Phone connectivity (access 2k sr1)

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I have a access contacts database and I want to use the stored numbers and click a button to phone out. I have used this system on a pc that has visual studio installed on it and it works fine, I use a call back function to MSComm32.ocx and hacked the code out of the visual studio sample application. I tried the application on another machine after installing the dialer application as a test. the dialler.exe vb application works fine but in access i get the error message saying that MSComm32.ocx is not licensed. I am running Windows professional 2k sr/3. This is annoying as i know the ocx works and is licensed for the dialler.exe. Is there a solution to this or another ocx freeware I can get to perform the same task. I do not need to install the whole of visual studio on to the user pc just to make this work.

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Another option may be to use the Telephony API (TAPI). There are a number of articles on the web about it’s use. It is free supplied by microsoft.

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I will do some research on this

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There are licenses and licenses. If you have Visual Studio on a machine, you have a license for that control. Having an executable on another machine that uses that control doesn’t mean it’s licensed for any other use.

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Hi Mark

This may be to basic for you, check out a2k Contact Wizard, there is sample contact record, click on phone # and click Dial button to dial out.

HTH

John

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I will have another go at this but so far it has not worked for me

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Have you tried RegSvr32 on the OCX should it need registering? Check your visual studio documentation to make certain you can distribute the OCX royalty free. Also there is a utility ‘depends.exe’ that should list the dll’s that another file requires. I’ve not tried that on an ocx but they are a special case of a dll.

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I have done this but still no luck

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