Uploading image

[gilis]

Hi Liwenna,
Just wanted to thank you again-you are great! your advices saved me a
lot of work in the very wrong directions...
Warm regards
Gilis

On 22 פברואר, 11:13, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Gilis,
>
> The imageobject in the slideobject should be able to display your
> image reliably in the way you wish it to be displayed... I don't think
> the canvas object will solve your problem. But, as with everything in
> research,  make sure you've controlled all the necessary variables. I
> am not too sure about what's going on but it seems to me that your
> image is larger than either your display is, OR larger than the
> displaysize e-prime uses....
>
> Under start menu, settings, control panel; display settings, find the
> current size of your display in pixels.... I use a 1280*1024 pixels
> display for instance.
>
> Next: you mention your image is very big.... is it's actual size (in
> pixels) bigger than your display is??? (in my case that would be over
> 1280 or 1024 pixels on either dimension). Open the picture in viewer
> and choose 'actual size' to see if it actually fits into your
> screen...  If not... use photoshop or gimp to resize it. You simply
> should not use an imagesize that your display can't show ...
>
> Third (and I actually think that this is where your problem lies):
> when e-prime runs an experiment it resets the display settings to it's
> own 'settings'. By default e-prime reconfigures the display to 640*480
> pixels. This means that if your image is bigger than that.. it won't
> fit on the screen. It also means that pretty much everything in your
> experiment will look rather 'chunky'. Go to the properties of the
> experiment object (e-prime logo at the top of your experiment tree),
> choose devices; choose display and set the display size to the actual
> size of your display.
>
> I guess you'd better reset all the properties of the imageobject in
> your slide (size 100% you can resize later, or even better: set it at
> the actual pixel dimensions your image has) and set the x and y
> coordinates to center and have a look at how e-prime displays your
> image now.
>
> I hope it will be fixed this way!
>
> Best of luck,
>
> liw
>
> On Feb 22, 8:39 am, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm pretty "green" with Eprime and started to program with only
> > recently. Anyway, I now have to program an experiment in which
> > participants will have to make achoice and to indicate it in regard to
> > the side of the image in which the stimuli have appeared. The stimuli
> > is realy large one and so when I try to upload it to a slide object I
> > always get the image presented truncated to different extents at the
> > edegs of the screen. I tried to play with the size of the image in the
> > slide object but I failed to get satisfaying results.
>
> > So now my focus is on how the image can be uploaded through Canvas
> > object but yet the knowledge I have in programing with Eprime turn it
> > to a real sisyphean task and I don't even always what my mistakes were
> > or way it didn't work, or if Canavas object is the only or the best
> > solution.
>
> > So, I would be very grateful to any one who could help me with this in
> > any way.
>
> > Regards
> > Gili

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