>Hi All:
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>I have a form with one text box. In thisform.init, I say
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>this.txtCC.setfocus()
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>When the user swipes the credit card in a keyboard wedge, it's just like typing a bunch of characters.
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>How can I tell when the swipe is over, so that I can examine the data?
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>I was thinking of setting a timer and using the KEYPRESS to start it off and check the data after 1 second or so.
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>Can you think of a better way?
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>BTW, the crtedit card data usually has 'sentinel' characters at the beggnning and end of the string, but this is unreliable, since some keyboards seem to strip the sentinel characters.
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>Thanks,
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>Yossi


In my KeyPress() method I currently use

IF nKeyCode = 13
   this.ProcessSwipe()
ENDIF

so I don't need any timer.

For PCI DSS I am looking to switch over to MercuryShield so I don't have to worry about capturing the CC# at all. They expect to release this next week sometime.