Minimising E-Prime and running two E-Prime experiments

[David McFarlane]

Hannah,

Stock reminder:  1) I do not work for PST.  2) PST's trained staff 
takes any and all questions at 
http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp , and they 
strive to respond to all requests in 24-48 hours (although latest 
reports indicate more like 10 days) -- this is pretty much their 
substitute for proper documentation, so make full use of it.  3) If 
you do get an answer from PST Web Support, please extend the courtesy 
of posting their reply back here for the sake of others.

That said, here is my take...

I have never done any of this, so if you pioneer this please write 
back and let us know how it works.

1. You can actually Alt+Tab out of a running experiment.  No telling 
what you could run then, or how easily you could get back to and 
resume your experiment program.

2. As I recall, the online E-Basic Help has some functions for 
launching external applications, although I cannot recall them at the moment.

3. For yet another more controlled programmatic method, try the 
SuspendResume example downloadable from PST.  This makes use of a 
couple of Windows API calls, as well as a couple methods of Rte.DeviceManager.

4. Finally, if your "break" task is unrelated to the main task, why 
not just go low tech?  Set up a second laptop (computers are cheap 
these days, buy a used one on eBay or CraigsList) with a separate 
task and move them to that for a moment, or just give the kids some 
blocks to play with, etc.  When I taught Sunday school to 4th graders 
(admittedly 9-year-olds, not 5-year-olds), we found it useful to 
frequently move the kids to a new venue to keep them engaged.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 6/6/2010 04:22 PM Sunday, you wrote:
>I have several long e-prime experiments that I am running with 5-year-
>olds.  There are 40 trials in each experiment.  I have written-in a
>text object between each trial which requires a mouse-click to move on
>to the next - this acts a pause or wait function.  However, sometimes
>I wish to do something completely different after, say, 20 trials to
>give my kids a little break.  This 'something' different can be
>another e-prime task or another task that is also on my laptop.
>
>My question is whether I can leave the experiment running on the text
>pause object and do another, shorter e-prime task or something else on
>the laptop all together and then resume the original experiment?
>
>I know I can exit out of e-prime using "ctrl, alt, shift' but this
>crashes the experiment and I cannot pick up where I left off.
>
>If anyone could help that would be great!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Hannah Witherstone

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