using canvas for presenting stimuli

[Tony Zuccolotto]

Svetlana,

Try using the Canvas.SaveImage call to save the contents of a canvas as
a bmp file after it is drawn.   This will work with both offscreen
canvases as well as the primary display canvas.  You can then do all of
your drawing and saving at the beginning of the session/block/trial and
then load the image up later in your paradigm.

Regards,
Tony

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svetlana V Gromenkova [mailto:svg211 at nyu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:40 PM
> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: using canvas for presenting stimuli
> 
> 
> Hello,
> Does anybody know if it's possible to present stimuli via an Image or 
> Slide display which would use a canvas object defined in an Inline 
> script?
> The problem is that I have a lot of different stimuli with random 
> shapes, colors and locations on the screen. They are easily 
> created by 
> writing E-basic script, but then I'd like to present the 
> created canvas 
> using a standard Image or Slide object, because it's much easier for 
> timing, data collection, etc.
> It seems though that I have to use files only as images with these 
> objects. Does anybody know a way to avoid this and use a canvas?
> Thanks.
> Svetlana.    
> 
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