[asterisk-users] OT: Windows TAPI command-line driver

[Klaus Darilion]

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
>