Text files

[leisha]

That's the beauty of slides in E-Prime, Dr. Pettibone. You can leave
your response scale on the screen, say in the bottom 40% of the screen,
devoting the top 60% to your stimuli. Just set the size of the stimulus
slide to 60% height and vertically align it at the top of the screen.
Make sure the slide with the rating scale on it is not set to clear
after, and it will stay where it is throughout the procedure, while the
stimulus changes above it.

I used to draw a slide or graphic display with my response scale on it,
then copy it so it would always be identical and not shift on the
screen, which I agree with you is shabby and distracting, but even then
the image could seem to flash as it was redrawn repeatedly. Finally I
worked out how to replace just what I need using slides. I learned when
to clear the screen & when not to so that subjects would see exactly
what the researcher wants them to see.

Regarding precise placement of elements on the screen, I've found it's
best to use percentages rather than fixed points, because those fixed
points will vary from monitor to monitor.

Leisha Wharfield
Production Coordinator
Decision Research
Eugene, Oregon, USA
leisha at decisionresearch.org
www.decisionresearch.org

Jonathan Pettibone wrote:

>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
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>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
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>Hello Richard,
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>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.
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>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.
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>With this method you can also create stimuli in foreign languages with
>non-standard fonts or right to left writing.
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>In our lab we also use this method to create formatted instruction
>screens with individual words in bold, italics, underlining or in
>different colors.
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>
>Best regards,
> Georg
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