Scanner set up using the SDK

Further investigation reveals another query!

Should I be using the Mobile Devices SDK or the Imaging Services SDK for the EV15?

Good afternoon Richard,

I would recommend using our Mobile Devices SDK to interact / control the EV15 scan engine.

Regards,
Jacques

PS: I will get back to your other questions later on today...

Good afternoon Richard,

richardkm

1. Set all scanner parameters to default.

To the best of my knowledge, our Mobile Device SDK does not provide any API to reset the scan engine configuration to factory default.
This said, two options come to mind to achieve this:

• Option 1:
  Read the Reset to defaults barcode found on page 42 of the EV15 Scan Engine Integration Guide.
  
  
• Option 2:
  Clean Start your Workabout Pro 3, to reset the device to factory default.
  See this post for further details.

--

richardkm

2. Add the AIM ID prefix to scanned data. [...]
Is it possible to do this via the SDK and if so how?

Sensing / setting the EV15 AIM ID paramater can be done as follows:

Imports PsionTeklogix.Barcode.ScannerServices

Public Class Form1

    Dim moScannerServicesDriver As ScannerServicesDriver = _
    New ScannerServicesDriver()

[...]

        Dim bIsEnabled As Boolean = _
        Convert.ToBoolean(moScannerServicesDriver.GetProperty("ICSP\Add AIM ID prefix"))

[...]

        Try
            moScannerServicesDriver.SetProperty("ICSP\Add AIM ID prefix", 1) 'Enable
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show("SetProperty() failed with " & ex.Message)
            Me.Close()
            Return
        End Try

        Try
            moScannerServicesDriver.ApplySettingChanges()
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show("ApplySettingChanges() failed with " & ex.Message)
            Me.Close()
            Return
        End Try

[...]

    Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
                              ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) _
                              Handles MyBase.Closing
        If (moScannerServicesDriver IsNot Nothing) Then
            moScannerServicesDriver.Dispose()
        End If
    End Sub

End Class

Regards,
Jacques

Many thanks but I still have problems.

I am using the following code:

 Dim BarcodeConfig As PsionTeklogix.Barcode.ScannerServices.ScannerServicesDriver = New ScannerServicesDriver
 Dim aimID As Boolean = Convert.ToBoolean(BarcodeConfig.GetProperty("ICSP\Add AIM ID prefix"))
      
        Try
            BarcodeConfig.SetProperty("ICSP\Add AIM ID prefix", 1)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
        End Try
       
       
        Try
            BarcodeConfig.ApplySettingChanges()
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
        End Try

 aimID = Convert.ToBoolean(BarcodeConfig.GetProperty("ICSP\Add AIM ID prefix"))

1. If I disable the AIM ID prefix in control panel and run the above code the variable aimID shows 'True' both before and after the 'SetProperty' and a barcode scan does not show a prefix.

2. If I enable the AIM ID prefix in control panel and run the above code the variable aimID shows 'True' both before and after the 'SetProperty' and the barcode scan does not show a prefix AND the AIM ID prefix is shown as disabled in the control panel. i.e. it has changed it from enabled to disabled!

3. If I change the code to 'SetProperty' to a value of zero I get an exception saying it was not possible to change the property value.

4. If I enable the AIM ID prefix in control panel and do not run the above code the barcode scan shows the prefix, so works perfectly.

Am I missing something here?

Many thanks.

Richard

Huh? Sorry about that

Let me look into that and get back to you Richard.
Stay tuned...

Did you try:

SetProperty("SCS\Add AIM ID prefix","1")

Instead of ICSP

Tried that and get an exception 'Could not change the value of the SCS\Add AIM ID prefix parameter'.

Also this is not listed if you do a '.GetSettingName' for all 700+ settings.

Thanks

Working!

Many thanks for all the help.

Is there anywhere I can find a list of all parameters with possible values?

Richard

Some of them are documented in the Mobile Devices SDK Developers Guide - Chapter 14

Already got a copy of this but it is poor documentation and there is a lot of information missing.

Anyway thanks again for all the help.

Richard