[ic] producing and scanning barcodes
Daniel Collis-Puro
dan at endpoint.com
Tue Jan 17 11:28:07 EST 2006
Duane Hinklley wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I wrote a module for a client using the PDF::Report module. I can't
> donate it since it was work for this client, but the PDF::Report did
> most the work.
>
> Since the barcode scanner normally interfaces directly to the
> keyboard, to recieve items you just need a special admin page that
> allows you to enter the sku. You scan the item and the scanner puts
> the sku in the field. When submit is clicked, it adds it to the
> inventory (ie increments the inventory value in the inventory table).
> If you have control over what the item barcodes look like, you could
> make them all a fixed width like 12. Then on the special page to
> recieve the item, you can add some javascript that automatically
> submits the page after the 12 character. That way each item you scan
> would automatically submit the page. So you don't have to touch the
> keyboard.
You can encode <return>, <tab> and other ASCII codes in "code 128"
barcodes, so you don't need to go Javascript to submit forms.
-DJCP
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