OT our shipping software is finally finished

[J. Landman Gay]

Congratulations! That's an impressive project and speaks well for both you 
and LiveCode.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On October 3, 2018 5:35:48 PM Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> with a little proud i am happy to say that after many weeks of "blood, 
> sweat and tears" i´ve finally finished our Windows software for DHL and 
> Trans-o-flex shipments. This software is used by our own and replaces a 3rd 
> party software. There are several reasons, why we decided to replace the 
> software.
>
> These are the main features:
> By entering the invoice number the software fetches the corresponding 
> shipping address and some other additional information like cash on 
> delivery amount (if applicable) from the database of our ERP software and 
> creates a shipping label, which then is printed onto a thermal printer.
>
> For Trans-o-Flex the shipping labels (including a 1D barcode 2of5 
> interleaved and  a qrCode) are completely built with the app.
> The qrCode is created with a slightly modified version of the Livecode 
> qrCode library. The modified library allows to specify the version number 
> the created qrCode should have. This is important, as the carrier 
> Trans-o-Flex only allows version 14 qrCodes for their shipping labels. The 
> original LC library selects the version according to the data the qrCode 
> contains. If you are interested in the modified library, you´ll find it 
> here <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21428>  I´ve attached it 
> to “bug” report 21428.
>
> The 1D barcode is created with a 3rd party Windows SDK from Tec-It 
> <https://www.tec-it.com/en/software/barcode-software/tbarcode/overview/Default.aspx>.
> Currently the SDK is called from a .vbs script.The .vbs file is created 
> dynamically. The future plan is to create a widget which calls the SDK. But 
> due to my lack of knowledge about widget i had to choose the .vbs way for now.
>
> After successful printing, the shipping data is stored into a database. At 
> the end of the day, the shipping data of all parcels and pallets is 
> exported from database to an XML file, which is then uploaded to the sftp 
> server of the shipment carrier. The tracking number of each shipment, the 
> according invoice and customer number are exported also to our web server. 
> This allows our customers to query the tracking numbers by entering their 
> invoice and customer number. The software allows also the export a PDF of 
> all shipments of a day.
>
> I´ve uploaded 3 screenshots of the app if you´re interested. Please don´t 
> laugh about the user interface. The design does not match the current 
> Windows design nor is it state of the art. Our users wanted it simple and 
> “readable” and no small buttons or text.
>
> https://mr.on-rev.com/menu.png <https://mr.on-rev.com/menu.png>
> https://mr.on-rev.com/shipping.png <https://mr.on-rev.com/shipping.png>
> https://mr.on-rev.com/label.png <https://mr.on-rev.com/label.png>
>
> This is by far the most extensive app i´ve created with Livecode so far and 
> i am really happy that it was finally approved by Trans-o-Flex.
>
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
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