[asterisk-biz] DialplanPro Beta - Windows GUI

[Lee Jenkins]

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DialplanPro Beta
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Originally an exercise to learn Asterisk and have a GUI of my own to 
use, I developed a Windows based GUI to build dial plans and upload them 
to the Asterisk server.

Currently in beta, it's aim is to abstract routine chores such as 
dialing an extension or playing a voice.

I also wanted to be able to implement custom code in a easy graphical 
way as well so I included a scripting editor with most of the core 
functionality you'd expect like syntax highlighting, Parameter Hints, etc.

Although the GUI is Windows based, it communicates with a Linux binary 
TCP socket server written in house to control basic Asterisk 
functionality such as uploading required or included files, issuing 
simple commands like reload, restart, etc over the network.  I also have 
plans to write a function to remote debug an AEL script using the 
aelparse executable and it's output sent back to the Windows GUI.

While definitely still in beta, we are using the software to program our 
own Asterisk box here in our office and it's working very well for us. 
Although note that we have a fairly simple dialplan with just a little 
bit of conditional logic, FirebirdSQL access and some TTS stuff to tease 
our resellers when they call in ;).

We develop and sell a different product, but Asterisk PBX systems 
compliment our other products very nicely and we already have a very 
strong reseller base.  So we'll be selling this software ourselves to 
local end users and to our own reseller chain.

On the other hand, I'm not quite sure how it would fit in the Asterisk 
community at large, if at all.  It's not an end to end, black box GUI 
for end users.  There's already better ones out there already.
It's not a complete "developer" tool either so it's it hard to say if it 
could be useful to others outside our company.

I don't have any plans to spam the list, even the biz list, but wouldn't 
mind some feedback if anyone has a few minutes to take a look.

http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/Default.aspx

Thanks to everyone for help on the lists.

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Warm Regards,

Lee