You're WRONG.
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| tk421 May 12, 2006 5:42 AM EDT |
You must be a GNOME user or something. On the FOSS side there is Kbarcode (http://www.kbarcode.net/). On the commercial side IBM and Novell both have at least 4 differenent Linux based solutions. In fact they're actually showing them off next week at a retail show in Chicago. |
| Inhibit May 12, 2006 7:42 AM EDT |
In general, this is probably one of the things that people program for pay. Take a look around for a vendor that provides just such a package, or adapt something to fit, like myDVD. OTOH, if you designed an application like this for your company, would you then make it "free software", would you keep it in house, or would you try and sell it (or would the company)? I often see people complaining they can't get something for free and that no one will program it for them when if *they* programmed it, they would not give it for free to others. This type of behaviour is really grating on me. You may not be one of these people. I've got the feeling most of the people designing these applications do one of the two latter, as they've got little incentive to give their work away unless they want community input. This type of a simple app would be something likely kept in house for lack of caring, if nothing else, to my mind. |
| cgagnon May 12, 2006 9:10 AM EDT |
I bet phppointofsale http://www.phppointofsale.com/index.php?p=PHP_Point_Of_Sale_... could be hacked to suit your purposes. Even generates barcodes for you as item are entered. I'm running it to manage inventory for a very large project my company is doing. It nothing pretty or sophisticated...but it suits my purposes. |
| sbenitezb May 12, 2006 9:59 AM EDT |
You don't have to enter barcodes manually. Your barcode reader translates that to keypresses (ie. numbers). |
| NoDough May 12, 2006 12:31 PM EDT |
sbenitezb: Exactly right. I don't understand what the big deal is. I wrote an in-house barcode system on Linux years ago. The barcodes are printed with a barcode font and input with a barcode scanner (with a keyboard wedge cable.) It should be easy to do in any OS. |
| bug_me_not Jul 06, 2006 3:39 AM EDT |
You may want to check out Handlebar. It was designed for recording and tracking biological samples but can be customised to deal with anything you want to stick a barcode on. It uses spreadsheets for data entry and then lets you query the info online. http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/projects/handlebar.html TIM |
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