Klaus, Thank you, that clarifies it a lot for me. I will look those things up and figure out something. Meanwhile, if someone wants who has experience with TAPI services wants to offer me his (paid) services I would be glad to consider.
Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Klaus Darilion [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:35 > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: Mike > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Windows TAPI command-line driver > > Hi Mike! > > You are using wrong wording - with TAPI driver usually the TAPI service > provider is meant, e.g. see http://www.ipcom.at/en/telephony/siptapi/tapi/ > > So, the TSP offers lines to the TAPI subsystem. These lines can be used > by TAPI applications. Typical TAPI applications are dialer.exe (comes > with Windows), phoner.de, Outlook, and many CRM applications. > > If you want to call a phone number from any application, then you have 2 > choices: > 1. The application implements TAPI functionality (e.g done by Outlook) > 2. The application just calls the function tapiRequestMakeCall(). This > will trigger a phone call using the default TAPI application (usually > dialer.exe). This is for example done in dial.exe > (http://www.iansharpe.com/art_dial.php), but does nto work reliable on > terminal servers. > > There are tools available that can detect phone numbers on web sites and > trigger a certain action when clicking them. You can google such tools > and configure them to start a TAPI dialer. > > regards > Klaus > > > > > Am 26.05.2010 16:59, schrieb Mike: > > Hi, > > > > This is a bit off-topic, but still related to telephony. Is there a > > barebones TAPI driver that exists that would allow me to call up a > > command line with, as parameter, the number to dial. > > > > For exemple, Outlook integrates with TAPI, so that TAPI driver would > > allow me to call my own app with the phone number as argument. > > > > ex when clicking on 555-555-5555: the TAPI driver would call > > "customapp.exe 555-555-5555" > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael > > -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
