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Thanks Ted, Maybe I wasn’t plain enough I have a barcode scanner using the keyboard wedge (this works Great!)
I’m looking for something for the card reader, that is on the com1 port, and also a cash drawer on the com2 port. I was thinking about this some more over night and after reading some more on the list.
I was wondering if there is a communication component out there, with a class that can be instantiated for data read/clear etc?????
Help James
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Theodore E Patrick
The best way to test a wedge driver is with a Text Editor.
If the wedge driver is working, the reader should rapidly type a long string of characters into notepad. The string has a set of delimiters that correspond to encoding. It is very easy to parse these values into something meaningful with just String.split.
It is typical for most input devices to ship with a wedge driver. This provides the simplest integration as each of these devices can be viewed as just a very fast keyboard.
http://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+wedge+driver
Plus the free ones that ship with the devices!
Cheers,
Ted ;)
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James
Hello Ted,
I was looking for a way to read a card reader from comm. port, as the current configuration I have to deal with uses a barcode scanner on the wedge. Any help would greatly be appreciated James
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Theodore E Patrick
Flash can handle these via a standard MS Keyboard Wedge Driver. We shipped a kiosk with a card reader and the Flash Player can directly parse data entered. Basically all these devices can be reduced to keyboard input so when you swipe a card or scan a barcode, it just types data really fast.
Actually I believe I have an example that does just this very thing…
Just put 3 V2 TextInput controls on stage and name the instances: ti_name, ti_card, ti_date and use this code:
Key.addListener(this) function onKeyDown(){ var self = arguments.callee var k = String.fromCharCode(Key.getAscii()) if(self.storage == undefined) self.storage=”” self.storage = self.storage + k if(self.storage.split("?").length == 3 ){ var sname = self.storage.split("^")[1] var scardbase = self.storage.split("?;")[1].split("?")[0].split("=") ti_name.text = sname ti_card.text = scardbase[0] ti_date.text = scardbase[1] self.storage = "" } }
This will parse the values from a standard 3 phase credit card reader. In the kiosk that used this we tested cards from starbucks, visa, amex, subway and all worked perfectly. When each type of device, you just need to know what to look for in parsing the data received.
One less thing for Ethan :)
Cheers,
Ted J
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rick Bullotta
Here's another one for Ethan then... :)
The Flash Player (along with Flex and AS) should have an input extensibility model that supports input focus management and input from other mechanisms/devices such as:
- Barcode readers - RFID readers - Card readers - Others...
This would open up a whole new class of applications for Flex/Flash.
- Rick Bullotta SAP Labs, LLC
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of JesterXL I forwarded your request to
the Central Dev group for Ethan Malasky to
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