Does Penfriend work with Clicker from Crick Software?

Affecting products:

Penfriend XP, Penfriend XL and all language variants

Problem:

How do I get Clicker to work with Penfriend.

Solution:

Clicker, a product for special and general needs, from Crick Software,can predict words from Penfriend without the user having to manipulate Penfriend itself. The words can appear in a Clicker grid along with other words and actions.

Clicker 5.2 You will need version Penfriend version 3.0.5.2 or later. There is now a patch available on the Penfriend downloads site available to anyone with a activated version of Penfriend. It can be accessed via the 'web site' link in the program.

To use Penfriend with Clicker Open Clicker 5.2, go to options/user preferences/writing, and open a prediction keyboard in Clicker. This will then open Penfriend. If you have both Penfriend XP and XL on your computer it will open the most recently installed program.
Penfriend version 3.0.5.2 or later will work with both Clicker 5.2 and Clicker 4

Clicker 5.2 will not work with Penfriend XP version 2. There are reduced prices for upgrading.

To make your own predicting Clicker cells, you should put the string {predict} in the cell contents. This will be replaced with a predicted word when appropriate. Clicker 4 apparently allocates the list of words from Penfriend to the cells in the order they appear on screen, from top to bottom. There is no difference in the magic cell text to indicate which word is desired in any particular cell.

FAQ answered:

by RLS on 2010-06-29