>>Hi All:
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>>I have a form that has a label: 'Please swipe the Credit card or press escape'. It also has an edit box that has focus, so that when the credit card is swiped about 50 characters are entered.
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>>How do I execute a method when either: escape is pressed OR the characters have finished being entered from the swipe?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Yossi
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>Add code into the KeyPress event. A lot of keyboard wedge style scanners (barcode and CC) force a carriage return at the end of the string. You can intercept both the ESC or CR:
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>IF nKeyCode = 27 && ESC
>ENDIF
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>IF nKeyCode = 13 && ESC
>ENDIF
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>If the reader terminates with another character as Tracy mentioned, you can capture it here as well.

Thanks for all the valuable info. I got it to work

Now:

I'm using an edit box to capture the swiped data. Two questions:

1. I don't want the user to see the edit box. However, if I set visible .f., it will not accept data.

2. With the edit box, I do not want the user to key in data, except for Escape or perhaps a '1', but otherwise I want nothing to happen if he doesn't follow instructions and keys in other data. How do I do that?

Thanks,

Yossi