Sending Messages To API's

[Ken Ray]

On 8/6/06 12:24 AM, "Bridger Maxwell" <bridgeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>   I am seeing if it is possible to control the Skype API using Revolution.
> The Skype Developer site (
> https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc/Using_the_Skype_API_on_Windows) says
> to use the WM_COPYDATA command to communicate with Skype, but I have no idea
> how to do this.  I have used the "open process C:/.../Skype.exe for text
> update" command to open Skype, but the write to process yields no results.
> I am also not able to receive anything from Skype using the read from
> process, or close Skype using close process.  Skype shows up in the
> openProcesses and the result never shows any errors.  Can someone help me
> make heads or tails of all this?

You would need to have an external written that would be able to send
WM_COPYDATA messages and to register the appropriate window messages with
Skype. This isn't something that Rev can do "out of the box".


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com