Thanks Fred, I got in contact with a .NET friend and he can access the software using Silverlight. I think we're going to go with him accessing the hardware and see if he can provide me with an interface to communicate with his code and make it part of the RoR app.
Thank you so much for your help. On May 4, 7:12 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 4, 5:19 am, pepe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I've looked high and low and found just 1 post with some information > > about this subject, from 2008, and Google searches turned out pretty > > much no useful information. I would appreciate any help on this. > > > I need to be able to control several devices (card reader, printer, > > camera, cashier drawer) attached to the client. Has anybody done > > anything similar? Any info/links would be greatly appreciated. > > Well if you stick to straight html/javascript you'll have zero control > over external devices (beyond what is provided by javascript APIs > supported by the browser, eg the geolocation api gives you access to > location data from gps units). If you wrote a browser plugin, that > plugin would just be native C/C++ code and would be able to do > anything native code on that platform can do. Your plugin and your > webpage can communicate via javascript too. > > Fred > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
