Opening an external link from E-Prime

[David McFarlane]

Tracy,

Two further thoughts:

1) The Shell() function and AppActivate and WinActivate statements, 
along with the DeviceManager.Suspend method, as documented in the 
E-Basic Help facility.

2) AutoIt (http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit ).

But as Eric said, this may not work, and even if it does may be more 
trouble that it's worth.

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At 1/29/2014 06:05 PM Wednesday, Eric Dixon wrote:
>Hi Tracy,
>
>I'm sort of a novice as far as e prime is concerned so I would take 
>the advise of others over mine. Anyway, I don't think that e prime 
>will allow you to reliably open a web browser or other applications 
>while e prime is running. It tends to take over the CPU while in use.
>
>I'm not exactly sure what data you are looking to collect but if its 
>just questionnaire data and you absolutely need to run it in e prime 
>then you could always just type out the questions into Text Displays 
>and have them respond accordingly.
>
>*Note: This would be very time consuming so I would consider whether 
>or not you need e prime for this task. Maybe just have them run 
>through your experiment and then open the link manually.
>
>I hope this was some help.
>
>Cheers,
>Eric
>
>On Thursday, January 23, 2014 1:41:47 AM UTC-8, Tracy Cheung wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I would be really happy to hear solutions or suggestions to a 
>problem that I am experiencing.
>
>The experiment that I am running consists of two parts.  The first 
>is a Stroop Test (which I have already programmed with E-prime) and 
>the second is something that needs to be run on Open Sesame or on a 
>survey link on the Internet.
>
>I was wondering if it would be possible to insert some sort of link 
>in E-prime, so when participants link on it, it will open and start 
>running an external program (either it is Open Sesame or a link on 
>the internet).
>
>It would be great to hear your responses.  Thanks!
>
>Cheers,
>Tracy

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