Find a VCL or ActiveX BarCode component that supports the desired BarCode type. Adapt the component for use in RB in one of the following ways:
a. Use the third-party BarCode component to export the barcode output to an image and then use RB's Image component to print the barcode.
b. Write a ReportBuilder "wrapper" component that adapts the third-party component to work inside the RB Designer. This is the approach used to integrate the TeeChart component within RB. A "wrapper" component is a descendant of RB's TppCustomComponent that instantiates and uses a third-party component to implement the desired rendering. See ppChrt.pas in the RBuilder\Source directory for an example.
We have had customers use both of the above techniques successfully....
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Article: Adding new BarCode types
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ReportBuilder natively supports the following barcode types:
- Codabar
- Code 128
- Code 39
- EAN-8
- EAN-13
- Interleaved 2 of 5
- PostNet
- UPC-A
- UPC-E
- BarCode 93 (Available for download at http://www.digital-metaphors.com).
Options for adding new BarCode types:
Find a VCL or ActiveX BarCode component that supports the desired BarCode
type. Adapt the component for use in RB in one of the following ways:
a. Use the third-party BarCode component to export the barcode output to an
image and then use RB's Image component to print the barcode.
b. Write a ReportBuilder "wrapper" component that adapts the third-party
component to work inside the RB Designer. This is the approach used to
integrate the TeeChart component within RB. A "wrapper" component is a
descendant of RB's TppCustomComponent that instantiates and uses a
third-party component to implement the desired rendering. See ppChrt.pas in
the RBuilder\Source directory for an example.
We have had customers use both of the above techniques successfully....
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Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com