I've worked mostly with Symbol-brand scanners, and they send the characters INDIVIDUALLY, but very quickly. I know because my program processes individual "keystrokes".
J R wrote: > as far as i know and with barcode scanners i have worked with, it acts > as a keyboard. can either be plug thru PS/2, IBM socket (not sure if > thats the correct name) or USB. data sent are all text like keyboards > data are sent the only difference is, keyboards send keys or by > character while in barcode it is sent by batch or the whole word. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
