I am trying to make «click-to-call» feature in my FileMaker 11 database on Mac OS X 10.9.x:
Open URL [ "tel:" & $phonenumber ]
But this code only activates browser and and call to the telephone is not done. What I make wrong?
i am using Tlphn.com softphone and links like tel:12345678 opens properly from html pages.
Answer is: use AppleScript, Luke.
tell application "System Events"
open location "tel:12345678"
end tell
The code you're using is correct, it's just the version of FileMaker you're on that's causing the problem for you.
To use the tel url, you need to be on a device that has direct access to a phone. With FileMaker Go running on an iphone, you can open your tel url and Go knows to pass that to the phone application. Because FileMaker Pro and Pro Advanced run from a desktop, which has no inherently attached phone, they're not built to open a tell url and pass it to a phone (because what phone would it pass the call to?).
You could potentially make a call from your desktop if you connected your computer and FileMaker Pro to a phone (like a voice over IP phone).
It's likely that the easiest way of making a call from FileMaker Pro on your desktop is to have FileMaker place the call via Skype. I did a quick search and found This article that explains how to make a skype call from FileMaker Pro. I have not tried this before so I don't know if it works or not, but glancing through it the process makes sense.
Hope this helps!
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I am writing an app in order to automate the process of connecting an Apple mobile device to a wifi network and downloading configuration profiles to the device. Since it is being automated (by something such as Native Driver), all of the functions need to be controlled by the app itself, not sent to another app such as Settings or Safari.
I am already using Apple80211 private framework to connect to a wifi network as well as UIWebView in place of a browser in order to navigate to a specific webpage. Once I navigate to this webpage, my server will send the mobile device a .mobileconfig file in order to install a configuration profile. I haven't been able to find a clear answer on how to handle this .mobileconfig file once it is sent by the server. I have read in a few different places that UIWebView cannot handle the .mobileconfig file once it is sent. What would be the best way to handle this file when it is sent?
Also, once it is sent, and granted that something can handle the file, is there a way to install the configuration profile programmatically without the need for user input? i.e. are there any public or private frameworks that I can implement in order to install the configuration profile "behind the scenes?"
This app is only ever going to be used for testing purposes, and will only ever live on a handful of devices. Thanks in advance, any help will be much appreciated.
I tried a similar thing to do.
Unfortunately I didn't get it running with the UIWebView, but with switching to the Safari it worked:
Switch to safari, let the user install the config and send him back to your app. Just register to a custom URL Scheme like "yourapp://" and add a link to this URL in the HTML.
I am working on an app that needs to add a wifi network (i.e., SSID and password) to the list of known ones of the mobile phone, so that it connects to that network automatically even when seeing it for the first time.
I already did this on Android, and now I will start working on the iPhone version.
Question: On the iPhone, is it possible to have my app (when it runs for the first time) add a wifi network to the list of known ones of the device, and if so, any hints regarding how to do it?
Thanks a lot.
Unfortunately this is not possible on iOS.
Apple doesn't provide any public APIs to add network SSIDs or passwords.
The most you can do is to enable your app to manage the user's authentication for a public network, (as is done for things like Boingo and The Cloud). In this case, when the user joins a network, instead of a webpage opening to authenticate, your app can launch and provide the authentication - but that is as far as you can go.
We asked for clarification on this point to Apple in the dev forums and were told that it is definitely not possible. (I will try to dig out the link to that post for you when I get more time. Else, search your query on the dev forums and it might show up).
so it would seem that with iOS 6, there may be a way to do this. Boingo appear to allow a user to turn on "Auto Login" and it will login/authenticate against the access point without the user interacting/authenticating manually (I haven't tried it myself though). Is there new API calls in iOS 6 that now allows this? See this article.
I'm trying to block all the PC, laptops and send them to a blank page or any page that I set it up for a PCs site.
I just have a mobile version website and I only want to allow iOS such as iPad, iPod and iPhone to visit my website and block the rest for my security purpose
I'm trying to search in here and google I think I'm using some kind of wrong term or maybe something that I don't know exactly but I see many website does that.
Thanks
I would just scan the user-agent. Find the ones that you will accept and then redirect the rest to a non-blank sorry page. A blank page would not be very nice, so a simple sorry would do. I say this because maybe the user has a mobile device to use, but happens to be on a pc. A blank page would make them think that the site is junk or doesn't work and you might lose their mobile traffic also.
block the rest for my security purpose
How secure does this need to be? You shouldn't trust the client to always tell you the truth about what they are.
I suggest you use some other mechanism to ensure security, for example username/password.
I used MobileESP to detect when someone using a smartphone connects to my website. This uses PHP, and has some functions to make it pretty simple. I'm sure you can accomplish it with the above methods, but in case this would be of some help...
http://blog.mobileesp.com/
I'm pretty sure that due to the Application Sandbox, none of this is possible, but...
I am working on an application that operates on text that the user inputs. Aside from forcing the user to copy and paste from another application or type in text, what other options exist for getting text? To be more specific:
Is there any way to get the user to "pass" an email to my app? I can imagine a hacky solution where I have the user mail it to a server on the Net, and then I expose the mail from a server-side application, but I'd like something a bit more direct.
Is there any way to get to the user's mail inbox without asking them to put in their credentials?
Is there any way to plug-in to Safari, so that I can send web pages "over" to the app? I don't mean a full plugin, which I know is impossible.
I'm trying to think of creative ways to solve this problem of how to get text into my app, so any ideas would help.
From the Iphone SDK Forum: "Apps can't read each others files - but you could use a URL scheme to launch one app from another. Any parameters in the URL would be passed."
It's what my gut was telling me, but i wanted to go verify before saying..officially, no. The Sandbox isolates each program..
You can pass via URL text strings, but that's about it. I haven't seen any app which hacks around this limitation, but that just may be none of them surviving the app submission process.
http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/21099-sharing-data-between-applications.html
My recent engagement demands a printer integration using iPhone. The app will
• Generate a PDF with the collected data
• Print the same when user clicks print button
I am fairly new in iPhone development. There are hardly any reference and sample codes to support the printing feature , however there are quite a few apps available in the market to print from iPhone!
Please help me with reference or sample code to realize the feature from within the custom app we are building.
Many Thanks
-Jeet
I haven't developed an app that supports printing, however, I'm pretty sure the ones that do must be connecting to a companion OS X application running on some computer on the same wifi network that the iPhone app connects to and sends its data to.
This means that you'll have to look at the printing docs and sample code for the Desktop and build a helper app that will receive connections from your iPhone app. There is sample code to show you how to discover a computer on your network using Bonjour. You can then just stream the data over the network using a socket to the Desktop app from the iPhone and have it pass along the print job.
You say that you're fairly new to iPhone development, so this comes with a warning that it's not for the faint of heart.
Here is a blog post on how to communicate between desktop and iPhone using Bonjour:
http://cocoa-nut.de/?p=27
Best Regards,
There is official printing API from Apple. This only support for iOS 4.2 and above though:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/2DDrawing/Conceptual/DrawingPrintingiOS/Printing/Printing.html
I am also looking for the same solution as I need to do this for the application that I am working on. I am also generating the PDF and user can then print it.
As you are saying that already developed apps are printing without using intermediate PC. But while searching over the net I came around an application which is useful for printing for Epson
http://mobile.eurosmartz.com/products/print.html
There it is mentioned by the company it self that "Install “Print” on your iPhone, download the free WePrint software for your desktop/laptop computer and then you can print directly from your iPhone."
Also there is another application on iTunes called "PrinterShare- print from iPhone to anywhere". There also they mentioned that computer connected to printer needs the PrinterShare software.
So I think there is a mediator present in these printings.
Let me know if you find some more information on this topic, as this is very new and clients are asking to avail this facility in there applications.
If you come to know any sample application
Regards,
Vishal.
There is currently no Official printing API.
You could of course implement your own LPR printing code.
Or you can license a ready API from someone like www.e-workshop-dev.com