resolution problems

[Michiel Spape]

Hi,
Though I am not entirely certain, this seems very unlikely, and even if it would be possible, the answer would take much longer than just changing your entire experiment back in lower resolution. You might be able to use a lot of canvas script, for instance, writing everything to a buffer that is larger than your real screen, and when the moment arrives to write it back to screen, just take the central part. Obviously, this would crop your pictures (from 1200 x 800, say, the central 1024 x 762 part), and apart from that, it would take *a lot* of script.
The problem is this: if you can't get Windows to operate in a certain screen mode, there seems little reason to think E-Prime can - as much as E-Prime is possible to refresh at 120 Hz when the monitor only goes to 100 Hz. Instead, go to device properties, display device, and use the highest resolution available for your laptop - perhaps 1024 x 762 (like my laptop, but granted, it's a bit old)? I expect E-Prime 2 isn't able either to set the resolution to wide screen resolutions like your lab computers (1.2 only shows width options like 640, 800, 1024), or am I mistaken there? 

Anyway, short answer: sorry but no. Just use display device properties that both testing and programming devices support. Enlarge pictures that are too small.
Cheers,
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 Travis Nichols, Villanova University
Sent: 31 January 2010 04:03
To: E-Prime
Subject: resolution problems

Hello all,

So I programmed my project on one of the university lab computers and
will test subjects from a laptop. The problem is that the computers
have different screen sizes and resolutions. The program was working
great on the programming computer but does not transfer well to the
laptop which has a much higher resolution (so the pictures displayed
in slide objects are too small).

I have gone into the experiment-->device-->display settings, but the
offered resolutions don't match those available on the testing laptop
(I'm trying to get 1280 x 800). When I try and select those closest to
the laptop resolution it crashes the running experiment saying it
can't set that resolution.

Is there any way to manually (like in-code or something) set the
screen resolution to that of my testing laptop?

Thanks,

Travis
Villanova University

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