Remote Desktop Mobile mangles barcodes coming from scanner
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Hi,
We have an application here using handhelds to scan barcodes. These handhelds are actually making a remote desktop session towards a server where the application runs. Works fine.
Now we have bought some new Motorola MC55's running 'Windows Mobile 6.1 Classic', and when using the application over remote desktop: it mangles the characters of the barcodes....
I already tried following things:
- When scanning a barcode on the MC55 itself it is displayed correctly
- When scanning a barcode via the remote desktop into a notepad session it is incorrect.
- Played with all options of the 'Remote Desktop Mobile' - no result
- Disabled 'autocorrect' and 'suggest words when entering text' on the input settings - no result
The strange things is:
- a barcode which consists of only numbers gets scanned correctly
- the mangled characters comes through in lower case
For some codes \t is mangled in between (should normally be entered after the barcode)
e.g.:
'PERIN4' becomes 'ERINp4'
- 'MGZB' becomes 'GZB m'
- 'BAK664' becomes 'AK664 b'
- 'MAGBFA01' becomes 'AGBFmA01'
- '5021879949500' gets scanned correctly
Anybody an idea how I could solve this problem?
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