The Dictionaries

Included are 3 dictionary assemblies, UK and US English dictionaries, each containing ~110K words, and a combined UK and US dictionary containing ~120K words. These can be found in the ‘dictionaries' directory. With v2 a new dictionary format has been added. These dictionaries reside in *.dict files and have been added to improve flexibility, for more information please see the Dict Files section.

Dict Files

RapidSpell now supports it's own proprietary dictionary format, these dictionaries are called Dict files. They have been developed to allow more flexibility than the existing dictionary format. The existing MDict jar format will continue to be supported, the advantages and disadvantages of the formats are outlined below:

If it is necessary to minimise the dictionary size then the Jar format should be used, however for all other uses the new Dict File format is preferable.

Using Dict Files

The older MDict.Jar type file must reside in the same directory as the main RapidSpell Jar, it will be used if the DictFilePath property of RapidSpellGUI is null. To use a Dict file simply set the DictFilePath property to the path of the Dict file to be used, this should be done BEFORE the Check method is called, to prevent redundent dictionary loading.

Dictionary Customization

It is possible to customize the dictionaries and create new ones using the convenient Dict Manager tool included in the full version of RapidSpell Desktop.