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Tim Hutchens
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I would ask the customer for clarification regarding the 2 scanner requirement. The requirement may actually be that the end user needs to be able to scan either a part number or serial number and show something different on screen depending on which was scanned. When they added the 2 scanner requirement, they may have been dictating the technical solution without knowing that you can accomplish the same thing with only a single scanner and some business logic. You may be able to accomplish it as-is with some sort of port identifier in the code as you suggested, but in general, scanners simply read barcode font and pass the characters to the listening program. They are extremely basic input devices. There are probably a few settings like whether each scan should be sent with a carriage return, but that would be based on the scanner hardware. I'm not sure how complicated the settings get on advanced scanners, but I think you'd want to use scanners with close to stock settings for ease of maintenance (such as needing to replace a scanner).
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