Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Fri Nov 19 10:37:18 CST 2004
You need additional hardware to capture the signature. The kind of hardware determines the software and the OCX you use. We use the Topaz SigLite pads, chosen in part because they are compatible with Access and their support is good. Warning: programming this stuff and making it work is tricky! There are also security considerations. Are the users willing to have their signatures stored somewhere for an indeterminate period and with unknown security? We store sigs only long enough to produce PDF documents containing the signed reports and then destroy the signature string, which is captured in a table. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Hawkins [mailto:clh at christopherhawkins.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 6:04 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] ActiveX control for capturing a signature? A client of mine has cobbled together a rickety Access app that runs on a touch screen monitor. He has his customers fill out a customer satisfactions surveyo it by pressing buttons to select 1-10 ratings on various elements of his service. It's pretty clever. However, he's not content to stop there. He wants to provide a stylus and have the customer sign their name to the survey right there on the screen, and have the signatuire be stored as an OLE Object or as an image file someplace.. I'm sure there's got to be an ActiveX control out there that will capture this kind of input. But I don't even know where to start looking for it. Anyone do anything like this before? -Chistopher- Respectfully, Christopher Hawkins Software Developer (559) 687-7591 http://www.christopherhawkins.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com