In-Place editing

Some modern applications, such as Microsoft Word, 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 6 as an example. For other applications see your application's documentation for details.

To create a dBarcode image within Word first position the cursor (insertion point) at the required position within the current Word document, then select Object from Word's INSERT menu. The Objects dialog appears and dBarcode-1D 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 Word'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

Barcode Style - which summons the Barcode settings dialog

Barcode Font -   which summons the Font properties dialog

Load barcode     which summons dBarcode's File Open dialog to load a barcode configuration from a named file

Save defaults -  which saves the current configuration as the default configuration (used when a new image is created).

The Toolbar contains dBarcode's Code Style and Font buttons just as in the stand-alone application.

Once editing is completed simply clicking on the Word document anywhere outside the barcode image will return the standard Word 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 Word menus and Toolbar are replaced by dBarcode's as described above, or by selecting dBarcode image Object from Word's EDIT menu.

Selecting dBarcode image Object from Word's EDIT menu causes the display of a sub-menu which contains the entries:

 

Open                Open the dBarcode window for editing the dBarcode image (see Standard Editing)

Edit                  Change Word's menu to dBarcode's for In-Place editing

Convert             Convert the dBarcode image Object into an alternative object.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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