Problem with the keyboard language Azerty or Aqerty

[David McFarlane]

A bit of unsolicited technical explanation -- I 
think the keyboard layout limitation results from 
E-Prime using Microsoft DirectX and its virtual 
key codes.  This does allow for enhanced keyboard 
performance, which we generally want for precise 
RT-type experiments (e.g., timing, also, can 
distinguish between left & right shift keys, 
etc.), but as we see here it may create other 
limitations with regard to handling alternate keyboard layouts.

Would be nice to have this confirmed (or 
corrected) and further explained by PST staff...

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>Thanks Liwenna,
>... It seems very bad... In fact, my experiment is pretty simple, the
>task is about word to be completed by the subject. In the screen, a
>text like "unha_ _y" is showed and othen, on the same screen I ask to
>participants to write the word it could be, for each trial. The
>"wordstimulus" comes from a list, and I get attributes like the
>correct answer... here the correct answer is "unhappy"...
>Everything is OK with this task, I have the RT, the correct answer and
>the textanswer quoted by participants... the only problem is that when
>people quoted, is not the good language Keyboard  !!!
>
>
>On 12 avr, 12:47, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Pierre,
> >
> > Do you need the aquerty keyboard for input by your subjects trough an
> > echo? In that case I think that, unfortunately enough, there will be
> > no solution for this problem.
> > Not long ago there was a guy named Yoed on here that was trying the
> > solve that same problem except that he needed hebrew input. Try a
> > search on the word 'hebrew'  in the search this group bar to see the
> > small avalanche of posts that relate to that question.
> >
> > He had been in contact with PST on this one too and this is the answer
> > he got from them:
> > ****
> > Are you using E-Prime v1.x or E-Prime 2.0? While E-Prime 2.0 is
> > supported by
> > the English/Western European versions of Windows XP and Vista, this
> > really
> > only applies to text that is displayed by the objects. That is, while
> > the
> > "Text" property of a TextDisplay will accept foreign characters, the
> > other
> > properties (including .Input and its related echo properties) will
> > not. All
> > non-English characters or accents will go unrecognized by E-Prime in
> > the
> > responses and in the text that is echoed to the screen.
> >
> > E-Prime 2.0 has resolved this to some degree by allowing non-English
> > fonts
> > to appear as responses in the data file (i.e., UNICODE fonts are
> > permitted).
> > However, the echo client will still only display English and the
> > responses
> > themselves will still be based on the QWERTY keyboard. You could get
> > around
> > this by manually echoing the subject's responses to the screen. For
> > example,
> > you could take the subject's input and then convert it to Hebrew in
> > script,
> > and then display this on screen (e.g., if the semicolon key is
> > pressed,
> > convert this to a specific character and display it on screen, etc).
> > However, this can be fairly script intensive and would require that
> > the
> > Hebrew characters appear correctly in TextDisplay objects and/or Slide
> > objects and appear correctly in InLine objects. If you are interested,
> > I
> > would recommend taking a look at SAMPLE:Process Responses
> > 
> Template<http://www.pstnet.com/e-prime/support/samples.asp?> 
> Mode=View&SampleID=47>for
> > an example of how to change what is displayed on screen based on the
> > subject's responses.
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any further questions.
> > *****
> >
> > I do remember that some people here suggested some alternative things
> > to try but as far as I know Yoed never succeeded in having his
> > participants enter hebrew answers in e-prime.
> >
> > Sorry to bring this bad news...
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > AW
> >
> > On Apr 12, 10:53 am, "pan_w... at yahoo.Fr" <pan_w... at yahoo.Fr> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi Dear Eprimers, ...
> > > I complete this morning my new experiment and eveything is working
> > > fine... Almost... Because I just have a little problem here, and I
> > > cannot find any informations to solve it. The subjects of the
> > > experiment will be French and in our country we use aquerty keyboard
> > > with accent like "é"or "à" or "è"... and by default EPRIME is set for
> > > azerty keyboard. Im looking to select the "good langugages
> > > key" (french) but cannot find the solution...
> >
> > > If anyone knows how deal with that...
> >
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> >
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