The PosDevice Class
The PosDevice Class
The PosDevice Class represents a single physical POS device. The class provides properties and methods that are needed to manage that physical device.
Properties
| Type and Name | Access | Key | Description |
| string Type | Read | X | The POS device type or category. For example, Scanner, Printer, etc. |
| string SoName | Read | X | The name of the service object for this physical device. |
| string Path | Read | X | The hardware path of a Device. For Plug and Play devices, this path comes from the Plug and Play engine. For non-Plug and Play devices, it is provided via the AddDevice method of ServiceObject. For devices using legacy (OPOS) service objects, this may be blank. |
| string HardwareDescription | Read | The device description, of the logical device, returned from the registry and used by the Plug and Play engine. This may be blank for devices using legacy (OPOS) service objects. | |
| bool IsPlugNPlay | Read | If TRUE, the device is a Plug and Play device. | |
| bool IsLegacy | Read | If TRUE, the device is using a legacy (OPOS) service object.
If FALSE, the device is using a POS for.NET service object. |
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| bool Enabled | Read/Write | If TRUE, enable the device.
If FALSE, disable the device. |
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| bool Default | Read/Write | If TRUE, the device is the default in a POS Device category. |
Methods
| Type and Name | Description |
| void AddName(string Name) | Adds a logical name for the device.
Name is the name of the logical device to add. The name must be unique within a device class (type). Logical names are represented by the LogicalDevice class. |
| void DeleteName(string Name) | Deletes the logical name from the device.
Name is the name of the logical device to delete. Logical names are represented by the LogicalDevice class. |
| void AddProperty(string Name, string Value) | Adds a property (a name/value pair) to this device.
Name is the name of the property. Value is the value of the property. Device properties are represented by the Property class. |
| void DeleteProperty(string Name) | Deletes a property from this device.
Name is the name of the property to be deleted. Device properties are represented by the Property class. |