OVERVIEW
"AV Dialer" (farther dialer) is a simple RAS dialer, which allows setting connection
with Internet provider using a modem. Dialer use standard RAS connections, which
you can create in "My computer->Remote access to the network->Create new connection"
or use Wizard that create Internet connections.
Often
your provider has many phones, which are busy, almost all time when you need
to access to the Internet or to your mailbox. The standard tools using by Outlook,
IExplorer, Netscape Communicator and so on allow dialing only one phone number
(Win95/98). So you can lose much time and have no connect. Dialer look over
the list phones, which you marked and calls all these phones by turn. If current
phone is busy, dialer changes phone to the next one. It does so until connection
is not established or you will exit program or you will disable connections.
Whenever connection is lost the dialer restores connection.
Dialer is simple for using
and has convenient interface. You can start dialing, drop or disable connection,
change timeout between calls, change list of the available connections "on the
fly" ever dialer has started calling, change current connection to the next
one or ever on any available one. Dialer can minimize to tray icon and does
not take place on the task bar. It also indicates the state of the connection
or cause of error.
Dialer as against the same tools no needs to store users name and passwords
for dialup connection in the separate file, which can read any user works with
this computer or ever has access to it. So, we think our program will be useful
for you.
1. Mark all phones
in the available connections' list that you want dialer to turn. If no one connection
is marked then only default connection will be used.
2. Press button with caption "Connect" or select corresponding menu item
from popup menu, which appears when you click main window or click tray icon.
3. When connection will be established then dialer beeps and icon of
connection will appear in the right bottom corner near the clock.
DROP CONNECTION, DISABLE DIALING
If you want to drop connection or disable dialing you should only press the button with caption "Disconnect" or select corresponding menu item from popup menu, which appears when you click main window or click tray icon.
"AV Dialer" can automatically restore broken connection. You can affect on process of restoring connection. When you set to unchecked menu item "Restore a broken connection" then dialer does not restore broken connection, otherwise it does so. You can change also timeout between calling attempts. By default it is 10 sec. Use menu item "Timeout->Increase to..." or "Timeout->Decrease to..." menu items for changing timeout with step equal to 1 sec. This timeout allows avoiding useless lags.
By default dialer calls from the first marked connection to the last one, after last connection it returns to the first connection and so on. The current connection is marked in the list by cursor line. If you want to change a dialing order you should change position of cursor in the list or click menu item in the popup with caption "Next number". You can also mark another unmarked connections or unmark connections, which are marked early.
"AV Dialer" sources contain ras*.pas files, which describe all API functions, structures, variables and constants. So, they contain all for working with RAS connections. "AV Dialer" is example of two-thread application, which use RAS connections. Sources contain also component TTrayIcon and implement some features allows creating label like an HTML URL (click on "Info..." button for more information).