Barcode Scanner Configuration

Overview

One of the major features of our various barcode scanning applications is that they are designed to allow the host PC to be used by other users, and other applications. We accomplish this by setting the scanners up as emulated serial or COM ports. However, out-of-the-box, most barcode scanners function as a virtual keyboard and when a barcode is scanned behave as if you were typing the barcode text into the PC. This would of course require the PC to be focused on a dedicated text field of some sort, and is therefore not something that could run in the background.