05-23-2020, 08:52 PM
Howdy All!
I have been trying to get my customers to use barcode scanning for years on e-tickets, printed tickets, etc and I never could get a taker.
Now with the Coronavirus and the need for touch-less / less contact, everyone wants it yesterday.
In the past, I tried using CGDevTool's mask edit control, and to be honest, I don't remember how it worked as the customer I did it for 5+ years ago didn't have a very good Internet connection and so I abandoned it (and I don't use CGDevTools anymore with IW).
In a perfect world, I would implement this as a FireMonkey app for Android/IOS/Windows but I need it yesterday.
I can take VCL versions out of my main application, create a new REST api for validation, and create a stand-alone Windows application. Problem with this is that there aren't many good / affordable Windows tablets.
In 2020, the obvious solution would be for to create an IW page accepts a barcode and sends it to the server for validation.
The problems I have with this method are:
1) I am NOT a javascript / jquery expert,
2) Keeping the focus in the input control and having the barocde parsed realtime (i.e. in javascript)
I have seen javascript libraries out there and I was wondering if anyone has or knows of a IW component that wraps one of these javascript libraries into something usable / useful for the rest of us?
I am looking for something like:
https://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/
All the best,
Shane
I have been trying to get my customers to use barcode scanning for years on e-tickets, printed tickets, etc and I never could get a taker.
Now with the Coronavirus and the need for touch-less / less contact, everyone wants it yesterday.
In the past, I tried using CGDevTool's mask edit control, and to be honest, I don't remember how it worked as the customer I did it for 5+ years ago didn't have a very good Internet connection and so I abandoned it (and I don't use CGDevTools anymore with IW).
In a perfect world, I would implement this as a FireMonkey app for Android/IOS/Windows but I need it yesterday.
I can take VCL versions out of my main application, create a new REST api for validation, and create a stand-alone Windows application. Problem with this is that there aren't many good / affordable Windows tablets.
In 2020, the obvious solution would be for to create an IW page accepts a barcode and sends it to the server for validation.
The problems I have with this method are:
1) I am NOT a javascript / jquery expert,
2) Keeping the focus in the input control and having the barocde parsed realtime (i.e. in javascript)
I have seen javascript libraries out there and I was wondering if anyone has or knows of a IW component that wraps one of these javascript libraries into something usable / useful for the rest of us?
I am looking for something like:
https://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/
All the best,
Shane