Bob, Sounds like you need to find a vendor who can satisfy your hardware requirements.
On the software side, it seems like you need two processes running on the computer at the same time. One would cue up and insert all swipes. The other would poll the database and update the display accordingly. The key is to be able to collect all swipes without collision. Perhaps the cueing would be a requirement of the hardware too. Then you could just let the output dump into a form and that would satisfy the display requirement. Dennis McGrath -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Thompson Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 9:18 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Data capture with R-Base I have a great opportunity for a programming contract that I would like to accomplish in Rbase. However I am not sure that I can do it. (Although I have been told if I can dream it..!) It is basically a time and job tracking program and I need to capture data from barcode swipe terminals in real time. I cannot use an intermediate file collection program as I need to immediately process data as a barcode card is swiped by an operator and then display some information on a screen. Using a keyboard wedge type swipe reader would work great except I can only have one swipe terminal per PC. (That I know of) This project will need at least 10 swipe terminals and while I may very well have 3-4 PC units in the system, I cannot have a full PC for each swipe terminal. The project will also expand to where I will probably need 15 swipe terminals within the year. My "dream" that would most definitely land a nice contract, is to have 4 swipe terminals tied to one PC. I would have the monitor screen setup up in quandrants and when a swipe was made on swipe reader A, quandrant A would show processed data, same for reader B, C and D etc. I can handle the screen functions and programming, it is just reading the swipe readers with Rbase that is posing the problem. A posting some time ago mentioned mobile units and direct table updates. Perhaps someone could head me in the right direction there. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Bob Thompson Thompson Technology Consultants [EMAIL PROTECTED]
