Re: Perl and MS Access

...I have no experience with perl

In that case, I'd suggest that you stick with MS Access, which has a reasonable Visual Basic development embedded, and is capable or rendering a UI familiar to Windows users. It also has GOOD debugging tools built-in.

In case I get clobbered for suggesting blasphemy on a perl site, my suggestion is based on relatively minor application scope (single purpose defined by the OP).

"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams

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Re^2: Perl and MS Access by Anonymous Monk on Jan 15, 2015 at 22:52 UTC
In that case, I'd suggest that you stick with MS Access, which has a reasonable Visual Basic development embedded, and is capable or rendering a UI familiar to Windows users. It also has GOOD debugging tools built-in. MSAccess/VisualBasic has barcode scanning readily available? I think hardware is the limiting factor here ... how are you going to scan the barcodes In case I get clobbered for suggesting blasphemy on a perl site, my suggestion is based on relatively minor application scope (single purpose defined by the OP). NetWallah , It is never blasphemy to make your job easier :) even if it isn't in perl	[reply]
Re^3: Perl and MS Access by Anonymous Monk on Jan 15, 2015 at 23:01 UTC
Cv `my $capture = Cv->CaptureFromCAM(0);` Barcode::ZBar - Perl interface to the ZBar Barcode Reader http://www.answers.opencv.org/question/31005/opencv-zbar-scanning/ -> https://github.com/ayoungprogrammer/WebcamCodeScanner	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Perl and MS Access by RonW (Parson) on Jan 16, 2015 at 01:01 UTC
MSAccess/VisualBasic has barcode scanning readily available? There are barcode scanners that can emulate keyboard input. As I recall, the app reading the barcodes has to recognize a hot-key pattern that precedes the virtual keystrokes representing the barcode date (and maybe a second hot-key that follows). This was several years ago. While easy to work with, they were significantly more expensive than the ones that just sent bytes of binary data.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl and MS Access by NetWallah (Canon) on Jan 16, 2015 at 05:46 UTC
Not knowing anything about barcode reading apps, I was hoping there was an external executable or library that ms access could call to get the barcode data. "You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams	[reply]