Campbell Scientific PC400 Datalogger Support Software - Manual (Page 173)

Section 9. Datalogger Program Creation with CRBasic Editor
Sending the Program
To send the file and perform the associated functions you have selected in the
screen, press the Send button. If LoggerNet, PC400, or RTDAQ is not
running, an error message will appear indicating that there is no
communications server currently running. If LoggerNet, PC400, or RTDAQ is
running and the program compiles properly on the hardware, you will receive a
message indicating that the program is now running on the datalogger. If
something goes wrong when sending the program, a message will appear
indicating the error conditions. This may be a hardware-level compile error or
another failure as reported to the software by the datalogger’s program load
and run process.
Press Cancel if you do not wish to send the program to the datalogger.
When sending a program with the Compile, Save, and Send
feature to a CR9000X datalogger while you are connected to the
datalogger, you may get a disconnect message or similar
notification. This is unique to the CR9000X datalogger and does
not indicate any problem with the sending of the program. You
can simply reconnect to the datalogger and continue your work. NOTE
9.3.3 Conditional Compile and Save
The Conditional Compile and Save option is used to generate a new CRBasic
program from code that uses conditional compile syntax (#If/Else/ElseIf
statements) or constant customization. (See conditional compilation in the
CRBasic Editor’s online help for more information on conditional compile
syntax. See Section 9.3.9.2, Constant Customization, for more information on
constant customization.)
When a program is compiled that uses conditional syntax, any conditional
compilation statements that do not evaluate as true are removed from the
program and the program is compiled. When a program is compiled that uses
constant customization, the constant values selected in the Tools | Customize
Constants menu item are used when compiling the new program. In either
instance, you are prompted to save the file under a user-specified name or the
file will be saved under the name of the original program with _CC# appended.
The # is a number that increments to create a unique filename. For instance, if
the program name is myprogram.cr1, the first time it is compiled the default
name will be myprogram_CC1.cr1. If myprogram_CC1.cr1 exists, the program
will be named myprogram_CC2.cr1.
9.3.4 Templates
The use of templates can be a powerful way to quickly create a set of similar
datalogger programs. All or part of a program can be saved so that it can be
used when creating new programs. These files are called templates. The
Template menu provides access to create and use templates.
Save as Template – Saves the comments and instructions in the active file as a
template. To save part of a program as a template, copy the selected part to a
new program file and then Save as Template.
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