Unitech MR550 Chapter 4 - Useful Programs

13MR550 User’s Manual

Chapter 4 - Useful Programs

In the MR550, the built-in scanner, magnetic stripe reader or proximity

are connected to an advanced decoder chip, and this chip is connected

to COM3 port. Application programs should call Unitech’s scanner DLL

library (Please refer to MR550 programming manual for detailed

function of DLL library). Oftentimes it is not easy to get read data into

application programs, especially if the application is provided by a third

party, and users are not allowed to modify the source program.

“Bar2Key.exe” is an useful tool to get scanned/swiped data into any

application program. While Bar2Key is running, all scanned/swiped

data goes into the standard keyboard input buffer. Scanned/swiped data

will be treated as normal keyboard input. Thus, any application pro-

gram can input scanned/swiped data, just as if it were input by key-

board.

Bar2Key.EXE is located in the Win-

dows folder. After executing the pro-

gram, a Barcode icon will appear on

the taskbar. Press scanner trigger

key (or swipe) as you normally would

to scan a barcode label.

For detail barcode symbology and

MSR settings, please refer to the

next 2 sections.

For exiting Bar2Key, double tap the

Barcode icon on the taskbar and then

tap the Exit button.