add textdisplay to slide

[Anne-Wil]

Hi Tobias,

With respect to the code that you presented now: to me it seems to define a 
textobject (= stand alone textbox), rather than a text-subobject to be 
placed within a slide-object. In order to define a textbox within a slide, 
I think that you need some code along the lines of: 
CSlideText(Slide1.States(Slide1.ActiveState).Objects("Text1")) to replace 
the textACC that you use now -> 
CSlideText(SLIDENAME.States(SLIDENAME.ActiveState).Objects("TEXTBOXNAME")).X 
= 50%  etc. 

However: although I could imagine that it might be doable using a do-while 
construction, in my experience it is always way more easy to either use two 
separate consecutive slideobjects that are identical except the feature 
that you 'd like to change (i.e. the first without the textbox that is then 
replaced by a separate slideobject wíth the textbox -> the effect would be 
the same as having a textbox appear). Or, if you need more than a single 
change to happen (or a conditional change that you don't want to organise 
through slidestates on the second slide), you could opt for having a 
slideobject being terminated, than in an inline have it's properties 
changed and with a "goto label" construction go back on the procedure to 
before the slideobject and have the slideobject shown AGAIN (i.e. also in 
this case the slide is not technically altered while being shown, but 
altered and then shown again). 

I believe that 'an E-primer' (by Michiel Spape) contains some info on these 
types of set-ups ( step.psy.cmu.edu/materials/*EPrimer*.pdf ) and there are 
also examples around within this group, although perhaps not the exact same 
thing as you search for (see for instance the fading slides thread: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/e-prime/rY2vTRap_4Q )


Best,

AW



On Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:07:32 UTC+2, Tobias wrote:
>
> To make this more clear: I want to add a slidetext on the already existing 
> slide.
>
>
> Am Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012 15:45:56 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to run a slide called "SearchSlide".
>> Within a trial, I want to add a textdisplay.
>>
>> I tried:
>>
>> set SearchContext
>> set textACC = New TextDisplay
>>
>> textACC.X = "50%"
>> textACC.Y = "2%"
>> textACC.Width = "34%"
>> textACC.Height = "3%"
>> textACC.FontSize = "16"
>> textACC.FontName = "Arial"
>> textACC.backcolor = "128,128,128"
>> textACC.text = "correct"
>>
>> however the "set" command needs an "=". How can I refer to an already 
>> existing slide?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tobias
>>
>

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