combining 3 eprime files into 1 file - or a work around???

[Michiel Spape]

Hi David & Anson,
I didn't know that, thanks for the suggestion! Anyway, as I'm sure you know, but out there on the list, maybe a few don't - you CAN open multiple .es files (E-Prime 1, tested again here with 1.1.sp3) at the same time. Just go to explorer, select two or more .es files (using shift and/or ctrl click) and press the enter button on your keyboard. I assume it's not possible in some versions of E-Prime, and to be honest, it rarely helped anyone before, but with this nifty copy-paste feature, it can be a powerful trick indeed.
Best,
Mich

Michiel Spapé
Research Fellow
Perception & Action group
University of Nottingham
School of Psychology


-----Original Message-----
From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David McFarlane
Sent: 29 October 2009 21:25
To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: combining 3 eprime files into 1 file - or a work around???


Anson,

Thank you for posting back with Web Support's response, a fair answer 
as far as it goes.  I would have mentioned "AutoIt" as the key search 
term if you wanted to explore the "external application" approach 
that Matt mentions, and liwenna has already kindly supplied the link 
to that discussion.

Matt also left out one little-known detail, although this hardly does 
you any good.  You *can* copy E-Objects between files in EP1, 
although the process is very tedious, because you can only open one 
file at a time.  It goes like this (as documented in my own personal FAQ):

Open the source file and use View > Browser to open the object 
browser pane.  Select the desired object in the browser, and use 
Edit > Copy.  Now open the destination file and use Edit > Paste.  If 
the copied object has the same name as an object already in the 
destination, then the pasted object gets automatically renamed with a 
number at the end (EP2 implements a more robust conflict resolution 
system for copying objects).

That's all I can add.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 10/29/2009 05:08 PM Thursday, you wrote:

>the response from PST
>
>"Hi Anson,
>
>E-Prime does not have the capability to start multiple experiments
>directly (e.g., multiple individual ES or EBS files). You would need
>to have the first experiment terminate, then load and run the second
>experiment manually, and so on. It is possible, however, to run a
>sequence of experiments by either combining your experiments into a
>single ES file (quite difficult and tedious in E-Prime 1.x) or, if you
>are comfortable with programming or know someone who is, using the E-
>Run command line switches described on page 112 of the E-Prime
>Reference Guide to create an external application that can launch the
>EBS files in succession without any intervention on your part. Note,
>however, that this procedure is beyond the scope of E-Prime web
>support.
>
>If you are considering upgrading to E-Prime 2.0, note that it does
>contain a copy/paste function that will allow you to quickly combine
>tasks by moving objects from one experiment to another (i.e., multiple
>instances of E-Studio can be open at a time). Please see
>http://www.pstnet.com/eprime.cfm for more information.
>
>Please let me know if you have any further questions.
>
>Sincerely,
>Matt Lenhart
>Technical Consultant"




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