CSPro Users Forum

(After looking at this user's dictionary, here is a response for advanced users.) Creating the table you want in CSPro is not particularly straightforward, but hopefully this will help you: 1) Create a table. For my example, I am creating TABLE1, which is just a tally of Q68_A_6. You should create t...

There are a few tricky things when using CSPro with filenames, especially because CSPro doesn't handle backslashes consistently. On Windows machines the pathname contains backslashes, which also can be used to format text. So it's not always clear what you will get when you write "path\name&quo...

I don't have a copy, but there is definitely a translation of the error messages into Spanish, as CSPro is widely used in Latin America. While there are more than a thousand error messages in the CSPro.mgf file, many of them are errors that the compiler uses, not messages that would get shown in CSE...

Maria Teresa, The problem is that CSEntry "locks" the data file when you are entering data. That means that no other program has access to the file. You can test this by running CSEntry and then trying to make a copy of the data file in Windows Explorer. The error message I get on Windows ...

Unfortunately there is no way to do this at the moment. I say unfortunately because it would be very convenient to have dynamically-sized arrays or some other kind of collection. Perhaps a future version of CSPro will have this. Your best bet is to just size it at the highest size you can imagine. Y...

You are partially correct. OnStop will only get called if some data, not just an ID item, has been entered for the case. If any item is entered, OnStop will be executed. If no items are entered, OnStop will not get called. I don't know why this was the programmed behavior, but my guess it that gener...

This is an intriguing idea that I have not thought of before. What are some kinds of scripts that you would put in a preproc/postproc?

If implemented, perhaps these scripts could be implemented similar to the OnKey and OnStop functions, which are default functions that can be overridden.

Agreed, and this may be something that eventually comes out, though probably not for some time. The next big project after the Unicode conversion will be porting CSPro so that it works on mobile devices, including Android tablets/phones. That will at least put some of the code base in Java, which wi...

You must invoke CSEntry with the parameter /binaryWin32. You can also use the optional parameter /binaryName. For example: "C:\Program Files\CSPro 4.1\CSEntry.exe" "Census 2000 Data Entry.ent" /binaryWin32 "C:\Program Files\CSPro 4.1\CSEntry.exe" "Census 2000 Data ...

Mutua, You can see an example here: http://www.csprousers.org/2011/12/09/adding-multiple-logic-files-to-an-application This could be useful for people who create libraries of functions. The same library of functions could be used in many applications. Think of this as similar to include in C/C++ or ...