Re: Scanning 2D barcode to Display File

I'm not ignoring them. I using them as a group separator and coded around
the pipes to pull the segments needed. I didn't know that turning the
field into a "non-visible" field would fix the issue. If I did, I would
have tried that. What I did know was that the GS were destroying the
display.

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:52 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Avoid barcode reads directly to the display screen fields. Barcodes
generally have to be decoded, descrambled, etc. Its been a while but I
think I used a non-visible screen field on the display that is defined
like the barcode, and scanned the barcode in to that. Then process that
field, sub-stringing out the positions you want and ignoring the unknown
& unwanted. I used a data structure with overlays and reassembed the
useful segments in the order and layout needed.

Is there reason to worry about translating pipes when all you are going
to do with them is ignore them?


On 4/16/2019 7:38 AM, Michael Schutte wrote:

We have the same issue. I discovered that the display files did not like
the group separators (GS). I had programmed the RF guns to translate

them

to pipes "|". For us, the group separators were destroying the display,
tying the user up where they couldn't do anything anymore. Sorry about
being vague, I'm sure what to call it. That was with a GS-1 barcode.

Now we are venturing into the 2D barcode and I suspect that we will have

to

do the same thing with translating the GS codes into pipe symbols that

the

display file can handle.

We are using StayLinked on our RF devices if that makes any difference to
you.

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:30 AM <SReeves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to determine how to scan a 2D barcode to a field on a display
file. Currently when I scan to the field, it seems the field separators
within the 2D barcode are causing the screen to continue as if pressing

a

key. So I only end up with with first field within the barcode and not
the entire contents. Is there a keyword or some compile option needed

to

prevent this?

Thanks

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