Defining the location of dialog box

[ben robinson]

why not try using david's suggestion of echoing participants keyboard
responses to screen?  set up a slide object with two subobjects - one
subobject displays your image, the other subobject displays
participants' text by echoing the keyboard responses.  on that text
subobject have two keyboard input masks enabled - with one input mask
allow all button presses and 255 characters with an end action of
None, and with the other keyboard only allow, say, {ENTER} with an end
action set to Terminate.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:10 AM, gilis <giladsabo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you both, I've tried Michiel solution but regardless the values
> I used (from 20, 30 to 2000,5000) the ask box remained in the same
> position in the display. I would be happy to hear your advise on how
> to solve this issue.
>
> On Sep 26, 8:40 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>> Gilis,
>>
>> Michiel already answered the question as
>> posed.  I would add that you could accomplish
>> much the same end by using an input mask with an
>> increased Max Count and adding an Echo Client,
>> which could provide a more seamless look, but
>> admittedly that does take rather more finesse than a simple InputBox.
>>
>> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>>
>> At 9/26/2011 09:57 AM Monday, Michiel Spape wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> >Hi Gilis,
>> >Interesting question, but it seems like it's already answered in the helpfile:
>> >InputBox[$](prompt [, [title] [, [default]
>> >[,[xpos],[ypos] [,helpfile,context]]]])
>> >So:
>> >Dim a as string
>> >a = inputbox("what is a", "myTitle", "null", 2000, 5000)
>>
>> >...Will display an inputbox at x,y = 2000,5000.
>> >Careful, x/y is defined in twips. Twips?
>> >Twentieths of a point. Learn something new every day!
>> >Best,
>>
>> >Michiel Spapé
>> >Research Fellow
>> >Perception & Action group
>> >University of Nottingham
>> >School of Psychology
>> >www.cognitology.eu
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: e-prime at googlegroups.com
>> >[mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of gilis
>> >Sent: 26 September 2011 14:44
>> >To: E-Prime
>> >Subject: Defining the location of dialog box
>>
>> >Dear all,
>>
>> >In my experiment people are asked to insert text through a dialog box
>> >(askbox)-the issue is that they have to enter the text while the image
>> >stimuli are still visible so it appear that the askbox always covert
>> >part of the stimulus that should be seen. My question is how can I
>> >define the location of the dialog box in the display.
>>
>> >Many thanks
>> >Gilis
>
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