Reading Bar Codes

[bubarooni1]

Hi,

Has anyone here ever wrote code that allows a handheld scanner to read a bar code into an application?

Any suggested links would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Golom]

Most scanners these days are wedged into the keyboard which means that their output appears in the keyboard buffer just as though it had been typed. If that's what you have then you don't need to do anything in VB. Just process the characters coming from the keyboard.

If you have a port-attached scanner (i.e. one that plugs into a serial port) then take a look at the mscomm object that enables serial port communications.

 

[harebrain]

Check out this thread in the Barcode forum: thread694-968991. Good questions at the beginning, good pointer at the end.