External application to call a series of .ebs2 files?

[David McFarlane]

Frank,
Wow, this looks really cool, thanks very much for taking on the 
assignment and writing back.  Looks like it will be worth my time to 
look into AutoIt further, and continue recommending it to others.

Thanks,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 3/14/2009 02:21 AM Saturday, you wrote:

>David,
>
>Thanks very much for your suggestion!  I've created a script for this
>purpose in Autoit (it works very well).  I don't know how to attach a
>file in this window, so please feel free to download it from my
>personal website (see link below), and share.  In the .zip file, I
>have included the Autoit script file, a compiled version, and a
>basic .txt instruction file.
>
>http://www.frankbosco.com/call_ebs.zip
>
>All the best,
>Frank
>
>
>On Mar 13, 10:47 am, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> > Frank,
> >
> > This question has come up before (e.g., 
> seehttp://www.pstnet.com/forum/Topic2485-12-1.aspx), and I keep
> > suggesting AutoIt
> > (<http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3>http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3
> > ).  So far no one has reported back on this, and I never have time to
> > try it myself.  Perhaps you could give that a try and let us all know
> > how it works.
> >
> > Other than that, you might try a good old DOS-style batch
> > file.  Also, someone once suggested (sorry, I do not have the link)
> > using links in a .pdf to guide the course of a battery of
> > tests.  That would still require some manual interaction, but might
> > help a little.
> >
> > Please let us know what you find.
> >
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
> >
> > >Dear E-Prime group,
> >
> > >I am searching for a (presumably) simple external application (e.g., a
> > >small VB-based program) to call several EBS2 files to run in a desired
> > >order (preferably random order).  I would like to administer a battery
> > >of experiments in a group setting, and am having a great deal of
> > >trouble integrating the procedures from each separate .ES2 file into
> > >one "main" .ES2 file with blocklists (E-Prime support suggested that
> > >my individual procedures exceed E-Prime's copy/paste capacity, and E-
> > >Prime's automatic renaming of duplicate objects is making the task
> > >even more difficult).
> >
> > >Would anyone be willing to share something along these lines?  Any
> > >help would be greatly appreciated.  I am not very familiar with
> > >programming languages.
> >
> > >Thanks in advance!
> > >Frank
> >
> > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > >Frank A. Bosco
> > >Doctoral Student
> > >Dept. of Management (OB/HR)
> > >Fogelman College of Business & Economics
> > >The University of Memphis
> > >fbo... at memphis.edu
> > >Office: (901) 678-4531
> > >Cell: (901) 387-7864
> > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>

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