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Given that you have both FCKEditor and Foundeo Spell Checker correctly installed on your site, the steps to set up the spell checker are as follows:

1. Create a hidden form field in the same form as you have FCKEditor. For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll call this one "spellcheckText". We'll need it to copy the text out of the editor since the spellchecker can't read the contents of the editor directly.
   
   
2. Add the following script to your page:

   
   function spellcheckerBegin() {
   	// Get the text from the FCKEditor
   	document.compose.spellcheckText.value = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('message').GetHTML();
   
   	// Run the spell-checker on the text
   	spell('document.compose.spellcheckText.value');
   }
   
   function spellcheckerFinish() {
   	// Put the spell-checked text back into the FCKEditor
   	FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance(document.compose.message.id).SetHTML(document.compose.spellcheckText.value);
   	return false;
   }
   
   

3. Create a link on the editor's web page that calls spellcheckerBegin():

   
   <a href="#" onclick="spellcheckerBegin(); return false;">Check spelling</a>
   
   

4. Finally, add a line to the ColdFusion source for the spell checker. At the end of the done() function of /spellchecker/spell.cfm (around line 234), put a call to our spellcheckerFinish() function so that the spell-checked text gets back into the editor:

   
   if(parent.opener.spellcheckerFinish) parent.opener.spellcheckerFinish();
   
   

That's it! If you follow those steps, you should have Foundeo Spell Checker working with the installed version of FCKEditor. Let me know if you find any problems.