Use of Grammarly within a VFP 9 desktop app

[Richard Guelzow]

Does anyone have experience using Grammarly or something similar to provide predictive text within a VFP app? A couple of my users have requested to be able to use this tool while preparing medical notes for their animal patients. The standard VFP textbox, does not support Grammarly. has anyone had experience with using a rtf-based textbox or other commercial textbox within VFP 9? Thanks in advance. Richard

 

[GTGeek88]

There's this one, that may have it built in, maybe not from Grammarly, but something similar. I know that in the past some VFP devs did use it, but I haven't.

TX Text Control ActiveX

Comprehensive word processing and reporting for Visual Basic 6 and COM-based languages

www.textcontrol.com

 

[wOOdy-Soft]

You could use the native VFP Intellisense Extensions in regular Editboxes, which would give them the power of canned textblocks as well as dynamic processed content.
Basically your users are able to type some abreviation in the editbox, which is then expanded to a longer text. At expansion time any included VFP code is executed and replaces the macro.
Doug Hennig has described the technical parts for it here https://doughennig.com/papers/Pub/AddingIntelliSensetoApps.pdf

 

[wOOdy-Soft]

And of course you could integrate Grammarly directly via their API: https://developer.grammarly.com/

 

[Richard Guelzow]

Thank you all - that gives me some options to work with. Thanks for the rapid response.