Chapter 1 - Introduction And Installation; Introducing Hand Held Products Padcom Library; Features Of Padcom Library; Hand Held Products Transaction Team Terminals Supported By Padcom - Hand Held Products PadCom TT1500 User Manual

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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

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.

Transaction Team Functional Implementation

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

98, Windows

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

RS-232 Protocol Implementation

2000, and Windows NT

MS-DOS, Windows 3.X, Windows 95, 98,

. Although it is possible to use other RS-232 implementations, Hand Held

, the signature processing

Operating System

2000, Windows NT

Transaction Team Firmware

Transaction Team Unit

, Windows

3.x, Windows

95,

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