how to measure the duration of a key press\ the time of it's release

[Ziv Ronel]

this sounds great, only.. how do I tell E-prime to collect releases? 
(haven't seen such a thing in the logging or the general options)

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:27:08 AM UTC+3, Ziv Ronel wrote:
>
> hello E-prime hive brain, 
>
> I know it's probably dead simple but iv'e been at it for a week now.
>
> i'm doing a study in which random pauses are introduced, in a frustrating 
> matter, and the participants should press keys randomly in an attempt to 
> make the program work. 
>
> i need to measure how many frustrated keypresses there were, at what rate, 
> and for how long each key was down (to measure these long angered key 
> presses). 
>
> I managed to create the first two, but haven't been able to measure 
> duration. 
> the only thing that came even close was this piece of code that I wrote:
>
>         Dim theResponseObject As RteRunnableInputObject
> Set theResponseObject = CRteRunnableInputObject(Rte.GetObject("Wait1"))
>
>         Debug.Assert Not theResponseObject Is Nothing
>
> Dim KeyReleaseTime As Long
> If ebStatePress = 0 Then
> KeyReleaseTime =  Clock.ReadMillisec
> End If
>
>         c.SetAttrib "KeyPress" & nIndex & "Release", KeyReleaseTime
>
>
> (there is also a loop in there designed to redo that for every key press 
> made in "wait1", but i've left it out)
>
>
> HELP!
>
>

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