FileMaker Go barcode example

[Sebastijan]

My FileMaker Go barcode example without using any iOS barcode reader app and it supports EAN-8/13, UPC-A/E, Code-39/128 and QR Code.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0GSczzMpv0

I hope you like it.

PS: I will post later step-by-step guide.

[JerrySalem]

This looks great!

I look forward to seeing how you did it.

[Agnes Riley]

This is great! Now can you imagine how much faster it would be had you used one of our hardware barcode scanners? Check out store.zerobluetech.com for Bluetooth barcode scanners for iOS devices. You can even pop the keyboard out if you want to type after scanning.

Any questions, let me know.

[Sebastijan]

Thanks Agnes, I know the alternatives, but I'm doing this for a reason.

As promised, here is the guide for the FileMaker Go barcode example.

To decode the barcode, I send picture to the server (in my example via net without using FMS) that performs the actual analysis and decoding and then sends back the result. There are two ways to do this; with iOS 6 media uploads without using FMS or with containers and FMS.

You'll need the following:

1) Zbar source code (the binary for OS X is not available)

2) ImageMagick source code (the binary for OS X is not available)

3) Xcode and Command Line Tools for Xcode (needed to compile the Zbar and ImageMagick)

4) Apache and PHP

5) FileMaker file and PHP/HTML/CSS/JS file

I. Download and Install Xcode and Command Line Tools for Xcode

II. Download ImageMagick source code, unpack and compile

III. Download Zbar source code, unpack and compile (without Python, GTK, QT and disable video)

IV. Enable PHP on OS X and change maximum size of post data to 5MB

V. Run Web Sharing in OS X

Next, create PHP file upload script, set opacity for input type: file to zero, disable format detection with meta tag and prevent scrolling with JS (in Mobile Safari), write JS for auto-submit and run shell script to run Zbar to decode and return the result. Then create a FileMaker file with WebViewer object to display previously created file with trigger OnObjectExit to get a string from WebViewer into field and to do the search.

Links:

http://zbar.sourceforge.net/

http://www.imagemagick.org/

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

I hope it is not to complicated.

[Sebastijan]

Another approach, much faster now!

FileMaker Go barcode - example II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKW5nTwMn3I&feature=plcp

[WardABCD]

Looks good, I wanna find some code of qr code in some online barcode genrating site.

[womanhe23]

I still like quick barcode scanners. It is fast and it saves a lot of time.

[morelink]

I still like quick barcode scanners. It is fast and it saves a lot of time.

yes, and it provides excellent barcode reading tutorial for us. really good tool. hope everyone can try it.