Actually, after giving this a bit more thought, it probably won't be all that simple to implement. So, you can create the JIRA ticket if you want, but I think it should still be considered a low priority item for v2.0 or later.
G On Friday, October 30, 2009, at 11:33AM, "Sandro Martini" <sandro.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I see. Are you using a bar code font in your text input? Just curious. >No, I'm only displaying the text version of the code read, using the >default font. > >For displaying also the text as a barcode some year ago I used a >BarCode Font (for make some test there are some free barcode fonts, >but mainly for 39, an old standard, but working, for example here: >http://www.bizfonts.com/free/ ). > >Later I could make some visual test for this. >But for another application I'll have to do (I hope with pivot ;-) ) >I'll have to display to the user the generated barcode ... I'll see >how to do this but in next months. > > >I remember a similar trick for Substance where Kirill was displaying >some graphics (as watermarks if I remember well) using (and bundling >inside the demo jar of the application) a Japanese (free) font ... > > >But probably the best approach for this is to have some server side >stuff that generates an image, and return it to the client, as many >Web Sites do ... for example given some text some returns BarCode >images, others (more artistic and interesting :-) ) Japanese Text >using some artistic font ... very good for a tatoo :-) >I've found BarCode4J for example, all made in Java: >http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/ > > >> It would not be difficult to add support for displaying control characters >> in TextInput, as long as the requirement does not include completely hiding >> the characters (or actually entering them via the keyboard). As long as it >> is sufficient to display a space where the character exists, this can easily >> be added. I would make it configurable via a style >> ("ignoreControlCharacters") that would default to true. >Ok, but usually applications DOESN'T have to display control chars >(nor a space). >So what do you think on a style like "escapeControlCharacters" to >control the display part, with some flag values, like "space", "none" >or "null", etc ? >And another style like "filterControlCharacters" by default true >(remove any non printable char, but in a i18n context could not be so >simple to know if a char is displayable, right ? or maybe we could >have here a regexp but could be too heavy ... ideas ?) and if false it >keep all chars as given. > >Comments ? > >Byeeee > >
