Eftpos integration

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I know we can hook a few things inside JS using ActiveX, and from that link, this is the part I would concentrate on:

  var clock = new ActiveXObject("Clocks.clock");
  var extendedClockEvents = clock.ExtendedClockEvents();
  // Here you assign (subscribe to) your callback method!
  extendedClockEvents.ScriptCallbackObject = clock_Callback; 
  ...
  function clock_Callback(time)
  {
    document.getElementById("text_tag").innerHTML = time;
  }

An example using FileSystemObject …

//Load ActiveObject Tools
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
fso.FolderExists() ...
fso.CreateFolder() ...

And using ADODB (ODBC drivers for other DB Engines such as MySql) …

  var conn = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection"); 
  var rs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset"); 

  conn.open = conString;

  var sSQLStatement = "SELECT count(*) FROM art_articles"; 
  rs.Open(sSQLStatement, conn);

EDIT: unfortunately, those examples initiate actions, they don’t create “listeners” which might be more what you are looking to do… not sure…

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