Help diagnosing "drawing error"

[Sudevan, Padmanabhan]

Hello Sarah,

We had this problem in my lab last year, and we traced the cause to the first reason that Michael Spape mentioned: Subjects were accidentally hitting the Windows key. Our solution was to glue the Windows key down with a small plastic fitting inside that ensured that the key could not be depressed. The only advantage to this process is that it looks slightly better cosmetically than flipping the button out. At any rate, the problem was solved.

Sudevan



P Sudevan
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

 

-----Original Message-----
From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of MSpape
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 6:14 AM
To: E-Prime
Subject: Re: Help diagnosing "drawing error"


Dear Sarah,

This error comes up whenever some other programme causes E-Prime's drawing to be put in the background, or something. Here's a few common
reasons:
1. The participant presses the start (or "windows") key on a PC keyboard. This causes the start menu to pop in the foreground, and E- Prime crashes - always. It is an easy error to make for any participant, and though I tried a few programmes, the cleanest way is to use a screw to flip the button out!
2. Some messages cause "balloons" or other pop-ups that may take over E-Prime's screen, this may also cause seemingly randomly occurring drawing errors.
3. Virusupdates, even if the virus scan itself is shut down, may also cause this. Both for this and 2), check Windows system log to see what happened when E-Prime crashed.

Hope this helps.

And hi all, I'm back, just migrated from the old E-Prime list.

Cheers,

Michiel M. Spapé



On 9 dec 2007, 22:39, Sarah Johnson <skjohn... at moravian.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for anyone who has had a problem with a drawing error that 
> causes E-Prime to quit mid-task, specifically drawing error #11011.  I 
> am looking for help in diagnosing the problem.  Near as I can tell 
> from other sources, this error is only relevant to tasks with video 
> stimuli, and there are none in my task.  Anyone run across this same 
> error before?
>
> Best,
> Sarah


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