http://api.allada.com/2.0/
When jquery-barcodelistener detects the presence of a real scanner, such as one
supported by the allada API, it should automatically stop listening for
keyboard events and just hook into the allada API. This would enable users of
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/web-interface/id588381940?mt=8 to be seemlessly
supported by any webapp using jquery-barcodelistener.
The Web Interface app by Allada allows one to set a webapp start URI in the iOS
Settings app. When Web Interface starts, it will load the specified webapp
which may then use the API described at http://api.allada.com/2.0/ to detect
and interact with a LINEA barcode scanner. Obviously, the API exposes a lot
more than just simple barcode reading. Some features might be things which it
would be nice to configure through jquery-barcodelistener, such as
enabling/disabling beep-on-scan or letting the webapp initiate a scan without
the user needing to press the physical button on the LINEA device.
jquery-barcodelistener could add support for these more generic things while
silently ignoring API calls that itself or another scanner cannot support, as a
keyboard event-based scan detection implies no ability to instruct the scanner
to start/stop scanning.
I do not expect that you would have a device compatible with the linked iOS
app. However, I also expect that this project may be dead ;-). So, if you are
interested in making jquery-barcodelistener into a more generic
one-solution-fits-all jquery library for reading barcodes, I’d be willing to
write/maintain the support for allada. Otherwise, if this project continues to
remain dead, I’d like to try to write my own input-API/method-agnostic
scanner event source…
Original issue reported on code.google.com by ohnobinki on 5 Apr 2013 at 3:05
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
ohnobinkion 5 Apr 2013 at 3:05