Re: Bar Code reader reading long bar code

[Mark Murphy <jmarkmurphy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Usually a bar code reader is a keyboard wedge. But, I suppose you could set
it up as an input to a windows program or a browser and send it to IBM i
via a web service. Then RPG could be called via CGI with the barcode data
in a POST, or some other mechanism like a data queue.

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> First, has anyone a suggestion for a good tutorial, site, or examples of
> using bar code readers with RPG?  My search brought dismal results.
>
> My immediate problem is with a 100+ character bar code.  I can do the task
> with a DSPF  and a 100+ character input field.  I never want the user to
> see the bar code so I am using DSPATR(ND) so everything works OK.
>
> But it really seems a waste of screen space.  So I believe my question
> is:  How can I scan a bar code field with a bar code reader and capture
> that information without a defined 100+ character DSPF screen field?
>
>
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