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

[Mike]

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:klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at]
> 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
> >