Aaron,
I have to yank out the manuals on them again, but from memory, the
pre and post characters were single ascii characters and as such not
fool-proof. With Dos apps, I had used the tilde to activate the
sequnce, thinking that it was the least used key... long filenames
has changed that. I am considering writing a driver that will detect
the leader, save the keys until a timeout or a trailer and then
provide the barcodes as a separate item.
If possible, I would suggest serial.... the cost and requirement for
another port stuffs it up somewhat.
On 19 Mar 99 at 13:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It look slike my time has come to address the Barcodes issue (perhaps a
> FAQ should be started for barcode readers and Delphi).
>
> The client has lef the options open with respect to locating a barcode reader
> to use with our application. What are people experiences with various barcode
> readers and delphi connectivity software - can anyone make recommendations
> on barcode type (led/laser), connectivity format (serial/keyboard) and application
> API packages.
>
> I understand that some of the keyboard barcode readers can send pre and post
> character streams to enable jumping to the barcode field and tabbing to the next
> field automatically - comments?
>
> --
> Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
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