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

[David McFarlane]

Michiel,

OMG, that is so cool!  Just now tested this with 
EP1.2 under Vista -- in all my years of using 
E-Prime I never knew or thought of this, I wish I 
had known this trick years ago!  Not even Matt 
Lenhart at PST seems to know about this.

Just to fill in another detail about this trick, 
once you have a number of EP1 windows open, any 
new .es will load into the topmost ES window, so 
you can control which .es file loads into which ES window.

Thanks a bunch!
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 11/2/2009 09:13 AM Monday, Michiel Spapé wrote:
>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
>
>
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>[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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