Combing two different tasks into one program

[David McFarlane]

Having someone with a "programming background" look at it is a good 
start, they should at least now grasp elementary programming concepts 
that will help them understand the issues involved.  Now they need to 
train themselves in the specifics of E-Prime, or perhaps more 
generally in Microsoft Visual Basic, upon which EP is based.  Better 
if you were to become that person yourself.  I think most of your 
problem comes from just lacking sufficient training in general, which 
then interferes with the insight you will need to make any use of 
advice here -- in short, like all too many EP users, you are trying 
to learn to run before you can walk.

Regards,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>I had someone with a programming background look at my program and
>were uncertain how to fix it as well. Is copying over a procedure a
>bad way to add another task in? Would creating both programs from
>scratch avoid some script compile problems?
>
>On Sep 2, 8:37 pm, dkmcf <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> > You need to sign up for a course in Introduction to Computer
> > Programming.
> >
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
> >
> > On Sep 2, 6:41 pm, cogneuroisfun <neuropsyc... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you for the reply. I did follow your advice and I understand how
> > > the nested list works. (i forgot i could do that for tasks) however, i
> > > keep on getting error messages about my inline script for one of my
> > > tasks. i keep on getting error messages about my script saying it
> > > cannot find certain things. however, everything for the task is
> > > there.
> >
> > > does in line script often have problems when copying a procedure into
> > > another e-prime program?
> >
> > > i cannot figure out how to stop getting error messages because it
> > > appears as everything should be there and working
> > > On Aug 9, 4:54 am, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > hmmz how about....
> >
> > > > make a 'masterlist' with two levels. Into level 1 nest the 'main list'
> > > > for task A, into level 2 nest the main list for task B, set both main
> > > > lists to exit after 1 trial. Tell the master list to repeat (in fixed
> > > > order) as many times as your total number of trials.
> >
> > > > I think something like that should do the trick :)
> >
> > > > best,
> >
> > > > liw
> >
> > > > On Aug 8, 5:09 pm, cogneuroisfun <neuropsyc... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Okay, so for my experiment, I have condition 1 (task A trials), and
> > > > > condition 2 with task A alternating with task B. So, it would be like
> > > > > one trial of A, one trial of B, one trial of A, one trial of B ect.
> > > > > Both task A and B work great by themselves but I'm unsure how to make
> > > > > them alternate without butchering either task. Is there any option
> > > > > where I could only have the tasks alternate on a trial by 
> trial basis?
> > > > > Right now I just can have task A do 50 trials and then task B do 50.
> > > > > I've been trying to play around with having new procedure making the
> > > > > tasks alternate but I don't know how to only have each task do one
> > > > > trial at a time.
> >
> > > > > Hopefully that made some sense, any help or guidance is greatly
> > > > > appreciated!
> >
> > > > > Thanks!

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