Press and release with joystick input

[enyhus]

Thanks for your response.  I've done a little more testing and the the
experiment does work if I use {ANY}{-ANY} as input, but I am still
confused why it did not work before.

Using the following code with the keyboard input works but with the
joystick input I get the folllowing error: The allowable response was
unrecognized: {-}.
Set in previous inline code:

c.SetAttrib "LeftKey", "1"
c.SetAttrib "LeftMidKey", "2"
c.SetAttrib "RightMidKey", "3"
c.SetAttrib "RightKey", "4"

Allowable in input:

{-[LeftKey]}[LeftKey]{-[LeftMidKey]}[LeftMidKey]{-[RightMidKey]}
[RightMidKey]{-[RightKey]}[RightKey]

Any ideas why this might be?

Erika

On Nov 10, 6:26 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> Erika,
>
> 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 -- 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...
>
> I have no experience with joysticks in E-Prime, so I am just talking
> off the top of my head.  And the error message that you specify looks
> like a design-time error rather than either a compile-time or
> run-time error, so you get it when you try to enter "{-}" into the
> Allowable field in the object's Property Pages E-Studio.
>
> So what happens if you instead use "{-ANY}"?  Does it work then?
>
> You see, {-} means a *press* of a *dash* character, and the SRBox
> cannot send a dash (it can send only the numbers 1-8).  (In fact, in
> this case the notation does not even indicate a release, if you
> wanted a relese of a dash character you would have to use {--}).  So
> to get a release response from a SRBox, you have to use the dash
> followed by which button you want to see released, e.g., {-1}, {-2},
> {-ANY}, etc.
>
> Just a reminder to anyone else who happens to tune in, you may find
> this general technique covered in the "{key} nomenclature" topic in
> the E-Basic Help facility.
>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> At 11/9/2011 04:31 PM Wednesday, you wrote:
>
>
>
> >I have created an experiment where I need to record both press and
> >release of responses.  It works when I use a keyboard as an input
> >device but when I use a joystick as input device (as this is how
> >EPrime recognizes our SRBox) I get the folllowing error: The allowable
> >response was unrecognized: {-}.  Is it possible to use press and
> >release with a joystick and if so, how do I specify the release?
> >Erika- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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