diff --git a/samples/text/text.cpp b/samples/text/text.cpp
index 4a9fd1d33a..44a680b125 100644
--- a/samples/text/text.cpp
+++ b/samples/text/text.cpp
@@ -1209,20 +1209,23 @@ MyPanel::MyPanel( wxFrame *frame, int x, int y, int w, int h )
     m_enter->SetClientData(const_cast<void*>(static_cast<const void*>(wxS("enter"))));
 
 #if wxUSE_SPELLCHECK
+    (*m_enter) << "\n";
+
     // Enable grammar check just for demonstration purposes (note that it's
     // only supported under Mac, but spell checking will be enabled under the
     // other platforms too, if supported). If we didn't want to enable it, we
     // could omit the EnableProofCheck() argument entirely.
     if ( !m_enter->EnableProofCheck(wxTextProofOptions::Default().GrammarCheck()) )
     {
-        wxMessageDialog error(this,
-                                wxT("Spell checking is not available on this platform or control style."),
-                                wxT("Spell checker error"),
-                                wxOK | wxCENTER | wxICON_ERROR);
-        error.ShowModal();
+        (*m_enter) << "Spell checking is not available on this platform, sorry.";
     }
     else
-        (*m_enter) << wxT("\nSpell checking is enabled, try typing a misspelled word...");
+    {
+        // Break the string in several parts to avoid misspellings in the sources.
+        (*m_enter) << "Spell checking is enabled, mis"
+                      "s"
+                      "spelled words should be highlighted.";
+    }
 #endif
 
     m_textrich = new MyTextCtrl(this, wxID_ANY, "Allows more than 30Kb of text\n"