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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
I have a Serial Barcode reader I would like to connect to my COM port 1.
How do I configure my COM port such that any received characters are treated like keyboard input to whatever application I currently have active? Thank you in advance. |
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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
Hi, JCameron.
Then you really should be posting this to microsoft.public.win2000.hardware, not in this Vista newsgroup. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275) "JCameron" wrote in message ... PS. This is a Win @K system, not Vista |
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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
In message JCameron
wrote: PS. This is a Win @K system, not Vista Then why are you posting in a Vista group? -- You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word. |
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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
JCameron wrote:
How do I configure my COM port such that any received characters are treated like keyboard input to whatever application I currently have active? They will newer be treated like Keyboard input, while COM-port is quite different hole in your PC than PS/2 port. So abandon Notepad. The right application to capture data that comes from COM-port is Hypercom or some other telecommunication tool. ....yeah, yeah, yeah, not a Vista probelm at all.. I know |
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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
Thank you!
I would have liked to post this on a win2K area, but I went to Windows and then Community, and looked for a Windows 2000 discussion group, but I could only find Vista. Microsoft gives no indication of how to get to the area you suggest. "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, JCameron. Then you really should be posting this to microsoft.public.win2000.hardware, not in this Vista newsgroup. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275) "JCameron" wrote in message ... PS. This is a Win @K system, not Vista |
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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
Thanks for your response but just "Capturing Input" is not the goal here.
I have a Barcode scanner plugged into the serial port. and I need it to have its data go into one of three inhouse applications that users use, one of which is a web-app. "RK" wrote: JCameron wrote: How do I configure my COM port such that any received characters are treated like keyboard input to whatever application I currently have active? They will newer be treated like Keyboard input, while COM-port is quite different hole in your PC than PS/2 port. So abandon Notepad. The right application to capture data that comes from COM-port is Hypercom or some other telecommunication tool. ....yeah, yeah, yeah, not a Vista probelm at all.. I know |
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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
Hi, JCameron.
Yeah, I get lost in that Communities maze, too. That's one of the reasons that I - and most of the experienced users I know - prefer to use a newsreader application, like Outlook Express or Windows Mail or the still-in-beta Windows Live Mail that I'm using now. Click he news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...n2000.hardware That one click should (unless you are blocked by something like a corporate firewall): Start Outlook Express (if you are running Win2K or WinXP) or Windows Mail (if you were running Vista); create a News Account for the Microsoft public news server (which is free and does not require a logon); subscribe you to the Win2K hardware NG; and download the 300 newest headers from there and display the newest one for you. From there, you can read a few messages to get the feel for what you see. Then you can click Tools | Options to customize OE/WM/WLM to suit your own preferences. Click Newsgroups to see a list of all the NGs on that server, including this one: microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices. Just type "2000" or "2k" into the search box at the top to see all those for Win2K (nearly 100, about half in English). Subscribe to as many as you like. The messages that you will see are exactly the same ones that you see in Communities, just arranged differently. In other words, that Vista hardware NG will bring you right back to here and you will see your posts and this message. ;) Try it. I think you'll like it! RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275) "JCameron" wrote in message ... Thank you! I would have liked to post this on a win2K area, but I went to Windows and then Community, and looked for a Windows 2000 discussion group, but I could only find Vista. Microsoft gives no indication of how to get to the area you suggest. "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, JCameron. Then you really should be posting this to microsoft.public.win2000.hardware, not in this Vista newsgroup. RC "JCameron" wrote in message ... PS. This is a Win @K system, not Vista |
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Using COM Port as Keyboard input
Hi There,
it seems to me you need to use the accessability options to do this with the serial barcode scanner. have a look at our tutorial on the subject. http://www.gripon.com.au/?gripon=tut...scannerwindows Hope it helps you out. Cheers Ces |