>>>Tore, thanks for your reply. I, myself, have been a FoxPro developer for 15 years. I don't think that FoxPro can read barcodes from a scanner (ok to prove me wrong!) which is why I am using Visual Basic 6. If you have a way to read barcodes with Fox, give me a shout. Otherwise, let me know what your best talents are and maybe we can work together on future projects.
>>>Randy
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>>Is this a standard keyboard wedge style scanner? If so, the scanner simply sends barcode translations in via keyboard input and any application should be able to take the keyboard input.
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>>It's been a long time since I've done any POS development, but IIRC it was simple in VFP.
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>Indeed. I was reading barcodes back in the early 90's with FoxPro for DOS.

As an aside, the inventor of the bar code died just recently.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/business/n-joseph-woodland-inventor-of-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html?_r=0