Help diagnosing "drawing error"

[Paul Jackson]

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 Paul R. Jackson
 
 Experimental Programmer
 School of Psychology
 University of Queensland
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of MSpape
> Sent: Monday, 7 January 2008 10:14 PM
> To: E-Prime
> Subject: Re: Help diagnosing "drawing error"
> 
> 
> Dear Sarah,
> 
> This error comes up whenever some other programme causes E-Prime's
> drawing to be put in the background, or something. Here's a few common
> reasons:
> 1. The participant presses the start (or "windows") key on a PC
> keyboard. This causes the start menu to pop in the foreground, and E-
> Prime crashes - always. It is an easy error to make for any
> participant, and though I tried a few programmes, the cleanest way is
> to use a screw to flip the button out!
> 2. Some messages cause "balloons" or other pop-ups that may take over
> E-Prime's screen, this may also cause seemingly randomly occurring
> drawing errors.
> 3. Virusupdates, even if the virus scan itself is shut down, may also
> cause this. Both for this and 2), check Windows system log to see what
> happened when E-Prime crashed.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> And hi all, I'm back, just migrated from the old E-Prime list.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michiel M. Spapé
> 
> 
> 
> On 9 dec 2007, 22:39, Sarah Johnson <skjohn... at moravian.edu> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for anyone who has had a problem with a drawing error
> that
> > causes E-Prime to quit mid-task, specifically drawing error
> #11011.  I
> > am looking for help in diagnosing the problem.  Near as I can tell
> > from other sources, this error is only relevant to tasks with video
> > stimuli, and there are none in my task.  Anyone run across this same
> > error before?
> >
> > Best,
> > Sarah
> > 
> 
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