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Circle-Square - 12 Sep 2006 11:35 GMT

I'm trying to find a way of playing a presentation with product information
and movie animation (flash or HTML with embedded movie) using a barcode scan as
the activator. Ie, a customer would scan 1 of around 20 products on a barcode
scanner, and product info and a movie would play.
Anyone have any ideas of how this can be done. I've been out of the flash
world for a while, so not sure if it has the capability.
If someone has the ability to put this together, there would be some $$
involved. brendan.lake@circle-square.net

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derobinson - 12 Sep 2006 15:08 GMT

I haven't seen any barcode solutions (but would love one if somebody has one!).
I have seen interaction with RFID technology though. Check out Phidgets for
equipment:

http://phidgets.com/index.php?module=pncommerce&func=itemview&KID=115807296172.1
50.56.202&IID=17

And Flash API:

http://phidgets.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarti
cle&artid=2&page=1

Here's a cool book (which Phidgets used to package with their kit) that will
introduce you to RFID use (though I don't think in Flash):

http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Toys-Projects-Entertainment-ExtremeTech/dp/0471771961
/sr=8-1/qid=1158070017/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7676294-9406240?ie=UTF8&s=books

Good luck!

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snepo - 21 Sep 2006 01:52 GMT

It's easy enough if you use a keyboard wedge base scanner. On swipe the card
string will be sent to flash as a sequence of key presses. Listen for key
events, concatinate the key chars and stop when you recieve a string terminator
(return). I've done this on a number of kiosks and it's really easy with a
keyboard wedge... usb, on the other hand, is a night mare.

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