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5.
Click on the Formats button.
6.
Select the Default format and then click on the Edit button.
7.
Change the text in the Data Output Format edit box to Input() + "\x83". \x83 is a way of
expressing a character ASCII value in hexadecimal instead of writing the actual character.
The character A can for example be written as \x41. When you write codes like these in the
Data Output Format edit box they have to be quoted.
8.
Click on OK in all dialog boxes until the main window is displayed.
9.
Test it. Note that the Home key is simulated after each data string.
I want to use ÅÄÖ (or other international characters) in a barcode. How do I do
it?
Mostly, international characters can't be encoded in barcodes. Thus you have to use other
characters to represent them and convert them to the correct character in WLinq. An old standard
for encoding the Swedish characters åäö ÅÄÖ is to use the characters }{| ][\. The characters }{|
][\ can the encoded in the bar code type Code 128. The example below show how you can get
WLinq to generate the character å when the character } is received:
1.
Start WLinq if it isn't already running.
2.
Click on the Settings button in the main window.
3.
Click on the Keyboard tab.
4.
Click on the Character Translation button.
5.
Browse down in the list until you see the character } (ASCII value 125).
6.
Select the line for the character }.
7.
Click on the Edit button.
8.
Click in the Scan Code Tester edit box.
9.
Press the key on the keyboard that generates the character å (requires a Swedish keyboard).
10.
The text dec 221 hex 0xdd is displayed in the Scan Code Tester edit box. This means that
Windows internally represents the å key with the value 221. Note! This is NOT the ASCII
value for the character å. It is the keyboard scan code. On an english keyboard the same key
generates the [ character.
11.
Write 221 in the Key Code edit box.
12.
Make sure that the check boxes Active and Affected by Caps Lock are the only ones checked.
13.
Click on OK until the main window is displayed.
14.
Test by reading a barcode containing the } character.
What we've done above is to tell WLinq that whenever the } character is received it should be
simulated by pressing the key with the keyboard scan code 221. The key with the code 221
generates the å character assuming a Swedish keyboard driver is used in Windows.
I would like to run two WLinq's, one for COM1 and one for COM2. How do I do
it?
WLinq works with what we call profiles. A profile can be given a name and contains all settings you
specify in the Settings dialog box. The settings are com port, the port's speed, string replacement,
data editing formats and so on. Sometimes you want to use a barcode reader on one com port and
some other serial equipment on another port.
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