Is there an utility.wlib_AutoDial replacement?

[Al]

This utility lives inside utility.mda which is an old MS97 add-in.

Is there a replacement for this so we don't have to make VBA Object library
references to Utility.MDA?

I have an application that crashes more often than not because of this
Utility.

Thanks for you replies!!

[Stuart McCall]

"Al" <A...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:76E51032-61AD-4142...@microsoft.com...

Try this. Place the following at the top of a module (underneath the option
declarations and before any procedure code) :

Declare Function TAPI_Make_Call Lib _
"tapi32.dll" Alias "tapiRequestMakeCall" _
(ByVal stNumber As String, _
ByVal stDummy1 As String, _
ByVal stDummy2 As String, _
ByVal stDummy3 As String) As Long

Then use it like this:

TAPI_Make_Call "123456789", "", "", ""

It's been quite a while since I used this, I have no modem on this machine,
and I'm unable to remember whether it requires a formatted number or not.
Play with it till it works...

[Stuart McCall]

If you can't get that to work, or you don't like the behaviour (I seem to
remember it pops a dialog, which you may not want to see), you could try
this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;148857

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

"Stuart McCall" <smc...@myunrealbox.com> wrote:

Thanks for that. Once a year or so we see a similar request and I've
always wanted to have another solution. However I've been to lazy to
do any searching.

Tony

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[Stuart McCall]

"Tony Toews [MVP]" <tto...@telusplanet.net> wrote in message
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> "Stuart McCall" <smc...@myunrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for that. Once a year or so we see a similar request and I've
> always wanted to have another solution. However I've been to lazy to
> do any searching.
>
> Tony

No problem. Back when I was experimenting with various dialling methods, I
pasted this code into a module and ran it. It worked "right out of the box".
I never ended up using it though, as my client was satisfied with the way
tapiRequestMakeCall behaved.

[David W. Fenton]

=?Utf-8?B?QWw=?= <A...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Is there a replacement for this so we don't have to make VBA
> Object library references to Utility.MDA?
>
> I have an application that crashes more often than not because of
> this Utility.

Without the reference, call:

Application.Run("Utility.wlib_AutoDial")

I just tested it in A2K3, with no reference. Obviously, you'd pass
it appropriate arguments.

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