Karen, The scanner and driver need to be installed so they are recognized, on the newer Windows this happens when you plug in the device. I know you can set a default printer but I am not sure you can define default scanner. I use the Blob editor to do scanning and if you look under File>>Select Source you should see all the available scanners listed by their correct names; my list even shows an old one that I removed and fully uninstalled but somehow cannot get it to completely go away; probably stored in the registry somewhere. BTW, how do you do the scanning? Are you using a plugin? Blob Editor? Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 1:19 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - "Name" of a USB device? At one of my clients, they plug in a USB scanner and it is recognized as a removeable disk. So my RBase program simply retrieves a file E:\Scanner.txt
They are going to buy a different scanner which they will also plug into the same USB port and import into the same RBase program, but the file will be in a different format. So what I would like to do is automatically "recognize" what device is plugged in. Is there any kind of environment value that I can retrieve that distinguishes one USB device from another, some kind of "name? Otherwise I'll just have to ask them to select the device from a list. Would be cool if I could automate it though! Karen
