Gets the names for a scanner device.
BarcodeScanner objects
Integer scanner.DeviceNames ( names )
Argument |
Description |
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scanner |
The scanner object associated with the scanner device for which you want to get a name |
names |
A string value for scanner device names that is passed by reference in the following format: device_name<tab>user_friendly_name<tab>port_name
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Integer. Returns 1 for success or one of the following negative values if an error occurs:
Call DeviceNames to determine the attached scanner device or devices. The default scanner device name is SCN1 for a Symbol scanner, and an empty string for a Socket scanner. You can parse the names argument value on the position of the tab characters to obtain separate strings for the short device name, the user-friendly (long) device name, and the port name used by the scanner device.
The following example gets a string with the tab separated names for the scanner device and its port:
string l_names
li_rtn = l_scanner.DeviceNames(l_names)
