DDE With Filemaker Pro & Symantec Winfax Pro on Win95

DDE With Filemaker Pro & Symantec Winfax Pro on Win95

Post by John Grang » Mon, 22 Sep 1997 04:00:00



 Hi,

I'm trying to send faxes directly from fmp3 using Winfax Pro v8 from
Symantec.

I can send the faxes fine using the Winfax printer driver, but I have to
manually re-enter the fax number etc in the Winfax dialog box.  What I WANT
to do is to enter the data one in FMP and run a script to send the fax.

Winfax uses DDE calls to allow programs to send faxes automatically, but
requires DDEPoke calls, which Filemaker doesn't seem to know anything about
(It only knows about DDEExecute calls)

I don't really know anything about DDE so I'm at a loss about what to do.

Can anybody help?

Thanks in advance.

John Grange

 
 
 

1. visBas, WinFax Pro & DDE

Greetings,

I seem to have almost exhausted all of my resources looking for the answer
to this problem. I am hoping that you can help me.

The program I am writing calls for a report to be created from a base of
data files. Each page of the report lists the transactions for a client
and needs to be faxed to that client. I am using VisBas 4.0 16 or 32 to
write the program and using DDE conversation to Delrina WinFax Pro, 4.0 in
order to queue and send the pages to each client.

Question and problem

Question: Do I need to create a seperate file containing each page of the
report in order to submit that report to WinFax as a file to FAX or can I
somehow submit the report to the FAX (as if it were the printer) as it is
being created.

Problem: I seem to be able to queue a list of FAXes in WinFax but I can
not seem to activate WinFax to actually send the faxes when I am done
creating the report.

Below is a sample of the DDE portion of my code thus far. I would
certainly appreciate any suggestions or sample code or points in the
direction of an answer.

This is a simple test program with a command button to start to send the
FAX and a text box to contain info to be sent and to provide the link. I
use a second textbox to display the status. I could send the actual
program

 Private Sub Command1_click()
    Dim Z
    Dim S0 As String
    Text1 = ""
    STATUS = ""
    If Text1.LinkMode = 0 Then
        S0 = FindWindow(0&, "Delrina WinFax PRO")
        If S0 = "0" Then
            Z = Shell("D:\WNWF\FAXMNG.EXE", 4)
            DoEvents
        End If
        Text1.LinkTopic = "FAXMNG|TRANSMIT"
        Text1.LinkMode = 2
        Text1.LinkItem = "Sendfax"
        On Error GoTo com_000
        Text1.Text = "recipient(""9700718"",  """","""",""E. James
Zettlemoyer"",""First Test"")"
        Text1.LinkPoke
        Text1.Text = "fillcoverpage (""This is a test of the FAX"")"
        Text1.LinkPoke
        Printer.Print "hello there Jim"
        Text1.LinkExecute "GoActive"
        On Error GoTo 0
        Text1.LinkMode = 0
        stat1 = "successful command"
        Exit Sub
com_000:
        On Error GoTo 0
        Text1.LinkMode = 0
        stat1 = "No Success"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    Text1.LinkMode = 0
End Sub

Thank you for help
Jim Z.

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