I think Duane Maxwell submitted an autodialer awhile ago (and it 
might even be in the current Squeak release).

Cheers,

Alan

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At 2:53 PM +0100 4/25/01, John Hinsley wrote:
>Karl Ramberg wrote:
>>
>>  I just tested Ned's code and it is *much* simpler :-)
>>
>>  1 Make a script for the textmorph with the email address. (It still has
>>  to be edited textual)
>>
>>  2 Copy paste this script and accept
>>
>>                  | message |
>>                  message _ 'mailto:', (self costume contents string ).
>>                  message asUrl activate
>>
>>  3 Get a button to fire this script. ( click and hold on the name of the
>>  morph in the
>>  script editor, and select from the menu)
>>
>>  That's it:-)
>>
>
>Wow! That *is* perfect. Amazing peice of coding, Ned. Nice peice of
>working out, Karl!
>
>I'll go away and document this, take a peek at Andrew's write up for
>OOPSLA
>
>
>http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black/ecoop2001/Squeak%20Worksheet%201B.html
>
>and should have it up by the weekend as the final version for comments.
>The only "big" thing that needs to be done is implement some kind of
>auto-dialer, but the thought occured that this would probably operate at
>a very low level and is probably OS specific. Come to think of it, I
>can't remember ever having seen an auto-dialer for a *nix, and I've seen
>no code for one on any system.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>In pseudo it would run something like:
>
>Mouse up on Morphic Rolodex's "call" button
>
>Dialog box: "Do you want to call /work/home/cancel" (Buttons to suit.)
>
>Clicking on the appropriate button dials (I guess, sends a string to
>COM3 or whatever Mac or a particular flavour of *nix calls it) the
>number or cancels.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>John
>
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