The COM features
What are COM features?
eMedia Card Designer is not
only an end-user application. The main executable is also a COM Server
that fully integrate the latest technologies for external control.
Using a compiled program, build
with Microsoft™ Visual Basic™, Microsoft™ Visual C++™ or from scripts
built with Microsoft™ Office components (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint,
etc), or from scripts in Microsoft™ Internet Explorer™ or from Windows
Scripting, you have the ability to take control over the full interface
and integrated features of eMedia Card Designer.
In that way, with less than 10
lines of code, your own program or script may launch eMedia, open a card,
fill-in the objects and print the plastic card. And, as all the process
may be transparent to the user, this one doesn't know how was the card
printed.
Do you want to add card
printing features to your own software?
Do you want to retrieve a
card printed from your database?
Do you want to create your
own software that would edit plastic cards with magnetic strip encoding
or smart card encoding?
To these questions, the
response is: eMedia Card Designer and its COM features. You will just have
to write some lines of code to take control over the software from your
own program.
Creating a COM client
To create your software that
will take control over of eMedia Card Designer:
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Download the
COM server SDK
from the download section of this internet web site,
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Read the documentation (also
enclosed in the SDK),
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Develop your own software.
The following must be developed
in your own code to control eMedia:
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Add a reference to the eMedia
Type Library,
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Define an object in your
code,
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Instanciate eMedia and store
the result in your object. This one IS now eMedia,
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Use the eMedia COM functions.
Now, launch your program, and
execute your code. Your card will be printed without any human action,
giving to your application the ability to print cards, with magnetic strip
and smart card encoding features.
Other features
There are two other ways to extend
the capabilities of eMedia Card Designer: expressions and plug-ins. Depending on your development skills and on your needs, you may
explore these ways:
You are a card designer,
able to create formulas in your favorite spreadsheet?
Learn how expressions may help you.
You have some development
skills, able to create simple applications using Microsoft™ Visual
Basic™ or Microsoft™ Visual C++™?
Learn how plug-ins may help you.
All these ways may help you
to obtain really intelligent cards, or to use eMedia Card Designer as a
card printing tool inside of your own solution.
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