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Editor – Campbell Scientific 109-L Temperature Probe User Manual

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Appendix A. Importing Short Cut Code

Into CRBasic 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 the following 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:

.DEF (wiring and memory usage information)

.CR6 (CR6 datalogger code)

.CR1 (CR1000 datalogger code)

.CR2 (CR200X datalogger code)

.CR8 (CR800 datalogger code)

.CR3 (CR3000 datalogger code)

.CR5 (CR5000 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. 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, .CR2, .CR8, .CR3, or .CR5 extension. 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 an apostrophe (

') begins each

line. This character instructs the datalogger compiler to ignore the line

when compiling.

NOTE

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