How to set inputs to remain visible at all times

[Mariana Silva]

Hi,

Thank you for your e-mail.
I had done what you said and had no success. Both display properties are
set to transparent in the SlideObject and the Echo Display Properties. The
program removes all echoes to the display every time a response is
collected. That is part of the script built internally by E-prime which I
can't change.
I think the "old" inputs disappear every time a response is collected
because in the script there is a statement which says something like
EchoClients.RemoveAll. This part of the script is not editable (?) because
it's generated internally by the software.
If you have any ideas on how to counteract on this command, please let me know.

Thanks again for your reply.

Best,

Mariana



At 18:46 27/03/03 +0100, you wrote:
>At 17:17 25/03/03 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have an experiment where participants need to fill in some grid spaces
>>with numbers. When they want to go to the next grid square they press
>>SPACE. Since the program is collecting every response, the previous
>>number disappears when they go to the next box. It is important in this
>>experiment that the "old" inputs remain visible. Does anyone know how to
>>make sure that the previous inputs (which are echoed to the display one
>>at the time) can "stay" in the screen until the end of the session?
>
>It depends on how you are implementing response collection but, in
>principle, one way would be to set the backstyle property of the different
>objects to "transparent". Depending on the layout of the grid, you would
>also have to set that property in the device object within the echo page
>of the advanced input properties, where you indicated (??) where the echo
>characters should appear.
>

Mariana Matos da Silva
School of Human Sciences
Department of Psychology
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH
UK

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