phoneGetHookSwitch function (tapi.h)

The phoneGetHookSwitch function returns the current hookswitch mode of the specified open phone device.

Syntax

LONG phoneGetHookSwitch(
  HPHONE  hPhone,
  LPDWORD lpdwHookSwitchDevs
);

Parameters

hPhone

Handle to the open phone device.

lpdwHookSwitchDevs

Pointer to a DWORD to be filled with the mode of the phone's hookswitch devices. If a bit position is FALSE, the corresponding hookswitch device is onhook; if TRUE, the microphone and/or speaker part of the corresponding hookswitch device is offhook. To find out whether the microphone and/or speaker are enabled, the application can use phoneGetStatus. This parameter uses one or more of the PHONEHOOKSWITCHDEV_ Constants.

Return value

Returns zero if the request succeeds or a negative error number if an error occurs. Possible return values are:

PHONEERR_INVALPHONEHANDLE, PHONEERR_NOMEM, PHONEERR_INVALPOINTER, PHONEERR_RESOURCEUNAVAIL, PHONEERR_INVALPHONESTATE, PHONEERR_OPERATIONFAILED, PHONEERR_OPERATIONUNAVAIL, PHONEERR_UNINITIALIZED.

Remarks

After the hookswitch state of a device changes, and if hookswitch monitoring is enabled, the application is sent a PHONE_STATE message.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Target Platform Windows
Header tapi.h
Library Tapi32.lib
DLL Tapi32.dll

See also

PHONE_STATE

Supplementary Phone Service Functions

TAPI 2.2 Reference Overview

phoneGetStatus