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X-Tools · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:21 am Post subject: Dial Phone

Hi,

does somebody know a way to dial a phone with pc connection through vds (like other apps can do).

I mean a regular phone connected to the pc over serial cable.

Thank you.

Fabian

Skit3000 · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject:

I believe Tommy once made a voicemail DLL. I don't know if it's still there, and if you can phone with it, but you might ask him... Smile

X-Tools · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject:

this is a thing i need too, but not what I meant in my post.

Some ISDN Phones have the ability to have the phonenumber dialed by a computer - so I can use my customer management software and click a "Call" button (ms access for example supports this) and let my pc dial the phonenumber on my telefon.

I think this is done through AT commands. I there a dll for this.

Tommy, is your voicemail dll still available ?

Thank you very much.

Bye, Fabian

jules · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:22 pm Post subject:

I think it can be done by running a batch file that goes:

Protected · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:50 am Post subject:

Ooooohhh, you can send commands to the modem with ECHO????? That's AWESOME! Thanks Jules, I think I'll test that tomorrow... I never imagined lol

X-Tools · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:19 am Post subject:

the echo code does not work for me (I tested it on the commandline), but I found out, that there are API calls for TAPI.
As I know TAPI is the right interface for communications with a phone.

does somebody know about working with TAPI ?

DanTheMan · Contributor Joined: 15 Mar 2002 Posts: 56 Location: Sweden

I don't now anyting about TAPI but i'm sure you can use Tommy's
vdsserio.dll for a proper comport setup. I used it for a file spooling system working with serial printers with success.
It's not recommended to use dos commands like echo , copy ... direct to a comport on Win2000 and XP.
Although it's ok for Win95/98 but then you have to set the baudrate, stopbits etc. with the "mode" command.

/Dan

vdsalchemist · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:28 pm Post subject:

Hi All,
I have been working on a project to add TAPI support for VDS but until I get that working here is a Microsoft site that gives you a few more AT commands that you can use. Specifically to be able to dail out to a regular phone.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q164/6/59.asp&NoWebContent=1

You can also check out http://www.modems.com which has a ton of information about modems.

X-Tools · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject:

if the windows call manager is installed, the following code works fine
(Thanks to Dragon Sphere for helping on the parameters).

X-Tools · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:14 am Post subject:

Hi,

is somebody here who knows enough about vb to make a vds example for dialing a phone ?
I found many api commands in the win32.hlp which are able to call a phone line without using the default call manager. Dragon Sphere sent me an example vb code which does this, but I do not understand much enough on vb.

The example can be found at: http://www.shrinkwrapvb.com/vbtapi.htm

Bye, Fabian

CodeScript · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:00 am Post subject:

I had seen this earlier. Such scripts are considered advanced even in VB and would drive most people away.
I think it can surely be converted to VDS but involves *large amount* of time and effort. Some one having a lot of freetime may probably take it up Smile

Regards

X-Tools · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:13 am Post subject:

Hi,

thanks for your answer. Why do you think that it would need so much time ?

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:20 pm Post subject:

X-Tools · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:46 pm Post subject:

I really understand what you mean and I think the same.

my idea was, that simple dialing over tapi (without accessing the call manger) should be not such a problem.
I saw, that the vb example has many code for different tapi versions.

I think that getting incoming call and handling other phone activity would be really heavy, but simple dialing ?

Please understand, that I am not the professional on system-near development and please excuse me if I am talking nonsense.

Bye, Fabian

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:59 pm Post subject:

That ok Fabian,
Maybe I was a little harsh but we had already discussed this offline and I was trying to explain that this is not as simple as it looks. Dialing out is the easy part but capturing info and responding to TAPI is not so easy. It looks easy on paper but it requires more work then it appears. It may be possible to find a DLL that does this already and that would be the quickest way to go.