I don't have a specific answer. Some input devices, such as a credit card swiper or bar code scanner act just like a keyboard and send the scanned input directly to the open application. If the PALM Device acts in the same manner, then you have to do nothing special.
I would suspect that the palm device is more complicated than that and has some form of API that needs to be interacted with, either via USB / serial port / etc... If that is the case, then there is no way (that I know of) to access the device with AIR. In theory you could write some other program to do the interaction with the palm device, save the relevant data to either a SQL Lite database or text files, and load the data into the AIR application that way. bredwards358 wrote: > > > As per a suggestion from another member of the forum, I have decided > to repost my question with a more descriptive title. Right now I am > currently in the midst of designing an Adobe AIR application which is > basically a new and improved version of legacy software coded in VB6 > (I'm using Flex 3). At the moment I'm purely working on the client > side of things and one issue I'll be having to deal with is this: > > The old VB6 application was able to accept input from synchronized > PALM devices as well as others, but I want to focus on PALM first. > Now, I've never developed this kind of software before, and I'm even > quite new to Adobe Flex and AIR, having only been using them for the > past few weeks. > > That said, I'm having trouble figuring out where to get started, I'm > aware that I need some sort of conduit software, but I don't know > whether I need to code that myself or simply download it. I'm also not > sure where to begin going about setting things up so that the software > I'm working on can listen for when a client scans a barcode and having > the results show up in the application on the desktop. > > I'm searching google as well but my "search-fu" is rather weak so > that'll take a while so I have decided to post here in the meantime. > This is by no means time-critical as this is just the beginning of the > project. > > Thanks in advance. -- Jeffry Houser Flex, ColdFusion, AIR AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- Adobe Community Expert <http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/members/JeffryHouser.html> My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com> My Podcast: <http://www.theflexshow.com> My Blog: <http://www.jeffryhouser.com>
