Introduction

The FAX C++/ActiveX SDK is designed to allow developers and end users to combine Fax and Data. It is fully object oriented and takes into account the new emerging technology in faxing and the Internet. Developers can build black and white or color faxing applications within a few days using the Fax C++/ActiveX driver. Combined with other Black Ice products, such as the Monochrome TIFF Printer Driver, Voice C++/ActiveX, and Imaging libraries, Fax C++/ActiveX allows developers to rapidly build Fax Servers, Fax Back applications, applications with faxing capability, or to "Fax Enable" existing applications. Fax C++/ActiveX also quickly and painlessly integrates with Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio .NET, and Borland’s Delphi.

Voice capability can be added to the Fax C++/ActiveX by using the Voice C++/ActiveX.
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Supports .NET 2003 & V.34 Fax

Version 10.0 of the Fax C++/ActiveX implements V.34 faxing based on the Class 1.0 fax command set and will send V.34 faxes to any fax modem or board on the market that supports Class 1.0 and V.34 faxing. A faxes can now send at 33,600 bps, more than twice as fast as before. The increased transmission speed increases performance by drastically reducing training time. The support of the Mainpine RockForce multiport modems and the Multi-Tech V.34 fax modems area new additions to the list of hardware supported by Fax C++. Fax C++/ActiveX also supports the Brooktrout TR1034 boards and the Dialogic Gammalink Cpi200B and Cpi400B boards which are all capable of V.34 faxing.

Fax C++/ActiveX fax queue management was rewritten and improved
The fax queue management in Fax C++/ActiveX version 9.0 was rewritten and improved. The new queue management routines are highly optimized and thread-safe. They were designed to manage and distribute large numbers of faxes in a high-density environment for 96 or more channels per workstation.  Existing applications can take advantage of the new queue management by upgrading to Fax C++ version 9.0. There is no need to modify the code of the application, just rebuild the application with the new include and library files and update the Fax C++ DLLs shipped with the application.  Also, Fax C++/ActiveX version 9.0 includes a new Fax OCX that exports queue management methods. This way, Visual Basic, Delphi, MS Access, MS FoxPro and .NET developers can handle fax queue management tasks with a few methods, thus avoiding time consuming queue implementation. 

Real time access to faxes received with the Fax C++ ActiveX

Fax applications based on the Fax C++/ActiveX can now access the image data of received faxes in real time. This feature is only available for modems and Brooktrout boards. If real time access to the received faxes is enabled, the Fax C++/ActiveX will send a message to the application every time a buffer containing a portion of the image data has been received from the modem or board. The application can retrieve the image information and can use it to display the faxes being received in real time or to run an OCR software application on the image.

An e-mail to Fax and Fax to e-mail library is now available as an add-on to our Fax C++/ActiveX. The e-mail to fax library will convert e-mail to TIFF format. The TIFF that is generated is ready to be faxed with the Fax C++.

Fax C++/OCX Architecture

Some of the standard features:

Some of the classes of the Fax C++/ActiveX are:

Additional features:

Programming Samples:
Fax C++/ActiveX ships with sample applications and source code for:

·         Visual Basic

·         C/C++

·         Visual C++ (MFC)

·         Borland Delphi 

·         Visual Fox Pro

·         C# (.NET 2002)

·         J#  (.NET 2002)

·         VB.NET  (.NET 2002)