
How to read Barcode Scanner??
Quote:
> The scanner should not be connected to your serial port.
Why not, I wrote a library management system for my school, and the scanner
was connected to the serial port. That was in the days of VB6, where I used
the MSCOMM control to read the serial port ;)
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Tom Spink
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Quote:
> Hi MH,
> The scanner should not be connected to your serial port. It should be
> connected via a y connection to you keyboard. Then, when a control has
> focus, the scan will be dumped into the control (textbox) just as if it
were
> being placed there by the clipboard.
> To test this even more easily, simply open a blank document in Word and
> begin scanning - if the scanner is working properly, it will scan text
right
> into the Word doc.
> HTH,
> Bernie Yaeger
> > Hi everyone,
> > I installed a barcode scanner to my PC's serial port. I
> > want my TextBox to read the barcode once I scanned. But it
> > doesn't work. Do I need to do some extra programming to
> > read the serial port? It's said that the Barcode Scanner
> > is just like the keyboard, you don't need to any coding
> > for it, it that right?
> > The scanner is ok because the test program (under DOS) can
> > read the barcode correctly.
> > Thanks,
> > mh