Rick,
Interested... really interested in your cold fusion app for the cue
cats... was considering playing with the idea to index a bunch of
silly UPCs of home purchases .. home inventory...
so two questions... in order to get the clueless cat to work with the
cold fusion app, do I only need to install the cue cat software? Or is
there something else instead to use...
secondly, would you share you code?
The Cue Cat was a really cool idea... badly utilized and kinda dead now
it seems... :)
-paris
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: "Rick Osborne [Mojo]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:09:44 -0400
Subject: RE: Bar Code Scan
> Back when CueCats were all the rage, I wrote a CF app that would take
> the
> input from it, decode it, and do neat things with the UPC. Being the
> geek
> that I am, I didn't have much use for it beyond cataloguing my
> (comic)
> books. But, it all really depends on your scanning hardware. The
> CueCat is
> a keyboard shunt, so it inputs character data and is therefore pretty
> easy
> to work with in a web context. If your scanner hardware is anything
> more
> complex than that, you're going to end up having to write browser
> plugins/ActiveX controls to get the data in, etc. As far as cost,
> CueCats
> are free. Visit your local RadioShack or do a web search.
>
> -R
>
> http://www.rickosborne.org/CueCat/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fuon See Tu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 16:31
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Bar Code Scan
>
>
> hey guys, I am working on a bar code scanning ticketing solution for
> a
> certain festival. People can print their tickets online (it
> generates a gif
> image of a bar code). What I wanted to know was how would the bar
> code
> scanner work with the database? Is there some intermediatory
> software
> involved? Is there some scripting involved? also how much does a
> simple
> bar code scanner/software cost anyways?
>
> Ideally, i'd like the scanner person to be sitting in front of the
> puter
> connected to the admin website, and when he scans the ticket, the
> info gets
> pasted into a form on the site and runs the neccessary query. is
> that
> possible? HEHEHE..
>
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