I am developing an application that uses a barcode scanner to read and enter username/password into a form. The barcode is printed with a tab character (coded as ctl-i) between the username and passwords. When the barcode is scanned (the scanner is a USB scanner and prsents as a keyboard to the system), I get the following behavior:
Scanning into notepad: username<tab>password - just as expected
Scanning into IE: username<ctl-i> - which causes the favorites frame to open and become active so the password keystrokes are lost.
Question: Can you please suggest how to make IE read the tab character properly? If your solution requires coding other characters into the barcode, that would be perfectly acceptable.
Gerry Roston
gerry@pairofdocs.net
Scanning into notepad: username<tab>password - just as expected
Scanning into IE: username<ctl-i> - which causes the favorites frame to open and become active so the password keystrokes are lost.
Question: Can you please suggest how to make IE read the tab character properly? If your solution requires coding other characters into the barcode, that would be perfectly acceptable.
Gerry Roston
gerry@pairofdocs.net