Using contents mask, Work with visual basic expressions – QuickLabel Designer Express User Manual
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following notation is used:
h
Hours in 12-hour format (AM/PM will be added if they follow the time). Can
occupy one or two characters.
hh
Hours in 12-hour format (AM/PM will be added if they follow the time). Always
occupies two characters. (leading zeros will be added as necessary).
H
Hours in 24-hour format. Can occupy one or two characters.
HH
Hours in 24-hour format. Always occupies two characters.
mm
Used for minutes.
ss
Used for seconds.
The examples:
Format
How the time will look
h:mm {AM/PM}
8:25PM
H:mm
20:25
hh:mm:ss
08:25:36
Using Contents Mask
Contents mask is very useful when you must display the input data differently on the label. With con-
tents mask you can simply reformat the data to suit your needs.
For example, you must use differently formatted human interpretation text below bar code than the
data is formatted in the bar code. You do not want to define two variables for this purpose and enter
the similar data twice.
The mask character will be replaced by the actual data and any other used character will be used as-
is. If the current bar code value is
"AD951"
and the contents mask is
"**C - ** /*/"
the resulting output will be
"ADC - 95 /1/"
Powerful formatting structures can be defined using Contents mask, but it is only available with bar
codes that allow custom formatting of the human interpretation. You should also make sure to print
bar codes as graphics, otherwise the contents mask is not available.
Note:
If your data contains the asterisk "*" character, then you will have to change the default mask char-
acter to something else. It should be a unique value, not appearing anywhere in the data.
The contents mask functionality is available with Text and Bar code objects.
Work with Visual Basic Expressions
Visual Basic expressions allows you to manipulate the data values on the label. Input to Visual
Basic can be fixed values or variable fields from the label. The output is always a data value that is
used as content for the current object.