What Ben meant (I think) was that the way the SPT 1500's scanner works is
that an app has to enable the scanner and setup the field to accept input
from the scanner. Then, when the user pushes the scanner buttons the laser
is emitted and a barcode is read, decoded and sent off to the field in the
app.
The purpose of the hack is that apps that weren't written for the 1500
don't know how to enable the barcode reader and to accept input from the
barcode reader if one were to exist. The hack would allow existing
application use the scanner without being rewritten to take advantage of
the scanner.
mark
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Subject: RE: Symbol 1500 Palm Pilot and Web Browsers
What I was hoping to do was have the user push and hold the button to scan
a barcode into an input field on an HTML form within a web browser.
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Are you thinking to have the scanner on without user push and hold the
scanner button?
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> 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
>
>
