On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Alexander Gattin <xr...@yandex.ru> wrote: > I'm not sure regarding the ASCII part. I think it > might need to be set to 0x00 for all functional > keys instead of 0x3F/0x3C/0x41, but probably no > application actually cares. > > Another thing is that you may need to send key > release after key press in order for the > application to trigger the F5/F2/F7 event. I'm not > sure what the scan codes for F5/F2/F7 releases > are, but think that they may be: > > F5: 0xBF > F2: 0xBC > F7: 0xC1 > > -- > With best regards, > xrgtn >
appreciate all the help. unfortunately, my hard drive crashed and badly. thus was unable to investigate this further. as I was running out of time, we're now going for a reimplementation of the legacy barcode program. was fortunate to find an implementation that gives the same output (we're testing thoroughly and we may have found a winner) oh btw, it was a seagate 250GB drive for my dell laptop may need to pay somebody to try to recover my personal files. all work files are in version control so they're ok -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list