Posted by themaximus on 22:13:00 10-04-2003
Hey guys! Things look a little slow down in VB land. Can anyone help me access a barcode scanner through the keyboard port. The software (CRQ) that came with it doesn't work for me. I can't get some activation code thingy. The website doesn't even exist anymore, at least I dont think so. My keyboard port is one of the old ones. I have an adapter between the port and the scanner cable and another one on the female connector on the scannner. Help!
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Posted by dxprog on 01:10:00 10-05-2003
Are you supposed to plug this thing into the keyboard port? As far as I know, a DIN can only work with keyboards anyways
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Posted by eosp on 04:43:00 10-06-2003
It would be pretty easy in c if you had the port memory address, but I don't know how/if vb can communicate with ports at all.
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Posted by dxprog on 09:14:00 10-06-2003
You probably can via an API.
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Posted by sacah on 16:36:00 10-16-2003
Maybe this link will help.
http://www.cedmagic.com/cuecat/cuecat.html
To access the din or ps2 directly is prob not worth it as the scanner output is odd to say the least, so once you've got it in vb, you wont know what to do with it.
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Ps. Is that the scanner you have? Cause theres a wealth of info on google about it.
[ This Message was edited by: sacah on 2003-10-16 16:41 ]