Re: [Ekiga-list] How to control Ekiga via CLI on Windows?

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Le vendredi 15 mai 2009 à 15:22 -0400, Jacob Beard a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently examining the feasibility of switching my grandparents
> from Skype to Ekiga. I think that learning a brand-new interface is
> going to be too hard for them, and so I'd like to make things very
> simple by just giving them a desktop icon that they can double-click
> in order to call me. In GNU/Linux, this is very simple, as I can just
> invoke ekiga from the command-line with the -c flag. On Windows
> version 3.02, though, it complains that an instance of Ekiga is
> already running, and ignores the flag. Is there a way to get the Ekiga
> Windows build to accept the command-line arguments? If not, is there
> another way to implement the effect I have described, where it is
> possible to create an icon that forces an already-running Ekiga
> instance to dial out to a particular SIP address?
> 

Unfortunately I see no way.

Nobody implemented that mechanism for WIN32. It is not very difficult to
do. I remember that XMMS in the old days was using a socket mechanism to
check that an instance was running and if it was the case, it was simply
sending a command over the socket interface.

Ekiga can not do that (yet). But Michael Rickmann is doing a lot of work
on the win32 build nowadays.
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