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Re: RE: RE: RE: [ECS] MS Outlook and ECS Scott Danks Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:55:11 -0600

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 Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:55:11 -0600
Well,  I have done that with my phone event, and it really doesnt work well.  I check
the incoming number against the name listed in the text file, then I pull in the associated
wav file name to play, populate the variable the holds the name of the wav file and
then play it for the caller.  BUT, it takes about 3 seconds of ringing time to read
through 40-50 names.  I have hundreds of relatives and potentially hundreds more friends
and customers and aquaintences.  Reading each byte one at a time is VERY SLOW.  But
it is very configurable. So I'm not knocking the ECS software, I'm just saying I would
like to see a different method for getting a whole variable from a table at a time.
 If it could talk to other programs like Excel, you could export some numbers and call
the excel spreadsheet and then go get the answer to calculated formulas, or you could
check the database for the record containing that phone number and just go get the associated
wav file name to play.  Anyway, I may not know what I'm asking for ¯ maybe something
just magic, but if there was some way to talk to other programs I would really like
it.  Maybe in the long run, we just have to use text files to communicate between programs.

>>> "David Kindred" <david@retroscape.com> 12/06 9:07 AM >>>
I haven't recently looked into writing data to text files in a long while,
but couldn't you use ECS to create a CSV (comma separated value) text file
that Access could import?

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:58 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [ECS] MS Outlook and ECS


O.K. well, what I am trying to do really is have ECS talk to other programs
to get it's data.  I would like to have ECS be able to look into an msaccess
table and get the data, or put data in.  This would let us store information
for temperatures, or names and addresses, or just about anything.  AND this
would let us have a nice data input GUI that other "non techies" in the
family could use.  What would any of you recommend?    OR is there just not
an interface method for talking some generic data transfer to other
programs.?  I know that now, almost all the Microsoft products can get data
from each other, so I thought there MUST be some simple way of doing this?

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