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CODESOFT® Version 9.0
01 Sep 2009, Project name: SwordFish phase 1
INTERNAL DOCUMENT – TEKLYNX CONFIDENTIAL
SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Label Design • ERP/Host Connectivity • Data Management
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Main User Interface
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Microsoft Office Blue style
The user interface is based on Office Blue style.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Main User Interface
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Wizards - Luna Blue style theme
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Main User Interface
Toolbars are improved (toolbar sub menu …)
to provide ease of use and reduce the number
of icons.
New Toolbars for Variables and object
manipulation:
When selecting and object, it is automatically selected in the
object toolbar, and its data source (if any). This allows easy
access to properties of both object and data source
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Main User Interface
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Creation toolbar
When creating a new object, user, can easily select between different options that better
fit its needs:
- Create a new fixed object (not linked to any data source)
- Create a new object using the wizard
- Create a new object that will be based on a new data source
- Create a new object that will be re-using an existing data source.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Main User Interface
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Tabbed Dialog box style
Tabbed dialog boxes get a
new outlook style that gives a
modern aspect.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard Features
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Possibility to use wizards for edition
In CODESOFT 9, Wizards do not work only in creation mode, but also in edition,
allowing user to modify properties of objects or variables
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Animation effects
Wizards come with nice animations
such as rotating effects when
moving to next form, changing the
color of a button when the mouse
moves close to it, etc. These
animations can be deactivated in
the Options menu.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard Features
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Open Document Wizard
New steps allow you to open an existing label either from a file or from LABEL
ARCHIVE. You can also browse and preview the template document
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard Features
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Support of all variables
In CODESOFT 9, the Wizards are no more limited to a few variables type. They
handle all kinds of data sources including the complex ones.
New variables wizards:
• Database
• Table Lookup
• Formulae
The formula Wizard allows
you to create string
concatenations or
arithmetic calculations.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard “New Label document”
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Graphical assistance
User can change some parameters and sizes directly on the graphical display of
the preview.
The Label and Page
dimensions like width,
height, margin, etc, can be
easily adjusted using the
mouse.
In the preview, handlers
allow to resize the different
dimensions.
It is also possible to adjust
the number of labels per
column/row using the (+)
and (x) signs.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard “new Database Variables”
 Your label linked to a database in a few clicks
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The Database wizard allows creating a set of variables linked to a database table.
Each created variable is linked to a specific table field
In a second step, user can create new objects (Text, Barcode or Image) that will be
directly linked to the new database variable
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard new “TableLookup Variables”
 Your label linked to a database in a few clicks
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The Table Lookup wizard allows creating a set of variables linked to a database
table. Each created variable is linked to a specific table field. In CS8, the user
interface only allows creating Table Lookup fields one by one
Like for Database, user can also create new objects (Text, Barcode or Image) that
will be directly linked to the new database variable
At the end All variables and objects are
created and a predesigned label is built up
automatically. User just needs to adjust
the layout.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard “new Database connection”
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A new wizard allows users to create database connections for most common
database (Access, Excel, SQL Server, Oracle,…), following database specific
dialogs
For example, the wizard enumerates the
different SQL servers available on the
network.
User can easily select
which SQL db to use.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Wizard “new Formulae”
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A new wizard allows to easily build new formulae, and add as much operators
and operands as needed
Novice user can quickly build a
formula with just a few mouse
clicks.
He can also easily build
complex formulae by
concatenating as much
operators and operands as he
wants.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
The filler form is now available in a separate view
This allows having both the design of the Label in one View and the filler form
in an other view
The form can be resized and customized. The same form is used at print time.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
The filler form can be customized
Fonts, Colors, etc, can be customized.
Controls in the form can be ordered
 A new option has been implemented : « Data input one by
one ». This allow users to be prompted for data one by one which
can be useful when having to scan data
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Simplified database Query
The standard mode allows users to
easily select the data source, table
and fields they would like to use.
In this mode, it is also possible to sort
the results.
The “new database connection”
wizard is also directly accessible to
quickly create any new db connection
if the connection does not exist yet.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Graphical Query builder
For advanced users, the SQL mode is
still available.
It now provides a color syntax editor.
A new SQL Query builder allows to
create simple or complex DB queries in
a GRAPHICAL way.
Many functionalities are offered in the
tool, such as :
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creating queries with variables as
parameters
Changing the target Database system,
and the tool will re-generate its
appropriate “SQL dialect”
Modifying directly the sql syntax and
the graphical representation will get
instantly updated
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Sample query with table jointure and filter based on variable.
Just drag and drop the
two table on the
workspace. The Jointure
is automatically done by
the SQL query builder
and illustrated by the link
between the two tables
It is also possible to filter
data by just entering the
criteria. Criteria can used
fixed value or can use
existing variable from the
document (like in this
sample)
The Query builder is also
available for Table
Lookup.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
GS1 Databar
GS1 Databar is based on the formerly RSS symbologies
Barcodes are renamed and GS1 wizard is enhanced to ease the creation
of Databar complex variants
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
HIBC Wizard
This barcode is based on different
barcode symbologies (Code 39,
Code 128…)
The data structure is complex and
requires a specific Wizard to build it
like in LABELVIEW
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Label Comparator
This new tool allows to compare two labels. It is helpful in several
customer processes. Typical use cases :
- Design stage : compare version 1 and version 2 of a given draft
label
- Production Printing : analyze print issues or printout differences.
Compare label production version with its test version
Labels can come either from the
windows folders or from LABEL
ARCHIVE if installed on the PC.
This tool Compares all label
details:
- Objects and their properties
- Data sources and their properties
- Label/Page format
- Document properties
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Label Comparator
A detailed report allows to navigate among the differences using a
tree view
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
DotNet Wrapper
More and more integration projects use the .NET technology in either C#
or VB.net.
Whereas development in this technology is easy, integration with products
that use different technologies is not always seamless. For example
CODESOFT 8 and other Label Design products mostly propose an ActiveX
interface that requires special programming constraints, like releasing each
ActiveX interface instance explicitly.
This new wrapper will bring easier integration for the benefit of all
developers:
Integrators who develop in DotNet now can chose between the CS ActiveX interface
or the CS DotNet interface
The same interface will benefit to our Level3 developments
The same interface will benefit to CODESOFT R&D development (new tools like
Label Comparator already use this interface)
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Installing
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No more product range selection at install time
This will ease the installation process as the person who installs the program
does not always know the exact product range
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Possibility to select Installation destination drive
This will allow to install on a “D:” drive for example, which is not possible today
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Installation of Add-On or
Tools is integrated in the
CS 9 install
No need to run other install
programs to install the
following Add-ons
CFI
POF Manager
Form Designer
Form Viewer
Label Comparator
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Product Range management
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Automatic Product Range selection based on License
When running CODESOFT 9, the product range is automatically detected
from the data present in the customer License (Hardware Key, Software key,
Tatoo). End user doesn’t need anymore to select the product range from the
program menu.
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Improved handling of product ranges
When DEMO key is used, or when no
License is found (end-user evaluating our
product) a Product Range selection is
proposed in Tools\Options.
Note: There is now a single technical
platform for the whole range of product.
Configuration files are now shared. When
installing printers for Enterprise all
parameters are shared with Run-time. This
also avoids some configuration issues
when working with SENTINEL.
What’s New in CODESOFT 9
Other
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New CD interface
A new interface based on web page technology is delivered with CODESOFT 9.0
 Supported OS
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CODESOFT 9.0 will work with XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008
Server,
and with the upcoming Windows 7 (to be launched on 22 October 2009)
CODESOFT 9.0 does not work with Windows 2000 anymore