E-Prime 2.0 Data Features

[Leisha Wharfield]

I see. I think my problem is that I was trying to find the one key place 
in which to check the state.

Thanks for the tip.

Leisha

Ben Robinson wrote:

> yes, you just need to liberally lace your script with statements 
> checking up on the status of the "user break state".  the more places 
> in your script where you double-check the user break state, the more 
> places, and the more readily, your script will know how to terminate 
> early in the event it detects a change in the user break state.
>  
> ben robinson
> research asst.
>
> >>> Leisha Wharfield <leisha at decisionresearch.org> 6/29/2005 2:53 PM >>>
> I was never able to get the graceful abort to work, unfortunately. Has 
> anyone done it?
>
> Leisha
>
> Amy Eschman wrote:
>
>> The E-Recovery text file is used for recovering as much data as 
>> possible when the experiment ends prior to conversion to EDAT format 
>> (an error occurs, or the user presses Ctrl+Alt+Shift).  If you want 
>> the ability to end an experiment early, you can add a small piece of 
>> InLine script called a "graceful abort" that will allow you to 
>> terminate an experiment after a trial or block without losing the 
>> data file.  The graceful abort script checks the value of 
>> GetUserBreakState to see if a special key sequence has been pressed.  
>> A description of the graceful abort can be found in Section 2.8.2 of 
>> the E-Prime User's Guide.
>>
>> Amy Eschman
>>
>> Psychology Software Tools
>>
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>>
>> From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Jordan Bigio
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:22 AM
>> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
>> Subject: Re: E-Prime 2.0 Data Features
>>
>> I agree with Ben. I don't use the text files much, but if we had to 
>> quit an experiment, a usable edat file would be great.
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>> At 09:52 AM 6/29/2005 -0400, Ben Robinson wrote:
>>
>> it seems like the formatting of the text file data file could be 
>> improved dramatically in future versions of eprime.
>> if for any reason a program quits before having a chance to make a 
>> .edat file, it would be nice to have a more useable trial-by-trial 
>> recording of what went on.  something that, in a pinch, could be 
>> opened in excel and understood.
>>  
>> ben robinson
>> research asst.
>>  
>>  
>>
>>
>>>>> Brandon Cernicky <brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com> 6/28/2005 10:06 PM >>>
>> The last couple weeks had a number of threads in
>> relation to data handling in E-Prime.  The recent
>> E-Prime 2.0 Feature Survey placed its emphasis on many
>> of the design and implementation features and did not
>> focus on any data handling improvements for E-Merge
>> and E-DataAid.
>>
>> Please feel free to discuss any items you would like
>> to see for E-Prime 2.0 in regards to E-Merge and
>> E-DataAid.
>>
>> Improvements to export in general?
>> Improvements to export to Excel?
>> Improvements to export to SPSS?
>> Improvements to export to XML?
>>
>> PST is certainly not going to try to reinvent the
>> stats wheel and understand there are many stats
>> packages available and exporting to them is intended.
>> Are there any areas where E-Merge or E-DataAid could
>> be improved to make it so that bouncing in-between
>> packages would be reduced?
>>
>>
>> -Brandon
>>
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>> Psychology Software Tools
>>
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