Just Run

[Robert Dörr]

Hello Ray,

You can use Tony's hint and make it default for all .ebs-files and their 
shortcuts.
The following explanation could be a little bit fuzzy, because I am 
using a german Windows XP. So the labels of the menu items and buttons 
differ from my translation.

First open an explorer window and look at the 'Extras' menu. There 
should be an entry labeled 'Folder options' or something like that (the 
bottom entry). By clicking, a new window apears where you can choose the 
'File types' (???) tab. Find the ebs type, select it and click 
'Advanced'. There you can edit the properties of the open action in the form

"C:\Program Files\PST\E-Prime\Program\E-Run.exe" /m /a "%1"

(just add /m /a without quotes).
That's all.
One step more is to create a new action (in my case called Run) and make 
it the default action. So you can double click to run the experiment and 
right click and selecting Open to open it.

Best regards
Robert

Andrews, A.S. wrote:

>Ray
>
>You need to create a desktop shortcut to E-Run and then edit the
>properties so the Target line is in the form:
>
>"C:\Program Files\PST\E-Prime\Program\E-Run.exe" /m /a "path and
>filename of .ebs script"
>
>Note all the quotes and spaces should be included. The /m switch means
>run E-Run minimized (the user will never even see it if you don't crash
>out of the experiment) and the /a means auto-run the specified script.
>
>HTH.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Tony. 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On
>Behalf Of Sudevan, Padmanabhan
>Sent: 05 April 2006 04:00
>To: rayv at uoregon.edu; eprime at mail.talkbank.org
>Subject: RE: Just Run
>
>
>Hello Ray,
>
>The way I have set things up in my lab is as follows: Once the
>experiment is developed and ready to run, I simply copy the script (
>.ebs ) file to an appropriate folder on each of my four lab machines.
>Then I create a shortcut using the procedure outlined in the E-Prime
>User's Guide. This creates an icon that can be placed in a directory for
>experiments, or even on the desktop of each machine if you wish. Once a
>shortcut is set up, for future experiemtns, all you have to do is make a
>copy, rename it for the new experiment, then change the Target and Start
>In fields to incorporate the name of the new experiment.
>
>I hope this makes sense.
>
>P Sudevan
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Ray Vukcevich
>Sent: Tue 4/4/2006 5:22 PM
>To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
>Subject: Just Run
> 
>Is there a way to just run an experiment?
>I mean instead of clicking the E-run file and then Build and then Run?
>What I'd like is something to click on and the experiment would then
>just start. Is there a command line way to that?  If so, maybe we could
>make a shortcut to that or something?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Ray
>
>--
>Ray Vukcevich
>University of Oregon
>