Re: Visual Basic

["Andy Powell" <andy@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

>What's VB 5 RedRat?

That should have been VB5 and a RedRat (PC/IR interface)


>I'm currently have rough (very) code for scheduling X10 events and
direct
>commands to X10, it setup to use the TW523.

Very interesting stuff...

>It also acts as a answer machine via TAPI modem with Voice recognition,

And i really like this - what voice recognition software are you using?

>interfaces to a Solwise Caller ID gadget to monitor incoming and
outgoing
>calls. It also looks up incoming numbers within MS Outlook contacts
folder
>for the callers name which it then announces, oh and it announces the
time
>on the hour (boring, but useful) . I'm trying to work out how to issue
a
>shutdown command to a remote computer, so that I can shut it down
cleanly
>then power it off via X10, struggling to find the starting point on
this
>one.. any ideas?

You could use the win API function... if the remote pc was running a small=
server application in the systray for example. You could use the winsock=
component - that  would do it.. and fairly easil too...


>If any of the code sounds useful and you'd like to see how not to do
it=
;-)
>drop me a line..

ALL  your code sound interesting - particularly the X10 stuff. Is it all
VB=
or is there some C in there too?

Maybe we could swap a little code here....


Andy...


--- Tag-it V1.0 (c) Andy Powell 1998
Consciousness, that annoying time between naps.


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