check a word in the dictionary and get the suggested list of words ?

[Andrew]

Hi Todd Millett,

Yes, you can do this. Use the following code to get an instance of the DocumentSpellChecker for the corresponding control.

IControlSpellChecker controlSpellchecker = ControlSpellCheckersManager.GetControlSpellChecker(typeof(TextBox));
ISpellChecker spellChecker = controlSpellchecker.SpellChecker;
DocumentSpellChecker documentSpellChecker = (DocumentSpellChecker)spellChecker;

After that, just invoke the GetSuggestions(string word) method of that instance, which returns a generic collection of type ICollection<string>.

Contact  us if you happen to have any other difficulties.

Best wishes,
Andrew
the Telerik team