I believe that this is the proper place to broach this question. A little explanatory information first. I've developed a Windows application. In a most general\ sense it works fine. I have a number of components all of which work as anticipated. I also have a "textbox" component which is used its development state to read data from the keyboard. When using the keyboard it works without a hitch. (I have tried the "keydown," "keyup," and the "text changed" events - primarily the "down" and "up" configurations to retrieve data from the keyboard.) The problem is that when I replace the keyboard with a magnetic strip/stripe reader none of the three methods works. Data is lost. A string (read from the card) should be ~150 characters but only 10-12 characters appear to be read to the actual string. I've looked into other components but they all seem to have only the (same) three methods as the "textbox." The thought occurred to me that perhaps I could use "standard input" (as in input, output, and error) to read the data) looking for an EOL with a readline as the terminator but I can't find anything which indicates that "input" can be used in a non-console application. Here's the question(s): = Does anyone know whether "standard.input" can be used in a non-console application? If anyone does do they have an relative simple example of using it? = If there's no way to merge "standard.input" with a non-console application, does anyone have a suggestion for how I might be able to reliably read data from an already developed component like the "textbox?" Many thanks in advance. David
