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The "Press F8 to clear" messages means that the error message box will disappear when the keyer presses F8. "Clear" refers to the error message, not the contents of the field. If you want to prevent the user from moving to the next field, you use the reenter command. For example,...

If you only have an .enc file, you cannot view the logic in any meaningful way. Essentially the .enc is a zipped file of the contents of your application as they are stored in memory. If you the rename the .enc file to .zip, you can unzip it and see that all of your application's files are contained...

You should be able to do this but it depends on the barcode scanner that you are using. Some barcode scanners work by putting out their result as plain text numbers with the value of the barcode. This could work in a data entry application, you would just have to make sure that the field is long eno...

To cut messages across several lines in your logic file, you can use the concat function like this: errmsg ( concat ( "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" , "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB" )); The concat function will join al...

There is a slight difference between the two formulations. The two following blocks of code do the same thing: if A then elseif B then else endif ; if A then else if B then else endif ; endif ; Why is a second endif needed in the second block? It helps to indent the code to understand why: if A then...

Indeed, both "allow partial save" and the savepartial function work independently of each other, though ultimately they do the same thing. You can have the operator control all partial saves, in which can you'll enable them in the data entry options. Or you as the programmer can control th...

This might be a bit cumbersome, but you could write a function to verify that the enumerator intended to write these large values. The cumbersome part comes in that you have to call this function after every variable that might contain a large number. PROC GLOBAL alpha ( 32 ) str; function confirmLa...

Generally you will use a batch edit application to add weights to a data file. Often you use the external file lookup features of CSPro to identify the weights. That is, you will have a file, prepared in Excel or another application, that contains each geographic area (an enumeration area or a clust...

Could you write this: PROC A if $ in 1 : 5 then if A1($) = "1" then A1($) = " " ; else A1($) = "1" ; endif ; reenter ; elseif $ = 0 then numeric ctr; do ctr = 1 while ctr <= 5 if A1(ctr) = " " then A1(ctr) = "0" ; endif ; enddo ; skip to B; endif ;

Unfortunately, CSPro is not as good at addressing multiple-checkbox questions as some other software packages. This is something that we are going to address in the new CSPro, version 5, that will come out in a couple months. But for now, you generally have two options when you want to create such a...