>>>http://www.microsoft.com/industry/retail_dist/retail_distdev.htm#opos
>>Thanks. I looked it over and boy does it look like it gets real deep real
>>fast... (s)
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>It's not as bad as those 300 pages look. :-) Once it's installed, this is all you need to open a cash drawer...
>
>

>* Millisecond time resolution
>#DEFINE TIME_HALF 500
>#DEFINE TIME_10 10000
>#DEFINE TIME_5 5000
>#DEFINE BEEP_FREQ 440
>
>loDrawer = CREATEOBJECT('OPOS.CashDrawer')
>loDrawer.Open('InsertNameOfDrawerHere')
>loDrawer.Claim(TIME_HALF)  && For exclusive use -- millisecond parameter
>loDrawer.OpenDrawer()
>loDrawer.WaitForDrawerClose(TIME_10, BEEP_FREQ, TIME_HALF, TIME_5)
>* Start beeping in 10 seconds at 440Hz for half a second with 5 seconds between beeps
>loDrawer.Close()     && We're done
>

>
>All of it is pretty much this simple, once you understand the basic mechanism...

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Tom