I want to set up Access to use a barcode scan for admission to the
lunchroom at the school I work at. We already have the scanners and
computers. I just need to set up a program to recognize the student
barcodes on their ID cards to know which students can be admitted and
not admitted into three different lunches.

Any help would be appreciated.

This depends on how the readers are set up.
If your readers are connected serial or USB you may need to call a
function provided by the vendor. Integrating that with Access may or
may not be easy.
If you have connected the readers thru the keyboard, or if the vendor
has a program so that the machine thinks that the reader is typing,
then you have no problem at all.
Just set up a form with a place for the ID. User clicks into that
box.
Then scans card.
Click Verify button.
A very small amount of code will give you a yes or no.

Good Luck

Ira Solomon


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:38:30 GMT, Me (AT) Home (DOT) com wrote: