292188 - first digit returned by cuecat scanner w/yourcat driver truncated

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Brad Young]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When scanning a UPC with a cue cat using the yourcuecat 1.91 driver into a text
box, search box or URL box the leading digit is always truncated. This behavior
is not exhibited by IE 6.0 and it behaves normally returning all digits.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install cuecat and driver
2.select text box or other data entry field
3.scan barcode

Actual Results:  
First digit of barcode is always truncated

Expected Results:  
all digits should have appeared in the text box

Even though the cuecat is no longer produced many PC and linux users use the
cuecat to scan ISBNS and UPCs. Websites including google, yahoo search, amazona
and eBay are now offering searches based on this data. CueCats are the perfect
low cost solution. To see the popularity search eBay for cuecats. Internet
explorer handles the input whereas Mozilla does not

Comment 1

[irongut]

Digital Convergence who made the CueCat went bust in January 2002. From what I
read in many places online, their driver software is spyware.

I'd advise you buy a proper barcode reader (preferably with keyboard wedge or
USB) or type the UPC code yourself - it is only 12 or 13 digits.

Invalid?

Comment 2

[Brad Young]

The new driver is open source not the original. The use of cucat with this OS 
driver is very common.....

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mozilla.org does not produce anything related to the CueCat that I'm aware of.  
So what is the bug about?  If it's about rendering some particular HTML page
that the cuecat driver produces, please attach said page to the bug using
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=292188&action=enter

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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