Welcome to Spell Catcher, an interactive spell checker for the Macintosh. What you are about to install is a demo version which will expire in 14 days.
The full version of Spell Catcher:
• Does not expire
• Includes a more complete main dictionary
• Has a larger thesaurus
• Includes medical, legal, engineering/scientific, and HTML dictionaries
To order the full version of Spell Catcher, call Casady & Greene Sales at (800) 359-4920 or email: sales@casadyg.com.
The following contains valuable information regarding the installation and use of Spell Catcher, including Notes, Known Incompatibilities, and Fixes/Changes.
!!! IMPORTANT !!!
Before installing Spell Catcher, you must restart your computer with extensions off. In order to turn off all extensions, restart your computer while holding down the shift key until the “Welcome to Macintosh, Extensions Off” message appears.
Spell Catcher Personalization
The Spell Catcher personalization dialog will appear the first time you restart after completing the Spell Catcher installation. If you do not enter anything at this time, the dialog will disappear after 60 seconds. This dialog will reappear on all subsequent restarts until you have entered a name and valid serial number. If after 14 days you have not done so, Spell Catcher will expire.
Special Note to Virus Protection Software Users:
Immediately after you have installed Spell Catcher, your computer will need to be restarted. During this restart, the Spell Catcher control panel must make modifications to itself in order to assure compatibility with your system. This activity may be viewed as suspicious by any virus protection software you have already installed on your system. You may either disable the virus protection software, or see below for instructions for specific software.
To disable virus protection software: Either check for a key combination in the program’s control panel or consult the manual for your software. Alternatively, you may use a program such as Conflict Catcher™ or Apple’s Extensions Manager to disable your virus protection software's extension and/or control panel. Booting with the extensions off will disable both virus protection and Spell Catcher, and will not allow Spell Catcher to properly configure itself. After this restart, you can safely re-enable your virus protection software.
If You Are Using Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh: The first time the Spell Catcher control panel loads, you will be prompted twice as to whether you want to “Allow, Deny, or Remember” Spell Catcher’s attempted modifications. Select “Allow” both times. You should not experience any further difficulties.
If You Are Using Gatekeeper: Prior to installing Spell Catcher, open the Gatekeeper control panel. Click on “Privileges,” then click on “New.” Enter “Spell Catcher” in the text box, and then click on the “Res: Self” checkbox. This will tell Gatekeeper to allow Spell Catcher to modify its own resources. You may now install Spell Catcher without experiencing further difficulties.
If You Are Using Virex, McAfee VirusScan, or Disinfectant: You should not experience any problems installing Spell Catcher with Virex, McAfee VirusScan, or Disinfectant installed.
If You Are Using Any Other Virus Protection Software: We recommend you disable any other virus protection software for the first time you reboot your computer after the Spell Catcher installation to avoid any difficulties which may be encountered.
Spell Catcher Manual Addendum
Additional Dictionaries:
- Spell Catcher ships with three additional main dictionaries (containing approximately 20,000 words each), and one supplemental dictionary. The main dictionaries included are a Medical Dictionary, a Legal Dictionary, and an Engineering/Scientific Dictionary, and a supplemental HTML Dictionary. If you do a Full Install, these dictionaries are installed into a folder named “Additional Reference Sources” inside your Spell Catcher™ 1.5.8 folder (whose location you specify). This is so you can choose which dictionaries you would like Spell Catcher to load.
To use these additional dictionaries, either:
1) Add them to your list of reference sources from the Preferences:Reference Sources dialog.
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2) Place the dictionary or dictionaries you wish to have loaded in your Spell Catcher Reference Sources Folder which is located inside of the Spell Catcher Folder in your System folder on your hard drive.
- After adding any new main dictionary, you should go to the Reference Sources preferences and make sure that either the Large Dictionary or Small Dictionary is being loaded as well. After the initial installation of Spell Catcher, if you have more than one main dictionary in your Spell Catcher Reference Sources folder, only the first main dictionary will be loaded.
Suggest Spelling Window:
- If the Replace button is not highlighted in the Suggest Spelling dialog, hitting the Return or Enter key will dismiss the dialog.
New Interactive Checking & Glossary Expansion Enhancements:
- Spell Catcher can now fix doubled capitals. If you type two capitals together followed by a lowercase letter, the second capital you type will be automatically converted to lowercase. There is no override for this function, apart from turning this feature off.
- Spell Catcher can also convert two hyphens typed in a row to an em-dash. If you type a hyphen after typing an em-dash, it changes to an en-dash. If you type a hyphen after typing an en-dash, it changes to an em-dash (in other words, hyphens after the second hyphen serve as a toggle). You can override hyphen conversion by holding down the Command-Option keys while typing the second hyphen.
- It is now possible to include the time or date as part of a glossary expansion and have Spell Catcher substitute in the time or date before doing the glossary expansion. This makes it possible to append the date in a signature by including a glossary entry like “emgddd” -> “Evan M. Gross ddd”. The only stipulation is that the time/date string inside the glossary entry must be a token on its own, i.e. surrounded by white space or separators.
- A new checkbox in the Shorthand Glossary options, "Type separator after expanding," allows glossary entries to be expanded before the separator character is typed. This is especially useful for those users who work extensively with databases and spreadsheets; Spell Catcher will make the glossary expansion before moving on to the next cell or field. If you use this option then it is not possible to type a Shift-Option-T character from the keyboard.
Modify Selected Modules:
- Modify Selected modules, whose names appear in italics in the Modify Selected menu, can manipulate text but will cause any formatting to be lost. The other Modify Selected modules will maintain formatting as long as Spell Catcher has a compatibility module that allows it to translate the formatting of the text.
Capitalize Strictly - This Modify Selected module does the equivalent of “Lowercase” then “Capitalize Words” in one pass.
Form Paragraphs - This Modify Selected module takes multi-line text on the clipboard and removes the extra return characters to produce complete paragraphs of text.
Quote - This Modify Selected module takes the selected text and “quotes” it according to the parameters you specify in the Quote dialog. This is a common thing to do when replying to email, for instance.
Spell Catcher Sounds Folder:
- When you do a Full Install, the installer will also place a folder on your hard disk named Spell Catcher Sounds. This folder contains a collection of sound files you may wish to use as interactive signals. Just drag the sounds to on top of the System suitcase icon to install them into your system. You can use them in Spell Catcher, or any other program that uses sounds. These sounds are not automatically installed into your System during a Full Install as they take up more memory and are not necessary to the normal operation of Spell Catcher.
Incompatibilities and Other Gotchas not in the Manual
Reference Sources On Multiple Volumes
- If Spell Catcher cannot immediately find your reference sources, it will perform an exhaustive search on all mounted volumes for them, which may take quite a bit of time. If your reference sources are located on a volume that is not currently mounted, Spell Catcher will still perform this search. To avoid an unnecessary search, ensure that all local and remote volumes containing reference sources are mounted.
Missing Reference Sources:
-If a reference source has been deleted, you can eliminate any error messages by choosing “Preferences” from the Spell Catcher menu and going to the “Reference Sources” section. From there, remove any items in the reference sources list that have a question mark next to them. If you are still experiencing problems, see “Trouble Opening the Spell Catcher™ Preferences file.”
Trouble Opening the Spell Catcher™ Preferences file:
- When Spell Catcher gives you this message on startup, it probably means the preferences file is damaged. Open your System Folder, then open the Preferences folder. Find the file named Spell Catcher™ Preferences and drag it to the Trash. Restart your Mac and the problem should be fixed.
- This solution is also recommended when Spell Catcher cannot find its reference sources and you have already tried to reconfigure Spell Catcher’s reference sources in the settings dialog. In other words, when all else fails, trash Spell Catcher’s preferences file.
Word 3.x and 4.x
- You must perform a custom install of these specific Compatibility Modules to ensure that custom formatting will be kept when Word fails to put Rich Text Format text in the clipboard.
Microsoft Word 6.0.x:
- You will see the Edit menu briefly pull down whenever you execute Check Selected, Modify Selected or Thesaurus Lookup Selected. It also pulls down when you go to paste corrections/changes back into the document. This is a side effect of being compatible with Word 6.0.x's strange way of enabling/disabling menu items and being compatible with Apple Menu Options. It is cosmetic only, and perfectly normal with Spell Catcher 1.5.8. This may also happen with any a very few other applications that uses a certain Macintosh Menu Manager feature. It may happen in ALL applications if you have an extension or Control Panel loaded that uses this feature.
SimpleText:
- You may experience incompatibilities between Spell Catcher and SimpleText, versions 1.3.x or earlier. In previous versions of SimpleText, if you chose Spell Catcher’s Suggest Spelling (for a misspelled word) and then entered a number corresponding to a suggestion, you could experience a crash. This problem is fixed in versions of SimpleText starting with 1.4.
NowMenus:
- NowMenus can override the menu drawing for Spell Catcher in Claris and Microsoft applications such that you will not see the Command key equivalents for the items in the Spell Catcher menu. The best work-around (since these applications have their own complex menu definitions) is to turn off NowMenus in all Claris and Microsoft applications.
Flash-It:
- With versions of Spell Catcher prior to 1.5.7, it was recommended you load Flash-It after Spell Catcher for compatibility reasons. With version 1.5.7 of Spell Catcher it is now recommended you load Flash-It in its regular load order to avoid the the Edit menu "pull down" effect whenever you do a Check Selected or other selection operation.
QuickMail:
- It is possible that while using Spell Catcher 1.5.8 with QuickMail version 3, Spell Catcher's Modify Selected menu will not draw properly or will be overwritten by QuickMail's menus. There is currently no resolution to this problem.
PageMaker 6.0:
- PageMaker 6.0 does not handle keystrokes in a "standard" way in their story editor. For this reason, interactive checking/glossary expansion does not work properly in the PageMaker 6.0 story editor.
TitlePop:
- It is not possible for Spell Catcher to properly identify modal dialog windows if you are using the TitlePop Control Panel. It is therefore possible to open the Suggest Spelling or Thesaurus windows while you are in a modal dialog if you use TitlePop. Doing this may cause system crashes or other errors.
Spell Catcher™ Changes and Fixes Since Thunder 7™ 1.5.0
Spell Catcher 1.5.8
• Fix cosmetic problem drawing the Spell Catcher menu under Mac OS8.
• Remove some old code that dealt solely with System 6. Since we don't officially support or even install under System 6, this was safe to do.
• Changed the modifier icons (used in the Keyboard Shortcuts Preference panel and in the menu) to be the same as the ones used by the OS8 Appearance Manager.
• No longer possible to have Caps Lock as a Spell Catcher menu keyboard shortcut modifier (it didn't make sense to use it anyway).
• Removed the option in Interactive Checking preferences to draw the icons in black and white for a supposed speed increase. Really, there was no noticeable difference.
• Fix a bug where the trailing quotation marks would get removed if you added a word in quotes to a glossary.
• Cosmetic changes to registration dialog to include phone/fax/www information.
+ Spell Catcher Utility Application
• Now recognize and convert Word 6 user dictionaries into Spell Catcher supplementary dictionary format.
• Use modern open and save dialogs instead of the old System 6.x ones.
Spell Catcher 1.5.7a
• Built installer with latest version of StuffIt InstallerMaker™ (3.1.3).
• New installer with updated and corrected Supplementary Dictionaries. There are no other differences from the 1.5.7 version, all other components remain the same.
Spell Catcher 1.5.7
• Added new Compatibility Module for PageMaker 6.0.
• Added new Compatibility Module for FrameMaker 5.x.
• Fixed a problem where Check Selected would sometimes have to be executed twice in order to "take". Spell Catcher would incorrectly state that there no text selected (even when there was). A second Check Selected would generally work. Usually this would happen in Word 6.
• Fixed incompatibility with Apple Menu Options. A side-effect of this fix is that in applications that use MBarHook (MS Word 6, for one), the Edit menu will briefly pull down whenever you do an operation that requires Spell Catcher to get the selected text (Check Selected, Modify Selected, Thesaurus Lookup Selected). It will also pull down when you go to paste changes back into the document. This is cosmetic only, it doesn't affect operation. If you are using an extension that installs a MBarHook, such as Flash-It, you may see this happen in all applications if this extension loads after Spell Catcher.
• It's now recommended to have the Flash-It Control Panel load in its normal load order.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Spell Catcher to fail to load at startup time if the driver unit table was full. This seemed to happen quite frequently on Performa machines, since they allocate a smaller unit table by default.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the current resource file to be reset improperly the first time you launched an application in which Spell Catcher was active in. This was the cause of the intermittent problem with ClarisWorks reporting that the copy was busy, and you would have to Quit and launch ClarisWorks again.
• Added creator types for BBEdit, Tex-Edit Plus and Alpha to the popup list in the Ghostwriter Settings dialog.
• Added horizontal auto-scrolling to the dictionary editor.
• We now clear the thesaurus window text when you look up a word that is not in the thesaurus, rather than leaving the results of the previous lookup in unchanged.
• Fixed another instance where there might be a problem figuring out the kind of window if in 24-bit addressing mode. This only occurs while inside HyperCard with the 9-to-5 letters HyperCard add-on, so I really doubt anyone saw this problem.
• Fixed a bug in the code that tries to identify modal dialog windows that could cause crashes on machines that weren't 32-bit clean.
• Fixed a bad handle dereference in the INIT code that might have caused the "animate startup icon" option (in the Control Panel) to not work correctly.
• Made more refinements to the modal dialog detection code. Should work fine with or without Aaron, and properly identify floaters using the Infinity WDEF. WILL NOT WORK with the Control Panel called "TitlePop."
• Made the shorthand glossary option to type separator after expanding non-functional in desk accessories. You can have it checked, but it doesn't actually type the separator afterwards. It wasn't possible to make this option work in desk accessories. This is better than the previous behavior of not backspacing far enough when making the replacement.
• Fixed a bug in the RTF module to work with the Caps character style in both Word 5.1 and Word 6.0.1.
• Fixed a problem identifying modal dialog windows from floating windows if Aaron was loaded.
Spell Catcher 1.5.6
• Now published by Casady & Greene!
• There is now a 14-day expiring demo that can be personalized as a fully functional copy of the program by entering a valid serial number. Any installed version of Spell Catcher will expire if a valid serial number is not entered within 14 days.
• The performance problem which occurred between Spell Catcher and the 68K emulator in newer PowerMacs was fixed. This should result in better performance on non-Power Macintoshes as well.
• The option to prompt for activation when launching new applications from the Control Panel was removed because it caused crashes with a few applications. You must now add an application in the Control Panel to make Spell Catcher active in that application.
• New names for menu items and new graphics for About Screens have been added.
• A new Modify Selected module named “Quote” has been added. Its function is to take any selected text and “quote” it for inclusion in an email reply.
• Miscellaneous changes and fixes to the typo correction glossary have been made.
• The "Suggest Spelling" menu item will now read "Suggest Spelling for “misspelledwordhere”…" if there is a pending misspelling. This is similar to how "Thesaurus Lookup…" works.
• Fixed a crash bug that could occur if you selected more than 255 characters in the Thesaurus window and clicked Replace.
• The tabs in the text are converted to spaces if you select text in the Thesaurus window that includes tabs and click Replace. This prevents erratic behavior inside field-oriented programs, like databases.
• A crash bug in which repeated lookups in the thesaurus dialog could crash if you only used keyboard commands to do them was fixed.
• A bug wherein efforts to prevent double spaces would not work in desk accessories if you were typing auto-repeat keys (holding the space key down until it repeated) was fixed.
Thunder 7 1.5.5
• Compatibility assured with Microsoft Office 4.2, ClarisWorks 3.0, PageMaker 5.0 , PowerPC Macintoshes, and System 7.5, as well as FullWrite 2.0, Nisus 3.x and NisusWriter 4.x, MacWrite Pro, Now Up To Date 3.0, FrameMaker 4.0.x and the Global Village fax software.
• Bug fixes made to the Check Selected modules, the Search/Replace function, and the RTF module.
• Improved compatibility with other Installer programs, no more massive disk swap episodes.
• Interactive changes (like smarten quotes etc.) were allowed when interactive checking was turned off.
• Detection of misspellings may be turned off; glossary expansions can still be entered.
• Four periods in a row considered valid punctuation.
• User prompt to compute Stats if there are no misspellings after a Check Selection made optional. By default, it is off, and the Check Selection dialog goes away if there are no misspellings.
• Crash bug which occurred under 7.5 when selecting the Control Panel item from the Spell Catcher menu fixed.
Thunder 7 1.5.4•
A bullet (•) was added to the version number to differentiate the golden 1.5.4 release from a corrupted version that was accidentally sent to a few people.
Thunder 7 1.5.4
• Problems with the old sound manager, the new sound manager, and sound problems with PowerMacintoshes fixed.
• Plain TEXT files can be made into dictionaries.
• Problem with Excel 4.0 wherein it would delete Spell Catcher’s menu from the menu bar when you closed the last open window fixed.
• Problem with applications that use custom window types for their windows which made Spell Catcher incompatible (Full Contact is an example) fixed.
• Problems with typing characters with ASCII values higher than 216 in glossary expansions fixed.
• Bug in the WordPerfect module that put corrections in the text off by one character if you replaced a word with a hyphen in it and updated it for the 3.0 version fixed.
• WriteNow 3.x/4.x and PageMaker 5.0 modules added.
• Check Selection adjusted to no longer delete text objects from Illustrator.
• Problem with 68k machines involving the caches fixed.
• Problems with 9 to 5 Software’s Letters module and interactive checking fixed.
Thunder 7 1.5.3
• Compatibility modules for MacWrite Pro, ClarisWorks (1.0 & 2.0), and Works 3.0 added.
• Reactivation made to occur when you unexpectedly or force quit an application.
• Suggestion algorithm included for words with: Two errors in them, improper consonant doubling like “proffesional”, and two incorrect vowels, like “encorparates”.
• Bug in adding case-sensitive entries to the glossary wherein they would not be added in lowercase fixed.
• Potential crash bug when expanding glossary entries while typing very quickly (>90 words per minute) fixed.
• Bug typing in numbers (with command-number) in the check selection dialog fixed.
• Bug that would cause crashes when the dictionary editor dialog closed fixed.
• Problem pasting back into PageMaker from Check Selected modules fixed.
• Preferences file made less likely to corrupt itself.
• Assorted problems with detecting missing capitals at the beginning of sentences with spell checking and or the Capitalize Sentences module fixed.
• Bug in double space suppression present when typing into DAs fixed.
• Bug which distorted volume fixed.
• Bug wherein the corrections couldn’t be pasted back into Spiral after a “Check Selection” fixed.
Thunder 7 1.5.2
• Problem with PageMaker complaining about import/export filters fixed.
• Problem with non-loading at startup time on SEs and Pluses fixed.
• Problem creating Ghostwriter files for windows that have titles > 31 characters fixed.
• Hang with Launcher Control Panel that comes with the Performa System software fixed.
• Redraw progress dialog added after prompts in some Check Selected modules.
Thunder 7 1.5.1
• Menu conflict with ON’s MeetingMaker fixed.
• Bug in the Space Runs to Space Check Selected module fixed.
• Preferences file made less prone to corruption.
• Check Selected module progress dialog made to say the name of the Check Selected module being used.
• Position of the Paste Changes/Search Replace alert fixed.
• Newly created or loaded dictionaries or glossaries in the Add to Dictionary or Add to Glossary dialogs made to be selected automatically as the destination for new words.
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