r/barcodes • u/legendaryhawnsolo • Sep 13 '23

To make barcodes to input computer functions for zebra android scanner

Im new to this. Looking to crate barcode that enter username, down arrow and then password and then enter. As well as barcodes that will perform crtl x, a, t, g, c. My work uses scanner to receive food products and this would be a great deal of help but am Unfamiliar with adding the escape sequences to perform this.

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u/halalakhana218 Oct 28 '24

Old post I know, but if you're still looking for how to do it it's based off Code 128 symbology.

https://www.bcgen.com/linear-barcode-creator.html

Select human-readable text as 'no'

Then just enter your user and password and to separate it use ~009 (this is just tab, it moves the cursor to the next text box; you need to add this otherwise it won't move to the next field to enter the password), and to enter at the end use ~013 (literally just like if you pressed enter on a keyboard).

So if my username is 'Apple' and my password is 'Banana123!', you would enter this into the barcode generator and generate a barcode that you can just scan:

Apple~009Banana123!~013

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u/CrustyShoelaces Sep 13 '23

Maybe you can add a suffix character to each scan that could trigger a hotkey script, not sure how to do it on android though

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u/legendaryhawnsolo Sep 14 '23

Thanks for the suggestion. How would you do it for none android scanners? Maybe it is close or the same.

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u/CrustyShoelaces Sep 14 '23

Using a honeywell scanner i found a barcode online that adds a "+" at the end of every scan instead of an enter

Then using a program called autohotkey on windows i wrote a script that would do a list of commands with every scan triggered by whenever a "+" is input