As far as I know, noone's written anything yet that allows the scanner to
input directly to any text field on a form. The only way I can think of to
do this would involve writing a Hack that would constantly keep the scanner
turned on; scans would go into the field with current focus. There might be
significant demand for this; I think a lot of current applications might
benefit from scan-ready data.
On the other hand, such a Hack would probably drain power like crazy.
Anyone else have thoughts on this?
If you're interested in learning the basics of writing scanning
applications, Symbol has pretty decent documentation; I also wrote an
article on programming the Symbols for the now-dead Handheld Systems; the
article's available online at
http://www.cdpubs.com/hhsys/archives/71/09flaume.pdf
Hope that helps ...
Regards,
Ben Flaumenhaft.
>I'd love to use someone's browser, and then invoke the scanner from there,
>but if that isn't an option, I will be writing a browser.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Carie
