Campbell CS650, User Manual

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Appendix A. Importing Short Cut Code
into a Program Editor
This tutorial shows:

How to import a Short Cut program into a program editor for additional
refinement

How to import a wiring diagram from Short Cut into the comments of a
custom program
Short Cut creates files that can be imported into either CRBasic Editor program
editor. These files normally reside in the C:\campbellsci\SCWin folder and have
the following extensions:

.DEF (wiring and memory usage information)

.CR6 (CR6 datalogger code)

.CR2 (CR200(X) datalogger code)

.CR1 (CR1000 datalogger code)

.CR8 (CR800 or CR850 datalogger code)

.CR3 (CR3000 datalogger code)

.CR5 (CR5000 datalogger code)
Use the following procedure to import Short Cut code into CRBasic Editor
(CR200(X), CR1000, CR800, CR3000, CR5000 dataloggers).
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 a
“.CR6”, “.CR2”, “.CR1”, “.CR8”, “.CR3, or “.CR5” extension, for CR6,
CR200(X), CR1000, CR800, CR3000, or CR5000 dataloggers, respectively.
Select the file and click
Open .
4. Immediately save the file in a folder different from \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 a
' character (single quotation mark)
begins each line. This character instructs the datalogger compiler to ignore
the line when compiling the datalogger code.
NOTE