Sharp AR-157E, AR-153E operation manual User selects

The settings for the Windows Event Manager for the SHARP AR-xxxx (where xxxx is the model name of your unit) device allow the user to take advantage of the Sharp Button Manager to take control of events from Windows and send scanned images to any of six different applications according to the Button Manager setting.

This can be done with the Windows OS showing the Event Manager selection dialog or directly into a selected application if the Button Manager is the only allowed handler for device events from the SHARP AR-xxxx (where xxxx is the model name of your unit).

This is done by changing the Windows device settings for the AR-xxxx (where xxxx is the model name of your unit) in the Scanner and Camera device settings in the Control Panel.

This is the Control Panel Properties dialog for "Scanners and Cameras".

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 AR-xxxx (where xxxx is the model name of your unit) series 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 AR-	Event	Event	User selects
xxxx (where	Manager	Manager	an
xxxx is the		selection	application.
model name	Windows OS	dialog
of your unit)			The user
SCANNER		Displayed on	application
key pressed.		screen	opens.

This is the Windows Event Manager

Selection Dialog.8 Shown are two applications registered

to handle the scanner event from the AR-xxxx (where xxxx is the model name of your unit) device.

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