Re: Visual Basic

["Paul Miller" <pmiller@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Andy,

I'd be interested in any further clues on where to find suitable docs on
using
WIN API and Winsock for the remote shutdown.

As for my code it's in pieces (again!!) but if you want I'll e-mail it
direct to you
It's all VB no C code in there.
I'm also trying to sus out how to get it to take commands externally such
as
from http (??) my preferred option is Voice commands across the Internet,
that would be pretty cool. I've played around with MS Agent and that
appears
to be able to do it (slight cheat) it actually is only the client doing the
voice
recognition and then passing the appropriate codes to a server app to
translate.

Oh well I'll see if I can get any further rewriting some of the
Configuration module.

Paul



>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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