>I'm using an edit box to capture the swiped data. Two questions:
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>1. I don't want the user to see the edit box. However, if I set visible .f., it will not accept data.
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>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?
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>Thanks,
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>Yossi

May be you set editbox position to -100, -100 (for example), so user would not see it?