That will only work if I get a keystroke event for every character  
that is coming from the barcode scanner.
I am still waiting for my customer to send me a barcode scanner.
I will know more when I get it and test myself.

Thanks,
Rich

On Jun 9, 2008, at 5:41 PM, maxclass@... wrote:

>
> On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Rich Love wrote:
>
>> MacWise just looks for a dialog event for each keystroke and sends  
>> the character to a telnet host.
>> The keystrokes are processed one at a time.
>> The telnet host sees the character code and echos it back to the  
>> MacWise screen.
>> I don't think I could do this another way.
>> Each character needs to be evaluated to see if it is a control  
>> character or Control key or whatever before it is sent to the host.
>> There is no problem typing as fast as I can. But the barcode  
>> scanner types faster than any human.
>
> Rich,
>
> Just got my Mac back on line after a hard disk failure. Had Apple  
> Care on it and they replaced the hard drive with a bigger one and to  
> my surprise they installed 10.5.3 on it (I had 10.4.11) so no  
> complaints. My PPC G5 never ran so good but we'll see.
>
> Anyway, I don't know if your barcode scanners can be set to to mimic  
> anything other than fast keystrokes. If so maybe the data could be  
> read into a FIFO buffer full speed then parsed out at any speed you  
> wished. Sort of like reading information in from a file one byte at  
> a time. That way you would probably never have to worry about what  
> type of scanner or what its speed might be in the future. It should  
> always work after that.
>
> If there is any preliminary bytes in the code that could vector you  
> to a buffer routine to buffer the rest and deal with it at your  
> speed, not the scanners.
>
> Just some thoughts
>
> Max Taylor
> The MaxClass Guy
>
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