All Dymo software, including the packaged label printing software and the programmers’ API, use the Dymo lwl file format to store information regarding the formating of labels. This shows the positioning of the textual content, the field names, default values and any clip art/images which may be present by default.

More information about Dymo lwl files and Dymo software programming in general is available via Dymo specific posts.

Dymo is a company that creates an unbelievably popular range of label printers, although if you have arrived here you probably already know that.

If you are a developer looking for a way to utilise Dymo label printers outside of their label printing software then you are need to take a look at Dymo’s website where a downloadable API is available in many formats. These include web development based scripting languages such as VBScript and Javascript. More useful for in application development is the Dymo ActiveX control. In addition, for web-based software applications, we have a guide for the Dymo VBScript API.

Just a side-note: Dymo label printers are often misspelt as ‘Dynamo’, which is obviously incorrect but it is worth noting as many descriptions, tutorials and code snippets misspell the company name in that manner.

A Short Circuit remake may be in production! Quite exciting is the news that Dimension Films which is owned by the Weinstein Company, may be working on a remake of the original Short Circuit film.

The original Short Circuit film from the 80s is about a military SAINT robot. One of the robots, known as Number Five gains intelligence and sentience from a freak power surge from a electrical storm which hits the military installation Number Five is located at.

The film was originally intended to be a dark horror film in which Johnny (Number) Five but after many script rewrites the darker elements were removed. The film then turned out to be a rather light-hearted comedy. I wonder.. will the new remake follow this comedy them or go back to the roots of the initial scripts and make the film a dark horror?