Eprime Version 2.0

[Paul R. Jackson]

If the only thing that changes in version 2.0 is the documentation it will
be worth the upgrade. E-Prime has the most appalling documentation of any
commercial software on the planet. There is so much functionality in E-Prime
that is undocumented or at best only alluded to in the documentation. It
really is ridiculous. This results in very poorly designed experiment
because often the experiment will be taking advantage of a hidden
feature/quirk/bug which because it is not understood will result in
problems.

Another big feature will be the ability to "Digital recording of subject
vocalizations". I have people needing this feature on a regular basis.

> including copy and paste between experiments.

Yes copy and paste will be good. It was nice of the developers to put
copy/cut/paste on the right click context menu within E-Prime 1, but it
would have been better if it wasn't always F***ING greyed out!!

Interestingly as someone on this list pointed out previously, you can copy
and paste some objects between experiments now. Its just very convoluted:
	Step 1: Open windows explorer in a directory where you can see 2
experiments (*.es).
	Step 2: Hold down the CTRL key to select both experiments.
	Step 3: Right Click on one of them and select open.
	Step 4: You should now have 2 E-Prime windows, one for each
experiment. Select an object to copy (eg: open a procedure and select a text
display)
	Step 5: Drag the object down to the windows taskbar and onto the
'other' experiment. This should open maximise that experiment after a second
or so delay.
	Step 6: Continue to drag the object to a procedure in the new
experiment.
	Step 7: ...and there was much rejoicing.

:)

Paul

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 Paul R. Jackson
 Experimental Programmer

 School of Psychology
 University of Queensland
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2005 7:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Eprime Version 2.0
>
> Jacob,
>
>     For most of the year, the website has said that 2.0 is
> due in Summer 2005.  The fact that this has not been pushed
> back should be a positive sign.  Of course, this is still the
> Spring and the Summer runs until Sept 22, right?  My guess is
> that the two biggest things in the new release will be the
> support for movies and Unicode.  However, many of the other
> features listed at the website will be important too,
> including copy and paste between experiments.
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Jacob Anderson wrote:
>
> > Has anyone heard when the release of E-Prime 2.0 will be?
> I know that
> > PTS has a basic list of updates/improvements, but it would
> be nice to
> > know what's going on in the new release.  My lab is
> interested in many
> > of the newer features, but we are not looking forward to
> debugging our
> > current scripts in version, if it does break our inline code.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jake
> > Jacob E. Anderson
> > Psychophysiologist
> > Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research University of
> Minnesota
> > 460N   75 East River Road
> > Minneapolis, MN 55455
> > 612-626-7790
> >
> > "I have no lid upon my head, but if I did you could look inside and
> > see what's on my mind"  Dave Matthews
> >
>