I used to know VB very well, infact I did an Advanced VB course when I was younger at college.
However, now as time has moved on, as I am sure you can all imagine, I have forgotten most of what I knew!! And as a result, I have become stuck and frustrated!
I have been given a VB Project, and have been told I can edit it how I want.
The purpose of the program is to pull barcodes off a cordless barcode scanner and display the information in a list. This works perfectly at the moment, however I am in the situation where I want to only display the information stored in the scanner, and not add the Time/Date stamp and the EAN-13 to the front.
To give a brief description, I am trying to use this software to scan books, and display the ISBN of the books held in the scanner.
However when i display the barcodes i am getting:
EAN-13 9780747591054 12:59:39 PM 8/14/07
The only information I want to display is: 9780747591054
This will make it easier to copy/paste, a list of ISBN numbers.
I would be more than gratefull if someone would have a little time to spare to look at the issue and maybe offer some suggestions.
just a quick suggestion, without looking at the code: this may be settings on the actual scanner instead which can be configured to your needs, normally, just by scanning control barcodes.
test by scanning into notepad and seeing what data is passed.
It is not a scanner which can be used with notepad, as its a cordless scanner and apparently requires 'special software'
I downloaded a demo of some software mad in VB, called CS1504 Synch. This had a checkbox built into the program that said, add timestamp. If i unchecked that box it worked just as I wanted. I would have no problem with purchasing that particular software, however they company are in the states and will not deal with anyone in the UK!
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