[email protected] wrote in post #651378: > When the cursor is on the form field register_no, the user should > "swipe" the card. This will fill the field with the code from the > card. This is totally transparent to your Rails application, since not > even the browser knows that data is coming from a barcode reader. You > see, the way a simple barcode reader works is that when you swipe the > card, it sends to the keyboard port on your computer the electric > signals for the numbers, so probably not even your computer can tell > if those signals are coming from the keyboard or what. It is > essentially the same thing as you typing in your phone number or your > name, only its done "instantly" as you swipe the card. > > If it is a USB reader, it is a little bit different on how it does > it's magic, but the way you interact with it should be the same. Have > you tried creating a simple HTML form with the field, positioning the > cursor on the field and swiping the card? It should work. > > On Mar 25, 9:31 pm, Pokkai Dokkai <[email protected]> Well, the usb magnetic card reader can install directly on your computer host. (http://www.syncotek.com/product/card_reader_1.html )
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