From logan at wjh.harvard.edu Wed Feb 2 16:58:29 2005 From: logan at wjh.harvard.edu (Logan Hegg) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:58:29 -0500 Subject: E-Prime: Random Stimulus Selection Scripts Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am curious about the possibility of writing script for stimulus selection with certain caveats. I have written a visual forced choice discrimination task in which participants choose based on numerosity between two lateralized pictures. I would like E-Prime to provide random stimulus selection with the criterion that the correct choice will not be either left or right for more than three successive trials. Have you had any success with such scripting? I'm very green in the field of scripting. Thanks!! Best, Logan Hegg From baranan at post.tau.ac.il Sun Feb 6 06:21:18 2005 From: baranan at post.tau.ac.il (yoav Bar-Anan) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 08:21:18 +0200 Subject: sound and windows95 Message-ID: Hi all, I recently had to install an experiment on an old computer, which has window95 OS. It doesn't have access to the internet, or USB removable disks, and it even fail to read rewriteable CDs. I had to install e-prime through our original disk and develop the experiment on the computer. The problem is that I fail to use sound in the experiment. the sound-out object kills the computer - it gets stuck and I have to restart the computer using its on/off switch. E-Prime support advised me to check the sound-driver and make sure it is up-to-date, but the computer's isolation makes it very difficult. I tried to use the "Beep" command - the computer didn't get stuck, but it also didn't make a sound. The computer's windows-media-player can play the "ding.wav" file, which I'm trying to play in e-prime. Does anyone has an idea how I can solve this problem? Thanks, Yoav -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Daniel.Ansari at Dartmouth.EDU Wed Feb 9 15:46:52 2005 From: Daniel.Ansari at Dartmouth.EDU (Daniel Ansari) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:46:52 EST Subject: Executables? Message-ID: Dear all, I have heard that one can use e-prime to generate .exe files of experiments that can then be run on any computer independent of an e-prime installation or dongle. Is this correct? If so, does anybody have experience with this? Is it relatively straightforward? Does one still get the edata aid files to look at the raw data? Thanks very much in advance for any help and advice! Best wishes, Daniel From pauls_postbus at hotmail.com Thu Feb 10 09:03:52 2005 From: pauls_postbus at hotmail.com (Paul Gr) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:03:52 +0100 Subject: Executables? In-Reply-To: <40693828@newprancer.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: hi daniel, Currently, the only way to run eprime scripts is by using the E-Prime runtime (E-Run) to execute the ebs-scripts. Ebs-scripts are automatically created by E-Studio, the development environment. The runtime is in fact a standard BASIC interpreter, with additional functionality that is not present in other BASIC interpreters or compilers. So, at the time of writing it is not possible to compile EPrime scripts into standalone exe-files. You still require the EPrime runtime (available as separate setup, or part of the complete EPrime environment). best, paul >From: Daniel.Ansari at Dartmouth.EDU (Daniel Ansari) >To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org >Subject: Executables? >Date: 09 Feb 2005 10:46:52 EST > >Dear all, > >I have heard that one can use e-prime to generate .exe files of experiments >that can then be run on any computer independent of an e-prime installation >or dongle. Is this correct? If so, does anybody have experience with this? >Is it relatively straightforward? Does one still get the edata aid files to >look at the raw data? > >Thanks very much in advance for any help and advice! >Best wishes, >Daniel > _________________________________________________________________ Nooit ongewenste berichten ontvangen: gebruik MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/ From jeff.larsen at ttu.edu Mon Feb 14 19:32:43 2005 From: jeff.larsen at ttu.edu (Larsen, Jeff) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:32:43 -0600 Subject: Powerpoint Viewer 97 bug Message-ID: Dear Eprime users -- I often have Eprime use Powerpoint Viewer 97 to present AVI videos and it usually works well. On one of my computers, however, I get the following error message as soon as the video starts playing: "Video not available. Cannot find 'vids: MPG4' decompressor. I went to Microsoft and downloaded and installed what I thought was the appropriate decompressor, but no luck. The video plays OK on Windows Media Player, so the problem seems to be specific to PPT Viewer. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Jeff ******************************************************* Jeff T. Larsen, PhD Department of Psychology Texas Tech University Phone: 806-742-3711 x234 Fax: 806-742-0818 Email: jeff.larsen at ttu.edu Webpage: http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/jelarsen ******************************************************* From michael.crowley at yale.edu Wed Feb 16 22:07:04 2005 From: michael.crowley at yale.edu (Michael J. Crowley) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:07:04 -0500 Subject: has anyone developed a q-sort for e-prime Message-ID: Dear List, Does anyone know of a q-sort that has been developed for eprime? thank you. Mike Crowley Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D. Yale Child Study Center 230 South Frontage Rd. New Haven, CT 06520 Please be aware that email communication can be intercepted in transmission or misdirected. Please consider communicating any sensitive information by telephone, fax or mail. The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If you are NOT the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately with a copy to hipaa.security at yale.edu and destroy this message. From brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com Sun Feb 20 14:48:27 2005 From: brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com (Brandon Cernicky) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:48:27 -0800 Subject: has anyone developed a q-sort for e-prime Message-ID: Although not directly a q-sort, take a look at ArraySort in the E-Basic help. -Brandon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com From paulj at psy.uq.edu.au Mon Feb 21 22:35:43 2005 From: paulj at psy.uq.edu.au (Paul R. Jackson) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:35:43 +1000 Subject: E-Prime site licences In-Reply-To: <20050220144827.56987.qmail@web41722.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: We currently have 6 E-Prime licences and are looking at getting another 5, i.e. total 11, i.e. lots of $$$$ because the existing 6 will need to be upgraded when V2 comes out this year. So as a result we are considering going with a site licence of E-Prime and I'm interested if anybody else on this list has any experience with it. I'm interested in: - how it is implemented - are there any major restrictions etc.. - how much it cost you What I already know is that the price is based on the number of full time faculty and you must have at least 10 to start with, but beyond that it's a little vague! Email me directly or to the list, I would imagine there are lots of departments who MAY be better of with a site license and would also be interested in any posts. As E-Prime grows in popularity and skill base individual licences may become less attractive. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul R. Jackson Experimental Programmer School of Psychology University of Queensland E:paulj at psy.uq.edu.au P:3365-6713 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From pauls_postbus at hotmail.com Sat Feb 26 21:50:28 2005 From: pauls_postbus at hotmail.com (Paul Gr) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:50:28 +0100 Subject: WARNING: Spontaneous LPT output changes when using input lines on XP Message-ID: This message contains a solution for unexpected printer port triggering on PC’s configured with Windows XP. Behavior: In our lab we recently discovered spontaneous state changes off the parallel (LPT) output pins (d0-d7; pins 2-9) on *ALL* our XP machines. This behavior occurred when pulling one or more of the input lines to ground (0 Volt): Acq, pin 10; Busy, pin 11; PE, pin 12; Select, pin 13; Error, pin 15. After a state change only d2 (pin 4) will be active. We often use those lines to connect button boxes for accurate response time measurement, while at the same time the output pins of the same printer port are used to send stimulus codes to acquisition hardware (such as digital EEG recorders.) Cause: Newer XP releases run an autodetect sequence on the parallel port where every 5 seconds for about a minute or so. It seems that this autodetect may be triggered when the parallel port is first accessed. Solution: The problem can be solved by creating a specific key in the registry database: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Parport\Parameters\DisableWarmPoll This registry entry should be of type DWORD and have a value of 1 (0x00000001). WARNING: Editing the registry improperly can cause damage to the operating system. Modifications should only be performed by ‘skilled’ users. The registry entry can be created by running regedit.exe. Note that you should have administrator privileges to be able to do so. Another possibility to add the entry is to create a text file with extension .reg, and run it: Open notepad and enter or copy the following text: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Parport\Parameters] "DisableWarmPoll"=dword:00000001 Then save this file as 'DisableWarmPoll.reg' on your desktop, close notepad and double click the file, accept the modifications and reboot. The file is not required after the modification and can be deleted. More info: http://www.lvr.com/jansfaq.htm Paul Groot Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam The Netherlands _________________________________________________________________ Spreek vrienden en familie met MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/ From logan at wjh.harvard.edu Wed Feb 2 16:58:29 2005 From: logan at wjh.harvard.edu (Logan Hegg) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:58:29 -0500 Subject: E-Prime: Random Stimulus Selection Scripts Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am curious about the possibility of writing script for stimulus selection with certain caveats. I have written a visual forced choice discrimination task in which participants choose based on numerosity between two lateralized pictures. I would like E-Prime to provide random stimulus selection with the criterion that the correct choice will not be either left or right for more than three successive trials. Have you had any success with such scripting? I'm very green in the field of scripting. Thanks!! Best, Logan Hegg From baranan at post.tau.ac.il Sun Feb 6 06:21:18 2005 From: baranan at post.tau.ac.il (yoav Bar-Anan) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 08:21:18 +0200 Subject: sound and windows95 Message-ID: Hi all, I recently had to install an experiment on an old computer, which has window95 OS. It doesn't have access to the internet, or USB removable disks, and it even fail to read rewriteable CDs. I had to install e-prime through our original disk and develop the experiment on the computer. The problem is that I fail to use sound in the experiment. the sound-out object kills the computer - it gets stuck and I have to restart the computer using its on/off switch. E-Prime support advised me to check the sound-driver and make sure it is up-to-date, but the computer's isolation makes it very difficult. I tried to use the "Beep" command - the computer didn't get stuck, but it also didn't make a sound. The computer's windows-media-player can play the "ding.wav" file, which I'm trying to play in e-prime. Does anyone has an idea how I can solve this problem? Thanks, Yoav -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Daniel.Ansari at Dartmouth.EDU Wed Feb 9 15:46:52 2005 From: Daniel.Ansari at Dartmouth.EDU (Daniel Ansari) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:46:52 EST Subject: Executables? Message-ID: Dear all, I have heard that one can use e-prime to generate .exe files of experiments that can then be run on any computer independent of an e-prime installation or dongle. Is this correct? If so, does anybody have experience with this? Is it relatively straightforward? Does one still get the edata aid files to look at the raw data? Thanks very much in advance for any help and advice! Best wishes, Daniel From pauls_postbus at hotmail.com Thu Feb 10 09:03:52 2005 From: pauls_postbus at hotmail.com (Paul Gr) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:03:52 +0100 Subject: Executables? In-Reply-To: <40693828@newprancer.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: hi daniel, Currently, the only way to run eprime scripts is by using the E-Prime runtime (E-Run) to execute the ebs-scripts. Ebs-scripts are automatically created by E-Studio, the development environment. The runtime is in fact a standard BASIC interpreter, with additional functionality that is not present in other BASIC interpreters or compilers. So, at the time of writing it is not possible to compile EPrime scripts into standalone exe-files. You still require the EPrime runtime (available as separate setup, or part of the complete EPrime environment). best, paul >From: Daniel.Ansari at Dartmouth.EDU (Daniel Ansari) >To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org >Subject: Executables? >Date: 09 Feb 2005 10:46:52 EST > >Dear all, > >I have heard that one can use e-prime to generate .exe files of experiments >that can then be run on any computer independent of an e-prime installation >or dongle. Is this correct? If so, does anybody have experience with this? >Is it relatively straightforward? Does one still get the edata aid files to >look at the raw data? > >Thanks very much in advance for any help and advice! >Best wishes, >Daniel > _________________________________________________________________ Nooit ongewenste berichten ontvangen: gebruik MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/ From jeff.larsen at ttu.edu Mon Feb 14 19:32:43 2005 From: jeff.larsen at ttu.edu (Larsen, Jeff) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:32:43 -0600 Subject: Powerpoint Viewer 97 bug Message-ID: Dear Eprime users -- I often have Eprime use Powerpoint Viewer 97 to present AVI videos and it usually works well. On one of my computers, however, I get the following error message as soon as the video starts playing: "Video not available. Cannot find 'vids: MPG4' decompressor. I went to Microsoft and downloaded and installed what I thought was the appropriate decompressor, but no luck. The video plays OK on Windows Media Player, so the problem seems to be specific to PPT Viewer. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Jeff ******************************************************* Jeff T. Larsen, PhD Department of Psychology Texas Tech University Phone: 806-742-3711 x234 Fax: 806-742-0818 Email: jeff.larsen at ttu.edu Webpage: http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/jelarsen ******************************************************* From michael.crowley at yale.edu Wed Feb 16 22:07:04 2005 From: michael.crowley at yale.edu (Michael J. Crowley) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:07:04 -0500 Subject: has anyone developed a q-sort for e-prime Message-ID: Dear List, Does anyone know of a q-sort that has been developed for eprime? thank you. Mike Crowley Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D. Yale Child Study Center 230 South Frontage Rd. New Haven, CT 06520 Please be aware that email communication can be intercepted in transmission or misdirected. Please consider communicating any sensitive information by telephone, fax or mail. The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If you are NOT the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately with a copy to hipaa.security at yale.edu and destroy this message. From brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com Sun Feb 20 14:48:27 2005 From: brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com (Brandon Cernicky) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:48:27 -0800 Subject: has anyone developed a q-sort for e-prime Message-ID: Although not directly a q-sort, take a look at ArraySort in the E-Basic help. -Brandon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com From paulj at psy.uq.edu.au Mon Feb 21 22:35:43 2005 From: paulj at psy.uq.edu.au (Paul R. Jackson) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:35:43 +1000 Subject: E-Prime site licences In-Reply-To: <20050220144827.56987.qmail@web41722.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: We currently have 6 E-Prime licences and are looking at getting another 5, i.e. total 11, i.e. lots of $$$$ because the existing 6 will need to be upgraded when V2 comes out this year. So as a result we are considering going with a site licence of E-Prime and I'm interested if anybody else on this list has any experience with it. I'm interested in: - how it is implemented - are there any major restrictions etc.. - how much it cost you What I already know is that the price is based on the number of full time faculty and you must have at least 10 to start with, but beyond that it's a little vague! Email me directly or to the list, I would imagine there are lots of departments who MAY be better of with a site license and would also be interested in any posts. As E-Prime grows in popularity and skill base individual licences may become less attractive. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul R. Jackson Experimental Programmer School of Psychology University of Queensland E:paulj at psy.uq.edu.au P:3365-6713 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From pauls_postbus at hotmail.com Sat Feb 26 21:50:28 2005 From: pauls_postbus at hotmail.com (Paul Gr) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:50:28 +0100 Subject: WARNING: Spontaneous LPT output changes when using input lines on XP Message-ID: This message contains a solution for unexpected printer port triggering on PC?s configured with Windows XP. Behavior: In our lab we recently discovered spontaneous state changes off the parallel (LPT) output pins (d0-d7; pins 2-9) on *ALL* our XP machines. This behavior occurred when pulling one or more of the input lines to ground (0 Volt): Acq, pin 10; Busy, pin 11; PE, pin 12; Select, pin 13; Error, pin 15. After a state change only d2 (pin 4) will be active. We often use those lines to connect button boxes for accurate response time measurement, while at the same time the output pins of the same printer port are used to send stimulus codes to acquisition hardware (such as digital EEG recorders.) Cause: Newer XP releases run an autodetect sequence on the parallel port where every 5 seconds for about a minute or so. It seems that this autodetect may be triggered when the parallel port is first accessed. Solution: The problem can be solved by creating a specific key in the registry database: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Parport\Parameters\DisableWarmPoll This registry entry should be of type DWORD and have a value of 1 (0x00000001). WARNING: Editing the registry improperly can cause damage to the operating system. Modifications should only be performed by ?skilled? users. The registry entry can be created by running regedit.exe. Note that you should have administrator privileges to be able to do so. Another possibility to add the entry is to create a text file with extension .reg, and run it: Open notepad and enter or copy the following text: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Parport\Parameters] "DisableWarmPoll"=dword:00000001 Then save this file as 'DisableWarmPoll.reg' on your desktop, close notepad and double click the file, accept the modifications and reboot. The file is not required after the modification and can be deleted. More info: http://www.lvr.com/jansfaq.htm Paul Groot Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam The Netherlands _________________________________________________________________ Spreek vrienden en familie met MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/