On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
Since the barcodes rarely use letters other than a possible 'X' (ISBN #s), one workaround might be to create a 'simulated' numeric keypad on the letter keys, then trap these and handle them specially for your purposes (with a keyDown handler); for example:
Y=7 U=8 I=9 H=4 J=5 K=6 N=1 M=2 ,=1 <space>=0
We create bar codes with letters and when the character is outside the barcode range, we use "%" to escape to a hex version of ascii. Thus
kee%40kagi.com
is my email address in the barcode. Software converts it back to the characters. This lets us do full 256 char ascii. Also, because we encode more than the normal number of characters for a single bar code, we have the first character in each barcode be a line number. So as bar codes are getting scanned, the code puts the data in the correct order and when all lines are scanned (the first line details how many lines are to be expected) we strip the line numbers, concatenate the chars convert the escape chars, and then transfer the data into the appropriate places. We scan 20 to 30 bar codes when all the data is encoded in bar code.
Kee
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