Capturing a credit card swipe

[TimStone]

I need to catch a credit card swipe from a a reader strip. It basically acts as keyboard input.

I can do this but its not very "elegant". I created a MsgGet( ), hide the field, and have an accept and cancel button.

When card is swiped, I don't display anything. I simply hold the data in memory and when I press the accept button it tests to see if it was a valid read. If not, they re-do the full process.

Has anyone worked out some clean code for capturing a card reader ?

I'd appreciate your ideas !

Tim

[James Bott]

I don't have any such code, but I do have an idea.

Instead of Accept and Cancel buttons, just use a DO WHILE loop with maybe a one second delay and keep checking the get to see if it contains any data. When it does, do the validity check and proceed automatically.

James