Running one E-Run File directly after another?

[Liza Mccarron]

Liwenna,

I'm running Frank's original.  

That is a good point about the script being better suited to complex tasks and I think it is overkill for what I am trying to do here.  I agree to some extent with what you say about merging the files and deleting the attributes but in this case the student really is having enough difficulty with processing the main data file so I really want to keep things as simple as possible with the 2nd part! She is quite happy to run the two files separately - in fact was expecting to do so - it's just my desire to make things seamless and tidy that is driving this!  But thanks for the input - as to your 'sticking my nose in matters that are not mine note' that's more than welcome (and one of the great things about this group) as it gives me another way of looking at things and some valuable inout from someone with a great deal more experience!

Many Thanks

Liza

-----Original Message-----
From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of liwenna
Sent: 15 January 2010 10:49
To: E-Prime
Subject: Re: Running one E-Run File directly after another?

Hi Liza,

I don't know which version of the autoit script you're running now (the original version by Frank, or the modified one that autofills the subject session number)? In the last version it might help to extend the 'sleep' periods in the script somewhat. I found that sometimes the sleep periods are too short and the autoit script runs more fast than the computer does and this way the next erun file doesn't start.

If you use the modified version also make sure that the subjects are properly instructed to not touch anything when the script is opening and autofilling the next task.

And on a 'sticking my nose in matters that are not mine note': why not have your student simply delete all the attributes that belong to one task when analysing the other and vice versa?  The autoit script is, unfortunately, far from perfect and unless you want to merge like 4 or more complex tasks, I wouldn't prefer to use it over "simply" merging tasks and deleting attributes.

Best,

liwenna

On Jan 15, 11:37 am, LizaM <liza.mccar... at uwe.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thanks David - have downloaded that and been playing with it this 
> morning currently using Frank Bosco's very useful call ebs script 
> (thanks Frank!) - one of the files runs fine through Autoit, the other 
> file will sometimes load and sometimes not - not sure why so while I 
> will investigate that for the future I think I might just get the 
> student to start the second file manually for the time being as 
> workload is such that I don't think I will have a chance to learn 
> AutoIt to it's full capacity in the next few weeks!
>
> Cheers
>
> Liza
>
> On Jan 14, 4:50 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Liza,
>
> > This has been discussed before on the Group or the Forum, but it is 
> > not obvious how to search for those threads.  Here is a hint:  
> > Search using the term "autoit".
>
> > Regards,
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> > LizaM wrote:
> > > Hello,
>
> > > I have a student who needs to run 2 EPrime files directly after 
> > > each other - the reason they can't be amalgomated into one file is 
> > > because the data file from file 1 is pretty complex and data file 
> > > 2 is pretty simple - as she has quite a job on her hands to make 
> > > sense of file 1 I want to keep tings as simple as possible by 
> > > having the second set of data in a different file.. However, I 
> > > would like file 1 to follow seamlessly from file 2 - is there a 
> > > way of doing this in EPrime?  If not, what would people suggest as a way to do this?
>
> > > Many Thanks
>
> > > Liza- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -


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