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Section 5. Program Creation and Editing

Press the Save button to save the generator project to a file (*.GE9 for the
CR9000X, *.GE5 for the CR5000) and also to create the CRBasic program
based on the current generator’s settings (*.C9X for the CR9000X, *.CR5 for
the CR5000).

Use the Save and Send button to send a program generated from the current
project to a datalogger defined in the main RTDAQ application. For more
information about this process, see the section below, entitled Using Save and
Send
.

For more detailed information about various options for generating programs,
press the Help button from the main generator screen. Select Contents for an
overview of how the generator works. Select links within the help screens to
view details about the kinds of measurements, calculations, and controls that
can be configured within generated programs.

5.3.4 Supporting Functionality

In addition to the main program generator functionality described above, the
following menu items provide supporting functionality as you create your
datalogger programs:

5.3.4.1 File | New

Use File | New to start a brand new generator project (from scratch). Choose
File | New and then select the kind of generator project to create, based on the
target datalogger (CR5000 or CR9000X).

5.3.4.2 File | Open…

Use File | Open to open an existing generator project file that was previously
created and saved. When you choose File | Open, you will be given a file
browsing screen that will allow you to browse to the existing generator project
files for both the CR5000 (*.GE5), and for the CR9000X (*.GE9). Select the

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