Most modern applications, such as Microsoft Word for Windows and WordPad, support OLE In-place editing (also called Visual editing) in addition to the standard Embedded Objected editing described above.
dBarcode image In-Place image creation and editing are described using Microsoft Word for Windows as an example. For other applications see your application's documentation for details.
To create a dBarcode image within WordPad first position the cursor (insertion point) at the required position within the current WordPad document, then select Object from WordPad's INSERT menu. The Objects dialog appears and dBarcode2D Image may be selected as the appropriate object type.
An image of dBarcode's default barcode appears within the Word document at the insertion point and surrounded by an outline frame. At the same time WordPad's menu and Toolbar (if visible) change to reflect the editing facilities provided by dBarcode.
The actual menus displayed by a client application will depend on the application, but in all cases the EDIT menu should change to contain only the items:
Copy - which copies the image to the clipboard
Text - which summons the dBarcode Text editor
Properties - which summons the dBarcode properties dialog
The Toolbar contains dBarcode's Properties and Text editor buttons just as in the stand-alone application.
Once editing is completed simply clicking on the WordPad document anywhere outside the barcode image will return the standard WordPad display with the dBarcode image no longer surrounded by a frame.
Editing of the dBarcode image may be accomplished by either double clicking on the image - whereupon the WordPad menus and Toolbar are replaced by dBarcode's as described above, or by selecting dBarcode image Object from WordPad's EDIT menu.
Selecting dBarcode2D image Object from WordPad's EDIT menu causes the display of a sub-menu that contains the entries:
Open Open the dBarcode-2D window for editing the dBarcode image (see Standard Editing)
Edit Change Word's menu to dBarcode's for In-Place editing
Some applications will also include:
Convert Convert the dBarcode image Object into an alternative object - such as a picture.
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