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I need to scan barcodes in Filemaker 5.5, but the problem is that Filemaker 5.5 cannot handle the “ENTER” key, as far as I know and someway the barcode reader needs to launch a script on Filemaker. If someone had a solution for this it would be great ! (Even some plugin would be good)
As noted above, you can achieve the desired action via script triggers in a recent version of FileMaker.
There is no way to trigger a script via the enter key in FileMaker 5.5. Script triggers didn’t exist yet.
Going back to my pre FM7 way of thinking, you could make the field, that you are going to scan into, a button. The button triggers your script and the script goes into the field for the user and pauses the script. The enter key would then unpause it.
There are other ways too. Are you capable of writing a plugin? Is it too much trouble to have the user push a button after the scan?