On Oct 15, 2019, at 6:25 PM, Peter Jakobsson wrote: > Was wondering what technique people used for capturing scans into 4D. At the > moment I’m using a simple text field and the scanner simply ‘pastes’ the code > into the text field, but something a bit more sophisticated is called for > ideally where a scan can be “detected” by the 4D form even though no text > field may be present. (e.g. as one of a number of possible form actions or as > an alternative to a manual lookup of the product). > > Is anybody implementing such an approach ? What capture methods do you use ? > (The scanner is connected to the USB port, not the RS232 serial port).
Check out the GET TEXT INPUT plugin that Miyako created. https://github.com/miyako/4d-plugin-get-text-input You can use this to grab USB scanner input without the need to have the cursor in a text field on a form. Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
