Caller-ID inside an application

[tdi]

Hi you all there!!

Hope you are having good times!.

I have this question, since i would like to incorporate this functionality to a system for a fast food restaurant chain i'm working on...
Is it possible that I can have in any way, accesible the Caller-ID information, can i go to the modem and get it?, is something i can do with win api?.
Any clue?

Thanks.
Octavio Olguin
Tecnologías de Información (TDI)
Mexico.

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Hi Octavio-

Yes if you have a Caller-ID enabled modem, you can use the Windows API to call the lineGetCallInfo function in TAPI.

Here is some more information about it from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/tapi22/func1_96cv.htm

lineGetCallInfo
The lineGetCallInfo function enables an application to obtain fixed information about the specified call.

LONG WINAPI lineGetCallInfo(
  HCALL hCall,               
  LPLINECALLINFO lpCallInfo  
);

Parameters:

hCall
A handle to the call to be queried. The call state of hCall can be any state.

lpCallInfo
A pointer to a variably sized data structure of type LINECALLINFO. Upon successful completion of the request, this structure is filled with call-related information. Prior to calling lineGetCallInfo, the application should set the dwTotalSize member of this structure to indicate the amount of memory available to TAPI for returning information.

 

[tdi]

Thanks Chris.... Again...

I'm wondering,

IS THERE ANY QUESTION YOU CAN'T ASWER!!!!!!!!!

Thanks..
Have a nice night .

Octavio

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Originally posted by tdi
IS THERE ANY QUESTION YOU CAN'T ASWER!!!!!!!!!

hahaha... well yes there are a few I can't

I guess when you've been developing Progress applications for over 10 years, there isn't too much left that I haven't had to learn at some point.

-Chris