What I was hoping to do was have the user push and hold the button to scan
a barcode into an input field on an HTML form within a web browser.
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Subject: RE: Symbol 1500 Palm Pilot and Web Browsers
Are you thinking to have the scanner on without user push and hold the
scanner button?
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> From: B. Flaumenhaft [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 1:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: Symbol 1500 Palm Pilot and Web Browsers
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> As far as I know, noone's written anything yet that allows the scanner to
> input directly to any text field on a form. The only way I can think of
to
> do this would involve writing a Hack that would constantly keep the
> scanner
> turned on; scans would go into the field with current focus. There might
> be
> significant demand for this; I think a lot of current applications might
> benefit from scan-ready data.
>
> On the other hand, such a Hack would probably drain power like crazy.
> Anyone else have thoughts on this?
>
> If you're interested in learning the basics of writing scanning
> applications, Symbol has pretty decent documentation; I also wrote an
> article on programming the Symbols for the now-dead Handheld Systems; the
> article's available online at
>
> http://www.cdpubs.com/hhsys/archives/71/09flaume.pdf
>
> Hope that helps ...
>
> Regards,
> Ben Flaumenhaft.
>
> >I'd love to use someone's browser, and then invoke the scanner from
> there,
> >but if that isn't an option, I will be writing a browser.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Carie
>
>
