Re: hooking barcode readers to the Pocket PC and what uses people find for these great devices ( was boycott ....)

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r_z_aret_at_pen_fact.com
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:04:46 -0500

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:01:43 -0700, "ed sharpe" <esharpe@uswest.net>
wrote:

>***- ok this is different then when we just click on a field on the pc or
>the laptop and then it the scan button then.... I was in hopes it would be
>as easy for the PDA...
>"Dick Grier" <dick_grierNOSPAM@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:uoiwSCJBFHA.2572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> BTW, you would have to do some programming to receive and interpret the
>> serial data. However, I assume that you'd have to do that for ANY barcode
>> reader, regardless of interface method.

If the scanner comes with a "keyboard wedge" (see my earlier post),
the wedge will mimic a keyboard and thus put the bar code in any
application that accepts keyboard input. Same mechanism used with the
usual SIP (Soft Input Panel) such as the handwriting recognition and
"keyboard" that come with Pocket PCs. So many folks _can_ collect data
with no programming effort and only a little user care (see my earlier
post).

>>
>> --
>> Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)
>>
>> See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.
>>
>> Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 4th
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>> www.mabry.com/vbpgser4 to order.
>>
>>
>

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