Resize window

[Annika]

Hi David,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
I had thought of using a dual display, but I am not sure if I could
make this work in the scanner. I am also afraid that the two display
screens would end up being too small to be clearly visible (the same
would probably apply to showing the experiment and the desktop
simultaneously, on second thought).
Perhaps it would be easier if I explained what I would like to do: At
certain points during my experiment, subjects need to receive direct
video feedback from a webcam (connected to the computer that runs E-
Prime).
I cannot use the movie object for this purpose, because it can only
play saved (not live) video clips. I considered calling a dll routine
to bring up the webcam (in the same runtime environment), but this
would probably interfere with E-Prime. Finally, I tried to turn on the
webcam, start the experiment, and then bring the webcam to the
foreground at specific time points. The problem is that E-Prime quits
as soon as it is no longer in the foreground (runtime error 11011).
Do you know if there is a way (e.g., using an inLine) to keep E-Prime
running in the background? That way I could call the webcam to the
foreground (and push it back to the background again a few seconds
later), without having the experiment quit in the mean time.

I appreciate your help,

Annika


On Sep 10, 2:49 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> Annika,
>
> Stock reminder:  1) I do not work for PST.  2) PST's trained staff
> takes any and all questions athttp://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp, and they
> strive to respond to all requests in 24-48 hours (although current
> estimates are 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...
>
> Hmm, interesting thought.  I don't see any hope of doing that in
> E-Prime, but I would be glad to be found wrong.  You can, of course,
> set E-Prime's display resolution to whatever you like, but that
> always still takes up the full display.
>
> As an alternative, I suppose you might use a dual physical display,
> so that E-Prime would take up one display screen, and you would still
> have a desktop visible on the other display screen.
>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> >I was wondering whether you can change the size of the window in which
> >the experiment is run.  Is there a way to let E-Prime take up only,
> >say, half the computer screen, so that you can still see (half) the
> >desktop in the background while running the experiment?
> >Thanks,
> >Annika

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