Assigning text to a specific text box.

[Leisha Wharfield]

Seems like it would be easier to place the text at one of 50 specific
locations on the video screen without creating text boxes, but by
specifying the percentage position on the screen. 50% vertical, 50%
horizontal, for example. You would have just two variables, an x and a y
location that could easily be changed incrementally by changing the
values of a pair of numeric strings.

I've done something similar to this with clickable response scales, but
I'm sure there are other people on the mailing list who can explain the
details better than me.

Leisha

Eddie Dubourg wrote:

>A student is designing an experiment which needs to display randomly
>selected text strings at specific positions on a screen - to be precise to a
>10x5 grid of positions, incrementing the position by one each time.
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>My idea for this is to setup a slide with 50 text boxes, each with a
>uniquely chosen name (1-50 or similar), and then to have a simple increment
>on a variable each time the procedure is run to assign the number - what I
>need is a script fragment to get the text string (attribute name textstr) to
>display in the assigned text box.
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>Is this trivial, or am I opening a can of worms trying to do it this way?
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>Eddie Dubourg
>Computing Officer
>Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
>PPLS, University of Edinburgh
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