>>Does anyone have any war stories they would like to share about
>>interfacing a Bar Code Scanner to VFP 5?
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>Well, it isn't a war story -- it just works. :-) I can't really give details, though, since I wasn't the one who bought it -- we use it to scan in UPC codes. It's all handled within the scanner itself -- we didn't have to write any special code.
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>However, OLE for POS does support scanners, along with cash drawers, receipt printers, change machines, and several other neat things. The Application Programmer's Guide is on
under Industry Solutions:Retail & Distribution:For Developers Only.
I just did a VFP 3 program to track UPC codes in a warehouse setting. We found that 1 of the 5 scanners we were testing wouldn't work under ANY form of Windows, and another wouldn't work with Win95 because of their drivers. Check out the hardware with the manufacturer first.
The other 3 worked like a charm. The user hits the button, the UPC code pops into the appropriate textbox and the valid code fires. The end-user loves it and the guy in the warehouse says it's easier than the RF scanner -reader they were using earlier. We picked the one the warehouse-guy liked best and sent the others back.
Barbara
