User manual

ScanVue5
®
Mini Kiosk
User Manual
M37574–01T
Industrial Electronic Engineers, Inc.
23-June-2008 Rev T Page 3
training guide for novice network installers. It is assumed the installation will be done by
a person having a sufficient level of technical expertise with LAN hardware and software
to understand the content of this manual and complete the job with minimal outside help.
A system or network administrator is capable of performing the installation with ease.
IEE can provide additional technical assistance in getting the system running, if required.
Operation
Once ScanVue5
®
units are installed and configured, any person familiar with a PC and
able to write simple macros or script files will be able to create graphics–based
presentations (called slideshows) using Microsoft WordPad™ or a similar text editor.
Image files can be obtained from various sources—downloaded from a website,
scanned in from a digital scanner or transferred from a digital camera. Familiarity with a
graphics editor program would be helpful in preparing the images for slideshow
presentations.
Application Program Interface (API)
An API that provides the interface between ScanVue5
®
and the network host computer
application is described in detail in Chapter 4. The API is written in ANSI “C” and can be
integrated with any ANSI ‘C’ compiler. The database application and its interface to
ScanVue5
®
will generally reside on the network host computer (sometimes called the
network server). Numerous different hardware or software platforms may be used as
long as TCP/IP is the network transport–protocol. Typical platforms are AS400, VAX,
Wintel hardware running Windows NT/2000/ME/XP, Unix, VMS, Oracle, SQL…
The database application program is responsible for receiving a request from a scanner,
retrieving the price and description from the database, and returning that data to the unit
that initiated the request. The development and maintenance of any host computer
based application program required to access a product–information database is the
sole responsibility of the end user or their system integrator. IEE provides an SDK
including some license free “C” source code to assist the end user in writing applications
on their host machine.