Chapter 6 : Simulating Your Project

This allows you to simulate successful or failed communications and observe how your project behaves in each condition. If you simulate successful communications, the simulation continues to the next step in your application. If you simulate failed communications, the application will follow the error handling path you have created in your application.

Below, for example, is the default error screen that is displayed if there is a problem printing a label

Simulating barcode

Barcode input simulation allows you to test routines by simulating the

input

barcode scanning inputs you want to allow in your project.

To simulate barcode scanning input, run your project under simulation. When you arrive at point where your application is waiting for an input, on your PC keyboard press F12, or on the simulator menu bar:

1Click Execute

2Click Scan Input… F12

A Barcode Input dialogue box is displayed as shown here

Only the valid symbologies for the given field are enabled.

3Select the radio button beside the symbology whose input you want to simulate

4Enter the data input value to be used in the simulation

5Click OK

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Datamax v1.1x user manual Click Execute Click Scan Input… F12