How to display an excel cell value on a customer display monitor ?

[bootdat]

i created a POS system for my work place using excel. And for the sales and receipt there is no display that shows the customer the total value so the user always has to mention it out.. Now my boss wants us to purchase a customer display monitor like the epson dm-d110 - but im wondering if it is possible to view a cell value in excel on the customer screen and how to configure it. thank you

 

[Jeffrey Mahoney]

From my point of view it doesn't look like you can simply send text to the DM-110. It is a USB or serial device. You need to use the JAVA developer kits they provide. Excel would need a Dynamic Link Library (.DLL) to communicate with it using VBA. There might be simpler options out there. Maybe somebody has already created an interface for Windows/Excel. A little research is necessary. I've created .DLL code before and I've written utilities for serial based devices; it's not that simple.

Look into getting a second monitor. A small monitor could have a second workbook simply to display the total and some advertisements.

My 2 cents

Jeff

 

[bootdat]

Thank you Jeff. I really appreciate it.