Reply To: Disabling "Auto Replace" button in Spell Checker

[Derek Read]

XMetaL Developer doesn't allow you to make changes to portions of the software that are compiled. Any dialogs that are compiled into the software are effectively unchangeable. Writing Tools (which is actually a separate application), aka the spell checker, is one of these. You would need to use some form of DLL hacking tool that lets you make changes to compiled software to make changes to it, and of course I cannot recommend that.

XMetaL Developer is used to create customizations for XMetaL Author and XMAX, and it includes a form building tool that lets you build dialogs (“XFT” forms) that can be run by both of these applications. So, in theory you could try to recreate the entire spell checking UI using XFT but that would be a huge amount of work, and I don't think there are enough APIs provided in our software related to spell checking that would allow you to recreate all the features.

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