Multiple USB Barcode Scanners
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Has anyone here had experiance using multiple barcode scanners with a USB interface? One of our applications currently use USB to COM emulator and we need to get rid this...too many problems configuring them. So I'm goign to remove all the code for that portion and start fresh to implement USB into our application. We'll need up to two barcode scanners each using there own session of our application on the same PC. I read up on the Microsoft.PointOfService assembly and it seem the way to go, but I was wanting all the input I can get. The main issue is to have both sessions going and remember which scanner goes to which session of the application. Thanks for your help.
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Has anyone here had experiance using multiple barcode scanners with a USB interface? One of our applications currently use USB to COM emulator and we need to get rid this...too many problems configuring them. So I'm goign to remove all the code for that portion and start fresh to implement USB into our application. We'll need up to two barcode scanners each using there own session of our application on the same PC. I read up on the Microsoft.PointOfService assembly and it seem the way to go, but I was wanting all the input I can get. The main issue is to have both sessions going and remember which scanner goes to which session of the application. Thanks for your help.
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Has anyone here had experiance using multiple barcode scanners with a USB interface? One of our applications currently use USB to COM emulator and we need to get rid this...too many problems configuring them. So I'm goign to remove all the code for that portion and start fresh to implement USB into our application. We'll need up to two barcode scanners each using there own session of our application on the same PC. I read up on the Microsoft.PointOfService assembly and it seem the way to go, but I was wanting all the input I can get. The main issue is to have both sessions going and remember which scanner goes to which session of the application. Thanks for your help.
You may want to check out the HIDlibrary on SourceForge.net I've used this library to build an application that integrates a MagTek USB magnetic swipe reader into a Point of Sales application. I did not require 2 USB swipe readers, but it should work. Check it out ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/hidlibrary/[^]
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You may want to check out the HIDlibrary on SourceForge.net I've used this library to build an application that integrates a MagTek USB magnetic swipe reader into a Point of Sales application. I did not require 2 USB swipe readers, but it should work. Check it out ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/hidlibrary/[^]
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Seems the files are no longer available. Is it possible to get a copy from you? Cheers, Mike
Sorry it took so long to reply .... I've been contacted by the author of HIDlibrary and he has told me that the code is now located here ... https://github.com/mikeobrien/HidLibrary[^] Give it a shot.