The easiest and quickest solution for you will be getting a Symbol SPT 1500
which is a Palm III with the integrated barcode scanner...then get
Satellite Forms and the scanner extension...I just finished a product for
order taking using it...it was alot more complicated and it took me only 35
hours to develop...your's could be done with less work and by using Karim's
systray sync program to dump it to a file on the PC...
...Landon
At 06:49 AM 12/6/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >> PALM CODING EMERGENCY! <<
>
>I am a database developer in California who needs a very simple Palm
>OS app // TODAY \\ -- I don't know how to make one, I don't
>know C++, nor do I have a C++ compiler! (read below for details)
>
>I am used to PAYing the right person well for their help.
>Interested in making a few hundred quick bucks for the holidays?
>
>Please feel free to pass this on to someone else who may be able to help.
>I got your email address off of a message you sent to the eScribe forum.
>Sorry to intrude, but I am desperate and this was the best solution I
>could think of!
>
>Thanks much.
>- Matt Perelstein, database dude
> Directions Unlimited
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (916)599-8597
> Sacramento, CA
>
>---------------------
>Here's what I need...
>
>BACKGROUND: This is a very simple barcoding app for a big insurance
>company who wants to keep track of Claims files. The files are
>manila folders -- about 160,000 of them. They are already barcoded
>(Code39) using a Clipper app created in 1992 and the company
>just realized that this app >>MAY<< not be Y2K compliant!?! rush, Rush, RUSH!
>
>PROCESS: Each person's desk has a barcode label that gives their
>"Location".
>The user wants to scan the Location barcode and then scan the barcodes of
>all the files on that desk... move to the next desk, scan their Location
>barcode
>and then scan the barcodes of all the files on THAT desk... etc. I need the
>Palm to track the scans, be able to HotSynch them to be saved as a Text
>file on the
>PC (.TXT or .CSV), and then purge or delete this file to start fresh.
>The PC side of the app is in VB, so I can read the text file and parse the
>data into the appropriate table.
> (Am I missing anything important from this scenario?)
>
>TEXT FILE EXAMPLE:
> LOC0345 12/6/99, 6:00am
> 1234567 12/6/99, 6:00am
> 3214567 12/6/99, 6:01am
> 1244467 12/6/99, 6:01am
> LOC2567 12/6/99, 6:03am
> 7347967 12/6/99, 6:03am
> 9944467 12/6/99, 6:03am
>
>BEGGING AND PLEADING: I need a finished product, ready to be installed
>on the Palms (plus a little advice on how to accomplish this feat).
>
>Can you help?!?
>
>- Matt
