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Trigger Macro with Barcode

Trigger Macro with Barcode

This is my first post. I've been using AutoIt for about a year. I am not the greatest but not useless either. I did search for my question before posting.   Can someone PLEASE help me write a script that detects a string of characters when scanned (I don't really care what they are so long as I can put it into a barcode) then simply emulates the an up arrow press. My symbol scanner is configured to insert a carriage return after the scan, so that ASCII code may be need incorporate
I had a problem similar to this before, and this is how I handled this First I set a hotkey HotKeySet("{F9}", "BarcodeScannerInput") Then I configured the barcode scanner to TYPE OUT (like a keyboard) F9, a 20ms pause, the scanned code, and then ENTER. I captured the code like this: Func BarcodeScannerInput() ; Only accept input if my program is active. This is optional if WinGetHandle("[active]") = $GUI Then ConsoleWrite("Scanner triggered"&@CRLF)&