Magnetic Cards

[WhiteNite1971]

Hi Gang



I am new here. I am wanting to use a magnetic card reader with my database. I am wanting to swipe members card and extract details from the card's string. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards

Jason

[pbaldy]

You should be able to make the reader send a tab or carriage return after the data. That lets you use the before and after update events of a textbox to handle the input.

[WhiteNite1971]

Hi PBALDY

Thank you for getting back to me. I have been looking at the before & after event. Can anyone expand on how I should use this?

Cheers

Jase

[pbaldy]

Use it to do what? You've given no specific information about what you want to accomplish but you seem to expect a specific answer.

[WhiteNite1971]

Hi PBALDY

I have set up a database to take entries for sporting events. I pull entrants from a members table into a form via a combo box. What I would like to do is swipe membership cards to expedite this process. I am not sure how to go about doing this? Checking if a entrant is already in the table. If not, to quickly add them by pulling their information from their membership card and adding them to the list. I hope this is a little clearer.

Kind Regards

Jason