Now obviously not many customers are going to fork out for Platinum licenses just for one convenient feature. So, assuming you already have a soft phone of some description, what do you do?
Easy, use an AutoHotKey script to achieve the same thing. Simulate copying the selected phone number to clipboard, opening up the softphone application, bringing up the 'call number' facility and paste it in! Nearly every application supports copying a number to clipboard using Ctrl+C (Outlook, Internet Explorer, workflow systems, etc) - and this is really the only function you need.
Without further ado, here's my example: -
^!p:: ; Ctrl+Alt+P
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll ; Save the entire clipboard
Send ^c ; Copy current selected text - hopefully a valid telephone number
IfWinExist, Phone Manager Pro
{
WinShow , Phone Manager Pro , ; Display phone manager if hidden
WinActivate , Phone Manager Pro , ; Activate
WinWaitActive, Phone Manager Pro ,
Sleep, 300
Send, {F1} ; F1 brings up the Call box
WinWaitActive, Call ,
Sleep, 200
Send, ^v{Enter} ; Paste and call
Sleep, 500 ; Give it a chance to execute before restoring clipboard
}
else IfWinExist, Phone Manager Lite
{
WinShow , Phone Manager Lite , ; Display phone manager if hidden
WinActivate , Phone Manager Lite , ; Activate
WinWaitActive, Phone Manager Lite ,
Sleep, 300
Send, {F1} ; F1 brings up the Call box
WinWaitActive, Call ,
Sleep, 200
Send, ^v{Enter} ; Paste and call
Sleep, 500 ; Give it a chance to execute before restoring clipboard
}
else
{
MsgBox Error - you must be running Phone Manager for this to work!
}
Clipboard := ClipSaved ; Restore the original clipboard.
ClipSaved = ; Free the memory in case the clipboard was very large.
Sleep, 100
return
Obviously this will require substantial editing with the aid of the HotKey recorder and Window Spy for different softphones.
By the way, anyone know an efficient way to paste code into Blogger - this was time consuming!
Links: http://www.autohotkey.com
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