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Version: 2026

The Bar Code control
The Bar Code control displays bar codes in your windows, pages or reports...
Bar Code functions
The following functions are used to manage bar codes:
iPrintBarCode (Function)
Prints a bar code (inside a rectangle).
Reading bar codes
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to create applications for reading bar codes...
Camera field: decode bar codes (prefix syntax)
In iOS and Android, bar codes can be decoded via the Camera control using BCCapture...
CameraStartDecoding (Function)
Starts decoding bar codes in a Camera control.
<Camera>.StopDecoding (Function)
Stops decoding a bar code in a Camera control.
CameraStopDecoding (Function)
Stops decoding bar codes in a Camera control.
Managing bar codes
The use of bar codes to identify and manage products has become essential...
Decoding bar codes using a Camera control
In iOS and Android, bar codes can be decoded via the Camera control using BCCapture...
BCCapture (Function)
Decodes the information stored in a bar code by using the device camera (Android, iPhone, iPad).
Printing bar codes
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to print bar codes.
BCToImage (Function)
Generates the image of a bar code.
BCDecode (Function)
Decodes the information stored in a QR Code bar code.
VideoStartDecoding (Function)
Starts decoding bar codes in a Camera control.
BCCalculateControlCharacter (Function)
Returns the check code of a bar code.
VideoStopDecoding (Function)
Stops decoding a bar code in a Camera control.
<Camera>.StartDecoding (Function)
Starts decoding bar codes in a Camera control.
SQLFetch (Function)
Goes to the next row (i.e next record) of the query result.
dCopyImage (Function)
Copies an image: from an Image control to another Image control. from an Image variable to another Image variable....
ChronoPause (Function)
Pauses a stopwatch in order to measure the time spent on a process.
zipMsgError (Example)
Usage example of the zipMsgError function
fChangeSize (Function)
Resizes an external file.
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Indirection operators
The { and } operators are used to access a control, a variable, a class member or a file item by dynamically building the name of control, variable, class member or item...
Now (Function)
Returns or modifies the system time (current time defined for the current computer).
fTime (Function)
Returns or modifies the different times associated with a file or directory (date created, modified or accessed).
ChronoResume (Function)
Restarts a stopwatch that was stopped by ChronoEnd or ChronoPause.
Confirm (Function)
Displays a message in a standard dialog box that proposes "Yes", "No", "Cancel" and returns the user's choice....
MagnifierMode (Property)
The MagnifierMode property determines and changes how the magnifier is displayed in the column headings of a Table or TreeView Table control.
OrganizerDeleteAppointment (Function)
Deletes an appointment from an Organizer control.
Middle (Function)
Extracts: a substring from a string starting at a specified position. part of a buffer starting at a specified position....
Right (Function)
Extracts the last characters from a string or string buffer.
MatReadColumn (Function)
Reads the value of all the elements found in a matrix column.
Serialize (Function)
Transforms the following elements into a specific format: a structure (and its subelements), a class (and its subelements), an array (including the associative arrays), a queue, a stack, a list....
InputEnabled (Property)
The InputEnabled property is used to: Determine if a control or a group of controls is editable or read-only. Change the input options for a control or group of controls....
iPrint (Function)
Sends the character string passed as parameter to the print buffer.
ToolTip (Property)
The ToolTip property is used to get and change the text displayed in the tooltip associated with a window or page control.
ArrayCount (Function)
Returns: the number of elements in a one-dimensional array. the number of rows in a two-dimensional array. the number of elements in the first dimension of a three-dimensional or N-dimensional array....
ControlContextMenu (Function)
Identifies the control on which the context menu was opened.
dModifyHue (Function)
Changes the hue of an image: in an Image control, in an Image variable....
Error (Function)
Displays a custom error message in a system error window.
SocketConnect (Function)
Connects a client computer to a given socket.