InfoPath Dev

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

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.

 

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.

 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.

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

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.