Re: getting input from local devices

2008-07-21 Thread Florijan Stamenkovic
Johann, Also, if you prefer to stick to a WebApp a opposed to a JC app, you could make a very small, very simple JC applet that is embedded into your web page, and does the interaction. I never do applets, but I am convinced that there is some method that gets invoked when the applet is l

Re: getting input from local devices

2008-07-21 Thread Neil MacLennan
Hi Johann, If you're thinking about running local webservers, Ajax and other scripts then it probably wouldn't take much more to learn a little Swing and JavaClient :-) In response to your first question I don't think that any web page in a browser can access any devices. I'm pretty sure

Re: getting input from local devices

2008-07-21 Thread Johann Werner
Hi Neil, thanks for your reply. Am 20.07.2008 um 21:37 schrieb Neil MacLennan: Johann, You could either use a web app or a Java Client here. Many input devices simply emulate the keyboard and so can enter their scanned data directly into a regular INPUT element on a web page. Some Javas

Re: getting input from local devices

2008-07-20 Thread Neil MacLennan
Johann, You could either use a web app or a Java Client here. Many input devices simply emulate the keyboard and so can enter their scanned data directly into a regular INPUT element on a web page. Some Javascript here could automatically submit the form to your WOApp or do some Ajaxy stu

getting input from local devices

2008-07-20 Thread Johann Werner
Hi list, I am just thinking about what possibilities exist to get input data from a device that is connected locally to the client (e.g. a security card reader or a barcode scanner) into WO. An app deployed as Java Client could easily interact with local devices but what if a have a "norm