alt Hacker NewsThat should be the most common behavior. Barcode readers work the same. In the past, you even plugged barcode scanners between keyboard and PC and they injected the key codes of the detected code into that.
That should be the most common behavior. Barcode readers work the same. In the past, you even plugged barcode scanners between keyboard and PC and they injected the key codes of the detected code into that.
The ones I have tried in the past, at least under Windows, only seem to have support for the PC/SC Smartcard API, so you typically need a specialized application to use them, unless it's just for logging in to Windows itself, but I'm more interested in logistical/asset tracking purposes.