how to use E prime to display symbols and allowing participants to influence their shape?

[Josh]

thanks, ill try to get what I can figure out done.

On Jan 26, 12:13 pm, Susan <susan... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> I suspect what you need to do is sit and break your problem down into
> the smallest component parts, and figure out which bits you know how
> to do and which you don't. People on this list could probably help you
> if you got to the point where you needed to figure out the finer
> points of mouse control, for instance, but they can't design your
> experiment for you. I also don't know of any extant examples that do
> anything similar (STEP didn't have any last I checked).
>
> If you're a novice at programming, I'll suggest that the mouse may not
> be your best option, however; the built-in support for mouse control
> in E-Prime is pretty rudimentary. Your arrow key idea is probably
> easier to implement (possibly with very little script, if you're
> really determined).
>
> HTH,
> Susan
>
> On Jan 26, 10:36 am, Josh <jwils... at connect.carleton.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I want the user to be able to influence the size by a mouse although
> > it might be easier to do it by pressing the arrow keys because
> > collecting button presses would probably better than if they used a
> > mouse, and im asking what kind of script would I have to write to do
> > that? And to Davids advice about taking a intro to computer
> > programming, I would love to and might be planning to take a class
> > next year but at this time I only have a semester to get this thesis
> > done, so i dont have time to take a intro class. Although I can
> > definately understand how it would help. Oh and about the arrow keys I
> > would assume it would probably be the up arrow key would make the
> > object bigger and the down arrow key would make the object larger.
>
> > thank you, and sorry for the trouble.
>
> > On Jan 25, 2:24 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > > >I understand how to influence the width and height on my end, but how
> > > >can the participant influence the size when they do the experiment?
>
> > > Are you asking us to design your user interface (i.e., the user
> > > gestures with a mouse or joystick, or presses arrow keys on the
> > > keyboard, etc.), or are you asking what sort of code to use to
> > > implement your UI (which you have not yet described for us)?  If the
> > > latter, then my answer remains the same, you implement user control
> > > through application of *attribute references* in the Width and Height
> > > attributes.  And I repeat, before you even start to think about this
> > > project you need to work through *all* of the tutorials in the
> > > manuals that came with E-Prime.
>
> > > >And what do you mean by the inline code, do you mean the script,
>
> > > Yes.  What the rest of the VBA world calls "code", PST perversely
> > > calls "script".
>
> > > >  not fully sure how I would program that, I dont have that much experience
> > > >in programming.
>
> > > I have said this before, and here I say it again:  then perhaps you
> > > should take a class in introduction to computer programming.
>
> > > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder- Hide quoted text -
>
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