M-Business Anywhere provides a PODSSymbolScanner interface that implements a Symbol Technologies API for both Palm OS and WinCE platforms.

The PODSSymbolScanner object provides the API for working with a Symbol Technologies bar-code scanner device. Your POD might allow users to update information in a POD-specific database by scanning in that new information. The PODSSymbolScanner object provides a way to do this. Refer to PODSSymbolScanner calls for API details.

You access the PODSSymbolScanner object by using the PODSWindow method createObject( ). Because the PODSWindow object creates the PODSSymbolScanner object, you do not have to free the memory associated with it.

The PODSSymbolScanner object’s API is essentially a wrapper for the Scan Manager API provided by Symbol Technologies. Refer to the Symbol Technologies documentation for complete descriptions of how to use the Scan Manager.