Thank you all for your responses and suggestions. For any one curious, I am trying to integrate a simple Willingo "Ring" 1D portable barcode scanner model 2601 into my data collection form. No form button is required to initiate the scanner. Pressing the trigger on the scanner sends the scanned data to any focused field. A "carriage return" of sorts seems to follow the scanned value because the focus jumps to the net field after scanning.
Karen: I looked up the "counting characters" code you mentioned being previously posted in rbase-L and found it promising to my situation. I will attempt to develop this for my needs. Dan: I like the idea of a special character. If the counting characters method fails to prove useful, I might contact the manufacturer about how to do this, but I hate the thought of programming each scanner and ensuring that every form field strips it out before processing. Thanks again! ________________________________ From: karentellef via RBASE-L <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Typed versus Scanned I'm guessing he's using one of those "keyboard wedge" (?) kind of scanners, no button is needed to launch. The cursor is in a field, you run a scanner and it puts it right in the field, so nothing needs to be initiated. I don't use the keyboard scanners, just batch-type of scanners. In that case, as you are suggesting, the scanner also brings in a date/time field which I store in another column so I am able to tell whether data came in via scanner or not Karen -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Chitiea <[email protected]> To: rbase-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Mar 7, 2017 4:56 pm Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Typed versus Scanned FWIW: Speaking out of near total ignorance here, it strikes me that this information might be captured at data-input time. Presumably there's a button pushed to initiate a routine which launches the scan and capture. Might not a column be added <wherever> to capture the fact that a scan was performed for this/these particular piece/s of data? Might this value find its way into a form variable text control displaying the scanned/typed status of the adjacent data value? Bruce Chitiea SafeSectors, Inc. 909.238.9012 Mobile ------ Original Message ------ Sent: 3/7/2017 5:28:04 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Typed versus Scanned From: "Richardson, Jeff" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: I want to be able to tell if a value has been scanned (using a bar code scanner) or typed (using the keyboard) into a form's variable memo field upon exiting the said field. Does anyone have a method to make this determination that they'd generously like to share with me? Thanks in advance. Jeff Richardson Charleston, WV ATTENTION: This message and all attachments are PRIVATE, and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and PRIVILEGED. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message immediately. To unsubscribe from marketing and sales emails, please reply unsubscribe in the subject line. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
