Lee, To be perfectly honest, if the cash drawer opens when asked, that would be fine for my application.
I was hoping to add a little red warning dialog to indicate that the cash drawer was open, but I'm not too concerned. I would imagine that the lower end of the market would try to incorporate some kind of compatibility to make sure that they get sales; implementing some kind of simple 2 way conversation doesn't seem (to me at least) the most difficult thing to implement... 2008/7/7 Lee Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dave Coventry wrote: >> My Bad. >> >> I ommitted to remove the writeln(ser.sendstring(#7)); >> >> Still, if anyone can suggest a way to interrogate the Cash Drawer for >> it's state? >> > > Dave, its hard to say because each cash drawer manufacturer does it a bit > differently and some cash drawers do not allow for interrogating the status of > the drawer. Usually, the higher end models support, from what I understand. > Again, its been some time since I worked with Serial POS Peripherals and > prefer > to work with printer driven or keyboard wedge driven devices. > > Its even more difficult since you don't know the brand of your drawer. Where > did you get the cash drawer? I would have suggested you check out OPOS > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPOS) but last time I checked, I don't think > Lazarus supports ActiveX/COM which OPOS is based on. > > -- > Warm Regards, > > Lee > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > synalist-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ synalist-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public
