barcoding

[marianne]

Can somebody help me on barcoding stuffs. I want to know how to:



1. create the barcode
2. read or scan the barcode using barcode scanner or the like
3. show and save the scanned barcode in the table from the form.

thanks in advance.

[RuralGuy]

AFAIK, bar code scanners pretty much do all of the work for you. The usually attach to a PC in parallel with the keyboard and all of the translating is done by the scanner. By the time the PC sees the data it is just readable characters. Creating barcodes for a printer is simply installing a BarCode font. There are some free ones out on the net.

[marianne]

i have searched regarding barcode creating but I dunno if that is the general barcoding stuff used commercially.

can you point to some direction!

[RuralGuy]

Here's a free 3 of 9 font: http://www.idautomation.com/fonts/free/

[marianne]

thanks RG but is this the code that U.S. is using commercially?

[RuralGuy]

I'm sorry Marianne but there are several and I'm not an expert.
http://www.barcodingfonts.com/
http://www.barcoderesource.com/
http://www.riversedge.com/
What are you trying to accomplish?

[marianne]

i want to use barcode scanning in my application.

[RuralGuy]

The scanner takes care of all of the translation. It just looks like keyboard input to your application.

[marianne]

really and that's it? all I have to do it set the focus to a field?

anyway RG, the links that you gave me are already application to create barcode.

do we have access coding for that to create that barcode ourselves?

[RuralGuy]

Like I said in an earlier post, it is just a font. Download the free 3 of 9 Font and try it.