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Introduction and Installation
Introducing Hand Held Products PadCom Library
PadCom library by Hand Held Products is a tool that allows developers to interface to Transaction Team units easily and
quickly. Developers can use PadCom library to capture signatures, read MSR, perform PINpad transactions, display text or
bitmaps, and write innovative graphical interfaces. By leveraging on Hand Held Products’ position as a leader in signature
capture technology, you can rest assured that your application will provide accurate and quality results with minimal
programming efforts.
Features of PadCom Library
Hand Held Products’ PadCom library includes the following key features:
• Full interface to all Transaction Team devices.
• Flexible architecture to support a wide variety of development needs.
• Simple, easy to use command set for rapid applications development.
• Consistent cross-platform APIs for enhanced portability.
• Accurate representation of image points.
• Interrupt/message driven engine for quick response to hardware activities.
• Reliable implementation of RS-232 serial communications protocol.
• Automatic detection of connected Transaction Team unit and automatic configuration.
In addition, PadCom library has been designed to work seamlessly with Transaction Team SigKit
1
, the signature processing
library for a complete signature capture solution.
Hand Held Products Transaction Team Terminals Supported by PadCom
PadCom contains full support for the Transaction Team 1500 and the Transaction Team 3100 Series.
PadCom Interface
The following diagram represents the PadCom interface to Transaction Team units.
The diagram shows how PadCom communicates with the Transaction Team unit. The functional implementation of a
Transaction Team device is implemented on top of the RS-232 protocol implementation. PadCom then communicates to
the device over the supported operating systems platforms, which include MS-DOS
®
, Windows
®
3.x, Windows
®
95,
Windows
®
98, Windows
®
2000, and Windows NT
®
. Although it is possible to use other RS-232 implementations, Hand Held
Products recommends that you use the built-in driver. You do not have any direct access to internal firmware in the
Transaction Team units.
1. For more information about the SigKit library and other development tools, please contact your Hand Held Products sales representative.
PadCom
Transaction Team Functional Implementation
RS-232 Protocol Implementation
Operating System
MS-DOS, Windows 3.X, Windows 95, 98,
2000, Windows NT
Transaction Team Unit
Transaction Team Firmware
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