Barcode 39 - Check Digit Problem

[IDEAL Software Support]

Hi all. We use Progress (Version 9.1D) and VPE (3.5) and having been
using barcodes with no problems for over two years. Today I had a
problem printing this string (without the quotes):
"IT1 71428 I24515"

The resulting barcode scans as: (check digit 9)
IT1 71428 I245159

The check digit should be a "+" I believe.
IT1 71428 I24515+

Has anyone else encountered this problem? I reprinted this barcode 3
times (in different sizes) and it was wrong each time. Is it a bug?

The code I use to produce the barcode is below:
chReport:setbarcodeparms(2,2).
chReport:barcode(220,1520,995,1650, 6, "IT" + c_site + " " + c_part
+ " " + c_bin,"").

Thanks,
David Hopper
Lowen Corporation

[IDEAL Software Support]

My mistake. The check digit is indeed a 9.

[csanders]

Progress 9.1D
ActiveX VPE 3.5 and 3.6

We have a customer you was on a previous version of our product and a previous version of VPE. I think it was version 3.2 of VPE. They have always used the Code 39 format. When they went to our current version using VPE 3.5, the Code 39 format now has the check digit in the barcode. I see that there is a VpeSetBarcodeAutoChecksum(long hDoc, int yes_no) function in the DLL but there does not seem to be a way that I can find to turn it off in the OCX version.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

[IDEAL Software Support]

See the property VPE.BarcodeAutoChecksum in the help file. It is located in the section describing all methods and properties for barcodes.

[csanders]

Outstanding that did it. Thanks. One other quick question. In VPE v3.2 was the checksum digit default to true on Code39? Because our code didn't change from VPE v3.2 to v3.5.

[IDEAL Software Support]

VPE v3.20 could not generate itself the checkdigit for Code 39.