In general, any modern scanner should work. As long as it has keyboard emulation. And I believe the majority of nowadays scanners have it.
--- In [email protected], "Fidel Viegas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:24 PM, markgoldin_2000 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With barcode readers you have two options: > > Keyboard scanner or serial port scanner. > > With a keyboard scanner you have to move a cursor to a text box you > > are entering data into, then a scan will go into that field. > > the rest is as same as it would have been entered by a hand. > > With serial scanners you wouldn't have to position cursor first, but > > you would need an application that runs on the server to control > > serial port. Not trivial task, can be done though, but what's worse > > you will need to find a way of delivering scanned data into Flex > > interface. Even less trivial task. I would suggest to stick to a > > keyboard option. > > HTH > > > > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I will go with the first option. > But now I have another question. Will any Barcode Scanner work? Or are > there special Scanners that can be read as keyboard emulation? Do you > have any pointers of what sort of scanners I should use? > > Thanks in advance. > > Fidel. >
