Using Active Barcode Control in a Container

Active Barcode Control   may be inserted into modern Container programs (such as Word) generally by selecting Insert Object from the INSERT menus and choosing Active Barcode Control from the list of options presented. For older applications (where the Active Barcode Control is not visible in the object list) a barcode may be inserted as a dBarcode Image. For details of using dBarcode see the dBarcode OLE Help file.

The properties of the Active Barcode Control image may be set by selecting the barcode and either right-clicking on it, or by summoning its Property Pages dialog from the Edit – Active Barcode Control Object menu item.

The Property Pages dialog provides a tabbed dialog box containing four pages.

The General Page provides the user with the opportunity to set the Codetype, the Code value (the Caption), and the target height and width. Checkboxes are provided to allow the Nominal size to be specified (valid only for barcodes which have a nominal size), and for the check digit to be calculated automatically (for those codes which have check digits. An X unit box allows the width of the barcode to be calculated by the control, using the X unit size The X unit is the width of the thinnest bar (in mils - 0.001 inches, not mm). If X is provided as 0 then the width of the barcode is determined by the content of the width box.

Details of the properties are given in the Reference section.

 

The Options page enables most of the remaining properties to be specified, either through checkboxes or by specifying numerical values in the edit boxes.

 

The Font/Colours page allows the foreground (bars and text) colour and the background colour to be selected from the system colours available, and the Font properties (for text under the barcode image) to be selected from the normal Windows Font dialog

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Note that the size of the font selected will be correctly reproduced only when the metafile is displayed at the size specified in the target height and width boxes on the Code page. The metafiles image created if fully resizable, so changing the size of the barcode image will also change the actual size of the font used for the text.

Each Property page contains an OK button which, if pushed causes the current contents of all the pages to be used in re-creating the barcode image. The pages also contain a Cancel button that may be used to close the Property pages dialog and discard any changes made.

 

 

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Setting the image size