opening external programs

[ric hod]

Sorry if I ask so simple questions

but eprime has been introduced recently to me:

What is the function of these statements in the

E-Studio:

1. MirrorLeftRight
2. MirrorUpDown
?

--- Tony Zuccolotto <anthony.zuccolotto at pstnet.com>
wrote:
> Ruud,
>
> The core of the E-Prime Runtime Engine continues to
> execute while
> devices are suspended.   Generically you can do
> things like monitor the
> clock, monitor the file system, or make a subset of
> API calls to the
> Windows OS while devices are suspended.  The main
> things you can do or
> use to solve this problem are tasks which required
> I/O from the devices
> (e.g. no video, no realtime keyboard or mouse input,
> etc.)
>
> If the Authorware app will run for a fixed amount of
> time then you could
> just sit in a loop calling Clock.Read until the
> appropriate amount of
> time elapses.
>
> Another fairly easy solution might be to have your
> Authorware app create
> some file on disk when it is done running.  Your
> E-Prime script could
> then sit in a loop that calls Sleep for some period
> time and then checks
> for the file to exist on disk.  When it does, it
> deletes the file and
> then resumes devices.
>
> For a more advanced solution (i.e. that may require
> the help of a
> Windows programmer for more information) may be to
> use the FindWindow()
> Win32 API function to periodically poll to see if
> the Authorware window
> is still open.  If you can easily determine the
> window class name and
> the titlebar text of the Authorware app then this
> may be the way to go.
> Note that I have never tried to implement this
> solution myself so I just
> guessing that it would work.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Tony
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Custers, Ruud [mailto:R.Custers at fss.uu.nl]
> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 8:42 AM
> > To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> > Subject: opening external programs
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I learned that it is possible to suspend e-prime
> with the "
> > Rte.DeviceManager.Suspend " command. What I would
> like to do is
> suspend
> > e-prime to run a .exe file created in authorware.
> This file
> automatically
> > closes when it's done. After this, e-prime should
> become active again
> to
> > finish the experiment. Does anyone know how to
> write this in code?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Ruud.
>
>


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