Detect when input box filled by keyboard and when by barcode scanner.

Question

How I can programmatically detect when text input filled by typing on keyboard and when it filled automatically by bar-code scanner?

Answer 1

Well a barcode won't fire any key events so you could do something like:

$('#my_field').on({
    keypress: function() { typed_into = true; },
    change: function() {
        if (typed_into) {
            alert('type');
            typed_into = false; //reset type listener
        } else {
            alert('not type');
        }
    }
});

Depending on when you want to evaluate this, you may want to do this check not on change but on submit, or whatever.