Windows Shareware Gold Volume 3 #1/NuclearComputingVol3No1.cdr/apps/f1341/wbar.prn

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                              Windows BarCode Generator

                                    Version 1.95

                                (C)opyright 1990-1991

                                 All Rights Reserved




                                Stellar Technologies

                                   2510 Metro Blvd

                                 St. Louis, MO 63043


                 Wbar is user-supported software provided to you at

                 no charge on a trial basis. If you use this

                 software and find it of value please send $25 for

                 a registered copy and support the shareware

                 concept. Registered users will be provided with

                 information about program updates. Please make

                 checks payable to Stu Gisburne at the above

                 address. You are encouraged to share this software

                 with others provided that it is distributed

                 complete with documentation and in unmodified form

                 and that no fee or other consideration is charged

                 or accepted. All commercial, business and

                 government users must register each copy in use. I

                 hope you enjoy using Wbar. Your comments and

                 suggestions to improve this product are always

                 welcome.





             PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
             PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
             PROGRAM DESCRIPTION


                 Wbar is a program which generates bar codes (ie: 3

                 of 9, UPC, Postnet, etc) that can be copied to the

                 Windows Clipboard. Once in the Clipboard, you can

                 then paste the barcode into other programs such as

                 Windows Write, MicroSoft Word for Windows,

                 Paintbrush, as well as other Windows programs that

                 can accept bitmaps or metafiles from the Windows

                 Clipboard.



            HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
            HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
            HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS


                 IBM Personal Computer or Compatible

                 MicroSoft Windows 3.0

                 Mouse



            PROGRAM FILES
            PROGRAM FILES
            PROGRAM FILES


                 The Wbar system comes in four files:


                 WBAR.EXE       executable program module

                 WBAR.DOC       this document in Word for Windows format

                 WBAR.PRN       this document in ASCII format

                 WBARHELP.HLP   WBAR help system



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            GENERAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW
            GENERAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW
            GENERAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW


                 Upon execution, Wbar produces a typical Windows program

                 window. The menu consists of File, Edit, Action, Type,

                 Special and Help. When first loaded, the About Wbar

                 Dialog Box appears if you have an unregistered copy of

                 Wbar, otherwise you are presented by blank window. The

                 cursor takes on the shape of a barcode while in the

                 workspace of the Wbar window. To make a barcode, you

                 simply position the cursor in the window where you want

                 to place the barcode and click the left button on your

                 mouse. A dialog box will appear allowing you to toggle

                 various options, select what type of barcode to produce

                 and to input the barcode data. After all this is done,

                 clicking on OK will produce the desired barcode on the

                 display. If you have the AutoMeta mode ON then a

                 metafile of the barcode is copied to the clipboard. If

                 you wish to copy a bitmap representation of the barcode

                 to the clipboard, you then choose ACTION from the main

                 menu. Clicking on SELECT from the ACTION submenu will

                 toggle the cursor to become a cross. You then press the

                 left mouse button and drag a box around the barcode.

                 After releasing the left mouse button, clicking on COPY

                 from the EDIT menu copies the selected box area to be

                 pasted in Bitmap form to the Windows Clipboard.



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            MENU FUNCTIONS
            MENU FUNCTIONS
            MENU FUNCTIONS



            FILE
            FILE
            FILE


                 NEW basically clears the Wbar window of any barcodes


                 EXIT exits the Wbar program and closes the window


            EDIT
            EDIT
            EDIT


                 COPY copies a selected area to the Clipboard


                 PASTE pastes from the Clipboard to the upper left area

                 of the Wbar window


                 CLEAR another way to clear the Wbar window


            ACTION
            ACTION
            ACTION


                 BARCODE toggles the cursor to barcode mode


                 SELECT toggles the cursor to the area select mode



            TYPE
            TYPE
            TYPE


                 COLOR when checked, any copies to the clipboard will be

            in color bitmap format


                 MONOCHROME when checked, any copies to the clipboard

                 will be in monochrome bitmap format.


                 AUTOMETA when checked, any barcodes produced on the

                 display will be automatically copied to the clipboard

                 in the Windows MetaFile format. Very useful to produce

                 barcodes

                 of exact size. Also the best way to paste barcodes into

                 Corel Draw 2.0 and procduce POSTNET barcodes suitable

                 for printing on envelopes.


                 Note: Metafiles pasted into other applications may not

                 look correct on the display, but should print

                 correctly.


            SPECIAL
            SPECIAL
            SPECIAL


                 Default Barcodes


                      When producing a barcode with this option checked,

                      the default barcode dialog box will be used to

                      input various options. With this dialog box you

                      can choose amoung the following barcodes.



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                      UPC-A

                      UPC-E     // currently not supported

                      3 of 9

                      Interleaved 2 of 5

                      PostNet

                      EAN 13

                      EAN 8

                      Codabar

                      Code 128



                 Bookland


                      When producing a barcode with this option checked,

                      the Bookland EAN barcode dialog box will be used

                      to input various options such as ISBN number and

                      book price. Bookland EAN barcodes are typically

                      found on or in most books sold today.



                 FIM


                      Facing Identification Mark patterns are typically

                      used on reply mail envelopes and cards to further

                      help the Postal Service in sorting mail. Currently

                      there are four different patterns made up of a 9-

                      position bar/no-bar pattern. There are position

                      requirements for FIM patterns. Obtain Postal

                      publication #25 for details.




                      FIM A     -    Courtesy Reply Mail with POSTNET


                      FIM B     -    Business Reply, Penalty or Franked

                                     Mail without POSTNET


                      FIM C     -    Business Reply, Penalty or Franked

                                     Mail with POSTNET


                      FIM D     -    OCR Readable Mail without POSTNET

                                     (usually used on courtesy reply

                                     window envelopes)





                 HELP invokes the WBAR help online help system


                 ABOUT displays a dialog box containing information

                 about the Wbar Program



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            Barcode Types currently supported in Wbar:
            Barcode Types currently supported in Wbar:
            Barcode Types currently supported in Wbar:


            UPC-A
            UPC-A
            UPC-A


                      Universal Product Code. Commonly used in the

                 supermarket industry since 1973. UPC is a coding system

                 as well as a symbology, used to identify a product and

                 its manufacturer. UPC-A is a fixed length numeric

                 barcode which encodes 12 digits.



                                      0 04560 17100 8



                      The first digit is the industry code. For example

                 0 is grocery and 3 is pharmaceutical. Digits 2 thru 6

                 specify the manufacturers product number. Digits 7 thru

                 11 contain the manufacturer ID number. The remaining

                 12th digit is a check digit calculated from the

                 preceding digits.




            Interleaved 2 of 5
            Interleaved 2 of 5
            Interleaved 2 of 5


                      A variable length, high density code containing

                 the digits 0 thru 9. Because of the nature of coding

                 Interleaved 2 of 5, data contained in the barcode must

                 be an even amount of digits.



            3 of 9
            3 of 9
            3 of 9


                      An alphanumeric code consisting of the upper case

                 letters "A" thru "Z", the digits "0" thru "9", and the

                 characters "-", "+", ".", "$", "/", "%" and the space

                 character. It is of a variable length and can contain

                 up to 100 charcters in this version of Wbar.



            POSTNET
            POSTNET
            POSTNET


                      The POSTNET bar code was developed by the Postal

                 Service to provide a system of encoding Zip Code

                 information on letter mail, which can be read reliably

                 by relatively inexpensive bar code sorters. The code is

                 made up of binary elements printed in the lower right

                 corner of the mail peice as tall and short bars

                 representing the Zip Code or Zip+4 code.


                      The location of the complete Zip+4 is very

                 presice. The baseline of the code should be 1/4" (+/-

                 1/16") from the bottom edge of the mail piece. The

                 start (left-most) bar should lie between 3 1/4" and 4"

                 from the right edge of the mail piece.



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            CODABAR
            CODABAR
            CODABAR


                      Codabar is commonly used in libraries, blood banks

                 and air parcel express applications. It comprises 16

                 characters, the numbers "0" through "9" and the

                 characters "$", ":", "/", ".", "+", and "-". There are

                 four different start/stop codes "A", "B", "C", "D". In

                 this version of Wbar only the start/stop sequence

                 "AsomedataB" will be recognised and displayed

                 correctly.


                 Example:

                                     "A$12345B"





            EAN 13
            EAN 13
            EAN 13


                      European Article Numbering barcode 13 digit.

                 Simular to the UPC-A barcode in height, width and

                 number of bars. It does however allow a 13th digit to

                 be encoded into the barcode. The entire code comprises

                 12 user digits plus an EAN checkdigit. Keep in mind

                 that EAN scanners can read EAN and UPC barcodes, but a

                 UPC scanner might not be able to read an EAN barcode.


            EAN 8
            EAN 8
            EAN 8


                      European Article Numbering barcode 8 digit. Same

                 characteristics as the UPC-A barcode, but is smaller

                 and allows only 7 user digits and an EAN check digit.




            Code 128
            Code 128
            Code 128


                      Code 128 was introduced in 1981 as a very high

                 density alphanumeric symbology. It is a variable

                 length, continuous code employing multiple element

                 widths. Code 128 has 3 different character sets. In

                 this version of WBAR, only character set B is used.

                 Character set B contains the full ASCII set of

                 printable characters.




            FIM (Facing Identification Mark)
            FIM (Facing Identification Mark)
            FIM (Facing Identification Mark)


                 See explanation under Special/FIM above.



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                            Comments and inquiries may be

                       sent to me through Compuserve ID number

                                     74516,2776


                                       or to:


                                Stellar Technologies

                                  c/o Stu Gisburne

                                  2510 Metro Blvd.

                                 St. Louis, MO 63043



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                                  Revision History

                                =====================


            Version 1.0  - 07-14-90  - Pastes UPC-A bar code to the

            clipboard


            Version 1.1  - 08-05-90  - Added 3 of 9 barcode


            Version 1.2  - 08-22-90  - Added Postnet barcode


            Version 1.3  - 09-13-90  - Added monochrome bitmap

                                capabilites to allow pastes into Corel

                                Draw 1.21


            Version 1.4  - 11-30-90  - Added Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode


            Version 1.5  - 01-21-91  - Included documentation with file


            Version 1.6  - 02-17-91  - Fixed Postnet, incorrectly

                                calculated check digit when the sum of

                                digits in the zipcode was zero.

                                - Added Windows Metafile capabilites.

                                This enables Wbar to produce exact size

                                barcodes and sets up Wbar for future

                                Dynamic Data Exchange with other

                                programs.


            Version 1.7  - 02-24-91  - Added Codabar, EAN13, EAN8,

            Codabar


            Version 1.8  - 03-15-91  - Added Bookland EAN which is a

                                variation of EAN13. Also better

                                positioning of readable data in barcode.


            Version 1.9 -  04-13-91  - Added Postal FIM patterns


            Version 1.95   06-08-91  - Added WBAR Help system

                                - Added Code 128