>Hi All,
> I have been looking at including being able to dial direct ot of my App.I have seen a few samples but nothing to the extent that I am looking at. I want to learn how to control the TAPI directly but seem to find very little useful 'plain English' articles. I am only reasonably new to FoxPro and havn't had a lot to do with calls to the windows API. The following code is the closest that I have found to what I am looking for but it uses the standard Windows dialer which stays open after the call. I want to be able to control the entire process on my form and include features like poping up a msg if the line is busy, modem in use etc, and auto redial features. I know I want it all , but if its worth doing its worth doing properly. I have
>checked the helpfiles on TAPI but don't understand the parameters that they are looking for. A little 'plain English' help would be much appreciated.
>
>DECLARE LONG tapiRequestMakeCall IN "TAPI32.DLL" ;
> STRING cTel, STRING cApp, STRING cUser, STRING cComment
>lcTel = ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtPhNo.VALUE)
>lcApp = "empty"
>lcUser = ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtComName.VALUE)
>lcComment = "empty"
>nErr = tapiRequestMakeCall(lcTel,lcApp, lcUser, lcComment)

Don't use the TAPI API calls unless you're willing to invest a whole lot of time writing low-level API code - you'd be far better off with either the MSCOMM32 ActiveX control, which gives low-level serial port control, or an ActiveX TAPI control.