All About The Windows Event Manager and scanner events in Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Windows Platforms provide a mechanism for software to handle external events for a scanner device like the SHARP AL-1641CS products. This mechanism is controlled by the device manager on a device basis. Applications that can handle events from a scanner/camera device register with the Windows Event Manager and shown as available in the registered applications. The path an event takes to get to the user's selected application depends upon the event settings for the device.

Scanner AL-

 

Event

 

Event

 

User selects

1641CS

 

Manager

 

Manager

 

an

SCANNER

 

 

 

selection

 

application.

key pressed.

 

Windows OS

 

dialog

 

The user

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Displayed on

 

application

 

 

 

 

screen

 

opens.

This is the Windows Event Manager Selection Dialog.

Shown are two applications registered to handle the scanner event from the AL-1641CS device.

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