barcode scanner

[Michael D Mays]

The problem, I envision, is  when you integrate a keyboard with the 
scanner.

How can you differentiate between keyboard input and the input from the 
scanner? Is there a way to tell whether the input is from a scanner or 
the keyboard?

Michael

On Nov 25, 2004, at 5:46 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

>
> On Nov 25, 2004, at 9:06 AM, paolo wrote:
>
>> How can I  send data from  a barcode scanner  to a  revolution stack 
>> on WIN-PC?
>>
>> Any of you experienced a software using   a barcode scanner as 
>> data-entry in a revolution stack?
>>
>> Ciao Paolo Mazza
>
> I do think that barcode scanners send their data as simple ascii 
> numbers, like if the user had typed with the numeric keypad. Like you 
> don't really access the scanner hardware, you just put a field, when 
> the user uses the scanner, the scannner will send the numbers and the 
> field will be filed. But please test this before beliving in my words, 
> I don't really know if this is how they work, but I remember 
> researching a little while ago, and seeing something like that. If 
> indeed they work like this, then there's not a single problem when 
> creating stacks...
>
> cheers
> andre
>
> PS: I just saw a USB barcode scanner like those "credit card" 
> scanners...
>
>
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