I was wondering whether any one had got any experience or software to
access the USB ports. I have got a rs232 scanner that I can connect to a
USB port. I would like to get it to work to read ISBN numbers so I can
put the details in a mysql database. I have done programming before
(java C shell scripts) but am quite new to ruby, what I have seen so far
is really good. I would be very glade of some help/or software I can
hack to do what I want to do with ruby as the language of choice.
the barcode scanners I know emulate a keyboard, so using them from
ruby should be a matter of plugging them in and reading from $stdin.
s.
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:25:51 +0900, Adrian Roskrow wrote:
Hi
I was wondering whether any one had got any experience or software to
access the USB ports. I have got a rs232 scanner that I can connect to a
USB port. I would like to get it to work to read ISBN numbers so I can
put the details in a mysql database. I have done programming before
(java C shell scripts) but am quite new to ruby, what I have seen so far
is really good. I would be very glade of some help/or software I can
hack to do what I want to do with ruby as the language of choice.
There's also OPOS ( Ole for Point Of Sale), is another mechanism that is
common with scanners, especially in the retail/POS industry. They can
run through USB, parallel or rs-232. I know that there is some VB code
out there to test the OPOS interface, so it might be possible to find
that, and convert it. Sorry I don't remember how they did it, but it
wasn't too complex (c'mon, it was in VB)
Matt
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On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:35 +0900, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:25:51 +0900, Adrian Roskrow wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering whether any one had got any experience or software to
> access the USB ports. I have got a rs232 scanner that I can connect to a
> USB port. I would like to get it to work to read ISBN numbers so I can
> put the details in a mysql database. I have done programming before
> (java C shell scripts) but am quite new to ruby, what I have seen so far
> is really good. I would be very glade of some help/or software I can
> hack to do what I want to do with ruby as the language of choice.
>
> Adrian
>
the barcode scanners I know emulate a keyboard, so using them from
ruby should be a matter of plugging them in and reading from $stdin.