Peter, you could also put a hidden button on your form. The scanner could be
programmed to trigger the button which would then grab the data being scanned
and allow your code to process it.
> On Oct 15, 2019, at 4:22 PM, Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech
> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Was wondering what technique people used for capturing scans into 4D. At the
> moment I’m using a simple text field and the scanner simply ‘pastes’ the code
> into the text field, but something a bit more sophisticated is called for
> ideally where a scan can be “detected” by the 4D form even though no text
> field may be present. (e.g. as one of a number of possible form actions or as
> an alternative to a manual lookup of the product).
>
> Is anybody implementing such an approach ? What capture methods do you use ?
> (The scanner is connected to the USB port, not the RS232 serial port).
>
> Best Regards
>
> Peter
Later,
Guy
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