Word Services SDK 1.0.6

[Info-Mac]

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/dev/lib/wor ... dk-106.hqx

I am pleased to announce the release of the Word Services Software
Development Kit version 1.0.6, as well as the Word Services World Wide Web
homepage.

The Word Services Apple Event Suite is a public protocol for Macintosh
computers that allows any application to link to a speller or other text
service as if it was a built-in menu item. It is probably the simplest
useful thing that a developer can do with Apple Events.

Word Services is free - no license fee or nondisclosure agreement is
required to use it. You can download the protocol specification, and you
can get the complete source code to Writeswell Jr., a simple Word Services
word processor. You may redistribute Writeswell Jr. on your own product
disks to open Read Me files.

The latest SDK will compile using current versions of ThinkC and
CodeWarrior with Universal Headers. You may choose to build 68k or Native
PowerPC versions. All of the formatted word processor documents are
provided as compact self-viewing Common Ground documents so that you do
not need a particular word processor to view or print them.

The Word Services Apple Event Suite home page provides:

- documentation for the suite
- links to the publishers of the client and server applications,
- instructions for using Word Services in some of the applications,
- the Word Services SDK.

The home page is at:

http://www.scruznet.com/~crawford/WordS ... index.html

The Word Services Software Development Kit may be downloaded via anonymous
FTP from:

ftp://ftp.scruznet.com/users/crawford/p ... es_sdk.hqx

The binhexed self-extracting archive is 945 kilobytes.

Word Services was originally developed by Working Software in cooperation
with their competitors in the spellchecking business, as well as several
grammar checker and word processor publishers, and Apple Computer, Inc.
Working Software also has Word Services information on the Web c/o:

http://www.working.com

I will also be uploading the Word Services kit to MacGifts, America Online
(keyword WorkingSW), Compuserve (GO MACDEV) and eWorld. I encourage
source code CDROM vendors to include the Word Services SDK on their CD's.

Michael D. Crawford
[email protected]
http://www.scruznet.com/~crawford/