Bounds Property

Summary

Gets or sets the barcode location and size on the image.

Syntax

Objective-C

C++/CLI

Java

Python

public virtual LeadRect Bounds { get; set; }

@property (nonatomic, assign) LeadRect bounds;

public LeadRect getBounds() 
public void setBounds(LeadRect value)

public: 
virtual property LeadRect Bounds { 
   LeadRect get(); 
   void set (    LeadRect ); 
}

Bounds # get and set (BarcodeData)

Property Value

A LeadRect object that specifies the barcode location and size on the image. The default value is LeadRect.Empty. The default value is 0,0,0,0.

Remarks

Reading Barcodes

The BarcodeReader.ReadBarcode or BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes methods are used to read one barcode or more from an image. Each of these methods returns an object or an array of objects of type BarcodeData for each barcode found. Inside each object, the value of the Bounds property will be set by the BarcodeReader object to the location and size of the barcode.

For a tutorial, refer to one of the Extract Barcodes Tutorial.

Writing Barcodes

The BarcodeWriter.WriteBarcode method is used to write barcodes to an image. Create an instance of BarcodeData and fill its members before passing it to this method. The Bounds property informs the BarcodeWriter object of the location and size of this new barcode on the image.

Not all sizes can be used when writing a barcode and the value of the width and height of the bounds can have a special meaning. For more information, refer to Writing Barcodes - Bounds and XModule.

For a tutorial, refer to one of the Write Barcodes Tutorial.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Barcode; 
using Leadtools.ImageProcessing; 
 
 
public void BarcodeWriter_Example() 
{ 
   // Create a directory to store the images we will create 
   string outDir = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "MyBarcodes"); 
   if (Directory.Exists(outDir)) 
   { 
      Directory.Delete(outDir, true); 
   } 
   Directory.CreateDirectory(outDir); 
 
   int resolution = 300; 
 
   // Create a Barcode engine 
   BarcodeEngine engine = new BarcodeEngine(); 
 
   // Get the Barcode writer 
   BarcodeWriter writer = engine.Writer; 
 
   // All 1D options have the UseXModule set to false by default, we need to set it to true 
   // so we can calculate the default size. We will change the default options so we can 
   // pass null to CalculateBarcodeDataBounds and WriteBarcode below 
 
   // For all Standard 1D 
   OneDBarcodeWriteOptions oneDWriteOptions = writer.GetDefaultOptions(BarcodeSymbology.UPCA) as OneDBarcodeWriteOptions; 
   oneDWriteOptions.UseXModule = true; 
 
   // All GS1 Databar Stacked 
   GS1DatabarStackedBarcodeWriteOptions gs1DatabarStackedWriteOptions = writer.GetDefaultOptions(BarcodeSymbology.GS1DatabarStacked) as GS1DatabarStackedBarcodeWriteOptions; 
   gs1DatabarStackedWriteOptions.UseXModule = true; 
 
   // Patch Code 
   PatchCodeBarcodeWriteOptions patchCodeWriteOptions = writer.GetDefaultOptions(BarcodeSymbology.PatchCode) as PatchCodeBarcodeWriteOptions; 
   patchCodeWriteOptions.UseXModule = true; 
 
   // All PostNet/Planet 
   PostNetPlanetBarcodeWriteOptions postNetPlanetWriteOptions = writer.GetDefaultOptions(BarcodeSymbology.PostNet) as PostNetPlanetBarcodeWriteOptions; 
   postNetPlanetWriteOptions.UseXModule = true; 
 
   // We will use this object to save files 
   using (RasterCodecs codecs = new RasterCodecs()) 
   { 
      // Get all the available write symbologies 
      BarcodeSymbology[] symbologies = writer.GetAvailableSymbologies(); 
      foreach (BarcodeSymbology symbology in symbologies) 
      { 
         Console.WriteLine("Processing {0}", symbology); 
 
         // Create the default data for this symbology 
         BarcodeData data = BarcodeData.CreateDefaultBarcodeData(symbology); 
 
         // Calculate its size with default options 
         writer.CalculateBarcodeDataBounds(LeadRect.Empty, resolution, resolution, data, null); 
 
         // Create an image to write the data to 
         LeadRect pixels = data.Bounds; 
         using (RasterImage image = RasterImage.Create(pixels.Width, pixels.Height, 1, resolution, RasterColor.FromKnownColor(RasterKnownColor.White))) 
         { 
            // Write the barcode with default options 
            writer.WriteBarcode(image, data, null); 
 
            // Save it 
            string outFileName = Path.Combine(outDir, symbology + ".tif"); 
            codecs.Save(image, outFileName, RasterImageFormat.Tif, 1); 
         } 
      } 
   } 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
}