(Not) Understanding edat time variable(s)

[Jason Craggs]

David,

Yes, I've apparently waded into a quagmire, one successfully avoided for
years... While I am grateful for your response, learning that you've never
come across such a variable given your experiences with IFIS is not great
news. That said however, you wouldn't happen to have a copy of that
"documentation" that you'd be willing to "share" would you?

Cheers,
Jason



On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:

> Jason,
>
> Ah, IFIS!  You didn't say that at the start, in that case all bets are off!
>  We used IFIS for many years and finally abondoned it a few years back for
> our own custom setup, what a relief!  I can't believe anyone still uses that
> outmoded system.  IFIS is a mess, it forces a draconian task structure using
> several PackageCalls, it adds all sorts of attributes and overrides your
> E-Prime settings with settings that it hides in several Lists in
> Unreferenced E-Objects without explanation, and generally completely
> violates the well-designed task representation already provided by the
> designers of E-Prime.  And it requires two computers for no good reason, and
> requires leaving a wide open network share, what an invitation for hackers!
>  And the documentation is even worse than that for E-Prime, I had to work
> out all the principles and "gotchas" myself and distilled it down to a
> three-page writeup that explained more than their entire sorry excuse for a
> manual.  Don't get me started!  I feel sorry for you.
>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
>
>
> At 9/3/2010 12:42 PM Friday, you wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response and "unfortunate" information about the
>> variables. As this paradigm will be used for fMRI research, perhaps
>> these are variables declared by IFIS. Regardless, more legwork is
>> needed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 3, 11:46 am, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>> > Jason,
>> >
>> > I have a *lot* of experience with EP and .edat files, and I do not
>> > recognize these as standard attributes that would be added
>> > automatically.  Therefore, they must have been added by whoever made
>> > your specific EP program, and you have to ask that person.  No one
>> > here will be able to help you, sorry.
>> >
>> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>> >
>> > >In my edat file there are several time related variables with values
>> > >that vex me. For example, the variable 'RunTime' = 14:45:07, which I
>> > >understand. However the variable 'RunStartTime' = 162726 completely
>> > >vexes me. Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > >Best regards,
>> > >Jason
>>
>
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