Cool! I've worked with a few blue tooth devices with great success. Enjoy!


>Hi Tracy
>
>And then arrived my bluetooth scanner - a keyboard wedge device - charged it up and behold it too worked - and very fast it is too
>
>Now to try several more than 1 scanner on the same host!!!
>
>This is a link to the scanner
>
>http://www.europe.metrologic.com/europe/uk/products/retail/overview/Hand-Held/01_MS9535-Voyager-BT/moreinfo/index.html
>
>Colin
>
>>Great! You are so lucky. Most of the devices come with their own drivers and interface. Working with HID devices is easy enough as well. It is all those others.... :o(
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Perhaps it accepts a command to start the scanning? Or else another method is used such as a power button, etc? When you get the actual device, the manual or the website should tell you more...
>>>>
>>>Tracy
>>>
>>>Got a USB scanner this morning - created a dummy form with a couple of text boxes and the scanned data read straight into the text box which had focus
>>>
>>>So I have alreadt developed the app to work with the USB scanner - now I'm borrowing a couple of RF scanners but I'm told that should be quite easy to incorporate
>>>
>>>Thanks for your help
>>>
>>>Colin
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>See my other message I just sent you in the other thread. Do you have a USB device which accepts data (commands) and responds with data you can use for testing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Ed's Faq does it for you:
>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>LOCAL oComm, i, cOldErrorHandler
>>>>>>>>DECLARE aComPorts[16]
>>>>>>>>aComPorts = .T.
>>>>>>>>cOldErrorHandler = ON('ERROR')
>>>>>>>>FOR i = 1 TO 16
>>>>>>>>  oComm = CREATEOBJ('MsCOMMLib.Mscomm')
>>>>>>>>  oComm.CommPort = i
>>>>>>>>  ON ERROR aComPorts[i] = .F.
>>>>>>>>  oComm.PortOpen = .T.
>>>>>>>>  oComm.PortOpen = .F.
>>>>>>>>  oComm = NULL
>>>>>>>>  ON ERROR &cOldErrorHandler
>>>>>>>>ENDFOR
>>>>>>>>For i = 1 TO 16
>>>>>>>>	IF aComPorts[i]
>>>>>>>>		? [Comm Port ] + ALLTRIM(STR(i)) + [ is valid]
>>>>>>>>	ENDIF
>>>>>>>>ENDFOR
>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Up to 16,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>FAQ #7943
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks Tracy but what about USB ports?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Colin
>>>>>>>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>is there a vfp command that can give me the number of serial ports installed ?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Best Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>>Hans
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Jim
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Is there a VFP command which can tell me what those ports are?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Colin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Tracy
>>>>>
>>>>>Struggling to answer your questions - at the moment the first of my trial USB scanners comes tomorrow - I assumed it was only a reader and therefore could not accept data
>>>>>
>>>>>I had thought that if I knew the port ID (hence my original question) I could access the data with FGETS() commands - and do this in a loop - am I wrong to do it this way?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Colin