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Re: Infopath and Barcode Reading

russelme — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:39:28 GMT

FreddieG:
Hi everyone,

I'm new to Infopath form designing and need a bit of help. I would like to receive barcode input in an Infopath form without a specific control having focus. The input would be text based (as if it were keyboard input) with a specific preamble character so that my code would recognize it as most likely coming from the scanner. My only thought process is that the infopath form would have to have a keypress event, but this appears to not be an option in Infopath 2007. Other than making the user have the cursor in a given textbox, how do you handle barcode input?

Thanks,

Fred

My program is already working fine, I use a TextBox to capture the barcode scanner input. The purpose of my program is for time and attendance monitoring, the problem is I want to prevent users from using the keyboard to type in their ID's as it would render the barcode scanner and their ID's with barcodes useless. I already tried removing the keyboard from the computer and it did work, but the keyboard must not be removed as a requirement.You can also find the barcode generator guide if the first guide is useless. hope it helps.

Re: Infopath and Barcode Reading

cindy313 — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:32:39 GMT

barcode input? you mean barcode generator,right? here you can find many kinds of barcodes which is searched on google.

Re: Infopath and Barcode Reading

Iris_21990 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:30:03 GMT

Hi Fred,

We've been doing barcode stuff for some days, about your problem od design, i think you can get some help from here

http://www.businessrefinery.com/vbnet/guide/upc_a.html

I got this site from a friend, you can have a try.

Re: Infopath and Barcode Reading

FreddieG — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:13:04 GMT

Thanks for your response Patrick. If I can't find another method, this will be my route. The application will be used on our shop floor so if I can find a method that doesn't require textbox focus then the reliability of the data will be much greater.

Re: Infopath and Barcode Reading

Patrick Halstead — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:16:50 GMT

I think the easiest thing would be to use a Barcode font and have the user put the cursor in the field and then scan the barcode. After scanning, they must click a button. By clicking a button it changes the focus and you can have a rule on your barcode field that then fires to process it using code or declarative logic in your form. People can be trained to do this and it's a lot cheaper to just tell them those simple steps rather than try to code something that grabs it.

Infopath and Barcode Reading

FreddieG — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:42:56 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Infopath form designing and need a bit of help. I would like to receive barcode input in an Infopath form without a specific control having focus. The input would be text based (as if it were keyboard input) with a specific preamble character so that my code would recognize it as most likely coming from the scanner. My only thought process is that the infopath form would have to have a keypress event, but this appears to not be an option in Infopath 2007. Other than making the user have the cursor in a given textbox, how do you handle barcode input?

Thanks,

Fred