A couple of questions -reading the instructions really helps

[Leisha Wharfield]

Mr. Dubourg, I am really glad you asked this question because I'm about
to embark on a similar task.

Leisha Wharfield
Decision Research
Eugene, Oregon, USA

Eddie Dubourg wrote:

>By actually looking seriously at the help files, I've answered the first
>question - it's directly answered in the help files and uses :-
>Set list.TerminateCondition = TimedSeconds(30)
>list.Reset
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>Well, that's the first egg on my face today......
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>U> -----Original Message-----
>U> From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
>U> [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Eddie Dubourg
>U> Sent: 15 June 2005 09:51
>U> To: 'E-Prime'
>U> Subject: A couple of questions.
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>U> I've two, hopefully minor queries.
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>U> The first - is there a method to allow a procedure to
>U> execute for a set amount of time?  We have a hemispheric
>U> observation task which has been scripted, but we need to
>U> have a distractor task interleaved which will take the form
>U> of 30 seconds of simple maths problems - I've sorted out all
>U> bits, but can't work out how to restrict it to 30 seconds.
>U>
>U> Second, in another script, I have another observation task,
>U> but the target words have to be preceded by two priming
>U> words randomly selected from a list of about 10 words.
>U> There will be 20 target words, so I have 20 lists of 10
>U> words, and the lists will occur in a random order, and I
>U> can't work out how to associate the target words with a
>U> particular list of primes since the primes will occur randomly.
>U>
>U> I hope these confused witterings make some form of sense.
>U>
>U> Thanks in advance,
>U>
>U> Eddie Dubourg
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