I believe the numlock issue is because the scanner and the keyboard are
reporting different country codes, or perhaps correctly the scanner
isn't reporting a country code so the Sun Ray assumes a type 0. It's
somewhere on this list. Search barcode and otto. Program the scanner
to the same country code as the keyboard and you shouldn't have that
problem.
Mike Cornelia wrote:
We too are using the Symbol Scanners (LS-2208 USB version) and they
work great with the Sun Type 7 keyboard. I believe some other members
of the group mentioned that the Metrologic USB scanners worked great
too. the only issue is with the keyboard / country code / num lock.
That is, if I use another keyboard besides the Sun brand with the
LS-2208 it turns the Num Lock off on each scan. While I bet there is
a way to program the scanner not to do this (sending the wrong country
code?) it is not an issue with the Sun Type 7 keyboards (and that is
all I use).
Good luck!
Mike
SUM/IT Systems
Point of Sale and Inventory Control using Sunray's
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Hiya,
I am using Symbol USB barcode scanners here with SunRays.
They are USB scanners and look like keyboards, so the barcode you scan
just gets inputted the same as if it were being typed in from a keyboard.
You can configure the barcode scanner to input certain keystrokes
before/after it sends the actual barcode so you could use say ^K to grab
an applications attention, have the scanner send the barcode and then
have the scanner send ENTER.
This is exactly what we do here, works nicely.
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Leigh
Jim Klimov wrote:
Hello SunRay-Users,
Since the scanners matter was recently active, I have a question
here too :)
We have seen in the docs that among different devices Sun Rays
can support USB barcode scanners. In short, how far does this
support go? :)
Is it limited to certain devices or their usage, or does it
stream everything to the application level?
I'll try to describe our situation concerning this problem:
We co-develop a custom application which currently works only
under MS Windows, which is sort of an ERP/CRM/docflow app.
It uses barcodes to identify all printed documents, and our
programmers have developed a utility (for Windows) which can
translate signals from the barcode scanner to Windows system
messages. These in turn are captured by the GUI program and
trigger some activity, i.e. open a dialog to edit the electronic
version of the document.
This was developed using an USB CipherLab-1000 scanner, which
under Windows gets a COM port number and the developed utility
accesses this COM port to wait for input from the scanner.
Now, we discussed deploying this whole application in a customer's
new environment which can be filled with Sun Rays instead of
WinPCs as desktop workplaces - if we get the scanners working
in general and through uttsc in particular.
So far this has not become an experimental project (i.e. I don't
yet know whether this scanner does or does not work with a Sun Ray),
but perhaps the list members know if it works and what caveats to
expect and how to work around them?
In particular, does the Sun Ray appliance and SRS support USB-serial
converters (as one seems to be built in this scanner)?
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