pause during trial session

[Paul Gr]

Hello Jody,

You can use the GetUserBreakState() to check if ctrl+shft was pressed. (See 
EBasic for more info) The nice thing about this function is that it can be 
called at any point in your script.

best,
paul


>From: "Epstein Jody" <jae2924 at louisiana.edu>
>To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
>Subject: pause during trial session
>Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:38:45 -0600
>
>I am using a touch screen for my experiment, but will ocassionally need to 
>pause the session in order to clean the touch screen. I would like to be 
>able to simply touch a button on the keyboard to pause the session, then 
>touch it again to continue where we left off.
>
>So  far we have been able to set up a situation where the program goes to a 
>solid red screen before each trial in the session. Currently it's necessary 
>to touch the keyboard to get it to continue to the next trial each time. 
>This is not good. When we tried to write code so that the program would 
>simply check to see if there had been keyboard input, it caused the program 
>to crash. We can no longer open that particular experiment as each time we 
>tried it came up as "not responding." Any suggestions for code that would 
>allow us to interrupt the session when we touch the keyboard, and only when 
>we touch the keyboard?
>
>Thanks!!!!
>Jody
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