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    Default dial iphone programmatically

    my first post here. hello, world.

    i'm writing an iphone app that needs to dial the phone. i'm able to pull numbers from the address book, but i can't figure out how to dial them. i must just be missing something! any help greatly appreciated!

    thanks!

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    maybe use a weblink? tel:1112223333,44 the , for pause

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    Unfortunately weblink's are limited in the (undocumented) syntax they will handle (e.g. no asterisk or pound) but it will work - use openURL to execute.

    Note that your program will stop when this happens and restart once the call completes so save your state and restore on restart.
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