Supplied files

The installation program places several files into a subdirectory of your choice. Apart from documentation and help files, these files have the following functions:

DLSBARn.DLL is the library file. This must be available to applications which you create and which need to use the library. When you distribute your application, this file should be placed either in the application's directory or in the Windows directory of the system on which your application is being installed. This file needs to be distributed with your application.

DLSBARn.H is a header file which contains the definition of the structure used to pass data between your application and the DLL library, and prototypes for the calls which can be made to the library. This file (which is small) should be copied to your compiler's INCLUDE subdirectory. This file does not need to be distributed with your application.

Note that if you are using using Microsoft's C++ compiler with MFC then DLSBARn.H must be included using:

extern "C" {
#include DLSBARn.h
}

The DLLs export the following functions:

Group 1 functions use the Barcode Structure described below.

BarCodem     BarInfo
BarCodeh      BarCodeh2
BarCodew      BarCodemx
BarCodec       BarCodef
BarCodeb      BarCodeb c
BarCodeb2     BarCodef2
Barcoded       Barcoded c
BarCodep      Barfinf

Group 2 functions use barcode properties loaded through a dialog box

BarAsk          BarAskEx
BarCdc          BarCdcb
BarCdcd        BarCdd
BarCdp          BarCdm
BarCdmx        BarCdh2
BarCds           BarCdin
BarCdrd        BarCdinEx

Finally three additional functions offer special functions

BarAskEx2 Barcodes GhDlsbar

The following files are provided for developers:

DLSBARn.LIB The LIB file created during the compilation of the DLL using Microsoft Visual C.

DLSBARn.EXP The EXP file created during the compilation of the DLL using Microsoft Visual C.

The dBarcode DLLs do NOT require the presence of other DLLs (such as MFC42 or MSVCRT)

Distributing Programs using dBarcode Libraries