Re: Phone dialer annoyingly defaults to Internet Call.

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"Phil Ellett [221597]" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I am using the API call "tapiRequestMakeCall" from TAPI32.DLL in an attempt
> to automatically dial numbers from Excel.
>
> The phone dial application however, extremely annoyingly insists by default
> in trying to make calls via the "Internet Call" part of the application and
> NOT
> using the normal modem/phone dialer.
>
> Changing the "Preferred line for calling" option to phone (from Internet) in
> the Phone Dialer application has ABSOLUTELY no effect on this.
>
> Can someone advise how to get round this annoying problem and banish
> internet calls from my system.Thanks in advance,Regards,Phil.

Phil,
what string do you pass as szDestAddress to tapiRequestMakeCall()?
Presumable it does not only consist of digits but other characters too?
MS Phone Dialer seems to use this to distinguish between phone and internet
call.

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