Campbell CDM-A100 Series, Instruction Manual

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Appendix A. Importing Short Cut Code
Into CRBasic Editor
This tutorial shows:
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How to import a Short Cut program into a program editor for
additional refinement
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How to import a wiring diagram from Short Cut into the comments of
a custom program
Short Cut creates files, which can be imported into CRBasic Editor. Assuming
defaults were used when Short Cut was installed, these files reside in the
C:\campbellsci\SCWin folder:
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.DEF (wiring and memory usage information)
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.CR6 (CR6 datalogger code)
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.CR1 (CR1000 datalogger code)
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.CR8 (CR800 datalogger code)
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.CR3 (CR3000 datalogger code)
Use the following procedure to import Short Cut code and wiring diagram into
CRBasic Editor.
1. Create the Short Cut program following the procedure in Section 4 ,
QuickStart
(p. 2)
. Finish the program and exit Short Cut. Make note of the
file name used when saving the Short Cut program.
2. Open CRBasic Editor.
3. Click File | Open. Assuming the default paths were used when Short Cut
was installed, navigate to C:\CampbellSci\SCWin folder. The file of
interest has the .CR6, .CR1, .CR8, or .CR3 extension. Select the file and
click Open.
4. Immediately save the file in a folder different from
C:\Campbellsci\SCWin, or save the file with a different file name.
Once the file is edited with CRBasic Editor, Short Cut can no
longer be used to edit the datalogger program. Change the name
of the program file or move it, or Short Cut may overwrite it next
time it is used.
5. The program can now be edited, saved, and sent to the datalogger.
6. Import wiring information to the program by opening the associated .DEF
file. Copy and paste the section beginning with heading “-Wiring for
CRXXX–” into the CRBasic program, usually at the head of the file. After
pasting, edit the information such that an apostrophe (') begins each line.
This character instructs the datalogger compiler to ignore the line when
compiling.
NOTE