Hello SunRay-Users,

  Since the scanners matter was recently active, I have a question
  here too :)

  We have seen in the docs that among different devices Sun Rays
  can support USB barcode scanners. In short, how far does this
  support go? :)

  Is it limited to certain devices or their usage, or does it
  stream everything to the application level?

  I'll try to describe our situation concerning this problem:

  We co-develop a custom application which currently works only
  under MS Windows, which is sort of an ERP/CRM/docflow app.
  It uses barcodes to identify all printed documents, and our
  programmers have developed a utility (for Windows) which can
  translate signals from the barcode scanner to Windows system
  messages. These in turn are captured by the GUI program and
  trigger some activity, i.e. open a dialog to edit the electronic
  version of the document. 

  This was developed using an USB CipherLab-1000 scanner, which
  under Windows gets a COM port number and the developed utility
  accesses this COM port to wait for input from the scanner.

  Now, we discussed deploying this whole application in a customer's
  new environment which can be filled with Sun Rays instead of
  WinPCs as desktop workplaces - if we get the scanners working
  in general and through uttsc in particular.

  So far this has not become an experimental project (i.e. I don't
  yet know whether this scanner does or does not work with a Sun Ray),
  but perhaps the list members know if it works and what caveats to
  expect and how to work around them?

  In particular, does the Sun Ray appliance and SRS support USB-serial
  converters (as one seems to be built in this scanner)?

-- 
Best regards,
 Jim Klimov                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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