Hardware interface with Intel based systems is easy with Realbasic. I wrote a POS system for mini-marts for the Thai market a couple of years ago and chose a USB barcode scanner that emulated a keyboard and a USB based receipt printer. Very easy to deal with. The cash draw was only slightly harder needing a few serial commands. Just difficult enough to be enjoyable.
BTW, stay away from LED based Barcode scanners, they don't produce enough light to use easily for the store clerk. I found clerks using the miscellaneous category often because they couldn't get the scanner to read difficult codes with the LED unit. Reeked havoc on my inventory. -Scott. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Dary Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:11 AM To: REALbasic NUG Subject: Writing custom POS software Hello. Does anyone have some experience they'd like to share? I'm going to be working on some custom POS (Point-of-Sale) software for a client. They need some good used POS hardware, and I need to know how to interface it with REALbasic. Perhaps someone can tell me what kind of hardware to look for, and some examples of how to interface with the hardware. Initially, we just need some receipt printing and cash drawer opening. The computer that will be used will be either an old 400 Mhz iMac with Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3, or some old 400 Mhz Pentium III PCs running Fedora Core. Thanks, Ryan Dary _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
