E-Prime 2.0 Data Features

[Leisha Wharfield]

I was never able to get the graceful abort to work, unfortunately. Has 
anyone done it?

Leisha

Amy Eschman wrote:

> The E-Recovery text file is used for recovering as much data as 
> possible when the experiment ends prior to conversion to EDAT format 
> (an error occurs, or the user presses Ctrl+Alt+Shift).  If you want 
> the ability to end an experiment early, you can add a small piece of 
> InLine script called a "graceful abort" that will allow you to 
> terminate an experiment after a trial or block without losing the data 
> file.  The graceful abort script checks the value of GetUserBreakState 
> to see if a special key sequence has been pressed.  A description of 
> the graceful abort can be found in Section 2.8.2 of the E-Prime User's 
> Guide.
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> Amy Eschman
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> Psychology Software Tools
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> From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jordan Bigio
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:22 AM
> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: Re: E-Prime 2.0 Data Features
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> I agree with Ben. I don't use the text files much, but if we had to 
> quit an experiment, a usable edat file would be great.
>
> Jordan
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> At 09:52 AM 6/29/2005 -0400, Ben Robinson wrote:
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> it seems like the formatting of the text file data file could be 
> improved dramatically in future versions of eprime.
> if for any reason a program quits before having a chance to make a 
> .edat file, it would be nice to have a more useable trial-by-trial 
> recording of what went on.  something that, in a pinch, could be 
> opened in excel and understood.
>  
> ben robinson
> research asst.
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>>>> Brandon Cernicky <brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com> 6/28/2005 10:06 PM >>>
> The last couple weeks had a number of threads in
> relation to data handling in E-Prime.  The recent
> E-Prime 2.0 Feature Survey placed its emphasis on many
> of the design and implementation features and did not
> focus on any data handling improvements for E-Merge
> and E-DataAid.
>
> Please feel free to discuss any items you would like
> to see for E-Prime 2.0 in regards to E-Merge and
> E-DataAid.
>
> Improvements to export in general?
> Improvements to export to Excel?
> Improvements to export to SPSS?
> Improvements to export to XML?
>
> PST is certainly not going to try to reinvent the
> stats wheel and understand there are many stats
> packages available and exporting to them is intended.
> Are there any areas where E-Merge or E-DataAid could
> be improved to make it so that bouncing in-between
> packages would be reduced?
>
>
> -Brandon
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> Psychology Software Tools
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