Fabian: A couple years ago I wrote an extremely easy VB application to do something similar. The client has a machine that captures a signature, like what a FedEx driver would have. The VB app stays up and running, as soon as they sign the box, the signature shows up on the VB form. There's a button to capture the signature to a file; the code captures to the same filename every time. Then when they know the signature is out there, the RBase program is brought up and they press a button to bring that signature in. But it does not launch RBase. Is this what you're talking about?
But in order to do the VB part, the hardware supplies a .DLL that has to be made part of the VB app and actually "placed" on the form the way you place an RBase control on the form. When I did the program for the client, they had to send me the physical device so I could install it here. Karen > I need a VERY simple application: > > 1) A user places a licence on the scanner. > 2) The image is stored on disk with the same name every time. > 4) The OCR data is stored to a text file with the same name every time. > 5) launches RBASE with a file called scanner.dat > > I would take off from there with RBASE. > > Thanks! > > Fabian Ferreira >
