POS integration with bar code reader and touch screen

Hello,

This Facility is not available in Point of sale module.
If you think this is require please create blue-prints for this.

Thanks.

barcode reader is same as keyboard, but always send the cariege return. (13)
and touch screen is same as pointer / mouse.
I tested both on my POS (not OpenERP-based, we made it by Borland Delphi)

I think it's not a difficult to integrate both of them to openERP,

Hi x2nie
Can you please tell me how can i integrate barcode reader and touchscreen to openerp?
I just would like to use POS with barcode reader and touch screen.
It will be great if you can let me know the steps followed to implement this

Thanks
Bushair

Barcode integration is already there.
you can have scan product wizard in POS form. using that you can use barcode.

touch screen integration is not available yet.

Hi Bushair,
The fundamental of using touchscreen on any application (and OpenERP too) is, there is no need the keyboard +no need the mouse.
So, the user of your application may keep the keyboard far away from terminal/pc. hahaha... why? because the touchsrcreen is now running as "keyboard and mouse" it self.

But basicly, When we see in the developer side, If the user can operate well with pointingdevice / mouse only, so our application will be a great application with touch-screen attached on it.
because touchscreen (in my opinion) is perfectly same as mouse can do. (multi-touch technology excluded of this topic)

The chance and advantage when integrate touchscreen within OpenERP is: WORK FLOW.
IN THE LIMITED AREA within touchscreen, user will has benefit to increase speed of "click" rather then moving mouse/pointer to "accurate position". and in the same time application must quickly - responses of next workflow..

The major POS-touchscreen applications implement rich-button (much button) on their GUI.
and usually when a button touched (act as clicked by mouse) another panel is displayed.
this panel is a container with much button contained on it.
for example button "Soft Drink" will display a group of buttons of [Coca-cola, Pepsi, Sprite, Fanta, Mirinda, 7up, ...]
Finally when a last button of displayed container (designed by workflow) touched (clicked). It may add a item to transaction.

Over all, I mean: HIGH-SPEED IS TARGET DESIGN on Touchscreen applications.
Lets feel like that:
* Your items to sale are more than 300 items. (actually thousands)
* Your touchscreen may 12" x 9 inchi
* Your user finger-hand let say 0,5" and any button to be touched will be 0,8 x 1"
* Static-Panel of List of item sold may 35% of screen
* so number of button displayed at the same time beside List-Panel are around 50 buttons.
* those fingers will touch the screen as very-fast as your educated typist write her name hundreds time using typewriter.
(I mean, practically as fast as proffesional pianist fingers can touch her piano tuts)

hmmmm, so what our application look-like?

Maybe we need to modified the client of OpenERP for adjusting the button size, icon button, individual button face/background colors, etc....
And anticipate the workflow complexity !
because of, before an item (a line of pos-order) sold, there are usually some container-button suggested/displayed to user.

And yes, new form/panel showing mechanism must be performed quickly to accomodate "high-speed finger" when a groupname of item clicked.

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There are many aspect we may concern up while build touch-screen application (sorry my english is bad).
Except the luxurious and high-productivity expected, using barcode-scanner (in my opinion) is more favorable.

BUT: using touchscreen is no need the item availability such as room-reservation and requesting of food menu to kitchen / bar.
wich is barcode can't do.

Perhap it info help you.
----x2nie----

integrated Barcode-scanner:

when we scan a barcode using Barcode-Scanner, actually we send the registered-number-code to computer via keyboard --plus-- a "Enter" key button (which is 13th index of ASCII key).

we just need to replace the nick-name (for look up/searching a product) of item, replace it with that related registered-barcode.
for example
PC1 ----replaced-with--> 9757964686545
KBD2 --replaced-with--> 8779768767866
SKU88 ---------------------> 0000000000088

... and so on.

sorry I am not yet trying the integrated-barcode <--> POS module by on OpenERP.
but I believe there no complexity added while you implement that.