Custom Hex Barcode Help

Legacy Poster

• 3. Juli 2014 20:34

Our barcodes have a human readable format as follows: 020-000-017-243

 

When the barcode is scanned it returns Hex. In this case 140011F3. This is broken down as follows:

 

020 = 14

000 = 00

017 = 11

243 = F3

 

I am trying to figure out how to create barcodes like this but I am not having any success. I would like to be able to enter 020-000-017-243 and have the barcode ignore the dashes and return the hex when scanned. Any help would be appreciated, I am new to this software and don't have any experience. Am I correct in guessing that I will need to write some VB?

 

Chirs

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  Michael Toupin (mtoupin

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • 3. Juli 2014 22:09

  Basically what you'll need to do is create the text and barcode as two separate objects.  Give the text object a sharename so it can be used as a source for the barcode (for this example i've called it 'source').  Then in the barcode use a VB script like this:

   

   data = split(Format.NamedSubStrings("source").Value,"-")

   

  for i= 0 to 3

      data(i) = hex(data(i))

      if len(data(i)) = 1 then data(i) = "0" & data(i)

  next 

   

  value = data(0) & data(1) & data(2) & data(3)

   

   

  basically this does three things, splits the data at the dashes and puts it into an array, checks to make sure that if one of the strings starts with a zero and gets parsed that it contains the leading zero, and then concatenates the strings into a single string.

   

  But this will achieve the result you're looking for.

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