My club uses a magnetic card reader. The only software we use is provided with our card reader. The software isn't needed though. We use it to help clean up the data sent to TD. Our member numbers are actual numbers from 1 up to our current member number. The raw data from the card liioks something like this : %0007822? for the member number 7822. The software only removes the extra characters.
The software provided with our card reader will also allow us to program a 'preamble'. A character sent to TD before it reads the data. Why would we use this? We program a hotkey in TD to open up the Add Players Dialog. The Auto-Perform check box is ticked. In our card reader setup, we program the same character as the hotkey as a preamble. Now, when we swipe a card, the add player dialog automatically opens up, searches for the player, adds the player (and in our case) buys-in the player, prints a receipt and speeds up registration.
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Jody
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