drawing a Barcode without a Barcode font

[Matthias Rebbe]

Mike

you´re awesome. That is already an almost complete solution to my question. Never had expected that. Thank you very much.
I´ve made some little changes. One among of them is:
To have all the separate bars of the barcode in a group, i changed the lines where the grc is cloned
to for example        copy grc “narrowB” to grp “barcode2of5”

Here´s now my code to convert the nNnNN…. string to Barcode

local tLast
on mouseup
   if there is a grp "barcode2of5" then delete grp "barcode2of5"
   -- now change the width of the template graphics
   put "2" into tNarrow
   put "4" into tWide
   set the width of grc "narrowC" to tNarrow
   set the width of grc "narrowB" to tNarrow
   set the width of grc "wideC" to tWide
   set the width of grc "wideB" to tWide
   put "0" into tHorAdjust -- allows to put a gap beween the separate bars.
   put "60,286" into tBarTopLeft -- defines where the first bar is placed
   put empty into tLast
   put fld "2of5" into tChars -- the field with your wNnnW string
   set the casesensitive to true -- to differentiate case of course
   create grp "barcode2of5"
   repeat for each char tChar in tChars
      switch tChar
         case "N"
            -- checks the char, and clones the matching bar.
            --if its the first time through, places it at astart location
            -- then uses the id of the most recent bar forplacement purposes
            --clone grc "narrowB"
            copy grc "narrowB" to grp "barcode2of5"
            if tLast is empty then
               set the topleft of the last grc to tBarTopLeft
            else
               set the topleft of the last grc to horAdjust(tHorAdjust)
            end if
            break
         case "n"
            --clone grc "narrowC"
            copy grc "narrowC" to grp "barcode2of5"
            if tLast is empty then
               set the topleft of the last grc to tBarTopLeft
            else
               set the topleft of the last grc to horAdjust(tHorAdjust)
            end if
            break
         case "W"
            --clone grc "wideB"
            copy grc "wideB" to grp "barcode2of5"
            if tLast is empty then
               set the topleft of the last grc to tBarTopLeft
            else
               set the topleft of the last grc to horAdjust(tHorAdjust)
            end if
            break
         case "w"
            --clone grc "widec"
            copy grc "widec" to grp "barcode2of5"
            if tLast is empty then
               set the topleft of the last grc to tBarTopLeft
            else
               set the topleft of the last grc to horAdjust(tHorAdjust)
            end if
            break
      end switch
      put the short id of the last grc into tLast -- the id of the most recently placed bar
   end repeat
   set the height of grp "barcode2of5" to 69
   set the width of grp "barcode2of5" to 360   
end mouseup

--This function allows a horizontal adjustment of the single bars.
function horAdjust tHorAdjust
   put the topright of grc id tLast into tTMP
   set the itemdelimiter to ","
   add tHorAdjust to item 1 of tTMP
   return tTMP
end horAdjust

Again, thank you very much for your help.

Regards,

Matthias


> Am 20.07.2018 um 01:01 schrieb Mike Bonner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Not sure if it will work for your purpose, but as a test I created for
> graphic lines, 1 narrow black, 1 wider black, duplicated them and set the
> blendlevel of the copies so that they're transparent.
> 
> Grcs are named narrowB, wideB, narrowC and wideC (b for black, c for clear)
> 
> Then used the following code (and your example string from above with the
> WWnNw stuff) to generate a barcode.
> 
> on mouseup
>   put empty into tLast
>   put field 1 into tChars -- the field with your wNnnW string
>   set the casesensitive to true -- to differentiate case of course
>   repeat for each char tChar in tChars
>      switch tChar
>         case "N" -- checks the char, and clones the matching bar.
>                        --if its the first time through, places it at a
> start location
>                        -- then uses the id of the most recent bar for
> placement purposes
>            clone grc "narrowB"
>            if tLast is empty then
>               set the topleft of the last grc to 10,50
>            else
>               set the topleft of the last grc to the topright of grc id
> tLast
>            end if
>            break
>         case "n"
>            clone grc "narrowC"
>            if tLast is empty then
>               set the topleft of the last grc to 10,50
>            else
>               set the topleft of the last grc to the topright of grc id
> tLast
>            end if
>            break
>         case "W"
>            clone grc "wideB"
>            if tLast is empty then
>               set the topleft of the last grc to 10,50
>            else
>               set the topleft of the last grc to the topright of grc id
> tLast
>            end if
>            break
>         case "w"
>            clone grc "widec"
>            if tLast is empty then
>               set the topleft of the last grc to 10,50
>            else
>               set the topleft of the last grc to the topright of grc id
> tLast
>            end if
>            break
> 
>      end switch
>      put the short id of the last grc into tLast -- the id of the most
> recently placed bar
>   end repeat
> end mouseup
> 
> Spacing and line size might need to be tweaked, but it seems like this
> would be relatively straight forward.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:30 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think the trick will be drawing large graphics one at a time and
>> properly spaced at several times their finished size, perhaps off screen,
>> then getting a snapshot of the result and scaling it down. Not sure how
>> picky the readers will be.
>> 
>> Bob S
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 19, 2018, at 15:06 , Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Currently i am using a special 2of5i barcode font. The font .has only
>> four characters (bars) in its set.
>>> The code displays a
>>> narrow space (blank) bar when the character is n
>>> narrow black bar when N
>>> wide space when w
>>> wide black bar when W
>> 
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