Configuration barcode generation

[BhaskarUday]

My scanner device understand that given barcode is configuration barcode and not data barcode if we give "reader-init=true" parameter in bwipjs. Please provide any pointers for achieving the same using ZXing.Net library

[micjahn]

I have no idea what you mean. ZXing.Net reads the barcode and gives you the content of it. It's the responsibility of the calling code to interpret the content in the correct way.

[prlwtz]

The Zxing library misses the feature to enable "Menu" barcodes. This is a lesser-known feature of the Aztec barcode specification.
It requires a certain bit (flag) to be set in the header of the barcode. Of the top of my head, it is the highest bit of the length field.

[prlwtz]

I had made enhancements to a local copy of the 0.16.4 version of the library to include this feature about 2 years ago. I can inject the same changes into the 0.16.6 version. It's not a massive change. If desired, I can send the changes to the author?

[micjahn]

You can send me the changes or better open a new pull request.

[prlwtz]

ZXing-Aztec-Menu.zip

Not sure how to open a pull request, unfortunately I have not done much with github yet. Attached the changes to the encoder. Also contains a screenshot how to use and showing the difference in barcode. Hope I amended the code along the style of the ZXing library.

[prlwtz]

I then realized that the ZXing decoder also does not parse Aztec barcodes with the menu flag set (because of the "invalid" length). I have amended the detector to cope with it and enhanced the ResultMetaData to indicate whether the decoded barcode had the menu flag set.

ZXing-Aztec-Menu-EncodeDecode.zip