Passing/Evaluating Strings as Executable Code

[Jacob Anderson]

 Dear Group,
I'm trying to streamline some of my inline code in a Touch Screen task. Is
it possible to pass string values as execuatable pieces of code in E-Basic?
I can do this in MATLAB (I think) and R using and eval() function, but is
there an analogue in E-Basic?

I've tried the following 'for' loop to assign an object border width using
the string returned from the HitTest function (Objects are named "R0"
through "R7"). I can compile the script fine, but it won't actually change
the attribute value for some reason. Perhaps I just need a second set of
eyes to point something out.  Any suggestions would be welcomed! Thanks,
Jake

Set MouseResp = CMouseResponseData(Question.InputMasks.Responses(1))
 Hit = theState.HitTest(MouseResp.CursorX, MouseResp.CursorY)
 Dim i as Integer
 Dim theBorder As String
 For i = 0 To 7
    theBorder = Hit & "BW"
    If i = CInt(Mid(Hit,2,1)) Then
      c.SetAttrib theBorder,"5"
    Else
      c.SetAttrib theBorder,"0"
    End If
 Next


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Jacob E. Anderson, MA
Scientist @ The Zelazo Lab
Institute of Child Development
51 East River Rd.
Minneapolis, MN  55455

E-mail: jea at umn.edu
Cell:    763-458-7152

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