ReadBarcode (Invalid image type) Capture images with a prosilica camra

Hello everyone,
I'm a new user of Labview and making an application that reads barcodes via Prosilica camera, I made a VI, but it gives me the same error again and again.
I searched the site and found something about ROIToMask, but couldn't use it.
Can you please give me tips on how to do it.
I'm uploading the VI file.
I know that this might be an easy question, but I spend alot of time and at last I deceided to ask you guys.
Thank you
Attachments:
Barcode reader.vi ‏86 KB

Thanks for your reply, I think that you are right, what I did was I changed the camera settings, so now it reads not as 16 bit, but as 8 bit.
But now I'm facing another problem with it, when the camera records it gives a message that says :
Not a linear barcode
unfortunately I'm not at the lab at this moment so I can't give you the number of the message, but it says as I mentioned. If I use the barcode example of the LabView it works ofcourse, but I justed changed the barcode example of Labview so that it shouldn't read from a file, but it should read via camera, but the Not a linear barcode comes!!!!!!
The VI file that I uploaded doesn't have any problems you are right but could you please give me some advice on how should I make this VI.
Thanks again
Mike

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