Thank you Tore

It was much easier simple than I thought

Moises







>Moises,
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>it's so much easier than you think. Think of a bar code scanner as a keyboard, because to all your software it is just that, a second keyboard.
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>In addition most bar code scanner can be programmed to insert one or more characters of your choice before and/or after the scanned text. This means that it is possible to determine whether the input comes from the keyboard or from the scanner, if these extra characters are enabled.
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>>Hi
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>>I never used bar code scanner before.
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>>( the first bar code I built was for post mail scanner tracking machine)
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>>Now am considering have one for my use and I have two questions:
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>> 1- Will the code go direct to the a table field the same way as I was typing a keyboard ?
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>> 2- Is there way to automate as below ?
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>> loca for table.id = my_read_value_from_code_bar
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>>I wonder if the scanner send some command after bar was read and if vfp can detect if directly.
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>>Moises