I need to produce a program that would process/read a magnetic stripe card within a windows kiosk environment and would prefer doing this in C or C++.
Could someone suggest pointers/recommendations about where one should start?
stockton 10 Light Poster
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
Depends on how the card reader is attached to the computer. If its attached to a COM port then use MS-Windows communications functions.
stockton 10 Light Poster
I suspect that it is connected via USB.
I have asked my user to check and await their reply.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
I've never tinkered with usb so I don't know the answer to your question. The ones I have used were connected to COM port.
Talguy 0 Junior Poster in Training
it could be connected to the computer via a USB port but even though that device is physically using the usb port it could be functioning as a virtual com port. If it is you can use any serial port library that is compatible with windows to read the data that is on the magnetic strip.
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