Moving flanker to the right position

[David McFarlane]

Gilis,

On Wed Oct 12, 1:06 pm, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Absolutely sure...No minor possible mistake that wasn't check....It's
 > a bag [sic] in eprime itself.

In 1978, fresh out of University, I started on a programming project at 
Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan (USA).  Time and again my 
programs failed, and I convinced myself that I had uncovered a true bug 
in the underlying system.  Time and again the lead engineer told me, 
"There is nothing wrong with the system, go back and find the mistake in 
your program."  And in every case he was right -- the fault always lay 
in my program, never in the system.  And ever since then I have become 
very circumspect about concluding that bugs lie in the system instead of 
in my source code.

Not long ago on this very Group, someone (was it you?) led us all on a 
merry chase puzzling out why their stimulus files would not load.  It 
turned out that the files were stored remotely on a networked computer 
somewhere, and the subject-running station had trouble accessing that 
remote drive.  Sheesh!

So Gilis, it comes down to this -- Although E-Prime does indeed have 
several identifiable bugs, in this case you have almost certainly *not* 
found a bug in E-Prime.  I.e., your problem lies somewhere in the design 
of your program, or in your understanding of how E-Prime works, *not* in 
E-Prime itself.  The problem almost certainly lies someplace where you 
are not looking for it, probably because you are too close to the 
problem and keep seeing only what you want to see.  Because of this, you 
also cannot tell us the missing detail that would help us solve this for 
you -- if you could see enough to state that detail, then you would have 
already solved this yourself.

Hence, you must think "outside the box" here.  And when you do find the 
mistake, you will slap yourself in the forehead and say, "Why didn't I 
see that sooner?"

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
"A poor workman blames his tools."


On Wed 12 Oct 2011 liwenna wrote:
> mmm not sure if/why this should solve it, but sometimes simplification
> is bliss...
> 
> did you try using one textobject with three lines instead of three
> separate textobjects on each side.
> 
> [flanker1]
> [flanker2]
> [flanker3]
> 
> ^ that in one textbox, rather than three. Also: press {return},
> {space} then again {return} in order to create an empty line between
> two lines, if needed.
> 
> On Oct 12, 3:09 pm, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes they are taken from a list, and no-no unwanted spaces, and I
>> checked it more than once....
>>
>> On Oct 12, 1:34 pm, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Are the flankerwords taken from a list?? Are you as sure that there
>>> are no unwanted spaces in that list?
>>> On Oct 12, 1:06 pm, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Absolutely sure...No minor possible mistake that wasn't check....It's
>>>> a bag in eprime itself, I will try Meltem solution.
>>>> On Oct 11, 3:58 pm, ben robinson <baltimore.... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> are you sure you don't have an extra space hidden at the beginning of
>>>>> that one flanker containing "SEA"...
>>>>> " [flanker]" instead of
>>>>> "[flanker]"
>>>>> ?
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:29 AM, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Yes I do..as for the x alignment and etc, it's just like that of the
>>>>>> other words..there should be no reason why they appear so different in
>>>>>> position on the display..
>>>>>> On Oct 10, 10:43 pm, Evelina Tapia <evel... at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>> Gilis,
>>>>>>> under textbox properties you can specify text color, textbox
>>>>>>> background color etc. You can also specify alignment there as well so
>>>>>>> try that for you right display. Also, do you have separate text boxes
>>>>>>> for each word or for each flanker object? There could be potential
>>>>>>> word wrapping differences between the two items as well.
>>>>>>> Evelina
>>>>>>> On Oct 10, 11:46 am, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> I have two flankers in my experiment display, one is on the right and
>>>>>>>> the other is on the left. Each flanker is made of 3 words (separate
>>>>>>>> text object for each), one above the other. The problem I get is that
>>>>>>>> while on the left everything seems OK and balanced, on the right, the
>>>>>>>> upper word is pushed from the beginning of the display, so while the
>>>>>>>> flanker on the left side look like that:
>>>>>>>> FOOD
>>>>>>>> WATER
>>>>>>>> FORK
>>>>>>>> the flanker on the right side look like that:
>>>>>>>>   SEA
>>>>>>>> LAND
>>>>>>>> BOAT
>>>>>>>> i.e., it doesn't start from the beginning of the row though it was
>>>>>>>> defined to start from there..Also, I was thinking that it is a problem
>>>>>>>> with the way the word is put in the list from which the text object
>>>>>>>> call it-but apparently there is nothing wrong...Also, while all other
>>>>>>>> words remain stable when the experiment goes from one slide to the
>>>>>>>> other, the only moving word is off course the upper one (i.e., sea).
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>>>> Gilis

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