To obtain list of cover pages available

[A.Popov]

Hi all,



I'm staring a simple fax send application and since I've never did attempts
in faxing before I have few questions.



How can obtain programmatically list with available cover. And what i'm
supposed to do to generate a preview of each cover page so the user can
choose what page to use.



Thank you in advance

 

[Raghavendra R [MSFT]]

There is no API for either of them - getting the list or generating the
preview. Let us know your scenario.

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[A.Popov]

And maybe there is some way to achieve that, i mean Fax Service manager
somehow reads the cover pages installed on the server. It doesn't matter if
the solution will work on the local machine only

Thank you

 

[Raghavendra R [MSFT]]

Fax Service Manager? Fax Send Wizard is what shows you the list of cover
pages - both personal (also known as client-side) cover pages & server-side
(also known as common) cover pages.

However let me explain the reason why such a support doesn't exist. Cover
page is an optional first page of a fax message. By default the system (or
machine) provides four (as of the latest OS) standard cover pages for use.
Users can create their own cover pages using Cover Page Editor. Users can
specify any cover page file (which has a .cov extension & is created by
Cover Page Editor) to be used for the fax message. So in essence you can
create a set of cover pages (or copy the standard ones) & place them in one
directory. Your UI (that needs to display the cover page list) then
enumerates the .cov files on that directory & allows user to choose one
among them. At the back end you are going to use some API to send fax. Using
that API you can specify the full path to the .cov file as the cover page to
be used for this fax message.

This is in fact what the standard Microsoft UIs do - they go & enumerate the
..cov files in the standard directory where server-side cover pages are
stored. Typically the standard directory is "%ALLUSERPROFILE%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\MSFax\Common Coverpages". BUT please note that
this location can be changed without notice in future Operating System
releases.
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[Jack H.]

This works if the program is running on the same system as the fax
server. How do you get the list of cover pages from a remote fax
server? The Fax Send Wizard does it, but how?

Thanks - Jack H.