Removal of hardcoding from programs

Hi Experts
In some of the programs we are using the Material group has been hardcoded. Now we want to remove these hardcodings. How do we go about it? Can we use the material classification for this like moving these hardcoded values to the classification and refering them in the program? Else do we have any other options. We are using hardcoded values of UNSPSC codes in some programs. Now we need to change these UNSPSC codes and thus are facing this problem. Expert advise required.
Thanks

SAPIEN,
By the nature of your question, I must assume that you are not an ABAPer. The task of removing or altering any code is a straightforward job that can be spec'd out and handed off to any competent programmer.
I had assumed you were asking about replacing the functionality of the existing hard code. For this, you will have to find a way to map your materials to the appropriate UNSPSC group.
The issue of UNSPSC material groups is discussed in the link I provided. You will probably have to use techniques similar to those mentioned in the link to achieve your business requirement.
Best Regards,
DB49.

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Follow this link to have a look of the result I see in my application after I got the barcode removed:
[http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=removalresultmx4.jpg]
As you can see from the link, after I remove the barcode from the image. Some of the pixel actually went back to normal in the barcode area when the the barcode is embedded into the image. But some pixel in the barcode area had its value changed due to compression when I save the image file I think.
Anyone can help me find out the problem?
Thanks.

KamenRider wrote:
I suspect the problem lies in the code when I save the image. Because people said that PNG was loseless compression but when I saved in PNG some of the pixel went back to normal while some did not. This is obviously the cause from changing of pixel value when I saved the image.You are almost certainly wrong. This is trivially easy to check. Print out the color of a certain pixel immediately before you save it. Open the saved PNG in your favorite image manipulation program and check the saved value of that same pixel. When you re-load the saved PNG, print out the color again. It should be unchanged.
Thanks you for trying to help me spot the problem but the formula is correct. The alpha value i used in my application is used to set the transparency of the barcode that will be embedded in the image. Hence, when alpha = 1 the new pixel value should be the barcode value. ^^The formula isn't wrong, it's just not doing what you think it's doing. Remember that you're working with ints here, not floating point numbers, so they have finite precision. When you case from double to int, fractions are dropped. As morgalr pointed out, your formula is:
(1-alpha * Image pixel value) + (alpha * barcode pixel value) = new pixel value You didn't show us the code for getOriginalImagePixelValue but I imagine it's:
original pixel value = (new pixel value - alpha * barcode pixel value) / (1 - alpha)On a piece of paper, take alpha = 0.9, image pixel = 17 and barcode pixel = 100. Calculate out what you should get for new pixel value and then calculate what you should get for original pixel value. You will find they don't match.

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