>>but i repeat myself:
>>What is a good barcode scanner to interface with VFP9?
>>TIA
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>The question is the other way around. What do you try to do?
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>I use any, as keyboard. But I just scan own codes with special heading, so I scan everywhere and any form catches the input and redirect to a handler.
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>For a scan into a special field w/o setting focus to the field one can try to do a timing trick. The scanner is usually faster then kbd, If the keystrokes come with a higher speed, one might redirect the input to a special field. Like scanning an ISBN without targeting the input field first.
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>I have an interface for COM for DATALOGIC - but as long as the scanner provides a serial (aka USB) interface, it works with any. Here a background objects waits for the serial input hand handles the input. Logically it is independent of special headers.
>Not every scanner can do that, and we skipped the scenario because customer runs VFP on a Terminal Server and we found no way to hand the USB signals from local to the remote server.
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>Some cheap China are just keyboard - but scan runs like a charm.
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>Just let me know if you need further help

Thank you Lutz for your time and information. I really appreciate it.