Hardware related interfaces for Open Office

[(R. E.) Bruce Martin]

Welcome beginner. Please answer all of the questions below which may provide information necessary to answer your question.
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Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using? 2.4
What Operating System (version) are you using? Windows XP
What is your question or comment?

I have seen that there is an extension for Open office to work with the eFAX service. However this depends on a service that can get expensive, so it is not for everyone.

My purposes in posting are 2 fold:

1) To suggest the establishment of an area here for the discussion of hardware realted interfaces to be added (or what one would like to see) in Open Office.

2) As a first item for such a thread, to suggest (as referred to above) the implementation (if it doesn't already exist) of a fax client for open office in conjunction with a fax modem for use on a normal telephone line.

This should:

2.1) Be able to control the manner in which the modem answers the line, in particular it should support silent answer, CNG detection and distinctive ringing, giving the user the maximum number of ways to use this on a line shared with voice. This would save some users the ongoing cost of having to have a separate fax line, or of having the cost of eFAX.

2.2) Faxes received could be deposited in .ODP files as bitmaps, and a shortcut to the .ODP file placed in the lower right corner of the screen when there is a received fax not yet viewed.

2.3) It is expected that installation of this extension would create a folder in a drive/place which could be chosen by the user by browsing during the process of installation. This would be the default folder for the deposition of the mentioned .ODP files.

2.4) Since people's hardware and setups change from time to time, it would be necessary for the user to have the ongoing ability to make the application adapt to these changes as needed.

2.5) The application would need to do what it can insure that all faxes sent by it conform to the laws of the country in which it is used as regards inclusion of sender information, etc.

2.6) It is possible that this type of application might do well as an extension of the existing eFAX extension, thus giving the user more flexibility in using both means of handling faxes.

I would appreciate posts of opinions on both these ideas.

[Villeroy]

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... m.php?f=76

[Hagar Delest]

I have just posted a message in the Beginner's forum regarding hardware interface-related extensions. It is too detailed to repeat here, but I would like to make users aware of the new topic so as to get their opinions.

I've deleted that post and moved your thread in the Extension forum.

But as you've seen reading the survival guide, this is not the right place to request features. Use the Issue Tracker instead.

No need to cross-post here. Regular users look at new threads from the dedicated feature of the forum. And gurus often browse mainly the sections they're good at, leaving the Beginner section for the end.