Honeywell HX2 Personal Computer User Manual


 
Bar Code - Symbology Settings
The Symbology selected in the Symbologies dialog defines the symbology for which the data is being configured. The features
available on the Symbology Settings dialog include the ability to individually enable or disable a bar code from scanning, set the
minimum and maximum size bar code to accept, strip Code ID, strip data from the beginning or end of a bar code, or (based on
configurable Barcode Data) add a prefix or suffix to a bar code.
The Symbology drop-down box contains all symbologies supported on the HX2. An asterisk appears in front of symbologies
that have already been configured or have been modified from the default value.
Each time a Symbology is changed, the settings are saved as soon as the OK button is clicked. Settings are also saved when
a new Symbology is selected from the Symbology drop-down list.
Clear Button -- Clicking this button will erase any programmed overrides, returning to the default settings for the selected
symbology. If Clear is pressed when All is selected as the symbology, a confirmation dialog appears, then all symbologies are
reset to their factory defaults, and all star (*) indications are removed from the list of Symbologies.
The order in which these settings are processed are:
l Min / Max
l Code ID
l Leading / Trailing
l Barcode Data
l Prefix / Suffix
Note: When Enable Code ID is set to None on the Barcode tab and when All is selected in the Symbology field, Enable
and Strip Code ID on the Symbology panel are grayed and the user is not allowed to change them, to prevent
deactivating the scanner completely.
When All is selected in the Symbology field and the settings are changed, the settings in this dialog become the defaults, used
unless overwritten by the settings for individual symbologies. This is also true for Custom IDs, where the code IDs to be
stripped are specified by the user.
Note: In Custom mode on the Barcode tab, any Code IDs not specified by the user will not be stripped, because they will
not be recognized as Code IDs.
If a specific symbology's settings have been configured, a star (*) will appear next to it in the Symbology drop-down box, so the
user can tell which symbologies have been modified from their defaults.
If a particular symbology has been configured, the entire set of parameters from that symbologies screen are in effect for that
symbology. In other words, either the settings for the configured symbology will be used, or the default settings are used, not a
combination of the two.
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