Pulling from multiple nested lists at the same time and on the same text slide

[Brieana]

Thanks for the response! Silly me did not even think about using a
comma between the names of nested lists located on the same level.
That helped a lot and I'm happy to report that everything works just
as I wanted it to now.

Thanks again,

Brieana

On Dec 11, 7:59 am, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Brieana,
>
> First, I wonder why you decided to use colon syntax rather than simple
> 'brackets' ([variablename] instead of [variablename:x]). I suppose
> therefore that you have the values need to be used within one trial
> (procedure) nested in a vertical manner: each value it's own level in
> a list. This may be more intuitive to you as a person, but it's not to
> e-prime (hence you have to use the colon's to get e-prime to pull a
> value of a different level of the list).
>
> E-prime's normal 'way to do things' is to use a single level of each
> list (in a nested series of lists) on each run of a procedure. I would
> advice you to give in to e-prime's way and transpose the nested lists
> so that each value is stored in a separate attribute and that each
> level of a nested list contains a series of values that is to be used
> within one run of the procedure. I.e. nestedlist1 could have 7
> attributes called v1, v2 etc to v7. Each of these 7 values would be
> used within one run of the procedure and the next level of the list
> could contain the same values but in a different order etc. in order
> to achieve randomization of the text locations -> the textboxes 1 to 7
> should be given the 'text' [v1], [v2] etc (note: no :x) in order to
> resolve to/pull out the values of the attributes v1, v2 etc. If you'd
> set the nestlist to be presented in a random order, a random level of
> the list would be used for each run of the procedure.
>
> If you nest multiple lists e-prime should be able to draw values from
> two nested lists onto the same slide, provided that the two lists do
> not have identical attribute names from which values are drawn. I.e.
> in your master lists in the nested column you can nest multiple lists
> divided by comma's (nestedlist1, nestedlist2). Then if one of the
> nested lists contains the values that you need for textboxes 1 to 7
> (v1, v2 - v7) and the other the values for textboxes 8 to 14 (v8 -
> v14), e-prime should run just fine.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> AW
>
> On 10 dec, 18:54, Brieana <brieana.visc... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> > Hi,
>
> > I have 5 procedures. In each procedure, there are 3 text slides each
> > with about 14 text boxes. The reason for so many text boxes is because
> > it was the only way I could figure out how to make a 'faux' table in e-
> > Prime without using any heavy coding. On these text slides, I have
> > some text boxes that are to pull values from one nested list and other
> > textboxes that are to pull values from a different nested list. More
> > specifically, I want each textbox to randomly present only one value
> > from the nested list without repeating any of the values that are
> > being presented in the other textboxes drawing from the same list.
> > After reading the Users Guide, I thought that colon syntax was the way
> > to go. I was able to get the textboxes that were to pull values from
> > one nested list to work so that only one value was presented in each
> > textbox, the order was random, and there weren't any repeats. However,
> > as soon as I added the other nested list to the procedure using the
> > colon syntax method, e-prime would stop running once it got to that
> > particular text slide and read that the last attribute referenced on
> > the slide did not exist (even though it was clearly listed and defined
> > on my list).
>
> > Would anyone happen to know of a way for half of the textboxes on a
> > slide to only draw one value from a nested list and the other half on
> > the same slide to only draw one value from a different nested list?
>
> > I found that I was able to have each group of textboxes draw from
> > their respective nested list if I defined each nested list on the same
> > master list and their attributes. However, I want these values to be
> > presented SIMULTANEOUSLY. Since each nested list was referenced in the
> > same master list, I could only get the values to show up on the slide
> > in a sequential manner. I need both sets of values presented together.
>
> > Any and all ideas or help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> > Thank you,
>
> > Brieana

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