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Parameter

Function

 

 

Port

Default: Port 1 is disabled.Port 2 is enabled.

Default: Port 1 COM3 is enabled. Port 2 is disabled.

 

 

 

Power Port 1 while

When Power Port 1 while asleep is checked, whichever serial port is enabled as Port 1 will remain

powered while the device is in Suspend, at the cost of reduced battery life. This allows a tethered

asleep

scanner to wake the device by pressing the trigger on the tethered scanner.

 

 

 

 

Default: Enabled.

 

If “Send Key Messages (WEDGE)” is checked, the Scanner Driver is in “Key Message” (also known

 

as “character”) mode which sends the bar codes to the application with the focus as keystrokes. All

 

data scanned is converted to keystrokes and sent to the active window.

Send Key Messages

If “Send Key Messages (WEDGE)” is not checked, the Scanner Driver is in “Block” mode which

buffers the data that can be read by an application from the WDG: device through the OS or APIs.

(WEDGE)

Note that this latter method is significantly faster than using “Wedge”.

 

 

Even if Send Key Messages is enabled (“key mode”), the data is still available using the scanner

 

APIs (“block mode”). If two or more applications are reading the data in Block mode, ClearBuf must

 

be set to Off so data is not erased when read. Please refer to the CE API Programming Guide for

 

details on scanner APIs.

 

 

 

Default: Enabled.

 

Functionality of the internal scanner driver engine includes audible tones on good scan (at the

 

maximum db supported by the speaker) and failed scan.

Enable Internal

Disable this parameter when good scan/bad scan sounds are to be handled by alternate means e.g.

Scanner Sound

application-controlled sound files.

 

Rejected bar codes generate a bad scan beep. In some cases, the receipt of data from the scanner

 

triggers a good scan beep from an external scanner, and then the rejection of scanned bar code data

 

by the processing causes a bad scan beep from the MX3Plus on the same data.

 

 

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