In order to extend the existing application possibilities of barcodes, there will be an additional barcode object from the upcoming conzept 16 version 5.8.09.
The processing of barcodes is currently limited to print output. With the new barcode object, these can be easily integrated into dialogs. In addition to pure display, the object also supports saving barcodes as image files in BMP, JPG, PNG and TIFF formats via function WinBarcodeSaveImage().
This opens up a wide range of possibilities for further use. For example, you could add barcode output to your own word processing system based on the DocEdit or RtfEdit object.
Similar to the “PrtBarcode” print object, the content and symbolism of the code is defined via the properties wpCaption and wpTypeBarcode.
The following example shows how a QR code is generated during runtime and saved as an image:
sub CreateBarCode()
local
{
tBarcode : handle;
}
{
// Create barcode object
tBarcode # WinCreate(_WinTypeBarcode);
if (tBarcode > 0)
{
// Set barcode to 100 x 100 pixels
tBarcode->wpArea # RectMake(0,0,100,100);
// Define barcode type and content.
tBarcode->wpTypeBarcode # _WinBarcode2dQRCode;
tBarcode->wpCaption # 'www.vectorsoft.de';
// Save barcode as image
tBarcode->WinBarcodeSaveImage(_Sys->spPathMyPictures + '\QRCode.jpg',_WinImageFormatJPG);
// Release barcode object
tBarcode->WinDestroy();
}
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