ImageDisplay Internal Error

[David McFarlane]

What liw said, plus this error message is documented in E-Prime 
Knowledge Base #3000:  http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=3000 .

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 9/6/2011 06:08 AM Tuesday, you wrote:
>Hi Jordan,
>
>Just to make sure (and because I generally like to state obivous
>things...): you checked whether all the images are actually present?
>This error most often occurs from files not being present and/or
>filename-typoes.
>
>A less obvious reason could be the 'macification' thing... don't know
>how/what/why but bmp's created/modified on a mac can also give this
>error. In that case simply opening and saving again with a windows
>program (gimp, photoshop, might be paint even works) should solve your
>problem.
>
>best,
>
>liw
>
>On Sep 6, 1:11 am, Jordan Schoenherr <psychophysics.... at gmail.com>
>wrote:
> > Good Evening,
> >
> > I've encountered an error that seems - on the face of it - to be quite
> > prevalent. When I run a program I receive the following message:
> >
> > "Run-time Error (Line 3225) 11041: ImageDisplay Internal Error has
> > occurred
> > Marker: 2002"
> >
> > In this experiment, a sequence of background images are shown and then
> > a target is presented. These files are in bmp format. The error
> > message occurs after - what would seem to be - just before the target
> > image is presented (the number of pre-target pictures is randomized).
> > The size of the image files are generally 900kb but some are 1200kb
> > (not sure if this is relevant) and the number of failures seems to
> > have to do with the number of images over 900kb. The odd thing is
> > this: after newer variants of the experiment started producing these
> > errors, I went back to earlier versions where I'd never encountered
> > this error message and now they produce it. Moreover, this problem has
> > been observed now on multiple systems running different versions of
> > Windows.
> >
> > I've tried clearing the image buffer after each picture is presented
> > and that doesn't appear to work. And, as I mentioned above, even going
> > back to earlier version doesn't appear to resolve the issue. Given
> > that it only occurs on some trials and appears to be related to  it
> > doesn't seem to be an issue with the script per se. Although I will
> > try to re-save the images as jpg to see if that resolve the issue, I
> > wanted to see whether anyone has encountered a similar problem.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > J

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