Device Group Handling

In DP4 groups of devices can be defined and accessed from a program. Complex devices are defined using DFSETUP. In QA Build, a procedure body is defined to select the current device and subsequent print procedures print to that device. For a full description of the use of groups of devices, please refer to the Device Integration Developers Manual.

Input Source Variable

When input is returned, the variable ip_source is set to indicate which input subdevice was used. The value of ip_source corresponds to the number of the input subdevice.

Definition: ip_source I4
Example: A credit card number can be input from the magnetic stripe reader or the keyboard


Input subdevices

Nr/Value Name Description
*1 1 KEYBOARD Keyboard
2 2 SCANNER Barcode Reader
*3 3 MSR Magnetic Stripe Reader

  If input is received from the keyboard the value of ip_source equals 1. If input is received from the magnetic stripe reader, the value of ip_source equals 3