X position

[David McFarlane]

Just to belabor the obvious, note that you can 
take control of the ":..." placeholder position 
and type in whatever value you like directly, you 
do not have to settle for just dragging placeholders around on the screen.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 5/11/2010 10:56 AM Tuesday, you wrote:
>Gilis,
>
>Regarding the ":center" that E-Studio adds to 
>your X property:  Ignore it, it does not affect 
>the actual position during the run.
>
>Long explanation:  E-Studio adds this just to 
>show where *E-Studio* will put the *placeholder* 
>for the object when *designing* the program, 
>*not* when running the program.  Think about it 
>-- You tell EP that you want something to appear 
>at [Location].  OK, so where does E-Studio show 
>the placeholder for that object?  It has no idea 
>what value [Location] will take at run time.  So 
>instead it assigns a separate value to use just 
>during design time.  And just to demonstrate 
>this, try the following:  Take your object with 
>the [Location] and drag it anywhere you like on 
>the screen, then look at the X property again -- 
>you will see that it now says, e.g, 
>[Location]:20% (if you dragged it leftward).  So 
>now you know how to put an object one place at 
>run time, and show its placeholder whereever you like at design time.
>
>-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
>
>At 5/11/2010 07:09 AM Tuesday, you wrote:
>>Hi Gilis,
>>1: delete the second stimuli and copy-drag the 
>>first stimulus on the procedure to make a copy. 
>>The error is, almost certainly, caused by 
>>sloppiness :) I have that all the time, anyway! 
>>There's many reasons that can cause your slides 
>>to be non-identical, and it makes little sense 
>>to try see which one. After copying, the two 
>>slides should not be noticeably different - 
>>just keep changing them and don't forget to 
>>debug often to see whether everything is still ok.
>>2: Leave the X-Align (do you really want to 
>>redefine what constitutes the location?) alone and set X to [Location].
>>3: Make sure ALL locations are either defined 
>>with percentages or pixels (i.e. without %), 
>>but not both! E-Prime will add :center to your 
>>attribute - this should not affect it.
>>
>>Any luck with your other problem, by the way? 
>>I'm sorry, but found it too long to read (I 
>>imagine the E-Prime support unit wouldn't say such a thing!).
>>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 gilis
>>Sent: 11 May 2010 07:20
>>To: E-Prime
>>Subject: X position
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>In my Experiment the stimuli appear, technically, twice. The
>>participant however is very desirably not to notice that. The issue is
>>that I collect one vocal response and one manual response (with the
>>mouse) so there are two following slide objects that present the same
>>stimuli exactly.
>>
>>The problem I now facing goes like that: Most of the images I use are
>>at the same size and I use flankers above and below them in part of
>>the trials. The flankers should always appear above or below the
>>center of the image.
>>
>>Two of the images are too large so I had to move the flankers to the
>>left  in oreder of these to appear above the center of it exactly.
>>
>>I did it by setting an attribute dubbed "Location" in the trial list-
>>for all other images its value is "center" and for  these two images I
>>set the value to 55%.
>>
>>In the slide objects that contain the stimuli and the flankers I
>>changed the flankers X position only (X and X align, in the sub object
>>properties)  by adding [location] to both X and X align. The problem
>>is that the program automatically change it to [Location]:center. I
>>have tried several times to delete the "center" but for vain because
>>then it add it time and again.
>>
>>What I get in my experiment is that for these two images there is a
>>movement and it can be noticed that I'm using to slide objects. The
>>first object present the flankers at the [location] and the second at
>>the center...Also, although the image is set to allways appear in the
>>center from within the sub object properties, it seem to move the same
>>way with the flankers.
>>
>>
>>Does any one have anhy idea what may be causing it?
>
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