Stop Movie troubles

[David McFarlane]

Roberto,

Oops that's embarrassing, in my haste I overlooked your link, 
sorry.  But then, I would not have gotten a followup with your 
runtime error message, which I think is diagnostic.

Hmm, one way to get that runtime error is just to fail to initialize 
some object variable.  E.g., the code

     Dim Text1 as TextDisplay
     Text1.Text = "Hello"

will produce that run-time error, but the code

     Dim Text1 as TextDisplay
     Set Text1 = New TextDisplay
     Text1.Text = "Hello"

or

     Dim Text1 as TextDisplay
     Set Text1 = StimText  ' assuming StimText already exists
     Text1.Text = "Hello"

will work.

I suspect that your error has nothing to do with using 
MovieDisplay.Stop (or whatever) per se, but has to do with more 
general rules of E-Basic/VBA usage.

BTW, this is also the sort of thing that PST Web Support is very good for.

Hmm, after I wrote all that, I put 'e-prime "object variable or With 
block variable not set"', and came up with 
http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=4782 , which tells how 
EP2 has an improved error message for this situation, and shows 
another example of this problem.  (And now that I have written this 
up, I will add a link to this thread to my personal FAQ for the next 
time this comes up :) .)

Hope that helps,
-- David McFarlane


At 12/6/2012 06:04 PM Thursday, you wrote:
>Hi David,
>Thanks for the reply.  That's actually the same thread i had 
>referenced in my previous message.  As from the suggestions in that 
>post, using Movie1.Stop (or something along those lines) stops the 
>video but shuts the trial down with an error message: "object 
>variable or With block variable not set". Any ideas where i'm going 
>wrong?  Ive been struggling with this for a while, either way i will 
>post back with anything i find anything...
>
>Roberto
>
>
>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:35 PM, David McFarlane 
><<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
>Roberto,
>
>Glad that you have found the Group helpful.  For this one, I typed 
>"e-prime moviedisplay stop" into Google for you, and came up with 
>the following thread which should 
>help: 
><https://groups.google.com/d/topic/e-prime/XYEHpARxY0g>https://groups.google.com/d/topic/e-prime/XYEHpARxY0g 
>.
>
>-----
>David McFarlane
>E-Prime training 
>online: 
><http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx>http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx
>Twitter:  @EPrimeMaster 
>(<https://twitter.com/EPrimeMaster>https://twitter.com/EPrimeMaster)
>
>
>
>At 12/5/2012 11:00 PM Wednesday, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>This message board has helped me a lot!  I was hoping someone would 
>be able to help me with a problem I have not yet been able to solve.
>
>Im setting up an experiment that has this structure:
>1. Intro screens (obviously)
>2. Slide with sub objects: text and SoundOut
>3. Slide with sub objects: MovieDisplay and SoundOut (i.e. movie and 
>question presented simultaneously)
>4. SoundOut object on its own (i.e. a beep) with recorded response 
>(i.e. press 1 or 2).
>5. Text slide with response (1 to 6).
>
>I am running into trouble in step 3.  I would ultimately love for 
>the movie to keep playing until a response is made after the beep 
>(in step 4).  This way a subject can see the video (plus hear some 
>audio) and then make a response after a beep noise to which it would 
>cause the stopping of the video.  Thus, i have set the MovieDisplay 
>with the settings as End Movie Action: "Terminate" and Stop Movie 
>after: "No" so it can keep playing.  However, when i do this the 
>movie continues playing until its end, even after making a response 
>after the auditory beep.  I have tried to insert in-line code after 
>the beep (i.e. Movie1.Stop) as this fellow poster did: 
><https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/e-prime/XYEHpARxY0g/R0isrcBcBhQJ>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/e-prime/XYEHpARxY0g/R0isrcBcBhQJ 
>, but this just closes down the entire program.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?  Is there any way i can tell 
>eprime to end the movie (or the slide itself) after a response to 
>the beep (in step 4) is made? I am not very proficient with code, 
>although i have tried many shenanigans to get around this!
>
>Thank you for any help or advice!
>Roberto

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