Text files

[Jonathan Pettibone]

Would this method allow for precise text placement on a slide? I've done
similar experiments, painstakingly placing text boxes on each screen, and I
find that even if I type in the placements, they never, never are exactly
the same from slide to slide.  When you show a rating scale on repeated
slides, and it moves slightly from slide to slide, it looks shabby and is
distracting.

  Thanks

    Jonathan Pettibone

Jonathan Pettibone
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL 62026

-----Original Message-----
From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org]On
Behalf Of Georg Odenthal
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:43 AM
To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
Subject: Re: Text files


Hello Richard,

As far as I know E-Prime isn't able to import text files and display
them. The only option you have is what Leisha Wharfield had suggested:
Create individual bitmaps for each screen.

To do that open your Word or other text document and open Paint (Start
-> Program Files -> Accessories -> Paint). Select Full Screen in Word
(View -> Full Screen). Then press the keys ALT and PRINT SCREEN at the
same time. Go to paint and select Edit -> Paste (or press CTRL + V).
You will get an exact copy of the whole screen. Now you only have to
remove the borders of the image and the "Close Full Screen" button,
that Word always displays. Save the image as BMP.
Then you can use these text screens as Image Displays or Slides in
E-Prime.

With this method you can also create stimuli in foreign languages with
non-standard fonts or right to left writing.

In our lab we also use this method to create formatted instruction
screens with individual words in bold, italics, underlining or in
different colors.


Best regards,
 Georg


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Georg Odenthal (Dipl.-Psych.)             University of Konstanz
+49 (0)7531 88-2872                       Department of Psychology
odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de  Social Psychology and Motivation
http://www.socpsych.uni-konstanz.de       78457 Konstanz, Germany

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