Baracoda Bluetooth barcode pencil

[Alberto Silva - MVP]

Hi,
Has anyone managed to use this barcode reader from VB.net or C#?

Thanks,
Alberto Silva

 

[Guest]

This product uses a keyboard wedge. Once it is connected and set up properly it will act as if you punched the in with the SIP. You can use a trailing carrage return as an event to engage barcode processing. You should have no problem with VB.net or C#. Just make sure the right control has focus and use the keypress event

Private Sub txtProduct_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles txtProduct.KeyPres
If Asc(e.KeyChar()) = 13 The
' **** Process bar code from txtProduct.tex
End I
End Su


----- Alberto Silva - MVP wrote: ----

Hi
Has anyone managed to use this barcode reader from VB.net or C#

Thanks
Alberto Silv

 

[Alberto Silva - MVP]

Hi,
I *never* use barcode readers with keyboard emulation because we can't
control where was the code read. I know that the Baracoda pencil also
emulates a serial port over bluetooth, but the better would be to use it API
to find devices, conect, disconnect, be notified of new reads...

Thanks anyway,
Alberto Silva

This product uses a keyboard wedge. Once it is connected and set up

properly it will act as if you punched the in with the SIP. You can use a
trailing carrage return as an event to engage barcode processing. You
should have no problem with VB.net or C#. Just make sure the right control
has focus and use the keypress event.

Private Sub txtProduct_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As

System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles txtProduct.KeyPress

 

[Philip Gray]

I'm also looking at doing this - vb.net app using Baracoda pencil with HP
iPAQ

If you find out how to do this, I'd be very interested to hear about it.

I'm probably going to get mine in the next week or 2 so if I make any
headway, I'd be happy to exchange a bit of code.

Thanks

Philip Gray

 

[Philip Gray]

Right. I've just received the thing this morning and to my utter dismay, it
ships with no software whatsoever! If this thing doesn't just work straight
out of the box, I'm pretty scr*wed.

Is this normal for these things? I'm anticipating a nightmare getting this
bad boy to work with my iPAQ (PPC 2003) and the compact framework - should I
be worried?

Anyone got any code samples? Anyone? Anything?

 

[Alberto Silva - MVP]

Hi,
All I have has been downloaded from their website and in spite of finding
some references to vb.net and c# code samples, when I contacted them they
said they didn't exist.

Where have you bought it, Europe, USA, ... ? Try to contact them directly
and maybe you'll be luckier than me...

Alberto Silva

 

[Philip Gray]

Well, I'm in the UK, but the only number I can find on their website is in
France, and as I hardly speak a word of french, I'm not looking forward to
calling them.

I'll give it a go though and see what I can find.

 

[Alberto Silva - MVP]

Hi,
I've been talking to them in english...

Good luck,
Alberto Silva