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live4themusic

live4themusic

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I am trying to design a program that will work synergistically with my business's POS (I work in a food delivery service) because I don't have the knowledge or the time to write POS from scratch. I would like the program to be able to run in the background but to collect information as we type it into the address fields of the POS when a delivery order is being taken to keep track of customers who order from us (this is not integrated sufficiently by the POS). Is it feasible to do this with Visual C++ (the language I know the most of)? If not how hard would this be to do with PERL or Visual Basic?

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Rather than trying to capture the keystrokes, have a look at the POS system. Does it have a hook where you can get control, or perhaps it has an event that you can register for? For example, once the POS system records a sale, does it have a 'sale complete' event?

Steve

[small]"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." (Object::perlDesignPatterns)[/small]
 
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