Text files

[Jordan Bigio]

Oh, it's painstaking alright. Otherwise though, the only way I could see to
do it is to make a different 'proc' for each trial. If you have text
associated with an object, it will repeatedly display that text. The only
way I know to call text from a list of different words or symbols is to
have .bmp files. It took me a LONG time to get mine right. It's a pain!

Jordan

At 10:20 AM 2/11/2004 -0600, 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
>
>-----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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