code 3of9 wedge no longer sending ASCII key combos

[bigretic]

Super long shot for the hardcore geeks but I've surfed my brains out.
Got a custom win32 app that has worked for years with a symbol p370 and many other scanners using 3of9 barcodes full ascii enabled.
3of9 font encoding
*$M* = enter key ---- still works
but
*%B* = Ctrl+\ and all the other ctrl combo keys are now dead - as in the barcodes do not trigger the keyboard equivalent and fire the hooked shortcut on the main menu.
whassssssuppp?
Suspecting win10 and some Unicode voodoo going on but can't find any info to confirm.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I too would think 10 has something to do with it. what happens if you move the app/scanner to a lower version of windows? How about running it in xpsp3 mode?

Also did you also switch from 32 to 64 bit? That breaks a LOT of device drivers. (especially older hardware)

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

A little googling shows some complaints about various codes returning different characters depending on software under win10, and different from previous versions. This may or may not be exactly what you're experiencing, but the keyboard driver seems the logical place for it to be messing up.

 

[bigretic]

Thanks for the replies. No go in compatibility mode as of yet and I have nothing but win 10 boxes at my dev. network. going to have to resurrect something with 7 and test. the app is compiled 32 bit, but has been run under 64 bit os for years. no luck on kb driver settings, generic MS HID driver from 2006. I have a Ubuntu box with wine at the office, might try that for giggles.

 

[Thegeek]

download and install 123Scan from Zebra (Symbols owner) and check your firmware. We had to do some FW updates for scan rules to work properly in Win7. Has to do with how the OS detects the scanner.

 

[danimal]

Have you tried opening notepad and scanning a barcode to see what is getting sent? Would help eliminate if it's an app or device issue. If you can make a barcode to encode a Ctrl+P, it should make the print dialog come up.

 

[bigretic]

Yes, I even have a visual on screen keyboard mapper that shows key presses both typed and non-visual.

 

[bigretic]

123 unsupported usb scanner.... blah... p370/p470