Need Advice...New to Barcoding

[dvannoy]

I am going to be developing a barcoding/data entry system using VB and barcoding software. One of the problems is, the user cannot look at the screen when scanning customer surveys since this will be done onsite live. These will be simple YES/NO anwsers and some Zip code entry from preprinted barcode labels. I would use the bar code in place of data entry.

What would be the best way to make this work. I was thinking about once data gets put into a field it would then auto go to the next field.

can anyone else give some feedback on this??

any help would be appreciated
thanks

 

[DougP]

If you add a Enter Key (chr(13) to the barcode this is done in the scanner. After each barcode is scanee it should move to the next field.
You need to check the data being scanned into each box
If they are either Yes or No then put in the "On key down" event of the text box
if Keycode = &hd then 'they pressed the Enter key
If yourtextbox.text = "Yes" or yourtextbox.text = "no" then
'do something here
else
msgbox("invalid scan") 'etc
end if
end if



DougP, MCP, A+