To Dale: Regarding Programming...

[Gabriel2]

Hi Dale,

I'm currently doing a College project, it is a POS program.
I'm using Visual Basic to develop the program. Could you please tell me how do I send the code to open the cash drawer? And, how should I send the data to display on a Customer Display?

The following is my hardware specifications:
- PC
- Cash Drawer
- Panasonic KX-P1121
- Customer Display CD7220

Could you please give some advice in developing kind of program? I'll be appreciate any help from you. Thank you.

With Regards,
Gabriel

[Dale Harris]

I am assuming that your Panasonic KX-P1121 printer is a regular computer printer and not a receipt printer and therefore that the cash drawer attaches to your compurter through the serial port. If this is so then if you send any output to the serial port (send the letter "A") then the cash drawer will pop open.

I am assuming that you know how to do this in VisualBasic because I do not.

The CD7220 pole display is also a serial device so I hope your computer has two serial ports. I have not worked on this but Jonathan Simpsion has. I hope that he will be here soon to answer your question about it.

[Gabriel2]

Hi Dale,

Yes, Panasonic KX-P1121 printer is a regular computer printer.
Yes, your advice did help me a lot, thanks again, Dale.


With Regards,
Gabriel

[Jonathan]

In general you can treat your Pole display as a little 20 character printer. Just send a chr$(13) in between lines to advance the line
Otherwise you just send text to it.

[JF Mous]

To use all features of your pole display, it's best to read the manual. Most displays can do more than just "display" the text (scrolling, character sets, ...).

Manual for your PD is available at http://www.iepos.com/support/partnertech_manuals.htm.

Hope I helped,


J Mous