Barcodes in R&R Reports

[Mel_Smith_(Guest)]

Dear Friends,____ My *vicious* client *now* wants me to place ^barcodes^ in the Record portion of an R&R Report. Complete with Font Changes, etc, etc.____ So, in place of the original set of record lines in a report, I am requested to print a set of 3 barcodes across the width of a page (replacing three record lines) according *his* specification.____ Is this possible to do ???____Any suggestions ??____-Mel Smith__

[Randall_Warden_(Guest)]

We use the Wasp Activex & DLL Developers Toolkit to create data strings that will result in a valid (scannable) barcode when printed with the Wasp fonts. For each data field that needs to printed as a barcode, we create a corresponding field that contains the result of sending the original data string to the DLL. This data field is then placed in the R&R report and printed using a barcode font.____Randall Warden

[Mel_Smith_(Guest)]

Randall,____ Thanks for the info. Your solution sounds like it might be what I need !____ I guess I should try to track down this ^Wasp^ package.____ Would appreciate any more info you may have on this package.____Thanks,____-Mel Smith__

[Mel_Smith_(Guest)]

Randall,____ I found the Wasp website, and downloaded their demo.____ I wonder whether you use:__ a. Bar Code Font ActiveX control. or,__ b. Bar Code Font DLL____ for your work ??______ Would you mind posting a small sample of how you call the dll (or ActX) and how you call it ?____ I^m using Clipper (16-bit DOS) to call RRWRUN (V9) to print reports, so I^m a bit confused how I^d send the barcode ascii string to a particular Wasp module, then what I^d do with the return string on return (maybe place it in a string field in a database and refer to it in the R&R report ??)____ Anyway, any help you can provide will be appreciated !____-Mel Smith__

[Mel_Smith_(Guest)]

Randall (and other interested ^BarCode^ folks),______ My user provided me a set of fonts (that he had acquired several years ago) that produce the barcode on the report simply by inserting the ascii barcode letters and digits on the report, then specifying the Font (Bar Code 39 f) for the field !____ The name of the font package is Macromedia Fontographer 4.1____ I can^t believe it was this easy !____So, thanks Randall for the wasp barcode lead, but this current solution is easy and cheap !!____-Mel Smith__ ____