barcode-ui

A simple GUI to libbarcode. Generates barcodes in PostScript.

Requirements

• Built with clang on Unix-compatible systems, MSVC on Windows
• libbarcode

Windows

GTK binaries and headers are provided with the project.

• Build Tools for Visual Studio
• Git

Unix-compatible systems

• GTK+ 3.24.7 or higher
• pkg-config
• GNU Make
• Valgrind for debugging (optional)

Development

Unix-compatible systems

Run make dev in the root directory. This will clone and build libbarcode and copy header files to include/. Build with make ui main.

Windows

Run .\windev.bat in the root directory to get started. Run .\winbuild.bat to build the project.

On Windows systems, there are two target architectures available: x86 or x64. The default architecture is set to x86 (see TARGET in winbuild.bat). The resulting executable is written to bin\<architecture>\barcode.exe.

To produce an archive for distribution, run .\release.bat. This produces a distributable zip archive located in release\barcode.zip.

License

This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.

Several external libraries are bundled with this project to be dynamically linked, as part of its use of GTK. The DLLs are located in the bin directory and headers are located in the include/win directory. These libraries are as follows:

Library	License
ATK	LGPL 2.1
bzip2	BSD-like
Cairo	LGPL 2.1
Epoxy	MIT
Expat	MIT
Fontconfig	MIT
FreeType	FreeType License
GdkPixbuf	LGPL 2.1
GLib	LGPL 2.1
GTK	LGPL 2.1
HarfBuzz	"Old MIT"
libiconv	LGPL 2
libpng	libpng license
gettext	LGPL 2.1
Pango	LGPL 2
PCRE	PCRE2 license
zlib	zlib license

A Windows-10 GTK theme is bundled with the project, GhostScript is utilised for printing.

Please see LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY for copyright notices and copies of licenses.

TODO

• For page layout, put in default 2 columns, then automatically calculate no. of rows based on no. of barcodes
• Add callback functions for ps properties
• Add preview generation function
• Add printing:
  • Printing via GhostScript on Windows and lp on Unix
  • Printer selection drop-down list
• Ensure windows builds and runs
• Docs