Re: Allow scanning only? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Allow scanning only?
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:47:53 -0400
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Bob Voltz wrote on 08/22/2007 03:13:37 PM:

Is there a way to inhibit keyboard entry and only allow scanning?

Is that what the keyboard shift code "I" (Inhibit any data typing, allow
feature devices) is for?

How would the system know, if the scanner was a "wedge" connected to the
keyboard?

Hide the keyboard? Seriously. From my experience with Telxon/Symbol
wireless scanners and a couple of keyboard-attached scanners, if there's
an input-capable field on the screen then it will accept the input from
either source. Do they need to enter anything from the keyboard or could
you have standard labels for their choices so that they could still used
the wedge scanner to make their selections?

Dave Parnin

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