combining 3 eprime files into 1 file - or a work around???

[David McFarlane]

Anson,

Just so you know, PST Web Support likes to take these sorts of 
questions at http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp 
.  They promise response times of 24-48 hours to all requests, so you 
might do better there than here.  Although in this case I don't think 
that they will give you as full or useful an answer as I would have 
(as I have already addressed this issue in the discussion groups), 
but PST thinks that I am not doing anybody (least of all PST) any 
favors by my activities on the message boards, so I will leave this 
to them.  And if you feel charitable you may then post the answer 
back here for the sake of others.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 10/27/2009 04:54 PM Tuesday, you wrote:

>Hi,
>    I have 3 separate eprime 1.2 files that each have a different
>cognitive task inside of them.  I now want to give participants all 3
>tasks in one session and to have them properly counterbalanced.
>Ideally, I could copy and paste these 3 files together so they could
>all be set up to run at the start (instead of bringing up and running
>a new eprime script for each task).  Doing so would also allow me to
>add a script that would enable the counterbalancing to be easily
>engaged at the very start of the experiment (e.g. the experimenter
>could press "1" for counterbalancing order 1 (e.g. task A -> B -> C),
>"2" for counterbalancing order 2 (e.g. task B -> A -> C), etc.).
>Having the program set up in a such a way would minimize error,
>experimenter-participant interaction, wasted time, and make it more
>simple for my research assistants to run.
>    However, it is not possible to copy and past one eprime 1.2 file
>into another one.  So one highly time consuming option is to slowly
>remake 2 of the tasks inside the eprime file of the 3rd task.  Then
>they will all be in the same file and it would be easy to write a
>counterbalancing script.
>    Is there an easier way around this that does not involve my
>research assistants having to pull up each eprime file separately?
>     Can you make a master eprime file that calls up (or loads) other
>eprime files at different junctures?  In other words, the main eprime
>script would call up the eprime file for task A at time 1, then the
>eprime file for task B at time 2, etc.
>    Or any other work-around ideas?
>    Thanks for any help!!
>Best, Anson Whitmer


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